The Hardy Boyz
The Hardy Boyz is the name of a wrestling tag team that consisted of brothers Matt and Jeff Hardy. Under this name, both competed in World Wrestling Entertainment.
- 2.1 Title
- 2.2 Awards
Career
Independent sector
In 1993, the brothers started for the first time to compete as a tag team. For this purpose they founded the fictional wrestling organization Trampoline Wrestling Federation ( TWF) specially in the parent building garden. 1997 both brothers founded a real wrestling organization (short OMEGA ) was called Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts and collaborated with various other independent leagues. Therefore, the Hardy brothers were allowed to keep the OMEGA Tag Team Championship and the NWA 2000 days Team Championship once each. The OMEGA promotion was developed from a co-founder of the Hardy's Wrestling League East Coast Championship Wrestling ( ECCW ) out.
World Wrestling Entertainment
1998 both signed a contract with the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) and were there initially worked as a jobber. Some time later, the Hardys were day turned into serious challengers to the WWF team title and you put them Michael Hayes as a manager to the side. On 29 June 1999 they were allowed to win for the first time the tag team titles. After they separated, the team of Hayes, both of which were made in August 1999 to members of the grouping The New Brood.
Against Edge and Christian, they contested the first tag team ladder match at the big event No Mercy. As of 2000, one named Matt and Jeff into Team Xtreme Lita and introduced them as companion to the side. The new team name was based on the extreme high-flying actions which ran the Hardys regularly.
At the same time, the Hardys were involved in a feud with Edge & Christian program and the Dudley Boyz, in consequence of the Tables, Ladders and Chairs match ( a Matchart, may be used in the Tables, Ladders and Chairs ) has been introduced. At Unforgiven 2000, she received the Tag Team titles again and were allowed to keep this feud within this program three more times.
On 8 October 2001 she received the WCW World Tag Team Championships, which were now just like the WCW himself, to WWE. 2002, there was a separation of the team. Matt Hardy was to SmackDown! traded and Jeff Hardy short time later was dismissed because he refused to get help for his drug problem. In the meantime, Jeff spent some time at events of independent promotions, and then in TNA before he was hired again by the WWE in 2006. There was a brief reformation of the team that provisionally the last time was allowed to win the World Tag Team Championship in April 2007.
Then both were built as a single wrestler, what the end of 2008 reached its climax, because both Matt (ECW ) and Jeff (WWE) could hold at this time a World Title. From the Royal Rumble in January 2009, both fehdeten against each other, which culminated at WrestleMania 25. After the WWE Draft 2009 when Matt of SmackDown moved to RAW, there was another match at Backlash. Nevertheless, Matt prevented his brother from becoming the new World Heavyweight Champion at Judgment Day on May 17, 2009. After a trade in June 2009, where Matt moved back to SmackDown, it was in August of that year, a reunion of the Hardy's for a feud with CM Punk. However, this ended quickly because Jeff left the WWE in September 2009 and took a break.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
After Jeff returned to TNA on 4 January 2010, Matt followed him on 9 January 2011 with his debut in Genesis. It there has been a renewed reunion of the two, also were both part of the Stables to Immortal Hulk Hogan. On August 20, 2011 Matt was fired from TNA, so the time together ended there.
Achievements
Title
- World Wrestling Entertainment
- 6x WWF / E World Tag Team Champions
- 1x WCW Tag Team Champions
- Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts
Awards
- World Wrestling Entertainment
Footnotes
Source
- Pro Wrestling's Ultimate Insiders: From the Backyard to the Bigtime. The Hardy Boys (Big Vision DVD, 2005)