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Welcome to the Survivor Series.
WWF Survivor Series, live November 18th on Pay Per View.
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Some call these men the greatest entertainers on Earth, flying without wings, defying physical limitations.
But the risks these men take are great.
Bodies have been battered, necks broken, careers ended in an instant.
Yes, this is entertainment, but the hazards are real.
No matter who you are, whatever you do, please don't try this at home.
Remember how we would always go make hideouts and you'd always go find them and tear them down?
You'd say don't nail the trees. We'd nail big nails in the pine trees and ruin them.
Deep in the middle of all these little bamboo trees, there's a building and that's where we had one of our first hideouts.
We were the adventurers at the time when we were young. It was me, Jeff, and our two cousins. We had a little superhero group.
And man, we fixed it up into a little clubhouse just right in there.
And that just kind of shows how much things grow and kind of change, especially like while we've been traveling and stuff.
You know, I mean, this is pretty much all we've known all our life and it's great.
It's cool to come back here and have a place that's, you know, full of all the serenity and beauty and quiet.
I need to get home once a week to keep my sanity.
I mean, that's just how I am because emotionally I am so emotionally tied with my home here and all the life other than human around it.
Oh, there's Leda. There's Leda. Leda.
Hi.
Knowing Matt and Jeff as individuals, as well as I've got to know them, it's really neat to see the dynamic between the two of them and their contrasting styles.
Matt's definitely the more serious of the two.
He's in search of perfection.
He's definitely more focused.
Responsible.
Everything he does is for a purpose, for a goal, to achieve a certain outcome that he wants.
One of those that talked about being on the independent scene, you know, he thought, you know, we need some cool outfits to stand out.
While we're trying to make our mark, you know, that requires money.
So then he's, you know, got the idea that he'll pick up sewing.
So this is my mom's old sewing machine.
It's not one of those new up to date ones.
I mean, it's an old sewing machine.
Hopefully I'm not too rusty.
You know, the old technique was we'd go right in here and you slowly get it started.
As far as wrestling gear goes, I've made it in one way, shape, or form.
I've made trench coats, long ring jackets.
I've made a bunch of, like, special ring jackets, like if somebody would give me a design, it might take me, you know, three or four days to make something.
But I would make it.
I would slowly plot it out and plan it.
Wrestling is the whole reason that, you know, I kind of, you know, turned to this, you know, just because it helped us.
And then it, you know, just making a lot of different outfits, having cool, different looks, I mean, you know, I thought would help move us along.
And it did to a degree.
And even when Jeff started, you know, we liked the types we wore, how they were real crazy and had a bunch of designs.
You know, most people thought they were rotten.
You know, they were cool to us.
If you didn't know Jeff, I would imagine you'd probably look at him and go, wow, he's an oddball.
Because I paint my fingernails.
They're not alike at all.
I don't see any qualities in them that would even resemble them being from the same loins.
Jeff is probably one of the most unique people that I've ever met in my life.
He's just, he's one of the most carefree guys.
Well, I'm a huge fan of plants, artificial plants, because plants are just too much trouble, especially no more than I'm here.
I've always loved, like, artificial plants, like really good-looking ones.
And I went crazy with them in my living room.
And all I did was, on the roof was kind of just like a spring turning to fall scene, but that got a little wacky.
I love animals to death, and I want them, you know, just around me.
And it's a lot, it's more peaceful when they're not alive and they don't move.
You don't have to take care of them.
This is my new friend, Zeus.
Jeff is not here with us on Earth.
He never has been.
He never will be.
He wears what he wants to wear.
He dances to his own music.
He does his own thing.
And he's definitely his own person.
And that's a cool thing.
You know, he does exactly what he wants.
He has his poetry, emotional poetry.
He combines it.
That's what he calls it, his poetry.
Then he has, I can't remember the name of the sculpture.
I came up with the Illuminami.
And it's just like a mommy, but it's, you know, you just throw aluminum in there.
So after I made this one, I was like, oh, it's time to make life-size.
And then I just took a bunch of cardboard and lots of duct tape and formed this one.
The perfect description of me is weird.
Yeah, these statues are great.
I don't even know if they're fiberglass or...
But they're hollow, so...
For five minutes, I'd just like to kind of slide in at Jeff Hardy's head
and see what's going on in there.
If I was afraid, get out.
But if it's as calm and serene as I think it is,
maybe stay for a couple of days, have a little vacation.
Careful, Jeff.
Oh, my God.
Hey, how are you doing?
Being on the road is fun.
We try to make it into an adventure.
And sometimes whenever we sit back and pop a tape in a camcorder
and start being a little mischievous or whatever, it's a lot of fun.
Oh, yeah, and in case anybody didn't know, today is September 23, 1998,
which is Matt Hardy's birthday.
I'm totally concentrating on not falling, people.
Are you trying not to fall?
Totally concentrating on not falling.
Are you about to fall?
Check again.
I can never fall in here.
Oh, jeez, Matt.
Where we are right here today is in what we like to refer to as the hall.
In Cleveland, Skun Arena, this is the place where myself and Jeff
sat down the day before the pay-per-view in No Mercy in 1999
and had our first ever ladder match against Edge and Christian.
And it's very sacred territory to myself and Jeff.
Sometimes we like to come back here and just sit and breathe and take it in.
There's a lot of nostalgia that flows through this hall.
This is where the game plan was set right here.
We really had some big footsteps to fill,
considering we were coming later after Shawn Michaels and Raze Ramon.
But, you know, I think we lived up to it.
18,752 fans have jammed the Gund Arena here in Cleveland.
The ladder match was our idea.
The ladder match wasn't something that the WWF brought to Matt and Jeff Hardy
and Edge and Christian.
Edge and Christian and Matt and Jeff Hardy brought the double tag team ladder match to the WWF.
This is the first tag team ladder match in WWF history.
We had some really original stuff in mind.
We had some wacky stuff in mind.
You know, we were just wondering, can we pull this off?
Can it go right?
