Has any other wrestler inexplicably broken into the mainstream like Jeff Hardy did? Wrestling was not at a peak, it was in a consistent decline, and Jeff wasn't even the primary focus of the writing team. He isn't great in the ring, bad on the mic, small in a sort of boring way where he is too normal sized to be an underdog. I was in high-school at the time and girls had Hardy Boyz pendants. The meme where "he was more popular than Obama in 2008" was 100% true for anyone under 25.

It only lasted for about half a year, but I genuinely believe he was more popular in a non astroturfed to death way than John Cena ever was.

Can this be replicated or was it a once in a generation thing?