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Friday, October 12, 2018

Best Matches: The Hardy Boyz

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2004:
2005:
  • Jeff Hardy Vs Raven – TNA Lockdown 2005 – 3 ¼* - People considered this Jeff’s best match since leaving WWE, and it’s hard to debate this. These two put on a great match with each other.
  • Matt Hardy Vs Edge – Unforgiven 2005 – 4 ¼* - In 2005, Matt Hardy was released from WWE whilst he was injured. The reason for this was because he found out that his real-life girlfriend Lita (Amy Dumas) was cheating on him with on-screen rival and real life friend Edge (Adam Copeland), matt would publically shame both of them and WWE saw this as a liability and fired him. However he was welcomed back after a couple on months and WWE saw a big feud between him and Edge. This match was as personal as it gets, this is a really good steel cage match between the two – I’d argue that his may be Matt’s best WWE singles match.
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2007:
2008:
  • Jeff Hardy Vs Umaga – Raw 07/01/2008 – 4* - Jeff Hardy and Umaga shared a feud with each other in 2007 and a bit between 08 and 09, these two worked well together. These two are magic together in the ring. Jeff plays the rag doll so well to Umaga whenever the face, but somehow mainly overcomes the odds.
  • Jeff Hardy Vs Randy Orton – Royal Rumble 2008 – 3* - This was WWE's decision go give Jeff Hardy a chance at the WWE Championship and to see if he could excel with Randy Orton and he definitely could, many people believed in him to win this match and this helped increase his fan base. 2008 was Jeff Hardy's journey to the WWE Championship and this was only the first stage.
  • Jeff Hardy Vs Chris Jericho – Raw 25/02/2008 – 3 ¾* - It’s a shame that these two couldn’t have a longer and more meaningful feud with each other, because these two put on absolutely great matches with each other. This was also the night that Jericho became a record-breaking Intercontinental Championship. The reason for the title change is because Jeff failed a wellness test, thus resulting in him also being removed from the Money in the Bank ladder match at Wrestlemania, which he was originally scheduled to win.
  • Matt Hardy Vs Shelton Benjamin – The Great American Bash 2008 – 3 ¼* - Before Matt Hardy would become broken in TNA and feud with 'Brother Nero' he had one of the greatest mid card matches in 2008, this certainly wouldn't be his last decent match that year, and it also re-established that Shelton Benjamin was still in WWE and not just a sideshow for Money in the Bank matches.
  • Matt Hardy Vs Chavo Guerrero Vs Finlay Vs Mark Henry Vs The Miz – Unforgiven 2008 – 2 ¼* - This was the first ever Scramble Match, and first one of the night of the night (the other two were for the WWE Championship & World Heavyweight Championship). This was an interesting and simple concept, 5 wrestlers a new wrestler comes out every 5 minutes, pin anyone to become champion and at the end of the time limit the last person to pin someone would be champion. A bit of a shame that this match hasn't been used much after it. Matt Hardy would also win the ECW Championship in this match, which was pretty special.
  • Jeff Hardy Vs Triple H – No Mercy 2008 – 4* - This was the match that everyone thought that Jeff Hardy was destined to win the WWE Championship off Triple H, that wasn't the case but it is one of his best matches against another top WWE star at the time and helped get him more fans and look forward to him finally winning the WWE Championship.
  • Matt Hardy Vs Evan Bourne – Cyber Sunday 2008 – 3 ½* - One of the more underrated matches in Matt Hardy’s ECW Championship reign, which these two had more matches together because this is what a tease of what they could do. I wish Evan Bourne had stayed in WWE for longer because I could see him being a great success in an upper-mid card role.
  • Jeff Hardy Vs Triple H Vs Edge – Armageddon 2008 – 4* - Jeff Hardy’s rise to being WWE Champion was an enthralling story in 2008. In January that year he was placed in a WWE Championship match with Randy Orton, but had lost. Then throughout the rest of the year he was in multiple WWE Championship matches.. which he lost. Until Armageddon, in which is one of the best triple threat matches of all time and totally made it worth being a Jeff Hardy fan. I would say that 2008 and until he left WWE in 2009, were his years and he was putting out some of his best work ever. It’s a bit of a shame Jeff never had a long run as a world champion.
2009:
2010:
2011:
  • Jeff Hardy Vs Sting – TNA Victory Road 2011 - -1 – Now you might be wondering why I included Jeff Hardy’s worst ever wrestling match, or hell quite possibly one of the worst wrestling matches in history. The reason for that, is to show much Jeff Hardy has tried to turn his life around since this whole incident. To keep it short, Jeff Hardy was pretty drugged up before an event and TNA officials still forced him to come out and drop his World Championship to Sting in the main-event of a PPV, it’s widely known as the one of the worst wrestling incidents of all time.
2012:
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2015:
  • Matt Hardy Vs Drew Galloway Vs Ethan Carter III – TNA Bound For Glory 2015 – 3* - (Can’t find link, sorry) From what I understand this was Matt Hardy’s first ever TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
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