I'm sure Disney was absolutely pissed at Harrison Ford when he crashed his World War II plane. I'm sure they were close to cutting ties with him for future projects. Actually, I hear a court case is on its way. Because Ford decides not to live 24/7 in fear of not being able to physically promote Star Wars.
Sports services is not the same as film acting. Do I have to point out the absolutely major differences in expectations between the two, or are you going to chill on being Zeven?
I'm sure TNA was pissed at AJ Styles for getting injured while playing with his children. Shouldn't have he signed some kind of clause that prevents him from playing? Playing is a physical activity. A grown man shouldn't be playing around. You can twist an ankle. And then what? Then you can't work. AJ should've stayed on his couch like a good little soldier.
Do I have to point out the difference between what's typically considered a risky behavior (skydiving, dirtbiking, etc.) and incidental injury, or are you going to chill on being Zeven for a bit?
People can get injured from literally anything. Should Jeff Hardy abandon his hobby just because of danger of physical injury? Fuck no. TNA invests a large amount of money into him, but HE invests his life into TNA. Which party risks more? Ask Darren Drozdov and Owen Hart.
The vast majority of sports services contracts, including most professional wrestling contracts, state exactly that: that employees should give up their dangerous hobby while under the period of their employment. So your attempt to ask a rhetorical question with a corpse and 90% of a corpse is sort of shut down by the actual facts in play.
He'll be out for six months, they'll fly by, he'll be back. This is like the Bully Ray driving Dixie from a table all over again.
On that we definitely agree- once again, you're making a total ass out of yourself trying to rationalize idiotic behavior. At least this time you aren't trying to justify when it's right to beat a woman, this time you're just plain wrong.
And yes, typically when you do something stupid, people look at your past record of behavior to determine whether it was a one-time lapse in judgement, or a pattern of stupidity. The more recent the behavior, the more weight it has on that opinion. This is why something from twenty-five years ago tends to be forgotten, but something that happened four years ago isn't. It's the same reason people tend to think you're an idiot, instead of thinking you might just be posting drunk- a continual and ongoing pattern of idiotic posts.
But TNA ran a storyline where Jeff Hardy sought redemption, so everyone should just forget about the stupid stuff he's done in the past when looking at the stupid stuff he's doing today.
You're not wrong, as usual, but remember that something that absolutely needs to be taken into account here is that TNA sells these performers on exactly situations like this. If Hulk Hogan liked to go speed boat racing on weekends when they signed him, part of the deal would have been essentially OK'ing that behavior, because part of the draw of coming to TNA to begin with is the lighter schedule that allows these performers to maintain (or at least not cease) the lifestyles they already live.
It's risk analysis, really. Sign Jeff Hardy and incur some risk he may hurt himself outside the ring due to his love for dirt bikes and motorcross, or probably not sign Jeff Hardy because it's unlikely he agrees to your contract if you forbid him from being able to ride outside the ring.
I definitely think that could have been part of the arrangement, because TNA has never had risk analysis as one of their stronger points. So they get Jeff Hardy in the ring, but they also get Jeff Hardy out of the ring, and once in a while they get Jeff Hardy out of the ring trying to get in the ring and stumbling.
