Re-signing Matt Hardy and feuding him and Edge

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Vince sees way too many dollar signs in the form of smarks wallets for PPV's to see how this one would play out if they booked it right.

 

That and the fact that the chants are only going to get worse.

 

So, pick a time frame and the winner......uh.....the winner gets bragging rights. Whopdee-fuckin-doo.

 

I'm going with 3 months to allow Matt to get his Hardy Boyz/Indy time in with a slow build angle surrounding Lita and Edge starting to occur around that time.

[Enigma 0]

At the PPV, they did show Lita gazing at the monitor with a grin on her face after Edge beat Benoit.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

So I heard.

 

It kinda sucks that we're in the days where the walls of character and kayfabe are thin because back in the day Matt Hardy would've worked other territories while Edge built up a huge heel persona only to have Matt return for the huge surprise pop. It'll be very difficult to maintain any level of secrecy for this angle.

 

Is Jeff under contract w/ TNA?

[LessonInMachismo 0]

It kinda sucks that we're in the days where the walls of character and kayfabe are thin because back in the day Matt Hardy would've worked other territories while Edge built up a huge heel persona only to have Matt return for the huge surprise pop. It'll be very difficult to maintain any level of secrecy for this angle.

At the same time, there would be no buildup because people wouldn't know about the shoot happenings that were never acknowledged on TV...

[Lord of The Curry 0]

I say they pair Lita and Edge up before the angle and don't actually reveal the shoot details until Matt returns. JR would have a field day with that shit.

[NoCalMike 0]

I'd love for them to pair up Lita & Edge, only for Edge to start fucking some other ring rat, which means Lita gets fired in the process.

[LessonInMachismo 0]

I'd love for them to pair up Lita & Edge, only for Edge to start fucking some other ring rat, which means Lita gets fired in the process.

The bolded clause is an example of why we love you, Mike.

[edotherocket 0]

Dude won't be resigned and we'll all rue a missed opportunity.

[Scroby 0]

I'm sorry to sound like a prick about this but seriously why do people still care about this? I mean I undertsand peole think it was really fucked up what happen and all but still, its sorta becoming old news and people are just making topics that were already said or applyed in the thread that was put up when the news first broke out about Matt and Lita breaking up. Whats the point about starting the same discussions over? Sorry, I'm just tired of seeing the same crap about this over and over again.

[Adam 0]

Because it has blown up in their faces so badly Scroby, listen to the fan reactions. JR and King aren't acknowledging the chants, but still, you can't ignore something that big. People are pissed at Matt getting fired, and they are being heard loud and clear at every RAW event of the last few months. I think if this benefits anyone, it'll be TNA if they get Matt. Push the guy, advertise him like the greatest thing ever.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

I doubt they hire him back. I think the only way they bring him back is if they freak out last minute about a Hardy Boys reunion and sign him on like day 88 of his 90 days. Otherwise they'll just wait out the fans.

 

They've only listened to the fans once and that was with the Blue Meanie. All that lead to was them never using the Meanie until they could fire him like a year later without the fans getting upset.

[Scroby 0]

Yeah I understand the fact that this whole thing blew up in the faces of the WWE, but honestly thats not the WWE's fault. Nore is it Lita's or Edge's, it's Matt's and I say that because he went out to the general public and he let them in on what was going on. Honestly, I understand where Matt was coming from, but it was a mistake to go that way. Instead of keeping his personal life and buissness life private, he went public, before even being released. Instead of just shutting up about it and settling down and trying to fix it privately he opened his mouth and when he told his readers about it the very first time, Matt basically dug his grave. Everyone knows when it comes to WWE, they want stuff like this to be quiet till cooler heads have prevailed. If anything, he had the time to cool off and he seriously just could have moved on with his life, he could have sat down with both Lita and Edge and could have came to some kind of buissness understanding. Unless he's got that big of a emotional attachment problem. But I will say this...that whole thing Trish did about "The Curse of Lita" was damn correct.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

Yeah, cause it's not Edge sleeping with Lita or the WWE firing Matt Hardy which caused this... it's Matt Hardy talking about it on his website. The other 3 parties are completely innocent...

