9. Jeff Hardy
Jeff Hardy had gained the attention, adoration and respect of the fans throughout a career that had seen him treat his body with reckless abandon. There was no height too high to jump from, no risk he wasn't willing to take in his quest to immortality. During Hardy's second stint in WWE, Jeff seemed destined for a championship run and he achieved that goal in 2008, pinning his longtime rival Edge in a Triple Threat match also involving Triple H at Armageddon. Hardy had finally reached full-time main event status more than a decade after signing his first contract with the company. It was also during this stint with the company that fans started to become disenfranchised with the younger Hardy brother. Some fans had issues with Hardy's wrestling style, or they would say lack thereof. Many of the most memorable moments in Hardy's career involve him jumping off a ladder, rigging, the TitanTron or some other great height or falling from an equal distance with no regard for the safety of him or his opponents. His matches, while still filled with death-defying feats and incredible athleticism, had become stale and the feats, unsurprising and predictable, a kiss of death for any wrestler. The way he was presented to the audience, as the extreme risk-taker who was the embodiment of the word "unique," was also growing old with fans, not to mention the few it had alienated to begin with. The uniqueness of his character has also worn thin as it's lacked any real dimension for quite some time. There were also those that had qualms with Hardy's problems outside of the ring. By the time he won his first championship, Hardy had a long reputation of tardiness, attitude issues and drug issues, having served a 60-day suspension just six months prior to his first reign with the WWE Championship. Nine months after that Jeff was out of the company. Just weeks after that, he was arrested on drug trafficking charges ranging in everything from street drugs to prescription medications to steroids. Those problems would continue to dog him until coming to a head in TNA against Sting at Victory Road 2011. While Hardy has still been successful and still gets his share of adulation from the fans, many more have grown tired with his act, and while he may have excised his personal demons, it may be too late for him to ever recover.