from Wrestling News Source:
To ask a know-it-all fan about Matt Hardy is equivalent to asking Denise Richards her true feelings on Charlie Sheen: be prepared to listen for a while.
It’s no secret that “Coldblooded” Matt has fallen down the hierarchy of fan respect over the last few years. Once a promising midcarder with creativity to spare, and a keen eye for the business, Hardy seemingly threw away much of that sentiment, in the fans’ eyes, by becoming so self-deluded, he’d make Mike Sorrentino look like an authority on humility.
Last summer, Hardy’s bizarre self-shot videos and erratic Tweets amounted to a portrait of a madman; a burnout in his mid-thirties who was now spending his free time ripping his co-subordinates (namely Drew McIntyre), ranting about wanting his release from WWE, and arguing with fans who dared question his conditioning, both mental and physical.
In many ways, we as fans had seen nothing like it. Brian Pillman’s dementia had a foundation in the kayfabe world, as his maniacal attitude was part-character. Those like Iron Sheik and Honky Tonk Man, never ones to bite their tongues, may shoot with the veracity of Ted Nugent these days, but they’re also pretty far removed from the mainstream, while Hardy was (at the time) still a prominent WWE talent.
For Hardy to be so unabashedly open about his dissatisfaction with WWE was borderline revolutionary, and while we as fans clamor for wrestlers to shed corporate red tape to bring us their true feelings, Hardy flooded the internet with his machinations to the point where it was overkill.
By the time Hardy got his WWE release last October, many of us were relieved. Maybe he’d shut up, finally.
But now, in hindsight, perhaps we need to look a little bit closer to what Matt Hardy was saying in his diatribes.
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