Jeff Hardy has faced off against some of the biggest names in the business and back in 2011 he challenged Sting for the Total Nonstop Action World Championship in the main event at the Victory Road pay-per-view.
After Jeff Hardy stumbled his way to the ring an audible was called due to concern for Jeff’s wellbeing, and the match ended in one minute and twenty eight seconds after Sting forcefully pinned The Charismatic Enigma.
During a recent appearance on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Jeff Hardy reflected on the infamous title match, and he shared his perspective on how things played out during the match, as well as the aftermath.
“I remember going out there, and I remember just Sting roughing me up and throwing me to the mat. So I remember, and naturally we say he shot on me, but Eric Bischoff told him to pin me because I was a zombie. It was obvious when you watched the tape and I was kind of MIA throughout that whole evening.
Sting had talked about this one killer spot I was going to do. It was something like the twist of hate with the head in the chair, but I was going to take his finish the reverse thing in a chair and I was scared of that. Oh my god, I’m going to break my neck, I don’t know if I should do this.
But anyway, I remember sobering up after that and Jeff Jarrett and even Hogan knew I had to go home and get straight. They gave me another chance and when I did go back I did this song called Resurrected. Bruce Pritchard was there, I believe, and he made me go in the locker room and apologize to everybody. I don’t think I’ve ever been that nervous in my life. I was so nervous in front of all these professional wrestlers that I admire and love so much, but I had to go in there and just admit, say I’m sorry for what I did on pay-per-view.
But that was good for me. It helped me heal. So I just moved on from there and had a really good 2012 but yeah, such a dark time with Sting. Every time I’ve seen Sting since he’s just such a good dude and such a support. So I’ve just had a lot of dark, dark times from the alcoholism and the drug addiction stuff. It feels good to be on the other side of that.”
