Ultimate Deletion was the Ultimate Theater

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There are times when the wrestling world experiences something so wonderfully bizarre that it transcends its niche world and invades outward

On Monday night, the world was given such a moment with the Ultimate Deletion.

The highly anticipate WWE moment took over Twitter around the world.

It was more or less a sequel to Impact Wrestling’s Final Deletion with a different company and dance partner for Woken (Broken) Matt Hardy.

The original, in all of its wonderfully awful glory, can be seen here:

The original carnation of the match gave Matt and his brother Jeff (Brother Nero) Hardy basically full creative control.

When it was announced that the feud between Matt and Bray reached the point where a trip to the Hardy compound for Ultimate Deletion would be necessary, there was an uneasiness about the match.

The main concern was whether or not the WWE would allow Hardy control.

In the past, the WWE has had a history of taking personas from the indie scene and putting their spin on it, cleaning them up in the process and making them all shiny.

The beauty of the original match was in the hokiness of it all.

It looked like a match that came from the minds of competitors who grew up practicing in their backyards.

There was a granular quality about it, a declaration that it hadn’t come from the corporate machine.

Final Deletion broke into the mainstream through social media, and it became the must-see wrestling event in the world at that time.

To say the expectations were high for the sequel would be an understatement.

The other issue was that the feud between Matt and Bray was stale from the second it began.

Something wasn’t clicking; the booking was never right.

It felt like they waited too long for the character switch for Matt Hardy.

All fo a sudden, this thing we all wanted was put in front of us, and we were forced to get excited about an event, even if we weren’t excited about the people in it.

When the Ultimate Deletion began, our prayers were answered.

It was clear that Matt Hardy was controlling everything about the match, and while there were aspects that made it a little cleaner, a little more technologically advanced, the holiness was in full display.

It was dumb, corny, quirky, and absolutely marvelous in every way.

From a storyline standpoint, it also gives the WWE a chance to do something new and interesting with Bray Wyatt while simultaneously putting a jetpack on Matt Hardy’s back.

Most importantly, however, it shows that the WWE is capable of evolving further and giving the fans exactly what they want, no matter how counterintuitive it might seem.