Funny / WrestleMania

• WrestleMania IX:
  • Bobby "The Brain" Heenan riding a camel to the ring backwards.
  • The Stinger featured Kamala "communing with the animals" backstage at Circus Maximus. He was supposed to fight Bam Bam Bigelow, but the match didn't happen due to to time constraints.
• The footage of OJ Simpson being pursued by police getting reused in the Hollywood Backlot Brawl between "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Goldust at WrestleMania XII, which was made even funnier with Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler hanging lampshades over the use of the footage. Vince even remarks "You know I have to say that this footage looks...awfully familiar."
• WrestleMania X-7 included a very unusual example during the Hardcore championship match between Raven, Kane and the Big Show. The referee got a funny moment when Kane was chasing Show and Raven on a golf cart, and the referee suddenly jumped on the back to hitch a ride with him. Jim Ross and Paul Heyman lampshaded this, as have several amused YouTube video commenters.
  • Raven would later reveal how the spot was supposed to go throughout the entire arena. He initially started swerving back and forth in an attempt to dislodge the Big Show from behind him, and wound up hitting a fence that housed a bunch of wires and cables that were responsible for powering the building and the broadcast. Raven was later told that he came about half an inch from completely killing the power for the whole show.
• WrestleMania X-8's "match" where the Hardcore championship (Under the 24/7 rule) changed hands from Maven, Spike Dudley, The Hurricane, Mighty Molly, Christian and back to Maven over the course of the pay-per-view. Here's how it played out:
  • Goldust and Maven were having a Hardcore Championship Match in the ring.
  • After Maven and Goldust knocked one another out with trash can lids, Spike Dudley ran in (with his own ref) and pinned Maven to win the title.
  • Crash Holly came down to attempt to win the title off of Spike Dudley, sending him running through the audience, with Crash, Goldust, and Maven in pursuit.
  • Later, Crash Holly and Spike Dudley were wrestling backstage, when suddenly, Al Snow attempts to run them down with a golf cart, only to miss and crash into a pile of boxes.
  • Spike Dudley attempted to escape after throwing Crash Holly into a steel door, only for The Hurricane to swing in, kick him down, and pin him to win the title. Just as the Hurricane leaves, Al Snow breaks out of the boxes, only to realize he's too late.
  • Later, the Hurricane hides in a locker room, armed with a broom, where a bunch of The Godfather's hos start undressing. They see the Hurricane's silhouette, holding the broom in a rather phallic position, and start screaming, causing The Godfather to charge in and chase Hurricane out.
  • Later, the Hurricane is being interviewed on winning the Hardcore title, but the interviewer points out that hiding in the women's locker room isn't very superheroic. Mighty Molly comes in, yells "Quick! To the Hurricycle!", then smacks him in the back of the head with a frying pan and pins him to win the title.
  • Later again, Mighty Molly is carefully making her way down a hallway, when the top half of a door suddenly swings shut into her face, knocking her out. The door half opens, revealing Christian, who proceeds to pin her for the title.
  • Finally, Christian is about to leave the arena in a taxi, but Maven took advantage of Christian's celebration taking a little too long, caught him in a roll-up, and pinned him to win the title back, then made a getaway in the taxi Christian was about to take.
    • And just to rub salt in the wound, Christian's luggage was already in the trunk.
    • It's also followed up with a Brick Joke from Christian's loss to European Champion Diamond Dallas Page earlier in the evening. Leading up to the event, Page had been using his motivational speaker gimmick at the time to get Christian to begin thinking "positively" in order to help him with his temper problems that were affecting his performance in the ring. After Maven takes off, Page shows up to congratulate Christian for thinking positive despite losing two title matches in one night, prompting a Villainous Breakdown from Christian.
• The WrestleMania Rumble.
• The commercials for WrestleMania 21:
  • Triple H parodying Braveheart and Ric Flair coming in with a mule.
    • Even funnier if you've seen the outtakes for that one and know that Flair was originally supposed to ride the mule in, but the bloody animal wouldn't cooperate for love or money.
  • Undertaker doing the famous "Did I fire six shots, or was it only five?" scene from Dirty Harry, ending with the signature eye roll.
  • Christy Hemme and Kurt Angle do the famous scene from When Harry Met Sally..., complete with Kurt wearing a ridiculous wig.
    Linda McMahon: I'll have what she's having.
