Matt Hardy Interview
Wrestling Observer Live On EYADA.com
Wednesday July 26, 2000
Hosted By - Dave Meltzer and Brian Alvarez
Tonight's Guest: Matt Hardy
(One Half Of The Hardy Boyz)
The show opened up with Dave and Brian covering the Smackdown tappings as well as the Thunder tapings.
They also cover their most recent poll which was: What was the better show? Raw or Nitro. And as we all should know by now Raw won the poll.
Dave said they would have Matt Hardy on in about 10 minutes.
-Commercial Break-
-Matt Hardy Joins The Show-
Matt talks about how he and Jeff wrestled in their backyard and how they sort of self trained themselves. His first wrestling "gig" was at a state fair or county fair I can't remember which. Matt and Jeff ended up buying the ring they wrestled in at the fair and started their own wrestling federation called OMEGA. Dave said that they where now going to take some phone calls.
The first caller asked if before their WWF push if they ever felt used by the company? Matt said him and Jeff never had big egos and that they just did whatever they were told to do. Then Matt mentioned that Jeff's first WWF match at the age of 16 was against Scott Hall/Razor Ramon. Dave wanted to know who their idols were when they watched wrestling when they were younger. Matt's were The Free Birds and Macho Man" Randy Savage, Jeff's were Sting and The Ultimate Warrior, and Shawn Michaels.
Another caller asked what Matt's favorite wrestling match was. Matt said it was Shawn Michaels v. Razor Ramon form Wrestle Mania X.
-Commercial Break-
When they came back Matt took more emails and phone calls. The first caller back asked how it was working with Lita. Matt said they have pretty much grown up with her and that they are good friends, and that she is a good worker and has a lot of talent.
Another caller asked if his relationship with Jeff has changed since they broke into the WWF? Matt said that of course it would be due to the fact that in the WWF they spend every waking moment with each other it's only natural they would want time apart from each other and that it never used to be like that. Matt also talks about how the WWF is very open to their ideas for matches and rarely ever shoot down a spot they want to, but he said that on occasion they have nixed a spot or two.
Another caller asked if there were any teams outside the WWF they would like to face. Matt said for sure 3 Count and maybe Rey and Juvi.
An email asked if Matt and Jeff were fans of Lucha Libre. Matt said a fan yes, but he prefers more of an old school approach as opposed to doing move after move after move.
-Commercial Break-
The first call they got to when they came back asked if Matt or Jeff is worried about falling wrong to some of the high spots that they do? Matt says they don't think about it when they are in the ring but before he says that fear is almost always there.
An email asked if there was any one he would like to work singles matches with. He said for sure Chris Benoit and Eddie Gurrerro. He then talked about the detail that went in to the planning for the Triple Threat match at Wrestlemania 2k.
Another caller asked if he was jealous of Jeff because more people tend to focus on him more. Matt said he wasn't because he will admit that Jeff is an awesome athlete and that again they don't have big egos and they don't pay to much attention to it.
Another caller asked Matt if there was a dream tag match that the Hardy Boys would work against any two other WWF wrestlers who would it be? Matt wasn't too sure but mentioned HHH and Chris Jericho (That would be an awesome match).
Another caller wanted to know what Matt's favorite Hardy Boy match was. And obvious answer being the ladder match against Edge and Christian, he also mentioned the tables match vs. the Dudleys at the Royal Rumble.
The final question came in from an email asking his opinion on Trish Stratus. Matt thinks she is open minded and will do anything that is asked of her and that he admires that.
That was the end of the show and Dave plugged WrestlingObserver.com