Matt Hardy: Jeff Hardy’s Bray Wyatt tribute in TNA was ‘unbelievably great’
Matt Hardy thought his brother’s Bray Wyatt tribute on TNA Impact this week was “unbelievably great.”
Jeff Hardy wore facepaint on Tuesday’s episode that resembled the mask worn by Wyatt’s Fiend character. Matt says the final product was almost identical to the image Jeff used as a reference.
“It was 100 percent inspired from the Fiend mask,” Matt said on the latest episode of his podcast.
“Jeff said, ‘Hey, do you think this would be cool if did it as a tribute? I said, ‘Yeah man, it would be awesome and I think it would be very cool for your facepaint.”
“It was identical. The image that he used to do his facepaint – and he paints it all himself – it was absolutely identical, it was unbelievably great.”
Matt continued to say that Jeff wishes he’d had the chance to work more with Wyatt, and perhaps while portraying his Willow the Wisp character.
“That’s one of his biggest regrets. The whole time that I was working together with Bray until he actually turned and we were a half-assed tag team, Jeff was out. That’s kind of what started it, Jeff was injured.”
“Jeff really does wish he would’ve gotten a chance to interact (with that). He really would have loved to have done Broken Matt, Bray Wyatt/Fiend whatever, and Willow. Willow is something I think we will see sooner than later in TNA because we have had some discussions about that and that’s something that Jeff is very passionate about.”
Matt would also post the following comments on social media:
“Really wish my brother could have worked with Windham more. Windham was such a special human & gifted performer. I’m still so enamored & impressed by Jeff’s facepaint tribute Thursday night on #TNAiMPACT. I don’t think I’m alone when I really wish we could have seen Willow & The Fiend on the screen together at least once.”
The latest episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy is available below.
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