Current AEW Star and pro wrestling legend Matt Hardy recently took to an episode of his "Extreme Life of Matt Hardy" podcast, where he spoke about topics such as how he declined to say anything about pro wrestling veteran Chris Benoit during Benoit's memorial show on an episode of WWE Monday Night RAW as there were still a number of suspicions in regards to everything that went down.
Matt Hardy said:
“I was asked to do a testimonial [about Chris Benoit]. But I said, ‘I’m okay’ and I declined to do it because as the day was going on, as you know, more info started coming out and they weren’t really sure about how his family died and there were just some guys that were suspicious that it could be foul play. So I was one of those guys who declined to speak just to be safe. It was a very sad day, obviously, extremely sad and just remarkably eerie in every way possible because of what we were there to do that day with the Vince [McMahon] storyline, explosion angle and then to have that real-life scenario set in on you like that, it was so crazy man.”
Matt Hardy also spoke about how there were still a number of guys who did do testimonies and how they were supposed to celebrate Chris Benoit’s wrestling career and life on that day, but it was just very sad and unfortunate how it all ended with Benoit.
Matt Hardy said:
“So yeah, there were guys who did do testimonies and it is what it is. That was meant to celebrate Chris Benoit’s wrestling career and his life. It’s just very sad and unfortunate how it all ended with him and I don’t know, it’s inexplicable to even try and explain why that happened or how that happened or could ever happen and just at the end of the day, it’s heartbreaking and just sad.”
You can check out Matt Hardy's comments at this link. H/T to PostWrestling for transcribing the above quotes.
