Jim Cornette on Matt Hardy's Frustrations With AEW Creative 

Matt’s most memorable thing in recent memory, was Christian telling Matt he makes Jeff sound like the sober one.

It’s crazy CM Punk left and the problems continue

The pop on their return at Wrestlemania was probably the highlight of any of their comebacks IMO.

One of the hardest times I have laughed watching AEW was when Jeff comes running in to save Matt and he is just dancing his ass off the whole way to the ring! 😂😂. WTF! 😆

Matt is one of Aew's biggest ass kisser, so for him to complain it should speak volumes

man this guy kissed up to Tony more than anyone. strange how things took such a turn that he and his brother wanna leave now

Rumour has it that Tony read those comments and began fearing for his life.

"Creative" is a pretty generous term when describing AEW's booking

15:36 "Jeff's like in this amazing spot" Yeah, I'd say not being in jail for DUI is an amazing spot.

I love how more and more veterans are coming out criticizing their experiences dealing with both Tony Khan and the young wrestling talent.

The AEW fans didn't want to hear that Jeff, Matt, and every other wrestler had a bump count. Your body can only take so many bumps before it quits on you. Matt and Jeff shouldn't be doing stuff that destroys your body. You got kids. You got families. Don't do it. We all get older and have to face it.

Man, Matt Hardy publically mad at Tony Khan's booking. Britt Baker DMD publically mad at Tony Khan's booking. Cody Rhodes, Jade Cargill, CM Punk leaving AEW for WWE because Tony Khan's booking. Didn't Jericho mention "shitty creative from horrible bosses" on the first episode of AEW Dynamite?? How the turn tables.

It was a great time to be a fan of the WWF/E back in the early 2000’s watching The Hardy Boyz and Lita. Their TLC matches with the Dudley’s and Edge and Christian are legendary.

You said it perfectly. The Bucks. Young Bucks are the biggest problem in AEW.

Business and friends don’t mix when you’re not generating value! As Christian said in his promo against Matt last year, he attaches himself to people to try to stay relevant

Mike Hunt is an exceptional journalist.

It’s really hard to conclude AEW has an ounce of momentum right now. It is also remarkable that AEW has cooled off so, so much during a time where wrestling is hotter than it has been in years. Quite a feat.

Jeff said in his interview he still feels like a ghost in AEW like he did in WWE before leaving. Guess the reality and they don’t want to accept it is that, they’re far over the hill and trying to cling on to whatever spotlight they can get left and are going for their classic poor me routine that’s worked like 100 times now it feels like

Matt Hardy was my favorite wrestler growing up. Watching him today hurts me even though I convince myself he's still as good as he used to be

They seem to forget that Jeff almost immediately caught another DUI when he got hired. He’s lucky to even be employed.

I forgot the Hardy’s were in AEW.. Maybe they forgot themselves with all the concussions ..

The same Matt Hardy that praised AEW and gave Jim heck for having the nerve to critique. Maybe he's finally recovered from that head injury and realized what's going on in Tony's world.

This makes that last argument between Matt and Brian Last even funnier 🤣

That brain damage is legit. At his age he should be behind the scenes not working in the ring. Hardy boyz are both cooked

Imagine a timeline where Jim Cornette and Tony Khan had a good initial conversation. Jim Cornette is the Booker and the show has some sense of wrestling logic, and WWE has real competition.

To be fair, there's gotta be some reluctance to start a long term program when Jeff is not the most reliable guy in the world. The thought has to be in the back of the mind, will he arrested again for DUI when he falls off the wagon again?

Take a shot every time Brian reads Matt saying "You know."

Matt Hardy Frustrated? Whenever he appears, ratings dip faster than he could to the ring.

Matts mad because Edge and Christian have officially rained on their parade by showing up to AEW and can no longer call themselves the "greatest tag team ever" when one of the "greatest tag teams ever" has showed up in the company lol. Also, as a recovering addict myself, Jeff has nobody to blame but himself for ruining what momentum the Hardy's had going for them before he yet again decided to drive while impaired.

