5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (August 31)

1. A What Match?

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Jeff Hardy is either the best seller in all of wrestling, or he is absolutely knackered.

He's obviously a bit of both, but consider the sheer amount of punishment the man has absorbed throughout his career. He has jumped off a sh*t-load of ladders. He has crashed through a sh*t-load of tables. Christ, Hulk Hogan's had hip replacement surgery, and Jeff does Hogan's trademark bump off ladders and through ladders, the mad b*stard.

His brother, Matt, is scaling back in-ring duties to shadow road agents, having decided that it's not advisable to wrestle when one's spine begins to fuse into one's pelvis. Jeff, meanwhile, is about to miss a Swanton Bomb from the top of Hell In A Cell.

A Jeff Hardy Hell In A Cell match isn't going to end with ten punches in the corner, let's face it. Jeff has apparently expressed a desire to wrestle the one last stupidly dangerous match he hasn't yet wrestled, and he's going to really, really hurt himself. This is a questionable decision, but since it completely makes a mockery of Orton's tiresome "...dive" complaints last year, it's also quite funny. The words "Jeff Hardy" and "Hell In A Cell" match go together like "Baron Corbin" and "a match exceeding five minutes in length".

They shouldn't be anywhere near each other.

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