 

I don't think the WWE will hire Hardy back until 2006 or after they feel he won't be a backstage problem. Right now, I just think they can't see a way around the Lita/Edge thing so they are going to make it a storyline and hopes that it will go away now that they've addressed it. Since they lost Trish, their #1 heel female and they don't have anyone to fill that spot, they can have Lita do that, pair her with Edge, feud him with Kane for a while, and then put someone like Christy Hemme with Kane to round it out. Lita finds another woman to "train" against Hemme (since Lita herself can't wrestle) and there's your (shitty) womens title feud.

[Fro 0]

Yeah I understand the fact that this whole thing blew up in the faces of the WWE, but honestly thats not the WWE's fault. Nore is it Lita's or Edge's, it's Matt's and I say that because he went out to the general public and he let them in on what was going on. Honestly, I understand where Matt was coming from, but it was a mistake to go that way. Instead of keeping his personal life and buissness life private, he went public, before even being released. Instead of just shutting up about it and settling down and trying to fix it privately he opened his mouth and when he told his readers about it the very first time, Matt basically dug his grave.

How is he digging his own grave? Matt is more over than he's ever been. Edge is actually drawing big heel heat for once.

 

There's huge money to be made on this.

[Promoter 0]

Vince Russo would know what to do with this situation. The wwe writers today will just screw it up once they acknowledge the scenario Lita/Edge/Matt are in. Man, I wonder how things would have been in 1991 in wcw with the internet if Flair got fired. I mean it is Matt Hardy of all people(although he did have a cult following with his brother).

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

I don't know how much money could be made on Matt/Edge. The appeal, for the fans, is that this is real. It is not something the WWE wants, it is not something that is forced on 'us', it is something that the fans have chosen to be interested in. If they (the WWE) made it into a storyline, it would cease to be real. The appeal of a match between the two would have to come from "whether or not Matt would cooperate". They would have to make it seem like that there is a very real possibility that Matt would shoot on Edge in that match. They (the writers) don't know how to do that. Bischoff would LOVE to get his hands on this storyline, while Vince just wants it to go away.

 

For a storyline to work, they'd have to use all their resources to make it work. Have Edge work a house show in (or near) South Carolina (or where ever Matt lives) and have Hardy rush the ring and get a shot in before immediately getting taken out. Have him actually get arrested. Have the report of his arrest get "leaked" to The Smoking Gun, mug shot and all. Have him do a commentary on his site trying to explain the matter. If this situation has proved anything, it is that information travels fast on the internet and with the IWC. "Leak" a video (a fan cam) on-line of Matt attacking Edge, have the WWE try to "remove" the video to no avail. Put plants in the audience that are dressed up like Matt Hardy and have them interact with Edge as if they are teasing him. Have him rip up signs on the matter. Make sure very few people know the "truth" of what is going on so that Meltzer, or anyone else, will report that it's a work.

 

Then have Edge open up his own website and talk about the matter. Create a messageboard for him, have Matt Hardy post on that messageboard, and let them air their dirty laundry. Part of the appeal of this story for fans is that "we're not supposed to be reading this". Have Edge apologize and then have the matter resolved. Matt posts on his website that he has cooled down and that he is "over" the issue. The WWE feels "safe" hiring Matt Hardy back, and put him on a 90 day probationary period. Matt makes his return to television on a night that Edge has "off". The only reference to Matts leave made on television is that Hardy had some "personal issues" that he had to take care of, and now is back better than ever. To this point, not a single word has been said on TV about the two fighting. Then, after a week or two, they put Matt and Edge in a program together over the most absurd reason possible, just to have them feud. Say, Edge steals Matts wristband.

