Jeff Hardy Considered Staying With AEW To Try To Build Himself Up To An ‘Amazing Superhero Wrestler’, Decided To Return To TNA After Watching A Will Ospreay Match

Jeff Hardy recalls how he had ideas about re-signing with AEW until he watched Will Ospreay compete.

For many professional wrestlers, the idea of being likened to superheroes is not a new comparison. For the likes of Will Ospreay, Ricochet and Jeff Hardy, their aerial offense draws those comparisons in spades. For Jeff Hardy, he was originally thinking of staying with AEW upon his contract expiring with the company.

While speaking on the I Love Wrestling podcast, Jeff Hardy discussed how he considered staying with AEW upon his deal expiring with the company, wanting to build himself up as a superhero wrestler. That was until he watched a Will Ospreay bout however.

“I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to, especially even when my AEW deal kind of ran out, there was a part of me that said, ‘I wonder if I just take this deal from AEW and try to, you know, build myself up to this amazing superhero wrestler, and stay there for a year and just see how things go.’ But then I like, was watching a Will Ospreay match. I was like, ‘no, I need to go back to TNA.’ I think I need to go to TNA and tag with my brother and do the Hardy’s thing and, and help them evolve. So, yeah, I think everything worked out exactly the way it was supposed to.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Jeff spoke about his current neck injury and facing off with Mustafa Ali while dealing with it. You can read more about that here.

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