TNA Victory Road 2011 | WORST Wrestling Shows Ever

[@tafua_a]

Most underrated moment of the card: "RESTART THE MATCH!" "NO!!!!" "RESTART THE MATCH!" "NO!!!!" "RESTART THE MATCH!" "NO!!!!" - The crowd about Anderson vs RVD

[@JorgeMetal579]

They knew what was about to go down

[@tafua_a]

@@JorgeMetal579 It's more, half of the crowd hated the finish, and the other half also hated the beginning and the middle.

[@Gazowen-qz5xy]

The tag team match was good dreamer v bully ray was ok and hardy v styles wasn't bad but the rest was crap

[@scottmccurdy6493]

And then Jeff Hardy learned his lesson, cleaned himself up, and never again put someone else at risk because of his own indulgences.

[@MasterOfViewership]

WWE, Impact, AEW: Wait right there

[@mistergonzatek]

🧢

[@AdrianM865]

Delete this big dog lol.

[@grimmuzz]

If only that was true.

[@VortexTheShark]

​@@MasterOfViewership they all said "hold my beer, literally"

[@TheGreatDevlin]

No! No!! They're still running this Bully Ray vs Tommy Dreamer story *12 Years Later* lol.

[@sayethvexus8332]

It's called Victory Road because just like the tunnel of the same name in Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow, you need strength to get through it.

[@JorgeMetal579]

*T H I S*

[@daz5369]

Wayyyyyy

[@SomeDumbKid1]

TNA is the most frustrating promotion in wrestling history. They absolutely had the roster to be a top-tier promotion, but management was just completely incapable of putting the pieces together

[@ASoberBear]

Legend has it they all work in the government now.

[@blondedhead]

AEW is going in the same direction

[@swampertbanka1]

@@blondedheadit already is, putting 3 titles on a guy like Eddie Kingston is laughable, the guy got no charisma, can’t wrestle & AEW wants us to believe he’s triple crown material?.

[@diabolikalm]

Sounds like my job

[@Gazowen-qz5xy]

​@@swampertbanka1WWE put the belt on the great khali so aew only doing what WWE was doing

[@jamieholmes4751]

Jeff Hardy was in no fit state to wrestle , but you have to admire how Sting and Eric Bischoff tried to work with it

[@cerburrows9380]

Bischoff shouldn't even had allowed Hardy out there. The fact Jeff even got out onto the stage is ridiculous

[@davidlewis5312]

Admire is a word for it. I kept thinking as I watched and saw the finish play out, 'I hope Jeff likes wherever he is because he isn't going to like whats going down while he was away'

[@jamesmaskell3743]

​@Cer Burrows The talk was the producers had gone looking for Jeff, and while they were away, he rushed through. He'd been hiding all day.

[@namikstudios]

@@cerburrows9380 Bischoff wasn't actually running things at the time, it wasn't his job to stop Jeff going out there. The thing is that nobody who was running things actually did anything, so Eric took it upon himself to walk out and do something about it. He didn't have to do anything but saw what was happening and knew someone had to do something. He was probably the only one who could have pulled it off too, being able to walk out and cut a promo on the spot without any planning at all while changing the match finish at the same time. He did the best he could.

[@Blazers04]

No you don’t have to admire it. You have to wonder how so many people on staff for the production - from in-ring and on-camera, to those behind the scenes - did not notice a man so clearly incapable of functioning, to walk past a room full of people at Gorilla, to be allowed to enter a ring on worldwide television. I am not excusing Jeff’s behavior, but I am not letting TNA off the hook. How was this missed?

[@shawnmichaels568]

Jeff hardy vs sting, Which was supposed to be a dream match, turned out be a disaster.

[@MarvinT0606]

And that disaster was the *good* ending when it came really close to being a nightmare

[@Surv1vor1993]

The funny thing is, this isn’t even the worst show in the history of Victory Road

[@adamntcaponewholikesbigcoo1749]

There’s one worse than a dude who is literally high?

