During the World Wrestling Federation’s “Attitude Era” of the late ’90s and early 2000s, one of the most exciting rivalries was between the tag teams of Edge & Christian, Matt & Jeff Hardy, and Bubba Ray & D-Von Dudley. The three teams collided over and over again between 1999 and 2001 in a variety of matches.
I’ve compiled six matches that highlight exactly what has turned these three tag teams into legends. Additionally, I’ve included links to the four matches that are available on YouTube. Unfortunately, not all six are there, but the other two are from a couple of Wrestlemanias, so they’re not hard to find!
Edge & Christian vs. The Hardy Boyz, Tag Team Ladder Match (click to watch match on YouTube)

Early the summer of 1999, Edge and Christian left their mentor, Gangrel, defecting from the faction known as The Brood. Gangrel recruited real-life brothers Matt and Jeff Hardy to become the New Brood, and the two teams spent the summer feuding, culminating in a best-of-five match series. Heading into September’s No Mercy Pay-Per-View event, the score was tied at two wins apiece. To break the tie (as well as the managerial services of Terri Runnels for some reason) the two teams were put in the WWF’s first-ever tag team ladder match. This match put the four men on the map and transformed them from wrestlers into Superstars.
Hardy Boyz vs. Dudley Boyz, Table Match, Royal Rumble 2000 (click to watch match on YouTube)

Shortly after defecting from Extreme Championship Wrestling, Buh Buh Ray Dudley (sometimes spelled “Bubba Ray”) and his half-brother D’Von Dudley (D-Von? It’s inconsistent) faced off against the Hardy Boyz in the WWF’s first-ever Table Match, where the match ends when one competitor is driven through a table by their opponent. But it has to be intentional — You can’t, for example, jump off the top rope and crash through a table that your opponent rolled off of and lose that way. This was the Dudleyz’ coming out party in the WWF, and showed why they weren’t just another tag team.
Triangle Ladder Match, Wrestlemania 2000 (match unavailable on YouTube)

All three teams competed in matches of every combination between the fall of 1999 and early parts of 2000, which led to a Triangle Ladder Match at that year’s Wrestlemania. While this was ostensibly just a ladder match, the Dudleyz’ trademark tables made plenty of appearances in this match, hinting at what would come in the future.
I couldn’t find this match on YouTube, but it’s easy enough to find — Wrestlemania 2000 DVDs are relatively easy to come by on eBay; and as of January 2025, US viewers can watch the match on Peacock. Internationally, it should be available on Netflix.
Edge & Christian vs. Hardy Boyz vs. Dudley Boyz, Tables Ladders & Chairs match, Summerslam 2000 (Click to watch match on YouTube)

The very first TLC Match saw the Dudleyz bring the Tables, the Hardyz bring the Ladders, and Edge & Christian bring the Chairs, as well as put WWF Tag Team Championships on the line. This match was spectacular, and really raised the bar in a dangerous way. It probably would have been enough for the chaos to stop here, but Summerslam is only the second biggest show of the year.
Edge & Christian vs. Dudley Boyz, WWF Tag Team Championship Match, Royal Rumble 2001 (click to watch match on YouTube)

The Hardy Boyz challenged the Dudleyz at the Royal Rumble 2000 Pay-Per-View event, and Edge & Christian did so for the Tag Team Championships the following year. There’s no gimmicks to this match, just a straight-up tag team championship match between two of the best teams in the business. I’ve included it for two reasons: To show that these guys could work a great match without all the furniture, and to have all the combinations of the teams facing off represented.
TLC II, Wrestlemania X-Seven (match unavailable on YouTube)

And the entire feud ended with the three teams facing off in a second TLC match, at what is not only the World Wrestling Federation’s biggest show of the year, but also at what many people still consider to be the best Wrestlemania of all time.
Everything that the first TLC match had was done again, bigger and nastier. Add in that each team’s “extra” — Matt Hardy’s girlfriend Lita, Bubba and D-Von’s little brother Spike Dudley, and E&C’s buddy Rhyno — interfered in the match, and it was the biggest, most explosive match the three teams could produce. You know that clip WWE still shows of Edge jumping off a ladder and hitting a dangling Jeff Hardy with a spear from like 12 feet in the air? That 24-year-old moment happens in this match.
Like the Wrestlemania 2000 Triange Ladder Match, WWE is going to make you pay to watch this one — You’re gonna have to track down a DVD, or find the match on whatever service WWE PPVs stream on in your area.
There are tons of other great matches that involve these three teams. Heck, there was a third TLC match on a random episode of Smackdown that also involved Chris Jericho & Chris Benoit. And yet a fourth TLC match saw one member from each team and a new ally — Bubba and Spike Dudley, Jeff Hardy and Rob Van Dam, Christian and Chris Jericho — take on Kane and the Hurricane on an episode of Raw, mixing up the formula.
Edge and Christian broke up as a team in the summer of 2001. After the WWF bought competitor WCW and the two rosters were mixed up in 2002 so that half of the wrestlers were “drafted” exclusively on Raw and half on Smackdown, the Hardy Boyz and the Dudley Boyz were broken up. Sure, all the teams would have reunions, but after that Wrestlemania X-Seven match, they rightly really took the spotlight off of this three-way feud.
But they left quite a legacy! The TLC gimmick became such a staple of WWE match types that an annual Pay-Per-View event named after the match debuted in 2009 and ran for 12 years before quietly being retired during the COVID-19 pandemic.
When people talk about how great the WWF’s “Attitude Era” was, part of that legacy definitely includes all the great matches between these three teams.
Thanks for all the entertainment, boys.