10 Bridge Burners You Will Never See In WWE Again
1. Matt Hardy
Hardy has already caused WWE significant problems.
Never one for knowing when to shut up, he was famously fired by WWE after disclosing the affair Edge had with his then girlfriend Lita back in 2005. He returned in a worked shoot to transpose the behind the scenes rivalry to the screen, but WWE were evidently more interested in the buzz than the payoff. He was practically castrated in their subsequent feud.
From there, he found regular work in TNA and ROH, impressing in the latter with his intentionally overbearing ex-sports entertainer persona, but he in that timeframe committed the cardinal WWE sin of assault and battery in a 2014 incident with wife Reby Sky, which would have raised red flags in Stamford.
Earlier this year, perhaps sensing that he had little to lose, he did a Bret Hart and described Triple H on Twitter as merely being an "OK" wrestler, whose pet project NXT brand is a "developmental group full of amateurs", only able to find a home on a subscription service his "work built".
There's an obvious in-character element to these tweets, but he's hardly endearing himself to a WWE that has changed significantly since he left.
WWE have allegedly reached out to Jeff since he appears to have laid his drug demons to rest, but he was a bonafide singles star between 2007 and 2009. Matt, with his similarly chequered past, doesn't have the same bargaining power.