Matt Hardy could have potentially been WWE Tag Team Champions with Mark Henry during the Ruthless Aggression era, but it by all accounts may not have been a good thing for either star. On the latest episode of Extreme Life with Matt Hardy, him and co-host Jon Alba were discussing how countless angles and antics would have gotten WWE in hot water in today’s modern age. Alba asked Matt if there were any angles he was involved him that made him feel that way.
“No not necessarily but there was one thing I was very nervous about doing that didn’t end up happening,” Matt said referencing back to his time in the early 2000s. “Cause I was going to have a deal where I teamed with Mark Henry and there was talk of us working against Booker T and Rob Van Dam when they were the Tag Champs and actually winning the tag titles but it was right towards the end of my ‘Matt Hardy V1’ and the whole story, what was pitched to me from Vince and creative that I was almost going to go to Mark Henry and like him being black, I had a lot in common with me having ‘Mattitude’ because we were like both oppressed.”
Matt talked about how he and John Cena would always freestyle rap together on international trips and that became something the two were known for.
“They knew that I was a big rap fan and I was aware with all that stuff, but there was a point where I was going to start talking with more black slang and then almost tell Mark Henry like, ‘Mattitude is oppressed too man, we have that in common,’ and I was very uncomfortable with that then you know at that juncture but obviously Mark got hurt and maybe it was a sign from the ‘seven dieties’ it didn’t happen at all. That was something I was little worried about doing.”
You can check out the entire episode of Extreme Life below where Matt dives into the details of the Hardy Boyz battling Edge & Christian at No Way Out 2000 or check out the Extreme Life Linktree for all ways to tune in.
Transcription credit should go to @DominicDeAngelo of WrestleZone.
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