Professional wrestling legend and future WWE Hall of Famer Matt Hardy who is a former 11 times Tag Team champion in WWE recently looked back at WWE pitching an idea of The Hardy Boys joining the Wyatt Family before Bray Wyatt got released from WWE.
The release of Bray Wyatt was still one of the most shocking moments of last year. He was a former three times world champion and one of the biggest main event stars of the promotion, nobody could expect that he could get released from WWE as he was one of the most important members of the WWE roster during his time.
Matt Hardy Reveals WWE Pitched An Idea Of Hardys Joining Wyatt Family
But WWE actually released him when they went on a releasing spree last year. After WrestleMania 37, when he was involved in a feud with his former ally Alexa Bliss, WWE decided to release him. It is still not confirmed why WWE released him but most people believe that he was asking for so much money that WWE could not afford in the time.
An angle between Bray Wyatt and The Hardy Boys would have been really interesting. Especially what WWE pitched during the time, Bray Wyatt and The Hardy Boys teaming up. This would have been something completely different from what we usually see in WWE. This is an example of WWE was trying to deliver at least something special just a number of years ago, but not anymore.
Matt Hardy who is a former 11 times Tag Team champion in WWE recently spoke on the Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast where he looked back at WWE pitching an idea of The Hardy Boys joining the Wyatt Family before Bray Wyatt got released from WWE. He said;
“There was a pitch to get me to try and re-sign my contract, or whenever I was doing that angle with with with Randy. They were also going to do something besides the angle with Randy Orton. They said a big match with Bray at WrestleMania and they said, ‘What if we did something now where Bray is doing something as The Fiend, and people are trying to stop them.
“Then all of a sudden, there’s an appearance of a very hardcore Matt Hardy that shows up and then like this Willow The Wisp or just a hardcore Jeff Hardy this shows up. Then they like squash these guys out and run them off whatever, like save The Fiend, but they’re very serious characters. But then we see the talk show where Bray is the Mr. Rogers character and he’s talking to all the kids and he’s having the show.
“Then you see Broken Matt, he shows up, and then Willow The Wisp shows up and they’re part of the show as well. So you guys are like him. But you work as a tag team, you have like a Fiend type of character versions of yourself.
“Then you have a Broken Matt and a Willow and then you’re also doing the deal,’ which sounded very cool and awesome, but I also knew at the time, that would probably last six or seven weeks, and then it would be done. So I was already mentally checked out and AEW-bound.”
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