Hell yeah I am offended. Every time that someone is either dead or seriously injured they have to come up with a storyline that involves the way a superstar in hurt. They are still playing off Brian Pillman by turning Brian Kendrick into a loose cannon. Even the major news networks bought into the Jeff Hardy story. I am also tired of seeing Edge taking some time off then comes back and is handed the belt. They did the samething last night with Cena, handed him the title. I don't like Triple H or Edge, having them as a champion constantly really makes WWE stale because the same ones have the title.

Well said Kevin. I will admit, WWE does walk the line of fantasy and reality. But, it is our job as fans/viewers to watch what context is being used. I am a huge JH fan, but just because he has a past doesn't mean that every single time something discrediting is said I have to expect the worst. Plus, the fact that Edge has been gone long enough, it what time for WWE to resurrect him. I just hate that he walked right into the title. There used to be a food chain the stars had to climb regardless of their tenure or status. Gone are the good old days I guess.

It wouldn't have been as bad if the initial report had indicated that he was attacked and left unconscious. We all know Jeff's drug history, and anybody who bought into the .com report thought the same thing: "Oh, God, he did drugs again and now he'll get canned." That's just poor planning and execution by the WWE. There's a difference between playing with the emotions of your fans and causing a stir over a man's personal health and drug issues.

I'm just glad the WWE hade the [guts] to something diffrent and surprising.

I tried explaining this events of the pay per view to someone who doesn't watch any wrestling they couldn't believe it.

I'm more impressed they fooled legitimate news agencies to cover the story. I'm guessing it generated a few additional pay pre views buys and overall it was a good method of WWE getting mainstream expose.

The outcome to the match was quite silly though and felt they had wasted this trick on a quite poor match. Chants of boring through out and once Vicki came out you knew only Edge would appear be Champion within minutes.

Rather than going off with a long diatribe , in a word - YES .

Not offended at all. I like when they keep us guessing.

Check that abbrieviated comment earlier . Kevin , I have to disagree with your comment that anyone finding this in bad taste shouldn't be a wrestling fan . I find it in very bad taste but I guess I'm mistaken in what I've been watching for the last 40 years wasn't wrestling .
WWE should be ashamed of themselves . How many times has this kid "messed up" that we don't even know about ? McMahon won't do anything about it because he'd lose one of his cash cows . The fact that he's helped former wrestlers doesn't mean anything - keyword former . He can't afford to lose a current star to a lengthy suspension or banishment .
Sadly , Hardy's name could very well be added to that list of wrestlers that died before their time .

Smarks are just mad that WWE creative fooled them. Since they fell for a storyline, they're just "fans," like the rest of us.

They need to get off their proverbial "high horse" and accept the fact that WWE did an angle and they fell for it.

There's wwe.com and wwecorporate.com. One is storyline based, the other is real. They mix the two sometimes on wwe.com so that people will get fooled. They never run storylines on the corporate site.

The trouble is not that it's offensive, but that it's bad business. WWE is trying to rescue itself from creeping obsolescence, while its perception by popular media is "OMG drugs death Chris Benoit"---and this sort of stunt just reinforces that. Wasn't the purpose of the Wellness Policy not that Vince McMahon actually cared about drug use per se, but rather that he recognized the need to clean-up the company's image?

Also, when ratings and PPV-buys are down (nevermind stock), I don't think it's smart business to advertise that a headliner will perform and then yank him minutes before the show, after many customers have paid. That scrapes a little too close to what Vince has always said is the single unforgivable sin in wrestling: no-showing an event. Fans paid to see Jeff Hardy wrestle a title match.

Rather be offended by the Michael vick stuff. WWE has lost all of its appeal and stars so its grasping at straws. A desperate attempt to be interesting again. Of course a title match for Kozlov is not the best way to start. Or having Cena not show up to any TV tapings but win the Title.

Overall the whole thing has been crap since it went from WWF to WWE.

