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10. Would The Final Deletion Have Ever Happened In WWE?

A lot of furore has been generated by 'The Final Deletion', aka the supposed final clash between Matt and Jeff Hardy. Opinion is divided between those who applaud the match for its over-the-top, Z-movie style, those who applaud TNA for its use of the bizarre bout as an attention-grabbing marketing tool, and those who applaud the fans for sitting through such a dreadful piece of pro wrestling.

As a firm member of the third camp, I must state that WWE have never been in the position to make such a desperate bid for bad publicity.

Many argue that the match isn't too dissimilar to some of the car-crash hardcore action we saw in the Attitude Era, but I have to disagree. The Final Deletion was, to me, worlds apart - more a deliberate attempt to craft something "so bad it's good". Imagine if Tommy Wiseau had intentionally made 'The Room' as bad as he could, or if Rebecca Black's 'Friday' was expertly written to be as shoddy as possible, and you're somewhere in the ballpark.

In wrestling terms, I actually think Hardy vs. Hardy was most similar to the shenanigans pulled by WCW in their dying days: terrible worked-shoots, title-stripping "reboots", and so on.

Both represented shameless grabs at publicity - any publicity - regardless of the actual quality of such entertainment.