10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1994

1. Jeff Hardy Started At The Very Top...

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...sort of.

Between wrestling on trampolines at county fairs and coming together to form OMEGA (Organisation of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts) as young hopefuls, The Hardy Boyz' journey from the backyard to the big-time has been well-documented, but all of that practice served them well enough to be the most popular jobbers on the WWF circuit.

And at just 16 (as far as officials knew, he was actually two years older), Hardy got the opportunity to lose a painful squash to Razor Ramon when the original victim couldn't make the show. The future 'Charismatic Enigma's real name was protected too. Instead, he took on the alleged name of the absentee and went by "Keith Davis" for the one and only time of his career.

The match can be seen in all its glory (!) on the June 6th edition of Monday Night Raw, but it was actually taped on May 23rd, the night Jeff's brother Matt suffered his own squash loss to Nikolai Volkoff.

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