  • Various superstars doing the "You Talkin' to Me?" line from Taxi Driver, ranging from Big Show unable to do it, and Batista with a Who's on First? routine.
  • Basic Instinct with the three Canadian Chrises (Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit and Christian) interrogating Stacy Keibler engaging in different "activities". Including this famous line:
    Christian: How about sadomasochistic activity?
    (cue Chris Jericho and Benoit staring at Christian)
    Christian: Just asking.
    • After Stacy leaves, Mae Young takes her place and opens her legs, causing the three to start screaming in horror.
  • Eugene as Forrest Gump, ending with William Regal screaming, "Run Eugene, run!" after Eugene accidentally punches the old woman on the bench out.
  • Eddie Guerrero and Booker T as Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield and Booker T doing his own version of Ezekiel 25:17, ending with Booker T patting Eddie on the back for an I Just Shot Marvin in the Face gag.
• The Boogeyman vs Booker T and Sharmell at WrestleMania 22 was one of the high points of Boogeyman's WWE tenure. The frightened reactions of Booker and Sharmell were classic. Booker being given advice by none other than Goldust backstage before the match was another funny moment.
• WrestleMania 24 was billed for months as "The Biggest WrestleMania Under the Sun", because it was in Florida with an open arena. When it finally happened... it was cloudy.^note They probably shouldn't have tested their luck, as the only other outdoor WrestleMania at that point was the much-maligned WrestleMania IX. That being said, it went well enough that they returned to Orlando nine years later for WrestleMania 33.
• WrestleMania XXX:
  • Hulk Hogan's confusing of the Superdome (in New Orleans) with the Silverdome (in Detroit). "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and The Rock couldn't let that one slide. This extended to the next night on Raw, with Hogan making a reference to it.
  • The Slam City skit with Ricky Steamboat, Sgt. Slaughter, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, Ted DiBiase, and Ron Simmons.
  • In the André the Giant battle royal:
    • The crowd going back to Fandango-ing and then Sheamus hitting him in the chest 27 times before ultimately pushing him off the ring.
    • Cesaro winning the match? Not bad. Doing so by picking up the 450 pound Big Show and dropping him over the top rope? Awesome. The commentators jokingly wondering if he'll be able to lift the huge trophy he won, and their reactions when he does? Hilarious.
  • The crowd's reaction to The Undertaker's loss to Brock Lesnar. One guy ran his fingers down his face so hard he could've peeled his skin off.
• WrestleMania 31:
  • Remember Muhammad Hassan's elimination during his Royal Rumble debut in 2005? At WrestleMania 31's André the Giant Battle Royal, Curtis Axel gets eliminated first by EVERYONE in the ring, except Big Show, Kane (who both just watch it as Big Show tells them to toss him to the other side), Jimmy Uso and Goldust.
  • During the Undertaker vs. Wyatt match, Wyatt was doing his Spider Crawl towards Taker, when Taker did his signature Zombie Sit Up. They stare at each other for about a second, and Bray slumps back-first, sporting one hell of an "Oh, Crap!" face...
  • There's something hilarious about watching two men (Bryan and Ziggler) bashing their heads together at the top of a ladder. And they do it again the following Raw, this time not on a ladder.
  • Daniel Bryan's post-match interview. Featuring congratulatory interruptions from Pat Patterson, Roddy Piper, Ricky Steamboat, Ric Flair, and Bret Hart (in that order.) Cue all of them, including Maria Menounos (the interviewer), doing Bryan's Big "YES!"... until Ron Simmons shows up and bellows out his trademark "DAMN!" They continue the "YES!" chants anyway.
• WrestleMania 32:
  • The New Day's intro, which sees them tip over a giant box of "Booty-Os" and race out of the box wearing Saiyan Battle Armor! Bonus points for Michael Cole of all people, for stating the obvious Shout-Out by name-dropping Vegeta.
    • After that match, HBK, Mick Foley, and Stone Cold arrive to beat the piss out of the League of Nations (New Day's opponents). Stone Cold gives Rusev a Stunner that he gloriously oversells.
    • Then after that, The New Day tries to convince them to dance with them. HBK and Mick Foley are perfectly fine with this, and even Stone Cold seems to start getting into dancing with Xavier Woods... before giving him a brief but familiar salute and dropping him with a Stunner as well.
  • As sympathetic as many fans were to the performers themselves, the crowd's utter refusal to play along to WWE's narrative in the main event is pretty funny to watch, especially with how blatantly the mics are muted and how the crowd seems determined to chant the names of anyone BUT Triple H or Roman Reigns.
