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Jeff Hardy Arrested on DUI Charges

Jeff Hardy was arrested in the early hours of June 13 on multiple charges, including a DUI charge making it the AEW wrestler’s 3rd offense in 10 years. Hardy was…

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Jeff Hardy was arrested in the early hours of June 13 on multiple charges, including a DUI charge making it the AEW wrestler's 3rd offense in 10 years.

Hardy was arrested in Volusia County, Fla., and per the county's corrections website, Hardy was booked on three charges: Violating restrictions placed on driver's license; driving while license was canceled/suspended/revoked; and DUI related to drugs or alcohol. The substance related to the DUI was not listed. A combined bond for the charges was set for $3,500.

Marc Middleton of Wrestling Headlines notes, "The license charges are second-degree misdemeanors, while the DUI is a third-degree felony," due to the DUI being Hardy's 3rd offense within 10 years.

Hardy was set to take part in a Triple Threat Ladder Match with brother/tag team partner Matt Hardy against The Young Bucks and AEW World Tag Team Champions Jurassic Express on this week's episode of AEW Dynamite airing live on TBS this Wednesday, June 15. As of publishing, no changes have been made to this match.

Jeff Hardy debuted in AEW in March following being released from WWE in December 2021 stemming from an incident at house show where Hardy disappeared from ringside during a six-man tag match where he teamed with Drew McIntyre and Xavier Woods. Following this incident, there were many that speculated whether Hardy had some sort of relapse in his sobriety, which has been an on-going issue in his career for decades.

Wrestling Inc. would report during a January stream on Twitch, Matt Hardy said related to the incident, "Whenever my brother ended up being released, he had taken a drug test. And usually these drug tests come back in 10 to 14 days. You’ll get the sheet that says ‘you are compliant and you were negative on everything.’ Those 10 to 14 days had been up for him, and he never got a result, and he was very curious of where his result was because he knew he had passed his drug test because he hadn’t been doing drugs."

Matt continued, "He’s been clean, he’s been clean the whole while he has been there.  I know there was an issue, they said ‘Jeff Hardy had this erratic behavior. He jumped over the guardrail or whatever.’ But look, it’s Jeff Hardy. He’s a weird dude, it’s kind of what he does. The erratic behavior is why they gave him the drug test and they sent him home."

Matt added, "Working with WWE is a very stressful job. And I am not going to say that I am here to bury WWE, because I love WWE. The WWE and Vince McMahon and everybody who’s there, I wouldn’t be who I am, I wouldn’t have this life that I have right now. So I have a great appreciation...It’s all good. But it’s also a very stressful environment as well. Anybody who has worked there knows that. So I feel like Jeff was kind of stressed out in many different ways by several different things. And he just told me when he went over that guardrail, he knew he was done. He was done there. He was literally done with the match, so he felt done."


We're on the final week stretch on the road to WrestleMania 38, which the WWE has said many times will be "stupendous."

Taking place over the course of two nights on April 2 and 3, WrestleMania 38 will emanate from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The event will feature packed cards on both nights including WWE Champion Brock Lesnar taking on Universal Champion Roman Reigns in a Winner Takes All match to unify the two titles and Ronda Rousey challenging Charlotte Flair for the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship.

Additionally, fans will see a showdown of sorts between Kevin Owens and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin as part of a special WrestleMania edition of the "KO Show."

To celebrate "The Grandest Stage of Them All," here are 10 interesting facts about WrestleMania.

WrestleMania almost wasn't WrestleMania

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Legendary WWE Hall of Fame ring announcer Howard Finkel is credited with coining the name “WrestleMania,” but before landing on that perfect name, Vince McMahon wanted to call his annual showcase “The Colossal Tussle.”


WrestleMania 35 was the first WrestleMania to be headlined by women.

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It took over three decades for women to headline “The Showcase of Immortals,” but it finally happened in WrestleMania 35 when Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey faced off in a Winner Takes All Triple Threat match for the WWE Raw Women's Championship and the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship.


Run-DMC provided a WrestleMania first.

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The iconic rap group was the first act to ever perform at WrestleMania outside of the singing of the National Anthem and “America the Beautiful” when they performed “WrestleMania Rap” at WrestleMania 5. Many other acts have performed at WrestleMania since including Flo Rida, Diddy and Motorhead.


WrestleMania 2 is the only WrestleMania to happen on a weekday.

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Up until this year, which sees WrestleMania 36 split into a two-night event taking place on Saturday, April 4 and Sunday, April 5, WrestleMania 2 was the only WrestleMania to not take place on a Sunday. Instead, it took place on Monday, April 7, 1986.


WrestleMania 28 holds the record for most PPV buys.

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The WrestleMania that billed the "once in a lifetime" match between The Rock and John Cena saw 1,217,000 PPV buys, which is the most PPV buys for a single WrestleMania ever. Of course, that “once in a lifetime” tag wasn’t exactly true, and The Rock vs. John Cena would headline WrestleMania 29.


“Macho Man” Randy Savage has the record for most WrestleMania matches in a single night.

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OH, YEAH! WrestleMania 4 featured a 14-man tournament for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. Savage would end up winning the title defeating Butch Reed, Greg Valentine, One Man Gang, and “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase.


Longest match in WrestleMania history.

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The legendary iron man match between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XII still holds the record for longest WrestleMania match clocking in at one hour, one minute and 52 seconds.


Shortest match in WrestleMania history.

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The shortest WrestleMania match happened in recent history at WrestleMania 32 when The Rock squashed Erick Rowan in just six seconds.


Most losses at WrestleMania.

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Triple H may be one of the most prolific wrestlers in WWE history, but he also has the notorious honor of having the most losses at WrestleMania with 13. Yikes!


Total attendance at WrestleMania.

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WrestleMania 36 is the first WrestleMania with no fans in attendance due to the Coronavirus pandemic, but up until this year, a combined 1,749,276 fans have attended WrestleManias 1-35.

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