Slapstick Summer Series! - The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match (1900), Wrestling w/ Melies

This film, like yesterday's, also is not considered to be the 1st slapstick movie...but in this case, I'm not exactly sure why. Perhaps this is due to the physical comedy occurring only in an unexpected (and extreme) manner, but not not in an unexpected setting? I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on the matter.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135571/

March Melies Madness! - The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match [Nouvelles luttes extravagantes] (1900)

In The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match (aka Nouvelles luttes extravagantes aka New and Extravagant Bouts), Méliès magically creates the most comically brutal wrestling match of all time.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135571/