Matt Hardy reveals what its like to work with Tony Khan and Vince McMahon

Matt Hardy is one of the rare wrestlers who’s been a featured member of AEW, WWE, and TNA, and as a result, has the inside scoop on what it’s like to work under the two most important promoters over the last 20 years of professional wrestling: Tony Khan and Vince McMahon.

Discussing his experience working for McMahon and Khan on his Extreme Life podcast, Hardy revealed the biggest difference between the two and how he was able to thrive under both promoters.

“Sure, I mean, there’s — when you’re talking about promoters, are you talking about promoters on the highest level? [Higest level.] Yeah, once again, I mean — you know, Vince McMahon, for instance. The stuff he’s accused of is like, f**ked up stuff, and really bad, really crazy. But it’s one of those things [where] without him ultimately giving myself and my brother an opportunity, I am not here, speaking to you. I don’t have this life that I have. And I’ve been very blessed, and I’m very grateful for the life I’ve been given the opportunity to earn through him. So I will appreciate him for that. And I think that’s a positive of story, which can’t go without being talked about,” Matt Hardy explained on his podcast via 411 Mania.

“Tony Khan. You know, recently, he was just in the news. But one thing that I think has been great about him is he has been worried about the people. And I feel like Tony Khan tries his best to look at his wrestling talents as human. Not just wrestling talents, but also human beings. Because there’ll be times where we’re gone for five days to do a Dynamite and a live Rampage, and then a PPV on that Sunday, whatever. And if myself or my brother, we’re not working [it], we’d say, ‘Hey, can we go home and just be with our kids? We’re not hear and you don’t need us.’ ‘Yeah, get out of here.’ And he gets that family time. So that’s one thing I’m grateful to him for. And I do like the schedule there, and I do like if we’re not doing anything. Where back in the day WWE would make you stay just because you are under contract, and you’re supposed to be there regardless of whether you’re doing something or not, [Khan] would cut you loose and let you go home. And that just to me, I think that makes sense. It’s just like a nice, decent thing to do. I mean, everybody. I can, in theory, I could probably go through every promoter and find good qualities about them, because there is something. But there are some promoters who have so much negativity surrounding them, it drowns out everything else. And a lot of times, it comes by their own design.”

Should WWE adopt AEW’s strategy of letting wrestlers go home if they aren’t being used? Sure, it makes sense for all parties involved and would help to garner far more goodwill than it could negatively impact a show. Fortunately, Mr. McMahon isn’t in charge of WWE anymore, Paul “Triple H” Levesque is and based on Randy Orton’s comments, it sounds like things have improved for the better.