Can't believe it, I'm actually excited for something from WWE ( Hardys' Return)

[The MAC]

I'll mark the fuck out when the WWE Universe collides with the Broken Universe!

Who would have ever thought that the world would give a shit about Matt Hardy? It just goes to show that with some thinking, taking chances and executing it properly brilliance can occur!

FUCK THAT OWL! let us row the dilapidated boat to the shores of Titan and confront Emperor MEEEEKMAAAHAAAAN

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Remember, it's still a rumour and nothing has been signed, so talks can still break down. Just don't pump yourself up too much.

[Big Vic]

It'd be crazy for the Hardys to take their store offline for any other reason.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Pending legal action over Fuck That Owl? Someone tripped over the server? NJPW going to handle that through their many channels?

[Big Vic]

Maybe they sold it to Brad.

[Evil Vito]

Bet they come back as their normal selves because WWE still don't want to acknowledge anything that happened in TNA as canon.

[#1-norm-fan]

Broken Hardys or I don't give a fuck.

[Evil Vito]

If they do make the Hardys use an old theme, they should use Matt's because the "OH YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" at the start is more conducive to a surprise return.

[Big Vic]

No they should come out to this song

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iTH2ppd2OX8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[Destor]

Holy shit WTF was that

[Big Vic]

Awful

[The MAC]

If they come in without the gimmick then there is absolutely no point in coming in. Matt hardy was about one step up in charisma from Lance Storm. The value and interest is in the gimmick.

The crowd will shit all over "unbroken Hardy's"

[Destor]

There is no value in that gimmick

[The MAC]

There is no value in that gimmick

I think you're in the minority with that opinion.

[Evil Vito]

Tbf with WWE's track record I can see why they'd say the gimmick has no value. It didn't happen in WWE so therefore it didn't happen at all.

They'd want to sell Hardy merch and armbands and stuff and use them to put guys over. Their return run might end up being similar to the Dudleyz.

[Destor]

I think you're in the minority with that opinion.
Exact opposite.

[Simple Fan]

Gimmick or not the fans will chant DELETE!!!

[Simple Fan]

Not looking forward to their return though. Especially after seeing what WWE did with The Dudley Boys return.

[The MAC]

This is what will happen in WWE

Broken Matt = Damaged Matt Hardy
Obsolete Mule = Redundant Ass
Delete = Backspace
Vanguard1 = Valkarie1

[The CyNick]

I don't watch the Indy stuff, so have never seen all this broken character with the Hardy's. WWE has been tweeting about it, so maybe they have plans to use it.

My feeling is it's something that should evolve over time on WWE TV. How many people watch those other promotions? 300k? WWE gets hundreds of millions of views on social media. So while this broken gimmick might get over to the audience thats coming to shows this weekend, most fans would be confused. Better would be to bring back the loveable Hardy's that the WWE Universe remembers, and then evolve the character. Plus with WWE promotion and creative behind it, it will come off major league.

[#1-norm-fan]

Yeah, WWE is known for taking things from other companies and making them better. See: NWO, Goldberg, Sting, Sin Cara, ECW, the invasion in general, etc.

[Simple Fan]

I don't watch the Indy stuff, so have never seen all this broken character with the Hardy's. WWE has been tweeting about it, so maybe they have plans to use it.

My feeling is it's something that should evolve over time on WWE TV. How many people watch those other promotions? 300k? WWE gets hundreds of millions of views on social media. So while this broken gimmick might get over to the audience thats coming to shows this weekend, most fans would be confused. Better would be to bring back the loveable Hardy's that the WWE Universe remembers, and then evolve the character. Plus with WWE promotion and creative behind it, it will come off major league.

I think you make a good point about letting it evolve on WWE TV but then they would just be rehashing what they did in TNA and I don't see that happening. I don't think it would be as good in WWE because of the limits WWE would out on him. The thing that made Broken Matt Hardy great was that it was all Matt's vision. Making it feel "major league" would ruin the gimmick in my opinion plus Matt Hardy has more creativity in his pinky than WWE creative has as a whole.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

In an interview with Chuck Carroll of CBS Sports, Jeff Hardy was asked if the rumors were true that the Hardys were offered contracts by WWE:

"No, because you have to go through so much testing and all of that. It’s a long process. But, no. We know some people there and naturally after WrestleMania dies down, maybe a couple of months from now, we’ll see what’s possible. But there is no truth to that whatsoever."

Hardy also said that the team's deal with Ring of Honor is through the summer:

"It’s short-term. It’s through the summer. What’s cool about Ring of Honor is that we can still go out and work the indie dates. That’s another thing about the TNA deal was that they wanted to take our indy dates from us and I really enjoy working the independent circuit. You meet some crazy, cool, interesting people and the shows have been so great as of late. I would say our Ring of Honor deals are through the summer. It’s a short-term deal and we’ll see how things go. We’ll test the waters for a while and hopefully help the company grow.

