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- Hardys, the Dudleys, and Edge & Christian.

- TLC.

- Tables, ladders, and chairs.

- We weren't Rocky, we weren't Hunter,

we weren't Austin, but we were going to give them

all a run for their money.

- What an amazing display.

- This is unbelievable JR.

- We knew we weren't the main event,

but we were going to do everything in our power

to steal the show.

- Oh, my God.

- That was the attitude of the talent involved and the audience

expected more every time they got into the ring.

- I don't think I've ever seen anything in my life

like we have just witnessed.

- Now we have to top what we already did,

and that was a struggle.

- High above the ring.

- No, look out.

- Oh, no.

- You're literally trusting each other with each other's lives.

- This rivalry has just escalated into a war.

- When two legends collide, their rivalry stays pinned

in our minds forever.

This is where we break down the legendary stories behind

the greatest rivalries of all time.

I'm Freddie Prinze Jr. and this is WWE Rivals.

Today we're going to talk about Edge & Christian.

We're going to talk about the Hardy Boys and we're going

to bring in a third group, the Dudley Boys.

We're in a time where Stone Cold, the Rock, the Undertaker,

these are the top dogs there.

- Undertaker's got Kane.

Tombstone, Tombstone.

- Tag team wrestling didn't always get the love

that the singles would get.

- You talked about Stone Cold and The Rock.

How do you make a name for yourself as a couple of kids

out of the Carolinas and to come along as a tag team?

They figured it out.

- We're talking about them 20 years later still.

We remember a lot of the moments in those matches

like they happened yesterday.

- The Dudley Boys had their own particular style.

They're more gritty, hard-nosed, hardcore.

The Hardy Boys are more highflyers, Edge & Christian

kind of dabble in both.

So, I felt like they were a perfect mesh for each other.

- What an exciting young tag team Edge & Christian

set for action here tonight on SmackDown.

- We met in the sixth grade and we both discovered

that we loved wrestling.

We lived together in college, I started training for wrestling

he started training about a year and a half later.

We've just always followed this path.

- We welcome you to WWE Raw.

- When we got to WWE and we were teaming.

we were keeping our head above water because we're trying

to figure out all of this, this thing that goes into it.

- You think getting there is the big step, but it's really not.

It's exceeding once you get there.

- If you were gonna stand out, you had to do something really

impressive, because you have never seen so much talent

on the roster performing at such a high level at the same time.

- Then we stumbled into the Hardy Boys.

- From Cameron, North Carolina, Matt and Jeff, the Hardy Boys.

- Matt and I did pretty much train ourselves just

by studying the television.

There's no stronger passion than like when you're doing something

and want to make it to the big leagues.

- Well, we've got four of the greatest young athletes anywhere

in the World Wrestling -- in the ring right now.

- I got to feeling this match is going to be very quick-paced.

- These guys are insane.

They'll do anything

- Once we stumbled into the Hardys,

all four of us had the same mindset,

we wanted everyone's jaws to drop.

And we were able to sneak in this back door and start trying

to do some things and push some boundaries that hadn't been

pushed up to that point.

- Up on the shoulders.

- Oh, my God.

- Oh, man.

From 10 feet high.

- We're all fans of the first golden era

of tag team wrestling, the Bulldogs, the Hart Foundation,

the Rockers, Demolition, LOD.

Man, that was stacked.

And we thought maybe, just maybe, if we get rocking

here a little bit, maybe we can get some spotlight

put on the tag team wrestling too.

- Oh, my God.

What a Senton Bomb.

- That was really fun and exciting to be a part of.

It felt like kind of on the ground floor of the rebirth

of tag team wrestling.

- The Hardys and Edge & Christian

already had an amazing rivalry.

It was building and building and then all of a sudden

you find out they're going to have a five-match series.

And that series took them both to the next level.

- Oh, these two teams can go get it.

And this will be a tremendous matchup here on SmackDown.

- The best of five series was our idea and we had pitched it,

the four of us, culminating in a ladder match.

