One of the saddest memories of 2023 was the tragic passing of Bray Wyatt. Recently, Matt Hardy revealed a storyline he was pitched involving the former WWE Universal Champion.
During the recent episode of the Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, the AEW star revealed that before he signed with AEW, there was a pitch about The Hardy Boyz forming a faction with Wyatt. But Matt Hardy didn’t believe it was a long-term deal.
“Then the selling point too, they offered me, there was this pitch. They said, ‘Well, if you do come back, now that we’ve got Windham doing this, he has the Firefly Fun House, where he’s a very comical character and very unserious, and then he turns into The Fiend, he’s like this killing machine. What if we did something where we put you with him, and you could be Broken Matt Hardy, which was this fun, happy-go-lucky type guy, and you could do that, but then you have this real mean streak character?’
“Then with Jeff, we could have him do Willow the Wisp and some other mean-streak characters as well. You could be a little faction.’ That was very appealing, I’m not gonna lie about it. But it was just one of those things, they said, ‘We’re only gonna do that direction if you choose to re-sign,’ and then it kinda got to the point where it was like, ‘Ah, they’re kind of using this as a hook, and I see how Vince sees me already, I know what’s happening. So I’m gonna try something else.’ That’s why I ended up trying AEW,” Matt Hardy said. [H/T Fightful.com]
Matt Hardy reveals potential plans with Randy Orton
In the same episode, Hardy shared another story. It was a pitch about doing a program with the Apex Predator Randy Orton.
“That was, I wanna say it was Vince’s idea and it came to me via Michael Hayes and Bruce Prichard. I think they talked about it, and there was an idea about re-signing and doing a program with Randy for a few weeks, five-six weeks on TV, maybe having him hurt me and then come back out and fight him and do a couple other matches, this, that, and the other thing. There was a tag in there somewhere I think, they had an idea about.”
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