I dont give a damn about wrestlers personal life. Its'.....personal. Anwyay nobody harps on about Austin beating his ex.
Yea but I think his personal life is the major reason why he is disliked.
Even though I've never cared for him, he always had a big fan following online that was devoted just until the youtube videos starteds and this past summer...so in his case, I think that his personal issues made public are what made people dislike him, not necessarily him as a wrestler.
For me personally it was:
-His look perpetually stuck in 1999...His hair, ring attire, facial hair, etc was all outdated
-I liked some of his moves like the Side Effect, but he just wasn't an exciting wrestler...particularly when you compared him to his direct competition in his brother. A leg drop off of the second rope, while safer, is always going to leave you in the lower end of the Hardy pail. Even Lita used the Twist of Fate to set up her top rope move as a finisher, just like Jeff--so it looked unexciting by comparison when he finished with the ToF or the Side Effect.
-He can't promo very well. He's better by Jeff, by not much and eventually I think Jeff actually improved enough for his character, particularly in TNA and by the end of his run with WWE.
In a way I think being a Hardy was the best and worse thing for him. Best because he was a part of that innovative, exciting tag team that people remembered from TLC wars, and the worse because he was the least exciting participant. He was always going to be in the shadow of Jeff, and without the looks or promo or more *exciting* wrestling ability, he was never going to get far.
But IMO, most people don't care about that. Most people liked him anyway, just until his personal problems started coming out. That was when he really started to lose the majority of his fanbase.