That's what we wanted the last match to be.

- Our chemistries were so good together.

and we knew if we went in there, and we had a ladder match

with these guys, they would be something special.

- Believe it or not, the best-of-five series

went to a 2-2 tie.

And the only way to figure out who the top team was,

would be in the fifth match, a ladder match.

- We're in Cleveland, and this was the site

of the first-ever tag team ladder match

between Edge & Christian and the Hardy Boys.

I was flying through Miami, only there was a hurricane in Miami,

and my flights were all canceled.

I got to get there because this match I think is going

to change all of our futures.

That's what's rolling through my mind and

what are they going to do?

They'll can the match altogether.

I stayed up all night watching this hurricane realized I was

going to have to rent a car.

So, I rented a car, drove through the hurricane to Tampa,

where I got a flight here to Cleveland.

Landed at 4:00 PM, ran down the hallway and the other three guys

were in this hallway, you know talking about the match.

And so, I joined a sweaty mess and we started

talking and putting that thing together.

- This is the first tag team ladder match in history.

[bell rings]

- The way a ladder match works is simple,

you have to climb the ladder and get the prize.

In this case, the prize was $100,000.

- Jeff Hardy and I had gotten into a tug-of-war

with the ladders and the people started going,

"Whoa, whoa, whoa."

Then when I ran him back into the corner,

and I trapped him in the corner with the ladder-

- Oh.

- Oh, man.

- -that got the first pop.

- What's he going to do now?

- What are they doing here?

- Oh.

- My God, a dropkick.

- When I heard the reaction I was like,

"Oh, I've never heard that before for our matches."

This is going to get interesting because if they think

that's something we had a lot more in store.

- I've got a feeling we're going to see it all in this match, JR.

These guys are going to do everything in their power

to get that money.

- We knew these guys well.

We knew they were very talented, but all of a sudden you found

out these guys were daredevils that were incredibly creative.

They can do these things that nobody else can do.

- There was absolutely no fear in anyone involved.

That willingness really helped set them apart,

make them different.

- It felt like we were changing the direction

of tag team wrestling.

The other teams, if they wanted to hang with us,

they had to step up their games.

- When the ladder came into play, man,

there was no stopping us, man.

We knew we were always pretty talented at it

and we're really creative.

We could do more than just wrestle and we were a lot better

at doing gimmick matches than just regular matches.

My favorite was the seesaw spot.

- Look at this.

What the heck?

- Jeff climbs up, grabs this bag of loot,

and then in celebration lets go and lands on his head almost.

[bell rings]

- God Almighty, the Hardy's have won the match.

- The crowd goes silent, then goes bananas.

- What an amazing display, amazing effort.

Christian and Edge have nothing to be ashamed of.

What a magnificent effort by those two.

- We'd never received a standing ovation before

and then, that wasn't really a thing.

It blew me away.

That's also when it started to sink in.

Like, okay, we did it.

I remember specifically Mick Foley coming up.

And Mick being one of the top guys, this to me was

a pretty special thing.

He came up and said, guys, you just cemented your spot.

I'll always remember that just because of where Mick was.

He didn't need to say that and he did.

This is where we all met after the match as well just to get

some quiet to really soak in what we thought we just done.

That day started here and it ended here.

As non-descript as it looks, for me this hallway

will always be, you know, special.

- No Mercy was wild.

Jeff Hardy is made out of different materials

than the rest of humanity.

- Built different.

- Yes.

- Straight up, built different.

- It's as if instead of bones,

it's just rubber implants inside

- The best of five series, it could have got either way.

But last night, 20,000 people gave the four of us

a standing ovation.

[crowd cheers]

- Sometimes things and the wrestling business

is manufactured.

Nothing about that moment was manufactured.

We were so genuinely happy and thrilled and honored.

- And they're giving us a standing ovation now because

we worked our asses off.

[crowd cheers]

- Guys, it was an honor.

I want a rematch.

- I'd like to do a rematch.

- I would say it's the first few strokes of a portrait

that's not finished yet.

