10 WWE Traitors Who Were More Effective After Leaving

3. Jeff Hardy

Turning his back on everything WWE had done to try and make him a star, Jeff Hardy showed up in TNA on the January 4th episode of Impact Wrestling in 2010, as part of the huge recruitment drive spear-headed by Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan to try and make the company competitive with WWE. As soon as he was shown sitting atop a cage during an X-Division bout, Hardy arguably ruined his reputation with his former employer. By his own admission, Jeff has never been the most simple of characters. Various injury problems dogged his WWE career, and the man decided to leave the organisation in the Summer of 2009. Just a month or so later, Hardy ran into some serious legal troubles, arrested on charges of drug trafficking. WWE must have breathed one colossal sigh of relief, but there was still room for Jeff to return somewhere down the road. Of course, his subsequent run in TNA yielded several World Title wins, but since those highs of 2008-2009 in WWE, Jeff Hardy's career has been known more for the problems he's caused rather than the good times. At the Victory Road show in 2011, he appeared out of it for his main event against Sting, and the match was an embarrassment for TNA. Worse yet, the man hasn't really impacted the ratings in TNA, and given all his problems outside of the ring, WWE must be thankful he didn't choose to stick around in '09.