The Scott Hall Award - Most Embarrassing Wrestling Personality of 2010

This award recognizes the person whose behaviour caused fans of wrestling to feel the most shame. It may be awarded to someone who has brought disrepute to the business through his/her actions, or just someone who has acted like a complete idiot.It is named after Scott Hall, who has had a stellar Wall of Shame career.

WINNER - BUBBA THE LOVE SPONGE

When somebody decides to call themselves a "love sponge", it should be a somewhat safe bet that a Nobel Prize is not in their foreseeable future. However, the sheer magnificence of the stupidity shown by the gentleman in question has been dazzling. In a fair world, the Bubba the Love Sponges (real name Todd Clem) of the world shouldn't even be visible on the radar long enough to merit such recognition, but the fair world ended for TNA when Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff came in. Hogan wasted no time signing on his cronies, Bubba being amongst the foremost. Bubba, who hosted a radio show had a reputation for being a "Shock jock", but the TNA job was the publicity balloon to his hot air. His crowning glory came, when, shortly after the Haiti earthquake, he eloquently wrote "F*** Haiti" on his Twitter account, voicing opposition to America's relief efforts. He did not, however, take into account the 400-pound woman in the TNA locker room who, coincidentally, had been working night and day to raise money for Haiti. The said woman (Awesome Kong) beat the sponge out of poor Bubba backstage at an Impact taping. He of course, later claimed he had the situation under control, and had a long conversation with Hogan on his radio show about all the wrestling holds he had been considering to take her down. He then issued a "Real men own up and say sorry" apology on Twitter. The classiest apology, though, he saved for a live radio conversation with Awesome Kong itself, in which he commendably called her "A dumb black b***ch, a big fake black b***ch, and nobly offered to sucker punch her till she stopped breathing, like the other ni***rs in Haiti." Showing a surprise stroke of initiative, he challenged her to a fight, helpfully suggesting that the proceeds could be donated....wait for it....to Haiti. Impressive. Mr. Sponge was thankfully fired from TNA after the incident, with Dixie Carter telling him she strongly condemned anything slightly racist. True to his sweet innocent nature, Bubba seemed surprised that "black" was considered racist. Your winner, ladies and gentlemen.

1st RUNNER UP - MATT (MATTHEW?) HARDY

Matt Hardy has done it at last. He has finally managed to come out of the shadow of his younger brother, and in style too. His brother has traditionally been near the top of the charts for embarrassing behaviour, but this was Matt's breakout year, that saw him obliterate nearly all competition when it came to sheer dumbness. Much like 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, Matt started the New Year by promising to make "2010 the Year of Matt Hardy". Much like 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, Matt lied. He spent three-quarters of the year languishing in the midcard as always. But we still liked and respected him. It would seem that sometime around September, Matt discovered his brother's secret stash, because he started acting a little funny. And not in a stand-up comedy kind of way. The news online was that Hardy had been sent home from the WWE's UK Tour for "being unfit to perform". In the ensuing weeks, it became apparent Matt was frustrated with life up North, and was desperately (emphasize that, desperately) trying to get himself fired. He began posting attention-seeking, pity-seeking Tweets that promoted himself for not being attention-seeking and pity-seeking. He also openly voiced frustration with his position in the company. Several times he claimed "Something exciting was going to happen, because I have WWE right where I want them!" I'm pretty sure there were smileys and exclamation marks in there too. Of course, Vince, old devil, responded by joyfully taking him off TV and just not firing him. That's when things got really entertaining. Matt opened separate Twitter and Youtube accounts under the name "Matthew". Apparently, Matthew was the edgy, split personality twin of Matt. He posted a video on his Youtube channel, delivering a sermon about Dissociative Identity Disorder, that coincidentally sounded a lot like the Wikipedia page of the same name. Matt lamented how he "couldn't control Matthew", and the two had memorable, back and forth discussions on Twitter. But it must be admitted, Matthew was edgy. He posted some shockingly disturbing videos online showing him - be warned, if you are sensitive to graphic material read no further - eating grapes. Yes. Grapes. Nothing says psycho like fleshy fruit. There were also videos with him handling guns, where he was hunting for "freedom". Clever chap our Matthew. WWE finally took pity on the poor child and released him in October. Matt (in a shocking twist, he revealed Matthew had been a ruse all along!) jubilantly declared that it was the beginning. (translated as the end) When we last heard from him, he was promising to change the pro wrestling industry forever. Oh, and yes, he has vowed to make 2011 the Year of Matt Hardy.

2nd RUNNER UP - SCOTT HALL

What do you know? He managed to live up to his standards yet again. Part of the large crop of young, exciting talent brought to TNA by Hogan in January, the 52-year-old Hall showed up with Sean Waltman on Impact in street clothes and tennis shoes, shaking, mumbling, and flicking toothpicks at the camera. And to think WWE tried to counter such golden television by that silly Hart/Michales reunion. Hall reportedly realized how bad he looked, and refused to wrestle at Genesis citing a groin injury. (If he had wrestled, he would have induced a groan injury). Of course, he made up for his limitations in the ring by promoting the company during his online show "Last Call With Scott Hall." In one episode, he gestured to the house around him, saying "Look at the house, its bigger than TNA!" A true company guy. He chose to take his annual arrest for disorderly conduct in May. Hall was arguing with patrons in a bar, when the bartender decided he'd had enough, and lined up a car to take him home. Hall merrily punched a window out of the car and pushed two women in the parking lot. Now that's what you call an all-round performer. The police were called, and Hall improvised, adding "resisting an officer" to the traditional disorderly conduct (incorporating new techniques is a Hallmark of a true master. Get it? Hallmark? ) when he told the officer "I ain't going down for this s**t." (He did). He then memorably listed his occupation as "unemployed" in the police report. Inconveniently, he was supposed to wrestle at TNA Sacrifice the following day for the Tag Team Championships. Having got out on bail, our resilient hero went to Sacrifice and won the Tag Team Championships. Somehow, in the excitement, he must have forgotten to tell someone he had been arrested, but that minor glitch was taken care of when TNA Management found out...online. Remember the "unemployed" status in the report? Turns out Hall, in addition to his already amazing collection of talents, could also see the future.