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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's going on wrestling fans and sized ce fall. Welcome
back to ten and Coup Media. On today's edition, I'm
talking to the greatest tag team of all time. It's
the Hotty Boys. How you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Very good? How are you man?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I am doing great?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
And of course bonful Glory is coming to town Lowell, Massachusetts,
October twelfth. You versus Team three d Tables match. Tag
team titles are all on the line. Before we really
get into the weeds of that. How does it feel
to be connected to the Dudley Boys, I guess and
edgend Christian for all of these years?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Yeah, I mean, are the three of us, those three
teams we will always.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Be eternally connected.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
You know, we created so much history together, especially with
the first Triangle Ladder Match, which in theory was the
first TLC match, And you know, we created TLC one
and TLC two, and there's just so many matches between
the teams individually that we've had with one another and
against each other that have been so special and so memorable.
In a lot of ways, we redefine tag team wrestling
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around the town.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
So we are extreme brothers from different mothers, and they'll always.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Be like that.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's amazing to hear, because, yeah, for as long as
I can remember, the tag team division in our brains,
when people think of Mount Rushmore as it's always Hotties
Edge Christian Dudley's and then you throw in another team.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
But for you, do you believe?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I believe, But do you believe you're on the Mount
Rushmore of tag teams?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I would I would say yes. I would say yes.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
I mean, especially because I don't think there's anyone, you know,
at the risk of sounding conceited, I don't think it
has had the longevity that we have had and also
been working at as high of a level as we
are still.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Too, thanks Faks And of course, oh do you everything
to say Jeff about that?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
I agree, I agree with Matt.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, it's yeah, diddo.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, it's hard to argue with the best tag team
of the world going today and in the past to
present and the future. But with Bountful Glory coming up,
I do want to talk about a few boundful glory
memories you've had before the Great War in twenty sixteen.
Oh my, We've had flying pumpkins, we had monster trucks,
we had everything, but was there something in that match
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that you weren't able to pull off that you wanted to?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I know, I think we put off everything we wanted
to because it was real cool. How we started with
live action in the arena, then we kept backstage and
we fought all around Orlando a little bit, and then
back to the arena and finished it up. We were
very happy with that match. The Great War is one
of our favorite matches of all time.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And it's so funny too, because when the Broken Universe
started becoming a thing, this is where I started noticing
people recording reaction videos of watching the Broken Universe matches.
This was kind of new for wrestling fans. How do
you feel about, you know, cinematic matches. I tipped my
hat to you recording reactions. I also would tip my
hat to you. How do you feel that it feels
like you guys started this reaction video phenomenon we're in
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right now.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yeah, it's such a big thing now. I know you
see it constantly. I think it's cool. I mean, we've
been blessed with so many great moments. When you think
about our whole career, you know, you look back and
we have had some great tag team matches obviously in
the late nineties early two thousands, but we were also
guys who told stories in a different way using inanimate
objects with tables, ladders, and chairs, and obviously we had
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the help of Edgine Grishan and Team three and eight
to do that. And then we also had another defining
moment where we kind of did the modern day cinematic match,
you know, with the whole Final Deletion and everything that
was encompassed in the Broken Universe. So it's very cool
that we've had so much influence and we've been able
to affect things in pro wrestling, and just like you said,
people watching the match back and reacting, that's very cool
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that that's kind of attributed to us as well.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
We used to rent big, old VHS recorders that would
be on your shoulder and make little movies at home
as kids, and that's kind of like what we were doing.
That's what I was thinking about during the filming of
The Final Deletion. I was like, man, this is so cool,
where this is what we dreamt of doing, you know
when we were little, and for it to be so
successful was just the It was so amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
It was very successful also the time that was successful.
Maybe is when you box the kangaroo. Can you take
me through that, because when I watched that video back,
I historically laughed last night again seeing a kangaroo. Just
take you out for a minute, Matt, But both of you,
what's it, what's it like preparing mentally to box the kangaroo.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
That's one of my favorite moments from the Broken Universe,
and my favorite part of uh boxing the kangaroos was
when Matt was he had this the Egyptian get up
on the all gold and everything, and uh he said
he I had already fought the kangaroo, and he said,
punish me, Punish me, Joe, punish me, punish me. I
had to walk out of the shot man.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I was laughing so hard. I mean it seriously.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
The kangaroo smoking Joe had grabbed me and was squeazing
me hard and he was kicking the ship on my way,
and that's what I was just, you know, I was like,
you gotta it was scary, but I said, you gotta
see a characters like punish me.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Punish me, Joe, punish me. You know, it was so surreal.
He locked up on me and it was a really
good lock up.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It was like I was locking up.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
With being kind of but it was a big kangaroo.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
That was a terrifying thing, you know, because they would
say like, well, these kangaroos they're a little older, you know,
so they're not gonna be as aggressive, but they're still
very strong. Like, you know, they can hit you, but
you can't hit them.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It's a video that I showed my three kids last night.
I'm like, guys, watch this, watches kangaroo and they're like,
what's the kangaro gonna do to him? Daddy?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Oh, it's he's gonna kick him hard.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It was pretty It was funny, but obviously being kicked
by kangaroo probably doesn't feel very well though. Jeff, the
first bomb for Glory, you did the swan tong bomb
that is still in highlight videos today with father James
Mitchell in shock seeing you land on abyss on a table.
What will you think in climbing that, because you've done
so many high risk moves like that, is there ever
a moment when you're climbing thinking maybe I should just
(05:37):
step down a few you know runs and jump from here.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
That was most definitely the most the scariest one I've
ever done. It was very sketchy and I didn't know
what was going to happen. And I looked back down
at the crowd they were watching. The people in the
back were watching the monitor backstage and I could see them.
