Jeff Hardy comments on how he currently feels in AEW.
When Jeff Hardy left WWE in December 2021, he said when reflecting on his final months in WWE, "There were other times where I felt like a ghost, roaming the halls like, 'why am I even here? I don't feel important.' I kept doing my deal and would show up and do whatever they wanted me to do. I've never been a politicker so I don't go out of my way to try and get a certain spot or achieve a certain status."
Hardy would join AEW in March 2022, joining his brother Matt Hardy. Jeff & Matt were heavily featured on AEW television until Jeff was arrested for a DUI in June 2022. Jeff was subsequently suspended from AEW and did not return until April 2023.
The Hardys have been on and off television since Jeff's return and have yet to win a standard tag team match.
Speaking on the Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, Jeff commented on how he's currently feeling in AEW.
"When I first came back, it was pretty exciting, I didn't know what was going to be happening in the near future. The last time I was in this extreme dimension of your podcast, I said in WWE I felt like I was a ghost just walking around backstage. Honestly, I kind of still feel like that at AEW just because not being involved in something cool, and I feel like there is something so special that we have within us to really bring out, and that brings me to things with ego. Honestly, I'm in a place in my life where wearing this Jeff Hardy (shirt), I feel like a goofy goober for wearing my own shirt. 'Why does this feel so goofy to wear my own shirt?' My thing has always been, there isn't much difference between the in-ring performer Jeff Hardy and the reality and human world Jeff Hardy. At the show the other night, at the concert, I talked about ego, and another wrestler said, 'You've never had an ego,' but I think I need to bring my ego back ten times more intense than it was when I was the anti-Christ of professional wrestling. It feels like it's inevitable. It feels so right. You have to create the moments yourself and when you're passionate about something, and little by little, we're eventually going to get there," he said.
Elsewhere during the podcast, Matt commented on where the Hardys are currently positioned. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
The Hardys teamed with Isiah Kassidy in a loss to Action Andretti & Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) on last Wednesday's AEW Dynamite.
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