Express Helpline Get answer of your question fast from real experts. Early life. Hardy was born in Cameron, North Carolina, the son of Gilbert and Ruby Moore Hardy. He is the older brother of Jeff Hardy. Their mother died of brain. Deborah Weiss is an attorney and a writer who specializes in free speech issues, especially the issue of sharia. She has published articles at FrontPage Magazine. Hardy was a good student at Union Pines High School in North Carolina, and was a nominee for the Morehead Award, a scholarship to any university in North Carolina. Hardy attended University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he majored in engineering 1. He then attended Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst to gain his associate degree. Professional wrestling careereditEarly career 1. Hardy, along with his brother Jeff and friends, started their own federation, the Trampoline Wrestling Federation TWF and mimicked the moves they saw on television. Shortly after Hardy sent in a tape for the World Championship Wrestling WCW Amateur Challenge using the ring name High Voltage, a tag team named High Voltage began competing in WCW, causing Hardy to change his name to Surge. A few years later, it was revealed to him by Chris Kanyon that the tape had been kept in the WCW Power Plant, watched multiple times, and that the name High Voltage was blatantly stolen from it. Beginning in 1. 99. The Hardys wrestled for several North Carolina based independent circuit promotions and adapted a number of alter egos. As The Wolverine, Hardy captured the New England Wrestling Alliance NEWA Championship in May 1. Mp3gain Full Installer. As High Voltage, he teamed with Venom to claim the New Frontier Wrestling Association NFWA Tag Team Championship in March 1. A month later, High Voltage defeated the Willow for the NFWA Championship. In 1. 99. 7, Matt and Jeff created their own wrestling promotion, The Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts frequently abbreviated to OMEGA Championship Wrestling, or simply OMEGA, in which Matt competed under the name High Voltage. The Hardys launched the promotion because, at the time, there werent many places to wrestle, nor did they know anyone who could help. Both Matt and Jeff would take apart the ring and put it back together at every event they had, while Matt sewed all the costumes worn in OMEGA. The promotion would fold in October 1. Matt and Jeff signed with the World Wrestling Federation. Eight years later in 2. Highspots. com produced a two disc DVD set entitled OMEGA Uncommon Passion, chronicling the history of the promotion, including matches and interviews with many OMEGA wrestlers. On December 1, 2. OMEGA returned for a onenightonly reunion show with Matt back in charge for the night, where Steve Corino won the OMEGA Heavyweight Championship. Matt would continue to wrestle in various independent promotions until 2. World Wrestling FederationEntertainmenteditEarly years 1. Hardy worked as a jobber for the World Wrestling Federation WWF from 1. His first WWF match was against Nikolai Volkoff on May 2. Hardy made his Monday Night Raw debut on July 1, 1. Crush. A night later at a taping of WWF Wrestling Challenge, he would lose in a match against Owen Hart. He continued to wrestle sporadically in the WWF throughout 1. Crush, Razor Ramon, Hakushi, Owen Hart, the imposter Undertaker, Hunter Hearst Helmsley and The Ringmaster Steve Austin. Hardy teamed with reallife brother Jeff for the first time in the WWF in 1. The Smoking Gunns and The Grimm Twins on WWF television. Matt and Jeff would go on to have a short lived feud with The Headbangers Thrasher and Mosh, losing to the duo twice in 1. It was during this time that Matt and Jeff would experiment different ring names, at one stage being called Ingus Matt and Wildo Jinx Jeff. In Matts final singles match for the promotion before signing a full time contract he would lose to Val Venis on a taping of Shotgun in 1. During this period, Hardy wrestled 3. The Hardy Boyz 1. It was not until 1. Hardy brothers were given full time WWF contracts, and sent to train with former wrestler Dory Funk, Jr. The Hardy Boyz used a cruiserweight, fast paced high flying style in their matches, often leaping from great heights to do damage to their opponents and themselves in the process. Although Jeff was better known for his extreme moves, Matt was a prodigious high flier himself. In 1. 99. 9, while feuding with Edge and Christian, the duo briefly picked up Michael Hayes as a manager. On July 5, they won their first WWF Tag Team Championship by defeating The Acolytes, but lost it to them a month later. However, they soon dumped Hayes, and joined the short lived stable The New Brood with Gangrel. After breaking away from Gangrel, Matt and Jeff were briefly managed by Terri Runnels,2. In 2. 00. 0, the Hardy Boyz found a new manager in their real life friend Lita. Together, the three became known as Team Xtreme. Throughout 2. 00. Edge and Christian, defeating them for the WWF Tag Team Championship on two occasions. Hardy won the Hardcore Championship on April 2. Raw Is War, by defeating Crash Holly, but lost it back to Holly three days later on Smack. Down3. 5 At Summer. Slam, The Hardy Boyz competed in the first ever Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match, for the WWF Tag Team Championship against The Dudley Boyz and Edge and Christian, but were unsuccessful. In 2. 00. 1, after Jeffs Intercontinental Championship run,3. Hardy was given a singles championship push. He won the European Championship on Smack. Down four days before Backlash. Hardy believes that he was pushed to win the title because of Jeff winning the Intercontinental Championship, and because of the effort he put into his previous storyline with Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin. He became the second longest reigning European Champion in history and the longest reigning American born European Champion. Throughout the year, the Hardy Boyz continued to win as a tag team, winning the WWF Tag Team Titles two more times,4. WCW Tag Team Championship during the Invasion. By the end of the year, the Hardy Boyz began a storyline where they were having trouble co existing. This culminated in a match between the two, with Lita as the guest referee, at the Vengeance pay per view, which Jeff won. Version 1 2. 00. At the beginning of 2.