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The Hardys are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of brothers Jeffrey Nero Hardy and Matthew Moore Hardy. They are currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where they are the current TNA World Tag Team Champions in their fourth reign.

The Hardy brothers began teaming together in 1995 on the independent circuit, where they won the NWA 2000 Tag Team Championship and founded OMEGA Championship Wrestling, capturing the promotion’s tag titles. In 1997, they signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). In 2000, they were joined by Lita to form the popular trio known as Team Xtreme. They are the only tag team in history to have held the WWE World Tag Team Championship, WCW Tag Team Championship (in WWE), TNA World Tag Team Championship, ROH World Tag Team Championship, and the Raw, SmackDown, and NXT Tag Team Championships. After disbanding in 2002, the brothers reunited in 2006 and teamed intermittently thereafter. They had a brief reunion in 2011 in Impact Wrestling (then known as TNA) as part of Immortal, and resumed regular tag team activity between 2014 and 2017. Following their departure from Impact in 2017, they returned to WWE, capturing the Raw Tag Team Championship at WrestleMania 33. They later won the SmackDown Tag Team Championship the night after WrestleMania 35 in 2019. Matt’s WWE contract expired in March 2020, marking the end of that run, and he subsequently signed with All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Jeff would also depart WWE in 2021 and joined Matt in AEW in 2022, before both brothers returned to TNA in 2024.

Recognized as one of the greatest and most decorated tag teams in professional wrestling, both brothers have also found success in singles competition, with each becoming a multi-time world champion. In 2017, they held seven different tag team titles from seven companies simultaneously—including the ROH World Tag Team Championship and Impact World Tag Team Championship—a feat unmatched in wrestling history. The Hardy Boyz are especially noted for their high-risk, innovative performances in ladder matches and Tables, Ladders, and Chairs matches. They are widely credited with helping to revitalize tag team wrestling during the Attitude Era. In 2012, WWE ranked them number two in its list of the greatest tag teams in history. Collectively, they are 14-time world tag team champions between WWE, TNA, and ROH.

The brothers formed a tag team in 1995 after Jeff's debut in the Trampoline Wrestling Federation (TWF). The promotion went by several names, and it was modernized in 1997 as the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts (OMEGA). The duo worked in several independent promotions throughout North Carolina, holding the OMEGA Tag Team Championship and NWA 2000 Tag Team Championship. They had their first record tag team for Smoky Mountain Wrestling in July 1995.

Their first match as a team in the WWF was against The New Rockers on May 28, 1996 for the June 15 episode of WWF Superstars. Later on they wrestled against Smoking Gunns, Harris Twins, The Headbangers, and Kurrgan in a handicap match.

After being signed to a contract in 1998, they were trained by Dory Funk, Jr. in his Funkin' Dojo.

The Hardy Boyz started their run as a popular tag team with a win over Kaientai (Men's Teioh and Shoichi Funaki) on the September 27 episode of Sunday Night Heat. Soon after their Sunday Night Heat win, they built up a fan base following through their high-flying tag team tactics. They started to become serious contenders for the Tag Team Championship after they became managed by Michael Hayes, formerly a member of The Fabulous Freebirds. On the July 5, 1999 episode of Raw Is War, they defeated The Acolytes (Faarooq and Bradshaw) to win their first WWF Tag Team Championship, but they re-lost the title to The Acolytes a little less than a month later at Fully Loaded on July 25.

They eventually dumped Hayes as their manager in August, becoming villains and briefly associating themselves with Gangrel as part of The New Brood. After winning a series of matches against the team of Edge and Christian—dubbed the Terri Invitational Tournament—they won the services of Terri Runnels as their manager by winning the first ever tag team ladder match at No Mercy on October 17, and then dumped Gangrel the next night becoming faces. The fans also gave both teams a standing ovation the next night on Raw Is War. This began an over two year rivalry between the Hardy Boyz and the team of Edge and Christian. During this time, they also gained notoriety as a faction with Lita.

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