After another year or so, we started to occasionally call ourselves the Hardy Boys, being that Hardy is our given birth name. Soon, the WWF started talking about doing something with us in the future and in March of 1998 spoke to us about putting us under contract. By May, we had signed. We went to the WWF training camp during the summer and in September of 1998 started doing TV. From September '98 until May 1999, we basically floundered in the WWF. Then we joined with Michael Hayes and took on a new persona when we gave the Brood a bloodbath. After a couple of months feuding with the Brood, we started to come into our own as one of the top tag teams in wrestling.
On June 29, 1999, we defeated the Acolytes from the Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness to become the youngest WWF tag team champions ever at 24 and 21. We also won the belts in front of lots of family and friends in our hometown of Fayetteville, NC. The tale of the Hardy Boys has definitely been like a storybook dream come true. I look forward to each day and also look forward to doing bigger and better things.
I ask all of you to join me in this fairytale and together, we'll make it up as we go along.
~~~Matt |