And the day of the show, you know, we just kept running everything through our heads
and going, wow, you know, we hope we can pull off all this stuff
because we had a lot in our bag of tricks.
What I remember hearing most was the two S's, safe and spectacular.
Shane McMahon.
Yeah, Shane McMahon, safe and spectacular.
And I kept thinking about that, god, it's kind of hard to have a ladder match
and want it to be so good and still be safe.
You know, you have to kind of take risks and whatnot.
We have to be reckless to a degree, you know, but it's just a little bit of luck
and, you know, a little bit of skill and a little bit of everything rolled into one
and hopefully we can make it through that one piece.
We've done ladder matches before, but this was our big chance to do it in front of the world,
you know, and to show them what we could do.
And so much could have went wrong, but so much went so right and oh, man, it was great.
We started fighting, wham, wham, wham.
They threw Jeff and I to the ropes at the same time.
He hit like a millisecond right before I did.
And I leaned back to hit the rope and the rope wasn't there.
And actually my head went underneath and I did the old head whipper gimmick.
Wow, what a way to start off this match.
Oh, yeah.
Bad luck right from the beginning.
First good spot.
Right.
Jeff Hardy, Edge and Christian, two sets of brothers here,
where you know these four are going to take a lot of chances
and you'll see a lot of high-risk offense.
Oh, I can't believe this.
Oh, crap.
And go to the ladder.
That ominous black ladder fell right in the face of Jeff Hardy.
One of these ladders are brought into play with the clothesline from the apron.
A lot of impact and a lot of risk in both these young teams.
Look out here.
Christian with some hang time and landed on his feet.
Jeff Hardy and I had gotten into a tug of war with the ladders.
People started going, oh, whoa, whoa.
And then when I ran him back into the corner,
that got the first big pop of the match.
And then when I ran and I drop-kicked him,
they went, whoa.
And then it just kept building from there.
And that was the thing, that first pop, is what stood out most in my mind.
Oh.
You can't do this.
Oh.
Matt Hardy trying to climb up.
Oh, no.
Now, a powerbomb from the ladder.
And now Edge has got to get to the top.
But wait a minute.
Look at the left part of your screen.
Jeff Hardy drop-kick.
A missile drop-kick off the top that took Edge off the ladder.
Sit top-bomb with Edge on the ladder.
Here comes Jeff Hardy.
Oh, the front of the ladder.
And a leg to the face by Jeff Hardy.
The Hardys are really coming at him.
Watch the ladder coming down.
Well, Hardy's using that ladder as a weapon, and that's legal.
And Jeff with the ladder.
Oh, man.
Almost using the ladder like in a clothesline.
And right in Christian's face.
Jeff Hardy.
He dropped the ladder.
For God's sakes.
A drop of the leg.
A huge law drop.
Over the top.
Over the ladder.
Have you ever?
I have never.
Absolutely not.
I have never seen any offense like this.
That's it.
Look at this.
Moonsault.
And now, oh, there's Edge.
Another ladder.
He's got another ladder.
Oh.
And now using the ladder for a headshot on Matt Hardy.
And Jeff.
Oh, man.
The top of the ladder.
Oh.
On the face.
And now Edge has got the ladder directly under the symbolic bag of money.
Look at that.
Oh, no.
Uh-oh.
What happened to that?
Cross body.
Matt Kemp down.
Oh.
And that was pretty self-explanatory.
Oh.
That's the explanation point for the push shot.
Oh, no.
Wait a minute.
At one point, I rolled back into Edge, and he splashed me down, and Jeff Hardy was in
between the ladder.
When I was up, I looked down, and I remember seeing a piece of the ladder bent, the hinge
that connects the ladder, and when I came down, boom, it knocked the wind out of me,
because I hit the ladder.
And I rolled off, and I remember looking at Jeff, and I said, we need the spare.
The ladder's broken.
And he said, no, I'll fix it.
And then, sure enough, Jeff bent the thing back.
I don't know how he did it, but he did it.
We actually smashed Jeff Hardy with it 10 times.
That's when it really got bent.
By the time we got to the seventh or eighth, I mean, we really had to crank it down on
him.
And that's when he had to jimmy it back into place.
Edge and Jeff Hardy now, about halfway, oh, my God.
Downward spiral from the ladder.
How in God's name can a human being even move after that?
Oh, no.
It's unbelievable.
They've all absorbed so much punishment, JR.
I'm amazed.
Oh, no.
Look out, look out.
No way.
On the ladder.
Oh, God, a net breaker.
Unbelievable net breaker.
There's no amount of money in the world for putting your bodies through this.
It's really weird.
One of the things I remember most vividly, Edge took the ladder and went to, like, hit
me in the head with it.
And it doesn't look that bad on tape.
And that was one of those things.
I remember it hitting my ear, and it went numb, and I thought my ear had been cut off.
As a matter of fact, if you can watch the tape, you see me grabbing my ear, and I'm
checking just to make sure it's there.
And it busted, and it was bleeding a little bit.
But that really knocked me for a loop.
That was probably the worst thing.
I remember that more than anything else just because it hurt so bad.
What are they going to do here?
I haven't seen it all, but I don't think so.
Edge trying to get underneath Christian there.
No, wait a minute.
I remember everything, but my favorite was the seesaw spot.
And right before I was fixing to jump, I was so thrilled to hear the fans' reaction to
that.
And when I landed on the end of the ladder, man, that hurt me the most in the match, believe
it or not.
My tailbone was, like, really bruised or something.
But, yeah, that was my favorite.
Hopefully you have seen it all here tonight in this Tag Team Ladder match.
Oh, man.
This just started.
Look out!
Oh!
Edge!
Oh, four-minute back down.
Hung up on the ropes.
Crashed into the canvas.
I don't think any of them are going to be getting up either, JR.
They're still setting those ladders up again.
We're setting the ladders up to climb again.
And you can see me, it's all I can do to climb up at this point, and I'm yelling.
Every time I grab the line, I go, ah!
Ah!
I looked down, what the hell is he doing?
Our ladder was set up totally away from the belt.
