50 Worst Wrestling Moments Of The 2020s (So Far)

45. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Death Match

Much like his less talented brother, Jeff Hardy did precisely one good thing in AEW. His No Disqualification match against Darby Allin on the May 11, 2022 Dynamite was damn good, if very ill-advised.

Elsewhere, Jeff was very slow, and his nostalgic star power couldn’t save him amid such a stacked roster.

Jeff Jarrett Vs. Jeff Hardy in a Texas Chain Saw Massacre Death Match was AEW’s take on an exercise in cross-brand advertising. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game needed a plug - and a championship belt, for some reason - and if AEW deliberately made it awful, so they’d never have to do anything like it again, it wouldn’t come as a surprise.

Then again, this was AEW in 2023. They probably thought they were doing Funk Vs. Onita.

Hardy ventured backstage to locate Jarrett, who magically appeared when Hardy looked near the usual wall with mediaeval weapons hanging off it that’s always there. A cruddy plunder brawl bathed in red light - why would the Listening Company do Hell In A Cell 2019?! - a bucket of blood was thrown at Karen Jarrett so she’d look like a Scream Queen. She screams in Jarrett’s matches, you see. This was the closest the comedy match ever got to making a joke, as opposed to being one.

She was chased away by Leatherface near the finish - a very skinny Leatherface - as chainsaw sound effects played over the speakers.

It could have been fun, The idea of a tie-in is icky, but not automatically awful. But instead, it was just something TNA would have done without getting paid for it.