Matt Hardy On Other Wrestlers Emulating Moves From The Hardy Boys: It’s Super Flattering
The Hardys talk about other performers using their moves for heat.
As a team, The Hardys (Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy) have spent most of their career playing babyfaces, making it to where they often battle against some of the best heel teams. Given the exicting and adrenaline-filled nature of their moveset, it’s easy for the heels to steal moves from The Hardys in a mocking way.
While speaking to Fightful for a new interview, both Matt and Jeff Hardy talked about people emulating them and how it’s super flattering for them.
MATT HARDY: “It’s super flattering, I think, more than anything else. It’s just cool that we have been on TV since, I mean in theory first time we’re on TV was ’94. But been on TV regularly since the end of ‘97 / early ’98 until now 2024. So many guys, we were a part of their childhood. Growing up, they watched the Hardyz and we were so blessed to be able to enter wrestling when it was so white hot like it was at WWF / WWE. Just to be in the spot we were in, then we had to do all the ladder matches, and the table matches, and the TLC matches and whatnot. It really made such an impact on so many people. There’s so many people that we’ll get in the ring with and they’ll go, ‘Oh, my God, could I do a Swanton here? Or could I do the Twist of Fate?’ I remember there was one point during the match, KC Navarro said, like, ‘Is it cool if I go like,’ I said, ‘Yes, please go nuts, go crazy.’ It’s hugely flattering that people are excited to do stuff like that and we love that. It helps us and they they’re happy to do it. So it’s very cool.”
JEFF HARDY: “When I first watched that match back with First Class, I saw that Swanton, that wasn’t just a Swanton Bomb attempt. That was a Swanton-Harlem Heat Leg Drop-Bomb. ‘Cause he like landed on his ass pretty hard. It was so impressive. I was like, ‘Wow, that that was it was so amazing.’”
MATT HARDY: “You don’t realize how big he is. When we climbed up to the top to like superplex him, I’m like, ‘Oh, this is like a big—this is a big piece of meat that you’re trying to pull off here.’ He’s a big, big guy. He he’s deceptively athletic. But you know that because he’s played in the NFL and he’s done those things. He is just a natural athlete.”
Elsewhere in the interview, The Hardys said that Michael Hayes is the most influential person to their careers. Learn more about those comments here.
Also, check out Fightful’s full interview with The Hardys in the video linked at the top of this article.
