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.”

These other people have done stuff and they have been characters, but I just feel like there’s been a lot of inconsistencies in those things.”

“He hasn’t changed a ton as a character, but he has grown. He became the champion. He became a dominant player. Whenever he starts talking, people are sitting on the edge of their seat, and they want to hear what the f*ck he has to say.

You know what I mean? He’s a really compelling person who keeps the crowd enthralled.”

After thinking about it, I felt like he was really layered in the way he could do stuff. If he was working with novelty characters like myself and Bray, he knew how to treat us as special and different.

If there was something with a supernatural aspect that you were trying to get out of those two characters, he knew how to utilize them. At the same time, he was very good at utilizing characters who were just legitimate wrestlers that go out to the ring and wrestle.

I felt like he had an understanding of all the different characters and how to enhance each character to its maximum potential. Even if they were a regular, ‘I go in the ring and I’m the best wrestler in the world’ type of character, he could still enhance that character just as well.

He’s the guy I would suggest.”

No doubt about it, he’s a great wrestler, an amazing talker, and an amazing character. He feels very legit, and even if you know him in real life, he really stands 10 toes on whatever it is he’s standing for. Whether he loves you or hates you, it is what it is.

With guys like that, there will always be people trying to dig deeper and saying, ‘There has to be some ulterior motive here. Things aren’t right. There has to be an ulterior motive.’ And, you know, sh*t gets made up all the time in pro wrestling. I see things about me and Jeff and other guys that I know pretty well, and I would imagine that CM Punk is not immune from that either.”

When he came back to WWE, I think he knew he couldn’t get away with that same type of attitude or mentality. It is what it is. A lot of people thought he was going to stir up controversy or create conflict, and he didn’t. He was a by-the-book guy and seemed like a model company employee.

I think it’s hard to dispute that. The guy even went to Saudi Arabia, and I’m sure that wasn’t on his bucket list of things to do, if you know what I mean.”

I guess the fact that they ended up finding some success and winning the tag titles, so they could be deemed as a successful act at that time, that was something that was beneficial to them.

But when it was all said and done, it just really fizzled out. It’s just like the creative just didn’t know what to do with them. They didn’t know how to take them in a new direction, or a different direction, or what to do with them. I mean, that’s how it felt from the outside looking in. Obviously, I don’t know.

Those things can be tricky. I mean, I feel like if you have an act like that, you have to put a lot of time and thought into it. And maybe it’s too much time and too much thought for the people that are doing creative. Maybe they are overwhelmed, and they don’t have the time to do that, you know.”

And one thing I can say that I am very happy about, we signed a contract with WWE to be in the video games. WWE 2K26, and we’re going to be doing the video games coming up for the immediate future. And we’re talking about doing more merchandising stuff because, I mean, when it’s all said and done, we’re like a WWE legacy act. Of course, I don’t think anybody will dispute that.

I like being able to be at TNA be in a position where we can contribute, we can work with younger talent, new talent, we can still stay relevant, we can still be involved in something that feels important with what we’re doing on TNA, but then crossing over and still having merchandise and doing stuff with WWE.

Because I do love WWE. Like, I’ve said this, I said it in a post just recently, we have two homes. WWE was like our childhood home. If it wasn’t for WWE and Vince McMahon allowing myself and Jeff to do what we did as the Hardy Boyz and giving us an opportunity to have this tag team ladder match, which became a tables match, which became this TLC concept, and we became famous there with WWE, we wouldn’t be who we are.

But TNA is also our home because if it wasn’t for TNA, I wouldn’t have got to roll the dice on myself and try and do this insane concept called Broken Matt Hardy, you know, and Brother Nero and the Broken Universe, which totally rejuvenated our career and led us back to WWE when it was all said and done. So we definitely feel like we have two homes. WWE is our childhood home, and I think TNA is more of our adult home.”

WWE is our childhood home. It’s where we grew up, where we learned to become superstar pro wrestlers, where we both succeeded & failed in life & work. Without WWE, Jeff & I aren’t looked at as the GOATs.

TNA is our adult home. TNA has allowed us to be men that bet on themselves & either sink or swim on their own. Without TNA, there’s no #BROKEN Matt, Brother Nero, Anti-Christ, Willow or Big Money Matt.

We’re thrilled our homes are partners together, making anything a possibility for House Hardy.”