• WrestleMania 33:
  • How do The New Day top dressing up as Saiyans? By dressing up as Warriors of Light, donning the garb of the Samurai and Red Mage. And for bonus points, their intro video replaced the unicorn with a Chocobo! And if that wasn't enough, Xavier Woods even played the Final Fantasy victory jingle on his trombone!
    • Bonus points: Michael Cole is excited to be calling out on the Final Fantasy references, namedropping Chocobo and Moogles with glee before telling Saxton on how big of a Final Fantasy fan he is.
  • After taking out Nia Jax together, Charlotte invites Bayley and Sasha Banks to high five. They... decline. Charlotte offers Bayley a hug, to very much the same reaction, before angrily telling the two they can fight each other and quickly rolling out of the ring.
  • At the end of the event, after The Undertaker's departure, the stage ended up catching on fire. This wasn't planned, either.
• WrestleMania 34:
  • Braun Strowman's mystery partner in his RAW Tag Team Title match against Sheamus and Cesaro? A fan from the stands. The fan he chose? A ten-year-old child named Nicholas^note The son of fan-favorite referee John Cone. The hilarity increases exponentially by how seriously the wrestlers take it, while commentary (particularly Corey Graves) lampshade the absurdity and stupidity of Braun's decision and of the entire situation as a whole.
  • After all the build and all the insults, Cena's reaction to Undertaker actually appearing is pretty much "crap his pants" and "lose miserably".
    • Even funnier is Cena is able to drop the Undertaker momentarily, taunt him, and when he goes to for a drop, the Undertaker pulls off his trademark zombie sit up, causing Cena to slip up and fall on his ass.
  • Alexa Bliss decides to start her match with Nia Jax by slapping Nia across the face. Nia glares and then lets out a massive yell. The cameras then catch the priceless sight of Alexa letting out a matching scream of pure terror before trying to run off.
  • It's not a modern Wrestlemania without the New Day. This time around, Xavier takes out his trust trombone, blows out the Dragonzord's summoning call... and brings out a bunch of short people as pancakes.
  • During the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, "Woken" Matt Hardy and Tye Dillinger have a "Delete" vs "Ten" faceoff.
• WrestleMania 35:
  • During the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, Colin Jost brings in his therapist to help work things out with Braun Strowman, it goes as well as you would expect.
  • You thought Paul Heyman's shocked face at Brock Lesnar snapping The Streak was hilarious? Well the look on his face when Seth Rollins squashed his client is 100 times funnier, and just as satisfying to boot. The fact that the replays zoomed in on said face only added to the hilarity.
  • As advertised, Elias performed for the crowd, starting with him playing the drums, then the piano, before shifting to his trademark guitar. However with Elias being...well Elias, an interruption was inevitable, and who would interrupt him? None other than The Doctor of Thuganomics. Sporting his early 2000's look and accent, Cena massacred Elias on the mic while taking time to take barbs at himself. Really, it has to be seen to be believed.
• Even with WrestleMania 36 being closed to fans (due to the COVID-19 pandemic), it hasn't stopped the merch team from having a little fun with it.
  • Two words, "Boneyard Match". Think "The Final Deletion" but with Metallica, bikers, druids and lots of snark.
    • Early into the match, Undertaker grabs a spike and goes to hit Styles with it, who is to the side of a hearse. Styles dodges it, resulting in Taker breaking one of the hearse's windows and cutting a considerable gash on his arm (not unlike Goldberg once did in WCW). Taker's reaction to this is to simply look at the gash mildly surprised and say, "Son of a bitch!"
    • At one point during the match, Anderson picks up a shovel (which was supposed to break when it hit the Undertaker) but when he picked it up, the shovel part broke off so Anderson essentially was hitting the American Badass with a stick. Undertaker just went along with it, taking the "shovel" and saying, "Wanna use a shovel? All right then, let's use a shovel".
  • Three words, "Firefly Funhouse Match". It was perfectly described as if David Lynch directed wrestling, and that's probably the best analogy to this mess.
    • John Cena — dressed up as he did in his debut match against Kurt Angle — keeps shouting "RUTHLESS AGGRESSION!" while trying to punch Bray who keeps ducking. And then Bray starts singing, "You can look, but you can't touch!"
