40 Years Of Fascinating WWE WrestleMania Facts (Part 4)
8. WrestleMania 33 - Jeff Hardy's LONG Wait
WrestleMania 33's best moment by a mile, The Hardy Boyz' WWE return capitalised on just how popular the pair had become following the innovative "Broken Universe" the pair occupied outside of the spotlight in 2016. Matt and Jeff were darlings of the scene to such an extent that just hours earlier they'd been wrestling in a celebrated bout against The Young Bucks for Ring Of Honor, but the shocking 'Grandest Stage' return was just the start of their celebrations.
The duo were inserted into a multi-team ladder match for the Raw Tag Team Championships and went on to win the entire thing. It was simultaneously creative, forward-thinking and nostalgic, but also binned one of the more surprising WrestleMania records in the process. Until that moment, Jeff Hardy had never won a WrestleMania match.
Beaten in ladder epics at 16 and X-Seven, The Hardyz were on the losing end of a four-way of an X8 show that marked the last WrestleMania Jeff worked until 2007. He lost a Money In The Bank match then, and was defeated by Matt at 25 before both were soon gone from the company once again. The cycle mostly repeated before the two were gone yet again in 2020 and 2021 respectively, leaving this one night as Hardy's only moment of WrestleMania glory.