Matt Hardy Responds To Impact’s Claims About Trademarking ‘Broken’ Universe

John MoorehouseMay 10, 2017, 8:00 pm

Matt Hardy and his wife, Reby, took to Twitter this week in response to a report that Impact Wrestling filed trademarks for the "Broken" Matt Hardy gimmick and the entire "Broken" universe before the Hardys did.

PW Insider first reported the news about Impact's trademark filing, which the promotion claims was filed in January even though the paperwork says April.

The Hardys tweeted the following:

If that were true, they would've gone through the patent office long before mine did. Don't buy bullshit reports from "source" Jeff Jarrett https://t.co/nz8kwxmdvr

— Reby Hardy (@RebyHardy) May 9, 2017

The days of "working" figures & statistics (aka lying) in this industry are OVAH.. Especially government documented records. https://t.co/CHCi0QTAEo

— Matt Hardy #DELETE (@MATTHARDYBRAND) May 9, 2017

Reby Hardy, who has embarked on a couple of extended rants on Twitter against Impact since her husband and his brother, Jeff Hardy, left Impact, tweeted out a follow-up on Tuesday:

How desperate & pathetic do you have to be to be sending fake reports to dirtsheets tho ? @RealJeffJarrett

— Reby Hardy (@RebyHardy) May 9, 2017

Matt Hardy blasted Impact President Ed Nordholm in another tweet on Sunday.

While rights to the "Broken" gimmick remain in dispute, Matt Hardy has been showing more and more of that persona in his appearances for WWE's Raw brand in recent weeks.