This evening, Impact President Ed Nordholm sent Fightful.com an alleged timeline of interaction between Matt Hardy and Impact Wrestling. Note that this is only one side of the story, and Fightful will bring you several stories as it relates to the situation.
You can see the timeline below.
- March 10 – EBN speaks with executives at ROH about “Broken Brilliance” being used in ROH shows. I indicated willingness to provide an arrangement that would allow the creative to be used in ROH shows and encouraged ROH to have Matt speak with me if he wanted to pursue that discussion
- March 11 – EBN spoke at length with Matt by telephone about the structure of an amicable arrangement for use of the Broken Brilliance creative
- March 14 – Matt sent text message to Ed Nordholm at 4:05pm:
“Tried giving you a call, it rang & went busy. I'm open to working things out amicably as we spoke about. The lawyer who represent me is interested in seeing your offer. My lawyer's email is {redacted} which you could send the offer to for review. Thanks.”
And I responded by text at 6:41 pm
“Thank you Matt. I was supposed to be [flying] into NYC today and am a little twisted. I will pull something together with [our] lawyers and try to get it over to your lawyer tomorrow or Thursday at latest“
- March 16 – At 8:25 pm I sent an update text to Matt:
“Hi Matt. My lawyer got me a draft too late to get reviewed for today. I will look at it in the morning. Sorry for the delay”
And he responded at 9:16 pm
“Ok, he's ready for it. Thanks for the update.”
- March 17 – counsel for Anthem Wrestling delivered draft proposal to counsel for Matt Hardy
- March 24 – counsel for Anthem Wresting followed up with Matt Hardy counsel requesting comments on the proposal
- March 27 – counsel for Matt Hardy responds that they have been away and have not reviewed the proposal but will be back “in the next few days”
After which no further communication until
- April 18 – counsel for Matt Hardy leaves a voice mail message for counsel for Anthem Wrestling asking to arrange a meeting
- April 20 – EBN contacts WWE by email to determine veracity of internet rumours concerning WWE interest in Broken Brilliance
- April 21 -- WWE respond by email that there “is no interest on our end” {redacted email exchange attached}
- April 21 – counsel for Matt Hardy sends a follow up message requesting a meeting
- April 27 – lawyers speak to arrange a meeting
- May 16 – lawyers meet but no agreement reached
UPDATE: Matt Hardy took to Twitter tonight to respond to Nordholm's claims.
You can see the actual contract Nordholm shared below.
