For greater than 25 years, brothers Matt and Jeff Hardy have been one in every of the preeminent tag teams in pro wrestling. Nevertheless, they have not at all times been paired up together. Matt and Jeff notably split for the primary time in 2001 and several other times thereafter, and based on Matt, WWE’s Paul Heyman once desired to do something drastic to separate him from the Hardy brand.
“At any time when I split from Jeff and the primary few weeks they played the Hardy Boyz theme music, they were just hoping I’d get booed, and I ended up getting cheered,” Matt recalled during an episode of his “The Extreme Lifetime of Matt Hardy” podcast. “But [Heyman] just said, ‘I used to be fascinated with it. We must always change your name to something; we’ll give you a primary name. Something… Something Guerrero. And we’ll just say you are not a Hardy.'”
Matt claims that Heyman told him they’d find yourself pretending that he has Mexican heritage, specifically relating himself to the Guerrero family, and that he’d tell fans that he prefers going by that as an alternative of being a Hardy. “That did not occur though,” Matt added.
Previously, Matt went into further detail in regards to the experience, adding that he was going to be teamed up with Chavo Guerrero and continuously take shots on the Hardy name. Nevertheless, this all led to him pitching his ‘Version 1’ gimmick as an alternative, which Vince McMahon absolutely loved.
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