The Hardys’ return under the WWE banner.
The next edition of NXT on The CW will be emanting from Cincinnati, Ohio and the show is going to feature the return of The Hardys (Matt Hardy & Jeff Hardy) to WWE. The reigning TNA World Tag Team Champions are set to take on No Quarter Catch Crew’s Tavion Heights and Myles Borne.
A challenge was issued to Matt and Jeff. They responded on social media and their video aired on NXT. Matt spoke about how the match came about on the newest episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy Podcast. He said everything was last-minute and the response video with him and Jeff only existed for an hour before it was sent out to socials.
This was a very last-minute thing I think (The Hardys vs. N.Q.C.C. match). It’s cool because everyone knows that TNA and NXT have this partnership right now — TNA and WWE. I think it’s gonna continue to expand a little bit but, it has been so beneficial to TNA. It has also been very beneficial to NXT and I feel like just over the last little bit, probably after Fraxiom showed up and they watched us defend the titles against The Rascalz, I would imagine, probably, the wheels started turning, from the powers that be and again, I don’t know all the details on all these things. I’m still talent, brother. Washing my hands of that. I’m not booking, I’m talent. But I think there was some interest there… So the fact that we are able to step out and get in the ring with other teams and kind of give them a little bit of our rub that we have and they kind of help us because they’re a younger team and they kind of keep us relevant in 2025, it’s a win-win so, really excited about this, and I’ll tell ya, I am training for a fight this week too because in facing the two guys that we’re facing, they’re both legit bad-asses so we’re gonna have to be ready to rock and roll whenever we step into the ring in Cincinnati.
Even when that happened on Tuesday night, that little video of Jeff and I that was on NXT, that had only existed about an hour, 45 minutes before that. It hadn’t been long. This is not something that had been long-term planned out. I mean, it was very spur of the moment and that kind of makes you feel alive. It reminds you that you’re alive. It kind of gets the adrenaline flowing and pumping a little bit and it’s been fun thus far and I’m excited to see where we end up going with all of this.
He then opened up about Jeff’s return to the company after how he left in 2021 when he disappeared from a house match and never returned.
Matt thinks the reason the powers that be were waiting to pull the trigger on The Hardys’ comeback to WWE is to see how Jeff was doing.
He’s (Jeff Hardy) very happy to be going back (to WWE) and I feel like he wants to right the wrongs, he wants to leave on a good note. No more erratic behavior (Matt smiled). He wants to go back and show them who he is and I think one of the reasons, even with this whole exchange going on, I think one of the reasons they probably waited a little while to pull the trigger and do something with Jeff and I was just to kind of see where Jeff was. Just make sure Jeff is good and anybody who’s been here with TNA is just… they can’t go without talking about how incredible and professional a performer Jeff has been.
In addition to The Hardys versus N.Q.C.C., here’s the remainder of the lineup for NXT in Cincinnati:
- Ricky Saints & Je’Von Evans vs. Ethan Page & Wes Lee
- TNA X Division Championship: Moose (c) vs. Lexis King
- NXT Women’s North American Championship: Stephanie Vaquer (c) vs. Karmen Petrovic
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy Podcast with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