[@abnormalanorak]

​@@adamntcaponewholikesbigcoo1749To quote Bryan Alvarez... "MINUS FIVE STARS!!!"

[@thecodester6669]

​@@abnormalanorak when wad this

[@abnormalanorak]

@@thecodester6669 Two years prior.

[@dmolesevich]

​@@adamntcaponewholikesbigcoo1749 2009 version is an entire episode of botchamania

[@mjuzumaki]

Even to this day, everytime I feel down listening to Bryan scream "MINUS FIVE STARS!!" makes me belly laugh like crazy. 😂

[@nateu360]

This and the golden boat rant

[@MatthewCharmanadventures]

I was so gutted in 2010! We went from AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Samoa Joe, Ayako Hamada etc to... Sean Morley and the Nasty Boys.

[@vinccool96]

One thing people always forget to mention about WrestleMania X-7 is that it was held in Houston Texas, and the crowd always was on Stone Cold's side for the entirety of the match. At the end, the crowd thought Vince did a face turn, instead of realizing Austin became heel.

[@jorgebarrera2165]

Houston Texas…not Austin Texas

[@diabolikalm]

What?

[@omarvazquez3355]

Wow. Mind blown. That's actually hilarious.😂 vince did a face turn. That's how over Austin was

[@Humorless_Wokescold]

I have no idea why anyone at TNA thought that Universal Studio scene would make Jarrett look like a heel. Guy came off as the coolest stepdad ever.

[@TankHardcheese]

Several months ago, IMPACT Wrestling actually scheduled this entire PPV to be uploaded to their KZbin channel, but they changed their minds and cancelled. This was pretty soon after Jeff Hardy's most recent DUI, so the timing was just awful.

[@smkfet]

Buddy Murphy's Law is a good joke. Good job Fraser

[@ddjsoyenby]

as a tna fan from this era and a jeff fan this show was so frustrating someone should've stopped jeff from going out and jeff has been refusing help for his issues for decades of this point.

[@jamesmaskell3743]

Depends whether you believe Bischoff or not, but he said they were scrambling round the building looking for him, leaving gorilla position empty.

[@erinclarke3828]

The story is that they tried but Jeff slipped past them onto the stage.

[@woobgamer5210]

not just that, but Bischoff wasnt even apart of management, he literally has no reason to stop Jeff from performing, but he did. He said on his podcast that this 'match' proves TNA's incompetency as a company

[@pinkyblinders7352]

I dont think it was a case of them just letting Jeff go on like that.

[@scotttaber7008]

I think it's always a tad unfair to pick on the end of Wrestlemania X7. In the long run it didn't work out but it had the chance to reinvent a beloved character. They did it much better with Daniel Bryan in 2018. They did turn Stone Cold back to baby-face but within the year it came to an end for a variety of reasons.

[@Kalel2.0]

It was absolutely stupid and irresponsible of TNA management to let Jeff wrestle knowing he was hammered you could see the frustration in Stings face

[@MovieEnvy]

According to Eric no one saw him all day and only just before the match he appeared at the curtain and walked out.

[@pinkyblinders7352]

It was explained how Jeff ended up being able to go out. They didnt let him go or know he was fkd till he had staggered on to the ramp. He had disappeared ofr hours, creating a fuss meaning staff werent in their usual positions. Jeff turned up and went on before anyone could do anything. TNA management are still trash but its not like they watched him go on like that.

[@smurphikins]

In the words of Bugs Bunny "I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque"

[@ajdisdaman]

I don’t know who came up with the Wile E. Coyote comparison, but major props to them!

[@JSI82]

I think they looked like a roadrunner at times but coyoted far too often.

[@zubrhero5270]

Boring wrestling conversation starters: "Did you see the latest NJPW PPV?" "I wish they let Bray Wyatt have more creative control..." "What do you think of Tanahashi?" Good wrestling conversation starters: "Victory Road 2011?" "Heroes of Wrestling?" "Have you ever seen Chris Champion vs Don Valentine?"

[@THEREALTJP]

Now see that main Event could've been fixed if that number one contender match would've had an actual winner & have them pull a double duty match, with either Sting winner due to fatigue of #1 contender or an immediate win for the newly won contender.

[@tamzidmohsinkhan3333]

Jeff Hardy should've retired at Victory Road at that time after his disastrous match against Sting

[@brendanflaherty9409]

Bully v tommy is still happening in impact right now.

[@mikescott8903]

Technically it's been going on like 27 years

[@ddjsoyenby]

yup.

[@TimTE01]

Why?

[@diabolikalm]

And you’re still watching it 😂

[@DoYouReadSutterCane]

I remember watching this show live. I remember thinking before the main even that the show had been really underwhelming so far, but Jeff Hardy vs Sting is up next and that should be a fantastic match. Yeah, the show sucked.

[@chrisxavier3147]

Sting has long since forgiven Jeff, and Jeff did make a turn around for quite some time

[@woobgamer5210]

that lasted only like, 5 years, and then 2 years... then only 3...

[@javigrimsmoke]

@@woobgamer5210but why keep bringing up the past when u can see that he’s been clean for a year and cheer for him. is there a chance he relapses? of course and it’ll be disappointing but why kick a man when he’s down instead of praying for him and hoping he gets better. and im not delusional like some of jeff’s fans are, i’m very well aware of his substance addiction and it has frustrated me time and time again. but no matter what jeff has my support and my prayers and i hope he truly sticks to being sober. idk i guess people have different ways of viewing addiction

[@optimus2008]

​@@javigrimsmokeIt's just hard to believe considering that every time Hardy returns, there's an optimistic comment like yours. I'm not saying that's a bad thing that you say all this. This is actually a very nice thing to say. It's just that it is so hard to trust Jeff after all these years.

[@javigrimsmoke]

@@optimus2008 u have every right to feel that way bro. i see the perspective from both sides. but with jeff being my favorite wrestler of all time, i’m always gon root for him thru his ups and downs

[@MovieEggman]

To think we came so close from having Sting Vs The Undertaker at WrestleMania 27

[@adrianuribe8282]

I think since Sting turned down the contract from WWE, the universe took it personally and we got Jeff Hardy vs Sting instead.

[@namikstudios]

So glad that Sting turned down WWE, he is so much better than jobbing to Undertaker (you all know that would have been the outcome, just look how they had him job to the lesser Triple H later on).

[@optimus2008]

​@namikstudios He wouldn't have "jobbed." That term is so thrown all over the place. Ik it's Vince, but the Sting vs. HHH match was still hard fought and evenly contested.

[@namikstudios]

@@optimus2008 "jobbing" in this context simply means losing the match, ie "doing the job." It's different to calling someone a "jobber", which is a wrestler who makes a career out of losing and putting others over. Sting is certainly not a jobber, in fact he's a much bigger star than either Taker or Hunter, yet WWE certainly would have had him do the job for Taker as they did with Hunter.

[@optimus2008]

​@namikstudios Still, I think they wouldve done a good job with the match. Certainly better than what they did for Sting vs. Hunter.

[@Mpritchard1995]

The greatest professional wrestling show ever what a moment this was I popped so hard

[@zacharywest201]

“Lol tna” This phenomenon existed long before tna was even an idea it’s called…The Vince Russo effect

[@Skaol]

Well made video guys. I want more like this

[@gakk8658]

The fate of TNA is just another indication that we're living in the shittest of timelines. In other, better realities, TNA gets that 2 hour timeslot in the late 00s and uses it to continue to push their "X Division" guys and they rise to become a legit competitor to WWE (instead of course they used it to become the sequel to WCW). We know all those guys can handle high spots on the card for a major promotion because so many went on to do so in WWE.

[@JaimeD.]

2:45 That song kills me. LOL 🤣

[@ericvyskocil7428]

the only way to end the show on a high note would have been to send out the #1 contender to cash in right away for a title match. They couldn't do so because they booked the Double DQ. Your next best bet? Have AJ suit up again and give sting another match against him. 12 years of hindsight, and this is the best possible face saving scenario I could come up with.

