Matt Hardy comments on Private Party's big loss.
The Janaury 22 edition of AEW Dynamite was a sad day for fans of Private Party, as Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy lost the AEW World Tag Team Championships to the Hurt Syndicate's Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin.
For many fans, Private Party's stint with the belts was considered a big disappointment, with the reign only lasting 84 days. Throughout that time, the duo only successfully defended their titles on two occasions.
On the latest edition of his The Extreme Life Of Matt Hardy podcast, Matt Hardy gave his take on the situation, saying that he feels bad for the team.
“I feel bad for Private Party. I feel like this could have been a lot more. I would have liked to see their title run optimized, I would’ve like to seen it utilized in a better fashion, I would’ve liked to see them become legit cornerstones of the tag team division. I think following up the match with the Young Bucks where they got a huge reaction and it was very organic when the crowd reacted, I really think there was something you could’ve built on and that could’ve made them legitimate stars. They’re day one-ers in AEW and I hate that we didn’t really work hard to make them legit as a tag team. I think there was an opportunity and the ball was dropped.”
Hardy continued on and said that AEW dropped the ball on the chance to solidify Private Party as a top tier tag team.
“It’s really unfortunate. Once they won the titles, they got that fantastic and organic reaction and the Bucks busted their ass to make them in that match, had them kick out of their big stuff. They made them look like a million bucks. You had a chance to make them but you needed a plan, you needed a design, a blueprint of what you were going to do to get them to that certain point. You needed some sort of story to get people invested in them but they just didn’t have any of that. It was just random matches and matches don’t mean shit if there’s not some bigger context of a story. I know this thing happened quickly with the Hurt Syndicate and I understand you want them to win or whatever, but I just feel like you could have got so much more done with Private Party, you could have built them so much more and they could have been staples of your tag division. You could have solidified them as a legit top tier tag team but it didn’t happen.”
Elsewhere in the podcast, Hardy talked about the chances of John Cena appearing in TNA. Check out his full comments by clicking here.
If you missed anything from the January 23 edition of TNA iMPACT!, catch up on the show by clicking here.
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