Matt Hardy is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE where he performs on the SmackDown brand and he is one half of the SmackDown Tag Team Champions with his brother Jeff Hardy Along with his reallife brother Jeff Matt gained notoriety in WWFs tag team division due to the Hardys participation in tables ladders and chairs matches As a tag team wrestler he is a 14time world tag team champion having held six WWFWorld Tag Team Championships three WWERaw Tag Team Championships one SmackDown Tag Team Championship one ROH World Tag Team Championship one WCW Tag Team Championship and two TNA World Tag Team Championships Wrestling in three separate decades Hardy has managed to keep himself relevant through a variety of different gimmicks character changes as well as his use of social media In 2002 Hardy began a solo career in WWE and his subsequent Version 1 persona was named Best Gimmick by Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hardys eccentric Broken gimmick which he debuted in 2016 earned him multiple awards and praise from wrestling critics including a second Best Gimmick award in 2017 the character was renamed Woken within WWE As a singles wrestler Hardy is a threetime world champion winning two TNA World Heavyweight Championships and one ECW Championship In 1999 Matt along with his brother Jeff appeared as an uncredited wrestler on That 70s Show episode That Wrestling Show Matt and Jeff also appeared on Tough Enough in early 2001 talking to and wrestling the contestants He appeared in the February 25 2002 episode of Fear Factor competing against five other World Wrestling Federation wrestlers including his brother He won 50000 for the American Cancer Society Hardy also appeared on the October 13 2009 episode of Scare Tactics as a mental patient who threatens to attack the pranks victim Hardys first WWE video game was WWF Wrestlemania 2000 in 1999 on the Nintendo 64 shortly followed by WWF SmackDown in early 2000 on the PlayStation He made several appearances later in WWF SmackDown 2 Know Your Role WWF SmackDown Just Bring It WWE SmackDown Shut Your Mouth WWE SmackDown Here Comes the Pain and WWE SmackDown vs Raw He later returned to the series in WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2007 WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2008 WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2009 WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2010 and WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2011 which was his last WWE video game before his departure to TNA Following his return to WWE in 2017 he was revealed as a DLC character in WWE 2K18 on September 25 that year alongside tag team partner and brother Jeff Hardy Hardy was revealed as a playable character in WWE 2K19 on August 30 2018
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