- What an amazing display, amazing effort.

This is absolutely beyond a verbal description here.

- Edge and Christian and the Hardys

have an epic ladder match at No Mercy.

These are the two teams everyone's talking about

- All four of us went from just being WWE wrestlers

at that point to becoming WWE Superstars.

- As great as that match was, these matches got better

and they got better quick.

Because two other men were watching this,

Bubba Ray and D-von.

- Thou shall not mess with the Dudleys.

- When Edge and Christian and the Hardys were first making

their name in the WWE, myself and D-von were in ECW.

- I would like to introduce the Dudley brothers.

- We are the Dudley Boys.

- I got to work with and create new characters.

I got to develop great talent.

The Dudleys were the top tag team of the ECW presentation.

- Me and D-von were still making a name for ourselves.

But, I knew those guys Edge and Christian

and the Hardys were doing something special

and they were doing something different.

- Bubba and I were kind of jealous in a sense.

There was a little bit of a chip on our shoulder

because we knew what we can bring to the table and we wanted

to be a part of that.

- You can just imagine Bubba and D-von being

like frothing at the mouth, let me in there.

Let me get in with these guys and see what kind of magic

we can create with them.

- Wait a minute.

- What's this?

- King.

Oh, man.

King, the Dudley Boys.

- Coming into the WWE, myself and D-von knew

that we really wanted to put tag team wrestling on the map.

- The Dudley Boys, formerly ECW Tag Team Champions.

- They came in and added a different dynamic to the mix.

You had two kind of high-flying teams and they came in as the

ground based, hard-hitting, straightforward, loudmouth

tough guys that just beat the crap out of you.

- When the Dudleys came to the WWE,

I was familiar with their stuff from ECW and I knew

they would be opponents

that we could do a ladder match with these guys.

They'd be willing to do anything.

And we went to the Royal Rumble and we actually

had a table match with these guys.

- We are live in New York City for the Royal Rumble.

- I wanted it to be as talked about and remembered if not more

than what the Hardys were able to accomplish

with Edge and Christian.

- We were very excited to work with the Hardys in the tables

match because I think now it was the time that the WWE

can let the Dudley Boys be the Dudley Boys.

- I think that they would have to maintain who they were

in order for their value to carry over in WWE.

I think they really had to stick to that ECW style and also just

an opposition to what the Hardys were doing.

- A tag team tables match.

You would have to put both members of the opposing tag team

through tables consecutively to win the match

- Pinfalls are irrelevant.

There's no disqualifications or count-out here.

- And we all just looked at each other and said, screw it.

We're just going to go for it.

We're going to grip it and rip it.

We're going to turn and burn and we're going

to tear the house down.

- Matt Hardy on top.

Oh, God.

Bubba Ray

Oh, but Jeff Hardy head first.

A suicide dive.

- It's like a match on nitrous.

From the minute it starts into the end,

it never lets you up for air.

- Good Lord, Matt Hardy just got folded up

like an accordion through that table.

- You wanted to have that kind of match,

but you did not want to have that kind of match because

you know it's going to hurt.

- Bubba's got Jeff Hardy by the hair.

- JR, these guys are up in the balcony here.

- The match goes well outside of the ring.

Bubba's on top of the tunnel basically where people

are walking into the arena.

- Oh, no.

- I looked around the garden that day

and I saw the entrance ramp.

I said, I want to fall off of that.

- The low blow to Bubba Ray.

Bubba's reeling.

Look out.

Oh, my God.

Bubba Dudley went through 2 tables to the concrete floor.

- Plus we still left Jeff up there.

- D-von on the table.

Jeff Hardy.

Don't do it, Jeff.

Don't do it.

- Look at this.

- My God.

A senton bomb from the balcony

[bell rings]

- That was such a good match and it totally like you know,

made people go, wow.

These guys are amazing, man.

Oh, my God.

This is like the next generation of wrestling.

Wow, we've never seen stuff like this before.

- Can you believe this matchup?

Can you believe Matt and Jeff Hardy?

