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QUESTION FOR THE BLOG: Best Comedy Match?

By Scott Keith on 30 March 2025


I was reading the Observer Rewind on Reddit—which is currently up to WrestleMania 20. In Dave Meltzer’s review of the event, he calls the Rock n Sock Connection vs Evolution handicap match “basically a comedy match.”

Dave’s ruling, while I don’t agree with it, got me thinking as to what exactly constitutes a ‘comedy’ match. My own unrefined qualifications would be celebrities, mixed gender matches, absurdly ‘stacked decks’ or stipulations, bra-and-panties/tuxedos, one-off gimmick matches, managers/non-wrestlers wrestling, grossly mismatched participants, and excuse the antiquated nomenclature—midgets.

Would love to hear what you and the peanut gallery thinks is the Best Comedy Match.

In perhaps the same vain as Meltzer, I’d argue the classic Dude Love-Steve Austin match from Over the Edge 1998 is by and large a comedy match. All the pomp and circumstance with Briscoe and Patterson, Vince guest refereeing, ‘Corporate’ Dude Love, Austin’s ad libbing stomping the fake teeth, the stipulations changing, JR’s commentary, brawling around the goofy entrance set, the geriatric chokeslams, Austin using an unconscious referee’s arm to count the three.

I’d also add the Halftime Heat brawl and the original Stadium Stampede.