Matt Hardy comments on the recent tease of returning to the "Broken Matt" persona.
Hardy brought the "Broken Matt" character to AEW upon his arrival in 2020. He subsequently shifted into various personas, including "Big Money Matt", but he has continued to tease the return of his former character. In recent weeks, Hardy has been involved in a storyline with Ethan Page and Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen), where he has punished the duo and threatened to fire them to get to Matt. Hardy has grown frustrated with the situation, and he showed a glimpse of "Broken Matt" on the January 16 episode of Being The Elite.
Speaking on The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy, the veteran was talking about his run as "Woken" Matt Hardy in WWE and whether there were any ideas he'd want to use for the character in the future. He brought up the recent tease on BTE and explained that it was meant to show fans his inner turmoil. Hardy then teased that a potential return of "Broken Matt" would present a different version of the character that would be more based in reality.
“A few weeks ago on BTE, people saw Broken Matt for a second. The mentality behind that clip was that was in my mind. You see me being buddy-buddy with Ethan Page, I look in the mirror for a second. He really threatened to fire Isiah, he was really having a terrible attitude towards Isiah. You can tell that it hurt Matt Hardy, when he went to the bathroom and he was on his own. It was a little bit of a look into my mind and my soul, and kind of where I’m at. You can see that I was very frustrated with having to go along with this with Ethan Page, that might help you read the story a little bit and where I’m at in actuality. But I was almost so frustrated with having to roll with Ethan Page’s punches that you can see Broken Matt was starting to appear. Not only am I old and beat up and 31 years deep and broken physically, I was also broken emotionally and mentally. I think if you see Broken Matt Hardy again, which I think there’s a great opportunity you do, it’s gonna be a very different version. It’s gonna be much more based in reality and just a guy who is broken physically, mentally, and emotionally, a lot of it because of Ethan Page," Hardy said.
On a previous episode of his podcast, Hardy praised Sami Zayn's recent run in WWE. Click here to see what he had to say.
Hardy, Page and Kassidy will challenge for the AEW World Trios Championship on the February 3 episode of AEW Rampage. Check out the card here.
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