[2009-05-17-WWE-Judgment Day] Edge vs Jeff Hardy

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World Heavyweight Champion Edge vs Jeff Hardy - Judgment Day 2009

 

Amazing Jeff Hardy babyface performance here. I have said in the past that the Hardyz were just a updated version of the Rock N Roll Express. I think here Jeff Hardy shows what a white meat babyface in 2009 could do. He does not look like a Steamboat or Morton but sure can wrestle like one. I loved the early armdrags keeping Edge off balance. Nice climax on his shine with the dive over the top. He goes for too much too soon with the Whisper In The Wind as he crashes and burns. Edge shouldertackles him in the back off the apron.

 

I don't say this a lot, but Jeff Hardy carried Edge's boring ass to a damn great match. Edge's version of a heat segment is doing Metal Horns, breathing heavy and stomping the back. Hardy was putting on a selling clinic, good hope spots like a crossbody or inside cradle, but also missing moves like the crossbody from the top or dropkick to cut himself off. Jeff Hardy was pretty much wrestling himself. Jeff Hardy busts out the Sharpshooter of all things. Jeff looked really technically sound in this. Some of the armbars got a little loose early on because he was playing to the crowd, but I mean this ain't RINGS. Armdrags were deep and his babyface offense looks good. He works this into a Twist of Fate for two. Good use of your secondary finish in the middle. They work through some great sequences here: Hardy goes for his dropkick in the corner, gets up looks for powerbomb, but Hardy gets a sunset flip for two. Then does a sunset flip powerbomb for two. Jeff Hardy is rocking. Hardy escalates the violence. Barricade tight rope run into eating spear. Hardy is feeding for Edge like a champ. Then they work a great apron sequence where Hardy jumps out of the way of a spear to hit a legdrop on Edge who is in the ropes, Twist of Fate on the ropes, springboard legdrop for two. Really fucking nice. He gets Whisper in the Wind and then Poetry in Motion on the outside. Matt Hardy blasts him with a cast. Edge rolls him in but only gets two. Hardy avoids the spear so Edge hits the buckles. Hardy goes for the Swanton, but has been knocked loopy by the cast shot and the delay is long enough for Edge to hit his DDT off the top rope.

 

Amazing Jeff Hardy performance, awesome babyface offense and selling early. Then he bumps huge late and escalates his offense so well. Very well paced. Everything ran through him. He was the one generating the energy not through just offense but also feeding for Edge. Just a terrific performance from him. I thought the finish was great. Matt Hardy thing wasn't necessary but as a Jeff Hardy fan I do like he was protected. I am actually pretty excited for the ladder match rematch. This may be my favorite straight Edge match ever and he didn't even really do anything in it. If you are a Jeff Hardy fan watch this, if you are not check this out and see what Jeff Hardy can do when he brings his A game. ****