Matt Hardy talks the current storyline between The Hardys and The Nemeths.
At TNA Under Siege, Matt Hardy and Leon Slater will challenge The Nemeths for the TNA World Tag Team Championships. This match comes after the company made the decision to include Jeff Hardy's inability to enter Canada as a story beat, allowing Slater to take his place.
As many fans will know, Jeff Hardy is not allowed to enter Canada due to his DUI history. On the latest edition of his The Extreme Life Of Matt Hardy podcast, Matt Hardy stated that Jeff wanted to be transparent on the matter instead of faking an injury.
“Yeah, Jeff was a big advocate of that too. He really wanted to be very transparent and just be straightforward. He’s like, ‘Oh, come on man’ as opposed to doing being injured like, ‘Let’s just be straightforward with it.’ I think Tommy Dreamer had a good point even about using it to get The Nemeths heat in what we were doing."
Matt Hardy went on to praise The Nemeths and the way that they handled the segment.
"First and foremost, I want to say one thing I am proud of. Whenever they came out with that promo and they acknowledged like, ‘You know what, we’re going to give you this title shot but we’re going to give it to you in Ontario, Canada.’ The crowd [cheers]. They said, ‘We’ll even make it a ladder match’ and the crowd [cheers]. They’re all excited about it and then, Nic Nemeth is like, ‘Hey brother, he’s got a problem with the [cops], he can’t cross the border.’ He says, ‘Oh well, guess it’s off.’ They got so much massive heat in the building. Our goal through all this was to try the best we could to get Ryan up to where Nic is in terms of heat, trying to make him a more serious legit competitor. I feel like we’re achieving that so I am very happy about that.”
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