 

They have a tag match against each other on RAW, they only interact once and Matt "accidentally" injures Edge and the match can't be finished (A chairshot that was a lil too hard, maybe?). Have everyone act confused, have the show halted for a second, go to a commercial break and comeback with JR and King go over what happened, and then go on with the show. Report on WWE.com that Edge received x amount of stitches, have Hardy say on his website that it was an accident, have Edge say on his website that there are no hard feelings. They have a house show match, the same thing happens. Edge gets "injured". Reports online are coming in that there is heat on Hardy and that he is "taking liberties" with Edge in the ring and that Edge is getting concerned that he will get injured in another match and wants out of the program with Hardy. A match, nonetheless, is set up on PPV. A report of Edge and Hardy getting into a fight backstage is leaked, this time it was Edge who initiated it. It was "broken up" before anything could happen. The WWE wants to fire Hardy and plans to after the PPV, but they can't call off the match because they already set it up and have nothing else to fill it with. Again, all of this is "leaked" information.

 

I think that working the internet is always a bad idea, but in this case, I think it is the only way to make good money from the two having a match together. A traditional storyline won't work, because the heat for this feud hasn't been garnered in a traditional way.

[cabbageboy 0]

I think it'd be the best angle they would have done in years, but it takes considerable time to GET to it. 1. They have to sign Matt Hardy again. 2. They have to get Lita away from Kane (storyline marriage), which would mean she turns on him and shacks up with Edge. Thus, that'd mean a Kane/Edge feud before you could even bring back Matt. Let's say Edge wins that feud, then you bring back Matt. By that point this whole thing may well have died down.

[Zack Malibu 0]

Let us not forget that the head of talent relations absolutely despises Hardy.

[CBright7831 0]

Let us not forget that the head of talent relations absolutely despises Hardy.

Who is head of talent? Gerwitz?

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

Let us not forget that the head of talent relations absolutely despises Hardy.

Who is head of talent? Gerwitz?

Johnny Ace.

 

And he's not a popular person these days.

[Dimensions 0]

Let us not forget that the head of talent relations absolutely despises Hardy.

Who is head of talent? Gerwitz?

John Laurentis

[Promoter 0]

Reading RRR's post I think Vince might be right not to do this angle. Matt Hardy will end up looking like a putz. They have to get Lita from Kane whom she doesn't hate anymore. She gets with Edge and then Matt Hardy comes in angry that Lita left him for Kane and now Edge? He would look like a punk and knowing how the fans are they will start cheering Edge for being a player. They could have done this angle starting at Mania by having Matt in the ladder match instead of Kane. They probably blew it already. They could have Matt team up with Trish to go against Lita and Edge and it would have really worked.

[Guest netslob]

yeah, screwing Lita, that makes Edge a "player". that chick's easier to get into then Arizone State.

 

(credit: Ned Flanders)

[Promoter 0]

EXACTLY!!!!!!

 

So, what does that say about Matt Hardy fighting over a whore whining on the net? Then take into account he lost his job over the slut. He will look like a man-bitch, while Edge took his girl. Edge is a player when you look at his record of infidelity. Then consider he played his friend Matt for a fool and how does Hardy look good in all of this? I bet if they do run this angle Edge will somehow become the face with this creative team's inept "creativity".

[justcoz 0]

I posted this in another thread. Lita announces that the baby was Matt Hardy's all along, Lita had an abortion at the request of Edge, who she's been sleeping with the entire time. Kane never slept with her because he couldn't perform and was so stupid he believed the baby could still be his. Kane flips out and out comes Edge who throws a fireball in his face, eliminating Kane from the picture for a few months. Enter Matt Hardy.

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

If a guy fucked my girlfriend, I would NOT get together with the guy to make money off of it.

[Styles 0]

They don't resign him. They have Lita turn on Kane and do the on air storyline with Edge, using Kane in Matt's spot. It's a win-win for them as they don't have to give in and rehire Matt, and they can deflect Edge and Lita's heel heat towards Kane in the storyline...

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

He didn't mention being fired.