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Originally Posted by Fox
Matt isn't completely to blame here, guys.
You ever have a job that you were really good at, but for one reason or another, the upper management or your teammatees (or both) never recognize you for your work ethic and continually treat you like shit, despite the fact that you constantly deliver a sound product on a consistent basis?
It makes you sick. It makes you apathetic and it makes you not give a fuck.
Matt has had chances, but so has the WWE to capitalize on Matt, and they haven't done that. Edge/Hardy at Summerslam is a perfect perfect perfect example of Vince McMahon being more interested in showing how much larger his cock is than Matt's than he is interested in making a new star in Matt Hardy. A fucking turnbuckle spot that leads to a bleed-out match call? During one of the biggest, most talked about and realistically interest driven matches all year and they book the returning good guy, who is hot as hell and mad as fuck about his girlfriend getting stolen from him, to fucking lose due to bleed out in about 5 minutes flat. FUCK THAT.
They had a great thing with Matt Hardy V.1 and what happened to that? Where did that go? What did they do with one of the hottest properties on Smackdown? They let it fucking die. MH V.1 could've been a US Champion at the very, very least.
Matt versus Jeff at Mania was the best they've booked him in a long time. But because Jeff leaves, what the fuck do they do? They ignore the brother, who is not only getting hot again as a heel, but who could realistically step up and fill missing gaps in Smackdown's upper card and main event. A heel Matt Hardy in the main event on the Smackdown roster made perfect sense. And what the fuck do they do? They turn him face and do absolutely nothing with him.
Fuck that. Let him go, let him get back in shape and go to TNA where he might actually get some storylines that don't get pulled out from under him at the worst possible moment.
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Look, no one has been there defending Matt Hardy in the past as much as me. I am a huge mark for the guy as a performer.
In 2005, the guy was fucking money. Vince absolutely fucked up in this year, not only with Matt Hardy, but with Christian, as well. This year was, as you said, about Vince proving he was the boss and what he said go. People want to really flock behind these guys? He'll take one of them and their heat, and job them out; he'll drive the other one to TNA. Yeah, that was fucked.
The WWE have dropped the ball with Matt Hardy. The times have changed and guys like Hardy, Christian, MVP, etc. are sort of being passed over for younger and fresher talent, this is true. The tragedy is that these guys never got their shot when they should have, due to politics or whatever. But to be fair, look at Christian -- the guy is being used in a feud with Alberto Del Rio when Hardy can barely serve as credible fodder for the guy. MVP, despite being stale from the critical perspective, seems to be someone the WWE are really trying to position as a fan-favourite to shove down our throats. Let's just see what the WWE does with him when his new theme song comes out.
Some guys in this business just cannot be ignored right now. That's why The Miz and Kofi Kingston are going up. Matt Hardy is trying to grip to something that he was, instead of making the guy he is someone to grip on to.