Below are a couple of top news stories of the day, featuring Hardy Boyz and AEW.
• On last night’s NXT, TNA World Tag Team Champions The Hardy Boyz defeated Myles Borne & Tavion Heights of No Quarter Catch Crew. This was Matt & Jeff Hardy’s WWE return match.
After the match, NXT Tag Team Champions Fraxion (Nathan Frazer & Axiom) came to the ring and challenged them to a match.
TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella came out and made it official for NXT Roadblock, with the TNA Tag Team Titles on the line.
The Usos, Jimmy & Jey Uso, reacted to The Hardys’ return on WWE’s Instagram post.
Jimmy wrote: “Respect.”
Jey wrote: “We still can. One mo time.”
According to WrestleVotes, Matt & Jeff are scheduled to have a WWE main roster run this summer:
“WWE has dropped a brand new Hardy Boyz shirt ahead of their NXT return tonight. Internally, there’s buzz that this is just the beginning, with creative sources optimistic the legendary duo will have a main roster program sometime this spring / summer.”
• A segment on the February 19 episode of AEW Dynamite involving Thunder Rosa, Megan Bayne, and Penelope Ford received criticism due to an awkward moment where Rosa hesitated with a chair while Bayne and Ford didn’t react.
Some speculated that Bayne and Ford ignored the script and went into business for themselves, but AEW sources denied this, attributing it to a miscommunication between coaches / producers, according to Fightful Select.
The issue was addressed after the show, and there are no backstage problems between the wrestlers.
You can watch it below:
Thunder Rosa needs to get the hell out of AEW, man… I'm not even saying for her to go to WWE, this woman can literally thrive anywhere else but here.
If this wasn't the case of a forgotten spot, which I hope it was, they just made her look like a chump. pic.twitter.com/023Bz0JUn3
— Richie Vargas (@RichieRich93_) February 21, 2025
Unlike WWE, AEW does not hold production meetings before TV and PPVs, leading to frustration within the company.
The Wrestling Observer highlighted this issue while discussing this botch:
“The bigger story here than this was just such a f**king disaster is not a week goes by, not one week goes by where I don’t hear from somebody in AEW saying, ‘Why the f**k don’t we have production meetings? We need production meetings. Things happen on every show where if we had a production meeting, they wouldn’t happen.’
But Tony (Khan) refuses to do production meetings, and here we are. This is another one. What in the f**k happened here? Nobody knows. I didn’t get a single good explanation for it. It was just everybody was on a different page, and you made the babyface look like an absolute idiot, and away we go.”
