Matt Hardy says WrestleMania 42 felt ‘very prostituted’ due to advertising
Matt Hardy gave his thoughts on WrestleMania 42 during a recent interview.
Hardy was a guest on The Ariel Helwani Show on Wednesday. During the interview, Hardy commented on the amount of advertising present at the show this year, saying that it caused the event to feel “very prostituted.”
Hardy said:
“It feels very mainstream. They have all the advertisements and everything else. It feels very different from standard WWE.
I think it’s hard for a lot of people to kind of grasp that WWE changes. I can say this being older, I sometimes hate change.”
Hardy added:
“It is definitely so evolved and so different from what the initial concept of WrestleMania was as an event. It felt very prostituted because all the ads and everything else.”
Hardy also commented on some WrestleMania matches being shorter this year, saying:
“When you go to these pay-per-views like WrestleMania, if you have these big matches between big stars, like these matches need to be good. They need to have time. They may need to have a good payoff at that point because that’s what you’re building to.“
“I feel like the TV is the vehicle that you build these matches and you tell stories. You don’t have to give everything there. But once you get to these pay-per-views and WrestleMania, that’s where you have to deliver the goods.”
Hardy was also asked about the current status of the TNA and WWE relationship. Hardy said that now that WrestleMania is out of the way, he believes the relationship between the two companies will heat back up.
Hardy said:
“Everything was focused on WrestleMania. Now that it has come and gone, and they’ve kind of cleaned house a little bit, I would imagine the TNA x WWE/NXT relationship will probably heat back up going forward.”
The Hardys continue to work with Vincent and Dutch, The Righteous, in TNA Wrestling at the moment. Jeff Hardy is scheduled to wrestle Vincent on this week’s episode of Impact. Matt Hardy is coming off a loss to Dutch on last week’s episode.
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