10 Ways TNA Totally Screwed Themselves Over

10. Letting Jeff Hardy Perform Drunk

The events of Victory Road 2011’s main event lasted just a few minutes, but they remain one of the most catastrophically embarrassing disasters in wrestling history. TNA have often drawn unfavourable comparisons to latter day WCW, but this event outweighs almost any of that company’s PR disasters, and will forever live on in wrestling infamy.

In March 2011, Jeff Hardy was set to challenge Sting for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, but something was wrong. It was immediately apparent that Jeff was intoxicated from the moment he shambled out from the backstage area, and TNA reacted in the worst possible way.

With glazed-over eyes and a dead-to-the-world facial expression, Jeff struggled down to the ring, then spent what felt like an ice age trying to remove his t-shirt and throw it to the crowd. He and Sting eventually had a “match,” but it lasted just 90 seconds, and as Sting walked to the back, he was as disgusted as everyone else.

It seems preposterous that TNA would allow a man to compete in such a stupor (especially considering Jeff allegedly had to be carried from his trailer to the gorilla position), but they did it. Instead of coming up with an alternative plan, TNA guillotined their own reputation.