10 Wrestlers Who Go Back Further Than You Think

2. The Hardy Boyz

Adam Pearce
WWE

Who doesn't love a Hardy Boyz 1990s squash match?

Not in this list because you haven't seen one before, but merely for just how far back they stretch, Matt and Jeff were during jobber duties for WWE as far back as 1994, a full year before the pair of them would guard the gates at King Of The Ring, and even longer before they'd done the matching plaid tights to get merked by Kane or whomever needed to enact some sort of Attitude Era-adjacent violence.

Sporting a crew cut and good arms, a 20-year-old Matt was flattened by the Million Dollar Corporation's maiden member Nikolai Volkoff on an episode of Monday Night Raw. Impressing early, he was in the rotation of local scrubs from that point on. Just days later (and working as "Keith Davis"), the 16-year-old Jeff got battered by Razor Ramon, also for Raw.

Under his real name, he was working the 1-2-3 Kid, Hakushi and Rad Radford in purist dream matches between predictable squashes against the likes of King Kong Bundy and Jim Neidhart.

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