- We tore the house down at Madison Square Garden.

It was a great time and it was just a great feeling.

It was time for the Dudley Boys to shine.

- What me and my brother D-von are about to do

has never ever been done before and it probably

will never happen again.

After the Rumble we'd like to shake your hand

and show you the proper respect.

- What?

- Respect back.

- Seeing the Hardys and Dudleys have that tables match,

that lit a fire with Jay And I, too.

Whoa, hold on, we ain't getting left in the dust on this.

We're going to make sure that we're part of this mix.

- I think we all realized that we had chemistry.

- Because you had the Hardys.

Edge and Christian do the ladder match,

then you have the Hardys and the Dudleys do the table match.

So, the Hardys were kind of the connective tissue there.

And then when you put all three of us together, it was fun.

[laughs]

- No.

- Don't do that.

My God.

- We were unstoppable.

That was the three team's mentality.

We weren't Rocky.

We weren't Austin.

We weren't Hunter.

We weren't Taker.

We weren't Cactus.

But we were going to give them all a run for their money.

And that was the mindset.

- The Dudleys had slowly become so popular

the people were cheering them.

Well, you can't have three baby faced tag teams.

And, there was even talk of splitting us up.

Nobody really thought we could talk.

Didn't think we could cut a promo.

Didn't know if we had any charisma.

We both stood up and went, no, keep us together

and give us a chance to talk.

- Well, I'm sorry we're not two blond, tight-wearing,

superhero-named baby faces.

- Superheroes?

Well, if my memory serves me correctly, you two were bouncing

around in a pair of plaid tights before you wrestled us.

We were only scratching the surface,

so we'll take that role and we'll be the conniving

egotistical foil for those two teams.

All I can tell you is that Edge and Christian

are on top of their game and we're going to run over

anyone who gets in our way.

Whether it be Matt and Jeff Hardy or the Dudley Boys.

- Edge got the spear on Jeff Hardy.

- This is reeking of interference.

- That was a good role for us.

Then all of a sudden it was like,

"You guys are having a match at WrestleMania."

- What?

- The Dudleys then should compete

in a special triangle ladder match.

- A triangle ladder match is like a regular ladder match

except there's three tag teams, a triangle.

- At this point in the rivalry,

it's all six men's very first WrestleMania.

What does this match mean for all six people?

and what do you think the fears are if something goes wrong?

- Stuff can go wrong very easily in this stuff

and you're just hoping it doesn't because they put so much

effort and attention into it.

- A lot of the guys were saying "Be careful."

They knew we were all going to take chances.

- What I remember hearing most was the two S's,

safe and spectacular.

I kept thinking about that.

God, it's kind of hard to have a ladder match and want it to be

so good and still be safe.

You know you kind of have to take risks.

- For me, when I had crazy ideas, Vince would ask,

"Do you think you can do it safely?"

If I said yes, then I think he trusted my instinct.

And I'm sure it was the same for them.

I'm sure he had reservations about some of the stuff they

were pitching, but if they thought they could do it and

still be able to get up and walk away, he always had a way of

trusting his talent that they would know their own limits and

what they're able to do safely.

- It's the greatest spectacle in sports entertainment.

This is WrestleMania.

- We knew just from watching what we had done with the Hardys

and watching what the Hardys had done with the Dudleys,

it's going to be violent, but it was going to be something

people didn't forget.

- Tonight, the Dudley Boyz take WrestleMania

to a whole new level.

- The tag team titles were hung above the ring and whatever team

was able to climb the ladder and retrieve those titles would

be declared the winner.

- Can the Dudleys prevail in the first-ever

triangle ladder match?

- We were all going out there with the same goal in mind.

That was we knew we weren't the main event, but we were going to

do everything in our power to steal the show.

- It's just a little bit of luck and a little bit of skill

and a little bit of everything rolled into one.

Hopefully, we can make it through it in one piece.

[bell rings]

- This should be an amazing offensive display.

- You can expect some high-risk maneuvers like

we've never seen before.

