Jeff Hardy was released from WWE back in December, and he’s been the talk of the wrestling world over the last week or so because the former WWE Champion recently made his debut with All Elite Wrestling.
After Jeff was released from WWE it was reported that the company offered him a Hall of Fame induction, and Jeff opened up about his reaction to the offer during a recent episode of The Extreme Life Of Matt Hardy podcast.
It felt completely wrong. It didn’t feel like the time at all. I almost felt offended. I was very emotional and almost felt offended. Like, ‘What? Wait. After my 90 days is up and the Hall of Fame is in April and I do go to AEW, how is that going to work? What are y’all trying to hit me with if I do sign with AEW when I’m free and me going to the Hall of Fame, how would that work?’ My mind and emotion went crazy and I was in tears.
This is my career. I know I’ve been a very influential person to a lot of young and misunderstood individuals, but it felt so wrong. It almost felt like, ‘How dare you’ in a sense. I know that sounds crazy. You get offered Hall of Fame and it’s like, ‘Oh, of course, I’m a Hall of Famer.’ It’s never really meant that much to me, the Hall of Fame, whatever it is, but it’s just not time for that. That’s why I was like, ‘It’s a hard no.’ Especially because it feels like something Matt and I should go in together, as the Hardy Boyz, when the time is right. It’s just weird. I still don’t know how I feel about that, overall, it just felt so wrong. Maybe I should have said, ‘What if I’m in AEW at the time of the Hall of Fame?'”
Matt and Jeff then speculated that WWE likely would have prevented him from going to AEW by signing him to some sort of legends deal if he accepted the Hall of Fame induction.
H/T Fightful
