Matt Hardy criticizes what WWE has done to WrestleMania

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“It is a different product. It really is. It feels very mainstream. They have all the advertisements and everything else, but it feels very different from standard WWE. And I think it is hard for a lot of people to grasp WWE changes. I can say this, being older, I sometimes hate change,” he said.

Ariel Helwani added that WWE WrestleMania 42 didn’t feel the same and called out the company for cutting time on entrances and overdoing it with the advertisements. Hardy agreed with Helwani’s comment and noted that there were far too many ads.

“And you are not wrong. It is definitely so evolved and so different from the initial concept of what WrestleMania was. As a mega-event, right? It felt very prostituted because of all the ads and everything else,” he added.

Matt and Jeff Hardy currently perform for TNA Wrestling. The popular duo dropped the TNA Tag Team Championships to The System earlier this month at Rebellion 2026.

Matt Hardy explains why former WWE star failed in AEW

Former WWE star Matt Hardy explained why Jeff Hardy did not work out in All Elite Wrestling.

Speaking on The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, the former champion stated that his brother messed up a few times while he was in AEW, and that is why their time in the promotion did not go as planned.

“He [Jeff Hardy] seemed good for a while. He just still had his demon – the big demon he has tattooed on him now. He still had that demon that was kind of holding him back. I don’t have any complaints about that at all. I understand why he [Tony Khan] was going to be having second thoughts about doing whatever with him. The sad thing is: Jeff’s had a few f**k-ups and then maybe at that point, Tony Khan was like ‘I don’t know if I can trust him,” said Hardy. [H/T: Wrestling Inc.]

Matt Hardy also expressed during his interview with Ariel Helwani that he expected the business relationship between WWE NXT and TNA to “heat up” again soon, following WrestleMania 42.

If you use the quotes from the first half of this article, please credit Sportskeeda Wrestling for the transcription.