Matt Hardy is explaining why his arm looked so rough after TNA Slammiversary, and yes, Jeff Hardy had something to do with it.
The Hardys walked out of Boston as the new TNA World Tag Team Champions after surviving a wild Ladder Match against The System and The Righteous. Tables, ladders, chairs, barbed wire, and plenty of ugly landings were all part of the chaos, but Matt says one specific moment went sideways because Jeff decided to improvise with an extra table. Speaking on The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy, Matt first pointed out the bruising on his arm before getting into what happened.
“Just going to say, I don’t know if you can even see it here on the screen. I’ve got a little wear and tear here tomorrow on this side. Some bruising on the arm.”
Matt said the spot was supposed to be simple. He and Jeff had cleared the ring, Vincent was up near the ladder, and the brothers were supposed to set up one table. Instead, Jeff went with the moment, grabbed another table from under the ring, and leaned it against the steel steps.
“Yeah, a little gnarly. And that came from this is so funny. So we had a spot where Jeff and I, we kind of beat everybody up. I had Vincent up on top of the ladder and he was trying to stop me from taking the tower down. And then I ended up ramming his head into the top of the ladder. And then I gave him the deletes all the way down the ladder and his delete, delete, delete. And they just grade the crowd came with all.
And then I told Jeff, I said we must delete these guys. And we started to set up a table and we were just going to set one table. But Jeff is, I was talking to guys about this at TV yesterday, which is so funny. Jeff is like so present in the moment, right? He just, a lot of times he goes just off script. Like if we’ve talked about something, he just kind of does his own thing.”
That second table created the problem. Matt said they still needed the tables intact for later in the match, so when he was thrown toward the steps, he could not crash through the table without ruining another planned spot. Instead, he took the steel steps shoulder-first and paid for it immediately.
“So I ended up taking the stairs like shoulder first and that’s my arm got jabbed right in the point of the stairs. And it was like super swollen and big for those days. But it’s just because I couldn’t break those tables. I was doing damn it, Jeff, Jeff, stay on, stay on track here, man.”
Matt admitted that this is part of what comes with teaming with Jeff. He loves that Jeff follows his instincts and creates wild moments on the fly, but sometimes that also means Matt has to adjust in real time and take the rough landing.
“And it just is where it is. I mean, that happens a lot with Jeff and it’s one of the things I love about him because he is once he just feels something, he kind of rolls with it. But sometimes like, hey, brother, like stay on track, dude. But yeah, it’s all good. Fortunately, that wasn’t anything bad. It was just like a lot of fluid and just a very swollen arm and it’s feeling OK now just looks gnarly and nasty.”
The good news is Matt said the injury was not serious. The bad news is that winning the TNA World Tag Team Titles came with a swollen arm and another classic Hardy story about Jeff turning a planned spot into something more chaotic.
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