After a decade in Impact Wrestling, Matt Hardy created “The Broken Universe” which really sparked interest for the company that was on the verge of its downfall. After establishing a unique and innovative character style, Matt Hardy caught the attention of Vince McMahon, who decided to bring back The Hardy Boyz at WWE WrestleMania 33 after seeing their fans explode with love for them.
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When WWE re-signed the Hardy’s, Vince didn’t understand their Broken Universe and doubted their current product. Matt explains what happened when Vince saw the Broken Universe match at AIW and why he said that quote about Matt not being in touch with today’s product.
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“I do remember they were very pleasantly surprised that it did do that good of a number,” Hardy said. “I do remember whenever we were there, watching it at the venue, they were having the live show, and then whenever the match before us ended, they just put some other segment in there for the live crowd, they didn’t play it on the titantron. I do remember earlier that day, they played in the production meeting, ‘The Ultimate Deletion’, for the writers, and coaches, and producers.
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“There was a standing ovation at the end of it, weand I remember Vince was like, ‘I hope that means it’s good. I just don’t get it, I don’t get it.’ As he said that, I remember somebody told me [Vince said] in the production meeting, ‘I’ll tell you this, if this ends up doing a good number, I feel like I’m not on the pulse anymore. If this ends up doing a really good number, I need to change the way I do business because I’m not on the pulse anymore.’ It was also very frustrating, the line that was fed to Michael Cole right from the jump, kind of downplaying it already so that was very frustrating and disappointing as well.”
The line Matt referred to from Cole just before
“The Ultimate Deletion” airing was “What you’re about to see is disturbing,” which downplayed the match from the get-go in Hardy’s eyes. During the podcast, Hardy also detailed Wyatt and Vince’s relationship, stating Vince treated him “like a son” during their time as “The Deleters of Worlds.”