- It's competitive.

In that locker room, everybody is pushing each other

to have the best match of the night because you knew,

"Okay, they're going to tear it up.

They're going to tear it up.

Okay, you better tear it up."

- Uh-oh, look out.

This is some unbelievable innovation with these

three ladders now in the ring.

That's got to be it right there.

- The Hardys and Edge and Christian had already done

the ladder match, so people kind of knew what to expect.

So we wanted to introduce the other aspects using the tables.

- Dueling tables.

Double carnage.

- We went out and beat the hell out of each other.

There was no one that could've come even close

to what we were doing.

- What the hell are they doing?

That's exposed floor.

There's no mats out there.

Oh, Christian just rung the bell on Bubba Dudley.

Jeff Hardy peeling off his shirt.

- What's he going to do?

Don't tell me he's going to be

as crazy as those damn Dudleys.

- Oh, come on.

- This match was just like our first match together.

There were so many things that could go wrong in this match.

There were so many unknown elements.

We were very nervous because there was so much

that could go wrong and there was a lot of pressure on us.

- Oh, for God's sakes.

Don't do it, Jeff.

Don't take this chance.

- But, you know we've done matches like this in the past

just for 30, 40, 50 people.

This was our big chance to do it in front of the world.

We've made it to WrestleMania.

You got to try to ride that wave wherever it takes you, man.

You know, why not go for it?

- Oh, for God's sakes.

Don't do it, Jeff.

- Just when, I thought I was about to have

a 22-year-old heart attack.

I was just like,

"Oh my God, I just hope everything goes so good."

- Oh, Swanton Bomb top the ladder to floor

through the table.

Good night, Bubba Ray Dudley.

- And, good night, Jeff Hardy.

- So much could have went wrong, but so much went so right,

and oh man, it was great.

- They're both gone.

- Bubba Dudley has been put out of commission here

by the damnedest, high risk move

that any of us have ever seen.

- These are legit dangerous no matter how safe you're being.

They're some of the most artistic matches

that I've ever seen, some of the most artistic

matches that all of us have ever seen.

- My goodness, did they push the envelope

on what the human body could take

and what the human body could do.

They were really fun to watch.

I was just glad I wasn't in them.

- Christian and Matt Hardy have the same idea,

climb the ladder, end this thing.

- I had always had this scenario in the back of my mind.

I called it the scaffold of doom.

- I shutter to think what could happen here.

- It sounded insane.

I think the guys were like,

"No way. It can't be done."

I'm like, "Dude, we work for the WWE.

Anything can be done."

- Christian, Matt Hardy.

It's all over.

Oh, no.

Edge pushed Matt right through the table.

For the love of God.

Edge and Christian are on top.

Edge and Christian.

Edge and Christian.

Edge and Christian have won it.

- The winners of this bout and new World Wrestling --

Tag Team Champions, Christian and Edge.

- That will be one of my favorite memories.

If I had been able to paint it all and I want that

to become a reality, that would've been it.

- The memorable moment wasn't for the Dudleys,

it was for other guys.

The shot of Edge and Christian standing on top of the scaffold.

I think Christian was sitting down because

he was nervous to stand up.

- We saw what they did.

I'm curious what didn't make it in their matches,

like ideas that they couldn't do for some reason.

But, I think that's what it is, you know?

You just try to fit in the ideas you have and just make sure

that they help create a special match.

- When we talk about WrestleMania 2000

and the triangle ladder match,

- What happened to the table?

- It got broke.

- nobody ever talks about one team in particular.

We talk about the Hardys, the Dudleys, and Edge and Christian.

- After the match was over, all of us just came over

and hugged each other and kind of prayed.

That was when we realized that there was a high being upstairs

that was taking care of us and that was protecting us.

- It's a group effort to an effect.

We went out there and we did a lot of dangerous stuff,

and we did a lot of stuff that's never been done before,

and we all came back unscathed more or less.

- Jeff, are you okay?

- That's right.

- After a big match like that, sometimes Jeff needs

a little bit of fixing.

