Matt Hardy: I thought that role would suit him better



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Matt Hardy: I thought that role would suit him better

Matt Hardy is a man who has given a lot to wrestling, and there is a lot of success behind him that we don't even have to talk about. He has been a member of the AEW for two years and it has not been easy to form the character he has today.

“I actually had a couple options in the beginning. I know they had offered me ‘The Exalted One’ with The Dark Order,” Hardy said for The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy, as quoted by wrestlinginc. "That had been offered to me by The Bucks actually, and I guess Tony was cool with that too and they were thinking that’d be a cool deal.

“They were definitely wanting to take those guys in a heel direction, but I felt like after that thing with Randy [in WWE], I should debut as a babyface … I had suggested Broken Matt and that’s what I wanted to do.

The Bucks were cool with it and then Tony Khan was very open to working with it, and we were going to do whatever we could do to make Broken Matt work. Unfortunately, COVID came in and the world changed … and obviously, Broken Matt, which I feel like is a character that really depends on audience participation, debuts in the first-ever AEW empty arena pandemic era show.

So, that was Broken Matt’s bad luck”.

Matt Hardy refused his new role

The Dark Order’s leader was supposed to be his new role, but .. “I did know if I didn’t decide to do ‘The Exalted One,’ I knew Brodie Lee would get it.

And I was like, man, that’s a great spot for him. He’s going to kill it. Do it! I wanted Brodie to be The Exalted One, and I know I said this in the past already. “He was super appreciative that I teased I was going to be The Exalted One.

I did that all the way, you know, I was already doing it when I was doing stuff with WWE … I was doing all these teases to just to pop myself and just to keep people talking about me because that’s one of the most important things, I think, in this day and age.

You have social media and if you can use that to keep fans and the consumers talking about you, keep you in the conversation. It’s a very important thing to promote yourself in this day and age”.