You know, we were so used to setting up ladders, we didn't care.
We were just setting it up again, you know, so.
I looked up, went to the bag, and all of a sudden hit me with a whacker across the chest.
Edge shoved me off the ladder.
I went back, sprung off the ropes, and fell into their ladder.
So as ours fell, he stepped off onto the ladder where I had been previously.
In perfect time.
He nailed Edge.
Edge off that ladder.
Climbed up, grabbed the money, and then.
And it wouldn't come out at first, so what better way to get the bag out
than just let all your weight go and fall off the ladder.
He jerked it and sacrificed his body.
Totally get the win knocked out of you.
He can't get, he got it!
Oh!
God!
Marty!
They've won the match!
That really turned the corner for us.
From where we started in WWF, October of 98,
it's unreal how far we came a year later when that match took place.
You know, and that really gave us a lot of steam.
I mean, we proved to a lot of people that, you know, we were real.
Matt and Jeff Hardy, we're serious and, you know, we're around here to stay.
I've seen during a match and immediately following a match standing ovations,
but I don't think I can ever recall 24 hours later
these guys getting a standing ovation.
I thought it was a great testament to their ability, to their desire,
and certainly the fans should pat themselves on the back
for recognizing the effort that these men put forth for them to entertain them,
and boy, they did a hell of a job of it.
You know, I started watching wrestling,
and Matt, same time, right around WrestleMania IV.
There was a tournament for the vacant WWF title.
I remember Jeff and I both said, you know, who do you think is going to win that?
You know, we were guessing there were different people in the tournament,
and my pick was Macho Man Randy Savage.
After I started watching full-time, and I just saw it,
I just thought it was the coolest thing ever, and it was always a dream as of then.
We're not getting that ring with you tonight, how old is you?
I'm going to come after you 110%.
Our first mainstream characters, like the ones that we would put the most time into,
I was Wolverine.
My main character was High Voltage.
Now what are you going to do, Wolverine, when 10,000 watts blow?
Can you survive? I don't think so!
This was the first ever overcoat I made.
This was my old High Voltage ring jacket.
I had a character named White Cheetah.
I was Gladiator.
The Grim Reaper.
Will of the Wisp.
Rip Curl.
Macho Man.
Mysterio.
Galaxian.
Evil Knavel.
Me and Jimmy Jack Tompkins.
Me and Jimmy Jack Tompkins are named.
Tonight, I'm going to bust that big boy and destroy him, whatever his name is.
When you look at Matt and Jeff, they want to do this since they were kids,
and so they'd wrestle around the backyard, which we can't condone,
but you're always going to have kids wrestling around playing Power Rangers,
and they did that, and they kept doing it, and kept doing it, and kept doing it.
We just did Independence, and we would drive four or five, six hours on the weekends,
make 20 bucks.
We never made any money from wrestling.
Everything we did was for experience and exposure.
I didn't go to either one of my proms because I wrestled on those nights,
because we would jump on any opportunity we had,
and there were so many times we drove to Philadelphia, to New York,
all up and down the East Coast for nothing.
You know, we would come home hurt and beat up,
and our dad would say, did you make any money this weekend?
We did.
Oh.
I mean, but we were on a good show.
There were 400 people there, and we met a few good names.
And he'd say, well, you need to quit that wrestling bull****.
You know, get a real job where you're going to have a little insurance,
and you're going to have some stability and some benefits.
I was concerned about them, you know.
What do you think about the wrestling business as a whole now?
I watch it all the time.
I tape all the shows so the boys will have them when they get home.
There you have it, the old contracts.
This is how it went.
Whenever this thing flew in, we opened it up and we said, okay,
start looking through it.
Okay, yeah, where's it at?
From the back.
Oh, where do we sign?
Right here?
Back in the mail and out.
Hey, no use in reading.
This is what you work your whole life for.
This is your dream.
Sign it.
Okay.
You know, I remember how excited that Matt and Jeff were just to be
able to get a contract from the World Wrestling Federation.
That was a really big thing to them.
I saw a lot of desire.
I saw two young guys that really loved the business and that would do
anything to be in it, and they had heart.
That was probably the one thing, if you ask me one thing that I saw,
they had heart.
The Hardys came in, they worked wherever they could, whenever they could.
And that's one thing that I always respected about these two young kids
is that they would go anywhere and do anything just to be able to get
inside that ring and compete and keep getting better.
360 in mid-air.
And every time they would come back from the ring, they were like sponges.
What did we do good?
What did we do wrong?
How can we be better?
And can we please come back next time?
The challenge for them at the time was you had the big companies,
and then you had a lot of smaller independent companies working all
over the country.
And the challenge for them was to get into one of the bigger companies
where they could find regular work.
Because they had worked for us in and out for several years,
and they had come to TV's and been appearing on TV's and doing a lot of
different things and doing house shows, kind of like as part-timers almost.
And when the day came, they finally say, gentlemen, we want you to be
part of the family.
Here is an official World Wrestling Federation contract.
They were literally looking for a pin and wanting to sign it right then
and there.
Jeff and I sat back there and he said, well, what are we thinking about
with you guys?
What we want to do is offer you guys a three-year contract.
It's a developmental deal and we'll pay you X amount of dollars per week
and X amount of dollars for TV, blah, blah, blah, the same old thing.
And I remember inside, you know, I was trying to like be professional and
like, you know, it's no big deal, but inside I was just exploding.
It was like the 4th of July.
It's on my stomach.
You know, fireworks were going off.
And I just wanted to get up and scream.
Whoo!
Yeah!
Oh, God!
Yes!
You know, I just wanted to go, you know, crazy, you know, but I just
tried to remain professional.
I was going, yeah, you know, we'd be interested in that.
I mean, it was almost like a teary feeling, man, because we had
went so long starving and we had came so close to giving up at times
because it got so hard at times.
That's just a culmination of everything, you know, that we've worked for.
And, you know, it's just a dream come true.
And so, so, so, so few people, you know, that worked their whole life to try
and get a job in the WWF, you know, get that opportunity where they're
offered a contract.
