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As we near Jeff Hardy's one-on-one match with Randy Orton for the WWE Championship we look back at what has turned out to be a big Turning Point in his career.

In April 2003 Jeff Hardy was released from WWE after several no showings & a burn out claim.

Jeff Hardy would appear in Ring of Honor briefly as Will O' The Wisp. Despite his WWE popularity, he was booed from the get go. Chants of "You Got Fired" & "We Wanted Matt" were almost constant during his short run.

In June 2004, Jeff Hardy made his TNA debut in an X-Division title match against AJ Styles. The match ended a no decision when Kid Kash & Dallas (Lance Hoyt) ran in & attacked both men.

IN September, Jeff lost a NWA World title match to Jeff Jarrett.

In November he got another chance, this time a ladder match. He would lose after Scott Hall & Kevin Nash interfered.

In Feburary 2005, Hardy lost a number one contenders match to Abyss.

At Lockdown in April, Hardy defeated Raven inside the Cage.

In May, Jeff Hardy no-showed the "Clockwork Orange House of Fun" rematch with Raven leading to a short suspension.

Hardy returned in August attacking the NWA Champion Jeff Jarrett.

In October Hardy competed in a Monsters Ball match which he lost after taking himself out of the match with a Swanton Bomb off a ladder off the stage. Hardy was nearly 20feet off the concrete.

IN November, Hardy lost another number one contenders match, this time to Monty Brown.

In December Jeff Hardy again no-showed a PPV leading to another suspension & ultimatly his release.


Question: Had Jeff Hardy shown up that night, would he have simply repeated the same cycle over and over? As a result, never getting to where he is now? Also as a result of staying would he have gotten the rumoured World Title reign in 2006?

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Brandon

I don't know, I want to believe that Hardy always wanted back in WWE and at the right time would make the jump..

DD

Hardy was only released from the WWE because he had a drug problem. He clearly still had the problem in TNA and was coasting. The best thing that happened was him no showing that event that night and getting axed.

It gave him a chance to realize what the hell was going on in his life and perhaps was the wake up call he needed.

You can clearly see it in him now that he is clean, its almost sad looking back at what kind of self destructive path he was on. I commend him and am proud of him everytime I see him basically because I know the battles of addiction and its a very powerful thing.

But to answer your question, TNA really would have been dumbasses to let that cycle continue and they did the right thing.

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Crocker

The thing is as his drug problem completly gone away.

If you remember he was given a 30 day ban in the summer for violating the company's welness policy(which basically means he failed a drug teat)

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