10 Times Impact Wrestling Went Too Far

9. The Worst "Celebrity" Match Ever

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Relying on the cheapest thrills from the off, reality-TV star of the moment Jenna Morasca's elaborate entrance sliding through the bottom and middle ropes teased genital exposure thanks to TNA’s voyeuristic ringside cameraman. Too far. But here's some more on it anyway.

The scene was vintage TNA, but that shouldn't be prejorative, should it? Awesome Kong was arguably the best women’s wrestler in the world at the time, so naturally she merely stood ringside for the farce alongside Sojo Bolt as corner-women, as Morasca and Queen Sharmell's "match" degenerated into unforgivably lame stalling and strikes.

A legendarily bad surge from Morasca saw the most infamous collection of right and left slaps ever thrown, all sold by Sharmell as if she was getting struck repeatedly with a frying pan in a Reeves and Mortimer set piece.

All laughable really, but it was a cruel reminder that despite fleeting positives, TNA was still a promotion driving too fast and hard in all the wrong directions. WWE spent years throwing barely-trained ex-models into contests on live television, but nothing even reached the depths of this atrocity.

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