Samoa Joe has defended his verbal assault about Jeff Hardy over the past two weeks of SmackDown Live. It all started once interrupted Hardy’s celebration of being with the WWE for 20 years. During this segment, Joe brought up Hardy’s past issues with substance abuse.

As seen on this week’s episode of SmackDown Live in Austin, TX at the Frank Erwin Center on the USA Network, Hardy lost to Randy Orton in a singles match once Joe distracted him by appearing on the big screen while at a bar pouring himself a beer and talking about responsible drinking. Orton won the match with an RKO.

Joe took to his official Twitter account to defend his verbal assault on Hardy by writing the following:

It’s amazing how all you virtue laden people will bludgeon your high horse in a instant to justify the actions of your so called hero’s . Yet your upset with me because I just want to bludgeon your hero directly. #SmackDownLIVE

— Samoa Joe (@SamoaJoe) December 5, 2018

The twelfth episode of season 2 of WWE Mixed Match Challenge aired on Facebook on Tuesday. R-Truth and Carmella defeated Hardy and Charlotte Flair. Thus, this means that Hardy and Joe do not have a match set for WWE’s next pay-per-view event. It’s possible that Joe vs. Hardy takes place at TLC on Sunday, December 16th, 2018 in San Jose, California at the SAP Center