Matt Hardy May Have Stayed In WWE If Triple H Was In Charge

Current AEW star Matt Hardy has opened up on his decision to leave WWE in 2020 in favour of Tony Khan's promotion.

Speaking with The Daily Mail, Hardy noted that his decision was partly fuelled by the belief that Vince McMahon had desires to transition him from being an active wrestler to a backstage producer:

"I think Vince had already made up his mind. He wanted me to make the transition into being a producer and that's where he saw me at. So, I knew as long as he was in charge he's ultimately going to get you there, because that's just how this is. If Vince sees you in a certain light or certain way, and that's where he wants he's gonna get you there. You know they threw some big offers on the table saying myself and Jeff, we can do something with Bray, and they, you know they were trying to appease me in different ways and whatnot, and give me something that would be satisfying. But I knew Vince was ultimately going to move me off being a wrestler and move me backstage, and I just wasn't ready to do that yet," Hardy said.

Continuing, Matt revealed that Paul 'Triple H' Levesque offered him a spot on the NXT roster. Had Levesque been fully in charge of creative at the time, the former ECW Champion may have considered the proposal further:

"[Triple] H gave me a very generous offer to wrestle in NXT and do some [of] my Broken Matt. Maybe give me a little bit of a stable, and then [I would] still be able to supplement that by being a backstage producer with WWE. If it would have been the era where Triple H was in charge, I could have ended up saying then, 'Maybe'. But it was the right call for me to leave and step out to AEW."

Hardy recently teased his plans for AEW All In on August 27.

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