Yes. It was in bad taste.

My first glance at the story struck real fear into me. On last Friday's Smackdown, Hardy did not look well to me during his ring entrance. He seemed to pause before climbing the steps, as if he were trying to catch his breath. J.R. and Tazz didn't say a word while this was going on. After HHH made his entrance, Hardy leaned into the ropes, again looking ill, and Trips looked at him as if this were something he had not expected.

My point in recounting all this is that I thought Hardy had relapsed, so the hotel story threw me for a loop at first.

As a long time Wrestling fan, my only problem with the angle is that we had to watch 13 minutes of Kozlov in the main event. It was the first time I ever got up to go to the bathroom duing a PPV match and that includes the diva matches. Koslov does not belong there, he seems to be a poor worker and he's never beaten anyone credible. I am a triple H fan, and I've enjoyed most of his matches, but he, nor anyone else could have made that match exciting. Anything but Hardy's exciting offense was a letdown.

Anyone who has time to be offended by the angle needs be happy that there are no other actual issues in their life.

I just hope this all means that Hardy will finally get the belt at Wrestle Mania after winning the Royal Rumble.

Anytime WWE.com is the only source for a wrestling story you better take it with a grain of salt.

I dont think that the storyline is in bad taste I just think that it is bad timing. Hardy had two great matches the past two Friday nights and I was expecting to see him win the big one last night, only to have an exciting match replaced by a boring one with an ending that made me feel like it was repeat of the 2006 New Year's Revolution. I would have rather seen a clean ending with the return of Edge happening later and costing Hardy the title giving him even more heat.

As far as booking, it was a good idea poorly executed. Like Stephen said above, it was bad business because the crowd was bummed out about Jeff Hardy all night, and it resulted in a subpar crowd. Isn't Boston usually a hotbed?

I think it worked out well, since Jeff Hardy came out of Survivor Series better than he entered. He didn't win the title, but he didn't get buried either. He now has a legit claim to a championship shot.

Whether WWE follows up on that or not is another thing, but it certainly looks like they've given themselves the opportunity to give Hardy a huge push.

Well, I thought at first when they said Jeff Hardy was found in the stairs of his hotel that he had shot up something, or taken some pills and ODed., then when I began to research the story on NBC,ABC, and other news sources and saw NO story at all about it. I got rather mad.

Seriously, what is the appeal of crossing the line from fantasy into reality with wrestlers now a days? Like when they did a whole story about how Jeff fell asleep, burnt his house down and killed his dog...That was in very poor taste.

WWE is trying to find a way to get back into the glory days, but they can't without new talent, and better rosters for all 3 brands. . or better yet, eliminate The Raw Brand, Smackdown Brand, and ECW brand and just make them shows again where every wrestler can perform, with one World Title, one set of tag titles..and what not, instead of dragging personal issues of super stars into the ring

geez louise relax guys it's just TV! everyone knows wrestling is fake! if you are offended by something that is announced on WWE.com then truly you were born yesterday. wait til something gets announced in CNN then you guys can go ahead have a panic, seizure or a heart attack...

I didn't feel offended at all. I'm not sure, but during the show his brother matt said Jeff was found unconscious in the hotel, but he was attacked from behind or something like that. So at the end they didn't play the "drug abuse angle". But it looked like they attempted to do so.
I'm a bit [ticked] off because of this lame way to make people return in the WWE. Two returning stars come back, get a title shot out of nowhere, and they also win it. It's just doesn't feel ok. Even Edge, who has a loyal fan base, was criticized for this.
And I know the Edge character is an opportunistic heel, but someway, it's getting old.

If anyone read the splash on WWE.com and then read the story, you could have figured out pretty quickly it was a storyline. The splash asked if it would affect the PPV, and if this was a real incident they wouldnt mention the PPV

The problem here is people reading stuff on news sites and not bothering to go to source and check it out. I was worried until I went to WWE.com and saw how it was presented.

