Jeff Hardy was hit with a sixty day suspension on Monday night - his second drug violation within a year.
The wrestler will now miss a massive payday at WrestleMania where he was meant to be featured in the Money in the Bank Match. His previous suspension kept him off the SummerSlam card in August.
The WWE's Wellness Policy suspends people for thirty days for its first offence, a second violation is a sixty day suspension and a third strike ends with termination of employment.
To say Jeff Hardy has been given chance upon chance would be an understatement. In 2003 - before the introduction of the Wellness Policy - Hardy was given an ultimatum, He had to go to rehab to battle his addiction or leave the company.
He walked.
He returned three years later without having done the program that the WWE had ordered him to go on before he left. What kind of a message did that send to other people who may face similar propositions?
I think he should never come back unless he seeks the help he obviously needs. There are millions of children out there who look up to him. It would be wrong of the company to bring him back after the sixty days without attending a rehabilitation course of some sort to prove he is at least attempting to battle his demons.
As I mentioned earlier, third strike will end in termination. If nothing is done to help him - it might end in a hotel room like others before him.
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