And, you know, that was our moment.
And I remember getting out of there and walking to the ring and the rest
of the crew that was listening.
So, what'd they talk to you about?
I said, well, they offered us a contract.
And they were going, oh, man, well, congratulations, you know.
It was exciting.
It was really exciting.
It was definitely one of the best days of my life.
You know, they took it upon themselves to get as far as they could on their
own.
Then they got their shot and they were able to chase their dreams down.
And God bless them for it.
There's a lot of different stories here in the World Wrestling Federation,
how guys made it here.
And there's a lot of very cool stories.
When you look at Matt and Jeff, they trained themselves and got to the
point where they were good enough to get here and start cutting their teeth
and learning here.
You could definitely write a movie and make a movie on what they've done
with their lives.
Dare to Dream would be a good title for it.
It would be good.
If you believe in yourself, if you really think you can do something.
And I think Matt said once, to achieve you have to believe.
And I think that that's the case.
And I think that they really both felt that.
And look at where they are today.
You know, the first time we came in and wrestled after we were under
contract, we got an upset win on Kanta, you know, which was real cool.
And then like the next night we got a DQ win on too much.
And then we like lost like 50 matches straight.
But hey, that was good.
We were getting a steady paycheck and we were getting an opportunity.
They put us in an angle with Michael Hayes and we got in there.
We kind of had a makeover.
But people had seen us long enough where they identified with us and they
knew how hard we were, you know, really working to move up to the next level
and we were busting our ass to get there.
And people accepted and they bought into it.
And like six or seven weeks later we were the WF Tag Team Champions.
Could that be all?
The leg is hooked.
Yes.
We've got new Tag Champions.
Which was real cool.
And that was another one of those points where I said, well, after we
start wrestling, I said all I want to do is become the WF Tag Team Champions
one time.
I want to be happy.
Of course, as time goes on, you know, that's way behind me now.
There's a lot more goals ahead of us in the future.
We went from there.
We carried on through.
We finally got rid of Michael Hayes.
We joined Gangrel, became the new Brood.
After the old Brood, Edge and Christian split away from them.
Edge, Christian, Matt and Jeff Hardy were really young guys.
We'd never really done anything major.
And we met in the Terry Invitational Tournament, which was the best of
five series.
And we went to the final match at No Mercy in Cleveland, Ohio at the
Gun Arena and a ladder match.
And that's where we went from being WF wrestlers to WF superstars.
Mick Foley said something like, you guys have cemented your spot.
He told us that.
Nothing but inspiring.
Sometimes it doesn't matter how good somebody is or for how long they've
sacrificed.
They need that one match that kind of defines them.
And the Hardy boys, I mean, within the dressing room, everybody knew what
they could do.
But until they had that ladder match, I don't think the fans knew exactly
what they could do.
That's the kind of thing that put a real solid, indelible stamp on their
reputations.
And they just proceeded to exceed that reputation every time it's on the
line.
This is Jeff as a baby.
And this is a little high school picture of Jeff.
This is the room that I grew up in.
And as you can see, there's just memories everywhere.
I was one of the kids who said, well, I want to be a pro baseball player.
That was one of the first things I wanted to do.
I was so into baseball, I think that was my first idea of a dream.
Our dad was actually our baseball coach from the time Jeff and I were six
years old.
We played baseball all the way up through high school.
This is obviously a family portrait of myself, Jeff, my mom and my dad.
For a while she was having really bad headaches.
She ended up going and she was diagnosed with cancer and she had a brain
tumor.
She was really athletic because I remember stories of just bowling and
softball and trophies she had.
I remember being in the hospital.
We were there the moment she died and we just all broke into tears.
Our dad told us, he said, our mom's gone.
He said, we've got to pick up them, we've got to go on and we've got to
make it.
She was a fine woman.
It went hard there for a while, but we grew out of it.
I told the boys we just had to go on because that's what she wants to do.
Having two kids and raising them yourself, I mean, whoa, and still
working at the same time.
I mean, gee whiz, he is, I mean, my overall hero.
The discipline that they were raised with, too, I believe helped them
a lot.
Everyone always jokes that they're always scared to go over to their
house.
They say, oh, I don't want your dad to yell at us or whatever, but I
think that it really helped them stay disciplined, stay focused to get
where they are now.
Music
Matthew M. Hardy.
Music
You can see I'm down here, it's WrestleMania weekend.
I'm wearing my cow jacket.
You know, the weather's beautiful.
Reverse negative.
I like reverse negative.
Yeah, that's the brown gimmick, black and white.
It makes like an old movie, I don't know how, check that one out.
This may be my best shot right here.
Whenever you engage in any kind of sexual activity, do you feel very
comfortable with that or is that a very nerve-wracking situation?
I feel very comfortable with it.
I just feel that it's a very private situation.
Music
That's bad luck.
You're not kidding.
I guess the Hardys are as fearless as they say they are, not
superstitious whatsoever.
The Hardys dream of making it to the WWF, and more specifically, winning
the tag titles at WrestleMania.
These six men all making their WrestleMania debuts.
These six men wanting to make their mark in sports entertainment.
This is the platform to get it done.
Look at this.
Watch through.
Moonsault by Jeff Hardy.
Look out.
Look at this elevation.
Oh, man.
Here goes Jeff.
Jeff Hardy.
Here we go.
Ladders can be used as weapons.
D-Von Dudley slammed on the ladder.
Yes.
Whoa.
And Hardy dropped the elbow right to the sternum of D-Von Dudley, who
was lying on that steel ladder.
Nice DDT.
And Hardy with a DDT taking down Bubba Ray Dudley.
Bubba's laying on the ladder.
450 splash by Jeff Hardy that did not compute.
Make sure about that.
Make sure it's on this.
These guys are all crazy.
Oh, look out, Edge.
Edge.
Oh.
Right on the ladder.
Right on the throne anatomy of Matt Hardy.
Jeff Hardy's hitting up.
Uh-oh.
Look at this.
Hardy heading up.
Look at Christian.
