Matt Hardy clarifies podcast statements, did not witness AEW All Out fight
Matt Hardy set the record straight on comments from his most recent podcast where it was misconstrued that he witnessed the backstage fight between CM Punk and The Elite at AEW All Out.
After an earlier story from our website and others took his comments to mean that he was present for the fight, Hardy said otherwise:
My comments from this week’s @matthardypod have been misconstrued. I WAS NOT at All Out 2022. I DID NOT say I witnessed the events at All Out. I witnessed the entire process in real time over the months & stand by my comment that the Elite were not in the wrong.
— MATT HARDY (@MATTHARDYBRAND) November 4, 2022
On the Friday edition of the Extreme Life with Matt Hardy podcast, Hardy said that it’s going to be interesting to see Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks back and that he’s happy they are back.
The comments he said were taken the wrong way are as follows:
“I will say this right here and right now: those guys didn’t do anything wrong in this situation. If anything, they were the victims and I’m telling you that from a first-person perspective. I was there, I witnessed it all.”
In the aforementioned tweet, Hardy said those comments were in regard to the “entire process in real time over the months” but that he stands by his opinion that Omega and the Bucks were not in the wrong.
From the podcast:
“I love all three of those guys. I’ve known Matt & Nick forever. I’ve just gotten to know Kenny while I’ve worked with AEW but I am very happy they are returning to TV and they are back and they are back in the mix. They deserve to be in the mix.”
Hardy was also asked about Colt Cabana appearing on Dynamite this week.
“I was excited for it. It was great. Colt Cabana…he had just been away from AEW for a very long time. It is what it is. I don’t really have to sit here and go into things, but we are in a position right now where he can be back on AEW TV and I’m glad to have him back.”
“I’m glad that their names have been cleared and they are coming back to TV and I’m very happy to see Colt Cabana, who I think is a great human being and also think is a great performer, I’m very happy to see him back on AEW programming.”