EDGE (C) VS. TRIPLE H VS. JEFF HARDY

Back at Survivor Series, Jeff Hardy was taken out of the WWE Championship match, having been found in his Hotel room unconscious. Edge was a mid-match replacement and won the WWE Championship. A Beat the Clock challenge was ordered to find the #1 contender, with Jeff and Triple H winning their matches in the exact same duration. (12 minutes 13 seconds, if you're interested),

Triple H makes his way out first, Jim Ross is on commentary for this match with Tazz, JR reminds us Triple H was in the first main event of an Armageddon pay-per-view. He's followed by Jeff Hardy, who is the only man in the match to not have won the WWE Championship yet in his career. Edge is out, he's currently doing the General Manager's favourite, as he was in a relationship with Vickie Guerrero at the time. We get in-ring introductions for tonight's big main event.

EDGE © VS. TRIPLE H VS. JEFF HARDY (WWE Championship)

WWE Armageddon (14^th December 2008)

© World Wrestling Entertainment

  Jeff Hardy attacks Edge at the bell, Triple H sends Hardy off the ropes but is knocked down with a forearm shot. He goes between Edge and Triple H with shots before stacking them in the corner. He sends Edge across to the other side of the ring, then Triple H follows. Jeff hits Triple H with a clothesline, and he drops in the position for a Poetry in Motion, which was convenient for Jeff. Hardy pins Edge but Triple H breaks it up, Jeff reverses an irish whip sending Triple H over the top rope to the floor. Edge cuts off Jeff Hardy's slingshot attempt and is thrown out of the ring, Jeff Hardy hits Edge with a slingshot plancha as Triple H moves out of the way at the last second. Triple H knocks Jeff down with a clothesline and tries to send Hardy's head into the barricade but Jeff blocks it. He knocks Triple H back with right hands, but the irish whip is reversed and he hits the barricade. Triple H tries to get in the ring, Edge cuts him off with a boot and hits right hands in the corner. He knocks Triple H back into the ropes but Triple H fights back, he hits the ropes but is cut off with a boot. Edge covers but Triple H kicks out at 2.

  Edge is sent off the ropes, he ducks a clothesline but isn't so lucky with the high knee. Triple H hits a neckbreaker, Edge is back on his feet in the corner. Triple H runs at him with clotheslines, Edge reverses the irish whip but he ducks early, Triple H with a face smash into his knee. He sets up a Pedigree but Jeff Hardy returns to the ring and cuts him off. He sends Triple H off the ropes but eats a face smash too, Triple H attempts another Pedigree on Edge but a Whisper in the Wind puts a stop to that. We see replays as Jeff hardy knocks Edge down with a clothesline, then a running forearm, he pins Edge down with a leg drop but Triple H breaks up the pin. Edge sends Jeff Hardy into the corner, he tries to climb the turnbuckles but slips and Edge climbs to meet him on the middle rope. Triple H has Edge in the electric chair as Jeff Hardy fights Edge off, Whisper in the Wind to Edge as Triple H falls back! Jeff Hardy crawls over to Edge for a cover, but again Triple H breaks it up at the last second. Triple H sends Jeff Hardy into the corner, Jeff is able to climb the turnbuckles this time and jumps into a kick to the midsection, Hardy trips him and catapults Triple H into the corner, Jeff Hardy springs off the middle rope to dropkick Triple H sat in the corner but Edge takes advantage with the Blackout on Hardy, he covers but Jeff Hardy kicks out.

  Edge is on his feet first and has both opponents lined up for a Spear. Jeff Hardy leapfrogs him and Triple H is hit, sending him into the corner. Jeff sends Edge out of the ring and hits the Twist of Fate and Swanton bomb on Triple H, but Edge drags him out of the ring after 2. Jeff Hardy is sent into the security wall, Edge bounces Jeff's head off the ECW announce table, Jeff is able to return the favour on the Raw table and sends Edge into a member of staff near the security wall. He strips the Smackdown announce table of all excess weight and sends Edge's head into it. Triple H remembers he's in a match, hitting Hardy from behind and sending Edge over the ECW announce table. Jeff's head is sent into the ring steps, Triple H deconstructs Raw's table and lays Jeff Hardy across it. Jeff Hardy fights out of a Pedigree, Triple H counters a Twist of Fate attempt and shoves Hardy away, Triple H moves out of the way as Edge runs across the announce tables and hits Jeff Hardy with a Spear sending him through Smackdown's announce table!

  Triple H brings Edge back into the ring, he sets up a Pedigree but Edge reverses into the Edgecution. He sets up for a Spear in the corner instead of covering Triple H and pays for it, running into a spinebuster. Triple H hits the Pedigree and covers Edge, but Vladimir Kozlov runs down to ringside, pulling Triple H out of the ring and sending him into the ring steps. Matt Hardy runs down to attack Kozlov but is sent into the security wall. In the ring, Jeff Hardy is climbing to the top rope, but Kozlov gets on the apron and shoves him to the floor. Matt Hardy attacks Kozlov again and they brawl back up the ramp. Triple H gets back in the ring as Edge is using the ropes to get to his feet. He hits a Spear on Triple H and covers, but Triple H kicks out at 2¾. Edge brings two steel chairs into the match, he sets Triple H up for a one-man Con Chairto, but Jeff Hardy is able to get the chair away from him. Jeff hits Edge with the chair and climbs to the top rope, but Triple H knocks the ropes, crotching Hardy. Triple H and Edge struggle to get to their feet in the corner, Triple H hits the Pedigree on Edge and covers but Jeff Hardy flies in from off-screen with a Swanton Bomb! He covers Edge as Triple H rolls out of the ring. 1, 2, 3!

WINNER: JEFF HARDY (NEW WWE Champion)

This was an amazing match, it did have the standard 2 people in, 1 out formula but they did it well and it was an exciting match. The Matt Hardy and Vladimir Kozlov additions didn't need to happen, but they made sense and continued the larger story. Jeff Hardy was able to look on par with Triple H and Edge during his crowning moment.– As a match it's *** but personally, I'd rate it 5.5/10

Jeff Hardy celebrates his Championship win as the show goes off the air.