Look at this.
Edge with a spear.
Could that have been the winning offensive move?
Matt Hardy, no, this doesn't look good.
It's folded up.
Look at him pouring in there.
Man.
Matt Jeff Hardy on the ladders.
What are they going to do?
What the?
Oh.
Candleball pins off Bubba Ray Dudley.
Hardy setting up the ladders now side by side.
Edge and Christian also climbing the ladder.
Oh, look out.
Another high.
Neck cracker off the ladder.
Look at this.
Everybody trying to get within arm's reach of the tag team title belts.
Tag team championship on the line.
Oh, my God.
Oh, for God's sakes.
Oh.
Christian and Jeff over the top of concrete.
That it is.
They straddled the top rope.
Wait a minute, guys.
This is a ladder matchup.
What are you doing over here?
What the hell are they?
Oh, my God.
What?
You've got to be kidding me.
I thought we had seen it all.
Three tables, three ladders in the ring.
Another table.
Oh, Lord.
Devon has got Jeff Hardy in the ring doing tables.
Double carnage.
Oh.
Devon to the table.
Oh, no.
God almighty.
Have mercy on this kid's soul.
He was just powerbomb right to the table.
Can you even imagine, remotely imagine what these men are doing to their enemy?
Look at Jeff Hardy.
Oh.
He came off the rail.
It ain't some ladder.
Wait a minute.
What now?
Where did that ladder come from?
Oh, man.
Now Jeff Hardy peeling off his shirt.
Jeff Hardy has been busted up inside.
Oh, for God's sakes.
Don't do it, Jim.
Not this.
No.
He won't do this.
Oh.
Short time gone.
Top of the ladder.
To the floor.
To the table.
Good night by Lorraine Dudley.
Good night, Jeff Hardy.
They're both gone.
The WF tag titles are hanging the same as the careers of these young men.
Look at Edge.
Edge in the balance.
Edge.
Christian.
Matt Hardy.
It's on.
Oh.
And first man right to the table.
For the love of God.
Edge and Christian have won it.
Matt had those title belts in his hand.
And look at this.
The last second he was shoved off.
After a big match like that, sometimes Jeff needs a little bit of fixing.
We just went out and we accomplished what so many people, as we did as young kids, dream
of doing.
Wrestling and WrestleMania.
Went out and it was great.
Center stage was awesome for me.
I'm sure if you ask any of the six members, they have the ultimate respect for each other.
Because everybody out there, it's a group effort.
We went out there and we did a lot of dangerous stuff and we did a lot of stuff that's never
been done before.
You know, we all came back unscathed more or less.
We'll give luck a little bit of credibility with everything going so smoothly out there.
I am.
I'm a huge believer in luck.
I just like to say that.
Oh.
I don't know why.
I'm sure if you ask any of the six guys too, Jeff may very well be the craziest individual
in the wrestling business.
Because he just wants to do anything.
He doesn't think about the consequences.
Well, it's like you climb up the ladder and then you don't see everybody until you get
over like that ring height.
Then you kind of see everybody and naturally all that adrenaline's flowing through your
body.
So you get all pumped up.
And I was worried that the ladder was going to, once I tried to jump off it, it was going
to come out from underneath me or something.
So I kind of just tried to fall off it.
What a feeling.
It's amazing that that's only 12 foot and it looks 50 and it feels like it's 50.
And it's scary up there.
And I didn't think I broke the table at first.
I thought I just smashed my heels in my rear end into the floor.
But I looked back and said, oh, I did break it.
Jeff definitely has that feeling, you know, don't worry about tomorrow, I'm just going
to do this right now.
And once I land, I'll worry about how I feel after that.
Which is really admirable, but I can't say that, you know, just anyone would go with
that.
Jeff will still do things that catch me off guard.
But before I could even get, I can't believe he did that out of my mouth.
I can believe that he just did that, but it doesn't make it any less amazing.
If I'm out there, it's not like I can do anything about it, but I feel that much closer
in case something were to happen.
I think the three of us have such a great chemistry together.
I can feel the most energy coming out of that.
Being able to interact with the two of them, just walking down the ramp.
And I think the crowd responds to us as the total package, the three of us together the
best as well.
It's a good feeling.
I think what the Hardy Boys do works just because, you know, they're them.
Take them or leave them.
And, you know, fortunate for them, the crowd's just taken to them.
And I believe that they're much more attainable type people and in still a, you know, unattainable
way.
You know, we look like the people that they're watching the show with on Monday nights in
their living room.
You could kind of describe it as the start of like a concert or something, because you
know, you can hear all the girls start to scream when you hear their music start and
they come out and do a little crazy thing at the top of the stage.
And it's a lot of excitement, high energy.
The crowd gets with them as soon as they hear their music.
And I mean, they know what to expect.
They know that it's going to be an exciting, exciting match.
The one thing about the Hardy's entrance is it's kind of frenetic.
And it's energy and it's excitement.
When they come out, you know, you have to get up and it excites you.
And everything that they do, they bring the fans in and they make you feel what they're
feeling.
People can really identify with them.
They get really excited because they know when the Hardys are in the ring, they're going
to see something special.
They're going to see some high risk moves.
They're going to see some really fast paced action.
And most of all, they're going to be entertained.
And that's what the people pay their money for and the Hardy's entertain the people.
It gets the heart pounding, the blood pumping, the doom, doom, doom, doom, doom.
I always do an impersonation of their music and we usually get together at an outback
after the show and at some points we'll do their music.
But just the way the drums kick in and it's very cool.
I used to like their old music before they had that music.
And if you can play that in there, it's pretty cool.
It is when they were with Michael Hayes.
That was really cool music too.
And then they switched to this other one.
I didn't like it as much at first.
And then little by little it really started to grow on me to the point now where I'm bouncing
along with it and drumming along with it when they come out.
To the point where I've caught myself in the ring as they're coming down the aisle doing
it.
I go, okay, camera might be on.
And here come the home counters.
Oh boy.
The Hardy boys.
Oh, they're fired up, JR.
