Matt Hardy Believes AEW's New Big Signings Were Unveiled Too Quickly
Matt Hardy thinks AEW's approach to their new signings has been incorrect
In the span of just a month, three of AEW’s biggest free agent acquisitions were unveiled and brought onto TV in the form of Will Ospreay, Kazuchika Okada, and Mercedes Mone. Their respective full-time debuts came one after another, and one former AEW wrestler believes this was the wrong way to go about it.
Matt Hardy spoke on his Extreme Life Of Matt Hardy podcast, and stated that AEW should’ve taken their time introducing each new signing and building them up gradually to avoid anyone getting lost in the shuffle.
"Will Ospreay, who was incredible, one of the greatest athletes I've ever seen. You have Will Osprey show up. Boom. It's a big deal. I feel like that is something that should have been talked about for four to six weeks directly after that. Okada, boom, Okada is a big star. Still a lot of the people here in America are probably familiarizing themselves with him, obviously, you know, especially a more casual fan if you understand my idea of the AEW casual fan, people in America that might not follow New Japan Pro Wrestling. So he shows up the next week and I feel like that should have been a big deal there for four to six weeks. We should have really highlighted him. The week after that, boom, Mercedes Mone shows up, and that could have been another big deal for four to six weeks. You had jammed a lot of stuff on the program and into the viewers eyes and I feel like these events could have been longer and taken more time to develop and really highlight how big of a deal it is to get this huge superstar to AEW."
He went on to note how each new signing got caught in the other’s buzz, rather than having their own time to get introduced to the AEW audience.
H/T WrestlingNews.Co
