10 Dumbest Wrestling Props Ever

7. The Fiend's Lantern

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This was actually rather cool-looking - and reassuring! - when the Fiend debuted it at SummerSlam 2019.

The Fiend's lantern was fashioned from the head of the old 'cult leader' Bray Wyatt. The idea, furthering 'Mr. Rogers Bray Wyatt's' assertion that we'd never see that "pathetic slob loser" ever again, was that WWE knew damn well that they had ruined the original incarnation of Bray Wyatt beyond recognition. It was a tacit promise that they were intent on getting a supernatural character played by Windham Rotunda "right" this time. It wasn't all that tacit, actually. Mr. Rogers Bray cut a cardboard cut-out of leather butcher's apron Bray in half with a chainsaw.

A couple of months later, the monster was saved by a benevolent referee despite threatening to strike Seth Rollins with a bigger hammer than that which was seconds away from crushing his face.

The prop became dumb in retrospect because it turned out we did see the pathetic slob loser again in 2020. The visual symbolism didn't make sense within "the lore of the Fiend" because nothing did. None of it ever made sense.

The lantern-like structure only underscored, in retrospect, that WWE simply made it up as they went along.

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