6 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (April 7)
6. The Hardy Boyz Wrestled Two Ladder Matches In 24 Hours
Back in 2001, many thought the The Hardy Boyz had taken years from their career by performing in a spate of lunatic stunt festivals. Those first TLC matches were brutal then and are f*cking brutal to watch back now. The suicidal dives, still seen today, are one thing - but Matt and Jeff took full on chair shots to the head in the Attitude Era. Those matches were career shorteners. Edge's neck withered away largely because of the bumps he took in them.
The Hardy Boyz are still performing in them sixteen years later - two in twenty four hours (!) at either side of forty.
At ROH Supercard Of Honor XI, the Hardy Boyz lost their Tag Team Titles to the Young Bucks in a violent twenty-five minute war during which Jeff Hardy - who has flirted with danger by walking under ladders since he first became synonymous with them - took a slingshot ladder bump to the face, the grisly fate of Joey Mercury be damned. In the most insane spot of the ROH Tag Team Title match, Nick Jackson avoided Matt Hardy but had to vault onto a second ladder before springboard somersaulting onto Jeff Hardy and driving him through a ringside table.
Hardy gave an equal amount of f*cks - absolute zero - when he performed a lunatic Swanton Bomb from his trademark giant ladder the next night at WrestleMania 33 in a less showy but equally more dangerous spot.
He has been doing this for eighteen years.