TNA Wrestling’s Brian Myers and Bear Bronson will face the legendary Hardys for the TNA Tag-Team Championships at TNA’s Rebellion pay-per-view. However, is this new version of The System ready for such a battle?
We discuss this and more with both wrestlers just days before the event takes place in Cleveland, Ohio.
Bear Bronson and Brian Myers will face the Hardys at Rebellion. Image credit: TNA Wrestling
Soundsphere: Hi guys, thanks for joining Soundsphere. I’ll jump straight in, as we have a lot to cover. You’re both facing The Hardys this Saturday at the Rebellion pay-per-view in Cleveland. How are you feeling about it?
Brian Myers: We’re excited. You know, what a way to make a statement by defeating the most legendary tag team of all time, right? I mean, that’s a great opportunity. They’re on a tear. They’ve really done amazing things for TNA, and Bear and I do appreciate them and their popularity and what they’ve done. But all good things come to an end. They’re on this legendary, I think, the second-longest reigning tag title run in company history, but it’s coming to an end Saturday night in Cleveland at Rebellion. And I couldn’t be more excited to be the one doing that.
Bear Bronson: More ready than I’ve ever felt in my whole life.
Soundsphere: You’re a new team. Do The Hardys have an advantage because of their experience and history together?
Brian Myers: I’m not, because I’ve probably spent just as much time with Bear in the past 12 years as The Hardys have spent with each other, because I trained him at my training school. So it’s a student and teacher situation. We’ve been together, we’ve been in the cars, we’ve been travelling together, we’ve wrestled at practice together, everything. We go out to eat together. We spend a lot of time together, so we’re a pretty cohesive unit.
People are seeing it for the first time on AXS TV and TNA television, that may be a fact,travelling but it’s not a fact in actuality when it comes to what we’ve really done to prepare for this moment. So we’re going to be very prepared.
Bear Bronson: Yeah, I mean, from my perspective, I think there’s way more fear in what you don’t know, right? You look at The Hardys, they are the most popular tag team of all time, undoubtedly in my opinion, and everyone knows everything about them, right?
I’m somebody who’s coming into this that’s lesser known. You may not have known, you probably haven’t known, how much time me and Brian have spent together, how much experience we have together. And in the past few months, any time we’re in the ring with The Hardys, we’re dominating them.
Actually, within my first, was it two months of TNA, I pinned Jeff Hardy live on Impact. So the fear, I believe, is in what you don’t know. And there’s a lot that people don’t know yet, especially The Hardys. But me and Brian are, like he said, just as much of a cohesive unit as they are, and I think people are going to find that out. If you don’t know already, you’re going to find that out on Saturday.
Brian Myers is an OG member of The System. Image credit: TNA Wrestling
Soundsphere:Let’s talk about The System. You’re now in a new version of the group. Brian, do you worry what happened to Moose could happen to you?
Brian Myers: No, I don’t, because Eddie and I have a brotherhood that can’t be broken. Moose only thinks about Moose, and we basically had enough of that. The original System had an amazing run, but it was time to make a change, and we made a change for the better.
We are stronger, faster, smarter, more athletic. I mean, in every facet we couldn’t be more improved by getting rid of Moose and Dirty Dango. So I’m not worried whatsoever.
Soundsphere: Why bring Bear into The System?
Brian Myers: I can say this: when we were looking to scout new members, I did vouch for Bear, and maybe Eddie wasn’t as familiar. But when Bear came in and had an exceptional match with the World Heavyweight Champion at the time, Frankie Kazarian, I think that sealed the deal.
Soundsphere: Bear, what made you want to join The System?
Bear Bronson: If I was to answer honestly the last few questions in one, I wasn’t involved with the NXT or developmental talent situation. But to answer everything, I’m coming from a very violent, uncomfortable, disturbing world of independent wrestling, deathmatch wrestling.
Brian is somebody who has pulled me up from that. So there is a sense of loyalty there. You asked before if he’s afraid of something like what happened to JDC happening to him, or about the developmental talent and the history with Dark State.
There is a much different sense of loyalty there, where if Brian points at someone in the locker room, no rhyme or reason, and says, “I need you to go hurt that person,” it’s, “Alright, cool. Where are they?” No problem.
The System are coming for all the gold. Image credit: TNA Wrestling
Soundsphere: Do you feel there’s unfinished business with the NXT group Dark State?
Brian Myers: I mean, we wiped the floor with them, so I’m not really sure there’s anything that needs to be proven. Eddie and I have been wrestling for a long time. I’ve been wrestling 22 years, and he’s been wrestling 24 years. I don’t think we have much to prove to developmental guys.
But if they want some, they can certainly come get some. And like I said, now The System is even stronger than we were then. So if they want to get their ass whooped a second time, I would love to feed them to Bear Bronson.
Bear Bronson: I wasn’t involved with the NXT or developmental talent situation. But to answer everything, I’m coming from a very violent, uncomfortable, disturbing world of independent wrestling, deathmatch wrestling.
Brian is somebody who has pulled me up from that. So there is a sense of loyalty there. You asked before if he’s afraid of something like what happened to JDC happening to him, or about the developmental talent and the history with Dark State.
There is a much different sense of loyalty there, where if Brian points at someone in the locker room, no rhyme or reason, and says, “I need you to go hurt that person,” it’s, “Alright, cool. Where are they?” No problem.
Bear Bronson is a new member of The System, replacing Moose and JDC. Image credit: TNA Wrestling
Soundsphere: Final question. How does TNA feel as a home for you both – when The System isn’t trying to take over the place?
Brian Myers: Well, that’s the thing, kind of bouncing off your last question. I do drip with TNA pride. I’m very proud to be a TNA wrestler. It’s been the perfect home for me for the past six years.
So when a team like Dark State tries to step all over that, of course I’m going to be the one to step up and shut them down. That said, I want to be the face of TNA, and that’s going to happen at Rebellion when The System takes all the gold.
We’re the faces of the company, wearing these titles, representing this company as we’re on an ascension, on this new channel and platform where people are seeing our product, ordering the pay-per-views, buying the merch. We want to be the focal point of all that. It’s a big point of pride across the board.
Bear Bronson
For me, with TNA, this is a place where you often see in wrestling that companies outside of WWE are looked at as stepping stones to get there. I feel like I’m very different in the sense that with TNA fully welcoming me as myself and giving me a home, I actually, and I don’t think I’ve ever said this publicly, look at TNA long-term as my home.
I want to make it my home. I want to make it the place that, if I can, I help become the best it possibly can be. That is my plan. So just as much as Brian, with everything he’s done in TNA, I aspire to do the same.
I want to be dripping with TNA pride long-term. Not just as a stepping stone, I want it to be Bear Bronson’s home for as long as my career allows.
TNA Rebellion 2026 will take place on April 11, 2026 , at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio.