Ken Anderson has nothing but good things to say about Jeff Hardy.
Throughout his near 23 year career, Ken Anderson has tangled up with Jeff Hardy on nearly a hundred occasions in some way, shape, or form. Most notably, the two had a memorable feud over the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in 2011.
Although the two former rivals have only wrestled each other once in recent years, Anderson still has lots of great things to say about Hardy, who is currently suspended from All Elite Wrestling after being arrested for DUI on June 13, 2022. In a new interview with WrestlingNews.co, Anderson went into detail about Hardy is the furthest thing from a party animal and noted that he's a great person and father to his children.
"No, nothing could be further from reality. Yes, he has that gene. He can party. But that’s not his existence, he’s a good human being. He’s really, really shy and he’s very reserved and he’s not into.. you know.. he’s a very artistic but not in a bad way. He just keeps to himself, he’s a good person, he helps people out. He’s very giving, I mean every match we ever had whether it was the very first time we touched each other on Monday Night Raw… he was like ‘What do you wanna do man?’ He wanted to go out there a put on a performance. He always liked to be innovative and do [stuff that nobody has seen before]. I love Jeff as a performer. They always say never meet your heroes, Jeff was a hero of mine. When I first broke into the business, him and Matt were just getting started doing the Hardy Boyz thing. I remember when Jeff did the Swanton thing, I wanna learn how to do that move. I learned it and that was one of my finishers on the indies and it ended up being one of my finishers in WWE and TNA and we did it against each other sometimes. [He’s] just an awesome, awesome person. You know, they said Alcoholism and drug addiction, it’s a disease. It’s like going and getting mad at someone because they have cancer. I know that not everyone can wrap their head around that because not everybody has that bug, but when you have it, its always there. He’s made some bad decisions, but overall, he’s a good human being and a great father.”
Recently, Hardy's court case for the June 2022 DUI arrest was closed due to unreliable breath test results. Fans can learn more by clicking here.
On March 2, 2023, Matt Hardy provided an update on Jeff Hardy and noted that his return to AEW has not been discussed yet. To learn more, click here.
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