10 Things We Learned From Dark Side Of The Ring: TNA (Part 3)

Plenty of it.

Victory Road 2011's nothing main event between Sting and an inebriated Jeff Hardy proved to be an utter disgrace. It shortchanged those who had attended the pay-per-view, not to mention those who had forked over cash to watch it at home. No, TNA didn't shift a ton of PPVs, but still.

D’Lo Brown and Eric Bischoff were amongst those who decided to let Jeff Hardy go to the ring and see if he could “walk it off” despite clearly being under the influence. Reflecting on that, Brown said: “There’s a million right choices and one wrong one, and we did the wrong one”. Detached from the management structure but still emotionally interested, Jarrett was angry that they’d even let Hardy go through the curtain, and he blames Dixie for letting that happen on her watch.

Hardy himself says he “needed that to realise how bad I was”. He’s forgiven himself, and hopes fans have forgiven him for it too. Matt Hardy says the only positive that came out of things was that his brother stopped taking pills. What an absolute mess. It's so sad that something like this had to happen before Jeff snapped out of the funk he was in.

Admittedly, the main event's car crash could've been even worse had Bisch not been on hand to sort things out in the heat of the moment. It's also cool that neither VICE nor any of the talking heads try to make excuses for that nightmare. It'd take a brave soul to defend it.