Wednesday Night Bootleg- Hardy v. Hardy

Jeff Hardy v. Matt Hardy 4/16/09 Koln Germany




Some of my fonder wrestling road trips were back in the final days of the 20th Century when Dean, Phil Rippa and I would take road trips down to small towns in North Carolina to watch the Organization of Modern Grappling Arts. OMEGA was this weird hybrid of ECW and SMW, lots of crazy North Carolina kids doing the kind of insane spots you didn't see on the indies, while putting them into great southern wrestling matches. I remember checking out a nutty Willow the Whisp v. Surge street fight in Southern Pines NC with both guys killing each other with chairs, ladders and tables. Ten years later they did basically the same match in front of a ton of folks in the WWE in Germany. It isn't something which translates that well to an arena setting, as the bar has been lifted past what anyone is going to do on a house show. Still this had its moments, both Hardys will die some, the crowd seemed really into it, and the finish (which had Matt placing a chair on his belly to counter the swanton) was pretty cool. Still I am pretty sure nostalgia is making me overrate this, but Rippa and Dean should check it out.