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2. Hulk Hogan Vs. Sting (Bound For Glory 2011)

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Hulk Hogan was 58.

Sting was 52.

A combined age of 110-years-old semi-main evented TNA Bound For Glory 2011.

If that doesn't accentuate everything wrong with TNA in 2011, then perhaps watching the match collapse in front of you - like the 20 million who already have done - will.

The match was grievously out of date for an October 2011 audience; a comical calamity more than a wrestling contest. Hogan was broken down, Sting was getting there, and the match - which was nothing more of an old man scrap around the barbecue on a Sunday afternoon - had all the facets of a peak-WCW Hulk Hogan cataclysm. Ric Flair unenthusiastically trifled through his interference spot, Eric Bischoff was fighting for control of a nonentity wrestling company, Hulk Hogan did f*ck all, and Sting, through no effort, comfortably took home the prize for best performance just by showing up.

Seriously, the opening lockup saw Hogan haphazardly whip Sting off into the ropes, who responded by falling down as if Hogan had shoulder tackled him.

He hadn't. Hulk couldn't move, let alone wrestle.

The finishing sequence was somehow worse. Hogan - who, of course, was bloodstained - ate two of the most placid Stinger Splashes in existence, fell down (see: lied down like he was going for a nap), and became intertwined in Sting's gentlest Scorpion Deathlock that had Hulk submitting within seconds.

It was terrible.

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