I’ve watched The Final Deletion twice now and I’m still trying to put it in WWW context.

10 thoughts on “I’ve watched The Final Deletion twice now and I’m still trying to put it in WWW context.”

1. I like to think of it as ICP backyard wrestling attempting to run a storyline

2. I couldn’t make it past minute two, so ¯\(ツ)/¯

   My boy Ian Williams thinks its great and may have some insight to share, tho. https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/the-hardy-boyz-renaissance-is-here-and-its-glorious

3. I…don’t know if there ANY context in which to put the Final Deletion. I mean, there’s definitely a call back to the Hardy Boyz starting out in backyard wrestling, but beyond that, the closest analogue I can come up with is maybe the 1960s Batman TV show…and when Jeff Hardy is the sane, regular man of an angle, you know things have gotten weird.

   I don’t want to see it all the time, or every with any frequency, but as a one-off, it’s definitely…well, you can’t say there’s anything like it, which is hard to say in an industry that’s been trying to compress Cornette’s “Seven Year Rule” of re-booking storylines into three or four years.

4. Let me state than I am 100% in favor of this existing and more people doing weird-ass concept wrestling, I just…can’t deal with “Broken” Matt Hardy. Watching him is like chewing foil for me.

   (I mean, I enjoyed the “New Day”-Letion segment on RAW, and that was objectively bad. But at least it was interesting!)

5. I adored it. Just my favorite thing in years. I’m very comfortable insisting that Jeff isn’t really in on the joke, which is why I think it works.

6. To be fair though, he DOES have a lovely violin.

7. I don’t follow DDT really but I sure have watched some of those matches!

8. Matt Hardy was at the same time the best and worst part of the Final Deletion.

9. Ok. I finally made myself sit through the whole thing and here’s my judgement: you’d play The Final Deletion with Ian Williams’s Action Movie World

10. :thumbs up emoji:

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