Jeff Hardy Interview

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This is the interview with Matt from Channel Surfing With Lisa from the Chicagoland Comcast channel. It's just a simple interview. They're both sitting in seats int he Allstate Arena, in Chicago, IL. Matt is wearing his brownish, velvet shirt, buttondown..top three buttons un-buttoned..lol

Matt: Once we started watching it, and just became big fans, we were like wow this is the coolest thing ever. Imean these guys were real life superheroes. These are real people. Wrestling has so much athleticism, its got drama, you know it's got humor. Its got everything. Everything rolled into one.
Lisa: Right. Well you took the tag team between you and jeff, you took it to a different level. I remember back in October of '99 for no mercy, you guys came out with the ladder match. and you blew people away 'cuz they did not think anybody could possibly do any thing like you did in the ring.
Matt: And that was definetly a milestone, for both of our careers, you know for myself, Jeff and Edge and Christian. You know that was really point. I've said it a million times and i'll say it again. That was the point were we went from WWe wrestlers to WWE superstars. Because we really elevated ourselves and from there you know the race has been on.
Lisa: Well how do you get past the thing in the ring where you in the ring and your on a ladder thats at least 10 or 20 feet high. In your mind, thinking 'Oh My Goodness, could I possibly get hurt in a match like this' Or is that something you just don't think about because you have a tendency to let that happen
Lisa: So how does it feel now that you're a singles wrestler, you've got Mattitude going on,
Matt: Yeah! Mattitude is running a muck!
Lisa: I know. So how did that all come about. So where did Mattitude come from?
Matt: Well I just knew that whenever Jeff and I split from each other, and he was on Raw and I was on Smackdown, It was time for us to develop several personalities, I went ahead and took the initiative that I was gonna develop my own different personality, you know I was goin somewhere different. So I came up with the whole Matt Hardy Version One. Version One saying how this is the true and pure form of Matt Hardy, you're not seeing the extension of Matt from the Hardy Boyz tag team. You're seeing the actual Matt Hardy. And then Mattitude just developed on. I was actually joking with one of my buddies down in the gym. I said "you know for the longest time is was WWE Attitude. What if I said that it was a new era that i'm ushering in, and it's WWE Mattitude" And we'd start laughin, Wow, that's actually catchy. I said if you'd say that it would actually catch on. And there's so many ways i've used it you know. "I'm gonna give you a Mattitude adjustment,". You know now I have Mattitude Followers, or MFers, to call for short. Shannon Moore runnin around. Actually he's at home right now doin my laundry. He's gotta get thew it cuz he's gotta mow my grass today too.
Lisa: That's incredible. So the response that you got from the crowd then, I mean so they just excepted it right away?
Matt: Yeah, I mean it actually caught on really quick. And uh, now it's amazing the about of signs, and I got a real cool entrace too. Actually my entrance is like the windows media player, and on the side it's got what's called Matt Facts. So that's like the funnest part of my day. I come up wtih a couple Matt Facts, like "Matt has a heated toilet seat", that was one of the best remebered ones. Or you know whatever. "Matt has had seven speeding tickets" you know whatever it may be. Amd these are fun every week. People look forward to those. So it's been real fun to come up with your own personality. And somethin that's been catchy and somethin that's been successful. So I just wanna keep rollin' with it. I've got a lot of other ideas that I wanna incorporate into the character.
Lisa: So how differnt is it though for you to be by yourself now and not, you know with Jeff, and part of the tag team?
Matt: It was real different to begin with. Just 'cause I was so used to being in the ring for a few minutes and then tagging out, and catching my breath. But now, you know if your in a fifteen minute match, your going fifteen minutes straight, regaurdless. So I definetely had to pump up my cardio a little bit. And I had to make sure my ring conditioning was at it's peak. You know, the best it could be. So uh, it was differnt at first, but now that i'm used used to it, And i've kind of gotten that mindset of being a singles competitor and it's a lot of fun and really to go as far as you can go in the sports entertainment buisness, in the WWE, you've gotta be a singles wrestler. So it's time for me to do that.
Lisa: Now did you have to create some of your own moves, because I know a lot of the moves you were doing we're feeding off of Jeff. So, I mean, your own your own now.
Matt: Yeah, there's been a few moves that i've added to my aresenal, like the Side Effect, and the Ricocet. I've got a few different things that i've added, you know just because, like you said, going from a tag-team, where you have two guys working together to perform one move. You know now you gotta get your own singnature stuff. So you know incorporate some of that in there, Every thing's really caught on, It's been a lot of fun. Actually you know playing a 'bad guy' so to say instead of a 'good guy' has been a real fun change of role and a good change or pace, because I was doin the Hardy Boyz thing for so long. So it kinda, almost re-energized me career wise too.
Lisa: And the Hardy Boyz, I mean basically you did all you could. I mean, I'm asuming that's why you guys decided you wanted to split it off.
Matt: Yeah, i mean even in the short time that we were together, we'd had two years back to back match of the years. With the TLC matches. You know, we won six Wold Tag Team Titles, we've been in video games, we've had DVDs, and we've got our autobiography out. You know as a tag team there's really not much left to do. So they said, well, lets see what these guys can do as single guys. And I'm up for the challenge. And I hope Jeff is as well.
Lisa: Well I think a lot of people were surprised though, when that did happen. 'Cuase I don't think anybody really comprehended the fact that you guys could actually go your own separate ways. And I know with the division now with Raw having exclusive wrestlers and smackdown having exclusive wrestlers, it has to be different for you too not to be able to mingle with the guys. 'Cause you guys used to travel all the time together.
Matt: That was somethin, once again, that was really different at first. And i've been with Jeff for eight years. You know, so now were not traveling together. It was different to begin with, but luckily I did have Shannon. He did grow up like two miles from me. So it's almost like having another little brother. So it's fun having him on the road too.
Lisa: That's great. So how different is it for you to go from Smackdown to a Pay Per View event at the end of the month? Is it a different atmosphere for you?
Matt: Yeah, basically you know, we're gonna turn up the voltage. And whenever you go to a pay per view, I mean that's our big event. That's where you go once hundred and fifty percent. And that's where people are really paying in to seeing a big blow up match or somethin that's had a lot of build up behind it. And it's time to give people that pay off.
Lisa: And Summerslam is a big, big pay per view event. I mean you've got Wrestlemania, you've got Backlash, I mean actually, every single month, you're guaranteed a big pay per view event.
Matt: Yeah, absolutely. Now I mean with the WWE, we've got more brand name stars and more big stars then there's ever been before. If you look back at Wrestlmania this year, it was loaded. There were like five matches that were like main events. I mean every match that was on Wrestlemania, you know, could have been qualified as a super match. There was no fill in matches on there at all. And Summerslam, it's the biggest event of the summer. And you know, it's right back up there with wresltmania as far as being the biggest events of the year. And everybody's just excited when summerslam comes around. I especially am. Because i'm a big fan of the summer. Um, you know Summerslam's a big event. And i'm looking forward to it this year as always.
Lisa: Like Matt said, WWE Summerslam is one of the most exciting Pay Per View events of the year. It caps off summer and you get to see it live on Sunday, August 24th from Phoenix, Arizona.

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