10 Reasons TNA's The Final Deletion Was A Shakespearean Level Masterpiece

Expecting professional wresting storylines to have a tight handle on continuity is an exercise in futility. You'd have an easier time trying to explain the entire timeline of Marvel's X-Men than you would trying to fill the logic gaps in even the simplest of angles commonly found in this thing we all love so dearly.

But not when it comes to The Final Deletion.

For all it's gravely serious ultraviolence and Oscar-caliber acting, lost in the shuffle is how tightly written the entire story was. Take the ending for instance. Matt knows BROTHER NERO better than anyone on the planet, and he's well aware of Jeff's penchant for always taking the (often unnecessary) risk. In the case of their match, Matt was all but beaten when his brother had him locked in a choke and all he had to do was cover him for the win.

Rather than take the easy way out, BROTHER NERO had to go for one last breath-taking maneuver, this time scaling a ladder perched against a 20-foot tall Hardy Boyz symbol erected in the middle of his dirtbike track. But before BROTHER NERO was able to launch himself through the air and crash down upon Matt in what would have surely been the end to the war, his evil genius foe removed a small candle that had previously adorned his son's birthday cake - that may or may not have been given to him in a hallucination by his wife, Reby - to light the dirt all around them on fire.

The blaze spread up the Hardyz symbol and sent BROTHER NERO crashing to the ground, where Matt covered his lifeless body for the win. How in the world did dirt burn so easily you ask? Earlier in the day, when Matt was ruining his little bro's lawn, he gave the remainder of the fuel for the mower to Senor Benjamin and instructed him to "apply generously to the battleground."

His reasoning? "It takes a lot of fuel to delete a BROTHER NERO."

Matt Hardy, you brilliant bastard, you.