Jeff Hardy is the biggest What If in wrestling

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Devil's advocate: maybe his addiction to both is part of what led to people liking him, and without it he's basically skinnier Matt with shyttier promos?
Ain't nobody in their right mind doing some of the shyt Jeff did in or around that ring, especially knowing they can actually feel through their pain receptors.

(He woulda never been bigger than Cena though. Nah. It woulda killed his body, trying to get himself over purely through physicality. Jeff can't talk for shyt. A bigger what-if would be Jeff with a dialect coach and some acting classes even still on drugs/alcohol. That man might coulda done something in that Mankind vein - where their masochism was part of their charisma.)

The further removed from their run in the E I get, the more uncanny it is how much the Bucks are so clearly patterned after the Hardys, down to the older brother being the more grounded, and the younger being the more aerial but also the worse talker. It's really fukking strange to wear your influence that obviously.
 

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Jeff Hardy was always my favorite wrestler for some reason or another. The flippy shyt was always :whoo: to me as a kid. Im talking like The Brood days Hardy Boyz, mind you I must of been like 3 or 4 years old. When he came back he was clearly the biggest wrestler right beside Cena. Bigger than Edge, bigger than Jericho, bigger HHH. He beat all of them between 2008 and 2010.

And then he fukked it up again, and again, and again. The drugs and alcohol came about from all the trauma he put his body through for years. He can't help but to abuse it. It's sad really. I just hope he gets the help that he needs. The WWE should be paying all his rehab expenses and supporting him. They don't give a fukk about their talent, just like how Charles Barkley feels about the NBA. And then when wrestlers die all you get is a video package and maybe an induction to their invisible "hall of fame"

I'm glad i've severed ties with this wretched and demonic ass product.
 

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Jeff has his issues, but at the end of the day he's had an incredible career. around 25 years of being famous and making money in the business and it was all self made (Matt as well). Ric Flair himself is on record saying that he was jealous of Jeff when he saw one of Jeff's quarterly royalty checks from his merchandise sales in WWE. dude was a merchandise moving machine for years.
 

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Not really the traditional "what if" story because he was actually successful, far more successful than guys who had been there for years and had a lot of talent, but never got half of what he did.

But I think at one point, only Cena was more popular than him. His championship reigns were always short, so we never got to see how he would perform in that top guy spot.
 

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It's not a What If cause we know what heights he could've reached. Beat HHH for the IC in '01 and the next year is looking credibly possible of beating Taker for the Undisputed. And that's before he was really "Jeff Hardy".
 

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The career he’s had is the one someone like him was always gonna have. His style coupled with the extreme matches that brought his praise and fame were the same ones that lead him to become addicted, for him to not end up being on those things meant he wouldn’t have taken all the risks he did, so it’s really a double edged sword. Hell, after that debacle with Sting in TNA it’s a testament to just how popular he was to where he was able to come back from that. Chris Harris couldn’t even show up to WWE fat without it ending his career and here Jeff Hardy was fukked up in a main event of a PPV able to continue a career for years afterward
 

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Cena was always my dog. But I really enjoyed Jeff's title run when he was out
 

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He wasn't on the roster when that shyt really happened. He was already more popular then cena when he left WWE. If anything, going to tna is what stifled his popularity.
 

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3 bigger what-ifs for me...

What if Owen didn't die and became The Game; it was supposed to be his gimmick after Blue Blazer.

What if Magnum TA didn't get into the accident.

What if Brian Pillman didn't get into the Motorcycle wreck along with him passing away.

Cena was always going to be bigger, as he had the All-American look and build, along with Jeff winning the World Title at least once.
 

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3 bigger what-ifs for me...

What if Owen didn't die and became The Game; it was supposed to be his gimmick after Blue Blazer.

What if Magnum TA didn't get into the accident.

What if Brian Pillman didn't get into the Motorcycle wreck along with him passing away.

Cena was always going to be bigger, as he had the All-American look and build, along with Jeff winning the World Title at least once.
Not true at all. Everybody liked Jeff Hardy, not just kids. And he was bigger than cena before he left.
 
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