On this planet outside the “Extreme Lifetime of Matt Hardy,” the word “botch” carries a negative connotation within the industry. But for Hardy, “botch” is a chance for growth. Nobody is ideal, and the word is well-known but rarely used unless you’re employed in AEW. The previous 11-time WWE/NXT Tag Team Champion explains what he means by this.
“I feel prefer it’s an AEW word,” the present TNA World Tag Team Champion said on his podcast. “The [Young] Bucks prefer it rather a lot…I feel like that mentality, like, ‘Oh, my God, it was a botch,’ or whatever else like that…you’ll never hear it in WWE.”
Hardy joined WWE and TNA’s top competitor within the spring of 2020 and remained there for 4 years before returning to TNA for the second time in his profession. When WWE’s multi-year partnership with TNA began earlier this yr, Matt and his brother, Jeff, made several appearances through the portal, even winning the coveted WWE NXT Tag Team titles. The Hardys at the moment are of their fourth reign with the TNA Tag Titles after winning them at Slammiversary this past July. They currently hold the second-longest title reigns (538 as of this report), behind The Latin American Xchange (Ortiz and Mike Santana) at 662 days.
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