Exclusive: Did you know Matt Hardy loves chicken tikka, butter chicken?

Matt Hardy is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE Along with his reallife brother Jeff Matt gained notoriety in WWFs tag team division due to the Hardys participation in Tables Ladders and Chairs matches As a tag team wrestler he is a 13time world tag team champion having held six WWFWorld Tag Team Championships three WWERaw Tag Team Championships one ROH World Tag Team Championship one WCW Tag Team Championship and two TNA World Tag Team ChampionshipsWe got a chance to catch up with the WWE superstar one half of the legendary tag team partnership Hardy Boys over coffee and decided to decode him with a few of our questions Read on to find out what Matt Hardy has to sayWhat is the greatest achievement of your WWE career according to youI have been very blessed to have a memorable WWE career when my brother and I started the only thing we dreamt of was to win the World Tag Team title at least once but obviously we have exceeded that goal many many times so winning the title for the first time in 1999 was a huge deal Personally speaking becoming the cruiserweight singles champion for me was great Also coming back to WrestleMania 33 and winning the tag team title once again was very specialYour brother Jeff Hardy completed 20 years in the industry Could you elaborate a little bit on his journeyI think Jeff or Brother Nero as I like to call him affectionately has been the biggest risktaker WWE has ever seen It is unbelievable to put your body through so much stress for such a length of time sometimes I really think if he is humanWe have read you enrolled in college to get a major in engineering What made you take up wrestling in WWE as a careerBefore I was majoring in Civil Engineering my mom had passed away to cancer when I was really young so it was just my dad taking care of both me and Jeff One summer when I came home my dad got really sick and I didnrsquot go back to college for the next semester to take care of him By that time wrestling was doing really well for us so I decided ok I am going to take a break from school and I am going to pursue this crazy dream fortunately it worked out pretty well for us and we are doing this for the past 26 years nowYour stint with Bray Wyatt was brilliant what happened thereI think I just needed to take some time off to attend to my injuries but it was really fun with him and I feel like there is a lot more we could have done especially if we could do more remote vignettes at the Hardy compound which is my home and I would have just loved to have more vignettes for myself and Bray out there So I feel because we both are such special characters we didnrsquot need to be in the ring every week and we could have maximized our potential doing other creative stuffRecently social media was abuzz with news about you wanting to be the RAW GM So how did that idea come byI think the current interim general manager has been just abusing his power he has been running wild and has been a big menace to all the current stars in RAW and I feel Irsquoll be the perfect guy to come and clean up the town plus I guess Woken Matt Hardy will be very entertaining in his decisionmakingSpeaking of cleaning up the mess anything you want to change immediately after you become the RAW general managerThe first thing I would do is start treating people fairly I would make everyone accountable and I would make people to respect my decisionsFrom the current roster who is your favourite WWE superstar and whySeth Rollins is the guy that stands out for me hersquos on the path of becoming like a Shawn Michaels in WWE He is also a good talker and people have decided that Seth Rollins is the guy they want to backWhen I came in you were talking about Butter Chicken with a couple of people is that your favorite Indian dish or you prefer something else in Indian cuisineButter chicken and chicken tikka are my regulars I wish I could just eat garlic naan all day but all that bread will disturb my fitness regimeThe WWE tryouts are coming to India in Mumbai for the first time so any piece of advise you want to give young Indian aspirants who dream of becoming a WWE superstar like youFirst of all what an opportunity this is I mean something like this wasnrsquot available when myself and my brother were trying to break in back in the day India is one of the biggest markets for WWE and you can learn more about it on wweperformancecenter the thing I would want to say is try and be in the best physical shape you can be and bring loads of passion alongCatch up on all the latest T20 news and updates here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates