The Undertaker's 10 Greatest WWE Raw Moments Ever

4. Teaching Jeff Hardy The Importance Of Failure

The Undertaker Vince McMahon
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This is such a wonderful match. Undertaker certainly had higher profile matches on the red brand, he took part in the most viewed match in company history after all, but none come closer to encapsulating the magical larger than life power of professional wrestling more than his ladder war against Jeff Hardy in 2002.

Undertaker was the bully in his yard, Jeff the irritatingly charismatic upstart leaving graffiti stains everywhere. Taker had to show him a lesson, teach him some respect and send him on his way. He didn't reckon on Jeff's heart and Jeff's willingness to fight for his dream in the face of unrelenting brutality.

We are taught that if we believe in something and put everything we have into it then anything is possible. The truth is that this isn' the truth, but the more important truth is that it is absolutely fine that this isn't the truth. We learn from failures, we learn how to improve and we learn where to go.

Undertaker learnt something this night, and this match went a long way to bringing him back round to the respect that he so frequently spoke of.

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