10 Awesome Wrestlers Who Had Terrible Managers

3. The Hardy Boyz (Michael Hayes)

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In 1999, there was a hot young tag team breaking through the WWE ranks, replete with a daredevil arsenal, fashionable baggy pants and ultragreasy hair. Superannuated Southern flag-fondlers The Fabulous Freebirds they were not, yet in order to help push the emergence of this newest doubles sensation, The Hardy Boyz were insensibly teamed up with WCCW vet Michael Hayes.

Perhaps ten years prior, had Hayes not been laundered through WWE's anti-wrasslin' mangle to become the avuncular yet extremely uncool Dok Hendrix, the partnership might have worked wonders. At the turn of the century, it was just odd; the 40-year old Hayes squeezed into a skin-tight tank top mostly came across as an overly eager dad.

Later in the year, the former Freebird was set free. The Hardyz memorably competed in the first ever tag team ladder match shortly afterwards, where they won not just esteem, but the services of a manager perhaps even less fitting: Terri Runnels.

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