Jeff Hardy gives neck injury update, feeling ‘much better’
Jeff Hardy is feeling a lot better as he continues to work through a neck injury.
Earlier this month, Hardy revealed that he’s been dealing with two bulging discs in his neck since The Hardys faced DarkState in a Broken Rules match at NXT Halloween Havoc 2025. The injury did not force Hardy out of action despite slowing him down. He gave an update on how he’s feeling while appearing on a new episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet.
“It’s better,” Hardy said. “This past Monday and Tuesday, it felt really good. Then we flew out here and I fell asleep a little funky on the plane. And I remember like jerking my head up one time and it hurt. So it was hurting a little more than it did Monday and Tuesday, but overall, man, it’s feeling good. It’s definitely better. So this has been a little over three months now. I’ve been dealing with two bulging discs on the left side of my neck.
“This happened when we dropped the titles at the NXT Halloween Havoc show. It was one of those things, man. You couldn’t even tell. It looked completely fine. Like I landed flat, but I was on the big guy’s shoulders. The one guy jumped off the ladder, clotheslined me off. And the idea was for me to go through the table, but I kind of overshot the table and he just broke the table and my head just hit the mat. And it was a little whiplash like that. It felt terrible. I mean, it definitely felt like a concussion and I was close to being knocked out. But that’s when it happened, man. Two bulging discs on the left side of my neck, but I’m feeling much better.”
When asked about his current pain level between 1-10, Hardy put it at a five, calling the neck pain “not bad at all.”
The timing for the injury was bad with it happening leading into TNA Impact’s AMC premiere. Hardy was praying that he would be better by the time the debut episode happened. He was not 100 percent but was still able to compete in an eight-man tag match on the show. By the time he faced Mustafa Ali in a singles bout the next week, Hardy’s was already feeling a lot better.
Matt Hardy noted that, while Jeff has been injured, The Hardys having been doing everything they can to protect him in the ring.
“We’ve also just been very cognizant of it,” Matt said. “It’s been protect Jeff at all costs, you know what I mean? So we’ve done what we had to do to try and work smart and not make things worse in his issue — and so far so good.”
The Hardys are the current TNA Tag Team Champions. It was revealed in December that they had re-signed with TNA. Both Hardys told Van Vliet that they are not thinking about retirement and are going to keep going for as long as they can.
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