Matt Hardy confirms AEW contract is up this month

Matt Hardy has confirmed that his AEW contract is coming up this month and that he is unsure what the future holds for him.

On his Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, Hardy said he was surprised the news first reported by Fightful got out earlier this week as he doesn’t like to talk about those things publicly and that it didn’t come from him.

Hardy said he has spoken with AEW about his contract being up and that “we’ll see what happens.”

He added that he has really enjoyed working with AEW head Tony Khan, someone he considers to be “a legitimately good human being.” However, he understands it’s a business and that things change.

“I love AEW. I am cool staying with AEW. I really enjoy the locker room and vibe there. If that’s not what happens, it’s not what happens,” he said.

The 49-year-old debuted for AEW in March 2020, appearing in the upper balcony of Daily’s Place during the pandemic era of TV. He took part in the company’s first-ever Stadium Stampede match at that year’s Double or Nothing.

Last December on the podcast, Hardy expressed some frustrations with how he and Jeff Hardy had been used during the latter part of the year:

“Just creatively…just the way we’ve been utilized the last four months, it’s been very frustrating. We’ve been very patient but there has been a lot of frustration — things we’ve done, and kind of how we’ve been utilized in some ways.”

Since then, Matt has wrestled just twice — both in tag team action on AEW Rampage — while Jeff has been going as a singles wrestler. He suffered a broken nose in his no DQ match last month with Sammy Guevara.