Joey Mercury learned a painful lesson in a four-way tag team ladder match in WWE in 2006 at the Armageddon pay-per-view against The Hardys, Dave Taylor & William Regal, Paul London & Brian Kendrick, and The Hardys.
When the ladder crashed into Nitro and Mercury’s faces, they leaned over it. Mercury’s nose and orbital bone was smashed, and he was soon profusely bleeding at ringside.
Hardy discussed the incident on a recent episode of his podcast, “Extreme Life of Matt Hardy”:
“Yes, he just didn’t put up his hands. I mean, it’s one of those things, it’s a very dangerous spot as it is. Jeff jumps, but like, you have to have your hands up to block that ladder. Because the ladder, I mean, if it hits your arms, it’s gonna bruise it and cut it or whatever, but like, it’s your arms. His face was down there, and it ended up catching him right in the face. So you can’t go down there and just have a wide open face, you know, with that ladder flying up, especially if it has a lot of velocity. And if it’s coming up fast.”
You can listen to the complete podcast below:
