10 Things You Might Have Missed On The WWE SmackDown Live! Superstar Shake-Up (April 17)
4. So 2000-And-Late
...because the former 'World's Greatest Tag Team' star was for one night only the 'Gold Standard' on SmackDown Live! with a superlative display against the incoming United States Champion.
It was all quite the bizarre flashback to darker days. Spunky babyface Jeff Hardy earned the sneers and leers of a surely-soon-to-turn Randy Orton as he took his open spot in the match against Benjamin, whilst Shelton lived for the moment himself with a powerful performance against the perennial crowd hero.
Hardy's bump card was already stamped full in 2008 when he first won the WWE Title, but he appears reinvigorated a decade on after the much-needed 'Brother Nero' transformation in TNA gave his tired and tenured gimmick a break. 'The Viper' infamously injected some of his venom in Hardy's original push that same year, defeating him clean with an RKO at the Royal Rumble in a contest that set Jeff back nearly a full year. One assumes the pair would be capable of something far greater this time around - particularly considering how little the last decade seems to have aged them.