10 Secret Times Wrestling TV Mirrored Real Life
9. Matt Hardy, As Played By Kane
In 2004, Kane decided he wanted to impregnate Lita whether she was keen or not, and beat the f*ck out of her boyfriend Matt Hardy in order to remove the only obvious obstacle he could see.
This was a rotten storyline then and gets no better to contemplate now, but it was a virtually forgotten plot point by 2005 when the pair had somehow transformed this rocky start into a functioning romantic relationship via lost baby and shared disdain for Gene Snitsky. The pair were fairly over faces in fact, all until Matt Hardy revealed the contents of Amy Dumas' messages with Adam Copeland to the world via his website.
One regrettable action after another resulted in one of the worst possible outcomes when Hardy was fired by the company, resulting in the company's vocal majority of male fans giving Lita both barrels. Edge got plenty of it too, but it was easy to reframe as heat for the increasingly-hated heel.
WWE needed a quick fix. 'The Big Red Machine' went from destroying Hardy to being his surrogate. Lita left him for Edge on television until the company booked a summer series with the North Carolinian when he made his return.