10 Controversial Wrestling Matches You'll Never See Again

10. Jeff Hardy Vs. Sheamus (WWE SmackDown, July 24th 2020)

Jeff Hardy's issues with substance abuse have featured far too prominently in pro wrestling over the years.

It's not a surprise that nobody seemed to learn anything from the horrendous night Hardy main evented a TNA pay-per-view in no condition to perform, but when stories of his recovery were used for inspirational fodder in 2020 there was a creeping unease that was rapidly vindicated during his SmackDown feud with Sheamus.

'The Celtic Warrior' framed him for a hit-and-run and forced him to take a drug test just so Vince McMahon could re-run an old segment where somebody gets a face full of p*ss, and the two eventually had this payoff in a bar.

Surrounded by his vices and forced to engage in the sort of match that those vices often medicated, Hardy was put in an unenviable and unpleasant position during a period in which WWE were allegedly attempting to be the escapist nonsense the world needed. Vince McMahon called the whole thing pre-determined to avoid paying tax in 1989 - why did this sh*t have to be so real 30 years later?