10 Most Fake Wrestling Props Ever
7. The Dead Pig Carcass At AEW Double Or Nothing 2020
The original Stadium Stampede was a miraculously fun but very era-specific time.
Everybody needed a smile put on their haunted husk of a face. Everybody needed a reminder that wrestling is meant to be a spectacle, and AEW somehow contrived to produce one. It was magical.
The second match was not. By May 2021, with vaccines created and rolled out, the cinematic match felt like a residual reminder of a thoroughly depressing time. The people who put it together sensed this, as the finale bled into thrilling live action in a poetic send-off to a pandemic that's about to get worse lol, but that genuinely stirring moment followed an uneven diminished return not without its highlights. MJF selling a staple gun to the face was a great visual, and Sammy Guevara was on phenomenal form with his awesome chair-assisted stunt work, but the match otherwise fell flat.
Wardlow and Jake Hager worked a committed brawl in a walk-in freezer to cap off their amusing staring contest of a rivalry in a scene undermined by exceptionally shoddy props.
Look at the state of those pig carcasses. The guts looked like the surface of a candy red Chevy. The paint sparkled.
The pig carcass couldn't have been more TNA if the camera entered its ars*hole.