Jeff Hardy Considers Randy Orton Screwdriver Spot To Be His Signature Hell In A Cell Moment

Jeff Hardy is proud of the screwdriver spot with Randy Orton.

Orton and Hardy clashed in the demonic structure at the Hell In A Cell event in September 2018. The match was widely praised for one unique spot that saw Orton stick a screwdriver in Hardy’s ear gauge hole.

Speaking with Chris Van Vliet for a new interview, Hardy recalled the spot and said that he considers it to be his signature Hell In A Cell Moment.

“It hurt a little bit. That’s my hell in a cell moment. For years after seeing Mick Foley and Undertaker, naturally, I was like, Man, I want to do something like that. When he went off that first time through the table, I totally get why he does stuff like that. But then the chokeslam, when that gave way and he hit that, and that was back in that when that ring was super hard. Actually being in a Hell in a Cell with Randy, and it was the first one time it had been painted red, and it was awkward and strange, but just seeing how big that structure is, and even the splash I missed when I was hanging, it’s just such a massive structure. So thank God for that screwdriver and Randy and the twist that he did, because I consider that my hell in the cell moment that it’s kind of hard to forget.”

Hardy went on to say that Michael Hayes might have came up with the idea for the spot.

 “It was somebody else’s idea with the screwdriver. He [Orton] had used his fingers and pulled me around by it, and I think a chain or a rope. But somebody mentioned that screwdriver. It might have been Michael Hayes or somebody else. But anyway, it was somebody’s idea that was out there with us talking about the match, but twisting it like that, and just watching the way it looks, how it was turning purple, it was gruesome.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Hardy provided an update on his neck injury. Fans can check out his full comments by clicking here.

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Special thanks to Chris Van Vliet and his team for the quote(s) in this article.