The pop they got at WrestleMania when they returned was the highlight of their comeback. After WWE gave them that moment, they decided to burn the bridge with the company. Especially Jeff when he walked out mid match like an unprofessional.

Remember all the buzz The Hardy's reunion got? That buzz faded away rather quickly, in my opinion, thanks to AEW continuing to make fumbles with their "creative process."

No more "Dream matches" for the Hardy's anymore 😂😂😂

Waiting for Reby to say something stupid about this

And they said CM Punk was the issue in AEW. Well well well…

Tony TRULY is playing with action figures. There is no other way to describe it.

I always envisioned the Hardy’s being the big tag team in ROH. In a perfect world Tony would have used ROH as their version of NXT. Put the majority of the young AEW talent down there to learn to wrestle, while also populating ROH with some older talent who could A) bring audience to the show and B) help the younger talent.

That's an interesting hypothesis Jim has, about Tony being so in his own head about how all the episodes go together into one epic narrative. Reminds me of inexperienced fanfic writers writing massive mega-crossovers.

I need to take Tylenol every time Matt "walks" to the ring.

Matt once was teleporting and vanishing he has no room to talk. He should be fired too. The guy can bearly walk.

Nobody over there seems to want to do what they ought to be doing. The Hardy Boys apparently don't want to be The Hardy Boys because they want to reinvent themselves, one of their biggest stars in Bryan Danielson doesn't want to be the world champion to put some recognition and prestige to that title, Kenny Omega seems to want to do everything except having a singles run where his name and talent actually means something, Moxley can't wrestle normal matches like he used to because he's too infatuated with garbage matches, they had the most captivating and convincing heel in the entire business in MJF who is now a babyface doing comedy, etc. It's so strange.

2:40 "Got handed the Hardy Boys" You mean how Tony Con did contract tampering and got Jeff to purposely get himself fired?

Nobody may have wanted LOD 2000 but, I sure did want Sunny in that outfit back then.

The fact they they bleep Mike Hunt is hilarious. That's a name up there with Richard Head

I can kinda understand being wary of booking them strongly and featuring them heavily cos Jeff might go off the rails again. It's a risk. Plus I think they are done as full time wrestlers.

Matt Hardy has to have CTE.

Dude can barely walk or kneel, he should had retired a long time ago. Same with Jeff.

I can't really blame AEW for not wanting to have the Hardys do much. The moment either of them do anything they look like they're in agony and I don't think that's them overselling. I think both need to retire for their own sakes, get whatever issues they have sorted, then take a backstage role that won't leave them clearly suffering all the time. They both look like a tragic in-ring (or out of ring) accident waiting to happen.

It's almost as if Jim knows how to run a wrestling show or something Free advice that Tony Khan won't use

"Just stay on the apron and tagged in your brother that drew the money" - Brian Last

Listening to Brian read Matt's quotes it makes me truly believe Matt has CTE

AEW fans want The Hardys to renew their rivalry with Edge and Christian, the problem is Edge doesn't want to do that stuff or kill himself anymore. Plus the Hardys need to stop that crazy crap anyway. Matt thought he would have free reign and run things, looks like he getting his reality check, AGAIN.

Sounds like Matt needs those flowers that he was ranting about before 😂

Thumbnail is hilarious because it's true for both brothers. Bravo Travis.

Someone needs to give him some flowers!

Aew creative is unstoppable! I love season 4 of "I thought we were friends "

Matt Hardy is last guy to ask about "frustration" with AEW while being advocate for the EVPs. That being said, the Hardy Boyz influenced the wrestling business where AEW wouldn't exist without them. Their bodies has been broken down and they don't resonate anymore. TK booked them poorly from the start. No excuses.

How can AEW not take advantage of having the Hardys AND Edge and Christian? It wouldn't be hard at all to revive that rivalry.

