Sweeney Tom
Banned
Why would TNA put one of their biggest stars (in terms of casual fans) under a mask and rename him. Any chance of some random wrestling fan buying/watching anything TNA because they go "Wow! Jeff Hardy! I remember him." is completely lost.
They acknowledge that it's Hardy. And it wasn't TNA's decision, it's Jeff's dumb little character he made up when he was 16 and never let it die off completely in his mind, so when TNA wanted to keep him around for this year (this is his last year on his contract, it's done in February) he said "only if I can do it as my dumb little character". Of course they said yes, because they couldn't lose Sting, AJ, and Jeff in the span of under 2 months.