8 Reasons Why Billy Corgan Buying TNA Is Best For Business
2. The Broken Brilliance Continues
Few wrestlers have ever pulled-off a late-career resurgence quite like Matt Hardy, and even fewer have done it in such a unique manner. Broken Matt Hardy is a weird, ridiculous, over-the-top, and utterly daft idea, but it’s one of the most talked-about angles in professional wrestling today, and rightly so.
Broken Matt and Brother Nero are viral sensations. The Final Deletion brought more buzz to TNA than the company has seen in years, and Delete or Decay and Bound For Glory’s Great War only amplified the hype. In tapping into his inherent weirdness, Matt has created brilliance, and TNA is the perfect stage for his act.
The Broken saga has been so successful that WWE are allegedly interested in bringing Matt back once his TNA contract expires, and if McMahon does end-up buying the company, he’ll be one of the few wrestlers he looks at retaining. Can WWE really be trusted not to ruin everything that makes the act so special, though? History suggests not, and with the majority of his creative freedom stripped away, Broken Matt will flounder on Raw or SmackDown.
Should Corgan buy the company, one of his first acts should be securing Matt to a new long-term deal. The Broken Brilliance would continue, and fans wouldn’t be forced to sit through whatever watered-down version WWE’s writers would serve-up.