3. The Big Hardy
For the most part, TNA has been mediocre this year. There have been some really bad things, and a few good things here and there, but mostly it feels like theyre spinning their wheels. This week they seemed to have borrowed elements of a storyline from their main competitor, but decided to choose one of the worst angles from the past few years to mimic. Jeff Hardy is now The Big Show. Not in that he wears a singlet and has one of the worst finishing moves in all of wrestling, but that he is under complete control of someone else. And instead of being a good babyface, and refusing to help out in his captors diabolical plans, hes willingly doing everything hes told, because he doesnt have enough money. Why should we just not hate Jeff for punching Rockstar Spud in the mouth? Hardy is a guy who has easily made millions of dollars over the course of his career, many of those years which were spent working a part-time schedule. Spud, on the other hand, is a popular underdog who has had to fight for everything hes been given. The lesson seems to be that all wrestlers will easily sell their own integrity, and should never put their money into buying a mini-mall.
Andrew Soucek
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
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