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Jeff Hardy
The plight of Jeff Hardy in TNA and what exactly happened at the end of the Victory Road PPV on 3/13 remains questions not easily answered by TNA.
While there is no question that Hardy put the company in a terrible position, as much talk has been over the company’s inability to improvise on the fly, leading to a flat ending to what up to that point had already been a disappointing show.
This was the same company who at the Final Resolution PPV in December, when Hardy was in questionable condition, had a back-up plan ready to execute, which included stripping Hardy of the TNA title and putting it up in a match with Matt Morgan vs. Mr. Anderson. But they didn’t have to execute the plan as Hardy and his friends pleaded to give him a chance to get some rest, and he was in good enough shape by match time to go through and have a decent main event.
But December ended up as the company’s warning signal. A warning they didn’t listen to, just like all the warning signals the 33-year-old Hardy has given promoters dating back to 2003, when he was released by WWE for the first time by Jim Ross after refusing to go to rehab.
He never did go to rehab, and instead he went to TNA. He didn’t exactly light the world on fire, and then, after no-showing television tapings and the December 2005 PPV, the company stopped using him. With that track record, WWE hired him back in August 2006, and a year later, his career skyrocketed largely because fans forced it to. His WWE track record included two failed drug tests, not being allowed on an airplane home, and when he eventually quit on his own, he was arrested on drug possession charges within weeks. Those charges are still pending.
At Victory Road, things were different. According to reports, Hardy was fine in the afternoon and had been in good enough shape to perform while working out his match with Sting before the PPV started. However, later in the evening, multiple people described his condition as really bad, way worse than usual.
The decision was made to send him to the ring, where he stumbled on his way, and an audible was called with Sting told to beat him as quickly as possible.
Because they didn’t know earlier was explained as to why, unlike in December, no backup plan past ending the match right away was implemented. Unlike in December, when Matt Hardy quickly claimed the stories on Jeff weren’t true and they made claims he was just tired from a tough travel schedule, nobody was defending Jeff’s behavior or claiming stories weren’t true.
Hardy was sent home, and his spot in angles and in the Lethal Lockdown match at the Lockdown PPV was taken by Bully Ray. He was also pulled from the weekend house show in Jacksonville and Savannah. He is at this point not expected on the next tapings which are on 4/4 and 4/5 in Orlando, and was also pulled from the Fan Fest as part of the 4/17 Lockdown show in Cincinnati. He had already been pulled from the show when Bully Ray was given his spot on the show.
After television, his case was scheduled to be heard on 3/16, but he got another continuance. Hardy’s lawyer and the Moore County District Attorney’s Office have still not reached an agreement on a plea bargain even though both sides had said in December such an agreement was reached. Last time it was the defense asking for a continuance because Hardy’s lawyer was sick. This time it was the prosecution, saying there were lab tests on some of the drugs seized during Hardy’s arrest that they were waiting for results on. Keep in mind he was arrested in late 2009. The next hearing is scheduled for 4/20.
He was brought up in the opening promo on this week’s Impact by both Sting and Hulk Hogan, with a promo that looked to turn him babyface. He has not been let go, and while nothing is official, the belief is he will be returning as a face, the position that for business reasons he never should have been switched from, since he was a genuine arena draw and also the company relies so much on selling photos of its main star, whether it be Hardy, Kurt Angle or someone else, after the show, for a revenue stream at the arenas. Hardy was not selling as many tickets as a heel as he was as a face, although among those who did attend, they considered him a face and the lines to get photos with him after the show remained long. Because it made little sense in doing a show to have someone playing heel and insulting the crowd, and then expecting the crowd to pay money to get photos with him (even though the crowds were perfectly willing to do so), the people who run the house shows (Jeff Jarrett, with help from Jeremy Borash), not the same people who do television, had Hardy working as a face and Anderson as a heel.
Still, this is far past what persona Hardy can draw more business playing. Clearly, Hardy either has a problem that needs addressing or he’s got no respect for the company he works for. Either way, bringing him back will likely mean a repeat of something that has now become an eight-year pattern. If he doesn’t want to help himself, and the company still pushes him, they are asking for this to happen again.
The Hardy problem on a human level is by far the biggest issue. But the secondary issues are management’s inability to come up with a solution, of sending someone, anyone, out there, to have a main event match. They had booked themselves into a corner making this more difficult then it should have been. First, with Sting as champion, in his current condition, he’s very limited and even at best, a 10:00 Sting vs. Hardy match would have been a struggle. The short television match came off fine for TV, but you could also see Sting is not in nearly the condition he was even a few months ago. He’s not the kind of champion who you could have sent anyone down and they’d have been able to work their way through a problem. Plus, there was no obvious guy to send down. Kurt Angle, A.J. Styles, Matt Morgan and Robert Roode are babyfaces. Angle wasn’t booked on the show. Styles and Roode had just turned so in some ways it would have been awkward. Mr. Anderson and Rob Van Dam they decided against putting out there because they were booked with Sting for Lockdown and they didn’t want to mess with the big show. But they still could have had Anderson or Van Dam lay out Hardy before he ever went out, better being Anderson to lay Hardy out thinking it would force them to give him a match, and then instead have them choose Van Dam. Anderson could be mad about it and cost Van Dam the match at the end, which only heats up Anderson vs. Van Dam battling over the top contendership. Of course the issue is Sting vs. Van Dam in a PPV main event match had a good chance of not being very good. Van Dam didn’t exactly look stellar minutes earlier in the match with Anderson.
And the heel side is weak. Bully Ray had lost to Tommy Dreamer earlier in the night. Matt Hardy had lost to Styles on the show. Hernandez needs to be led and is somewhat dangerous. Ric Flair and Sting could probably do a decent match together in their sleep just because they’ve worked together so many times. They may have been able to make it special like the surprise match-up of a legendary feud, noting it would be the first singles match between the two of them since the final episode of Nitro in 2001. But Flair also has a torn rotator cuff. Or they could have just thrown in a good worker on the roster they aren’t using much, like a Jay Lethal, and do the obvious storyline of this guy who wasn’t even booked on the show, is backstage, and suddenly is in the main event as a way to get him back in the game.
Still, even the bad ideas are preferable to doing nothing, which is what happened.
Ultimately, there is no accountability. Bad television or bad PPVs, and nobody gets the blame. Bad matches, means little to nothing. Unable to come up with an idea under pressure. Give this man a promotion. Wrestlers getting loaded while on the job. Put the world title on them.
It may not have been easy to save the show. It probably wouldn’t have been a good show with any of the possibilities. Unfortunately, the guy with the title when Hardy self destructed was not versatile enough or in the kind of shape to be able to work with anyone with no planning. But when you are producing live PPV, sometimes you have to make a decision on the fly, and if it means evaluating ten not so good options, you choose the one that is the best as opposed to throwing up your hands and saying nothing can work because you don’t want him in with a face, and no heels are good enough, or ready enough for a title match.
But if the people in charge of creative can’t come up with any even attempt at a solution when things go awry, they shouldn’t be in the position. Of all the bad suggestions, what they did by doing nothing was worse than any of them.
As for Hardy, how can you trust him to headline? And how can you use him and not headline him?
As far as going forward, so few people saw the PPV that doing a bad show has no impact on company momentum, just like doing a good show has no real long-term impact. Some fear that this will hurt Lockdown, but they are down to such a tiny percentage of their viewers watching that those people are, while much smaller in numbers, the same type of people who hung with WCW even at the end. If they were going to give up on TNA, they’d have done so long ago. These people have seen plenty of bad shows, and if they’re on board with a show where the lineup was barely pushed, they’re going to be on board with Lockdown.