10 Dumbest Wrestling Props Ever
5. Mitch The Plant
Look at Dean Ambrose's face, man.
If he looks sick of his life, that's because he was; as Jon Moxley revealed on his infamous Talk Is Jericho podcast appearance in 2019, this exact brand of prop-based b*llocks eventually compelled him to leave the company. In a different company that we are barely able to reference by name anymore, he took the piss out of his aura-killing schtick by revealing his intent to ride up to the house of a second match comedy character in a vehicle he had "inexplicably acquired".
He also inexplicably acquired a plant on WWE television in his wretched 2016 feud with Chris Jericho.
Mitch was the inanimate co-host of the Ambrose Asylum, a talk show that Ambrose debuted at the expense of Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel. This was phenomenally low-stakes fluff bullsh*t even by WWE standards. The actual origin of Mitch the Plant wasn't about a plant. It was about the clay receptacle housing the plant with which Jericho could cause serious injury and get some heat.
But because all of this was so frivolous and removed from actual emotion, the stupid plant became a meme that was appreciated in small circles on an ironic level, and a match that ended in a serious thumbtack spot was treated like a dumb joke.
Pain for no real purpose: then, now, forever.