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Matt Hardy Reveals The Backstage Reaction To ECW & WCW Closing

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Many years ago, WCW and ECW closed up shop in quick succession. One talent who was around during those days was AEW wrestler Matt Hardy, who recently spoke with Jon Alba about the closures during the latest edition of his “The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy” podcast.

Following the conclusion of both companies, WWE attempted to run their “Invasion” storyline, which featured several WCW talents joining WWE. Additionally, several ECW stars joined WCW as part of the “Alliance” as they came together in an attempt to destroy WWE.

You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:

On the closing of ECW & sale of WCW: “Man, everybody in the WWE hated it. I mean, we know it wasn’t good for the industry, we knew it wasn’t good for the talent. We knew it was gonna take away a lot of our leverage as far as trying to get better deals or trying to get more money. So we hated to see the competition go under. And obviously, we bought WCW and then ECW went under. So it was what it was, but we were not fond of it, none of the WWE talent was.”

On adding ECW to WCW in the Invasion angle: “I thought it was okay. Considering it was — I hated the way the Invasion was played, where WCW didn’t have its own show, it didn’t have its own platform. And WCW guys were constantly on WWE programming. There was a point where every match was like WWE vs. WCW. And I feel like it never had the feel of the dream feud or dream program that it should have had.

“And I feel like adding and injecting ECW into the mix and into the Alliance, it made it more interesting for sure. Was it done perfectly? No, it wasn’t because it would have been much better if people that would have been viewing this whole program went, ‘Oh wow, these are all different entities. There’s WWE, and they’re taking on WCW along with ECW. but it really just seemed like now WCW and ECW were part of WWE. And I think it just watered it down so, so much and took away so much of the dream appeal.”

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(h/t – 411 Wrestling)

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