TNA SPOILER: Jeff Hardy Takes a Nasty Fall
By Mike Smith
On Friday night, during TNA’s Impact Wrestling TV taping, Jeff Hardy took a really nasty fall off the door of a steel cage.
TNA was filming their popular Lockdown pay-per-view as a TV special, and that included a match that had Hardy team with his brother Matt against James Storm and Abyss in a TNA World Tag Team Championship Match. Here’s how that match went down, via Wrestling Inc.:
"The Hardys vs. James Storm and Abyss for the Tag Team Titles is next. The only way to win is pinfall or submission. Manik comes down and climbs over the cage. Matt Hardy pulls him over and Manik gets handcuffed to the cage. Storm climbed on top of Abyss at one point and jumped down with an elbow drop on Matt. Hardy got out of the cage somehow later on and was attacked by The Revolution. Jeff Hardy went for a splash off the top but got hit by mist from Sanada. Storm hit his finisher to retain. Koya slams Matt through a table. They put Jeff on a table in the ring for Manik to put him through but Manik misses. Jeff tries to escape the cage but ends up taking a nasty bump off the door onto the steel stairs. Storm assaults Jeff some more before they leave. Storm runs back out and hits Jeff on the ramp as referees are helping him to the back."
One of extreme wrestling’s favorite sons, Tommy Dreamer, took to Twitter to comment on the situation, saying:
Instagram user billcommons had video of the fall:
For those wondering how bad the injury is, podcast host Jason Solomon was in attendance and caught a conversation between Jeremy Borash and the stage manager:
Hopefully, Hardy is alright. He’s made a career out of falls like this, but at 37 years old, you have to wonder how much longer he can keep it up. He has a wife and a young daughter, and if this fall was enough to knock him out, then it wasn’t far off from doing much worse to him.
It doesn’t mean the end of Jeff Hardy, though. He can still do plenty in the ring, he might just want to cut back on falls like this, or, you know, dives off the set of Raw:
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