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When you put together the brothers, Matt and Jeff Hardy, it gives us one of the greatest tag team duos that professional wrestling has ever seen. The two have put on and been apart of some of the greatest tag team matches of all time and provided us with some of the biggest moments and craziest spots we've ever seen.
But they haven't always fought side by side. Winning a collection of singles gold in their own right, there have been a number of times where the two have come head to head for one reason or another. No one knew each other better than they did one another, making every time they came to blows instantly intriguing. Here are the top 5 Hardy vs Hardy matches.
5. Hardcore Match for the Hardcore Championship - Smackdown(4/27/2000)
One of the earliest Hardy vs Hardy encounters pitted the brothers going at it for the Hardcore title. This was also one of the few if not only times the two fought over a singles championship.
The match wasn't the longest of the brothers' several battles, but it was still a classic Hardy Boys match. It was a rather fast-paced one with each hitting plenty of big moves on the other. Matt's moonsault to Jeff with a trash can over his head perfectly describes the time period this match took place in.
This was during the time where the Hardy's were one of the top tag teams in the WWE so it did seem a little random for them to have this match but it was still a very fun a perfect clash during the attitude era.
But as most matches ended during the Hardcore title's time, Crash Holly wound up closing the show and stealing the vacant belt from both Hardy's after each had taken too much damage.
4. I Quit Match - Backlash 2009
The I Quit match at Backlash 2009 was the final of several great matches between the two that year and one that ended their WWE feud. I specify it as a WWE feud for a reason which I'm sure you know why...
As a technical, "non-extreme" match, this definitely has to be the best one that the two have ever had. And even saying that there's still an appearance by a table and ladder at the end because it just wouldn't be a Hardy match without one or the other.
The match saw Jeff finally getting the win over his jealous brother in the most gruelling way possible. Jeff had Matt strapped to a table that he was about to jump into until Matt said he quit. But of course, we all knew that table was getting broken, and indeed it ended up getting broken.
3. The Final Deletion - Impact Wrestling (2016)
Love it or hate it, The Final Deletion has become one of the most ridiculous and iconic matches in wrestling history as well as the defining moment in Matt's career. For many reasons, this match has gathered so many mixed opinions. It's either a brilliant masterpiece of pro wrestling storytelling, a match that's so bad that it's good or just bad, or maybe even all of the above.
But all of this is what makes the Final Deletion and the Broken Hardy saga so unique and special. There's never really been anything like it and it helped catapult both into a type of fame.
As far as the match goes, you get just about everything you can imagine in this one. From shooting fireworks at each other to dilapidated boats, appearances from other gimmicks, jumping out of trees the list goes on and this match is just pure ridiculousness which is why it is and was such a big deal.
The Final Deletion is sports entertainment at it's absolute finest.
2. Extreme Rules Match - Wrestlemania 25
The highest profile match between the two was about as full circle of a match as you could get. An extreme rules match is virtually the same thing as a hardcore match, which was one of the brothers' first encounters and this match was like the extended, bigger and better version of that one back in 2000.
It had it all and gave us that nostalgia of going back to the attitude era as this match would have fit right in. Except for this time, it had a strong storyline going along with it to boot which set it up perfectly for the grandest stage.
1. I Quit Match - TNA Impact (4/19/2016)
It may not have been their best match as the majority of it took place outside the ring, but it was indeed the most important match in the Hardy's careers. Why? Because it was the first time we saw Matt go full "Broken".
After punishing each other with chairs and guardrails, ladders, you name it, the two wound up out by a stairwell along the outside of the arena which is where Jeff set up Matt on a table which he would Swanton his way through. This led to Matt's incapacitation making it so he was unable to quit and be taken out of the arena.
It was here that he was broken, the start of it all. Without this moment, Matt wouldn't have re-kindled his career the way that he did and ever since the Hardy's have rejoined the WWE, everyone has just been dying for him to keep on DELETING competition.
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