Thursday, March 22, 2007

Jeff Hardy - World Wrestling Entertainment (2006-present)

On August 4, 2006, WWE announced that Hardy had re-signed with the company. In the following weeks, Jeff Hardy vignettes aired hyping his return on the August 21, 2006 episode of RAW. At his return he defeated Edge by disqualification. After failing to capture the Intercontinental Championship from Johnny Nitro over the next few weeks, including at Unforgiven 2006, Hardy finally defeated Nitro to win his second Intercontinental Championship on the October 2, 2006 edition of RAW. On the November 6, 2006 episode of RAW, Hardy lost the Intercontinental Championship back to Johnny Nitro, after Nitro hit him with the Intercontinental Championship title belt. Just a week after he lost the Intercontinental title to Nitro, Hardy regained it on the November 13, 2006 edition of RAW, with a crucifix pin. This marked Hardy's third reign as Intercontinental Champion.

On the November 21, 2006 episode of ECW on Sci Fi Jeff teamed with his brother Matt for the first time in almost five years. They had their old titantron video and music and defeated the Full Blooded Italians. At Survivor Series 2006, these two were in team DX against Team Rated-RKO, over whom they gained the victory with a sweep. Jeff and Matt then got their first opportunity since teaming up to win a tag team championship. They competed in a 4-team, for the WWE Tag-Team Championship in a Ladder match at Armageddon 2006, but came up short in their attempt.

With Jeff Hardy still feuding with Johnny Nitro and MNM into 2007, Jeff was challenged once again by Johnny Nitro at New Year's Revolution 2007 in a Steel Cage Match for the Intercontinental Championship, Hardy once again defeated Nitro. Then at the Royal Rumble the Hardys defeated MNM and at No Way Out 2007 The Hardys teamed with Chris Benoit to defeat MNM and Montel Vontavious Porter. The next night on RAW, Hardy was defeated for the Intercontinental title by Umaga.

Jeff Hardy - Wrestling facts

* Finishing moves

* Swanton Bomb (High-angle senton bomb)
* Whisper in the Wind (Turnbuckle climb corkscrew senton press)
* Twist of Fate (Front facelock into cutter / stunner)
* Extreme Twist of Fate (Inverted facelock into neckbreaker slam)
* 450° splash - 1990's

* Signature moves

* Compactor (Russian legsweep into double leg roll-up pin)
* Spine Line (Modified Texas cloverleaf) - in OMEGA / TNA
* Double legdrop to groin
* Sitout jawbreaker
* One-arm spinning sleeper slam
* Leg-feed spinning mule kick
* Jeff gets on the barricade, runs across it, then dives off it delivering a flying clothesline to his opponent
* Guillotine leg drop
* Plancha
* Sitout inverted suplex slam
* Horizontal Baseball Slide
* Rope aided feet into the opponent's chest

* Managers

* Gangrel
* Michael Hayes
* Lita
* Trish Stratus
* Terri
* Matt Hardy

* Nickname

* The Charismatic Enigma (TNA)

Jeff Hardy - Championships and accomplishments

* National Championship Wrestling
o NCW Light Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
* New Dimension Wrestling
o NDW Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
* New Frontier Wrestling Association
o NFWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
* North East Wrestling
o NEW Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
* NWA 2000
o NWA 2000 Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Matt Hardy
* Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts
o OMEGA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
o OMEGA New Frontier Champion (1 time)
o OMEGA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Matt Hardy
* Pro Wrestling Illustrated
o Tag Team of the Year - (2000, with Matt Hardy)
o Match of the Year - (2000, with Matt Hardy vs. The Dudley Boyz and Edge and Christian, WrestleMania 2000, April 2, 2000)
o Match of the Year - (2001, with Matt Hardy vs. The Dudley Boyz and Edge and Christian, WrestleMania X-Seven, April 1, 2001)
o PWI ranked him # 418 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003
* Universal Wrestling Association
o UWA World Middleweight Champion (1 time)
* World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment
o WWE Intercontinental Championship (3 times)
o WWF Tag Team Championship (5 times) - with Matt Hardy
o WWE European Championship (1 time)
o WWE Hardcore Championship (3 times)
o WWF Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
o WCW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Matt Hardy
* Wrestling Observer Newsletter
o Best Flying Wrestler (2000)

Jeff Hardy - Artistic pursuits

Hardy has an eclectic set of interests outside of wrestling. At one stage, Hardy constructed a 30-foot statue of an "aluminummy" named "Neroameee" out of tinfoil outside of his recording studio (a spraypainted trailer). On another occasion, he created an artificial volcano in his front yard, which he then jumped over on his motocross dirtbike. Hardy is also an artist and poet.

Hardy appeared on the February 7, 1999 episode of That '70s Show entitled "That Wrestling Show", along with Matt, as an uncredited wrestler. He also appeared in the February 25, 2002 episode of Fear Factor competing against five other World Wrestling Federation wrestlers. He was eliminated in the first round.

In 2003, Hardy formed a band, Peroxwhy?gen, with fellow professional wrestler Shannon Moore and members of the band Burnside 6. The band recorded two songs. One was "September Day", a song Jeff had written in reaction to the September 11, 2001 attacks. Rumours arose that Peroxwhy?gen split up in 2004 shortly after recording the second song, "Modest", which Hardy later used as his entrance music in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. However, on the official Peroxwhy?gen MySpace, on April 27, 2006, the following message was posted in the blog. "Yes we are still together and writing songs. No we are not broken up. JR from the band runs this site." In spite of this announcement, a moderator at "The Matt Hardy Show" claims that Jeff is currently working on his musical career as a solo act, and has left Peroxwhy?gen.

In May 2005, Jeff joined his brother Matt and Shannon Moore on a side project known as TheHardyShow, which was a creative outlet used by Jeff, Matt, and Shannon to showcase their lives outside of the ring. Jeff Hardy's favorite character portrayal, known as Itchweeed, is a landscaping legendary from the outer reaches of time and space, and makes random appearances during show episodes.