Matt Hardy says AEW run led him to ask ‘Why am I still doing this?’
Matt Hardy says his latest run with TNA Wrestling has helped both him and his brother Jeff rediscover their love for wrestling.
On the latest episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, Hardy explained that during the final stretch of his AEW run, he started questioning whether he wanted to continue wrestling. That has since changed after spending the past year and a half working in TNA.
“During those times in AEW, there were times where both myself and Jeff, especially me when I was there and I wasn’t really do anything, it just made me question, why am I still doing this? I love this, but it kind of doesn’t feel like something I love right now.”
Hardy also said Jeff dealt with feelings of guilt after his DUI arrest in 2022, which led to The Hardys being used less on AEW programming until they ultimately left the company in April 2024 and returned to TNA shortly after.
Matt continued:
“Ultimately, what we needed to do was leave and go to TNA and then we found that again. And I am as much in love with the business as I have ever been this year.”
Matt would like him and his brother to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame while continuing their run in TNA Wrestling.
“I think we would like to do something proper to wind things down. And we’ve said this a couple of times in WWE, and then maybe off into the sunset and do the Hall of Fame. I would want to do the TNA and the WWE Hall of Fame and I think Jeff would as well.”
The Thursday, October 30, edition of TNA Impact featured a special look at the Broken Hardys universe, revisiting four of their cinematic matches from 2016 in TNA. The Hardys are also coming off dropping the NXT Tag Team titles at Halloween Havoc to DarkState.
The latest episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy is available below:
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