Matt Hardy
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 Matt Hardy  Matt Hardy Statistics Ring name(s): High Voltage, Surge (OMEGA), Ignis Fatuus (Jynx Brother #2), Matt Hardy, Matt Hardy Version 1.0, V1.0 Height: 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) Weight: 220 lb (98 kg) Born September: 23, 1974, Cameron, North Carolina Trained by: Dory Funk, Jr. Debut: 1992 Matt Hardy Professional Wrestler Matthew Moore Hardy is currently working for the SmackDown! brand of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Matt Hardy Career Before his then-WWF debut with his brother Jeff, Matt Hardy was trained by former wrestler Dory Funk, Jr. Before signing with the WWF, Matt and Jeff ran their own wrestling promotion, OMEGA Wrestling, in which Matt competed under the name High Voltage. However, he had to change his name to Surge after a WCW tag team began to use that name. This happened shortly after Matt Hardy sent in a tape for the WCW Amateur Challenge with himself as High Voltage. A few years later, it was revealed to him by Chris Kanyon that the tape had been kept in the WCW Power Plant, watched multiple times and had the name High Voltage stolen from it. Other wrestlers associated with OMEGA include Lita, Shannon Moore, Gregory Helms, and Joey Mercury. Now Matt and Jeff have their own MySpace, in which they have mainly the same followers, Ashley Massaro, Shannon Moore and Gregory Helms. Matt Hardy World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment Matt Hardy (then 19) and Jeff (then just 16) started working for the WWF in 1993 and were initially used in singles matches and in tag matches as jobbers to bigger names. It wasn't until 1998 that the brothers were given a full-time WWF contract. The Hardy Boyz used a cruiserweight, fast-paced high flying style in their matches, often leaping from great heights to do damage to their opponents (and themselves in the process.) Although Jeff was better known for his extreme moves, Matt was a prodigious high-flier himself. Michael Hayes became their manager and with a new look the team won their first WWF Tag Team Titles in 1999. A few months later, however, they ditched Hayes after losing the titles and joined with Gangrel's stable, The New Brood. They would enter a feud with Gangrel's former proteges, Edge and Christian. The two teams engaged in the Terri Invitational Tournament. The Hardyz won and gained Terri Runnels as their manager, with Gangrel being dropped the next day. Terri turned on the team in early 2000. The Hardyz were placed in a triangle Ladder Match at WrestleMania 2000 along with Edge and Christian and the Dudley Boyz. Though the Hardyz lost, all six competitors put on a great performance, only to be outdone a year later in TLC. Matt and Jeff soon found a new manager in their real-life friend Lita. Together, the three became known as "Team Xtreme". During this run, Matt and Lita became an off-screen (and later on-screen) couple. In 2001, After Jeff Hardy's Intercontinental Championship run, Matt Hardy threatened to leave the WWE if he was not given a singles Championship push. Raven, who was scheduled to win the European Championship at Backlash, was placed in a match with Rhyno instead because Matt Hardy was given the European championship on Smackdown 2 weeks before Backlash. On the August 12, 2002 episode of RAW, Matt turned against Jeff, pitting him in a match against Rob Van Dam. A short time later Matt joined the SmackDown! roster. On the October 3, 2002 edition of the show, Matt used outside interference from Brock Lesnar to defeat The Undertaker. Now dubbed "Matt Hardy - Version 1.0," and with his MF'er (Mattitude Follower) Shannon Moore in his corner, Matt defeated Billy Kidman at the 2003 No Way Out in Montreal, Quebec to claim the WWE Cruiserweight Championship and, at WrestleMania XIX in Seattle, defended it against Rey Mysterio. The Mattitude stable also included Crash Holly as Shannon Moore's "Moore-on." Lockwood was later released and Matt later disbanded the stable and returned to RAW in order to be able to travel and work with then girlfriend, Lita. He would later turn face once more by engaging in a rivalry with then heel, Kane. Matt Hardy and Lita were an off-screen couple for six years, and used to share a home in North Carolina. Their romance came to an end in late February 2005 (according to Matt's official website) due to Lita's affair with fellow WWE superstar Edge. Release from WWE Along with his friend Rhyno, Matt Hardy was released by WWE on April 11, 2005. Matt's release was due to his public handling of the Lita/Edge incident (posting disparaging remarks towards Edge on his website). His release was confirmed publicly by WWE. However, it was further speculated that Matt Hardy was released because management (mainly WWE VP of Talent Relations John Laurinaitis) did not like him, and an excuse to fire him had been presented. In fact, Triple H, allegedly said of Hardy's release: "he never drew money anyway." Matt Hardy countered this statement in an online interview stating that he and his brother Jeff, as the Hardy Boyz, had been top sellers of merchandise. Because of the affair and being released from WWE, Matt Hardy's status, especially in the Internet Wrestling Community, became elevated to a cult-like status. Also, Edge and Lita received jeers from the crowds at WWE events, sometimes resulting in chants of: "You screwed Matt" or "We want Matt." Paul Heyman, in a shoot promo, mocked Edge for his actions at ECW One Night Stand 2005. Lita, for the first time in over five years, turned heel as a result of the affair becoming public knowledge. Matt Hardy released two character promotional vignettes, that he was planning to use before he was offered a new contract by WWE. Hardy called himself The Angelic Diablo with the tagline "the scar will become a symbol" in reference to the way in which he has been treated by Lita and WWE. WWE attempted to have Matt Hardy's then website (www.thematthardy.com), along with his plans for an online reality show both shut down as a condition of his rehiring. When Hardy refused these conditions and informed WWE management that TNA wasn't requiring this of him, they quickly changed their minds. For More about Matt Hardy's career see top left menu. Matt Hardy Photos 
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