Those darn tests. Always tripping the Hardy's up.

http://sports.cbslocal.com/2017/03/31/jeff-hardy-says-hes-not-signing-with-wwe-staying-at-ring-of-honor/

[Evil Vito]

God dammit Jeff, if I change my Tipsters pick because of you and then you re-debut and win anyway I'm gonna be miffed

[Emperor Smeat]

Their rumored WWE deal probably going to be the same since Observer and/or PWI teased at their run being the part-time type whenever it would happen.

Best case would be something similar to the Dudleys or Jinder in being around consistent enough to do regular feuds without breaks padding it out.

[Fox]

For the benefit of those who don't watch indy wrestling, can someone please explain what this Broken gimmick entails?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

For the benefit of those who don't watch indy wrestling, can someone please explain what this Broken gimmick entails?

Jeff and Matt had a feud that ended in a draw when Jeff Swantoned him through a ladder off a ladder. It Broke Matt Hardy and "awakened more of his brain" so he ended up talking in a ridiciulous British accent and saying he will DELETE BROTHER NERO (Jeff Hardy).

They filmed a match in their backyard involving fireworks fired and each other and a boat named Scarsdale and a drone called Vanguard 1

https://media.tenor.co/images/c19b4a970fb077a64c8b5e18cf416cb9/tenor.gif
https://66.media.tumblr.com/f2b58147291d156d25c2114c185a1506/tumblr_o9vg2aGghW1u1ljrzo3_540.gif

They knew how stupid it was and leaned into the ridiculousness hard. Jeff became an obsolete mule and sided with matt eventually, so Matt tried to cure him of his "spot-monkey ways" and the river on their porperty is now the River of Reincartnation, so when someone gets thrown into it, they come out as an old gimmick, like Shane Helms getting thrown in and coming out as Shane Sugar Helms

http://s.storage.akamai.coub.com/get/b166/p/coub/simple/cw_timeline_pic/be77591a015/6e118861119e7fe263df4/big_1481943544_image.jpg

[A.J.K]

God dammit Jeff, if I change my Tipsters pick because of you and then you re-debut and win anyway I'm gonna be miffed

How many of us picked the BROKEN Hardyz?

[Droford]

I assumed there's zero chance they wrestle for ROH tonight and show up tomorrow. At best they'll show up Monday/Tuesday but I think its going to be a while before they show up

[Swiss Ultimate]

I hope they go to Lucha Underground

[Swiss Ultimate]

Jeff and Matt had a feud that ended in a draw when Jeff Swantoned him through a ladder off a ladder. It Broke Matt Hardy and "awakened more of his brain" so he ended up talking in a ridiciulous British accent and saying he will DELETE BROTHER NERO (Jeff Hardy).

They filmed a match in their backyard involving fireworks fired and each other and a boat named Scarsdale and a drone called Vanguard 1

https://media.tenor.co/images/c19b4a970fb077a64c8b5e18cf416cb9/tenor.gif
https://66.media.tumblr.com/f2b58147291d156d25c2114c185a1506/tumblr_o9vg2aGghW1u1ljrzo3_540.gif

They knew how stupid it was and leaned into the ridiculousness hard. Jeff became an obsolete mule and sided with matt eventually, so Matt tried to cure him of his "spot-monkey ways" and the river on their porperty is now the River of Reincartnation, so when someone gets thrown into it, they come out as an old gimmick, like Shane Helms getting thrown in and coming out as Shane Sugar Helms

http://s.storage.akamai.coub.com/get/b166/p/coub/simple/cw_timeline_pic/be77591a015/6e118861119e7fe263df4/big_1481943544_image.jpg

I kind of love this.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

I kind of love this.

That was just the cliffnotes too. Helms gets pushed back in there and becomes Hurricane, then they buried the tag team Helms was managing and this happened:

http://68.media.tumblr.com/5d6d4d23ce2ee2468ea5958e56b1de03/tumblr_oi9oygcPP01u1ljrzo2_500.gif
https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7699661/tumblr_oiappxvYRp1s05wxzo1_400.0.gif

He also has a gardener called Senor Benjamin, his real life father in law, who is like his Alfred

http://i.imgur.com/vMaVxz7.gif
https://68.media.tumblr.com/4e9107cd6310d37808252937d4fb8399/tumblr_o9w8dwkH411sbzhteo1_500.gif

Also, random moment:

https://68.media.tumblr.com/66afedb46675db55f5e0cf42c592453e/tumblr_oa9pm2sc6T1vaosveo3_500.gif

[Maluco]

Prob in the minority, but i would be just as interested in Matt Hardy v2 with that whole thing updated. He was great around that time.

Jeff Hardy coming in as the day-glo face and having matches with Styles, Rollins, Owens, Rawley etc... Would be great too.

