7 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Great Balls Of Fire

3. Tag Team Iron Man Dominates

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You’ve got to take your hat off for the Hardys and Cesaro & Sheamus, as the four men captivated fans throughout a 30-minute match that had Matt & Jeff in trouble the whole time and made the tag champs look like wonderful tacticians.

After the surprise first fall, the champs beat on Jeff Hardy for 10 minutes, finally pinning him for a two-fall lead. The Hardys got one back a couple minutes later, only for Cesaro to cost Matt a countout loss. With 13 minutes left, the Hardys kept trying to keep pace, pulling within one fall with 7 minutes left. That’s when all hell broke loose.

The Hardys desperately kept attacking and finally tied things up with 3 minutes left. Just when it looked like Jeff’s Swanton Bomb on Sheamus would do the trick, Cesaro (the legal man) pinned Jeff with 30 seconds left, then fled the ring, leaving Jeff to chase him down. A Twist of Fate at 5 seconds proved too little, too late.

Seriously, tremendous match that had your attention throughout. Well done.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.