"TNA Is Not Going Out Of Business!" - 10 Questions With Matt Hardy

6. How did it feel to be booked to win the TNA World Heavyweight Title at Bound for Glory and then have to relinquish it the following week? Surely you must have been hoping for a long run with the title?

Obviously, in a perfect scenario, I would love to have had the title and to have really been a representative of TNA, and to have been a champion taking on all challengers and to have had great title matches. I feel that I would have been up to that job. But the way circumstances were, and the way fate would have it, we had to go into this World Title Series, which was going to happen on TV for a couple of months, and it was what it was. Looking back in hindsight, people said, €œAren€™t you furious?€ and no. I feel very blessed and I feel very honoured that I was able to win the TNA World Heavyweight Title in Charlotte, North Carolina, my home state. I had an incredible moment that night, where my dad, who is 80 years old was alive and my son, who will be four months old tomorrow, was alive, my wife, my brother, Shane Helms, my best friend, and all my friends and family were there to celebrate with me in the ring. That was such a special moment for me. Those moments don€™t come along in every wrestling lifetime, and so I was honoured to get that. Sure, in a perfect world, I would€™ve loved for it to be a long, prosperous title reign with a lot of great title defences. But what Matt Hardy does, and what professional wrestling has to do in this day and age, what you have to evolve and get your mind to, is that you have to take whatever scenario you€™re given and you have to make the most out of it, so that€™s what I did. For that Sunday night and that Monday, I celebrated as much as you possibly could, and across social media, I let people know how happy I was. It was short lived, and the way I look at it now is that I€™m just going to work that much harder to get my second reign and make that my long, rightful reign.