10 Wrestlers With Longest Time Between First & Last WWE Raw Matches

5. Jeff Hardy - 22 Years, 9 Months, 22 Days

Jeff Hardy
WWE

First Raw Match: July 26th, 1995

Last Raw Match: April 16th, 2018

Jeff Hardy was so young in his actual Raw debut (as Keith Davis against Razor Ramon in 1994) that he was too young - the North Carolinian had added some years to gain consideration from WWE along with his brother and a host of others that had travelled to their nearest McMahon show.

His Raw debut proper as "Jeff Hardy" came just shy of his 18th birthday a year later when the future 'Charismatic Enigma' faced off with a man that fit that exact profile perfectly in the dayglo insanity of The New Generation. Waylon Mercy wasn't long for the company thanks to the injuries carried by veteran Danny Spivey in the role, but his ability to portray several contrasting emotions doing very little at all was the sort of quality Hardy would later require as his bump clock reached breaking point from a career and life lived on the edge of sanity.

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