In 2003, Matt Hardy and Rey Mysterio engaged in a feud over the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.
The feud included a singles bout at WrestleMania XIX where Matt defeated Rey to retain the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.
Speaking on his Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, Matt looked back on his feud with Rey.
“I’m glad I ended up doing the feud with Rey because that is one of the more memorable things that I have done in my career. People remember that when I’m trying to lose weight and I’m doing all these funny vignettes with Shannon [Moore]. It actually was going to be at one time — whenever I wrestled him at WrestleMania, that was going to be the end of it, we were just going to do that but Vince liked what we were doing and working together so much he was going to drag that out and we were going to end up doing a blowoff match with the Cruiserweight title near Anaheim, we were going to be doing that in Southern California so it’d be a big deal for Rey whenever he won the Cruiserweight title. It ended up being the main event of SmackDown, so that was really really cool," he said.
Elsewhere during the podcast, Matt commented on Elijah (Elias in WWE) joining TNA. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
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