[2000-09-11-WWF-Raw] Matt & Jeff Hardy vs D-Von & Bubba Ray Dudley

[soup23]

Winner of this match faces E&C at the PPV and E&C are out on commentary. Action is pretty brief before we get a patented CRI (Christian Run In). Edge smashes Matt Hardy with the tag belt and him and DVon fall to the canvas but Matt is able to have a pinfall of D Von winning them the match to E&C’s dismay. Dudleys ask for tables post match. Edge gets the 3D through the table. ¾*

[AstroBoy]

Both teams get a run through of some of their signature offense but no real feel to this match. It runs quick and Edge and Christian announce that they are going to run in. Edge nails Jeff with the belt and he falls off the top onto Bubba where the ref counts the pin for the Hardys. It honestly looked like they were going for a double pin scenario here. Edge's reaction is fantastic to Jeff getting the pin, and the Dudleys make the crowd happy by giving the 3D through the table on Edge.

 

1/2*

[Migs]

Match here is just an excuse for the run-in, but it does nicely set-up the PPV rematch with the Hardyz and provide the crowd some nice high spots (although that 3D was real ugly).

[GSR]

The winners of this will go on to face the WWF tag team champions at Unforgiven, and with those champions currently being Edge & Christian, they head to ringside after the teams to provide some colour commentary of their own.  The match only goes two minutes before an ECRI (Edge and Christian Run In), but they do manage to cram in a fair bit in that short space of time including a Jeff flip dive over the top rope to the floor, a Bubba bomb, a Jeff clothesline from the barricades, a Matt middle rope guillotine leg drop and a combination neckbreaker/belly to back by the Dudleys.  Matt climbs to the top turnbuckle for a moonsault bodyblock when the ECRI sees Edge clock him with one of their title belts.  He flies backwards into Bubba, KO’ing him in the process, and with the unconscious Matt falling on top it’s the Hardyz who advance to Unforgiven.  Having cost them a title shot, the Dudleys attack the champions after the bout giving Edge a 3-D through an unbreakable table.

It does feel like I’ve been watching these teams feud all year and a kind of backward step for the champions after mixing it with the Rock and the Undertaker.  Glad I wasn’t the only one who thought they were going for a double pin situation with both teams going on to Unforgiven; it was only when JR explained was it made clear that the Hardyz won and that E&C interference had backfired on them.