Matt Hardy On Why His Broken Matt Character Didn’t Work In AEW

Last year Matt Hardy parted ways with WWE, and he officially made his All Elite Wrestling debut on the March 18, 2020 episode of AEW Dynamite. When Matt first joined AEW he debuted as the infamous Broken Matt Hardy character, but it wasn’t long before Matt decided to switch up his gimmick.

During a recent interview with Essentially Sports Matt Hardy talked about what it takes to make the Broken Matt character work, and how the pandemic caused him to change his original plans.

“The Broken Matt Hardy character is a very fan driven character. It was just very hard for it to work as it should have without fans in the venue.

Obviously the whole world was in the midst of this pandemic, so we just changed courses and I went to a more reality based character in Big Money Matt. We took a step back from Broken Matt, and who knows? Maybe now that fans are back, you’ll see Broken Matt again down the road.”

Now that fans have returned to professional wrestling it will be interesting to see of Broken Matt Hardy returns as well. Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.