10 Wrestling Moments More Terrifying When You Know The Truth
5. Jeff Hardy Is Done With The Ear Stuff After One Particular Spot - WWE Clash Of Champions 2020
Put it this way, you know a spot is particularly gnarly when one of the most innovative risk-takers in the history of the industry opts to lock it away for his own safety.
Coming in the midst of Jeff Hardy's odd ear-torturing phase whilst under the WWE banner, The Charismatic Enigma eventually decided enough was enough on the back of a rather intense ladder match at 2020's Clash of Champions.
Seen during a behind-the-scenes clip captured in the wake of the chaotic Intercontinental Championship triple threat between Hardy, Sami Zayn, and AJ Styles, the former WWE Champion would admit the cringe-inducing spot that saw him dragged to the ground by a ladder his stretched earlobe was attached to was just about the final straw for him.
As Hardy would confess:
"I’m about done with the ear stuff because when that ladder fell it felt like it ripped my whole… oh man, god it felt like… it was crazy. Then I was just trying to support it, I’m a madman.”
“You’ve always been a trendsetter. Maybe you might start walking around with ladder in your ear.” - @The305MVP ? #WWEDayOf pic.twitter.com/cV8CFbnEyj
— FRANK (@TheNextBlGThing) October 18, 2020
And while he's still been all too happy to Swanton Bomb steel steps in recent times, this sort of ear trauma was enough to leave even the hardcore legend sensing he'd gone a touch too far.