10 Wrestling Props You Totally Don't Remember
6. Leyla Hirsch's Spare Turnbuckle
If you can't help but be pedantic about it, the existence of weapons under the ring is a ridiculous notion that only feels normal because the mainstream North American wrestling industry has normalised it for nearly a quarter of a century.
These things shouldn't really be there.
A table is never used to build a ring, and if the compressed sawdust table was used, a member of the ring crew would fall through it after standing there for, at most, 10 seconds. Are the chairs there so that the workers can take a break? It's not an easy task, but it's not as if they can't hop a guardrail and pick from about 5,000 at a minimum. These are the only objects that could be halfway justified; everything else, like a barbed wire board, conjures an absurd image of a wrestler sneaking around the arena before bell time. The larger the weapon, the more asinine the logic.
Which makes Leyla Hirsch's recent prop a genuinely great and logical idea; before she was struck down by injury, rendering her heel run forgettable, she used a spare turnbuckle clamp to cheat her way to victory.
A weapon that actually belonged in the ringside environment: this was an inspired detail, but terrible luck and timing scuppered the idea.