10 Bizarre WWE Experiments You Totally Don't Remember
8. Jeff Hardy As A Heel
The picture above is of Jeff Hardy during his 2010-11 heel run in TNA, complete with hideous custom title belt design.
This is Hardy's most high-profile time as a baddie to date. When WWE tried to do it a few years earlier, it fizzled out after about a month.
The Charismatic Enigma went evil in January 2003 after a loss on Raw to Rob Van Dam. Unhappy with being beaten by the former ECW man, Hardy attacked RVD and threatened to strike him with a chair.
He walked away without committing the act, which is not a great start for your new villain.
The next week, he attacked Booker T after their match, only to get laid out. One week after that, he got into it with Shawn Michaels, who also put the Carolina native down. Just a handful of weeks after his first heel turn, Hardy saved Stacy Keibler from Christian and went good again.
WWE clearly had no faith in Hardy as a bad guy as they pulled the plug on it almost immediately. Maybe this is for the best, as we may ended up with the horrible belt design seven years earlier.