The case of the Hardy boys and the poor management.

Welcome to another edition of the Aussie Mouthpiece. I am said mouthpiece.

I want to talk about the news that broke today (in australia at least), that being the firing of Matt Hardy from TNA wrestling.

I'm not going to talk about what happened with Matt, I don't know the circumstances, I'm not in any position to judge him, however, as we say in this country, if you drink then drive, you're a bloody idiot. so Matt, you're a bloody idiot.

What i want to talk about is TNA.

More specifically, how the hell can they justify firing Matt Hardy, yet keeping Jeff Hardy on the roster? Matt, who was already suspended from TNA, was caught driving over the alcohol limit. Not at a TNA event, not presently associated with TNA from the suspension. Jeff Hardy showed up to main event a pay-per-view either off of his head, or he became off his head on drugs during the broadcast! How is that not as bad as what happened with Matt Hardy?

How can you keep Jeff Hardy on your roster after that? He made the company look bad. Well, worse than it already looked with Hogan running the show. But showing up and trying to wrestle like that.. I just feel really bad for Sting especially, having to go out there and try to work a match with that guy.

I remember watching Jeff Hardy break out in WWE in 2007 or so I think. He had a match with Triple H, on RAW, and it was great. He was clean, he wasn't botching, he was connecting majorly with the fans, and if i remember correctly, he may have gone over that night. And then he got suspended and missed Wrestlemania 24.

But I remember him coming back, working his way back up and then finally winning the world title at the end of 2008. It was great, I was in, i was a fan.

And then what happened? 6 or so months later, he left. and 2 weeks later was busted with drugs. That was almost it for me with Jeff Hardy.

Let me just stop there, i was a big fan of the Hardys for years, those TLC matches were amazing, and I always liked Jeff because he was different.

So when he left and then straight away was back into drugs.. it was a let down. I'm sure for his more rabid fans it was a big let down. Like "he left just so he could get high again".

So this brings me to TNA again.
First of all they bring Jeff Hardy in, and then turn him heel? Jeff Hardy .. the guy with some of the most loyal fans i've ever seen? Heel? that ain't gonna work. It didn't. he just got high instead.
Then they bring in Matt Hardy, who had claimed on his youtube videos to be in great shape, but it appeared that wasn't the case when he made his first TNA appearance.
Now i don't think Matt looked bad at all, he looked in decent shape, but still, he had enough time after his WWE release (by the way.. the grapes thing.. yeah that was just weird. Trying to explain it as a gimmick.. i didn't buy it. It seemed like drugs.) He still had time to get in shape even better. But that's neither here nor there.

What did he have.. 3 matches in TNA? I didn't really notice when he got suspended to be honest.

Now we all know what happened at Victory Road. Hardy was off his face, and Sting had to wrestle a short match, and basically hold him down for the 3 count, after which Jeff completely no-selled Sting's finisher. Terrible. Made the company look bad as i said earlier.

But what happened? They just gave him time off to "get himself right". No suspension.. no firing.. Why the hell was he allowed to go to the ring in the first place? Who's foolish idea was that? Oh.. i forgot who runs TNA for a minute there....

So Matt Hardy got suspended for "showing up late".. that tends to happen with hangovers.
But the only thing i can think of is that TNA were planning on releasing him before the DWI or whatever you Americans call it happened.

But my point here is, how in the blue hell does Jeff Hardy, who is on trial for drug possession, still have a paid position at TNA, whereas his brother, WHO CAN WRESTLE and isn't potentially going to jail.. well until today.. how do they fire him first? Something is very wrong in TNA. Are they going to have James Storm stop coming out with a beer now? Probably not. Will they make Ric Flair stop talking about his reservations and crap at nightclubs? No.

WWE would.

Matt Hardy, probably shouldn't have a job. But not because of a drink driving incident. Especially when his drug addled brother (have you see those videos Jeff has put on youtube... Jeff.. don't give the guys trying to put you in jail more evidence.. jeez).. has a job in said company.

So as you can probably tell, I've given up on Jeff Hardy. I remember CM Punk cutting a promo about him just after the news of his drug possession came out. I hated CM Punk for that, I thought it was low, and whoever gave that the green light was a scumbag.

But now, after Victory Road.. i couldn't care less.


Anyway, I've written enough about these 2. I really hope they can both sort their lives out, if only for themselves. I don't think we'll see either of them in a (well known) ring for a long time, if ever. But the fact that Jeff Hardy is still employed by TNA shows you what kind of company they really are. And if i was one of the employees of that company, i'd be exteremely pissed off.

That's it, if you liked it, comment it, if you hated it, comment, and then go suck a lemon.

Signing out now.

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Welcome to another installment of truthfacts, from me, the Armchair Mouthpiece. I have been posting fairly regularly, almost daily since i began this, only a few days ago, but i'm thinking that eventually this might become maybe a once or twice a week thing, with the exception of doing little reviews of pay per views that i watch. I'm not going to do detailed reviews of Raw, Smackdown, or iMPACT every week, I feel like there's enough places for people to find that kind of thing already. But what I do plan on doing is talking about the parts that interest me the most, and my thoughts on where some of the bigger angles are going. I do plan on writing a post about TNA very soon, but considering that the WWE is, let's face it, amazing at the moment, I'm focusing on that. I will just say however, I love the evolution of Sting's character.

