Matt & Jeff Hardy aren’t thrilled with the way in which they’ve been utilized in AEW of late, they usually haven’t been notably quiet about it both. At occasions they’ve sounded legitimately pissed off and upset. However they’re additionally professional wrestlers, so we’ve all the time puzzled if their discontent wasn’t a part of an angle.
Heading into Rampage tonight (Jan. 12), Matt is saying they’ll be channeling their points into the on-screen product.
The elder Hardy brother first did so on the latest episode of his The Excessive Lifetime of Matt Hardy podcast:
“We’re clearly heading in a brand new path… I’m searching for reactions, and Jeff is searching for reactions, and I’m very excited for everybody to see the section that airs on the Rampage that occurs on January the twelfth. It’s going to be an important section with us and Mark Briscoe, and I feel we’d do some extra enterprise with Mark Briscoe… However yeah, I do suppose the Hardys are heading in a brand new path, and I feel it’s actually distinctive for Jeff. As a result of I feel you’re gonna see Jeff discuss and go right into a territory that he’s by no means actually explored earlier than, and I feel that’s gonna be actually attention-grabbing, actually intriguing, actually good, entertaining TV.”
What’s that new path? Sounds prefer it entails taking part in into on-line followers perception that The Hardys are huge believers in their very own legends:
“Anytime we do any public signing… each three or 4 those that come by means of, somebody is gonna say, ‘You might be my childhood. Oh my God, thanks for making my childhood nice. You might be residing legends and also you’re nonetheless killing it.’ You already know, we hear that a lot, so I feel we’ve simply determined to use that to the brand new path the place we’re taking our characters in.
“One of the best factor is, when the die laborious followers who declare or really feel they’re the neatest, they usually get the ins and outs of the enterprise, or they know what’s occurring greater than anyone else does, or they’ve the right concept, ‘That is how the inventive ought to go. Tony Khan ought to ebook it this manner’, ‘Triple H ought to ebook it this manner or no matter’ — these guys, once they react to stuff and likewise it will get beneath their pores and skin, that also lets you already know you’ll be able to nonetheless do your job, you’ll be able to play a job, and you may nonetheless even get the neatest of the good followers, particularly those who imagine they’re the neatest of the good.
“I imply there’s lots of people that do get it, however there’s much more folks which are on-line that don’t essentially get it they usually simply suppose, ‘Oh my God. The heads on these guys.’ You already know, it’s gonna be enjoyable to mess around with, you already know, the Massive Headed Hardys. Generally I confer with our new instructions because the Massive Headed Hardys”
Matt’s additionally provided a less complicated tease on social media:
No matter Matt, Jeff & Chick rise up to tonight, it will need to have been in a backstage section as there was no point out of it in taping/spoiler studies for the present. Discover out extra about what ‘The Massive-Headed Hardys” are all about in our Rampage outcomes submit at 10pm ET!
H/t WrestlingNews.co for transcription