WWE released Jeff Hardy in early December after he walked out during a house show match in Texas. WWE had wanted to keep him, but only if he attended rehab, and since he insisted he was clean, he refused. Subsequently, it would come out he was telling the truth thanks to a negative drug test, meaning WWE effectively had handed one of their most popular babyfaces to AEW.
Now speaking on his brother’s The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, Jeff has opened up about that infamous match in Texas for the first time. Calling his mid-match exit one of the smartest things he’d done, however, he would add he wasn’t trying to get released, with walking out just feeling right at the time.
Certain things happen for a reason. Subconsciously, that was maybe the smartest thing I’ve ever done, guided by something higher than me.
Jeff HardyWent over the rail disappeared into the crowd. Naturally, they think I took something like drugs or whatever, but I didn’t. If I was that bad, I should have never went out there; that’s the way I see it. I thought, “just another unpredictable thing I can do, and I’ll get away with it.” It was more serious than that. Again, it was one of the smartest things I’ve ever done because everything worked out so perfectly,
Jeff HardyIt felt right in the moment. I wasn’t trying to get released,
Jeff HardyThe Hardy’s have since wrestled their first match as a team on television since 2019 when they defeated Private Party on AEW’s St. Patrick’s Day Slam-themed episode. Now it is anticipated they will face The Young Bucks in a series of matches that if they live up to their contests in Ring of Honor, they have the potential to steal any show.
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