Matt Hardy to Receive New Gimmick in Jeff's Absence?

According to Bryan Alvarez of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE officials have been discussing how they can utilize Matt Hardy on the SmackDown Live brand as a singles competitor now that Jeff Hardy has been sidelined with a knee injury.

One of the ideas that has reportedly been discussed is to allow Matt to introduce the WWE Universe to his "Big Money Matt Hardy" persona that he had previously portrayed in both Ring of Honor and IMPACT Wrestling (before the creation of the Broken Universe).

Alvarez stated the following on Wrestling Observer Radio (courtesy of Wrestling-Edge.com):

"Matt Hardy… we’ll see what happens. I’ve heard talk that perhaps Matt will bring back Big Money Matt in the meantime. We shall see what they end up doing."

Back in March, Matt Hardy posted the following video on his official YouTube channel: