In the world of professional wrestling, there are three routes to take a character. You can be the hero, or ‘babyface’. There’s the chance to be the villain, or the ‘heel’. Or you can go down the middle as a ‘tweener’, and dabble with both sides depending on the crowd. There has been massive success found with all these routes, but most wrestlers find they can be themselves most as a heel, making it the preferred route. However – these days, being the heel can sometimes lead to someone just trying to be cool, which veteran Matt Hardy now warns against.
Matt Hardy Believes Wrestling Shows Need Variety
On this weeks episode of the “Extreme Life of Matt Hardy” podcast, Hardy would have a chance to air some grievances with modern wrestling, in particular with fans online. He’d first go after the need for more shorter matches and gimmicky finishes, instead of just in-ring epics. Hardy would be quoted saying the follow.
“In this day and age, and Tony Khan is of this mindset too, I think he would rather have a really great, kickass match, go out there for a long amount of time, not a long amount of time, but for enough of a time that you can have this be a magnificent match that is worthy of four or five stars, whatever it may be. That’s just kind of like his mindset. A lot of the die hard wrestling fans are like that now. There are some people who are more casual people that are cool with things that are shorter, they don’t mind it, and probably like gimmicky finishes. It’s just different mindsets and I think it’s good to have a bit of all of that. I think pro wrestling should be a variety show.”
Ignore The Internet And Stick To Your Role In The Ring
As for his opinion on heels in the modern era, he feels there’s too much pressure from the internet to ‘be cool’. Hardy feels wrestlers should ignore the internet, and stick to their role.
“I feel like some heels want to look cool because they’re worried about what people are going to say on the internet. Once again, f**k the internet. When it comes to feedback and opinions, you’re job if you are a heel out there, it is to do dumb sh*t and embarrass yourself and to always have the good guy have the advantage on you and to turn things around on you and make you look dumb. That’s the whole point of it, so you can’t be afraid to go there. There’s something to be said for that. I feel like too many current heels worry about what the internet says, like, ‘I really want them to say I’m good. I want them to think I’m good.’ That doesn’t matter. Your job as a heel is to be booed and have people hate you and to get heat.”
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