Back in March, Matt Hardy’s WWE contract expired, and he decided to part ways with the company and join All Elite Wrestling.
WWE tried hard to get Matt Hardy to sign a new contract, but it’s clear that Vince McMahon doesn’t have much interest in using Matt as an in-ring competitor on WWE programming.
Matt Hardy recently spoke to Chris Van Vliet about why he left WWE, and he noted that Vince McMahon wanted him to transition into a backstage role.
“It made the most sense. I could see in Vince and WWE’s mind – in Vince’s mind, he was ready to move me on from being a talent to working backstage and being a producer and to get back and teach other guys behind the scenes. And I’m very happy to do that a little later. But these last few years I have to do this physically, I wanna do it to the highest level I can. I wanna enjoy it. The whole reason I got into pro wrestling in the first place is because I loved the idea of becoming a pro wrestler. So I don’t wanna give that up right now. And then even though they offered to do other things after I expressed that was my concern, I knew in my head they’d already made up their mind how they see me as is. So I made up my mind that I needed to go somewhere else, and AEW was the best-case scenario because the Young Bucks – I’m great friends with those guys – and here’s there’s just such a refreshing creative liberty and creative freedom where you have input and you really have a hand in the direction of your career goes in.”
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