I think a great deal of things in the WWE are getting old or have been old for quite awhile now, like the cookie cutter sterotype so many of their superstars seem to be falling into these days. It's as if they have taken a mold and are slowly filling the place with superstars that fit it, ie: Orton, Rhodes, Debiase, Swagger, Cena, come on now, what happened to the days of personality, when every wrestler in the WWE brought something unique to the picture. I know a lot of people will say, "well they'll never be another..." and then proceed to start listing off a long list of unforgetable and irreplaceable wrestlers, but the point, at least to this 25 year plus wrestling fan, is not to dublicate, but to shine as an original, and if the talent developers at the WWE are unable to create marketable, original personas, then rather than the fans being subjected to the same tired, boring repitition week in week out, the solution seems quite simple, find new writers with creative minds who understand the need to think outside of the box. Hell, here's an idea for them, why don't they run a contest and invite the fans to create and submit their ideas for the "next WWE superstar" I'm sure the minds of the fans can produce something far more original and interesting then what we're seeing now.

Well, we all know hardy was suppose to win the belt. It obv. wasn't that bad if he was still part of the show. And even if he was released he would just go to TNA and win the belt there. But armageddon is coming to my home town. And Hardy's the next WWE Champion!!!

The angle doesn't offend me at all. I don't think it is in bad taste at all.

It severely annoyed me though. I was thoroughly looking forward to the match with Hardy. Triple H vs Kozlov was a terrible PPV match. I honestly thought Hardy was going to get the big one finally. I remember the look in my nephew's face when I told him that Hardy wasn't going to perform....all the colour drained out of his face.

I am offended, but I guess that's WWE for ya. They should cut the crap with the fake injuries stuff. Especially after what happened to Benoit.

Christopher,

I remember reading on J.R's blog that they taped TWO shows in England on the same night to take them to Survivor Series, so what you may have seen was the side effects of partaking in two matches that night pretty close to one another (presuming you ran the two shows back to back on DVR).

Also HHH did not have a match in the first show, so he may have been sizing up Hardy trying to figure out how to compensate for his condition.

As for the angle, it was sloppily done IMO. If it took them 16 minutes to get Edge into the building I suspect he'll lose the title back soon to return to the Shelf.

I dont have a problem at all with what they did to hardy. Think about the times he has done this on his own .WWE to me said we want to believe in u but u go out and do this and this is what it looks like from our end.We build u up then u take it away .Then we have to fill ur spot.Hopefully seeing it this way helps hardy continue stay out of trouble. I would like to have hardy win the big one at mania it will mean so much more

Can anybody confirm that the story actually *was* picked up by major news networks? I know that WWE claimed it was (and I did see it on a couple of local-affiliates' websites), but as far as I could tell, that claim was part of the work.

I think the wwe is buliding all the jeff hardy fans up to let them fall hard again.
This has been jeff hardys 4th attempt at the title and stiil has'nt come out with the gold, every one of thoses times ive watched jeff in the title matches i would build my hopes up then my heart would hit my stomach every time hardy lost.
I think this is a good story line this is jeff hardys chance to come out on top the wwe is just buliding us hardy fans up so when he does finally get the gold it will be all the more exciting.

I am VERY offended at that angle, although not at all surprised. I agree with you in that it's not the most offenseive thing WWE has ever done, but after having a top star sodomize a "corpse" in jest and digging through the fake colon of one of their talents who legitimately had health problems at the time, it's hard to sink any lower. I still don't think that should absolve WWE. Yes, they've done more offensive things. Yes, it's become almost expected that they run angles that push the boundaries of bad taste. That still doesn't make it right. I've never been one to adhere to the theory that if we just let grandma keep using slurs without condemnation it'll never do any harm. Of course it does harm, it grants legitimacy to it, albeit a shaky legitimacy. Accepting stunts like this implies that it's OK, and it sends a message to younger and more impressionable viewers that subjects like this are not to be taken seriously. I've taken a lot of heat on forums for still being a fan of Chris Beniot and not liking WWE's policy of erasing him completely, although I do understand the reason. But how hypocritical is it of WWE to say that Chris Beniot's name should never be mentioned and anything he did should never be acknowledged, and then turn around and use these issues on TV with such a lack of seriousness or concern? It just shows that they're only concerned with PR when they feel threatened by it and that they're not very concerned about the heart of the issue.

