Matt Hardy and I talked about a number of topics as he gets ready to come to Pittsburgh with the TNA on the Road to BFG Tour this Saturday. Tickets start at $15 and can be purchased at ProTix.com or call 1-866-977-6849.
The following is an excerpt of our conversation:
Question: Matt, you’ve worked a lot with EC3. Does this kid have something special?
Answer: He does. He absolutely has something special. It’s been very enjoyable for me to work with someone who is a known talent and had a breakthrough year. Someone who has the ability, skills and also the acumen he has at such a young age. He’s got a ton of potential. He’s going to be around for a long time and be a special entity in professional wrestling.
Q: Do you have a favorite announce team calling one of your matches?
A: This announce team, I love together and thought they were great. They called some of our matches, and that was Jim Ross and Paul Heyman. It was a huge mound of information coming from those two. Also, they were very entertaining when they interacted with each other. It was a short-lived team in WWE, but I thought they were great together.
Q: Speaking of Paul Heyman, was there any possibility of you guys going over to his ECW in the mid- to late-1990s?
A: We were very close to having tryouts and working for ECW right before we eventually got signed by WWE. We were set to go work for those guys coming up, but eventually when we signed with WWE we had to cancel our stuff going forward. Who knows what would have happened. Looking back, we were at a point in our career, we were still doing stuff that would have fit in well with ECW. If we hadn’t signed with WWE when we did, there is a good chance we would have ended up on the ECW roster and that Hardy Boyz vs Dudley Boyz match would have happened a couple years before it happened in WWE.
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