WWE Matt and Jeff Hardy speak in an interview after Monday Night Raw.
After this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw, Matt Hardy once again teased the possibility of the “broken” gimmick coming to the WWE.
In an interview with WWE.com after the show, Matt Hardy said that he is feeling revived after battling Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder.
“I feel triggered,” Matt Hardy said. “I feel woken! There is an awakening that is happening inside my brother and myself, and now The Club, The Revival, they will both learn why we have run the tag team division for a quarter of a century.”
Hardy seemed like he was slipping into his “Broken Matt” character during this interview, and most interestingly, he posted the video on his Twitter page and wrote, “@WWEUniverse, IT’S HAPPENING. #BROKEN #FTR#FTC #FTO.”
Still, fans probably shouldn’t get their hopes up about the broken gimmick coming to the WWE just based on this clip. After all, all the backstage news we’ve heard this past month is that talks between the Hardys and Global Force Wrestling, the company that claims ownership over the broken gimmick, have collapsed, and deal is not close to being reached.
In addition, Reby Hardy, Matt Hardy’s wife, recently said that Matt Hardy would be teasing the “broken” gimmick regardless of whether they were close to winning the legal rights to it, so these references of Matt’s should not necessarily be taken as evidence that progress has been made.
“He would be doing it whether or not there was any deal in place,” Reby Hardy said on Pro Wrestling Sheet’s The Sheet podcast,. “He had been doing it even at WrestleMania, when things were still very much still up in the air, when it could have gone either way, when both parties were sure it could have gone either way.”
After all, it was only a few weeks ago that Matt and Jeff Hardy specifically dropped the words “broken” and “obsolete” during an in-ring segment. This caused fans to become pretty convinced that the Hardys had reached a deal with Global Force Wrestling. But in the ensuing days, we learned that this was not the case at all, and Global Force Wrestling President Ed Nordholm subsequently gave an interview to Sports Illustrated in which he made clear that he’s done trying to reach an agreement with the Hardys.
“I made a genuine effort to resolve something to benefit the Hardys as a goodwill gesture to Matt,” Nordholm said. “It didn’t reach a conclusion and we’re moving on. We’re not going back to it, I’m not interested in opening a new dialogue, I’m not interested in opening another conversation about it. We made our best effort, it didn’t happen, and I’m not going to negotiate all over again.”
It could be that Matt and Jeff Hardy plan to introduce an alternative version of the gimmick with Matt being “woken” instead of “broken.” He does really emphasize the word “woken” in this video, and on Twitter, Matt Hardy recently retweeted this video and said “GET WOKE.”