The Hardys Reflect On Emotional Final Match With Team 3D, Jeff Wrestling Razor Ramon At 16

The Hardys fought Team 3D in their final match as opponents at TNA Bound For Glory, and Matt recently reflected on the emotional bout. The Hardys and Team 3D (aka the Dudleys) battled for the TNA World Tag Team Titles at October’s TNA PPV. Following the match, Bully Ray and D-Von handed The Hardys their shoes. D-Von has now definitively retired from the ring.

Matt spoke about that match during the brothers’ appearance on Insight With Chris Van Vliet. Matt and Jeff also looked much further back to Jeff’s first match which was against Razor Ramon in WWE at the age of 16. You can see the highlights below:

Matt On Their Final Match With Team 3D:

“It was definitely emotional. So I’ll tell you this, I’ll be fully transparent. D-Von, we just wanted to get him through this last match, we knew he was retiring, this was it. We want him to go out on this great match with career rivals. We had no idea they were going to both take their boots off, and we definitely didn’t know they were going to give them to us. Jeff had just asked at the end, ‘Hey, is that a thing?’ I said it wasn’t, but I think it is now. He said what we’re going to do at the end to show you the respect and say you guys have won this battle. Whoever wins this is the greatest of all time. We have something we’re going to do, but we don’t want to tell you, is that fine? I said, that’s great. Let’s just do in the ring. Let’s get a very authentic, genuine reaction, and that’s what that was. More than anything, we just wanted D-Von to be okay in that match. We tried to protect him as much as we could. He’d had some serious health issues over the years, and we were going to bust our ass to work as hard as we could, because those guys haven’t been working a lot. Bully has been working here and there, doing some stuff. But we wanted to bust our ass and we really wanted to tap into the emotion behind the match. What was great, even in the beginning, we had to start the match so the crowd would stop chanting. So the crowd was so involved in it, and they were so emotionally invested, and that’s what made it feel so special.”

Jeff On Facing Razor Ramon In WWE At 16:

It was terrifying, man. One guy didn’t want to take his finish. Keith Davis. I was Keith Davis that evening. I became Keith Davis after Keith Davis didn’t want to take the Razor’s Edge.”

On The Match Being His First:

Jeff: “Ever. I didn’t know what I was doing.”

Matt: “Also, he had to lie about his age, because I said, my brother’s 16. Can he go there? Someone said, your brother? Yeah, it’s fine. Just have your dad write a note and say it’s okay.”