Matt Hardy and Edge Friends Again

April 03, 2022 Post a Comment

2005 saw i of WWE's well-nigh personal and uncomfortable feuds of all time. The Edge, Lita, and Matt Hardy love triangle saw firings, shoot interviews, worked shoot interviews, a claret feud, and perhaps worst of all, it well-nigh ruined the legacy of one of WWE's most trailblazing female stars.

Lita Cheated On Matt Hardy

Matt Hardy and Lita began dating in 1999, and by 2004 cracks were beginning to show in the relationship. When Matt Hardy was taken off the road for over a year thank you to a severe human knee injury, Lita began traveling with her and Matt'due south close friend, Edge.

While Matt was off the road, Lita began an affair with Edge. Edge was married at the time and Lita was however with Matt, creating a very uncomfortable situation. When Matt Hardy constitute out about Edge and Lita's affair he fabricated the whole matter public, going to the internet to air out all their dirty laundry. Matt Hardy was released from his WWE contract due to unprofessional conduct on social media.

Since the affair had become public, WWE fans fabricated their feeling known to Border and Lita, with the fans taking Hardy's side. WWE crowds would jeer at Border and Lita on screen, with Edge getting chants of "We Desire Matt!" and "Yous Screwed Matt!" while Lita fared much worse and got some truly disgusting thing chanted at her.

With this real-life drama now affecting the shows, WWE had to pivot their plans and utilise the existent-life heat on Border and Lita to make them a hated on-screen duo. Fans rallied effectually Matt Hardy online, and a petition saw fifteen,000 fans wanting Hardy to go his task dorsum. During this time, Edge and Lita had leaned into their real-life heat and their electric chemistry saw them become Raw'southward hottest heels.

The Real-Life Dram Eventually Became A Storyline

The Edge/Lita/Hardy drama was one of the about talked-almost events in all of wrestling at the time. Hardy was getting main event-level reactions in WWE despite not even beingness in the company, with his name being chanted on Raw every week. These were terrible existent-life circumstances, but if they played their cards correct, all three could use this state of affairs to propel them into becoming bigger stars.

While Matt Hardy was wrestling in Band of Honor and the independent scene, he would make unscripted unannounced calls into WWE Byte This, a spider web exclusive prove, and would tear into Edge and Lita. This state of affairs was blending kayfabe and reality closer than perhaps any other storyline in WWE history.

On July 11, 2005, Matt Hardy made his shocking return to WWE attacking Border backstage. During the attack, Matt shouted at Edge, calling him by his existent name, Adam, and that he and Amy (Lita) would pay for their deportment. This caused uproar amongst fans, with many being uncertain if this whole thing was a work or a shoot.

Matt Hardy was re-signed past WWE after weeks of like beatdowns. This led to Matt Hardy cutting a worked shoot on Border and Lita on Raw. This promo, which in theory could have pushed Matt Hardy into the primary consequence, was seen as a disaster. You could feel Hardy's stock plummeting with every second. He was rambling, he didn't sound confident, and had a bizarre line nigh wanting Edge to die in a car blow.

WWE seemed to lose faith in Hardy later on the promo, he was the innocent political party in all of this, but most weeks it was Edge and Lita who were getting the upper manus. Edge and Hardy'southward showtime match confronting each other was at Summerslam 05, which Edge won. Then in that location was a Street Fight on Raw which ended in a no contest. Hardy got his only victory in the feud at Unforgiven 2005 in a fantastic Cage Lucifer and their last match came at Raw Homecoming in a Loser Leaves Raw Ladder Friction match. Border won the match and won the entire feud, with Hardy never really getting his proper revenge.

Edge, Lita, and Matt Hardy take all said they were uncomfortable during the feud and would have rather non done information technology. Border and Lita'southward existent-life human relationship was over before whatever of this had hit Tv, and Lita and Hardy were said to accept tried to reconcile after the Edge affair, but the force per unit area on both of them made everything impossible. At times it was uncomfortable to watch simply Edge, Lita, and Matt Hardy deserve respect for turning a horrible situation into one of the most memorable WWE storylines in recent history.

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