In this WrestleTalk News, Jeff Hardy has been arrested, fans call out Reby Hardy after seemingly
making light of the situation, Luke’s review of Raw and more.
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Late last night, news emerged that AEW star Jeff Hardy had been arrested in Volusia, Florida
for three charges: Violating Restrictions Placed on Driving License, Driving While License
Cancelled/Suspended/Revoked, and DUI Alcohol/Drugs third offense within 10 years.
ESPN’s Marc Raimondi is reporting that Hardy’s blood alcohol level from two tests came in
as 0.294 and 0.291.
With the legal limit in Florida being 0.08, this means that Hardy was 3.7 times over the
limit.
Raimondi also noted that the police report mentioned a white car “swerving” and “running
off the roadway”.
After the police officer stopped Hardy, he reportedly was “in a stupor and confused”,
he “smelled of alcohol” and was “unsteady”, and could not successfully complete any section
of sobriety tests.
TMZ Sports, who reportedly got hold of a copy of police documents, are claiming that Hardy
had a restriction on his license requiring him to only drive vehicles with an interlock
device system in place, which the white vehicle he was driving did not have.
An interlock device system essentially equates to successfully taking a breathalyser prior
to the ignition starting in the car.
According to PWInsider, Hardy was bonded out of jail in Volusia County, Florida after paying
a $3,500 bond and his expected court date of today, June 14th, has reportedly been cancelled.
AEW has not publicly commented on this situation, but according to Dave Meltzer, AEW have told
WarnerMedia to “stop all promotion of Jeff Hardy in any commercials or anywhere else
immediately”.
This has included the three-way ladder match for the AEW Tag Titles next week, which the
Hardys were due to compete in against Jurassic Express and The Young Bucks.
The status of that match is currently up in the air.
But that’s not the only controversy, as Reby Hardy, the wife of Matt Hardy, Jeff’s
brother, put out a TikTok videos hours after Jeff’s arrest, which fans have called her
out for for seemingly making a joke out of the situation.
We won’t play it here, but you can find it easily online, though do be warned it contains
explicit language, and see the comments in response to it to get an idea of how people
are reacting to it.
As a friendly reminder, situations like these are rarely as simple as many make it out to
be, and be aware that we likely don’t know all the details or anything of the sort, so
be kind to each other in the comments.
There’s also some big standard wrestling news stories today that I don’t have time
for, such as politics backstage in AEW influencing Forbidden Door with wrestlers being pulled
from the show, MJF being discussed backstage, potential beef between AEW wrestlers, Toni
Storm revealing another scrapped storyline from her time in WWE and more, so check out
wrestletalk.com for the latest in the wrestling world.
And now hot tag to Luke.
Now it’s time for my review of Monday Night Raw… in about 5 minutes.
The show opened with MizTV - oh, this is going to be a long show - where he took forever
to say nothing at all, and thankfully the segment was saved by Paul Heyman and Matt
Riddle.
Heyman said that whoever wins Money in the Bank will struggle to cash in on Roman - which
is true he’s barely ever on TV - and it was announced that if Riddle doesn’t win
this Friday, he can’t challenge for the belt ever again.
Some nice stakes added to the match this Friday, but I’m not sure why Miz was out here.
Jimmy Uso took on Montez Ford in a very good opener, which Jimmy won when he got his knees
up on a Ford frog splash.
This was decent stuff, and I still firmly believe that Ford will be WWE Champion one
day.
Seth Rollins did a sit down interview, which saw Kevin Patrick sit behind Seth Rollins
in an attempt to make Seth look much bigger than him.
It didn’t work, and just looked silly.
These interviewers are small, those interviewers are far away.
AJ Styles attacked Seth to set up their match later.
Becky Lynch vs. Dana Brooke didn’t get started as Lynch beat her up around ringside, which
saw Asuka run down to make the save and stand tall.
This was a good reset for Lynch after last week’s loss, and it sets up their Money
in the Bank qualifier for next week.
And the winner of that will join Alexa Bliss and Liv Morgan, who beat Nikki A.S.H and Doudrop
in a tag match to qualify.
I really feel that Bliss is a strong favourite to win this year’s match - because she is
in desperate need of a storyline and character.
Speaking of people in desperate need of change, MVP beat Cedric Alexander in a squash match.
Yes, you heard that right.
MVP - the manager of Omos - beat Cedric Alexander like he was Omos.
And then they posed like Omos won the match.
Why didn’t Omos just beat him?
They also teased that Omos could be in Money in the Bank, which sounds like a horrible
idea.
Someone else in need of a change is Kevin Owens, who lost to Ezekiel via countout in
the lamest way possible.
This is the new Annomous Raw GM storyline, where WWE don’t really know if Ezekiel is
Elias or his younger brother, so just spend each episode stalling for time.
Zeke did announce that Elias would be on the show next week, which hopefully will actually
get this storyline moving again.
And then came easily the best thing on the show.
Seth Rollins and AJ Styles had a banging main event to this week’s Raw for a spot in Money
in the Bank.
They had an excellent back and forth match, which had some neat false finishes and whipped
the crowd into a frenzy of THIS IS AWESOME chants.
And it was awesome.
This sort of action should on Raw every single week, because they have the talent to do this.
And even with the threat of Judgement Day hanging in the air - because I would have
thought AJ would still be feuding with them seen as though Finn turned his back on him
to join the group?
- this had a totally clean finish, with Rollins getting a roll-up win.
This was an excellent match which really could have seen either guy win, and a brilliant
way to end the show…
what do you mean?
There’s another hour?
What the heck is a pose down?
Yes unfortunately the third hour curse has not been lifted, and WWE are back in their
mode of booking a two hour show then filling the final one with filler garbage.
Which sadly included a match between Riddle and Ciampa which had shockingly little heat
considering Riddle is going for the title this Friday.
But can you blame the crowd?
They’ve been told Ciampa doesn’t matter, so they never bought into him winning.
And Miz was out on commentary for… reasons.
Bianca Belair did an exclusive interview with Kevin Patrick for Raw - which is the same
as me doing an exclusive interview with Pete Quinnell for WrestleTalk - and saw Rhea appear
on the screen to say she’ll win their match.
This was good, but not the hot follow up the group needed after their defection from Edge
last week.
Chad Gable took on Mustafa Ali and won, and Rey Mysterio lost to Veer Mahan.
A story that has now been going on since the Raw After Mania and has yet to leave first
gear.
And, yes, the main event of Monday Night Raw was a pose down between Bobby Lashley and
Austin Theory.
Aside from the big question of ‘how the hell is this the main event angle on a TV
show millions of people watch’ - it was one of those beautiful moments in wrestling
fandom where I’m glad a family member didn’t walk into the room for fear I might crawl
inside myself out of sheer embarrassment.
This was for an audience of one, and that audience probably wanked himself silly over
it.
Bobby won if anyone cares, which I can’t imagine anyone does.
So that was this week’s Raw - a good two hour show that was sadly three, but did have
a banger between Rollins and AJ.
So it’s your bog standard 3 out 5.