10 MORE Wrestling Matches That Became Inadvertently Infamous
2. Jeff Hardy Vs Sting (TNA Victory Road 2011)
A cacophony of individual catastrophes, Jeff Hardy's sozzled surrender of his TNA World Heavyweight Title shot just weeks after losing the strap to a returning Sting was an unthinkable low point for the 'Charismatic Enigma' and the Orlando-based outfit.
"No condition to perform" used to be a loosely cloaked colloquialism for a wrestler too strung out on drugs or alcohol to leave the dressing room, but Hardy's literal state as such didn't stop the company sending him out to the ring under the horribly misguided pretence of delivering their advertised pay-per-view main event.
Finding his personal rock bottom on the most public of platforms, Hardy was in understandably shambolic form. He could barely walk to the ring, he appeared to forget that he was teasing throwing his t-shirt to the crowd as he was doing it, and he barely registered the panicked instructions dished out by an interfering Eric Bischoff as he awkwardly rushed the ring to smarten up Sting about the unenviable task ahead.
Infuriated by a broken trust with both Hardy and TNA that such a sh*tshow was even ordered to go ahead, Sting vociferously agreed with the audience's disdain as the show limped off the air with the stench of a boozehound's breath hanging in the air.