Back in February of 2020, Matt Hardy found himself involved in a feud with Randy Orton that ultimately led to Matt being written off TV as his contract was set to expire. Matt ended up parting ways with WWE when his deal was up, and he went on to join AEW, but it sounds like WWE tried their best to keep Matt Hardy on the roster.
While talking about his WWE departure on the Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast Matt explained that WWE pitched a stable involving himself, Bray Wyatt and Jeff Hardy as he was on his way out, which he admitted was very appealing.
“Then the selling point too, they offered me, there was this pitch. They said, ‘Well, if you do come back, now that we’ve got Windham doing this, he has the Firefly Fun House, where he’s a very comical character and very unserious, and then he turns into The Fiend, he’s like this killing machine. What if we did something where we put you with him, and you could be Broken Matt Hardy, which was this fun, happy-go-lucky type guy, and you could do that, but then you have this real mean streak character?’ Then with Jeff, we could have him do Willow the Wisp and some other mean-streak characters as well. You could be a little faction.’
That was very appealing, I’m not gonna lie about it. But it was just one of those things, they said, ‘We’re only gonna do that direction if you choose to re-sign,’ and then it kinda got to the point where it was like, ‘Ah, they’re kind of using this as a hook, and I see how Vince sees me already, I know what’s happening. So I’m gonna try something else.’ That’s why I ended up trying AEW.”
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