6 New Directions For WWE After Elimination Chamber 2018

6. Jeff Hardy Returning To Rejoin Matt

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This is more hope than anything else.

That 'Woken' Matt Hardy vs. Bray Wyatt match at Elimination Chamber was a shambles. A card-filler at best, the humdrum nature of the match did nothing for either man and, worse, only showed WWE's dependence on 50/50 booking in the mid card. There was no reason for this pay-per-view match other than to give Hardy a return win over Wyatt from Raw 25.

WWE's next move is surely reuniting Matt with his brother. When Jeff returns from injury (which should be soon), it's critical that The Hardy Boyz enter the tag-team division again. They can bring their wacky gimmicks with them and rehash more stuff they've already done in TNA. Anything is better than watching Matt vs. Bray Wyatt again.

Hardy's 'Woken' gimmick hasn't caught fire in WWE. It's just not the same as it was in 2016, and it won't be so long as he's booked the way he is. Why would kids watching Raw care about Matt? In their eyes, he's a veteran wrestler who returned with his sibling and suddenly turned into a giggling psychopath.

Jeff can't come back soon enough.

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