    • Johnny Largemeat who keeps constantly doing bicep curls.
    • The random cut to the announce table with the Vince Devil puppet and Mercy the Buzzard (dressed as Randy Savage) on commentary after John Cena turns up as "Hollywood" John Cena.
      Vince: This is such good shit!
    • Bray Wyatt as Eric Bischoff and Hollywood John Cena exchanging "Too Sweet" hand gestures.
    • Titus O'Neil's reaction to the entire thing essentially mirrors the audience's own.
• Wrestlemania 37
  • Due to the rain delaying the show for half an hour, different wrestlers decided to do a faux news special for future WresteMania shows.
  • Miz and Morrison's entrance for their tag team match involved numerous people in bunny suits, many with only one ear.
• WresteMania 38
  • Logan Paul dressing up in matching wrestling gear with Miz is fine. Him wearing a million dollar Pokémon card on his chest? Hilarious.
  • The entire match with Sami Zayn and Johnny Knoxville counts. High points include Zayn falling victim to the "High Five" prank, getting body slammed by Wee-man and the finish where's he's trapped under a giant mousetrap.
    • The ring announcer bills Johnny's weight as "just 2 cheesburgers short of 175 lbs".
    • "WEE MAN IS HERE! WEE MAN!" Michael Cole clearly having the time of his life and the crowd popping like it's Hogan vs Andre after the mini-slam.
    • For extra meta: Mark Henry's tweet on the match, particularly the "High Five" spot, referencing the "Sexual Chocolate" angle he had with Mae Young:
      @TheMarkHenry: "All I do is produce generational talent."
  • After Pat McAfee's bout with Austin Theory, he and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin have a beer bash as a celebration, only for Pat to be at the receiving end of a Stone Cold Stunner. Even while on the mat, Pat is just casually pouring beer down his throat as if to say "Totally worth it."
    • Prior to stunning McAfee, Stone Cold stunned both Austin Theory and Vince McMahon with the former selling it in a way that would make The Rock proud, and the latter selling it...poorly to say the least. Even Stone Cold was laughing at how bad it looked after doing so.
    • In the midst of the match, Theory is thrown to the announcers table to which Pat gets out and puts on his headset to momentarily talk smack about how Pat is laying a smackdown on his opponent.
• WrestleMania 39 goes back to Hollywood, so now we get more parody commercials.
  • Seth Rollins reenacts the stair scene of Joker, make-up and all, only to get interrogated by Becky Lynch who is really selling the guttural deep voice of the Dark Knight, the only time she goes back to normal is when she's off-screen. Apparently, the only reason Seth's even doing all of this is because the make-up is exfoliating and he's doing calisthenics for the stair dance scene.
  • Sheamus, the Brawling Brutes, and Drew McIntyre recreate the signature body wax scene from The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Sheamus is being supportive as Ridge starts cursing up a storm and Butch walks off when Sheamus suggests Butch holds Ridge's hand (with bonus points of Drew grasping Sheamus's shoulders). The final scene is Butch returning to pull off the wax strip that was covering Ridge's nipple.
    Sheamus and Drew: Not the nipple!
  • Bianca Belair and Montez Ford do the "I'm Queen of the World!" scene from Titanic with Montez wanting to take a selfie...and then the phone plops into the water.
  • Miz and Maryse have a need for speed, but when Miz admonishes his wife for slapping his mic hand too hard, she gives him a Groin Attack in retaliation.
  • At the end of the opening promo for the show, Kevin Hart asks about the pyro budget for the production.
  • Rollins' match with Logan Paul was both Awesome and this, thanks to one specific moment. See, Paul came to the ring with a mascot dressed up as a blue Prime energy drink bottle. Partway through his match with Rollins, the mascot got involved to help Paul, and was unmasked as who else but KSI. Long story short, Paul and KSI manage to briefly get the advantage over Rollins and Paul is about to splash Rollins through the Spanish Announce Table while KSI is taking a selfie over Rollins' body... only for Rollins to switch himself with KSI just as Paul left the top rope, forcing him to take the bump to the amusement of the crowd. The cherry on top is KSI deflating into his costume, playing dead for the rest of the match.
  • In Rey's match against Dominik Mysterio, Rey decides to really give his son some punishment by taking off his belt and attacking him with it.
