180 ways they could've improved Edge/Lita vs. Matt

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

fire away, cuz this ain't no april fools joke. how could the wwe have improved this 2005 gem?

[Haterade Man 2!]

1. Nothing. The Fued was perfect.

[bob]

2 not have Matt get squahed in their first match

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

3. kept matt on raw
4. kept matt on raw and run "vince's devils"

[Dr. T is an alien]

5) Considering the money that could have been made on it, WWE really should have worked with Matt to develop that first promo. It was bit as horrible as made out to be, but it should have been a star making moment and failed completely.

[Jay Carroll]

You're better than I am, Dr. T. My initial response was "Don't let Matt Hardy talk".

That feud had nuclear heat, and Matt took a fire extinguisher to it the second he wished death upon the two of them. Keep it simple, stupid. Promise to make their lives a living hell, then run in on Edge matches until Edge and Lita can't take it anymore. Have the first match under a stip that if Matt loses, he has to snork off, and have him lose via chicanery. Matt doesn't adhere to the stip, Edge bitches, whoever is GM sees things Matt's way and books a cage match with the same stip. Matt wipes the floor with Edge.

End result: Let Edge and Lita rock out on the mic, and Matt rock out in the ring, and both men could have gotten Godzilla pushes.

[Massive G]

6. have Matt Hardy be less terrible.

[Kris Kobain]

7. Not allow Lita to talk

[Jeremy]

8. Same thing they should have done during Angle vs. AJ: Woman on a Pole match.

[Super Duper Dragunov]

9. i've said this before and i stand firmly behind it. in the very beginning when Hardy was brought back he was introduced by Vince McMahon to a HUGE reaction. when Vince was leaving Hardy shook Vince's hand and then gave his promo as McMahon left the ring.

what SHOULD have happened.....they shake hands, Vince goes to walk away, Hardy holds on and pulls McMahon back. Hardy gets a evil gleam in his eye and hits the Twist of Fate on his boss. it would have popped the crowd, given Hardy even more support since he was fired for something that the fans saw as not his fault and he wouldn't have had to say a word.

yes it would have been very Austin anti authority, but i think it would have worked beautifully for jump starting the feud and giving Hardy a great push to the main event.

[Professor Chaos]

Apr 2, 2010 4:08:14 GMT -5 Super Duper Dragunov said:

9. i've said this before and i stand firmly behind it. in the very beginning when Hardy was brought back he was introduced by Vince McMahon to a HUGE reaction. when Vince was leaving Hardy shook Vince's hand and then gave his promo as McMahon left the ring.

what SHOULD have happened.....they shake hands, Vince goes to walk away, Hardy holds on and pulls McMahon back. Hardy gets a evil gleam in his eye and hits the Twist of Fate on his boss. it would have popped the crowd, given Hardy even more support since he was fired for something that the fans saw as not his fault and he wouldn't have had to say a word.

yes it would have been very Austin anti authority, but i think it would have worked beautifully for jump starting the feud and giving Hardy a great push to the main event.

That would've been a great route to go with it. Hardy making himself looking into an A-Hole by wishing Edge and Lita got killed in a car crash then getting squashed at SummerSlam killed it all. He could've been a main eventer if handled right back then.

[Ryushinku]

10. Less clothing for Lita.

Oh, don't look at me like that!

[randomranter]

Nothing to add, just echoing what others have said:

Matt's horrible promo. If that didn't kill it, having Edge turn Matt into his complete bitch at Summerslam certainly did.

What made it worse was in the long run........Matt became a JTTS, while Edge and Lita became two of the biggest stars in the company and Edge won the title six months later. What kind of message does that send, both to the audience and to the people in the back?

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

hmmm.... i was hoping for more humorous responses. oh well....

[Tapout]

Yeah, Lita and Matt not talking would've helped a lot. Matt could simply have been booked as a guy who was so flat-out mad that he was at a loss for words.

Matt screwed Matt.

[fw91]

Lita:"I'll take em both, I'm hardcore"

But seriously, Matt shouldv'e won the first match at summerslam

[bradtherad]

Matt reveals that he is a woman in disguise and Edge says, "Damn man, I always had the hots for you". Then Edge has a live sex celebration with Matt Hardy and Lita, but Matt Hardy sneaks behind Edge and yells, "SURPRISE Edge, I am still a guy!" and Edge freaks out and then tries to crawl to Lita under the covers and then you hear him scream "OH **** you're a GUY TOO!"

[angryauthor]

Apr 2, 2010 12:52:45 GMT -5 bradtherad said:

Matt reveals that he is a woman in disguise and Edge says, "Damn man, I always had the hots for you". Then Edge has a live sex celebration with Matt Hardy and Lita, but Matt Hardy sneaks behind Edge and yells, "SURPRISE Edge, I am still a guy!" and Edge freaks out and then tries to crawl to Lita under the covers and then you hear him scream "OH **** you're a GUY TOO!"

This should clearly have then parlayed into a long term gimmick where male wrestlers keep trying to give Edge surprise buttsex. Just whenever he had a match, the other wrestler can't help himself, he just keeps trying to get with Edge. EVentually its revealed in a double turn that it was Matt Hardy's revenge on Edge, by spraying him with pheromones to turn men on before all of his matches. Blow off as a "...ON A POLE" match with the phermones up there. Loser gets sprayed with them and has to spend 5 minutes alone with Viscera afterwards.

[I Like Your Poetry]

If it was Jeff Hardy, instead of Matt. (Who cares about the "real life" stuff anyways)

[Mesousa]

Simple; No Holds Barred.

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