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WWE Rumors: Matt Hardy to leave in March, lead AEW’s Dark Order?

By Kevin Parvizi

MUMBAI, INDIA - DECEMBER 5: WWE Superstar Matt Hardy plays football with children from Special Olympics Bharat at ITC Maratha, Andheri on December 5, 2018 in Mumbai, India. (Photo by Satyabrata Tripathy/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
MUMBAI, INDIA - DECEMBER 5: WWE Superstar Matt Hardy plays football with children from Special Olympics Bharat at ITC Maratha, Andheri on December 5, 2018 in Mumbai, India. (Photo by Satyabrata Tripathy/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) /
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Matt Hardy returned to WWE at WrestleMania 33 alongside brother Jeff Hardy in a return for the ages, but his booking in the company has left a lot to be desired over the past three years.

In TNA, Matt Hardy reinvented himself by creating the “Broken Universe”, putting himself back on WWE’s radar for a thrilling WrestleMania return that sent the entire Orlando crowd into a frenzy. While the company did their own version of the “Final Deletion” and tried to call back to some of Hardy’s previous work with the “Woken Universe”, it never took off.

Hardy reinvented himself once before, and he’s certainly capable of doing it again, recapturing the magic he caught years ago before his most recent stint with WWE. There are signs that Hardy is preparing to leave WWE this year, and we now have a rumor on when his exit could take place.

The Wrestling Observer News’ Dave Meltzer reports that Hardy is “expected” to leave WWE in March. PWInsider.com’s Mike Johnson already reminded fans that Hardy’s deal expires on Mar. 1, so it would honestly be a surprise if he didn’t leave the company after that date.

Johnson reported that the biggest obstacle between Hardy and WWE isn’t money, of course, but rather how he’d be used. Hardy’s creativity has been stifled at WWE, partially because that’s the nature of the machine. It’s hard to try new things and push the envelope in WWE, because there’s no need for them to take creative risks.

But AEW – or a smaller company like ROH – could be interested in taking a leap of faith with one of wrestling’s premier creative minds. Meltzer reports that Hardy “is the leading speculated name” to be The Dark Order’s higher-power, drawing a link between the wrestler’s “Release the Delete” videos.

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Based on this latest rumor, it would be a shock if Hardy didn’t end up appearing for another wrestling company in March. AEW looks like the most likely landing spot, since they could use a legend of the business like Hardy to spice things up, and they’d also have the money to pay him something approaching what WWE is presumably offering.

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