So Monday night Raw this week, at least for me, was the most anticipated show I can remember in years.. maybe ever. Would CM Punk be there? What would they be doing? Would Cena be "fired"?.. I have to say first off, I kinda skimmed through the matches on Raw this week, though I did read that they were excellent. But for me, this storyline is the draw. I assumed Raw would start with Vince McMahon, though as soon as I heard him not say CM Punk, I began to get a little dis-heartened. Then he talked about the tournament to declare a new WWE champion.. to me this is a good way to keep people interested, in the sense of "will Punk show up and declare himself the "real" champion?".. but, something about this RAW felt like they were done with the Punk side of the angle..which if that's true, is a shame, because he is the best right now. I really like that Cena is showing attitude though. But, it makes sense not to turn him heel. They're building a match a year in advance. Cena get's booed already, but part of what is going to make Rock/Cena great, is the crowd. "Let's go Cena/Let's go Rocky!".. You turn Cena heel, possibly the "cena sucks" fans, change their mind.. and those "cena sucks" fans, are the fans that will chant "Rocky, rocky!".. so they're left stuck in the middle. It makes sense to keep Cena in this face persona for now.

So the other part of Raw that i want to write about (obviously) is the final segment. Now, living in Australia, we get Raw roughly around a day and a half later than the USA. Plenty of time to read the results. I chose not to do that this week, I wanted to be truly surprised. And wow, I was definitely surprised. Cena standing up to McMahon.. "I will walk on someone else's show and keep doing this BROTHER!".. nicely said, I wasn't expecting them to mention TNA in any way at all. It was good. It was unexpected.

Speaking of unexpected, I wonder how many people thought Cena would get "fired"... I myself, was of the opinion that someone would interrupt, I thought what could happen, especially after watching Rey's reaction to Vince postponing the championship match, maybe a group of wrestlers would walk out to the stage, and go with the whole "If you fire Cena, then we all quit" angle. I thought maybe we'd hear from Punk. To be honest, after thinking about this for a day or so, I am glad we didn't hear from Punk. It's not like he's disappeared, just follo him on twitter @CMPunk to see what he's doing. Great stuff by the way Punk, love the belt in the fridge.

What i REALLY didn't expect, was to see Triple H. That music hit, and I just went "holy sh*t!" this was at 4 in the morning though so it was more of a whisper. What's he going to say? Where's this going? Is he coming down as a son?.. It was really intruiging, and most importantly, it made me want to keep watching. It made Raw just as interesting as last week, just as must-see, even though there was no CM Punk.
HHH was awesome. Seriously, put him in a good movie, people might just be impressed with his acting. I know X-Pac commented on it saying that this was all real, but C'mon.. everyone should remember that Pac works for WWE. HHH using the kliq to further an angle? Of course that'd happen!
So now we have HHH in charge.. is he going to be a good boss? a bad boss? What does it all mean for Cena? Is HHH going to be able to "bring Punk back" when Vince couldn't? This could be the biggest angle for a really long time.. it's exciting, it's different, it feels "real".. I don't care what anyone says, those tears from both HHH and Vince sold this angle amazingly well. Seriously, go back, and watch when Vince is left in the ring to close the show. The crowd goes from singing Hey hey hey, goodbye.. to chanting "thank you Vince" and applauding him. To me that says, they bought it. Hell, I bought it. I mean, when have we ever seen Vince McMahon with tears in his eyes before for an angle? I would argue never. Sure, he's mostly been the heel, but still.. emotion captures people, and that's what has been missing from wrestling I think for a while.

I'm not saying there's no passion for what they're doing, clearly the wrestlers are passionate about what they do, but storylines with Emotion. And i don't just mean crying. Any kind of emotion. that's what we saw from Punk, honestly, that's what we see from John Cena. When you see him say "I love this".. on this week's raw.. you can feel it. It's real. It's true. It's not just a line on a script.

So to finish up, I think that we won't see CM Punk on tv for a while now, I kinda hope i'm wrong, because I can see an angle with 2 world champions, akin to when Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon were both the Intercontinental Champions. But Punk would come back as a good guy, I think that's pretty obvious, so they'd have to be careful who has the belt if and when that were to happen. I like the idea that i read, that maybe we'll get promos or vignettes of Punk, in the style of the NWO.. "the following message is brought to you by CM Punk" etc.. but with the new angle of HHH taking over, maybe the CM Punk stuff was a launching pad for this much bigger angle of the new Era in the WWE.. maybe with some more .. attitude?

Well that's it, Unless something major happens, my next post is going to be about TNA.
Oh before i go.. Sin Cara, suspended for drugs? ... way to kill your nearly dead push buddy!... See ya in TNA within a year I think.
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