Jeff Hardy Explains His Recent Erratic Behavior at Wrestling Event

The annual Gathering of the Juggalos is a train wreck of terrible music, awful soda, and suburban white angst so it’s surprising that Jeff Hardy’s strange behavior was noticed at all.

Jeff Hardy was recently performing in the Juggalos Championship Wrestling show known as Bloodymania in Thornville, Ohio. Try to stop laughing; it’s a real thing, no matter how ridiculous it sounds. Along with Jeff, Tommy Dreamer and Abyss were also in attendance, but what caught fan’s attention – as captured in this viral video – were Jeff’s odd antics.

After botching several moves, Hardy apparently went on a “rampage” against some innocent ladders and chairs which may or may not have been occupied by ghosts. At one point, fans thought Jeff was ascending a ladder with a cardboard cutout of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Why they assumed he was carrying a cutout of one of the world’s biggest action stars is anyone’s guess (keep in mind, these people actually pay money to hear Insane Clown Posse music) but it turns out the cutout was actually retired WCW wrestler El Dandy. The weirdness doesn’t end there; Jeff thought it was a cutout of Eddie Guerrero, which explains why he climbed the ladder with it and pointed to the sky. As Jeff explains:

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"“It was a El Dandy cutout and I thought it was Eddie Guerrero and I feel so stupid now. Just knowing [Guerrero] back in the day…real tight, real good friends. Plus, my eyesight’s going. Somebody said something about it being Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I thought, if that was Arnold, I need to go to the hospital right now, holy s–t!”"

The performance left some fans to speculate that Hardy was once again involved with illegal drugs, for which he pled guilty to trafficking in 2011. Jeff says this is not the case:

"“I finished the match with a [frustrated] breakdown where I’m trying to break a ladder, break tables… Many people hadn’t seen that, so naturally people are wondering ‘what the Hell is wrong with Jeff Hardy? Oh my God, he’s off the wagon!’ And this-and-that. It was nothing like that.”"

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Jeff’s brother Matt attempted to tie the incident to their recent “Final Deletion” storyline by tweeting out, “The struggles of being an empty vessel makes you insane. I DELETED what made #BrotherNero special-I WILL BREAK HIM.” I give props to Matt for keeping kayfabe and trying to help his brother, but where this story stops being funny is in Jeff’s explanation about his physical condition which include random body tremors and difficulty turning his head:

"“I had a CT scan done Tuesday and they came back normal, thank God. I’m having a hard time turning my head, but I’m a lot better. I’m not tremoring anymore. That’s why they sent me to get a CT scan because when I tried to turn my head, I would shake, and he was worried it might be a brain issue or a concussion or something worse. Anyway, thank God the doctor called me back and said ‘Well, I hate to tell you this, but you’re pretty much normal.”"

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While such an admission may put to rest rumors of drug use, it won’t sound good to WWE officials and may put a damper on his plans for a retirement run with the company. Last week, Hardy told LA Weekly that he would like to end his career with a Hell in a Cell match against The Undertaker at WrestleMania. While many fans would love to see Jeff give the WWE Universe one more swanton bomb, random body shakes don’t exactly inspire confidence in a business that is currently dealing with more than 50 lawsuits related to brain damage.