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#6. Hope is true: AEW swerves fans with Brodie Lee and Matt Hardy

Brodie Lee

Let's switch gears to AEW. The company had one of its most incredible episodes behind closed doors - one that saw Brodie Lee fka Luke Harper make his AEW debut as The Exalted One.

According to PWInsider, AEW swerved fans with the Matt Hardy teases and Brodie Lee was always planned to be 'The Exalted One'.

Sportskeeda's Karan Bedi wrote:

The Hardy teases were a blatant misdirection in order to keep the ruse going and mainly cover up Lee's debut. Once AEW confirmed Lee's availability, he was given The Exalted One gimmick.

In the case of Hardy, his arrival in the company was already a foregone conclusion as The Young Bucks appeared in his Free The Delete series and had 'buried' him as well. The last video he released coincided with his debut on AEW Dynamite.

We hope this is true because it was an excellent move by AEW - especially since it was always known that Matt Hardy was jumping ship. It'll be interesting to see what Brodie Lee and Matt Hardy can offer to AEW.