Oh, what a shot.
I'm going to make a bold prediction here, I'm going to pick the Hardys and a Devon Dudley
on Jeff Hardy.
And now there's Christian breathing in on the ladder.
And look at this.
My God, double rushing leg sweep.
Jeff Hardy and then the ladder set back up, looking to go upstairs and Christian, oh my.
Now, how do you learn to fall on a down ladder without hurting yourself?
You don't.
Oh my God.
What happened there?
Looks like a car wreck.
That's got to be hurt bad.
No doubt about that, King.
And now look.
That's a double chair shot.
Whoa.
And then Christian, this got knocked down by Bubba Dudley.
Bubba throwing that ladder right in the face of Jeff Hardy.
Devon and Bubba Ray are in control here.
The Hardys are dead and hurt.
Jeff Hardy under a couple of ladders, Matt Hardy trying to get back in the ring.
3D.
Oh.
You're looking at four tables here.
Oh no.
And now the Dudleys.
Jeff, it don't look good for you, son.
And look out.
From behind, King.
Oh, what a shot.
Sounded like a gunshot.
Another shot right to the cranium of Bubba Ray Dudley.
And Matt Hardy.
Twist of fate, but remember, no pinfalls.
He don't want a pinfall.
He wants to get up that ladder.
Matt, just go after the bell.
These Hardys from Cameron, North Carolina.
Wow.
Looking to become the top team champions in their home state.
Oh no.
Jeff Hardy will put his life in this.
Look at that.
Oh my God.
Jeff Hardy leapfrogging over the ladder.
Right in the face of Edge.
Now what?
Edge being put between the ladder.
Now watch yourself.
Oh, very dangerous.
Good God.
Oh, on the outside is Jeff Hardy.
No.
Oh my God.
Jeff Hardy has over 20 feet.
For the love of God.
Matt Hardy is back.
Cracking those tables.
From the love of God to the back.
Matt Hardy is by himself here.
That is a hell of a painer's ladder.
20 feet high.
And they're all going for me.
Christian.
He's got Matt.
Good God.
Oh, everybody's down.
Bubba Ray's up.
The Dudleys are going to do it.
Going for the bounce in the middle.
The Dudleys are going to do it.
He's 20 feet in the air.
Oh, Bubba Ray.
Oh my God.
This is unbelievable, Jeff.
As in Christian, they're the Tag Team Champions.
Everybody has been decimated.
Oh my God.
Jeff Hardy just went all backwards.
This was sick.
My God.
I can't believe it.
Jeff Hardy's back.
Jeff Hardy's back up.
How's he doing it?
It's anybody's ball game.
Who's going to be the champions?
The Dudleys or the Hardys?
My God.
They're hanging.
Now what?
Devon and Jeff Hardy are hanging high above the ring.
Oh no.
Devon knocked down.
Get the belt, Jeff.
Look at that, Christian.
That's brilliant.
Devon.
That's brilliant.
No.
They knocked Jeff right off the ropes.
Well, he was a piñata.
Here goes Edge and Christian.
My God.
What an exchange that was.
They got one.
They got him.
Edge and Christian have done it.
I'm disappointed the Hardys couldn't come home and win the Tag Team titles.
And this crowd here, everybody on their feet.
And rightfully so, I can tell you.
What a match.
I love it.
I mean, you name it, Art.
Just anything you ask him to do, he can just pick it up.
His aptitude to do stuff is incredible.
And when it comes to doing something athletically, I mean, just anything,
he's, hey, Jeff, do this, and he can do it just like he's been doing it,
you know, for two years already.
I mean, he's just really, really talented as far as picking up stuff real quick
and having a great aptitude to do stuff.
Having a motocross track in my front yard is something that I've wanted for a long time.
Really as far back as I can remember, Jeff's always, you know,
loved to do kind of crazy and daring things and motorcycles
have definitely been one of them.
I remember my brother always had a poster in his room,
and it was a picture, it was like a poster of a dirt bike,
and I would always look at it and say, man, I need to do that.
It took me so long to talk to my dad and letting me, you know, have one,
and actually, you know, him shutting off the bugs for it.
We used to film every race, you know, 40 lights taking off,
and you know, me being right next to last.
It was probably my brother filming most of them.
Is that him? I don't know, is that him?
No, I can't see nothing, the dust.
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Jeff just has that no fear mentality.
Fear, fear, fear itself.
What's Jeff Hardy going to do here? What is Jeff Hardy thinking?
Jeff Hardy has no regard for his body.
This is going to be obviously very unorthodox, very unpredictable,
and unfortunately very, very dangerous.
I'm scared of a lot of stuff, but if there weren't any fear in it,
you know, it would be that big of a payoff.
That fear is, I guess, the payoff in it after it's over.
Jeff is completely and utterly insane.
I've been in some bad wrecks. I hurt my neck real bad one time.
I broke my shoulder and my collarbone at the same time.
I've got to be careful now because I can't be hurting myself like, you know,
I used to, being that I'm a WWF superstar now.
Oh, and he goes down.
It's a dangerous jump, and as soon as you land,
there's another jump down the bottom of that hill.
I just kind of went into it long, and it just threw my dirt bike kind of
nosedive style into the ground, and I was able to just jump over the
handlebars and do the old ninja roll out of it.
You're always going to have that risk factor of a wreck and like a serious injury,
maybe death, you know, I mean, it's always there until it's the same thing
that, you know, happened in the ring at any moment.
All right, I'm sorry. It's my fault. It's all me.
The motocross track was kind of getting boring, you know.
I've seen it a lot, so I've seen a volcano in my head and just envisioned that,
and I went ahead and built a little bitty volcano.
Jeff's just really unique, and he's just got all these crazy and wacky
and original ideas flowing all through his head,
and when he gets something going, he'll do it.
And, you know, one day he said, well, how about if I, you know,
build a big mound of dirt up and put a barrel in it and put some gas
or gunpowder or whatever and build a volcano.
And lo and behold, he had a volcano the next day.
This is the first time I've ever jumped the volcano.
