Professional wrestling legend and two times TNA World Heavyweight Champion Matt Hardy who is a former eleven times Tag Team Champion in WWE recently remembered the Money in the Bank ladder match from WrestleMania 22 and also talked about the angle he did with Ric Flair.
Matt Hardy is a tag team wrestling specialist as well as a successful singles wrestler as well. Fast and his Fame as a tag team wrestler along with his brother Jeff and kept on working as a tag team for quite a time.
Matt Hardy Looks Back At The Money In The Bank Ladder Match From WrestleMania 22
In 2002 he started to run solo for the first time in his WWE career after the first brand extension of the promotion. But he could not achieve the same height as his brother until he finally founded the broken Matt Hardy character in TNA Wrestling.
The Broken character became so famous that the fans kept on asking for the character Since his return to WWE in 2017. WWE was determined to make him work under his previous and actual gimmick.
But the pressure from the fans were so high WWE did not have any other option but to introduce the gimmick to the WWE fans. But the character was called Woken. The fans were so much attached to him still WWE decided not to push him since the idea of the character was not originally from the promotion itself.
In 2020 he finally decided to leave the WWE to join the newly founded professional wrestling promotion the AEW and he was introduced under his broken gimmick. Even though the gimmick was scrapped and was given a new gimmick called “Big Money” and he played this role quite excellently as well. He is continuing the similar gimmick right now and the Broken gimmick is looks to be gone.
Matt Hardy who is a former eleven times Tag Team Champion in WWE recently spoke to Josh Graham from The Drive where he remembered the Money in the Bank ladder match from WrestleMania 22 and also talked about the angle he did with Ric Flair. He said;
“Obviously I was a huge fan of Ric Flair and The Four Horsemen. Growing up in North Carolina, I feel like it’s hard not to be so it was great to actually tell him and get to work in matches with him and become friends with him.
“I actually — when we did our Money In The Bank Ladder match together [at WrestleMania 22], Ric pulled me to the side and he said, ‘Look, I want to take a big bump off this ladder. You’re the only person I trust to give me a suplex off the top because I know you got experience in these and you’re good’ and that was like the ultimate compliment coming from someone that I grew up watching as a childhood hero.”
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