Wrestler Profile

Matt Hardy

Matt Hardy is one half of the most influential tag team of the modern era — the Hardy Boyz, whose ladder wars with Edge, Christian and the Dudleys redefined risk in wrestling and made Matt and Jeff icons before either turned 25.

His solo career became a study in reinvention: the Version 1 heel run, the bitter Edge feud fueled by real events, and most remarkably the Broken Matt Hardy universe — the deleted, teleporting eccentric whose Final Deletion matches became viral sensations and briefly made TNA wrestling's most talked-about product. Broken brilliance, he called it; wrestling agreed.

Across WWE, AEW and TNA returns, Hardy remains wrestling's most durable nostalgia act and a shrewd self-promoter through his podcast empire. WrestleRanks voters rank him on legacy plus longevity: still evolving, never obsolete.

Promotions

Matt Hardy is associated with TNA (2025–2026).

Championship history

PWI rankings history

Matt Hardy has been ranked in the PWI 500 20 times, first at No. 208 in 1998 and most recently at No. 193 in 2023. The highest placement is No. 17, reached in 2003.

Placements by year: 1998 (No. 208), 1999 (No. 100), 2000 (No. 45), 2001 (No. 22), 2002 (No. 25), 2003 (No. 17), 2004 (No. 39), 2006 (No. 90), 2007 (No. 36), 2008 (No. 41), 2009 (No. 20), 2010 (No. 66), 2011 (No. 65), 2013 (No. 103), 2014 (No. 47), 2018 (No. 43), 2020 (No. 246), 2021 (No. 238), 2022 (No. 180), 2023 (No. 193).

Compiled from the annual rankings published by Pro Wrestling Illustrated. See the 2023 edition.

Teams and factions

Past faction affiliations include The Firm.

Matt Hardy in the WrestleRanks rankings

Matt Hardy is tracked as a respected veteran on WrestleRanks. WrestleRanks standings are decided one week at a time, from fan voting and editor input. Read more about how our rankings work, or see the live, interactive profile with weekly rank history and voting on the Matt Hardy ranking page.

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