This weeks edition of Monday Night Raw was quite a strange one. 

With less than three weeks until WrestleMania 34, the main event of Monday's show was the Ultimate Deletion match between Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt.

It was a match that didn't take place inside the ring. In fact, it didn't even take place inside the arena. Instead, it was a pre-recorded and filmed weeks before at the Hardy Compound. 

The Ultimate Deletion put "Woken" Matt against Wyatt and looks to be the end of a long-running feud between the pair. 

The segment itself lasted almost 20 minutes and was like nothing ever seen before on WWE TV. 

It did begin with the two fighting in a ring - set up at the compound. But then the match got very weird, very quickly.

The "Woken One" and the "Eater of Worlds" fought throughout the grounds of Hardy's Compound in North Carolina.

They went through the "Land of Obsolete Men" and the "Dome of Deletion", before finally arriving at the "Lake of Reincarnation". 

It was here that Hardy pinned Wyatt after hitting a Twist of Fate. And he completed the Ultimate Deletion by pushing Wyatt's body into the lake. 

The show ended with Hardy chanting "delete!" surely finishing the feud for good.

According to WrestleZone, the segment was produced by Hardy himself, in a rare moment that Vince McMahon handed over most of the creative control. 

But it's not like Matt hasn't done this before. When he was still wrestling for TNA back in 2016, he had a Final Deletion match with Jeff Hardy. 

That quickly became a favourite amongst pro wrestling fans and since their return to WWE, viewers have been desperate to see it again. And on Monday, that's exactly what they got. 

Despite the previous success of Hardy's matches, WrestleZone has revealed that McMahon still wasn't sure how fans would take to the match ahead of Monday's airing. 

According to a reliable source, there was backstage belief that McMahon was worried the Ultimate Deletion would "bomb" on Raw. 

Instead, though, the segment can only be seen as a success. It got a huge reaction on social media - and was Twitter's number one worldwide trend for over two hours. 

Raw viewership was also over three million for the show's final hour - which, when compared to the regular third-hour viewership so far in 2018, is very good.

After the success, McMahon should be comfortable letting Hardy produce more content like the Ultimate Deletion. 

After all, the "Woken" gimmick is what puts Matt over with fans, so why not let him give the WWE Universe exactly what it wants?