About Me
Before his then-WWF debut with his brother Jeff, Matt 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 has his own MySpace, (while His brother Jeff does not, although many fakes have been made, Jeff has explicitly denied any belong to him), in which they have mainly the same followers, Shannon Moore, Gregory Helms and 2 new Guys Kirby and T.J Mack (Team Macktion).Matt (then 19) and Jeff (16) started working for the WWF in 1993 and were initially used in singles matches and in tag matches as jobbers. 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. Their feuds with Edge and Christian and the Dudley Boyz, particularly their Tables, Ladders, and Chairs matches made them extremely popular and propelled them to two reigns as tag team champions.In 2001, after Jeff Hardy's Intercontinental Championship run, Matt Hardy threatened to leave the WWF 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. Throughout the year, the Hardyz would continue as a tag team, winning the WWF Tag Titles once again and the WCW Tag Titles throughout the Invasion angle. By the end of the year, the Hardyz were having trouble getting along.At the beginning of 2002, it seemed Team Xtreme had patched things up. 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.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 WWE superstar Edge.