AEW the place where friends live love and laugh

Matt hardys walking to the ring like Yosemite Sam that's probably why the creative is not there for them 😂

I have no sympathy for the less over Hardy brother. He convinced Jeff to leave WWE and allegedly a world title plan with Roman to mix it up with these AEW botch monkeys AFTER HE CRACKED HIS SKULL ON TV. The last time he was ever noticeably over was the Edge & Lita angle and he can’t catch back up to that.

Something tells me Matt saw CM Punk's pop return to speak out about this, lol. Matt should talk to his flowers, friends, the buccaneers, lol.

Butt hurt that Edge and Christian is being treated like a stars

That Jeff Hardy idea is so simple but would be so effective. A redemption arc. Not over the top where he becomes preachy but simply him being a normal flawed human being who is just trying to be better.

Why was 'Mike Hunt' bleeped? Oh.

I just can't believe Matt & Jeff are still killing themselves physically. Wish them the best.

The truth is they shouldn't be a tag team anymore Jeff established himself as a single star years ago day one that's what he should have been..

Matt Hardy is upset he’s not getting his “flowers” I forgot they were even still in Aew.

matt basically said what jim said from the beginning bring them in to get over younger talent while still staying hot as one of the most iconic tag teams of all time

Brian last is enjoying every second.

I think the problem is that nobody can trust Jeff anymore so nobody wants to push the Hardys. If I was booking this stuff, I wouldn't push the Hardys because Jeff is one mistake away from screwing up all your booking. I don't know if I would really put the Hardys on at all because there is more talent that needs to be focused on insteading of watching the Hardys jobbing all the time.

Matt being cross eyed fits his career trajectory these last few years perfectly 😆

I mean the Hardy's are not what they were ten years ago but i think they need to fued with edge and Christian once their rivalry is over. Besides what other tag team would be beneficial for them to beat anyways??

I honestly think the one thing that would still help AEW out tremendously is hiring a dedicated booker with real experience. The “inmates running the asylum” followed by “rich mega wrestling fan playing with his toys from his toybox” was less of an issue/able to be overlooked in the early years when everyone had fresh, new ideas and/or wrestling fans would just overlook that type of thing because AEW was new and “would grow out of it”. We’ve come to surprisingly (or unsurprisingly depending on who you ask) discover that that blueprint was not sustainable long term and once the company was out of its honey moon phase. AEW’s booker is when you strip it down to its bare essentials, a guy that’s never booked wrestling outside of fantasies in his head like some of us have as mere fans. Tony needs to wake up. AEW still has a ton of talent and was on the rise for a while. It’s stagnated. I would go as far as to say it’s growth is stunted. Like imo it could continue to grow and become a better wrestling product but it just feels like they’re stuck for whatever reason. Whether it’s disorganization/chaos or straight up delusion that they’re where they need to be already. If they simply got a real booker and Tony Khan was just able to sit back and be the money man it would at least move the whole company in one direction versus feeling like the promotion has a rope tied to each limb and it’s being pulled apart by fcking stallions or something. Keep the variety in wrestling styles. I like that they showcase western, Japanese, lucha, etc styles. That’s not the problem. It’s overwhelming presence and feeling of disorganization and aimlessness. I want to be optimistic (no matter how it clashes with being realistic) and believe that AEW can get on the right track and start climbing upwards again but I just feel as an outsider fan/viewer observing all this that there are people in the promotion making or influencing decisions that just aren’t seeing where they’re at and where they should want to work towards being.

My 10th grade Geometry teacher was in fact named Mike Hunt. He was the head football coach too. I kid you not. It was a gold mine of wise cracks.

Are we all just gonna ignore the fact that there guys have a head that looks just like hunter Hearst Helmsley ??? The detail of the artwork is just immaculate

Jeff Hardy just being lost in the lower mid card shuffle is all you need to know about Aew.

