Joseph and Colette Discuss Sami Zayn vs. Johnny Knoxville

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WWE

This week, Joseph and Colette took on last year’s hit WrestleMania match between Sami Zayn and Johnny Knoxville, which jumpstarted Zayn’s career to the point that he is now one of the central characters in WWE. It’s a really good comedy match, fresh and inventive, a match where the set-ups are as delightful as the punchlines.

Joseph: Sami Zayn and Johnny Knoxville Don’t Need Jackass Lore
Colette: Sami Zayn and Johnny Knoxville Fought for the Future of Professional Wrestling

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Joseph Anthony Montecillo
This week, we wrote about our first comedy match for the BIG EGG project. I had a real tough time working my way through it just because it always seems a little silly to pick apart a joke punchline by punchline, but it really is a match that great that it's worthy of dissection. In fact, as far as the circles I'm in are concerned, it might just be one of the most universally beloved matches across the board. Was there a particular point in the match when you realized you were watching something that would come to be so well loved?

Colette Arrand
I think the obvious answer is Wee Man, or maybe the exploder that Knoxville took through a table, but for me it was the Helluva Kick that opened the match. It was unexpected, it set the stage for the early portion of the match where Zayn controlled Knoxville by virtue of his being a wrestler in his element. It immediately established Johnny Knoxville as the underdog, and that he wasn't going to be a superhuman worldbeater in the mold of most WWE celebrity wrestlers. It also looked good, and it got me to buy in immediately. But I was also rooting for this match, so I understand if, for most, it was Wee Man. Is that where you had that realization?