Jeff Hardy's Good-Bye 8-25-09

The Smackdown Taping on August 25th 2009 was Jeff Hardy's final WWE program. For months it's been on everyone's mind, when was Jeff Hardy going to leave? He's been working on short month-by-month contracts and stayed to push CM Punk over.

At SummerSlam, Jeff Hardy dropped the title to CM Punk after a hellacious TLC and this upcoming Friday - Jeff Hardy will enforce his rematch clause and battle CM Punk in a steel cage match for the World Heavyweight Championship - in a Loser Leaves WWE match.

The next 2 paragraphs are from PWInsider

Backstage, WWE management told Hardy he had an open door to come back whenever he wanted and that if they could help promote his outside projects, they’d be happy to. Hardy said he wasn’t leaving because he was unhappy, but because he wanted time off the road and wanted to do things at his own pace.

A lot of the WWE talents were comparing his exit to Chris Jericho’s a few years back. The feeling backstage is that it’s a matter of time before Hardy is back. There has been a lot of praise on Hardy over the past few months as it’s felt that his work helped bring CM Punk to a new level.

But as Jeff says in his Goodbye Speech - There is still another Hardy on this Show.

And also mentions that when the time's right, he'll be back.