5 WWE TV matches that were pay-per-view worthy

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#4 Jeff Hardy vs The Undertaker – WWE Championship Match on WWE RAW – July 1, 2002

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In 2002, for the first time in his career, Jeff Hardy was making strides as a singles competitor in WWE.

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Hardy was always one of the best competitors in WWE and in 2002 he was at his exciting best. He was young and ready to do anything that he could to prove himself. So when he got his match against The Undertaker on an episode of RAW in a Ladder Match for the WWE title, it was immediately pay-per-view worthy.

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But what would happen in the match would make it even better. There are very few matches in WWE history that come under the classification of David vs Goliath in the same way that this one did.

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The Undertaker was at his best and Jeff Hardy was exciting. Both wrestlers started to wrestle and held nothing back. The Undertaker sold every move of Hardy as if it was the last one he would take, and Jeff Hardy took risks only in the way that he could.

As a result, it made for quite a combination of matches. Hardy used the ladder as did The Undertaker and they battered each other. In the end, The Undertaker defeated him and it seemed like it was over. But Jeff Hardy called him back and the Deadman walked back and lifted Hardy against the ropes. However, seeing the battered superstar against the ropes, he stopped himself and instead raised his opponent’s arm in a sign of respect.

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That was the moment that made Jeff Hardy into the superstar that he later became as the WWE Universe had no option but to respect a wrestler who was given props by The Undertaker himself.

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