Background: Kurt Angle seemed like the virginity promoting, milk-chugging boy scout for most of his career but behind the scenes he was in tremendous pain from his freakin broken neck and a litany of other injuries. His solution to the problem was the one most wrestlers come up with, drink alcohol and take pain medication. In just six years, Kurt was involved in four DUI cases and ultimately was released from his contract in 2006: he's failed to hit the heights of his peak since. Jeff Hardy was the darling of kids with black nail polish the world over, but it was his reportedly toxic attitude and love of drugs that led him to part ways with WWE in 2003. While on a successful return run in 2008, Hardy had to drop the Intercontinental title after being suspended for failing a drug test. Police arrested Hardy on charges of prescription drug and steroid trafficking in 2009. A search of his home yielded a stash of thousands of prescription pills, drug paraphernalia and steroids. The charismatic enigma pled guilty to the charges and spent ten days in jail in 2011, he was also put on two and a half years probation and fined $100,000. What Could Have Been? Hardy's drug suspensions kept him from winning the Money in the Bank ladder match at WrestleMania XXIV, he was booked to win it before his suspension was announced. Kurt Angle has always said - and he is pretty much right in saying it - that had he kept his nose clean he would be where John Cena is today. The Aftermath: Apologies to Dixie Carter but if it were not for the greed of wrestlers for drug money and time in the ring, TNA would not have a lineup. Jeff Hardy, Angle and Scott Hall have all been through TNA's doors in pretty bad condition. If Hardy were sober he could have at least delivered at A- performance with Sting at Victory Road. Angle could have dominated a few of the years where Triple H and Edge reigned supreme in WWE.
