The Hardy Boyz and Edge & Christian revolutionized tag team wrestling in the Attitude Era with their ladder matches, and fans still talk about this matches to this very day.
At the No Mercy pay-per-view in 1999 the two teams faced off in a tag team ladder match that stole the show, and Matt Hardy reflected on the match during the first episode of The Extreme Life Of Matt Hardy podcast. According to Matt each competitor was initially paid $5,000 for the match, but after a conversation with Jim Ross the pay was bumped up to $10,000 each.
“Initially my brother Jeff said ‘$50,000?’ [recalling the paycheck for their match]. And then he said ‘20,000?’. Then I ask Edge about it and he said, “I don’t know. Was it $5,000? Was it $10,000?”. That $10,000 stuck out in my head initially. Then I asked Christian who said ‘I have a pretty good lock on this, I remember it well.’
You would get paydays for pay-per-views like three months later (…) We got $5,000 for the match. And then we thought ‘Oh my god. Come on guys.’ This was like a show-stealer (…) We knew it was definitely special and we addressed JR about this. JR ended up bonusing us each $5,000. So we all made $10,000 on that night.”
H/T Sportskeeda
