Hardy has also helped mentor the young duo of Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen over the past 18 months, featuring a litany of multi-man matches alongside the tandem known as Private Party and playing a major role in their continued evolution in AEW.

In the history of tag team wrestling, The Hardy Boyz can only be rivaled by a short list of competitors, but one of them is undoubtedly a fellow pair of brothers: The Young Bucks. After working together in ROH back in 2017, both the Jacksons and Hardys now find themselves working for Tony Khan and Matt believes passing the torch to them six years ago helped lay the platform for AEW’s inception in 2019.

“The Bucks, we’ve loved those guys for over a decade,” Hardy said. “I remember the night before we returned to WWE at WrestleMania 33, we wrestled the Bucks in a ladder match at Supercard of Honor. I told Matt and Nick that we were going to WrestleMania the next day and I can still hear myself saying, ‘Tell everyone you beat the Hardys for the Ring of Honor World Tag Team Titles. Use that, man. Use that.’ That’s how pro wrestling works in the grand scheme of things.”

Recently, Hardy urged fans to ‘give these guys their flowers’ in relation to The Young Bucks and “Hangman” Adam Page, leading to an ugly back-and-forth exchange with Jim Cornette and Brian Last.