[@namikstudios]

Wouldn't have worked, wrestlers need more time to get prepped for a match than what they had. Nobody else was available or ready to take Jeff's place.

[@ThatOneDude521]

If the match went as planned and Jeff Hardy didn’t come to the ring high off his gourd, I feel like it could’ve been so fucking awesome

[@ADurning87]

I love this video, Victory Road was bonkers and not just for the finale We're actually covering Jeff Vs Sting on our Raw is Ginger Podcast in a couple of weeks. Always love when you have a fellow Scot doing the production as well. Well done as always ☺️❤️🌎🙏

[@mcj88]

Ah, the Botchamania memories of this show. [cues up "Sick Of Drugs" by The Wildhearts]

[@robertschumann7737]

Not sure why you left out the ref clearly throwing up the cross armed X on camera in the Sting/Hardy match.

[@digitalstatictv]

The forgotten part of this mess is that I streamed this show. You either streamed this show or watched it later out of how infamous it became. It did 8,000 buys and wasn't built up whatsoever. TNA put all their eggs in the 3-3-11 WM Taker return knockoff videos and treated this as a total knockoff. IIRC the Ultimate X wasn't even announced. I always laughed at this "damaging TNA business" because nobody bought this show in the first place.

[@jamesmaskell3743]

Not sure how I watched it but it was live. It must've been on UK TV. Channel 5 maybe?

[@jonmorgan9487]

It's just sad. Even when i think ok this time he will clean

[@DJDoubleCee]

I’m a big Jeff Hardy fan but his performance that night was completely appalling 🙄

[@paigemurphy3306]

Yes Jeff was struggling with addiction but what kind of management le5s him even walk down to the ring? Eric has all the excuses and puts it all on Jeff when really he let him go to the ring knowing he was fucked up. No excuse for that.

[@friskiscool03]

Does anyone have a link to the SPECIFIC VERSION of Ode To Joy used at 2:47?? It’s very nice :)

[@troyannells4642]

Heel Austin is very very underrated.....

[@davidlewis5312]

And the worst part is... this isn't even the worst victory road! Nobody planned for Jeff Hardy to come out clearly with his mental template having achieved warp speed and left this world behind. Somebody actually booked a match pitting an unathletic celebrity against a valet. Somebody planned that.

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Direct to dvd Memento starring Jason Statham 😂

[@erinclarke3828]

Hardy has since admitted he was fucked up on Soma.

[@MissBrittany86]

I love Jeff Hardy but I’m really hope he can overcome his demons. Even I have to say this was bad and it wasn’t safe at all.

[@NYGiantsfan1029]

I’ve said it a bunch in the past. Say what you want about the wwe there is no way Vince and CO. wouldve let Jeff go to the ring in that state. They would’ve subbed someone in

[@woobgamer5210]

and he would've been suspended for wellness policy violations

[@NYGiantsfan1029]

@@woobgamer5210 true and before he left he had two strikes against him. He would’ve been let go if he failed another drug test in the WWE.

[@lcoleman3511]

A non-useful note: Bryan references the word 'fum(b)' during the video; matching the words dumb and fun. In a non-important twist, that word was used in a SpongeBob episode, in which Planton hired Patrick to help boost his chum sales. Patrick uses two phrases, 'Chum is Fum' and 'Fum is Chum' during the episode. I am guessing those two phases mean the same thing. Just something for you, SpongeBob fans out there.

[@kibakurosaki]

That show was bad... Simple as that. Side note, you should do that video(s) on the stupid ideas from Vince Russo, it'll probably be a good laugh.

[@supersasukemaniac]

fun fact: Okada hates TNA/Impact Wrestling with a passion. NJPW only works with Impact now because Anthem, who had nothing to do with TNA's mismanagement of Okada's excursion, publicly apologized to both NJPW and Okada for what happened.

