“Big Money Matt” and “Big Nickel Nero” paid for everything that ever occurred at the Hardy compound that aired on IMPACT Wrestling television.
During the time that IMPACT Wrestling was on Pop TV, the angle that was must-see TV was Matt and Jeff Hardy and the antics of the broken universe. Because of this, it's reasonable to consider that the promotion may have expensed some of the angles that occurred at the time that were continuing to make their brand the number 2 wrestling promotion in North America.
However, it all came down to Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy’s bank accounts.
Matt Hardy explained during the latest episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy, a complete breakdown of The Final Deletion, that everything was on their dime.
“Because the thing that’s so interesting is like we had this bare-bones outline and we put meat on the bone while we were actually filming it and doing it,” said Matt Hardy. “We were also very exhausted the day that we shot this because we'd stayed up the night before just doing stuff like literally where you see this, what looks like a grave. The big hole where Jeff eventually falls off the big statue he has out there, like, he digs this. He does it with his backhoe and he did that. I went out and I bought all the different torches that were out there. I bought fireworks, you know, Jeremy Borash went off, I mean, we did all this ourselves. This was a very DIY project.”
Matt Hardy explained that this was not financed by IMPACT Wrestling in any way. Rather, it was on the dime of “Big Money Matt” and “Big Nickel Nero.”
“Not at all. That was a ‘Big Money Matt’ expense and a ‘Big Nickel Nero’ expense,” he said.
Matt Hardy also said that Billy Corgan and Dixie Carter were very hands-off as opposed to how a Vince McMahon would be in this scenario.
“I'm sure they probably get texts from those [people] like, ‘Hey, how's it going?’ But that was it. You know, it wasn't like ’The Ultimate Deletion’ [from 2018] where we started shooting it, and then Vince started texting people at like 2 a.m. and things just started changing all the way around, you know, so it wasn't like at all. This was literally, we had our say,” Matt explained.
Later in the podcast, Matt Hardy also recalled Jeff Hardy spending $5,000 to build a volcano for the later event at the Hardy compound, Total Nonstop Deletion: Tag Team Apocalypto.
“It's an area where he just has a lot of dirt and land,” Matt Hardy said describing where The Final Deletion would reach its climax. “He does different things in the dirt. He built a big volcano that was there. The volcano that he paid $5,000 worth. He paid someone $5,000 to bring 10 loads of dirt and he just built a volcano. He did that for the sake of IMPACT Wrestling and Total Nonstop Deletion: Apocalypto."
Asked who paid for that, Matt Hardy said that once again, it was he and Jeff.
“No, we expected to the Hardy bank accounts,” he explained.
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