When I was trying to make the lava, my dad tried to help,
but the fire kind of was faster than my dad,
and it almost got to him, and my dad almost got caught
right in the middle of it and became flame man himself.
I don't think I felt the heat just because it was kind of a hot night,
and there was just so much going through my mind,
I didn't have time to think about the heat of the flames.
Jumping over the volcano was totally original,
and it was totally different than a regular double.
It's an awesome feeling to jump above fire.
It's just that team extreme attitude, I guess.
We have that reputation to uphold,
and this does nothing but add to that,
and it's just that living on the edge atmosphere that I carry.
And now I can say I have a volcano in my front yard,
and I've jumped the volcano in my front yard.
Oh, yeah. Powered up.
Philadelphia's a very tough crowd, but this match was great.
I agree with you. I mean, I think it was great.
Christian got a foot full of heel.
The heel of Jeff's foot hit him right in the mouth.
Wait a minute. Jeff Hardy's all alone up there.
People by now know that, you know, Jeff's utterly insane.
And now I'm kind of stuck,
and I try to hang on a little bit,
so I just lift and slip tap.
Fire!
The twist of fate.
The original name of the move was the JLT from Michael Hayes.
He called it Just Like That
because you can put it on an opponent just like that.
Matt Hardy going up. Matt Hardy going up.
This is a spot, too, I like right here,
where I'm trying to escape the cage.
I make a little bit of a comeback on both of them,
and they hook me, and they actually suplex me off the top of the cage.
Eee. And that was one of those where you hit, and you go,
ugh, I hope I'm okay.
But I was. I'm not as tough as Jeff is.
I don't know. I can't say that.
He can honestly say that. I think he's pretty tough.
He's right off the top of the cage.
And now Matt Hardy leads first into the steam.
See, Pat Patterson has to get mad.
No, he hasn't, Pat Patterson hasn't.
No, but you were mad there.
I'm going to have to show him this piece of footage.
Oh!
Oh, my God, into the cage. That was devastating.
He just fell 15 feet to the floor.
Jeff showing his love and compassion for him.
He's trying to get in there.
Oh, I get hot.
And Jeff is looking.
I just heard Jeff say something about a key.
It's anger.
Anger on good old rep Jimmy Cordaris.
See, that's very unlike me.
I just took out the referee.
He just took off the steel chair in the room.
Jeff Hardy didn't get by.
Oh!
By Christian.
You know, I'm in there already hurt,
and now they've got a chair.
And Matt Hardy has been busted open
at the hands of Richard Christian
in this time team championship match.
So now I've totally made things worse.
We've seen this, and this is sick.
Oh!
There's no reason for this.
Both chairs, and we know what's coming here.
And here they go going for the concerto,
but nobody home.
And it's got a really good reaction, I remember.
I mean, you would hear just thousands of people
just chanting Hardy right now.
Oh.
Oh, and here comes Jeff with the ladder.
What's Jeff doing?
Jeff Hardy with the ladder!
He just threw the ladder right off of Christian.
Yes.
That was awesome.
That was great.
Now Edge and I are on the top rope.
Now Jeff has got a ladder,
and that's going to be his means to get to the cage.
This is sweet.
This is my revenge on Edge
with his cockiness putting the key down his pants.
And what's really funny about it,
that's great on both accounts,
because Edge can't get Jeff.
And now he can't hit him through the cage
because Jeff's on the ladder.
Oh, look at the crowd.
I mean, you can just look at the crowd right there
and tell that they were waiting for this.
Dude, I've got crazy goosebumps right now.
I forgot the story of this.
And I'm going to rewind it, actually.
Now back to Suplex Edge.
Watch Jeff when he stands up, just watch all the people
at one time come up.
I mean, because they know it's coming.
That's when you know you've got them right in the palm of your hand.
That was so good.
He's looking from the end.
Look out!
A clutch screw moved up from over 15 feet.
Wow.
Look at it!
Lita's here!
And Lita!
Oh my!
Lita comes down with a hook run on Christian.
Very impressive off the ladder.
Well, she came down and just sacrificed herself
to eliminate Christian from the equation.
What can they do up here, Jeff?
This is career-threatening right here.
Look how high these men are up.
Here we go.
Edge is up there on top.
Edge is almost out of it.
He's trying to get out of the cage.
A concerto to Edge!
And Edge fell backwards
right in the ring from the concerto.
The Hardys have done it!
If they drop down,
we've got new champions!
The Hardys are coming down!
And the Hardys have done it!
The Hardys have done it!
And the winner of this round
and new World Wrestling Federation
heavyweight champion,
The Hardy Boys!
I remember this was actually real emotional.
It was like everything we were doing was like the hugs were real.
Everything was so super emotional.
And see, that was the culmination of our
months and months of chasing the attacking piles
and finally winning them.
Ooh, double concerto.
Edge said, you know,
I hope I don't get afraid
to fall back or get stuck or whatever.
Jeff made a joke earlier.
He said, oh, when we hit you with a double concerto
don't worry, you're going to fall back
because when you're unconscious you can't control it.
I'll clap for that one.
I'll clap for those two guys.
I would say that the most vivid memory I have
of watching them compete has been
during the cage match.
When they gave the concerto to Edge
off the top of the cage and they came crawling over the cage
jumped down and just hugged each other.
It was like such a genuine feeling.
You know they were so excited to get those belts
by just seeing them embrace like that
and just getting the tag titles.
It was a good feeling for me as well.
We wrestled Edge and Christian at Unforgiven
2000 in the cage match and won the tag team titles.
After we were beat up
really severely we wrestled them in the ladder match
on the first ever episode of Raw
on TNN.
The stipulation was if they could not
beat us in the ladder match they got no more shots in the titles.
So we beat them in the ladder match
so they dressed up as the conquistadors
trying to earn another tag team title shot against us.
Here's one
from Latin America
Los Conquistadores.
Oh JR these guys are great
they love conquistadors.
You mean Edge and Christian they are a great team.
That was fun.
