Matt Hardy responds to Adam Copeland.
The Rated R Superstar, formerly known as Edge, had made some divisive comments about his last WWE run recently. While speaking about how everyone in the AEW locker room is pulling in the same direction, Copeland had claimed that WWE had become too ‘over-produced and over-rehearsed’ towards the end of his last run with the company and that AEW offers a lot more freedom to talent.
These remarks attracted a lot of negative reactions from fans who noted that Adam’s AEW presentation was not all that different from his time in the Endeavor-owned promotion.
The TNA star was asked about the comments from Copeland and its reaction during the latest episode of his Extreme Life podcast. Matt Hardy, who has worked extensively with Edge during their time together in WWE claimed that Copeland was trying to wave the flag of his current employer like any good employee should do:
You know, first and foremost, I was at AEW and I waved the flag. That’s what any good employee should do. So, I mean, I think that’s a big part of what Adam is doing there. There is a lot of creative freedom in some ways with what you do at AEW. And I think in some ways there’s a little too much.
Things Need To Be Reeled Back In: Matt Hardy
Matt Hardy had talked about the overuse of stipulations in wrestling earlier in the podcast and how they should only be used when the situation calls for it. Speaking in the same line, the former WWE star explained that giving too much creative freedom to talents can lead to a show having repetitive matches instead of having something for everyone watching:
Some things need to be reeled back in because sometimes things get repetitive when it’s done too much, obviously. As we were just talking about at the very beginning with stipulations, like there needs—it needs to make sense to have these stipulations, to have these particular scenarios happen in certain matches or whatever else. Sometimes at AEW, you know, they’re willing to let people go wild, which in some ways is good, but in some ways, too, they need to rein some stuff in.
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