10 Most Important Non-WWE Wrestling Moments Of The 2010s
6. The Final Deletion
Who'd have thought that the hottest act in wrestling in the year 2016 would be Matt Hardy?
The oft-overlooked Hardy Boy grabbed headlines when he debuted his "Broken" gimmick in TNA. Matt's new character was that he was actually the vessel for a millennias-old spirit and was now a being of almost supernatural power. Stay with us, here.
Most people dismissed the new gimmick almost straight away, writing it off as a struggling TNA once again throwing something wacky at the wall in the hope that it would stick. That was before The Final Deletion.
This now-mythical "match" took place at The Hardy Compound (Matt Hardy's house) and pitted the Broken one against his brother Jeff, better known as "Brother Nero".
What followed completely changed the way in which people viewed wrestling. Only about five minutes of the match took place in an actual ring, with the remainder taking place across fields, up trees, and even in a lake.
It was cinematic, bizarre, and entertaining as hell. Viewers came flooding back to TNA in their masses as Matt fleshed out his Broken Universe week by week and made himself relevant for the first time in years.
Let's just not talk about that whole "Woken" thing in WWE.