[@FernandoMartinez-pv1id]

Okada was at TNA earlier this year and said he doesnt hate TNA

[@letsgowrestling]

Being a big Jeff Hardy fan, that main event was very hard to watch.

[@JJWestmoreland84]

I get booking that main event. On some level, I get going through with it, especially if he's already in the ring before those in charge realize Jeff is in no condition to compete. However, why not call an audible and have Sting defend the title again against someone else? That's what I don't get. I imagine they had some talent there for dark main event.

[@TheForeverRanger]

Call Ken and RVD back out and do an impromptu triple threat.

[@funandgames4645]

PPVs don’t usually have dark matches. Maybe TNAs did but I’m pretty sure they don’t. Bruce Prichard even said there wasn’t really anyone back there. But regardless you gotta put yourself in their shoes. Both Prichard and Bischoff claim nobody knew till his entrance music started he was intoxicated. So you’re not gonna say “go grab so and so and tell them they gotta wrestle sting for 20 min” then also come up with a reason that match would make sense. Everything is happening out of nowhere and you’re panicking. Eric going out there was the audible. He was letting them know it was a quick fall. Cut your losses and leave was their mindset

[@JJWestmoreland84]

@funandgames4645 I get your and that logic, but money could have been a good reward for someone working an extra match. Even if it was someone not main event worthy.

[@skylar5257]

He probably didn’t tell Jeff it was gonna end that fast lol, you can see him physically trying to kick out while in the pin with all his force. That mixed with how confused he was after the pinfall tells me he expected it to go on longer or what was told to him didn’t sink in. Edit: I couldn’t imagine passing up a chance to face the undertaker at Wrestlemania, something that’s gonna be the biggest check you’ve ever gotten from wrestling out of a single match, for a match that turned out to be that bad bad.

[@philipglover3295]

Say what you will about Vince , Triple H or anyone running WWE if a wrestler was to show up in a condition like Jeff Hardy’s at Victory Road they wouldn’t have been let in the building let alone the locker room or make their entrance for a match

[@namikstudios]

Say what you will about TNA, WCW, AEW, etc... but none of them have ever displayed the level of incompetence and negligence that the WWE has in the past. Remember what happened to Owen Hart? Not even this thing with Jeff is anywhere near as catastrophic as that. RIP Owen.

[@woobgamer5210]

@@namikstudios the ironic thing is, both situations involved Vince Russo being in the creative team also you say that but uh, TNA kinda got Chris Candido killed, the broken leg factored into his catching of pneumonia.

[@namikstudios]

@@woobgamer5210 that's true about Candido but that was more a complication from his surgery I think rather than anything TNA did wrong. Russo is an idiot though for sure.

[@tobiaswilliamson00]

13:02 Dreamer won matches at WM23 in 2007, Extreme Rules 2009, and The Bash 2009.

[@mrclanton601]

Legends of wrestling said hold my tights 😂

[@chosenone-zi6fs]

Money in the bank 2011 didn't end on a heel turn

[@larry01902]

Props to Sting for agreeing with the crowd.

[@Bowling_Dude]

I feel so old now realizing that Dispicable Me was out by 2011

[@kiereanm3254]

I vaguely remember seeing TNA in passing as a kid off & on and I was so scared of Kurt Angle and Sting. Not sure why but it was to the point I’d literally start crying when they’d come on screen lol.

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Not the actual Abyss he’d actually improve the show

[@mrknopick]

Fantastic Video Fraser!!!

[@thomasevans5008]

This video's has more views than the PPv had buys!!!

[@stillwinston3765]

Wonder what was going thru Hardy's mind when that happened lol

[@WillyM79]

This ppv should have been a red flag to any company looking to hire Jeff, he hasn't change one bit since

[@Joshuawott69]

I still to this date hold a grudge I never got my six months free of the VOD even after mailing my cable bill and won't forget every time I call about it, i was either sitting on hold or being transferred somewhere else. I didn't buy another Impact PPV until Slammiversary 2017.

[@Nbflowers1989]

Such a fun series!

