Matt Hardy Says The Undertaker Is In The Running For Booker Of The Year

On the latest episode of Extreme Life Of Matt Hardy, the TNA star talked about The Undertaker — Mark Calaway — as a key creative force behind the mask vs. mask match down in AAA between Chad Gable and El Grande Americano II. You can check out some highlights below:

On The Undertaker As AAA’s Booker

“Clip this right now: Undertaker, Mark Calaway? He keeps up matches like this and angles like this, he is in the running for Booker of the Year, no doubt about it. And I saw him a couple of times and I joke with him about it. But legit, it was so good. This s**t was so good.”

On Taker’s Booking On the Show:

“I could see the match being structured like this with Taker, especially with those run-ins. I’d guess that was Taker… I learned so much from him. I got to work with Taker quite a bit whenever I did the Matt Hardy Version 1 thing. And I was kind of like, I was Brock’s minion to a degree, and I got to work with Taker in several different matches and house shows.

“But the fact that he’s he’d say, ‘I’ll just let this breathe a little bit. This is going to be such a big moment.’ And he didn’t outright say it, but I think too, it’s like, ‘We don’t need to do more, because it’s me.’ Wichout being egotistical, ‘We don’t need to do more, because it’s me.’ But I see myself doing that exact same thing now… When we worked with Sinner & Saint, we were talking to them about the match and they wanted our feedback. I was like, ‘Let’s find a different way to get into that. I don’t think we need to do all that — let’s milk that out, and we’re donna get a reaction, and the crowd will ride it.’ In those moments I feel like Taker talking to early young Matt Hardy.”

On Taker’s Style:

“Taker made a point — he said, ‘Hey, if that’s really your girl, you’re not going to let that happen.’ Because people are looking at this from a realistic perspective. At one point, I was more motivated to think about spots and what’s going to make people pop, but he made me realize there’s such a true story and realism aspect to this too, and if you can interweave that with everything else, it makes things so much better.”

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