This past Tuesday on “NXT,” fans were left with the impression that the hostilities between NXT Tag Team Champions The Hardys and DarkState were about to get “broken.” That is because Matt and Jeff Hardy were seen on the Hardy Compound, alongside Matt’s wife Reby, their children, and Senor Benjamin, having reverted back to their “Broken” Matt Hardy and “Brother Nero” personas. The duo then proceeded to challenge DarkState to a “Broken Rules” match at NXT Halloween Havoc, leaving some to imagine the match could also be an old-fashioned, Final Deletion style bout.
Because it seems, that will not actually be the case. On Thursday’s edition of “Wrestling Observer Radio,” Dave Meltzer, citing a press release made by Matt Hardy, indicated that the match wasn’t expected to be a cinematic style match, at the very least in the identical vein as Hardy’s previous treks through the Broken Universe. While Meltzer suggested that it was possible some elements of the match could tackle a cinematic feel, it had been decided the match would happen on site and never on the Hardy Compound, in an effort to maximize potential ticket sales.
“Matt Hardy said that it will be an everyday match,” Meltzer said. “He actually said that. I mean, they might do…they are going to be in the world, because they desired to ensure that fans knew, since the…they haven’t got a ton of tickets. It is a small constructing, they’ll probably pack it. But they desired to ensure that everyone knew the Hardys were going to be there.”
Cinematic or not, it can be the Hardys’ second defense of the NXT Tag Team Championships since defeating DarkState to win them at “NXT vs. TNA Showdown.” They’d previously defended the titles successfully at TNA Certain for Glory, defeating long-time rivals The Dudley Boyz.
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