It hasn't all soaked in yet at this point.

We just went out and we accomplished

what so many people as we did as young kids dream of doing,

wrestling at WrestleMania.

We went out and it was great.

Center stage was ours for a few minutes.

- To experience something like that at our first WrestleMania

as performers and to have that kind of match too,

like just to know, man, the six of us just killed it.

We crushed that and that to me was the first instance of

starting to swim within the company and understanding like,

"Okay, we are all a part of something that is important

to the product now."

- Here come the Tag Team Champions, Edge and Christian,

who have become rather full of themselves

since they've won the tag team titles.

- If we could tap into a bit of our real personalities,

obviously with the obnoxious aspect turned up,

you get that kind of heel and it can be really fun to watch.

For the next five seconds, we will pose for all of you

with a benefit of flash photography.

We call this one a Hunka Hunka Edge and Christian.

- Oh, get the cameras.

Take quick--

- Can you smell it?

That's us totally reeking of awesomeness.

- It's kind of a resurgence of the tag team division

that we hadn't seen here in the WWE in years, you know?

I like to think that all three of those teams made that happen

and put the Tag Team division back on the map.

- They want a train wreck.

The fans want a car wreck.

- These three teams knew that they were striking gold.

People just really wanted to see tag team action

for the first time in a really long time.

- Christian on the apron.

He just gave the steel chair to his brother Edge, and a steel

chair to the back--

- The chairs just fell to us by the nature of

"Okay, what weapons are there?"

Well, the ladders have become the Hardys thing

because they're the daredevils and the tables was

definitely the Dudleys' thing.

- 3D.

- Using all three of those weapons, them being instruments

of destruction within the confines of this story,

it just ended up that we became the chairmen of the WWE.

- Con-chair-to.

- When the three of us got together and Edge and Christian

incorporated the chairs, it was just that magical stuff

that happens in pro-wrestling.

- It's going to be Edge and Christian against the Hardys

against the Dudleys-

- What?

- -in a TLC match?

- TLC?

What?

- Tender loving care?

- Tables and ladders and chairs.

Oh, my.

[crowd cheers]

- We always kind of assumed the first one was the first TLC,

but now that it was named this, really the goal was,

"Okay, well. Now we have to top what we already did."

- The 13th annual SummerSlam is on the air.

A first ever tables, ladders and chairs match.

These three teams, King, having a lot of bad blood

that's got to be settled tonight.

- And that was a struggle because you start pretty high.

It's not like we had the mindset of,

"Oh, we're going to have a series of these."

Because if I'd known that, I would have taken it

a lot easier in that first one.

[laughs]

- Hell, they're fired up, JR.

- WWE Tag Team Titles hanging high above the ring.

Tables, ladders and chairs are all legal.

Forget about pinfalls, forget about tags.

- TLC.

That was an action movie.

Straight adrenaline all the way through.

- Over 20 feet.

For the love of God, a death-dying leap.

- Don't do it.

Oh.

That's it for Jeff Hardy.

- Those are really hard matches.

They're physically rough on you.

It's hard to be creative in those things.

- He's positioning the ladder right under those title belts.

- Bubba Ray's up.

The Dudleys are going to do it.

- Anytime I'm watching a TLC match,

I'm watching it through my fingers.

They freaked me out.

- God.

Oh, no.

Good God.

- This is unbelievable, JR.

- Jeff Hardy's back up and D-von is back up.

- He's so close to the promised land.

- I remember climbing up on the ladder and I'm scared to death,

but I don't look down.

I remember Edge screaming,

"Don't look down. Don't look down."

- Ah.

- My God, they're hanging.

D-von and Jeff Hardy are hanging.

- What the heck?

- They're hanging for their lives.

It's anybody's ball game, but who's going to be the champions,

the Dudleys or the Hardys?

- I remember once I got up there,

I'm nervous as it is already.

I'm hanging on, Jeff was kicking me.

I'm sitting up there, screaming at him, "If you ever loved me,

you would stop kicking me."

