In an episode of his podcast, The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy, TNA World Tag Team Champion Matt Hardy discussed various topics, including his brother Jeff Hardy’s desire to be transparent about his inability to attend TNA Under Siege.
Matt Hardy said, “Yeah, Jeff was a big advocate of that too. He really wanted to be very transparent and just be straightforward. He’s like, ‘Oh, come on man,’ as opposed to doing being injured, like ‘Let’s just be straightforward with it.’ I think Tommy Dreamer had a good point even about using it to get The Nemeths heat in what we were doing.”
On the Nemeths understanding the situation:
“First and foremost, I want to say one thing I am proud of. Whenever they came out with that promo and they acknowledged like, ‘We’re going to give you this title shot but we’re going to give it to you in Ontario, Canada.’ The crowd [cheers]. They said, ‘We’ll even make it a ladder match’ and the crowd [cheers]. They’re all excited about it. And then, Nic Nemeth is like, ‘Hey brother, he’s got a problem with the [cops], he can’t cross the border.’ He says, ‘Oh well, guess it’s off.’ They got so much massive heat in the building. Our goal through all this was to try the best we could to get Ryan up to where Nic is in terms of heat, trying to make him a more serious legit competitor. I feel like we’re achieving that so I am very happy about that.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)
