10 Most Radical Wrestler Attitude Adjustments
5. The Hardy Boys
As brilliantly documented in a recent WWE Network ’24’ special, the troubled years of Matt and Jeff Hardy for so long threatened to undermine the years they’d given (and taken from their own fragile frames) to the wrestling world at their turn-of-the-century peak.
The North Carolinians had donated their bodies to the cause between 1999 and 2002, and eventually done the same again in unexpectedly enjoyable mid-2000s returns to the company. By 2010 though, both were fostering significant addiction issues that persistently appeared in front of a camera lens by their own doing.
When they were appearing drunk, high or both on their own YouTube channel, they were doing so under the employ of a TNA misjudging the scale of their troubles. Jeff’s Victory Road 2011 appearance was a dark night for the company and the man himself, but represented a lowest ebb of sorts. Matt’s own followed a number of DUI mugshots that seemingly foreshadowed the premature end of his career and life.
Their white hot WrestleMania 33 return wasn’t just the celebratory comeback of an iconic team - it was the mutually satisfying conclusion to a truly glorious real-life redemptive arc.