[@RealdanizYT]

Well Vince Russo is well known for many stupid stipulations

[@itzkiahm3409]

Please bring back war stories 😢

[@AFanOfYouTube-eh2cn]

While Jeff Hardy’s demons are well known for getting him into trouble as addictions are very serious I feel TNA is also to blame for this. It was reported many times that when Jeff arrived at the event they had many hours throughout the day to send Jeff home since he was in no condition to wrestle. They had time to workout an angle where he would be taken out of the match. Yet they didn’t. Why was that? Jeff could have hurt himself badly or hurt sting or attacked fans that night in his condition. Yet TNA officials let that match happen. There was more going on that night besides Hardy’s condition

[@puzzlejinx]

>Booly Ray This man's accent is out of control

[@citizensnips7949]

The only reason I didn't watch TNA is because I didn't have cable 15-20 years ago.

[@mikemoss6045]

Do your homework, hardy himself said it in an interview "i was all soma'ed up" he was on perscribed soma pills.. a muscle relaxer. Which has been a common theme in the business for as long as ive been alive.

[@TyMarshall007]

lucky us brits got that PPV for Free due to TNA/IMPACT Wrestling was aried on Challage back then but lets be honest that ppv sucked

[@HoV326]

That is simultaneously both lucky and unlucky

[@Njzeo]

It’s 2023 and we are STILL talking about victory road 2012

[@Mayonnaisesucks730]

@1:58 that’s most wwe fans now tbh

[@whicker14]

No way they had a ppv called the final solution 😂😂😂

[@Maniac536]

Has anyone ever asked Sting to sign something “I agree”? And are u still in one piece after asking that?

[@kidjunkies]

Love you Fraser!!

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

...aside from everything else, can we discuss how fugly that TNA World Championship belt looked? Makes you wonder if Jeff Hardy deliberately got messed up just so he wouldnt hold that title belt again 🤣 (J/k, I know addiction issues are no joke. Belt's still fugly though)

[@tonyosorio4253]

I wanted to buy this ppv as a 20 year old and decided last minute not to. Thank god lol

[@owenlindkvist5355]

Christ. The presenter of this video landed worse than Owen Hart.

[@theangryholmesian4556]

What?

[@Bmd-gc]

This was the PPV that got me to stop wrestling for years. Even now I only tune in to WWE for royal rumble to wrestlemainia

[@multiyapples]

Definitely the worst ending.

[@Lynxan]

I was at this show, front row... god that ending.

[@hunterblacc4336]

The lowest of lows for TNA

[@Rydonattelo]

Sometimes people go through hardy times and it can sting.

[@FriendKevin]

We must walk a long road before achieving victory

[@MrPooly1459]

Let's be real tho, as an overall show, Victory Road 09 is even worse.

[@jerranspearman3369]

good video

[@Rob-r3s]

Why did management even let Hardy go out there. They could have subbed in anybody. They had a great roster at the time.

[@ryancromer2110]

He disappeared for hours and no one had any clue he was fucked up. They didn't know till he stumbled down the ramp and in the match you can see while sting is doing his entrance, the ref throws the x and tells somebody to tell Eric what's going on

[@nicksoapdish157]

Tommy Dreamer got victories on WWE pay-per-views in 2008 and 2009.

[@MikeatMidnight]

Had to scroll down way too far for this

[@jamesjennings7680]

Where’s Adam?

[@Gazowen-qz5xy]

It says it all dreamer and bully ray stole the show and beer money

[@danmount9462]

Even TK does a better job

[@3oore]

Used to like jeff hardy as a kid... As an adult, he's just embarrassing

[@Biting_bullets25]

Jeff should call it quits h not getting any better and all the bumps aren’t helping he fuckup his career its time he just admits that and moves on

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Country music album cover 😂

[@_______________2001]

Jeff Hardy ruined his own career

[@Gazowen-qz5xy]

Oh yes the x division was class

[@FireSprtnAce93]

Yea, that’s cool and all but have you seen hell in a cell 2019?