Awesome / Matt Hardy

• On the 8/29/05 episode of Raw during Hardy and Edge's street fight, Matt Hardy does the Side Effect on Edge, off of the stage and onto electronics, which promptly explode.
• Winning against Edge at Unforgiven 2005 in a Steel Cage match. Culminating in him giving Lita a Twist of Fate and delivering a twenty foot leg drop off the top of the Cage onto Edge to win the match. Unfortunately, that would be the only taste of success and revenge he got against them.
• The BROKEN Matt Hardy gimmick was a bizarre and risky gamble, but seems to have paid off, as Matt's 2016 run helped get positive eyes on the product after the disastrous Hogan era (and the resultant loss of talent, viewers, and distribution contracts) put them at death's door. It's not Matt being braggadocious when he says he saved TNA; if it wasn't for BROKEN Matt Hardy, TNA would not have survived long enough to get bought out by Anthem.
  • An added bonus has to go to Matt for staying in character (though, don't tell him that) in all his press interviews. In an era where kayfabe is all but dead and buried, he's proudly flying his BROKEN flag.
  • Another added bonus is the fact that it highlights Matt Hardy's (broken) brilliance as a wrestler. "Broken" Matt Hardy is an utterly ridiculous concept that wouldn't be out of place with a Tim and Eric sketch...but somehow, amazingly, it WORKS. As Bryan Alvarez of Wrestling Observer Radio put it: "He got his gardener over! WWE can't get a main event over and he got his gardener over!"
• He appears in the awesome in and of itself wrestling themed music video for "Fall To Pieces" by Junior (a band which includes fellow TNA wrestler Mark Andrews) in his "Broken" persona, playing the venue's promoter. His short cameo involves him telling Mark the password the band needs to enter the venue. The password? OBSOLETE!
  Broken Matt Hardy: BROTHER JUNIOR!! I knew you'd call!
• After the Young Bucks have defended the ROH titles, the lights go out. Cut to the screen as Matt appears and the arena explodes.
• The Hardys confront the Young Bucks in the ring and win the ROH tag team titles.
• While his and Jeff's return to WWE and winning the Raw Tag titles certainly applies, it's even more awesome when you consider that they competed in two ladder matches in as many nights, dropping their Ring of Honor titles to the Young Bucks the previous night.
  • Matt managed to lead the 70,000+ audience of WrestleMania 33 in a "DELETE! DELETE! DELETE!" chant. Matt Hardy has never been this over in front of a WWE audience in his whole career.
  • In late November the same year, Matt Hardy was sat, literally broken and beaten after his match on WWE Raw. He then almost snaps one word as he chops with one hand... "DELETE!", as he effectively reveals that TNA and the Hardy Boys have reached a settlement, and BROKEN Matt Hardy is coming to the WWE!
• Broken Matt's debut on Monday Night Raw. While it was only a video package, the crowd popped like crazy for it. The return of the accent, pronunciation, and the simple sentence of "I have been WOKEN!" brought great joy to many wrestling fans the world over.
• Matt declaring to Bray Wyatt that there is only one proper venue for their epic RAW encounter: The Hardy Compound! Using underhand tactics at his home turf and distraction from Brother Nero, Vanguard 1 and Senor Benjamin, Matt took down the Eater of Worlds and sent him to the Lake of Reincarnation.
  Woken Matt Hardy: DELIGHTFUL! The Great War has ended! Bray Wyatt has been DELETED!
• Matt entered the Andre the Giant memorial at WrestleMania XXXIV and with the unlikely help from Bray Wyatt, won the match.
• On April 9th, 2019, the Hardy Boyz beating The Usos and winning the Smackdown Tag Team Championship and thus becoming the only team to win all three versions of the tag team championships^note The original WWF/E World Tag Team Championship, Raw Tag Team Championship which was formerly the Tag Team Championship, and now the Smackdown Tag Team Championship.
• The Second Coming of BROKEN Matt Hardy at the tail-end of ARCADIA's March 18, 2020 episode of Dynamite. Heralded by Vanguard 1, and under the influence of his new essence DAMASCUS, Matt glowering down at the Inner Circle to shut up their leader's gloating was practically engineered to garner a huge pop. The absence of a crowd didn't damage the segment, as Chris Jericho's Stunned Silence was more than enough to sell the impact of the moment.