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Matt Hardy hasn’t closed the door on joining WWE’s post-Bray Wyatt faction

Originally posted on ClutchPoints | By Matty Breisch | Last updated 5/11/24

When Matt Hardy started sharing WWE’s recent QR code-ladened video segments that led to hints at the return of Uncle Howdy, Bray Wyatt’s final creation before passing away last summer, fans assumed it could only lead to one one thing: “Broken” Matt returning to WWE.

On paper, it made sense, right? Hardy and Wyatt had worked together in the promotion and even won the RAW Tag Team Championships together as the Deleters of Worlds and, as a result, bringing in the former AEW personality to serve as a member of this new Wyatt-adjacent stable would be a fun way to bring things full circle, even if his best days as an in-ring performer have long since passed.

Unfortunately – or fortunately, depending on your opinion – that didn’t happen, as Hardy instead landed in TNA, where he brought back his “Broken” character as he continues to evaluate his long-term options in free agency, but could WWE still be on the table? Well, in Hardy’s opinion, the answer to that question is a resounding yes, as he explained on his Extreme Life podcast.

“Yeah, I think me kind of being a manager slash mouthpiece slash bedlam starter as ‘Broken’ Matt, I think that would be intriguing. I would be up for doing it, just for the cool vignettes and the cool stuff they would do. That world and that universe, I’m all about it,” Matt Hardy said on his Extreme Life podcast via WrestleZone.

“I’m the guy who loved doing ‘Broken’ Matt in TNA. That was the most fun I’ve ever had that year of my career. So yeah, I would obviously be up for doing it. I think if I was a manager or mouthpiece or whatever and just interacted occasionally time to time, do whatever, yeah, I would totally be cool with a role like that.”

Could WWE still go down that path and bring in Hardy? Sure, it’s entirely possible “Broken Matt” is getting in his creative now in TNA before leaving for the more controlled world of WWE, where he isn’t allowed to dictate every aspect of his character. But then again, until it actually happens, fans will simply have to wait and see what WWE has up their sleeves.

Matt Hardy explains the challenges of the WWE Draft.

Elsewhere on his The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, “Broken Matt” commented on the WWE Draft and how, despite its impact on actual performers’ lives, WWE still keeps up Kayfabe in order to make for grander reactions, even if that feels incredibly unnecessary in this day and age.

“In the later years, yes. The first time I remember them kind of kayfabing hard was doing the Taboo Tuesdays or Cyber Sundays — I think it was a Taboo Tuesday that we did, or a Cyber Sunday, I don’t remember. But where it was a tag team match, and it was going to be me and whoever else was voted for was going to take on — I feel like it was Edge and Snitsky. And it ended up being me and Ray. But like, we legit didn’t know till 10 minutes before the match,” Matt Hardy explained via 411 Mania.

“It does [change your schedule], and people would freak out about that. So I remember whenever I got drafted to ECW as the US champion, that was a total surprise to me. I wasn’t aware of that at all. And there was like, probably a legitimate look of shock or whatever, where I didn’t know that was happening. And they — you know, they did a good job at keeping people in the dark about that and trying to get their legitimate reactions. And I think that’s cool, the only thing that is possibly a drawback is that it could change their schedule, especially if someone has a family and kids, just so you can kind of plan. And if people can kind of be smartened up on that and be okay with it, I’m alright with it.

“But I mean, if you’re like a single dude just doing whatever. And you’re in the mix in your prom, like — I say this all the time. Like, ‘Man, I didn’t watch TV, I didn’t do anything.’ Those years when I worked with WWE from you know ’98 through 2010 like dude, it was just go, go, go. Like you know, I missed so much great TV. And it’s great, I got to go back and watch it later and whatnot. But my life was just wrestling, I was like a single dude just living life, making towns. The only thing that was real was the money and the miles, you know what I mean? That’s like, what my mindset was. And it was just go, go, go. I mean, if you’re one of those guys, then you know, to h*ll with it. Whatever schedule you’re on, you’re on. You’re gonna be busting your ass and working a lot, it is what it is. But yeah, man, it was. That’s a pretty legitimate thing about that Draft. They’ve always kept it pretty [close to the vest].”

Would it be incredibly impractical to have to change one’s entire life and schedule on a dime, working Fridays instead of Mondays and having to rearrange a family schedule in order to justify WWE’s decision-making? Needless to say, the answer is a resounding yes, and something Hardy needs to consider if he opts to return to the promotion.