8 TNA Impact Gimmick Changes That Lengthened Careers
1. Broken Matt Hardy
Who else could it be?
A man who, years before, we'd mostly written off as either upper-midcard fodder for more charismatic, enigmatic types or as a man whose career would self-destruct in truly tragic fashion...
Instead, this seemingly lost soul would delve deep into character work unlike anything we'd seen before, manufacturing an entire universe of inside references, colorful vignettes, iconic moments, and baffling word pronunciations that made him the talk of the entire wrestling world.
From the early days of his underrated title run as Big Money Matt to the slow, peculiar emergence of wrestling's bitey-est outsider, it was a tour-de-force of character work that was as divisive as it was -- say it with me now -- WONDERFUL.
Not only did Matt Hardy lengthen his career, he cast aside any and all detractors who believed that his brother was the only one with main event potential.