10 Ways WWE In 2017 Could Have Been COMPLETELY Different
9. Flat Broke
A end-of-year treat after months of legal wrangling between the man himself and Impact Wrestling finally came to a close, the emergence of Broken/Woken Matt Hardy on WWE television was as big a gift to Bray Wyatt as it was the wider wrestling fanbase.
Unquestionably the biggest beneficiary though - and deservedly so - is Matt. Gaining renewed life on an even greater platform than the one he erected for himself in 2016, the character looks set to triumph yet again as an other-worldly delight in an company propped up by mundanity.
And really, what could those over-worked creative heads done for him that would have competed with merely a chuckle and deranged grin from his out-there alter-ego?
To Matt's credit, he'd never fully abandoned the character, if only for his own amusement. In hindsight, that was one of the smartest moves of his entire career.
After Jeff went on the shelf this summer, Hardy spent months working as the token tag partner of any performer WWE were heaping more focus on. He'd been a useful utility player once too often everywhere he'd worked - it was now or never for MEEKMAHAN to take a chance or for the gimmick to lose the great war once and for all.