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Yeah, guys always work tired, but Jeff was so tired that he appeared wasted to guys in the back. Regardless of Jeff being wasted or not, people at least thought it and it got leaked. You don't hear that shit going on in regards to anyone else. And yeah, Jeff Hardy's reputation allowed it to gain steam -- but what does that tell you? It's like when Dixie Carter's response to "Fire Russo" chants was "Well, Vince didn't even write it." Wasted or not, there was a problem there.
If you look at my original post, I mention the "Charlie Sheen" effect, and I don't disagree that it's a possibility. But either way, it's fucking terrible. If Jeff was not in a state to wrestle, he shouldn't have wrestled. And if this is a storyline, how the fuck is it good? Jeff got beaten in a minute by a 51 year old man because the storyline is that he's too fucked up? He's their former World Champion. It's retarded.
If that's the storyline in TNA, then that's also fucked up. Jeff Hardy is meant to be their huge heel isn't he? Yet he's a victim of the networks and being put in situations that make him sympathetic? I'm all for three-dimensional stories, and I like shades of grey to my characters -- but that's just working against yourself.
It being a storyline ultimately doesn't change why people are pissed off. They got short-changed out of a main event because the main eventer delivering didn't do so. People backstage and their own mutant audience were allegedly all pissed off. Great work, TNA. Brilliant.
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