Indi Hartwell Says It’s ‘Crazy’ Being In TNA Wrestling With Matt & Jeff Hardy: ‘They’ve Been Wrestling For Longer Than I’ve Been Alive’

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Former WWE star Indi Hartwell has shared her thoughts on being in TNA Wrestling at the same time as The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy).

Having made her debut at TNA Rebellion in April 2025, Indi Hartwell joined the company a year after Matt Hardy, and later, Jeff made their respective returns.

During a recent appearance on Studio 1 Sports, Hartwell described being in the same company as the legendary tag team as “crazy” to her, saying:

“It’s just crazy to think about. Do you know what year the Hardys started wrestling? I wasn’t even born yet.

“I’m not even considered one of the young people on the roster; I’m not a Leon Slater. I’m 29, and they’ve been wrestling for longer than I’ve been alive.

“They’re still wrestling, and I’m on the roster with them; it’s crazy.”

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Not only was Hartwell not born at the point of where Matt & Jeff both started wrestling, but she was two years away when the pair debuted in WWE in 1994.

Frequently appearing in singles matches as what would amount to enhancement talent, it wouldn’t be until 1998 going on to become the Hardy Boyz.

Hartwell would also reveal that she is still getting used to the creative freedoms of TNA Wrestling, comparing it to the “very micromanaged” environment of WWE.

The Hardys, Creative Freedom & TNA Wrestling

When it comes to the names that have defined an era in professional wrestling, The Hardy Boyz have to be up there, thanks to what they did for tag team wrestling and the TLC concept alongside The Dudleys and Edge & Christian. While their paths may have diverged, Matt Hardy has recently commented that he’d like a chance to go up against their “greatest rivals“, now known as Adam Copeland and Christian Cage, once again.

TNA Wrestling, however, gave fans two new iterations of Matt and Jeff Hardy that surely live alongside the Team Extreme incarnations, in the form of Broken Matt Hardy and Willow.

Through TNA Wrestling, Broken Matt Hardy would become as wildly popular as he was manic, with a concept match being born from his creativity: the cinematic The Final Deletion filmed at the Hardy compound, being one of a series that would find its way to AEW as The Firm Deletion.

As for Jeff Hardy, his rebirth as Willow in TNA Wrestling would be a call back to an earlier independent wrestling persona, with the unpredictable alter-ego being much less care-free in nature.

Broken Matt Hardy, arguably, needs the creative freedom that TNA Wrestling clearly offers, having met with limited success in AEW due to the lack of a crowd during the COVID-19 pandemic, while the Woken iteration in WWE would also fail to find the reception it could have had.

Perhaps, for Matt and Jeff Hardy, it’s more of a sense of “right time and right place” with TNA Wrestling offering both.

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