Matt and Jeff could easily walk out on an episode of Dynamite and say, Hey, we're the f'n Hardy Boys. We've been doing this for 25 years. We shouldn't have to be begging for TV time, so we're taking it and we're calling out any team in the back to come out and try to make a name for themselves at our expense.

The Hardys were ranked at number 94 in the PWI 100 Tag Team list, just behind the Dark Order.

I actually forgot that the Hardys still existed in AEW. 🤦🏿‍♂️

Christian was right when he said in his promo that Matt uses others to stay relevant. In the same interview Matt went on to name-drop Christian and how Christian is doing a great work which is why he should get a chance as well. Welp he has never been as good as Christian on the mic and neither were Jeff and Matt ever as over as E & C. Both Christian and Adam Copeland have more brand value attached to their name and people would still pay to see them in the ring even if it's just holding a microphone, as proven by the views their segments get on RU-vid.

Jeff hardy should have been a mentor to Darby Allen. Try and warn him about the dangers of putting your body though crazy shit and the consequences that come with it.

Matt needs to give the AEW creative team their flowers

Matt sounds like he's after Dave Meltzer's record for incoherent" YOU KNOWS "AND LIKES!!!!😵‍💫

This is why you don’t talk shit about you former employees. Fat Hardy has pretty much burned bridges in wwe and to a certain degree TNA Fat Hardy at this point should be happy Tony gave him a job

So are they both going to show up drunk to a show, get released for not wanting to go to rehab and finally show up on TNA?

We have a saying in English football, "his/her legs have gone"--meaning, the player in question is too old and/or too injured to have the stamina and strength and physical ability to play routine full hard matches across a season. In those cases, the player either retires and becomes a coach or pundit, or stays on but only as a perma-bench player or a substitute in easier games to guide and support the full-time juniors. This is what the Hardy Boys need to do, now. They can no longer work every show or PPV, and perhaps not even every month. They can't do the hardcore stipulations any more, either. Time comes for us all, and quicker for those who have a bused their own bodies.

He wants to leave, why not just teleport out of there?

Whats messed up is the fact I knew a friend since Middle School by the name of Michael Hunt...

I forgot that the Hardys were still there

I love the hardys, but at this point i find it difficult to watch Jeff doing swantons in meaningless matches at his age and mileage. Or doing any meaningless matches period. They both deserve better, but especially Jeff after all the legendary bumps and high spots he has given us fans over the years.

I understand that addiction is an illness, but I have ZERO sympathy or respect for a guy that repeatedly puts people’s lives at risk and drives drunk. Jeff is completely untrustworthy and Matt walks like he just pooped his pants. There’s very little value in them in 2023

"Jeff's in this amazing spot right now." Translation: he's sober

What happened to the Flowers 💐?

I miss the "Hardy Drama" videos from back near the beginning of AEW. Hearing about random drones and people teleporting between ice machines sure was a lot more fun than what we're getting now.

I'm often guilty of writing every last word the person I'm listening to says, including the "you knows".

Hate to say Hardy’s are washed!!!

At this point, pro wrestling is already hoping TNA 2.0 will prove to be able to be what AEW and TNA 1.0 failed to be. At this point, it's just a matter of time before it all crumbles under its own weight and guys like Matt are getting ready to abandoning ship.

If Matt wants to put the blame on anyone he need not look far. Have folks forgotten that Jeff screwed up their big return by getting arrested once again? They were in the midst of getting set up for that "last run" till Jeff did what Jeff does best... or him being disgruntled is a work.

...CM Punk really did make a difference in AEW... 🤔 ...before he was hired, all those seemingly weird signings of mid-carders and WWE castoffs didn't make much sense...then Punk was hired...and all those seemingly unnecessary signings like Matt and Jeff Hardy could at least be like "we're anchored by CM Punk"...but, now that he's gone...despite all the "former big names" and NXT standouts...AEW looks like such an indie company with their matches and wrestlers...

Yes more Cornette