- They're hanging for their life.

- They're hanging suspended 20 feet above the ring,

kicking each other because if they let go they're going to

fall which eventually must happen.

- Ah.

- My God, they're hanging.

- Now what?

- D-von and Jeff Hardy are hanging.

- What the heck?

- High above the ring.

- Don't look down.

- Oh, no.

D-von knocked down.

- Here goes Edge and Christian.

- My God.

What an exchange that was.

- In the carnage, Edge "The Ultimate Opportunist"

goes and reclaims the championships.

- They got one.

They got them.

[bell rings]

Edge and Christian have done it.

- They come out of it relatively unscathed,

but they had set the bar higher, they set the bar higher,

now they set the bar higher again and the rivalry's

not even done.

- Bubba Ray's going for wood.

The Hardy Boys got ladders.

- Ladders?

- If it was a ladder match or a table match or a TLC match,

you were going to see things that you'd never seen before.

That was a huge hook, I think.

The WWE was well aware of that because

they kept sending us out to do it.

- Over the next few months, the Dudleys, the Hardys,

Edge and Christian.

- The con-chair-to.

- A con-chair-to to Edge.

- They would implement tables, ladders and chairs

into each of their matches.

- They sacrifice their bodies every minute of every match.

- The toll it takes on your body to be involved in these kind of

matches and then have to be back on TV the next night.

It was difficult.

- That's okay.

- Your body absorbs so much of it.

You may be hurting, but the minute you step

through that curtain, the pain is gone.

- Ah, look out.

- Oh, my God.

Did you see that?

- When you are on the road 300 nights a year,

when you have been grinding, when you have been destroying

your body just to build it back up into this one giant callus,

you don't even think about it.

- That was the attitude of the talent involved.

The audience ate it up and the audience expected more

every time they got into the ring.

- What was the match of the year in the year 2000?

Tables, ladders and chairs at SummerSlam.

It's coming back.

It's TLC 2, tag team titles on the line.

Edge and Christian, Hardys and Dudleys at WrestleMania.

- We're now in the Astrodome in front of 70,000 people on a show

that has been headlined by Rock and Austin.

We all have one goal in mind, steal the show.

- TLC number 2.

- As a fan of all three of these teams,

I am very concerned about the well-being of everyone involved.

- This is the one where tensions started to build a little bit.

- What can you do that would top the other two?

We had to put our creative juices together and lock

ourselves in a room and don't come out until we got an answer.

- We all weren't afraid to throw ideas around.

- I get the tables.

- We were all very vocal about what it was

that we wanted to do.

Even sometimes to the point where you'd find yourself

arguing about different sides as far as wanting to put out there

something that the fans were going to enjoy.

- The following contest is the Tables, Ladders and Chairs 2

for the World Wrestling -- Tag Team Championship.

- When these three teams got together it's just insane.

- Bubba Ray Dudley powerbombed Jeff Hardy.

- For me, it was a perfect balance of entertainment

and outright fear and stress.

- This is going to be obviously very unorthodox

and unfortunately very dangerous.

- There are a lot of scores to settle here tonight.

- Bodies broken.

Ladders teetering.

- So close yet so far away from the tag team titles.

- WrestleMania, my main concern is going out there and doing the

one thing that people are going to remember more than anything.

- Jeff Hardy relentless to retrieve

those tag team title belts.

- It's obvious that I strive to do something that's going to

blow people's mind and naturally put my own body on the line.

Trying to go bigger and bigger every year.

- God, look at Edge.

Oh, my God.

- TLC number 2.

Tables, ladders and chairs.

The Dudleys, the Hardy Boys and Edge and Christian.

- Jeff Hardy relentless in his quest and Jeff now losing his

balance trying to get back under that ladder.

Whoa, look at Edge.

Oh, my God.

Edge from the 20-foot ladder with a spear on Jeff Hardy.

For the love of God, Jeff Hardy may be broken smack dab in half.

- Edge hits him with this spear that folds Jeff's body and they

both land horribly, beautifully in the center of the ring.

