Dutch Mantel comments on the Broken gimmick, Reby Hardy issues stern response

Dutch Mantel aka former WWE manager Zeb Colter recently gave props to a fan for the latter’s comment on the Broken gimmick. Needless, to say Reby Hardy took to social media to call out Mantel for what she perceived as a snide comment toward the Hardy family.

Dutch Mantel has worked as a manager and backstage consultant for several notable professional wrestling promotions since his retirement from in-ring competition back in 1990. The 67-year old worked with TNA (now re-branded as Impact Wrestling) from 2003 as part of the company’s Creative team until his departure owing to creative differences in ’09.

Mantel who’s best known for his time as Zeb Colter and his All-American racist gimmick in WWE, was released from WWE in May of 2016, and in January of this year Impact Wrestling announced that he would be working as a creative consultant for the company- later promoting him to Head of Creative in February.

Dutch Mantel is the latest in the line of Impact Wrestling personalities/executives to have thrown shade at the Hardy family and refute the latter’s claims over the usage rights of the Broken gimmick. The Hardys claim the Broken characters and storyline to be Matt Hardy’s brainchild, whereas new Impact owners Anthem Sports and Entertainment say otherwise.

Hardy family matriarch Reby has stayed active on social media following their departure from the company earlier this year, and has been at war with Impact Wrestling, calling them out on the Cease and Desist order they had issued to the Hardys a few weeks back. The latest TNA exec to find himself in the proverbial eye of the storm seems to be Dutch Mantel. Dutch responded to a fan who stated that if Matt Hardy had a legitimate case to prove his rights over the Broken gimmick, he’d have seen a judge by now. Mantel took note of this post, and sent out a tweet highlighting the same, whilst thanking the fan for being someone who “GETS IT!!”.

Not one to take things lying down, Reby issued a lengthy response in form of several consecutive tweets-

“Someone please tell me if this is this MFer’s actual twitter. So I should let our attorneys know TNA is ready & eager to go to court NOW. And I assume YOU’LL be picking up court cost$ for TNA’s team ? As cute as it is to watch @DirtyDMantell play into the naivety of most fans, no; it is not smart – financially or otherwise to take……ANYTHING ‘straight to court’ without trying to reach resolution by other means first. @DirtyDMantell, maybe you should STFU before you……COMPLETELY ruin any chance of a deal being made by the lawyers your dumbass company pays VERY HANDSOMELY per hour for @DirtyDMantell ***OR*** We can “get in front of a judge” right tf now because fcking Dutch Mantel is legal counsel all of a sudden LMAO. ! @EdNordholm, might wanna check ya boy @DirtyDMantell out here making ur uphill battle even steeper I won’t even charge u for that advice.”

To which Dutch Mantel replied-

Not one to shy away, Queen Rebecca fired back-

Matt and Jeff Hardy are presently the WWE RAW tag-team champions and are yet to fully showcase their Broken selves to the WWE Universe. Meanwhile, Dutch Mantel, who bagged a huge backstage job in Impact Wrestling earlier this year seems to have picked his side against the Hardys in the family’s ongoing legal dispute with Impact Wrestling.

Dutch Mantel speaks in favor of Impact Wrestling? Well, no surprises here, folks! The man is now an important exec in the promotion and as of now, just about everybody and their dog, knows that the Broken Universe = Money. In my opinion both parties must refrain from using social media to air their dirty laundry and rather let this matter play out in court. It’s fairly evident, as Reby herself stated, that both the Hardys and Anthem are currently in negotiations for a potential out-of-court settlement, and regardless of how they end this dispute, I look forward to the day the Hardy family re-introduce their Broken personas inside the WWE ring. Bring back the Hardy Compound, free Senor Benjamin, I say!

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