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Former WWE star Paul London recently spoke to Nick Hausman for a inside the ropes And he spared no punches when it came to putting Matt Hardy on blast.
London’s influence on the current AEW star stems from their joint time in WWE. At Armageddon 2006, Paul London and Brian Kendrick, the then Tag Team Champions, defended their titles in a four-way ladder match against MNM (Johnny Nitro and Joey Mercury), The Hardy Brothers (Matt and Jeff), and the team of William Regal and Dave Taylor (formerly The Blue Bloods).
This match, unfortunately, is mostly remembered for the horrific “swing spot”, which saw Joey Mercury suffer a broken nose and broken orbital bone after Jeff Hardy jumped on one end of a ladder causing the other end to slam into the MNC member’s face.
According to London, not only was the spot superfluous for the match, but it was also taken without the rest of the field being in the ring:
“We had no idea Matt—that stain had been put together. That was something they went and put on their own.” (H/T: inside the ropes)
Also, London takes issue with the fact that Matt Hardy never went to visit Mercury while in the hospital after the stunt:
So yeah, crap, crap. And mind you, one of those backyard nonsense was the only one—the person who came up with this thing was probably the only one who didn’t go visit Joey in the hospital afterward. We all went to see him afterward. I don’t care. Even by the man. But as a co-worker, man of the match, yeah, I’m going to go check on this guy, because he might lose an eye. I don’t know the extent of that injury, we’re going to go check on him.”
Former WWE Superstar Paul London Calls The Hardys “Glorious Backyards”
It’s no secret that Matt and Jeff Hardy rose through the ranks in the wrestling business after starting out promoting in their own backyard. Paul London believes the brothers carried this mentality into their WWE Armageddon 2006 match.
during the same inside the ropes In an interview, London also poked fun at Team Extreme by offering his interpretation of the brothers’ thought process about the swing point:
“So let’s get our backyards together because we’re glorious in the backyard.” So let’s do what we do. We are in Virginia. We’re in the backyard of North Carolina. Let’s do what we do. This is what we do.'”
Joey Mercury has since recovered from his injuries and continued to wrestle more until moving into a backstage role in WWE and more recently Ring of Honor.
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