10 Most Absurd Forgotten Matches In WWE History
5. Jeff Hardy & Bradshaw Vs Matt Hardy & Faarooq
By early 2001, Vince McMahon's character was out of control.
Again.
And not for the last time, regrettably.
Anyway, when he wasn't grimly necking on with Trish Stratus or emotionally abusing his drugged wife, he was promoting the every-man-for-himself drama of the Royal Rumble by forcing babyface teams The Hardy Boyz and The APA to battle each other on the January 25th edition of SmackDown.
The results - mostly because the company was still on a fairly hot streak - were remarkably impressive. Jeff and Matt rolled back the years to trade athletic assaults, while Faarooq and Bradshaw beat the sh*t out of each other as if they'd both been sneaking aces up their sleeves in those backstage poker games. Sure enough, by the end the concept broke down and The Hardyz "outsmarted" The APA by double teaming them for Matt to get the cover. Even though that made Jeff one half of the losing team.
A fundamentally stupid idea worked because the characters were over enough to make it so. WWE would replicate loads of the former with zero of the latter for the following two decades, never once stopping to think why such tricks were never made for successful sequels.