With things like Eddie Guerrero, Chris Beniot, Brian Pillman, and others' deaths, I don't see how this is funny or acceptable. I don't follow WWE as closely nowadays, so I heard about this from your blog. When I heard about the circumstances, I felt genuine concern. I clearly remember when Eddie died, how I found out, and how I felt. Hearing about similar circumstances with another wrestler made me remember that, and made me hope that me and my fellow fans, along with another family of a young wrestler, would not have to go through that all again. This isn't a joke, fans do have concern for the people who entertain them every week, and to swerve those fans in a manner that plays off those concerns and fear from a tragedy like Eddie's is ridiculously insensensitive. What value does it even bring? They could have done a Nathan Jones at Wrestlemania 19 and had Jeff ambushed in the locker room, but instead they do this found unconcious in a hotel thing. What purpose does that serve except to act as a twisted joke?

I wasn't offended, just disappointed and frustrated.
WWE screwed Hardy in my opinion, instead of giving him what he is due, they gave another returning wrestler the title...WHO WAS OUT OF SHAPE!
No wonder they gave him a short ending, he was out of breath after less then 5 minutes!
WWE needs to seriously look at their Main event booking, because they seem to be able to make a good lower card, but when it gets to the main event...it all goes down the drain. I was so into the PPV, right up til Triple H and Koslov had a Hardy no show.
WWE is disrespecting it's best talent.
Punk, Kingston, Hardy, Wang Yang, they are all brilliant and have what it takes to be doing bigger and better matches, but WWE overlooks them in favour of a lacklustre Jericho and an overweight Edge. And when the hell are they gonna get Helms back in to it, the Hurrapops are losing their effectiveness now.
Rant over, I can relax now >.

Julie Ashed, be thankful you're not a Shawn Michaels fan. Since losing the World Heavyweight championship in 2002, he has had unsuccessful attempts at the championship at Royal Rumble 2004, WrestleMania XX, Backlash, WrestleMania 23, Backlash, Survivor Series 2007, and Unforgiven 2008. And those were just the pay-per-view event that I remember off the top of my head. =)

i had a feeling edge would come back at ss
and i thuink hardy was set to win the title but he screwed it up by none else but HIMSELF people can think wwe went over the top but is was his own choice to take whatever he took so there i said it ..
o and the hhh kozlof match was such a sroorfest that they actualy cheered for vickie(Excuse ME) i had to do it... and they cheered for edge to hahahahah
and that was the most intence i have seen JR since he cam to Sd i was delighfully glad to see that he is finally enjoying him self ....

the only reason people where interested in the wwe title match was at the end when we thought Thought jeff was gonna be in it then and only then did people care
and jeff let all his fans down i was very disapointed
to be honest i never was a jeff fan untill a few weks ago and when he was in the triple threat match that actualy when i cared too
i wanted him to win and the boom it was all over cuz the match was so dull
oh and i bet the undertaker is gonna be seen as not the winner of the casket match cuz he did not close the casket himself he threw show into it
i was only thinkin of that a while ago so i thnk that the fued is not over...

I'm not as offended by the use of it as a storyline as I am about the fact that they let mainstream media run with it as though it were real. If Jeff is okay with running storylines dealing with his personal issues, that's fine. If WWE wants to report on their website that something happened, that's fine too... But to let major news corporations take it and run is where I draw the line.

On that note, anyone who pays attention will know when something is real and when it's made up when it's posted on the WWE website, but I still think they should be careful about where else the stories are run.

