Matt Hardy Discusses Competing As Broken Hardys At NXT Halloween Havoc, Feels Match Came Off Better When He Watched It Back

Matt reflects on the match.

One of the championship matches on the billing for WWE’s NXT Halloween Havoc Premium Live Event was a Broken Rules match for the NXT Tag Team Championship.

DarkState (Dion Lennox & Osiris Griffin) challenged the Broken Hardys (Broken Matt & Brother Nero) for the titles and emerged victorious to become two-time NXT Tag Team Champions.

Matt reflected on the match on the newest episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast. He said he watched the match back, and it seemed better than it felt in real time.

“I watched the match back and I was happy with it. It looked better than it felt initially.” Hardy was asked to expand on that and he said, “I mean, the way it felt in the ring, I was unsure of the quality of the match, and then whenever I watched the match back and saw how it was shot and different things Jeff (Hardy) was doing and the other guys, it means that the way I felt about the match, it felt pretty good, but I couldn’t see everything, I couldn’t cover everything, I wasn’t certain of how good the match was. But whenever I saw it back, I felt that it looked better than it felt.”

He also spoke about coming out to the Broken Hardys theme, paying homage to the late Windham Rotunda (Bray Wyatt), and stated that it was cool to make the entrance.

He added that he would have liked it if his wife, Reby Hardy, were there to play the piano and they could do the signature ‘fadeaway and classify myself as obsolete’ song.

“I mean, they could have played Hardy Boys music obviously but we weren’t doing Hardy Boys and then, the only thing that I think we had that they could greenlight to play was that theme and I was okay with that. I was hoping they could have changed it to Broken. I guess there was an issue with doing that with the wall. So, it was what it was. In all honesty, it was cool to come out to that because there were times when Bray (Wyatt) and I came out to that and Jeff (Hardy) and I. Jeff painted his face, as a tribute to The Fiend and then we got in the ring and we did the signature pose that Bray and I did before every match as The Deleters of the Worlds, and you know, so many people picked up on that on paying homage to Windham so, that was real cool and it felt special to come out to that song after so many years. God, last time I used that was 2018-ish. So after… almost eight years. So yeah, it was cool. It was cool to come out to that one time. It would have been nice if we could’ve had Reby (Hardy) there playing her grand piano and fade away, classify myself as obsolete. WWE, also, they’re very strict when it comes to rules of music and what can be played and what can’t play… So, I was happy that we had that in our back pocket to play as entrance music.”

Matt said during the podcast that he ‘thinks’ Jeff jerked his neck during the finish of the Broken Rules match, but Jeff will be fine.

The Hardys are still in possession of the TNA World Tag Team Championship. The duo were back as the Broken Hardys to host ‘A Very Hardy Halloween’ edition of TNA iMPACT on 10/30.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.