WWE legend reveals potential retirement plans to end 30-year wrestling career
A former WWE Superstar and tag team legend has shed light on his potential retirement plans. The star in question, Matt Hardy, has been wrestling for almost three decades, as has his brother Jeff Hardy.
The Hardy Boyz are currently enjoying a career resurgence in TNA, where they won the TNA World Tag Team Championship last month at Bound for Glory 2024 in a Full Metal Mayhem Three-Way Tag Team bout also featuring ABC, and defending champions Brian Meyers and Eddie Edwards of The System. The duo started appearing for the Nashville-based promotion after their respective AEW exits a few months ago.
The former WWE Tag Team Champions recently spoke to Fightful, discussing their passion for in-ring work even after competing for 30 years now.
"I'm totally the type of guy to [go] until the wheels fall off, man. I'm just gonna go as hard as I can,” Jeff Hardy said.
Matt Hardy then talked about The Hardys being motivated to continue their performance inside and outside of the squared circle and expressed a desire to finish their career like Sting did. They praised AEW CEO Tony Khan for the way he booked the WWE Hall of Famer's retirement at Revolution 2024 while referring to it as a "storybook ending."
“I think we're both pretty motivated, we’re passionate about this. We love it, we enjoy it. But I do think I would like to bookend our career and whatever we do in some scenario, much like Sting's. I think Sting's retirement match is the best booking that Tony Khan has done overall. I thought it was pitch perfect. I thought he nailed it. Sting is someone who was very deserving of that. Sting is someone who still inspires both myself and Jeff at this stage of the game. So to see him go out in that pitch perfect way, I thought was well deserved, well earned, and I'm very happy, a win like that. It was a storybook ending," said Matt Hardy.
WWE legend Matt Hardy defended AEW's Chris Jericho
Another former employee of World Wrestling Entertainment, Chris Jericho, is still going strong, competing on a regular basis in AEW since the foundation of the promotion. Although The Learning Tree's popularity has waned somewhat in recent years, according to Matt Hardy the former WWE World Heavyweight Champion's television presence still brings value to the Tony Khan-led promotion and to pro wrestling in general.
"I think the people that say Chris Jericho should not be on TV at this stage of the game, I just think they’re absolutely wrong. I think he has a benefit, I think he adds a lot to pro wrestling,” he said.
Jericho and his Learning Tree stable-mates, Big Bill and Bryan Keith, lost a trios Fight Without Honor match against The Conglomeration this week on AEW Dynamite.