Ranking Every WWE Title Match At Royal Rumbles Worst To Best

17. Royal Rumble 2009 - Jeff Hardy Vs. Edge

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Whenever you have Jeff Hardy and Edge together in any capacity, the result tends to be something entertaining and engaging.

Despite having a No DQ stipulation in place in order to facilitate the use of certain weapons (see: tables, ladders and chairs, oh my!), the action here was hindered by everyone being well aware that Edge was going to take Hardy's WWE Championship by hook or by crook.

While that was predictable, the surprise element was that it was Matt Hardy rather than the recently-departed-TNA Christian who cost the Charismatic Enigma. Even then, that revelation was a forced and unnatural call designed solely to go against the more obvious, logical choice of the returning Captain Charisma.

That turn from Matt would set in motion a feud between the Hardy Boyz, with Matt defeating his brother in an Extreme Rules offering at WrestleMania 25. That would be quickly followed by a Stretcher Match on SmackDown, which Matt again emerged victorious in, before Jeff would finally get the better of his older sibling at that year's Backlash PPV in an I Quit war.

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