American professional wrestler singersongwriter painter and musician He is currently signed to WWE where he performs on the SmackDown brand and he is one half of the SmackDown Tag Team Champions with his brother Matt Hardy Hardy is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Entertainment He also worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling TNA Ring of Honor ROH and several companies on the independent circuit Before gaining prominence in the WWE Jeff along with his real life brother Matt ran and performed for the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts OMEGA The Hardy brothers worked as enhancement talents for the WWF from 1994 and were signed to fulltime contracts in 1998 They gained notoriety in the tag team division partly due to their participation in Tables Ladders and Chairs matches With the addition of Lita the team became known as Team Xtreme and continued to rise in popularity Alongside Matt Jeff has held twelve world tag team championships between WWE TNA and ROH Hardy has had success as a singles wrestler capturing his first of six world championships the WWE Championship in 2008 and going on to hold WWEs World Heavyweight Championship twice and the TNA World Heavyweight Championship three times He has also won the Intercontinental Championship four times the Hardcore Championship three times and the European Championship Light Heavyweight Championship and United States Championship once each He is the 18th Triple Crown Champion and 9th Grand Slam Champion in WWE history one of five men to complete both WWE Grand Slam formats and one of two to win all original Grand Slam titles Hardy is involved in motocross music painting and other artistic endeavors He is currently a member of the band PeroxWhyGen with whom he has released three studio albums and three extended plays On September 17 2008 Hardy was involved in an incident at the Nashville International Airports Southwest gateA Southwest Airline employee reported that Hardy appeared to be intoxicated and therefore he was not allowed to board the flight He was not however arrested as he was said to be calm and cooperative and he made other arrangements to get home On September 11 2009 Hardy was arrested on charges of trafficking in controlled prescription pills and possession of anabolic steroids after a search of his house yielded 262 Vicodin prescription pills 180 Soma prescription pills 555 milliliters of anabolic steroids a residual amount of powder cocaine and drug paraphernalia307 Over a year later the district attorney announced that Hardy would plead guilty to the charges308 On September 8 2011 Hardy was sentenced to ten days in jail 30 months of probation and a fine of 100000309310 Hardy served his jail sentence from October 3 to 13 2011 Hardy was again arrested March 10 2018 for driving while impaired following a traffic accident in Concord North Carolina