Matt Hardy Recalls Pitching Idea For Stable To Rival DX

During the inaugural episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy Podcast, the AEW superstar spoke about The Hardy Boyz memorable Tag Team Ladder Match with Edge and Christian at No Mercy 1999. Matt Hardy spoke about the significance that match had on the wrestling business and talked about Vince McMahon’s view on tag team wrestling.

“If that match turns out being a disaster in any capacity, we don’t continue to do more things,” Hardy said. “You don’t see table matches, you don’t see TLC matches, you don’t see those amazing memories from WrestleMania 16 & 17. They don’t exist, they don’t materialize, they don’t happen. You also don’t see the tag team division become as over as it did at the time too. That spoke volumes about how successful that match was that myself, my brother, Edge and Christian and the Dudleys were able to raise the equity of the tag team division in WWE.

“People know too, Vince McMahon isn’t a tag team wrestling person. The way he looks at things, I need singles stars who can be my world champion and that’s what people are invested in. If he ever gets a tag team that becomes extremely over like mad, he’s just looking to break those guys up and turn them into singles stars. It’s just his mindset, that’s one of the things I love about The Young Bucks, they want to be a tag team forever. That was mine and Jeff’s mindset at the time. Even looking back at that match with Edge and Christian, they may have separated that night and they didn’t. We wanted to take tag team wrestling and elevate it to the highest level that we possibly could.”

Since the release of Jeff Hardy from WWE, Matt spoke about his brothers future and how the iconic team want to end their careers together. Prior to his release, it was rumoured that Jeff was lined up for a storyline with NXT group MSK as “The Shaman” which ultimately was changed to Riddle.

The match at No Mercy was won by The Hardy Boyz, who earned the right to have Terri…