  • The masterful way Snoop Dogg saved a segment between Miz and Shane McMahon. After Shane blew his knee doing a leap frog, Miz was just aimlessly walking around trying to buy time, all while the medical teams focus on Shane's injury, during all this, Snoop slyly entered the ring and clocks Miz in the face, and as the best way to describe it, gracefully bounces off the ropes and drops the People's Elbow on the Miz, winning the impromptu match in the process. Snoop Dogg now has an official win at WrestleMania.
  • During the post-Night 2 media scrum, Nick Hausman (Infamously the journalist singled out by CM Punk during the AEW All Out 2022 media scrum) asks Roman about the reports that Endeavor were close to a deal to buy WWE. With perfect comic timing, a bemused Heyman and Reigns look at one another before Heyman notes to his Tribal Chief that Hausman "has a bad habit of starting problems at press conferences."
• WrestleMania XL
  • Truth asks to be tagged in by Miz. In a Ladder Match. A Ladder Match that he and Miz set up weeks prior. He also puts Balor down with an Attitude Adjustment and pins him, imitating the referee doing the 3-count before cheering like he's won the WWE Championship.
  • Two moments from the entrances for the Six Women Tag Match:
    • As Damage CTRL are making their entrance, Michael Cole says that Dakota Kai is braver than him for wearing the outfit she has on with how cold the temperature is. Cody Graves immediately tells Cole to remove the image of Michael Cole wearing Kai's outfit from his memory.
    • While Bianca Belair, Naomi, and Jade Cargill head down the ring for their match against Damage CTRL, The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) decide to dance to Belair's theme, the same Belair that they and the rest of Damage CTRL are feuding with.
  • Seth Rollins makes an entrance in one of the gaudiest attires he's ever worn, consisting of a white ensemble with a hat practically exploding with feathers, a white owl face on his chest, white hair, and a cape made of ivy, having the Philadelphia Mummers' Parade perform his opening. CM Punk is quick to snark on it. When it came to Drew McIntyre's entrance, his response to Pat McAfee asking who were the people with the swords, Punk swiftly answers, "nerds".
  • Drew McIntyre finding time to Tweet "Bored at work. LOL!" on his official Twitter/X account during his match against Seth Rollins. Two hours later, after losing the title to Damien Priest's cash-in attempt, he Tweeted again. It simply said "Fuck".
  • When Damien Priest cashes in his Money in the Bank briefcase against Drew McIntyre, Samantha Irvin's announcement of it sounds like she's just as shocked as the audience. There's also the visual of him tossing it at Drew for a headshot.
  • Dominik being assaulted by two strangers in matching Rey Mysterio masks — Philadelphia Eagles' Jason Kelce and Lace Johnson — from the audience. After Rey and Andrade win and the LWO celebrates, Carlito looks at the additional help with a "WTF" look on his face.
  • Snoop Dogg on special commentary duty during the Philadelphia Street Fight. His odd-ball style of commentary made what would be an otherwise fairly average Street Fight in a pretty funny affair.
  • The Prime bottle mascot once again interferes in Logan Paul's match with Kevin Owens and Randy Orton. Dragging Orton from a punt attempt, the mascot turns out to be iShowSpeed who proceeded to push and bark at Orton. Naturally, taunting Randy Orton of all people leads to Speed getting the crap beat out of him and receiving an RKO on the announcers' table. What makes this even funnier is Orton throws an Ironic Echo by barking at iShowSpeed before the RKO. Made even funnier with Michael Cole's commentary:
    Michael Cole: The dog is dead.
  • Roman Reigns hits Cody Rhodes with his own Cross-Rhodes finisher for a near-fall. Reigns then complains to Heyman, "That move sucks. That move don't beat nobody." Now, consider how this match ultimately ends...
  • Soon after Cody finishes the story:
    Corey Graves: Cole, I have to ask you... what could this possibly mean for The Bloodline?
    Michael Cole: Who gives a damn?
  • The Rock being attacked by the Undertaker and then the two mysteriously vanishing.
  • Seth comes out to the Shield theme, dressed in Shield gear with a steel chair in hand and gets laid out instantly by Roman the moment he stepped foot in the ring. The image speaks for itself.◊
  • Shortly after Cody's victory, the referee handed Rock's Mama Rhodes belt like a championship belt with Rock snatching it and pouting like a child who didn't get his favorite toy.
  • Amongst the celebrations of Cody Rhodes finishing the story, Seth Rollins is still laid out unconscious in the ring after the Superman Punch. At least there's no rubber chicken this time.

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