And then I looked back at where I was about
the jump, and I was like, Okay, this might be it, Jeff,
this might be your career. And it was terrifying, but
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fear is part of the fun and it all worked
out and I'm super glad I went for it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yes, it's one of those moments that it's still brought
up today. And of course, Matt with you. You won the
TEENA World Championship at Bomb from Glory as well. Your
family was there. Drew McIntyre EC three in the match
as well. Take me through that. Because you've been world
champion in e c W, but now you're the world
champion in TNA and your family's there.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It's a huge moment emotionally. What was going through your brain.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
It was exciting. It was cool too because we were
in North Carolina. We were a couple hours from our
house where we lived at the Hardy Compound, and to
be to have my dad. There was very special to
have my firstborn son there, very special and it was
truly a great moment.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I was very, very honored and very proud of that moment.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, and of course with bon Flora coming up again,
it's October twelfth, folks, you get to see.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Team three D verus the Hotties one more time.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It's it's monumental for a lot of wrestling fancying this
happened one more time, our childhood coming alive once again.
But I wanted to ask a couple of fun questions.
These are kind of one word answers. I want both
of you to answer them because we never know what
our brothers are thinking in their brain.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
So here we go.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
If you could swap lives with any fictional character for
a day, who would it be?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Hmm Bigfoot? Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Uh I would almost I would almost say Dexter because
I'm such an extra fan, but I would.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I would have to do it.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
During his run with New Blood when he didn't kill
people for so long.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I was just gonna say, so, so you want to
kill people?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Man?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Is that what's here?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
That's that's the headline coming out of this interview. Uh,
if you could instantly master any skill.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
What would it be, welding, wild singing?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, cats are dogs dogs dogs. Do you want your.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Kids to follow in your footsteps and continue the Hardy lineage.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
If they if they wish, Yeah, it wouldn't be one
of the coolest things on planet Earth to have the
first Hardy girl tag team in pro wrestling.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Well, I see your TikTok videos Jeff all the time,
and those when you see Jeff Hardy on TikTok doing
dance numbers.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Then I see my kids trying to convince me. I'm like, well, if.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Jeff's doing it, I gotta do it. How hard is
it to be convinced that you go on TikTok with
your kids?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's pretty easy, man.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
But I used to cool dance, and now I just
feel pretty goofy, you know, trying to keep up with
my daughter.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
But it's fun, man. I love it. Well.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
When I told my wife I was interviewing the Hardy
Boys today, she started doing the Hardy Boys dance, you know,
the givant?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Where does that originate from?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Michael PSA's man, he used to do like a little
thing like this and he would moon walk and then
tag his partner, Jimmy Garb, and but it came from
Michael ays. I just used it on my entrance. But
he would do that in the ring, like during a
match all the time, and that's where it came from.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Did you look He.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Looked good in those Janko pants as well, and those
maybe he did. It was surprising to see how good
he did he looking those Uh, committed to the team,
that's right. He didn't want He's like, I'm not gonna
go out there and wear my normal garb. We're gonna
wear this. We're gonna wear exactly what you guys have.
And he didn't do the dance when he came out. Disappointing.
But in two thousand and three, you guys wrote a
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book together, and a lot has happened since two thousand
and three, other plans for another book.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
That we've definitely we've lived life now, we've lived several lives,
it feels like since then, and I think there it
would almost be time for us to write individual books,
just because we've both lived so many lives since then.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yeah, I've actually started. I got four years worth of
journal and throughout my alcoholism, so I mean I've already
started trying to go back each page and kind of
write one and it's a huge project. I might end
up needing a little help doing it, but it's definitely
something I want to complete before before my life is over.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well, of course, yeah, a lot has happened since two
thousand and three for both of you growing up, and
so many different ups and downs in your careers. But
you know, I think a book like that would really
help a lot of people because when you guys.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Meet fans, how often are you hearing fans saying.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
To you, you know, you helped me get through this
tough time, or you guys helped me get me through
me through this Because I imagine you inspire a lot
of people.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
And we hear that we are so here you you're
in my childhood.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
We hear that so much, it's pretty much a daily thing.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We hear that almost daily.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Now with TNA having the Hall of Fame, who do
you believe should go in the Hall of Fame next?
Because we've had Gail Kim, We've had awesome Kong Team
three D. Who's next on your list?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Put aj Styles in there?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Hey, that's a good Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Actually kind of feels like the heart and soul of TNA.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Mean for sure, true, I feel like for a long
time he was mister TNA and it's it's great to
see that recently we got to hear the music and
appearance and things.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Of that nature.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So, but with Balfa Glory on October twelfth coming out,
there are NXC wrestlers there. And when you were in
TNA before and then now, did you ever in your
wildless imagination think that the WWE be working with teen
and A and other organizations as well.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, no, it's it was pretty surprising, but it's very cool.
I'm glad it's happening for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And then one last question, what is gonna happen Lowell, Massachusetts,
October twelfth, Bound for Glory coming up? Are you gonna
leave the Tag Team Champions?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
We plan on leaving the Tag Team Champions. We love
Bully Ray, we love devonn but.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
This is what has to happen to them.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
We're also gonna love making them fataling classify themselves as
obsolett obsolete at Balm for Gloria is the final deletion
of the Dudleys.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Beautiful, Well, thank you so much for your time today.
Hardy boys.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I appreciate it and always the Goats Professional wrestling tag teams,
thanks again for being here in Tencom Media.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I'm ce Fall. They're the Houghty Boys. Have a wonderful
day and we'll see you next time. Bye.