One-half of the now-former WWE RAW Tag Team Champions Jeff Hardy was recently a guest on fellow WWE Superstar Chris Jericho’s podcast, Talk Is Jericho, where the objective of the episode was to have Jeff meet Dean Ambrose for the first time. During the three men’s conversation, Jeff was asked about a variety of topics including he and Matt’s WWE return, keeping it a secret, and feuding with his brother again in a storyline.
You can read the highlights below:
He and Matt’s WWE return being an inevitability:
“It was one of those things that was inevitable. I think when I did [Jim Ross]’s podcast live at like the House Of Blues back at a couple of WrestleCons ago, that was the big question: ‘are you ever going to return [to WWE]?’ And then, I was like, ‘oh yeah, it’s inevitable.’ I wasn’t sure how it was going to come about, but I always knew it deep down, like you’re not going to know what that extended family means, even back then I remember, ‘we want you to be part of the extended family,’ so yeah, it was inevitable and meant to be in some weird way, just how it all happened was the perfect story. From The Expedition Of Gold to becoming the WWE [RAW] Tag Team Champions. I mean, it’s just the perfect story.”
It being difficult to keep their WrestleMania return a secret:
“We knew that after our contracts expired with that other world, basically, we knew, we’d been through all the deal we had to go through. We just had to keep it a secret and that was so hard. Like, that day of WrestleMania, I was lying like crazy! ‘Will we see you tonight?’ ‘No, I’m on the first flight out of here.'” Hardy added, “even in interviews on the Friday and Saturday before with these people, I even said, ‘yeah, we’ll be with Ring Of Honor through the summer.'”
Feuding with Matt again in WWE:
“I think so, yeah [fans want to see the Hardys together]. Yeah, for sure. Bottom line is people don’t really want to see that. It’s cool for us, like Bret and Owen [Hart] wrestling each other years [ago]. We loved that. Naturally, for us, back in the day, it was awesome. But yeah, the bottom line is people would rather see us together instead of apart.”
H/T Wrestling Inc. for the transcriptions
