TNA's The Final Deletion: 8 Things You Totally Missed

4. Fireworks Aren't A Random Weapon

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After a brief interlude of actual professional wrestling (this is still a match after all), the toys come into play. Ladders and chairs make an appearance of course, with Jeff half managing to hit a Swanton Bomb from out of a tree onto a ladder. Dean Malenko vs. Lance Storm this ain't.

In an attempt to truly delete Brother Nero, Matt finds the fireworks that Señor Benjamin had placed under the ring as he prepared the battlefield for a massacre. Matt fires these fireworks towards Jeff whilst shouting 'Delete! Delete!', but Jeff somehow manages to avoid the majority of them.

The fireworks aren't used purely for aesthetic glory though, of course not. The entire match is a call-back to the careers of Matt and Jeff Hardy, and the latter's issues with fireworks and pyro in general has been fairly well-documented. Jeff was injured by his own pyro as WWE Champion way back in 2009, which everyone put down to Christian but turned out to be the work of Matt.

Fireworks came back to haunt both men here, but Matt was able to evade Jeff's attacks by hiding behind a dilapidated boat. Yeah, this is all quite absurd.

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