The Dudley Boys have officially hung up their boots and ridden off into the sunset. The WWE Hall of Famers wrestled The Hardys at TNA Certain For Glory. The bout was divisive amongst the wrestling fandom, but less so for the lads involved within the match.
“There have been plenty of, I call them ‘sickos,’ web nobodies who got here and were critical of the match. I loved our match. Our match with Team 3-D, I loved it,” Matt Hardy said on “The Extreme Lifetime of Matt Hardy.” Hardy feels he, his brother, and the Dudleys did their best to make the match nearly as good as possible. “Jeff and I stayed until 4 am, signing autographs. For six hours, people got here to us crying, that happened dozens of times that night, and the indisputable fact that…I used to be with AJ Francis putting him through a table. We’re still working in very competitive matches, doing the whole lot, just working smart…We’re the present guys.”
Hardy feels that while he and Jeff have a nostalgia factor to them, Matt considers them part of the present generation of wrestlers, versus some sort of legacy act.
“We will hang with any act that’s going today, especially if we play to our strengths,” Hardy said.
Matt and Jeff aren’t just TNA Tag Team Champions in the mean time, as additionally they hold the WWE NXT Tag Team Championships, putting them up against young teams like Dark State. Playing to Matt and Jeff’s strengths, The Hardys will defend their NXT Tag Titles in a Broken Rules Match on the upcoming Halloween Havoc event.