Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News - I’m Oli Davis, and today is December 1st,
so you know what that mea- Stop your mysterious tweeting, Luke Harper.
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for Survivor Series 1998 - where Mankind became a babyface, Big Boss Man wrestled in about
19 different matches and The Rock turned heel with Vince McMahon, cementing him as WWF’s
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Interestingly, the opening dark match for Survivor Series 1998 was between tag team
Too Much (who would later be renamed as ‘Too Cool’) and two young backyard wrestlers
called Matt and Jeff Hardy.
Broken Matt Hardy HAS BEGUN!
And here, almost 20 years later, Matt appears set to restart his career all over again.
Hardy leading a ‘DELETE’ chant on this week’s Raw has opened the floodgates on
his Broken Gimmick’s ownership battle with TNA.
PWInsider first reported that Impact Wrestling has ‘given up’ on the intellectual property
dispute, then Sports Illustrated revealed Matt will portray a WWE version of the character
on Raw, likely to be called ‘WOKEN’ Matt Hardy, and then TNA President Ed Nordholm
confirmed the Broken Universe now belongs to Matt to do with it what he sees fit.
So now attention turns to Broken Matt’s fight in the Great War, for which Hardy needs
his soldiers.
So arise, Vanguard 1 from your Twitter slumber!
Matt’s loveable drone has posted its first tweet since February, sharing a gif of a program
rebooting.
This follows Senor Benjamin’s tweet “me llamaron” - which many of you kindly informed
me in yesterday’s WrestleTalk News means “did someone call me?”
Not, ‘where is the library?
Yes, I’ll have the fish’.
Confirming that he really is getting the band back together, Hardy has posted a video on
his YouTube channel entitled It Has Begun [IMAGE], with the description:
It has begun.
The #7Deities have WOKEN my #BROKENBrilliance on the plane identified as WWE.
Senor Benjamin, PROCURE my Coat of Battle.
The #GreatWar has begun.
The video reveals Senor Benjamin procuring Matt’s coat, soundtracked by haunting piano
music - possibly teasing Reby Hardy is also involved.
I’m guessing you’ve already all seen the video though, by the amount of ‘Support
WrestleTalk’ posts in its comments section.
Maybe the SWAFT Nation should also join Broken Matt in the Great War.
AJ Styles Speaks Out On WWE Retirement Rumors On Survivor Series weekend, AJ Styles told
The Box radio station that he’s working hard now, so he can enjoy time with his family
when he leaves wrestling…”in a couple of years”.
The Wrestling Observer pointed out this ties in with what AJ has said in the past, that
he’ll retire around the age of 42… and he’s 40 years old now.
For a moment, it was feared those plans had been drastically sped up, with a fan tweet
going viral about Styles retiring after April’s WrestleMania 34.
Thankfully, this was shot down by the WWE Champion himself, who simply tweeted back
‘Wrong!’.
After telling his mum that AJ had replied to his tweet, and making the reply his phone’s
lock screen background, he then apologised to Styles for spreading the ‘fake news’.
To which the kind-hearted AJ replied once more:
“No worries kiddo, thanks for being a fan.
One day I will retire, just not anytime soon.”
There seems to have been at least one WWE release.
And will Daniel Bryan return to Ring of Honor next year?
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