My kids luv jeff and they were really upset because that is their fav they were heart broken and I had asure them everything was fine.not cool

Hell YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That whole drug related thing is bull!!

yeah i m offended man jeff is an amazing person and wrestler and i dont like they way they immediatley assume he is on drugs again....ily jeff

You know Jeff Hardy needs a break!!!! It is one thing if he did drugs and another if he didn't. If they think he needs help, then give it to him, BUT don't keep saying he did drugs when he didn't. Yes I do get mad, because I think Jeff Hard is a great wrestler and deserve a shot at the title. Get off his case!!!!

guys guys guys it is the WWE the "E" as in entertainment are sompeople realy gettting offended why should you be offended
Now i know wwe may take it over the top sometimes but they had to sccript edge in somehow
he could not just show up for being sent to "HELL" i mean come on
jeff will wwe champ sometime i am not sure when but he will

There is nothing to be offended about. This is what WWE is about--story lines that give us thrills and emotional rise. Jeff Hardy, regardless if he likes the angle or not, he is commiting to it because it is promoting him in the spotlight. It is definately bringing him the attention he deserves. Who knows maybe he thought of the angle hisself and it demonstrates that he is conquering his past struggles since he is able to deal with his personal life on television.

This angle definitely ripped off any Jeff Hardy fan. I'm not the biggest Hardy fan but when I heard this angle I was like 'oh my god, what the hell happened.

And this match between Koslov and HHH was plain boring, and when you saw Vickie it was over. Edge was back, but atleast it gives me a reason to watch SD.

Funny? No.

Fraud? Yes.

Definitely not cool.

i wasnt offended its the wwe they always do that but why isnt jeff gettin the title its disgusting all smackdown care bout is vicki and edge dnt they realise its old n boring they need 2 get a new angle n edge needs 2 leave or at least workout he is so overweight he was tired afta that match im soooooooo ova it i bet loads of other people are.

I think this story about jeff passing out is actually crazy. I knw t doesnt have nothin' to do with drugs.

I also read that the doctors didnt know what was wrong with him. However laer that night he supposedly came back into the ring.

Do you think the hospital would really let him loose after hs little accident? NO. I had to think about that for a little while. So maybe the whole Jeff hardy being unconcisous was a fib....
dont you think so?

Me, Im a Jeff Hardy fan. One of my idols. Personally, I really do think he should win the WWE championship. I mean c'mon people EDGE? We really want Edge to be representative of smackdown?

Oh, for heaven's sake. I am certainly not offended by an angle that is written to preserve Hardy's main event credibility and provide him with a potential new program. I think that the angle could have been better done and the "story" on WWE.com was too vague. However, if the WWE or any programming plays it too cautious in stories and angles, the entertainment factor is crippled.

The entire Law & Order franchise is built off of crime drama - murder and rape being the most prevalent. These are heinous crimes, yet the use of these vehicles provides outstanding drama. Mafia rings, drug abuse, serial killers, suicide, and every horrible thing under the sun is used in films, television, and novels. Newsflash. These things happen to people. Does that mean that the entertainment industry should refrain from using these elements?

Perhaps this makes me callous, but I don't believe the tragedies of Eddie Guerrero, the Benoit situation, or any number of the deaths in wrestling or some other industry should prevent an entertainment based business from writing storylines.

Everyone is in a snit because they thought it meant Hardy blew it with drugs and alcohol again? Great. That's not the WWE's fault. The story gave NO details. That was the assumption of the readers. Were they, perhaps, aware that might be the conclusion drawn? Sure. Does that make them monsters for using it? No. It makes them business oriented.

Like Mr. E, when I first read the story, it evoked genuine concern. When I watched the PPV and saw that it was an angle, my first thought was "Congrats, WWE. Kayfabe isn't completely dead in the water."

I personally don't think that anyone thought it was a joke. It's not supposed to be funny. It's supposed to be a storyline.

