TNA needs to tell Jeff Hardy to stay at home and look after Matt
by Keith Harris on Aug 24, 2011 8:45 PM EDT
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TNA's decision to call Jeff Hardy on Monday, just two days after his brother Matt was arrested for a DWI and fired from the company, and ask that he return to work at their next television tapings on Thursday was horrible enough. Even though Jeff is still one of the biggest names in the business, how could they bring him back when he became so intoxicated during his last show with the company that he could no longer perform and still has his drug case hanging over his head?
It would be one thing if he had made a real attempt to clean his act up and get his drug problems under control, but his con that he was staying sober was soon exposed by playing drinking games with his brother Matt for one of their now all too frequent really ill-advised YouTube videos. Jeff has even refused TNA's own requests for him to go to rehab and it was depressingly predictable that TNA would eventually budge on this sticking point, but even I'm surprised at the insane timing of this decision.
Their willingness to take a gamble on the most unreliable star in the business for a big rating in order to kickstart with a bang their three month experiment of taping Impact on the road has made themselves into the laughing stock of the business once again. According to a text message Dave Meltzer received while taping his free Wrestling Observer radio show on Monday night, the whole WWE locker room were pissing themselves at TNA's latest example of complete mind boggling stupidity.
But this is not the time for laughter anymore. It has long been apparent that Matt Hardy has had a serious drug problem that has been getting way out of control, but his most recent bizarre behaviour suggests that he has severe mental health issues too. As David Bixenspan of Bleacher Report, who is doing an excellent job of covering this sorry state of affairs, bluntly puts it:
It's clear this is not going to end well and that it is going to end soon. We just need to detach ourselves from it all and hope that he doesn't hurt anyone else in the process.
Perhaps the only person who could get through to him is his brother Jeff, but instead of being by his side after Matt checks out of the hospital, he's scheduled to be in Huntsville, Alabama, to tape an episode of Impact that will only momentarily boost TNA's precious ratings on Spike TV.
So it's imperative that TNA tells Jeff Hardy to stay at home for the time being and concentrate on looking after his brother Matt. Even if we believe Shane Helms that "Jeff has everything together now" and he's ready to return to TNA, it would still be the wrong time to bring Jeff back when he's got such a pressing personal matter to attend to. He shouldn't have to choose between his job and what's best for his brother's wellbeing. TNA management needs to take that decision out of his hands and cancel his booking later today. If they don't, then it reveals once again how morally bankrupt the company is.
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FUCKING IDIOTS! Seriously it’s bad enough they keep whores like Velvet Sky, Miss Titsmacher and one of the biggest sluts in Karen around who do absolutely nothing except give the perverts in the audience and at a home a reason to lust over them. Then the fact they are making Eric Young look like a stupid ass idiot just demeans the company even more while having some pointless BFG tournament just to push some guy NO ONE CARES ABOUT IN CRIMSON. Alot of people including the IWC wanted WCW back so bad….well here it is or rather an expansion it which shows that it DOES MEAN WHO YOU KNOW NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU FUCK UP OR EVEN IF YOU NEARLY DESTROY A PPV WHILE IN THE PROCESS LOSING YOUR ORIGINAL FAITHFUL AUDIENCE. What’s left or rather should I saw who’s left watching this shit? Misguided people and ones who are so easily deceived. Angle is always going to be a great performer and although it pains me to say this, not even his current reign is going to dig them outta the cesspool they put themselves in. They rather hire stupid ass douchebags like whatever his name is recently cause they are grasping at anyone who will watch their product instead of hiring REAL WRESTLERS. Meanwhile there are more than a handful of wrestlers on the Indy scene that make half the roster look like they were hired from a board game company so they are easy to manipulate. Let’s throw thousands of dollars on wasteful talent rather than hiring actual ones. What a fucking joke this company is. Joe is clearly one of their best all around performers and stays stagnant because he’s doesn’t look fit enough to get a push? I don’t know who the bigger bitches are, Team Hogan/Bischoff or Team Russo/Jarrett who I might add does corny ass segments just cause he can’t do anything else with Karen who looks more like an ESCORT than a wife. You can’t turn a hoe into a housewife as I was told. They manage to get rid of Jay Lethal who was an actual asset to the company and they are teaming or trying to team Dinero and Devon just for the hell of it. And what of the recently revived British Invasion? They are on fucking online show Xplosion. What a waste of good talent but I guess that’s what TNA is pretty much known for.
by congestedthoughts on Aug 24, 2011 9:26 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
This....My God, just....damn
I’m pretty sure that, five months ago, if you told me that Matt Hardy would be in this position, and that his brother would be on Impact again, I would have said you were as messed up as Jeff was at Victory Road.
I honestly feel really bad now about laughing at him after watching all those crazy Youtube videos. I was one of the guys who spent LOTS of time joking about how Jeff Hardy was a whacko druggie, and that Matt’s diet consisted of grapes, beer, grapes, whatever drugs were lying around, and grapes, but….damn. I feel like a bastard now.
Both him AND Jeff need help. The Company Formerly Known As TNA NEEDS to get both of them into rehab, psycological (sp?) counseling, SOMETHING. Because I’m telling it right here and now, when (and it’s starting to look more like “when” than “if” unless someone stops them) one of or both of the Hardy Boyz die(s), the company will be dead. Gone. Too many people will ask “Why didn’t you do something? Why didn’t you make them get help?” Add in all the drama with Daffney’s recent lawsuit (was that settled already or is it still on-going?) and the writing is on the wall.
Hell, give me 2000/2001 era WCW any day of the week. Say what you will about their horrible angles and matches, but at least they gave a damn about the wrestlers back then.
First, I watched TNA so I could point and laugh at the trainwreck. Then it was so I could say “I was there when it died”. Now though……now I don’t even think I should bother.
I'm not sure Jeff is the voice of reason Matt needs
I’m not sure he’s the answer to anyone’s needs.
My fellow Americans, I have not been entirely truthful with you. I did gagoogidy that girl. I gashmoygadied her gaflavity with my googus. And I am sorry.
A former addict could.
But I doubt Jeff is a former addict.
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by Anthony Pace on Aug 25, 2011 12:27 AM EDT up reply actions
Very few times have I been so appaulled that I'm speechless
Pray for these two brothers because very very few people in their lives actually care about them.
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Matt is such a strange case for me.
Wrestling is such a corrupting career that it’s hard to not let what you do outside the ring affect what do inside, and vice versa. And in either instance, he seems to have seen great trauma in either regard, with his normal life disrupting his wrestling and the added burden of his life affecting his wrestling. He seems so far gone—because of the business—that it seems doubtful he can come back.
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by Anthony Pace on Aug 25, 2011 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions
I'm gonna have to disagree that TNA is at fault for not telling Jeff to look after Matt
They’re adults. With TNA releasing Matt, his behavior is no longer their problem. I know at work, I have sick/vacation days that I can take when there are theoretical family problems, but I’d never have the leeway to be given a carte blanche of time to take care of said matters. I will say that TNA is at fault for bad timing, and for asking/letting Jeff to come back in the first place- he was suspended for specific problems, and as far as we know, he has done nothing to address them.
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