Jeff Hardy was launched by WWE
WWE Famous person Jeff Hardy has reportedly been launched from his contract per Fightful (h/t Wrestling Inc).
Hardy was sent home this previous weekend following a stay occasion in Edinburgh, Texas the place the legendary tag workforce performer appeared unfit to proceed a six-man tag workforce principal occasion. Footage of Hardy’s look surfaced, with the embattled star showing sluggish all through the match.
Sources inside WWE confirmed to me that the corporate provided Hardy assist and the choice of Rehab, which he declined.
Jeff Hardy’s spouse Beth not too long ago responded to reviews of Hardy’s launch on Twitter, posting “Jeff is sweet. We’re good. Publish that you simply ‘heard’ that. Thanks.”
Hardy’s brother Matt additionally supplied a vague update on his brother’s situation throughout a Twitch stream shortly after Jeff Hardy was despatched dwelling.
“We bought a whole lot of questions on T.O.H.—The Different Hardy,” she stated. “We bought quite a bit, we are able to’t ignore them. We bought quite a bit,” stated Matt Hardy’s spouse Reby.
“However no, I received’t ignore them,” Matt added. “I did converse to Jeff for somewhat bit as we speak, and he’s OK, he’s good, and I feel he’ll be high quality, however as soon as once more this isn’t my enterprise, and if he desires to enter it in additional element, then he’ll do it himself. However like, Jeff is OK, he’s at dwelling, and he’s OK.”
“Jeff Hardy is so beloved by his followers and his friends. I’ve by no means heard a unfavourable phrase about him & he’s all the time handled me with such kindness. Simply wishing him and his household the easiest,” stated WWE champion Massive E by way of Twitter.
It’s nonetheless unclear what precisely occurred with Hardy throughout what would show to be his remaining match with WWE in the meanwhile. However between interviews with former WWE writer Freddie Prinze Jr. and Hardy’s own sit-down interview with Stone Chilly Steve Austin’s “Damaged Cranium Periods,” Hardy’s prolonged historical past with substance abuse has been on the forefront this previous week.
In considerably of an eerie foreshadowing, Hardy mentioned turning down rehab forward of his 2003 WWE launch.
“That was the primary time I denied rehab,” Hardy instructed Austin. “I used to be like, ‘Nah! I bought this.’ However I used to be in denial about my subject, my downside.”
“I believed I had it down or [had at least] managed my habit,” Hardy stated.
“After which even in TNA I bought somewhat wacky ultimately so I ended up getting fired from there for just about lacking some reveals or one thing.”
Hardy’s tumultuous historical past with medication and alcohol contains a number of arrests along with weird in-ring moments that may endlessly solid a darkish cloud over an in any other case legendary profession. Hardy was most recently arrested in October 2019 for a DWI. To that time, it was his second such arrest in as a few years.
Previous to his launch, Hardy had been receiving a number of the greatest reactions of any Famous person on the full-time roster. But, as has been the case his entire profession, Jeff Hardy appears to have change into his personal worst enemy on the worst time attainable. In a local weather the place few names are protected from what have change into routine cost-cuts, any controversies exterior of the ring are certain to jeopardize the standing of a WWE Famous person no matter stature.
