The Hardy Boyz Win WWE Titles (WWE News)

Matt and Jeff Hardy are your new NXT Tag Team Champions.

by Andrew Pollard
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With NXT and TNA colliding at last night's Showdown special, the Hardys once again find themselves holding WWE gold.

In a winner-takes-all match, Matt and Jeff put their TNA Tag Team Titles on the line against NXT Tag Team Champions DarkState, with the iconic Hardys emerging victorious and winning WWE belts for the first time as a team since a short 2019 run with the SmackDown Tag Team Championships. Away from that, Jeff Hardy had his fifth run with the Intercontinental Title in 2020.

More notably, this marks the first time that TNA-contracted wrestlers have won WWE gold, which comes on the back of NXT's Trick Williams winning the TNA World Championship, Jacy Jayne winning the Knockouts Championship, and, most recently, Kelani Jordan winning that Knockouts Title at TNA Victory Road.

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As for that Showdown tag match, the Hardys faced Dion Lennox and Osiris Griffin, with the finish seeing Matt hit both DarkState men with Twist of Fates, before Jeff got the 1-2-3 after hitting his patented Swanton Bomb on Lennox. TNA President Carlos Silva watched on from the front row, as, too, did the Dudley Boyz, who will go up against the Hardys one last time at TNA Victory Road this weekend in a tables match.

Elsewhere at Showdown, the women's NXT team defeated TNA in an eight-woman eliminator tag, Mustafa Ali came up short against NXT North American Champion Ethan Page, and the main event saw the men's TNA team getting the W over the NXT team after Trick Williams walked out on Ricky Saints to leave Absolute facing four-on-one odds. Saints would manage to pin Frankie Kazarian and Leon Slater, but Moose and Mike Santana would be too much for the NXT Champion.

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