This was one of the scariest moments I've ever seen

and they meant for it to happen.

- 20 feet above the ring.

No way to break Jeff's fall.

- People are going to think like that's something you rehearse

and go over and practice.

No, I can guarantee you those guys did that once

and it was perfect.

- All the props I can throw at Jeff Hardy in the world for

trusting me that I'd try and take care of him as much as I

could in that instance, but there's a nanosecond

where I almost went too soon.

You watch it back and I had about went and if I'd gone,

I'd probably hit Jeff in the feet and he'd probably tips

and land straight on his head and we're having

an entirely different discussion.

Luckily, I held on.

Recalibrated real quick and then went.

- Right on his back, on his spine.

- Knock on wood, knock on whatever you want to, man.

I've been extremely fortunate to walk away just being sore,

nothing's broken.

- That will go down for 100 years, we will still be watching

and talking sbout that being one of the greatest

WrestleMania moments of all time.

- D-Von close to the top of the ladder.

Say a prayer for these six men.

- They got them, they got them

- Christian--

what? It's over.

- Credit to those guys in that ladder match.

Those guys killed it, and of course me and The Rock

had to follow all of that.

- Edge and Christian have once again proved

they're the best tag team.

- That match is beautiful and everyone knew it.

The fans were so stoked on it.

Everyone at the back was like, if you didn't tell them congrats

it was because you were jealous.

- I don't think anybody really

fully knew that it would be the end,

but it also felt like maybe it was the right place

for it to be it.

That to me felt like the end of that chapter.

- All these teams go their separate ways.

Some of them break up.

Everyone branched off and had success.

- Obviously they all went on and had amazing careers.

Edge amazing singles career,

Christian amazing singles career.

I can go on and on and on, but this is the chapter

of their career.

This is what I feel made them, and especially starting out how

they did with that ladder match at No Mercy.

How they set the bar so incredibly high,

and to try and one up it every single time out.

That speaks to the talent and the skill level of all

those men involved.

- This match is as dangerous as you will ever, ever see.

- I think there's just such a uniqueness when you look

at the teams that all came together,

and everyone having their own identity.

It was the perfect culmination at the right time with the right

guys that were willing to put their bodies out there for it.

- These six young studs put their careers on the line.

- There wasn't one team that was stronger than the others.

It was truly I feel like all three teams were

all level playing field.

You could've gone any direction in any one of those matches,

it wouldn't have changed a thing.

- I can honestly say that every single ego was thrown

to the side.

Not one team needed to be more memorable than the other.

Nobody ever cared who was winning.

We would always bust Edge and Christian's chops because

they won all of the matches.

We knew at the end of the day, all three teams would be

remembered for what we accomplished together.

- The element of trust that you have to have with each other,

that's a bond.

We're literally trusting each other with each other's lives

at this point when you're doing stuff like this.

- I love each and everyone of those guys, and there's no way

in hell that I have done that with anyone else.

I'm grateful each and every day for that.

- Without the rivalries that we have, the individual characters

are great, but that's what actually completes it

and that's actually what people want to see.

- Bubba Ray and D-von, the Dudley Boys.

- We are equals in these matches, and that's why it was

really important for myself and D-von at the Hall of Fame

to share the moment with all three teams.

I know we're proud of the TLC matches.

I know the fans love the TLC matches.

They're always talking about them.

So, Edge and Christian, if you'd come back out here,

and Matt and Jeff, if you'd come on up here.

I really believe that's the last time fans would ever have

an opportunity to see those six men standing together.

It's the six of us that created our history together.

We wanted to acknowledge our fellow warriors because without

these four guys, these two guys would not have been as over and

standing here today, so thank you very much.

I wanted this to be a Hall of Fame moment for all three teams.

- Us along with the Dudleys and the Hardys, we made each other.

It was pretty huge for us out there.

A real honor to do that.

These guys deserve it.

They are legitimately the most decorated tag team in the

history of the business, and I'm just glad that we got to be a

small part of it.