That was fun and when Christian
and I were the conquistadors we'd try and
do little Mexican moves
and walk differently. So then Matt and Jeff
came out that night and they tried to walk
the way we were walking and it just
looked hilarious because we always call Matt's legs
Jimmy Legs and if you watch him trying to walk down
like conquistadors all full leg
and everything it was great and Jeff
was the Jimmy Legs.
We tried our best to do
similar to them. I think
we did a great job of not letting them know
that we were the Hardy Boys because when we took off our masks
people were really surprised.
What is that?
Wait a minute.
It's the Hardys.
What?
It's Jim Hardy
they're rounding.
The following contest
is the Tables
Ladders and Chairs
Two
for the World Wrestling Federation
head team championship.
This was actually
cool how they were going to show a little package here
but the show was running a little heavy
just for all those people who like history
and like a little inside trivia
they just showed the tables ladders and
chairs being constructed. Let's watch
the match.
Wow
look at the crowd
I remember this was awesome.
Everybody in the back they said
whenever you guys come out take your time going down
because there was almost 70,000
people there. This was in Houston
Astrodome.
Being such a huge
building too you don't really
to where Matt said he heard it
I was going to say I felt it. If they're not
fired up on the entrance man it kind of
kills me right away. They got to get behind
me to really have me fired up.
This place was so huge just like the Sky
Dome in Toronto. You don't hear it
or feel it as much. At least I don't
feel it as much because it's so big and there's so much
air
above them and in between you know the
bleachers. Great ovation from Matt
and Jeff Hardy. How high
will the bar be raised tonight?
The Edge and Christian the Dudley boys and we've done so
much for each other through our careers too. It was
great that we were performing with those two other teams on
this level on this platform.
It was so hard considering we've done so much in the past
to go out and try and maintain
the same level of
entertainment that we have in the past and I think we were
able to do it. The belts are up for grabs
right now and the Hardy boys with the
early, early advantage right now.
This was the first one really where all the crowd came up
because Jeff and I have both ladders and you can see
as we start to climb all the bodies
start to rise and grow.
There's nothing like that. That's just
stuff that we live for.
The Hardys with the
tendum offense off the ladders.
You want to hit that?
Yeah because all that broke that table was my hand.
You'll see him scoop me for a powerbomb and watch
all my hand
because he didn't
throw me far enough. It was supposed to be
back to the belly, back to the chest.
It kind of knocked me a little silly. It didn't knock me totally
unconscious but
it knocked me a little silly.
This is a good one we got to see. Nobody even knows this.
This was the worst injury I sustained in
the TLC2 match right here.
Bubba Ray Dudley took this ladder
and we almost need volume. When he hits me in the head
right here, right here. Wham!
That led to twelve staples.
I'm getting some volume on that one.
I'm fed up. I've had enough.
Why?
Why Bubba? Why?
That's such a little
thing. Nobody noticed that.
Coming up here is my favorite sequence in
the Magic. Oh man! They're going
for the Dudleyville device!
Wham!
Now Spike's coming up.
Because Spike hasn't interfered, Lita's going to get
revenge. Wham!
That was great.
Doing damage. Damage
to someone else.
It's alright. She turns around and
3D!
You see Jeff
out here battling, wrestling with
the 12 foot... 14, 15, whatever it was.
12, 14, 15.
It's all the same when it's at home.
Notice, not only one body on the table, but there's
two bodies, first time only.
Rhino and Spike doesn't.
Oh wait a minute. What's Jeff Hardy going to do here?
He's going to sacrifice himself! He's nothing!
What is Jeff Hardy thinking?
That must be a
20 foot ladder!
Short time!
Right into the bodies
of Rhino and
Spike!
This is living for the moment.
That's living for the moment, isn't it?
They got it right here.
If you don't have it right here, inside,
they love what they do.
Besides the fame, besides all the money,
if that wasn't here, they would still
put 100% into what they do.
There's a lot of people who don't think
that the Hardys are going to last with their
hard-flying style. I totally disagree.
They're so young, and they have
so much wrestling ability,
and they've got whole wrestling futures ahead of them.
I don't think there's ever been a tag team, it's just been a
set tag team that's had the single success
that Jeff and I have.
Sometime down the line, it's inevitable, you know what I mean, they're both
tremendous talents. They may be surprised
to see them go their separate ways
sometime down the line, and that might be a little hard to swallow
for a lot of Hardy Boys fans,
but you know, you've got to change and
roll with the times.
To get a chance to live a dream is one thing.
To succeed at doing that is another.
Nine times out of ten,
if someone does that,
it changes them. But Matt and Jeff
are still the same kids that when they came
here to the WWF, they were just so happy
to be in the locker room with
the WWF Superstars, and
they still have that same feeling,
they still have that same drive to
entertain the people above
and beyond the call of duty. To see everything
that they put into the business
to be where they are today,
it makes you feel good that you could ever be a part of that,
because they lost their
mother at a young age, and their father
was all they had, and
their father just discouraged
them from getting into
the wrestling business. To see
the glow of their father,
he watches them today, and to know how
proud he is of his sons,
that they succeeded at something that they
truly wanted to do. They love
this business, and their love,
and their determination made them
successes. I want to be respected,
first and foremost. I would like to be
respected by people saying that
Matt Hardy was good
and fair, and when Matt Hardy went out, he wasn't
just thinking about Matt Hardy, and I would
love to one day be in a leadership
type position, like the Triple H's
of the locker room, and The Undertaker, and the Stone Cold
Steve Olsen's, and I want to be able to pass back
all the information, and
everything that's been given to me, give it
back, and I also just want people to remember
that I was a good person.
I have totally fulfilled
a dream.
That means so much to me, after so many
conversations of
what are we going to do now? Are we going to
stick this out? Man, are we ever going to make it?
God, my shoulder hurts.
Man, is this worth it?
After all of that,
to be able to
say that I'm a World Wrestling Federation superstar,
it's so awesome,
and I'm thankful for what has happened
with the Hardy Boys, and
I totally think we will
continue to
exist and inspire.