Matt Hardy on TNA’s Workforce Reduction & Reason for Talents Departures, Carlos Silva’s Role in TNA, Rumors of WWE Buying TNA, His Interest in Potentially Joining TNA Creative, & More

A recent episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast featured co-host Matt Hardy giving his thoughts about former TNA Head of Talent Relations and booker Tommy Dreamer and others recent departures from TNA Wrestling.

“We’re actually going in the opposite direction. They’re actually saving money. The reason a lot of these people want to leave is because they’re being offered per-night deals, and it is what it is.”

Hardy also gave his thoughts about TNA President Carlos Silva’s current role in the company.

“Carlos, his job, love him or hate him, is to streamline money and make the company profitable and maximize profit as much as you can.

He [Silva] doesn’t have a wrestling mindset at all… If someone goes like, ‘hey, if I can’t get a full-time deal, I want to go, he doesn’t have a wrestling mindset at all…he [Silva] goes, ‘okay, if this isn’t working for you and you don’t want to be here, I’m not going to hold you up. I’m going to let you go.’ Which is definitely not the wrestling mentality, not something that Vince would do, not something that TKO would do.”

Hardy also gave his thoughts about the online rumors of WWE would be trying to buy TNA within the near future.

“So financially, TNA is okay. We’re not about to be bought by WWE right now. I know that’s the rumor. I think down the road in a few years that [could] happen, whatever. But right now that is not happening.”

Hardy also gave his thoughts about how he would like former WWE writer Nick Manfredini to be brought in by TNA to lead their creative team goign forward following Dreamer’s departure.

“I would bring in Nick [Manfredini], who worked with myself and Bray [Wyatt] back in WWE, [and] who was a writer there already. Because I felt like he was really layered in the way he could do stuff.

He knew how to treat us as special or as different. If there’s something in a supernatural aspect you’re trying to get out of these two characters, he knew how to utilize them. Where he also was very good at utilizing characters who were just legit wrestlers, who just go in the ring and wrestle.”

Hardy also gave his thoughts about his interest in potentially joining TNA’s creative team.

“I think I could help with that (creative). I feel a little torn and split, because I am still, obviously with Jeff [Hardy]…I think they look at us as the top draws of TNA, so that makes it a little trickier too. But I mean, when it’s all said and done, I would like to work on other people’s stuff and try to do what I could to maximize everything like that. I do know, from what I’ve heard, there is someone’s going to be coming in very soon, someone new, and it should help things out as well.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com 1 & 2