Matt Hardy feels that there is sometimes “a little too much” creative freedom in AEW
While speaking on his podcast, former AEW star Matt Hardy and co-host Jon Alba discussed Adam Copeland’s interview comments about creative freedom in AEW. Here was the exchange…
Jon Alba: “He [Copeland] talked about how he’s enjoying a lot of the creative freedom of AEW right now, and he brought up specifically how, by the end of his WWE run, he felt like everything was a little overproduced, and it wasn’t allowing him to have the ability to work the way he wanted to and do what he wanted to do at that juncture in his career.
People have really run with these comments. I’ve seen people talk about how ungrateful he was for the end, how his character hasn’t changed in AEW at all. What do you think about his comments?”
Matt Hardy: “You know, first and foremost, I was at AEW and I waved the flag. That’s what any good employee should do. So, I mean, I think that’s a big part of what Adam is doing there.
There is a lot of creative freedom in some ways with what you do at AEW. And I think in some ways there’s a little too much. Some things need to be reeled back in because there’s sometimes things get repetitive when it’s done too much, obviously.
And, you know, as we were just talking about in the very beginning with stipulations, like there needs—it needs to make sense to have these stipulations, to have these particular scenarios happen in certain matches or whatever else.
Sometimes at AEW, you know, they’re willing to let people go wild, which in some ways is good, but in some ways, too, they need to rein some stuff in.”