Perry Saturn looks back on having a problem with Matt Hardy.
Perry Saturn had a memorable run in ECW and WCW before he came to WWF in 2000. During his time there, he faced various members of the roster, including Eddie Guerrero and The Hardyz (Matt and Jeff Hardy). During his WWE run, he won the European Championship and the Hardcore Championship.
Speaking on Wrestling Shoot Interviews, Perry Saturn reflected on how some talent he didn't get along with. He recalled having an issue with Matt Hardy when they worked together.
“Matt Hardy, me and Dean [Malenko] had a huge problem with him [in] WWF. He went to Vince to complain that I was beating him up every night. They were very tight with Michael Hayes, and they would get together that night and set up the next day’s matches. Dean had more time in the ring than all of us, and both of us told him, ‘Don’t do that. You gotta let us fucking in on what’s going…’, and I would tell him, you got to give Dean the respect to not tell him what we’re doing. They would do it and do it and do it, and then that was it. Finally, Jeff, I bump all over the place for, Matt come in, I cut him off. They could have handled it better, and so could have so. So yeah, we didn’t care. If I work with Steamboat and I’m the heel, Steamboat’s letting me lead the match. JR’s just now you do it. He’s got more credentials and credit than I could ever have, but that’s how it goes. The heel leads the match. I kept asking them, ‘Please don’t do that.’ Eventually, I got hot and when Dean gets mad, you’ll never know, but that nice guy will eat you alive. So me and [Chris] Benoit had a problem with them too. They would want to do some shit that didn’t make sense to us, so I think the proper way is to negotiate some sort of settlement. Benoit kept agreeing with them, and finally I grab Chris, I go, ‘What the fuck are you doing?’ He goes, ‘I’m not doing that shit. I’m beating the fuck out of them as soon as we get out there.’ That’s where I learned, okay, yeah, let’s just agree with them then," Saturn said.
Perry Saturn previously discussed who he hated wrestling against. Click here to see what he had to say.
Saturn once answered questions on Reddit. Check out some of his answers here.
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