The Hardy Boyz have been in the professional wrestling business for a long time, and throughout the course of their careers they’ve faced off against a wide variety of opponents both in tag team and singles competition.
Matt Hardy discussed he and Jeff’s early days with WWE during a recent episode of The Extreme Life Of Matt Hardy podcast, and during the episode he revealed that Jeff wanted to walk away from the business after after a bad encounter with a future Hall of Famer. According to Matt his brother had to face Scott Hall after Scott Hall’s opponent backed out of the match, and Hall took his frustration out on Jeff.
“They put together this match in 5 or 10 minutes and Scott Hall was frustrated that this guy backed out of the match. He was aggravated and it just seemed like he was ill in general. He went out there and wrestled my brother. To see my brother who was 16 years old, who had to lie about his age. He had to move his birthday back by about two years. He had to lie about his age to go out there and wrestle Scott Hall who was already aggravated and frustrated and literally Scott Hall beat the s**t out of him during the course of this whole match.”
Matt Hardy went on to say that the match with Scott Hall made his brother want to quit wrestling completely, but he ended up changing his mind after he faced 123 Kid.
“I’ll never forget, the next day Jeff was, like, ‘I want to quit wrestling. I never want to come back again. I’ve had enough of this.’ Then he wrestled 123 Kid, had a great match and it rejuvenated his love and passion.”
Jeff Hardy was released from WWE last month and is currently waiting out his 90 day non-compete clause. It’s not clear what Jeff has planned for his future in wrestling at this point in time, but with Matt currently working for AEW there’s been speculation that he could end up there. Stay tuned for updates.
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