After weeks of speculation, Matt Hardy confirmed Monday that he has allowed his WWE contract to expire and is a free agent.
Hardy made the announcement in a YouTube video published just minutes after his contract officially expired.
“It’s just time for me to take a break and become a free agent,” he said. “I didn’t want to leave WWE because it is my home. The reason I needed to leave WWE is because when it comes to my creative stance and my creative outlook on myself and my career and how I wanted to go for these last three or four years that I have to spend as an active in-ring competitor, I just think myself and WWE are on different pages.