By the logic that accepting a storyline like this is a message that serious subjects shouldn't be taken seriously, you would have to apply that to every crime drama, every movie dealing with serious subjects, and every television show.

It's entertainment. The WWE has the same rights as any other entertainment oulet to capitalize on hot topics to make a story.

I am one of Jeff Hardy's biggest fans and I try to add his moves into mine because I'm trying to be a pro wrestler. But this Sunday I got the PPV and I didn't go on WWE.com last weekend so when I heard Jeff's name I thought he died. I was really offended because a lot of people I bet were really sad for Jeff and then the WWE turns it around on us and use it as part of the storyline as if Edge hit him from behind. I have seen J.R.'s face too many times when he had to announce someone has died: Eddie Guerrero(R.I.P), Owen Hart(R.I.P.), chris benoit, and his wife and son(R.I.P.) Also when I heard they found Jeff in his hotel I was sure he had died. Also WWE screwed Jeff out of a shot at the Big One. Finally I agree with a comment above I was really lokking forward to seeing jeff wrestle because that and John Cena's return were the only reasons I bought the PPV. (Don't do that anymore Vince)P.S.- The EFWO is gonna leave a mark!!!

Meh, if u assume u make and ass out of yourself. Let me pose this question, when eddie, chris and pillman died was it simply posted on a website saying they were found unconcious and rushed to an unnamed local hospital? I don't think so. It was reported in a respectable manner for the deceased.

Someone wrote that this was wwe showing hardy what he does to them when he messes up and its the truth. He has messed up too many times and this can serve as a reality check.

Im not cold hearted just honest. Wwe did this to suck you in and look how many people are sucked into this debate. Google wrestling blogs, check every site and you will see a huge debate everywhere. Mr. Sarcasm I see you on steel cage and you were in the debate there.

And one final thought to mr. E. How exactly is wwe hypocritical for this angle when it pertains to chris benoit? This angle is know where near on the same level of what he did. He killed his wife, child and himself. Wwe didn't fake an entire families death, they faked an injury. And benoit should never be mentioned. When eddie, pillman, hart died they didn't go on a muderous rampage, so yea they should be rememebered. If someone in your family did something like that are you going to breakdown in tears for them because there job refuses to acknowledge there existince, And wouldn't pay insurance to that persons next of kin. Your probably the same type of guy who thinks barry bonds did steriods and shouldn't have any records but won't say a word about mcgwire.

one question why should you people have to be offended for the "E" in wwe mean ENTERTAINMENT or did you not know that you people are whining for no reason i personaly think they are setting up for a great fued.....

First off, to all the people saying it's just entertainment, how is swerving fans into thinking one of your wrestlers OD'd and could be in serious trouble entertaining? Oh, ha ha, a wrestler was found passed out in a hotel staircase, very funny, very entertaining. Yes, I'm wrong and you're right, personal tragedies are very entertaining. I'm sorry, I just don't see the entertianment value. Like I said, you show Hardy in the locker room and it's clear he's been attacked and it's not an OD, fine. There's nothing wrong with that, that's standard. What purpose, though, is there in making it look like an OD? How does that elevate the feud? It does absolutely nothing. Hardy's past is already established, people are already using it in storylines, the only point to that part of the segment was to swerve the fans into thinking Jeff Hardy had OD'd, and what's entertaining about that? Nothing, absolutely nothing.

As for gateway, first, until someone in your family is in a similar situation to Beniot I don't think you're in any position to comment on how Beniot's family feels. As I understand it, both the Duas and the Beniot families have taken steps to boost concussion awareness and their attitudes are far from what you make them out to be. If someone you love does something terrible, that won't stop you from loving them. It will almost certainly taint your memory of them, but again I don't think you or I are in any position to fully understand how the Beniot family feels about the whole situation.

