WWE SmackDown!, 2009

Jeff Hardy:
Um, you know it's been a weird, a really weird time for me lately. I kinda feel broken, kinda feel, you know, left alone. I kinda felt like doing bad things to bad people but something doesn't feel right. Matt Hardy is my brother. I mean, we made it here to the WWE together. We've won championships together, we've lost championships together. I mean come on, a big brother's someone you're supposed to be able to look up to, he's supposed to be a role model. He's supposed to have your back. And evidently with Matt, that's not the case. I don't know if it's jealousy or what, but whatever it is, it's messed up. At the Royal Rumble, I mean it used to remind me of good times, I mean when we were kids we watched it every year. But now all it reminds me of is betrayal. All it reminds me of is a chair shot to the head and a broken dream. Matt whatever's going on inside your head man, you should know better than anybody how I roll man and I'm the type of person that moves on. I don't live in the past and I refuse to. So what I'm gonna do is move on, and I'm moving on to this Sunday, come the Elimination Chamber, and I will become the WWE Champion for the second time whether Matt Hardy likes it or not!

Josh Mathews:
Well Jeff, congratulations on your victory, it now appears that you have all the momentum heading into your championship opportunity this Sunday at Judgment Day.

Jeff Hardy:
Edge is a creature of habit. If you watched him over the last, uh, few months, you'll notice he wins a title on a pay-per-view. A month later, he loses the title. He wins a title, he loses the title. It's a pattern. [to the fans] You're the greatest! [crowd cheers] At Backlash, Edge won the title again. At Judgment Day, he will lose again. Josh, it won't be just for me. It's gonna be for each and every one of these people who supported me through thick and thin, always believed in what I stand for, and that's being me, Jeff Hardy!

CM Punk:
Are you proud of yourself Jeff? I could have been seriously injured last week. And you got a lot of nerve faking an eye injury, leaving me in the ring to fend for myself, especially considering you're the one who injured my eye in the first place. As far as what you said earlier about me making the whole thing up, coming out here with your cute eye patch mocking me, I wanna show you something Jeff. This is Polymixin B Sulfate. I have to apply this to my eye three times a day. The only way you obtain this is with a prescription. From a doctor. Now, I know, you know a thing or two about prescription medication. What I don't think you realize is that you have to go to a doctor to legally obtain some. Unlike you Jeff, this is the only foreign substance I will allow in my body. So if you wanna imitate me, why don't you try living a clean lifestyle? Why don't you try living a straight edge lifestyle? Jeff, you've got two strikes. You how many I have? Zero. Jeff you know how many times I've been suspended? Zero. You know how many times I've been to a rehab facility? That's right. Zero. And do you know what your chances are of beating me at Night of Champions? Zero.

CM Punk:
I've, I've come out here tonight to challenge you. Challenge you, the WWE universe, into seeing things my way. And to learn how to just say no. See, because the people who cheer for Jeff Hardy are just slaves to the vices associated with his "living in the moment". I feel bad for you, I really do. You, you walk around almost blind, and you wear your prescriptions proudly on your sleeve, like they were badges of honor. And what was it the doctor told you? Just take one every four hours right? Aside from myself, there's not a person in this arena who hasn't abused prescription medication or taken a recreational drug. And I know, trust me, it's hard being straight edge, it's hard to live a straight edge lifestyle. It's extremely difficult to be me. But what concerns me now is that none of you realize how much more difficult it is to live the life that you all live. I'm positive nobody in here takes into account the long-term consequences of alcohol on your liver. See and you cheer that, that's nothing to cheer. You drink because it's fun, right? Eventually it's not gonna be fun anymore when it spirals out of control and it's no longer, it's no longer fun. Sooner or later, you're just drinking to feel normal. And then there's the smokers. You know, I don't know what's more disgusting is watching a smoker pollute his or her lungs with over 4,000 foreign chemicals, or having to listen to the smoker convince themselves that they can quit whenever they want to. It's, it's hard to quit, I know it takes a very strong person to quit. But an even stronger person never would have started smoking in the first place. [crowd chants "Hardy"] I didn't wanna come out here and be the bearer of bad news, but let's face facts. Chances are pretty slim that any of you here will ever get the monkey off your back. You'll never be able to pry the cigarette from your lips. Or find the self-control to pour your drink from your glass. Or the self-respect to take the pill out of your mouth. See, it starts and it can't happen without learning how to say no to temptation, and that's why I'm out here. I'm out here to challenge you before it's too late. Please, learn how to say no to temptation. Learn how to say no to your vices. Learn how to control yourselves. [Jeff Hardy's music hits and Jeff Hardy comes out]

Jeff Hardy:
You got a lot of nerve, Punk. A lot of nerve. I mean you think you're so right, but what you don't know about people can fill a book man. I mean, you're so stuck with yourself it's like, you forgot what it's like to be human. People make mistakes and those people can change.

Punk:
No, Jeff. People, these people say they can change. You know what? I'm not, I'm not going to enable you right now. In fact, I don't even wanna be in the same ring as you right now. I'm gonna do what I always do, what you should have done a long time ago. I'm gonna just say no.

[Jeff Hardy has lost a steel cage match to CM Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship, meaning he has to leave WWE]

Jeff Hardy:
First of all, I'm sorry if I let anybody down. I'm sorry that now you'll be seeing CM Punk instead of me on SmackDown. But it's been one hell of a ride, hasn't it? I just want to thank all of you and I wanna let you know that this is not goodbye forever. This is only goodbye for now. And if the time is right, I'm sure I'll see you in the future. Thank you all. Hey but at least Matt's back on my side, there's still a Hardy on this show! Yours truly, Jeff Hardy. Ours truly, this life.