It is no secret that professional wrestlers needed to earn the respect of their friends within the bygone period, and except their baptism by hearth was full, they needed to endure the bodily torment of those that got here earlier than them. 

AEW star Matt Hardy lately supplied an enchanting perception into this “honor system” of the enterprise, recalling the years when The Hardys had a collection of matches in WWE in opposition to Farooq and Bradshaw of The APA. Hardy would recount the story when requested about “the worst receipts” he is saved and handed out over the course of his profession. 

“I’ve by no means really given anybody a receipt,” Hardy clarified on the “Excessive Lifetime of Matt Hardy” podcast. “There have been occasions the place I’ve realized that I have to battle again. There was a time after we have been working with The Acolytes, they usually have been beating the s–t out of us. They dropped the titles to us, we have been the tag group champions, and we labored a few occasions after that, and I am like, ‘Holy s–t, they will have these titles again. We’re within the report books — I am good.'”

Hardy then recalled a dialog together with his brother, Jeff, in regards to the extent to which Farooq and Bradshaw have been getting bodily in The Hardys vs. APA matches.

“I used to be like, ‘I do not understand how for much longer I can take this. That is like abusive!'” Hardy recalled. “After which when have been in there, Bradshaw beat me down within the nook. I keep in mind beating him as laborious as I may within the face, and the following factor I had was only a very tender [jab to the face]. 

“So, it is a kind of issues the place the old-timers — the place guys would beat you up and make the most of you … till you did not allow them to. Till, like, you stood up for your self. I believe that was form of a case of that.”