As for how I feel, Beniot had an amazing career. I was a huge fan of his, and what he did doesn't change how I view his career, and I most certainly make no apologies for that. What he did does change how I view him as a person, though. And this is not to say I don't understand why WWE erased him from memory completely, I do. I don't like it, but I understand it. What I feel is hypocritical is how they handled this Hardy situation. I feel that if they were acting in response to the Beniot situation out of true brevity and concern, they would also treat subject matter with an equal amopunt of both. Yet, this is the second time, not counting the McMahon explosion segment, since Beniot's death that they have used near-death or possible death as a subject matter and tried to swerve the audience into believing it was real. That's hypocritical to me. It tells me that they weren't acting out of concern or brevity with Beniot, but that they were just concerned about what people would think. With all of the problems wrestlers have had with unexpected deaths and OD's in recent years, you would think the people at WWE would want to treat the situation with a degree of respect, especially considering that most people backstage knew many of these wrestlers personally, but apparantly not. Apparantly nothing is sacred and everything is fair game. Again, I don't see how the situation is either funny or entertaining, it's just in bad taste.

"First off, to all the people saying it's just entertainment, how is swerving fans into thinking one of your wrestlers OD'd and could be in serious trouble entertaining? Oh, ha ha, a wrestler was found passed out in a hotel staircase, very funny, very entertaining."
People need to a) learn to read and b) read the whole story and make sure you understand what you're reading. Don't jump to conclusions until you have good reason, that's part of problems this world has.

The storyline was repugnant because it played off of real life tragedies (Benoit, Pillman and Guerrero).

In a referential sense it caused people to think back to the real life deaths of those men, which were three of the most tragic points in the history of the company.

On another level it was arguably exploitative because it was an an attempt to attract interest in or sell a product (a Pay Per View) not for any artistic or athletic motive but rather by playing on the raw emotions of the audience, an audience which presumably includes many young people.

There was already enough interest in Jeff Hardy as a wrestler and a personality. There was no need to stoop to this level to sell a product. Common sense should have caused someone higher up in the company to put a stop to this. The fact that they didn't do that makes you wonder about their judgment.

You create a false dichotomy when you say that if a viewer doesn't accept this then he or she is probably not a real wrestling fan. That logical extension of your analysis is that a real fan should lack discernment and engage in blind allegiance to whatever product the company chooses to offer, no matter how tasteless or outlandish. This is syllogistic argumentation.

RESPONSE FROM KEVIN ECK: I'm not saying anyone should engage in blind allegiance. What I'm saying is that if things like this offend you, you're probably going to be offended often because wrestling isn't going to change.

Kevin , in your response to Mark you try to explain a comment you made in your post .
In your response you say "... if things like this offend you , you're probably going to be offended often because wrestling isn't going to change . That's a far cry from your original comment saying that if you're offended "you probably shouldn't be a wrestling fan".
I guess anyone who has a shred of decency shouldn't be a wrestling fan ? (wait , did I just answer my own question)

RESPONSE FROM KEVIN ECK: It tink it's the same thing.

I know it's an interesting storyline, and it's very controversal, I'm not sure if I spelled that right, they shoudn't use his mistakes to create a storyline

really guys? really?

get over it ... he's not dead. he's alive. you're not the only wwe fan in the world that the wwe makes storyline decisions for ... do you not understand that "world" is in the abbreviations of WWE? obviously, many of you didn't since you overlooked the first "w" and replaced that with "OPI [one person's idea]"

yea i'm offended by it WWE crossed the line big time by what they did

i was so worried all day cos i fort jeff was hurt of goin to get fired, i think wwe should have done the angle a bit different
lots of hardy fans were worried

OK i can't hold it in anymore i saw a comment above and it said that we assume he OD'ed
I pupose a question DID WWE put why he was found uncounsious ....NO
did people assume he OD'ed ...YES
It was WWE intention to suck you into the storyline
the real question is who hit Hardy
Edge to simple....Triple H mabey....Matt hardy could be the perfect angle......