{"id":26039,"date":"2018-09-16T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T16:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=26039"},"modified":"2018-09-16T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T16:23:07","slug":"matt-hardy-finishes-in-ring-career-with-wwe-time-for-me-to-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/09\/16\/matt-hardy-finishes-in-ring-career-with-wwe-time-for-me-to-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Hardy Finishes In-Ring Career With WWE: &#8220;Time For Me To Go Home&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, following a tag match with Bray Wyatt at a WWE Live Event in Corpus Christi, Texas, <strong>Matt Hardy<\/strong> released a video where he states it was his final appearance as &#8220;Woken&#8221; Matt Hardy in a WWE ring. It comes amidst a summer of speculation, from peers to fans alike, as to Hardy&#8217;s future, not only in the WWE but in professional wrestling, as Hardy mentioned a longstanding injury that was worsening and also showed himself working as a producer\/agent backstage at WWE events.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TIME TO GO HOME\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y8_a4nUlUqU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s been a lot of speculation for quite a while online, if I&#8217;m going to be wrestling any longer or not, and WWE fortunately let me fulfill all my advertised commitments. But tonight, in Corpus Christi, this was the last advertised commitment I had, and I never say never&#8230;or as &#8216;Woken&#8217; Matt Hardy would say, NEVAH say NEVAH&#8230;but tonight here in Corpus Christi is most likely the last time you will ever see &#8216;Woken&#8217; Matt Hardy in the WWE ring.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>When he&#8217;s asked what&#8217;s next, he replied, &#8220;Well, I have two young kids and wife. It&#8217;s time for me to go&#8230;it&#8217;s time for me to go home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks for the massive love tonight, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWECorpusChristi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWECorpusChristi<\/a>.. I fulfilled my final advertised live event commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Please support my partner, @WWEBrayWyatt, going forward. He\u2019s outrageously talented &amp; we\u2019ve become kindred souls during our time teaming together. Thank you, SAMAEL. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YI70qHpGOJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/YI70qHpGOJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MATT HARDY (@MATTHARDYBRAND) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MATTHARDYBRAND\/status\/1041162358499028992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The announcement, while seemingly a retirement announcement without saying as much, but that may not entirely be the case. Just a week ago, Matt Hardy &#8211; during a fan Q&amp;A on his YouTube channel &#8211; mentioned that he wasn&#8217;t opposed to bringing &#8220;Broken&#8221; Matt Hardy back to <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong> or <strong>Ring of Honor<\/strong> &#8220;if something didn&#8217;t work with the scheduling&#8221; in WWE.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;In a perfect world, in a perfect scenario, I will finish the remainder of my career with WWE. When I came back to the WWE, I really wanted to and it was really important to me because I feel like I owed\u00a0WWE\u00a0a debt. I hated how I left in 2010\/2011. I was just burned out on every level possible and I wanted to come back and leave on a high note. I felt like I owed them a debt in many ways.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;With that being said, I&#8217;m not naive enough to say &#8216;I will never leave WWE,&#8217; anything is possible in this world, we don&#8217;t live in a perfect world, we don&#8217;t live in a perfect scenario. Sure, could I see myself going back to\u00a0IMPACT Wrestling or Ring of Honor, if something didn&#8217;t work with the scheduling, or whatever the job was, if it conflicted with my family and I could do a shot here and there, kind of have my own schedule, almost like a\u00a0Chris Jericho\u00a0does? Sure, it&#8217;s a possibility.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matt&#039;s Fan Q &amp; A - 9\/9\/18\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G3ayIMrmAmc?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In early August, Hardy revealed that his lower spine and pelvic bones were starting to fuse together due to a long standing injury, which lead many to believe that his diminishing presence on television, alongside his transitioning to working as a producer, meant that his in-ring career would be ending sooner than later.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This maneuver was called EVENT OMEGA.. <\/p>\n<p>And is most likely the reason that I\u2019ve recently learned that my lower back &amp; pelvis have started fusing together. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FzYebvIIc0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/FzYebvIIc0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MATT HARDY (@MATTHARDYBRAND) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MATTHARDYBRAND\/status\/1025836716706463744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s worth noting that Matt Hardy mentions in his video from Saturday night that it&#8217;s the last time we see &#8220;Woken&#8221; Matt Hardy in a WWE ring. Perhaps Hardy&#8217;s earlier words may ring true and he may end up departing the WWE for another run on the indies, bringing his Broken Brilliance back to IMPACT and\/or ROH, as well as other promotions for a final run before his injury removes him from the ring forever.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HARD TRUTHS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NfHG2_juQTk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But retiring is never an easy in any profession, especially so in wrestling. Some show the toughness of such decisions in public, like the on-screen retirements of <strong>Edge<\/strong> or <strong>Daniel Bryan<\/strong>, while some prefer to ride off into the sunset like <strong>&#8220;Stone Cold&#8221; Steve Austin<\/strong>. Perhaps we&#8217;re reading too much into his wording and it&#8217;s simply a 26-year veteran of the ring having trouble putting into words that his in-ring career has truly come to a close.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the future holds for Matt Hardy, we wish him luck. We&#8217;re sure it will be BRILLIANT!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, following a tag match with Bray Wyatt at a WWE Live Event in Corpus Christi, Texas, Matt Hardy released a video where he states it was his final appearance as &#8220;Woken&#8221; Matt Hardy in a WWE ring. 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