Highland View: The Rise And Fall- Part 1

Highland View: The Rise And Fall- Part 1

Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to yet another exciting edition of Highland View! I thank you for joining me and I hope you enjoy your stay. This week shall, as always, be something different. This week is shall be starting a series where I look at the ‘rise and fall’ of varying wrestlers careers. These are not limited to modern day wrestlers and WWE wrestlers, they will be wrestlers who I, or you choose. So let’s get to it!

The first wrestlers’ career who we shall be looking at is Jeff Hardy! Yes certainly quite a career which had so much potential, but never really managed to develop into anything spectacular. So as you know Jeff and his brother Matt started their own company ‘OMEGA’, which is set to make a revival! However, what you may not know is that  Jeff Hardy was actually a jobber for the WWF back in the day!  Yes so technically that is where his wrestling career started. However, I will be basing my start of his rise and fall from when he signed his first deal with the WWE way back when in 1998.

The start
So there we go WWF snap up Jeff and his brother Matt in 1998 after they had done enough to impress them. They did the dirty work and jobbed enough for a few months before the WWF gave them their big break in being the Hardy Boyz. Now this was downright HUGE for boy of these guys. Both of htem were the mainstream hardcore tag teamers of that era. Everyone can remember the Hardy Boyz for the crazy flips that they did. Now Jeff did get a bit of a bigger break between him and Matt. He held the Hardcore, Light Heavyweight and Intercontinental titles after winning the tag championships with Matt. What happens next for him is pretty werid as WWE do the same old tag team jealousy rivalry thing, they split up and fued for a bit. Then after they come back boom, WWF don’t even remember it happened. Oh heya John Morrison, how’s things?

After this split and reunion with Matt, Jeff was then pushed into the singles circuit over the next year, in the WWE.  He became the European Championship, but lost it to RVD. After that he didn’t do that much, turned heel for a month then saved Stacey Kielber (every man’s dream). After that he blamed a “burn out” for his reason for leaving the WWE. Basically, he was just to lazy to continue and he wanted a break. This to me was pretty stupid, he could have asked for WWE to right him off TV for a bit to let him rest and recuperate, cause what he did next certainly didn’t help him go to Vince’s good books.

TNA Switch
Yes what very few major wrestlers do (not old guys/has-beens) is go from WWE to TNA. Yet Jeff Hardy felt that he should do it, he felt he had what it took. Now I am going to skim over this cause I really couldn’t give a monkey’s about what happens in TNA. Basically Jeff had some pretty decent/hardcore matches, didn’t win a title, and got suspeneded for being late. If you want to be more specific TNA gave him a taste of the future except he rarely got a chance at the main event title, he was always just one short. Anyway back to Jeff Hardy’s ‘rise’

Back to the WWE
So Jeff must have done some serious kissing of backsides as WWE announced he had re-singed and played vignettes/promo’s to big up his return.  Now if you have kissed some serious WWE backside they will hype up your return, *cough* Cena/Orton/Jericho *cough*. Not saying anything bad against them we just all know they have done some in their time.  So not long after coming back hardy wins the Intercontinental title again and then has a re-re-union with his bro! They then went on to challenge for the tag team titles, back when the tag team divison was something worth talking about. Then Hardy being Hardy, he needed time off to “heal”, sheesh this guy gets injured a lot! So WWE being typical WWE decide to take him of the TV with little or no reason why, and bring him back a few weeks later as if nothing had happened. From there on Jeff had his ‘almost’ phase. I remember this time period for Jeff well cause I used to love him when I was younger. He came so close to winning the WWE/World Heavyweight title that it was nearly a joke him being in the matches! WWE made me believe that every time, maybe just maybe Jeff would get his main event title. Then at Armageddon 2008 Jeff finally did it, finally Jeff got his WWE title reign. Then WWE stabbed him in the back did the always rubbish brother vs. brother storyline up until Wrestlemania, which did lead to a pretty good I Quit match. Then Jeff feuded with Punk, which caused him to leave the WWE as per a match stipulation. No need to go into all the nitty gritty of what happened, most of you should know the details.

Back to TNA
Wow does this guy not like to stay put! After leaving the WWE because of injury he jumps ship, YET AGAIN! I remember watching his return to TNA, kudos to him he knows how to make an entrance. Unlike last time in TNA, Jeff this time got some glory, he picked up the TNA World Championship belt. Not really going to go into everything that happened because, well it’s TNA. What I do what to mention is Victory Road. Yeah Hardy figured it would be a good idea to turn up for his MAIN EVENT title match completely drunk, to put it lightly! Rightfully TNA sent him home in disgrace and that guy has been in and out of court more times than Lindsay Lohan! Boy does Jeff like his drug charges. Anyway, Jeff came back to TNA and that really sums up his fall for me. Going from WWE big gun to doing goodness know what in TNA, quite a fall really!

So there we have it ladies and gentlemen, the rise and fall of the one and only Jeff hardy! Now as always I do thank you for joining me today, feel free to comment below on who I should review next week, I always appreciate your feedback :)

Comments

1. Comment #1

   Great! I loved what you wrote about the 'rise' of Jeff Hardy

   Posted by Dhruv Storm Pegasus on Friday, January 27, 2012

2. Comment #2

   I hate daniel bryne......randy ortons da man :)

   Posted by jamie healy on Friday, February 03, 2012

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