10 Ultimate Wrestling Guilty Pleasures

When Jeff Hardy challenged Sting for the TNA World Championship at 2011's Victory Road, fans rightly expected a decent match. After all, each competitor boasted an incredible list of accomplishments. Instead pay-per-view audiences were subjected to a main event car crash rarely witnessed before or since. What a treat.

Concerns over Hardy's intoxicated condition began backstage. Try as he might, Hardy's slow, staggered walk to the ring did little to ease these fears. Executive Producer Eric Bischoff changed the match's stipulation and finish on the fly, making it No Disqualification and instructing Sting to take Hardy out. To Bischoff's credit, he managed to shoehorn these abrupt changes into the existing Immortal storyline, but nothing could save the resulting match from being anything other than a disaster of the highest magnitude.

Before the bell Hardy stalls by pretending to toss his for shirt into the crowd for ages, but there was no stay of execution to be had. His fate was sealed. A few awkward strikes, a Scorpion Death Drop, and it was all over. Sting then forcefully pins a confused Hardy, who tries to kick out to no avail. While the crowd reacted with understandable shock and anger at this atrocious main event, a guilty pleasure for the ages was born. Long may it be so.

It was wrong of Hardy to wrestle and equally wrong for viewers to laugh, but life works in funny ways sometimes. Bullsh*t, yes. Unwatchable, no.