[XL]

Rawley!?

[#1-norm-fan]

lol That was such a random name to throw in that list.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8WOtMKXYAAnuEt.jpg

[KIRA]

Holy shit WTF was that

That was the song that sits (still unchallenged) at the top of my worst fucking themes ever list

[The MAC]

Are they

a> still broken
b> somewhat broken
c> normal Hardys
d> likely to be re-broken

[Sting Fan]

Jeff and Matt had a feud that ended in a draw when Jeff Swantoned him through a ladder off a ladder. It Broke Matt Hardy and "awakened more of his brain" so he ended up talking in a ridiciulous British accent and saying he will DELETE BROTHER NERO (Jeff Hardy).

They filmed a match in their backyard involving fireworks fired and each other and a boat named Scarsdale and a drone called Vanguard 1

https://media.tenor.co/images/c19b4a970fb077a64c8b5e18cf416cb9/tenor.gif
https://66.media.tumblr.com/f2b58147291d156d25c2114c185a1506/tumblr_o9vg2aGghW1u1ljrzo3_540.gif

They knew how stupid it was and leaned into the ridiculousness hard. Jeff became an obsolete mule and sided with matt eventually, so Matt tried to cure him of his "spot-monkey ways" and the river on their porperty is now the River of Reincartnation, so when someone gets thrown into it, they come out as an old gimmick, like Shane Helms getting thrown in and coming out as Shane Sugar Helms

http://s.storage.akamai.coub.com/get/b166/p/coub/simple/cw_timeline_pic/be77591a015/6e118861119e7fe263df4/big_1481943544_image.jpg

I would watch a 3 count reunion... Hopefully vs. the Yung Dragons in a ladder match.

[Jari]

Are they

a> still broken
b> somewhat broken
c> normal Hardys
d> likely to be re-broken

Jeff appeared to be playing Extreme Jeff Hardy but Matt was definitely playing up the Broken character. I presume they'll get some mic time tonight so will be interesting to see what happens.

[Jari]

Jeff and Matt had a feud that ended in a draw when Jeff Swantoned him through a ladder off a ladder. It Broke Matt Hardy and "awakened more of his brain" so he ended up talking in a ridiciulous British accent and saying he will DELETE BROTHER NERO (Jeff Hardy).

They filmed a match in their backyard involving fireworks fired and each other and a boat named Scarsdale and a drone called Vanguard 1

https://media.tenor.co/images/c19b4a970fb077a64c8b5e18cf416cb9/tenor.gif
https://66.media.tumblr.com/f2b58147291d156d25c2114c185a1506/tumblr_o9vg2aGghW1u1ljrzo3_540.gif

They knew how stupid it was and leaned into the ridiculousness hard. Jeff became an obsolete mule and sided with matt eventually, so Matt tried to cure him of his "spot-monkey ways" and the river on their porperty is now the River of Reincartnation, so when someone gets thrown into it, they come out as an old gimmick, like Shane Helms getting thrown in and coming out as Shane Sugar Helms

http://s.storage.akamai.coub.com/get/b166/p/coub/simple/cw_timeline_pic/be77591a015/6e118861119e7fe263df4/big_1481943544_image.jpg
This is a remarkably concise summary of what was at times quite a convoluted angle.

[Theo Dious]

Wyatt needs to reunite with Harper to win the SD tag titles so they can clash with the Hardys to make one set of belts "obsolete." There is no call for 2 different tag championships.

[dronepool]

The Hardyz were the best part of WM.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Wyatt needs to reunite with Harper to win the SD tag titles so they can clash with the Hardys to make one set of belts "obsolete." There is no call for 2 different tag championships.

Plus, it would help on the Hardy's prospecting for gold.

[The MAC]

WWE Fears Pandas and Owls

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

I don't watch the Indy stuff, so have never seen all this broken character with the Hardy's. WWE has been tweeting about it, so maybe they have plans to use it.

My feeling is it's something that should evolve over time on WWE TV. How many people watch those other promotions? 300k? WWE gets hundreds of millions of views on social media. So while this broken gimmick might get over to the audience thats coming to shows this weekend, most fans would be confused. Better would be to bring back the loveable Hardy's that the WWE Universe remembers, and then evolve the character. Plus with WWE promotion and creative behind it, it will come off
major league.

Dave Meltzer disagrees

[Triple A]

amusing

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Hardy Boys vs the Anthem Owl has been a long, long feud apparently. <a href="https://twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND">@MATTHARDYBRAND</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JEFFHARDYBRAND">@JEFFHARDYBRAND</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RebyHardy">@RebyHardy</a> <a href="https://t.co/oRbF5WIien">pic.twitter.com/oRbF5WIien</a></p>&mdash; Adam Ellison (@TheAdamMaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAdamMaster/status/849949476278218752">April 6, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>