18 Image Changes WWE Wrestlers Should Never Have Tried

3. The Lesser Of Two Hardys

I should try to be nice here, because my abiding dislike of everything and anything to do with The Lesser Of Two Hardys will slip out, and I€™ve tried really hard to remain objective in this article*. But yeah, let€™s talk about Matt Hardy€™s TNA debut at the Genesis pay-per-view in 2011, shortly after being sh*tcanned from the WWE for losing the plot, and posting videos to YouTube that evinced still more narrative-misplacing behaviour. His opponent, Rob Van Dam, was waiting for his then-nemesis Jeff Hardy to make an appearance, having been assured by heel authority figure Eric Bischoff that he would indeed be facing €˜Hardy€™ that evening. By the way€ yes, I did say TNA, and yes, that€™s two WWE superstars, a WCW mainstay and ECW€™s golden boy front and centre in this storyline. Why do TNA have such trouble getting their homegrown stars to maintain any kind of credibility? Damned if I know. Matt€™s arrival was therefore a swerve, for Van Dam and for us. What was undoubtedly a swerve for TNA officials was the state that Hardy arrived in. The long coat was bad enough, and very 1999, but he was overweight, with a significant pot belly and moobs, and sporting wonderful, wonderful braids in his hair as he slowly stalked to the ring, wearing that cartoon €˜evil€™ grin that he€™d clearly practiced in the mirror all day. Why were the braids wonderful? Because it€™s always wonderful when someone you dislike does something so spectacularly foolish that no argument needs to be made. All you have to do is point and say to the world, you see?! Just look at the man. * I have not tried at all.