10 Wrestlers Who Couldn’t Legally Wrestle!
6. Pacman Jones
In 2007, TNA got into a working relationship with the NFL’s Tennessee Titans cornerback Pacman Jones, hoping to garner some mainstream press with the full intention of having him wrestle for the company in-between his football commitments.
The only issue was Pacman nor TNA ran this past the Tennessee Titans, who weren’t too pleased with this development, thinking he could get hurt wrestling and potentially miss games. The Titans filed a restraining order barring him from working for TNA, so TNA began scrambling. They reached a settlement with the Titans where Pacman could appear on TNA TV and PPVs, but could under no conditions "touch or be touched, use or be hit by any object or anything else that could injure him." It was a surreal situation in wrestling, with little precedent, and it was apparent to everyone watching their programming that Pacman couldn’t be touched in angles or in matches.
When Pacman was attacked and laid out at Hard Justice (2007), it was done off camera. When he won the TNA World Tag Team Championship with Ron Killings against Sting and Kurt Angle at No Surrender, Pacman made the pin but he was never touched. When the pair took on Team 3D on Impact! Pacman avoided contact with leapfrogs and ducking clotheslines. At Bound for Glory, TNA even instigated the ‘Freebird Rule’ so Pacman could avoid in-ring action, with Consequences Creed (Xavier Woods) replacing him in the match to defend the titles with Killings.
If you’re looking for an example of TNA’s incompetence, look no further than this debacle.