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WrestleMania 35 is on the history books, and we had a record 7 title changes at the show of shows. But the Uso’s who had retained their SmackDown Tag Team Championships at WrestleMania ran out of luck on this week’s SmackDown Live.
Want to know who defeated them? You don’t have to look on the internet for any spoilers. Just gaze upon thine calendar.
It’s the month of April, and there is one particular superstar who holds an impressive streak of winning tag team titles on this month for three consecutive years.
Matt Hardy has had over 20 tag team title reigns in the various promotions he competed for, and the numbers keep on increasing. He added one more to his collection on this week’s episode of SmackDown Live. But the main thing to note is that he has extended his April title streak for the third consecutive year.
Starting from 2017 to 2019 the elder Hardy brother has won tag team gold in April. Hardy himself mentioned about this streak in a backstage interview on the Greatest Royal Rumble last year.
Let’s take a closer look at Matt Hardy’s consecutive April title streak.
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#3 2nd April 2017 - Raw Tag Team Titles with Jeff Hardy
WrestleMania 33 marked the return of the Hardy Boyz after seven years on the independent circuit, and they made headlines when they won the Raw Tag Team Championships.
WrestleMania 33 hosts the New Day announced surprise entrants into the Raw tag team championship ladder-match which turned out to be the returning Hardy Boyz.
Matt Hardy retrieved the titles after a hard-fought match which saw Jeff hitting a Swanton Bomb on the Bar from the top of a ladder.
The victory marked the first of the three consecutive April title wins for Matt Hardy.
#2 27th April 2018 - Raw Tag Team Titles with Bray Wyatt
After winning a prolonged battle with Impact Wrestling over the creative rights for the Broken Universe gimmick, Matt Hardy brought his Broken persona to the WWE.
Hardy entered into a feud with Bray Wyatt which culminated in a Total Deletion match in the Hardy Compound where Bray Wyatt got thrown into the lake of Reincarnation rendering his alter-ego Sister Abigail OBSOLETE.
Bray Wyatt was off television after the match while Hardy turned his attention to WrestleMania 34 and the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal.
Bray Wyatt made his return at WrestleMania 34, helping Matt Hardy win the Battle Royal and pledged his allegiance with Hardy after the match. The duo became the Deleters of Worlds and went after the Raw Tag Team Championships.
Hardy & Wyatt captured the titles at the Greatest Royal Rumble defeating Sheamus and Cesaro, and this would be Hardy’s second consecutive April title win.
#1 9th April 2019- SmackDown Live Tag Team Titles with Jeff Hardy
After Hardy and Wyatt lost the Raw tag team titles to the B Team, Matt revealed that he is taking some time off from the WWE because of his back fusing with his pelvis.
Rumors of Matt Hardy retiring from Professional Wrestling were on the rise, and even Matt Hardy posted some cryptic tweets hinting at retirement.
But Matt Hardy took advantage of his time off and lost 15 pounds getting into the best shape of his life. After nearly seven months away, Matt Hardy made his return to WWE on the February 26th, 2019 episode of SmackDown Live reuniting with his brother Jeff.
Hardy returned to his team extreme persona claiming that he has learned to control the “woken wonder” inside of him.
The Hardy Boyz competed in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal in an unsuccessful attempt after being eliminated by Braun Strowman.
But Matt Hardy’s April luck did not fail him as he and his brother Jeff defeated the Uso’s for SmackDown Live Tag Team Championships on this week’s episode thereby giving Matt Hardy a hat-trick April title win.
