10 Pointless Acts Of Wrestling Bravery That Were Totally Forgotten

5. Jeff Hardy's TNA Stunts

Kevin Nash once wryly assessed the main difference between TNA and WWE was that in Vince McMahon's company, it was nice to actually wrestle in front of a full-sized audience.

Kurt Angle has also previously made mention of the beleaguered outfit's struggle for mainstream exposure, commenting how people he would meet would ask 'where he's been' since his 2006 WWE exit, despite virtually working a full-time schedule for Dixie Carter since then.

So whilst it's extremely admirable that Jeff Hardy has not fallen into the trap of an ex-WWEer phoning in his performances compared to some previous TNA fly-by-nights, it's almost a count against him that he risks so much for so little.

Immortalised in WWE video packages when he's in company good graces, Jeff's eye-opening work there is played ad infinitum, normally set to a background of flashbulbs and appropriately aghast faces in the crowd.

In TNA, Jeff has put himself through unimaginable torture, including legitimate thirty-foot dives from staging areas in the Impact Zone in brawls with Abyss and brother Matt, as well as a sickening fall from a steel cage onto the ringsteps in a Lockdown opener, and more recently, various forms of carnage from the Hardy compound in his 'Brother Nero' persona.