10 Fatal Mistakes That Destroyed The TNA Brand
3. Jenna Vs Sharmell
Sharmell and Jenna Morasca were not professional wrestlers, and it was thus somewhat unfair to expect a professional wrestling match. However, in electing to promote the match at all, TNA should have took more responsibility to ensure it was a catastrophe on such an epic scale.
The feud between Main Event Mafia valets had been a sidenote to the overarching takeover plot by Kurt Angle's suited-and-booted legends group, but their contest was rooted in sheer titillation.
To her credit, former reality star Morasca went above and beyond in providing the sexually-charged teases, with an incomparable entrance in which she slid legs akimbo through the bottom and middle ropes, almost exposing herself in the process.
Rather than leaning almost entirely on the talents of Awesome Kong and Sojo Bolt acting as corner-women at ringside, the match instead focussed almost entirely on the two untrained stars as they engaged in impossibly bad combat punctuated by possibly the most infamous collection of right and left slaps ever thrown.
It swept the board in year-end 'Worst' awards, and rightfully so, but on balance, it mainly just showed TNA up yet again as a promotion driving too fast and hard in all the wrong directions. WWE were routinely putting untrained models in matches on Raw and SmackDown at the same time, but nothing was remotely as poor as this.