5 Things TNA Did Better Than WWE

#4 'Broken' Matt Hardy

It was more Wonderful, in Impact

After over 20 years in the business, Matt Hardy managed to re-invent himself to an incredible degree back in 2016.

In May of that year, Matt debuted a new persona as a "Broken" man with part of his hair bleached blonde along with a strange sophisticated accent, who would refer to defeating his opponents as 'Deleting' them. While most looked at the whole angle as a wrestling B-Movie, it still managed to get incredibly over. The whole gimmick was really the talk of the wrestling world in 2016, with the ever entertaining and hilarious skits every week written and produced by Matt himself and Jeremy Borash, as well as his crazy 'Deletion' matches.

When Matt and Jeff Hardy parted ways with Impact Wrestling in early 2017, they left the Broken Universe behind them as certain aspects of it were tied to Impact and Anthem. When Matt finally gained the rights to it in November 2017, the character made is way to WWE TV, with mixed results. While Matt does have a lot of creative control over the character, WWE did not use it to the best of their power.

Matt's promo's and segments remained the same after just one fully Broken one (featuring he battling a fish in chess), and his feud with Bray Wyatt ended badly when the two formed a tag team. Today, Matt's in-ring future remains in question. It wasn't all bad as we did get 'The Ultimate Deletion' on RAW which was highly entertaining, and the House Hardy Halloween special which was also a fantastic watch, but the character still fared off far better in Impact Wrestling.