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For the Australian comedian, see Matthew Hardy.

Matthew Moore Hardy (born September 23, 1974 in Cameron, North Carolina) is an American professional wrestler, currently working for the SmackDown! brand of World Wrestling Entertainment.

Career

Before his then-WWF debut with his brother Jeff, Matt was trained by former wrestler Dory Funk, Jr. Before signing with the WWF, Matt and Jeff ran their own wrestling promotion, OMEGA Wrestling, in which Matt competed under the name High Voltage. Other wrestlers associated with OMEGA include Christopher Daniels, Amy Dumas, Shannon Moore and Gregory Helms.

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment

Matt (then 19) and Jeff (then just 16) started working for the WWF in 1993 and were initially used in singles matches and in tag matches as jobbers to bigger names. It wasn't until 1998 that the brothers were given a full-time WWF contract.

Michael Hayes became their manager and with a new look the team won their first WWF Tag Team Titles in 1999. A few months later, however, they ditched Hayes after losing the titles and joined with Gangrel's stable, The New Brood. They would enter a feud with Gangrel's former proteges, Edge and Christian. This feud would continue even after the Hardyz dropped Gangrel, and the two teams engaged in the Terri Invitational Tournament. The Hardyz won, and gained Terri Runnels as their manager. Terri turned on the team in early 2000.

The Hardyz were placed in a triangle Ladder Match at WrestleMania 2000 along with Edge and Christian and the Dudley Boyz. Though E&C won, all six competitors put on a great performance, only to be outdone a year later in TLC.

Matt and Jeff soon found a new manager in their real-life friend Amy Dumas, known in the WWF as Lita. The three together became known as "Team Xtreme". During this run, Matt and Amy became an off-screen (and later on-screen) couple.

In 2001, After Jeff Hardy's Intercontinental Championship run, Matt Hardy threatened to leave the WWE if he was not given a singles Championship push. Raven, who was scheduled to win the European Championship at Backlash, was placed in a match with Rhyno instead because Matt Hardy was given the European championship, by defeating the late Eddie Guerrero, on Smackdown two weeks before Backlash. Many of Raven's fans started anti-Matt Hardy sites. Some of those sites still exists while others have turned into Unofficial Raven fan sites.

On the August 12, 2002 episode of RAW, Matt turned against Jeff, pitting him in a match against Rob Van Dam. A short time later he joined the SmackDown! roster. On the October 3, 2002 edition of the show, Matt used outside interference from Brock Lesnar to defeat The Undertaker.

Now dubbed "Matt Hardy - Version 1.0," and with his MF'er (Mattitude Follower) Shannon Moore in his corner, Matt defeated Billy Kidman at the 2003 No Way Out in Montreal, Quebec to claim the WWE Cruiserweight Championship and, at WrestleMania XIX in Seattle, defended it against Rey Mysterio. The Mattitude stable also included the late Crash Holly as Shannon Moore's "Moore-on." Lockwood was later released, Matt later disbanded the stable and returned to RAW in order to be able to travel and work with then-girlfriend, Lita. He would later turn face once more by engaging in a rivalry with then heel, Kane.

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Athletes - Matt Hardy

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