5 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Payback 2017

By Scott Carlson / May 1, 2017

3. Matt ‘Deletes’ Hardy Boy

We’ve watched during the past month as Matt Hardy has straddled the line between his old Hardy Boyz persona and the character that revitalized his career last year, Broken Matt.

Sunday night, the crowd and Hardy himself might have tipped the scales even further. The fans chanted “delete” throughout his entrance and called Jeff Hardy “Brother Nero.” But when Matt tagged in late in the match, he himself yelled and gestured “delete” multiple times, lending more credence to that character coming into the foreground.

Couple that with Sheamus and Cesaro calling them a nostalgia act before the match and then decimating them and leaving Matt bloody afterward, and you might have a trigger for a change in the brothers.