[Deconstructing the Movesest] It’s Time to Nut Up Matthew

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So it happened. Last week I said that Vince needs to introduce Matt Hardy and it happened. I’m not saying that they’re listening to me, because even Kevin Sullivan could see that it was time for this to happen. Great, now we can end this pining to get him back on TV, despite him Hardy he’s coming back full time for weeks now. the “We Want Matt” chants will stop, probably not the “You Screwed Matt” chants as those are more directed at Edge.

But now the hype’s over. It’s an angle now. It’s a WWE storyline with a pre-determined ending. The explosiveness of the situation has been extinguished and Hardy calling himself “Matt f*****g Hardy” will stop too. Us vs. Them? Right, more like “Me as a part of Them.” You might think that I’m being pretty harsh on Hardy now that he’s back on TV again, and you’re right. There’s a reason for that too.

For Hardy, it’s time to nut up. He’s already sold himself out by agreeing to come back into the company and fight Edge at Summerslam. Who’s gonna believe that he’s gonna actually hurt Edge? Maybe the ‘tards in the WWE live journal community, but not me. Now he’s on Vince’s dime and he’ll play by Vince’s rules.

And you know what else? Now he’s gotta put on the match of his life against Edge. And if he doesn’t, this whole experiment has been a failure. The ball is in his court to really make us believe that he want to “kill” Edge. His words were pretty harsh, even for WWE TV. So let’s run down a little laundry list of issues that we have going on here.

1. I have a problem when kayfabe is broken as much as it was. Kane didn’t ACTUALLY get married to Lita? Wait a second, how could Lita be cheating on Kane if she was cheating on Hardy with Kane on TV, but cheating on Kane with Edge AND cheating on Hardy with Edge all along? So if Lita wasn’t really going home with Kane all those nights and she went home to Hardy, why was he all pissy when she got married to Kane? Didn’t he just see her later that night? And where did she get that ring if Kane and her weren’t married. And if she didn’t marry Kane for real, when why was he mad when it ended? Didn’t he just have to stop PRETENDING to be married to her? why did he get so mad as to steal the ambulance she was in after he tombstoned her?

2. So was the Edge/Lita wedding a farce too? Does Lita really go home with Edge every night?

3. Why did Kane get arrested? I mean, if a wedding can be staged, can’t a ambulance jacking be staged too? Doesn’t it sound like Kane’s being told what to do? Why doesn’t he sue the WWE for allowing him to get arrested?

4. Why should we believe Hardy now when he’s telling us that we shouldn’t have believed anything up until this point.

This has more holes in it than why Tom Lister Jr. went crazy and started believing he actually was the character he played in “No Holds Barred”.

I like then the line between work and shoot gets blurred. I loved watching Jeff Jarrett lie down for Hogan instead of jobbing to him and watching Vince Russo shoot on Hogan in something that absolutely COULD NOT be real. Or hearing Jericho say that wrestling is not as important to him anymore because of his band, or when Vince admitted that he ran the company and maybe he was a bastard after all… Breaking down those boundaries can be innovative and exciting, but this might have gone too far.

There’s always been hints that there are writers and storylines and the like, but no one’s flat out said that things were fake. Well, people have, but not in this fashion anyway. This storyline’s been going on for so long it’s hard for me to remember what feud Kane was in before this all began, or who Matt Hardy’s last feud was with. This is the longest running story in the WWE right now, and the way to step it up might not be to say that everything up to this point was a load of crap.

But now this entire angle rests on the shoulders and the wrestling ability of Matt Hardy and Edge. Not the writers. If they can pull off a believable match at Summerslam, then more power to both of them, but if it’s unmemorable then they both would wind up shooting themselves in the foot. Wait, scratch that, Edge has his title shot so he’s got something he can fall back on.

Matt Hardy? He can easily get lost in all this, and if he doesn’t nut up at Summerslam, this whole experiment could be a bust.