Before the match, Lita is backstage with Jeff Hardy. Lita says Matt has been acting strange as Matt comes out of the locker room. Matt Hardy says of course he’s acting strange, their jobs are on the line. He says they need to win their respective championship matches tonight to keep their jobs. He and Jeff go get ready for their match as Trish Stratus walks out fi the WWF locker room, acting friendly with Lita.
The Dudley Boyz makes
their way out first with Stacy Keibler. They represent The Alliance and are the
WWF Tag Team Champions. The Hardy Boyz make their way out alone and the belts
are laid on the canvas between the two teams. Nick Patrick is our outside
referee, with a WWF referee on the inside of the ring.
THE DUDLEY BOYZ
(WWF) VS. THE HARDY BOYZ (WCW)
(WCW &WWF
Tag Team Championships Unification Steel Cage)
WWE Survivor Series 2001 (18th November 2001)
Matt Hardy starts with Bubba Ray Dudley. Bubba charges into the turnbuckle before Matt Hardy unloads with right hands. Bubba gets sent across the ring and back again. Matt clotheslines Bubba down and hits D-Von on the apron.
Jeff Hardy gets the tag, Bubba is sent into a double back elbow, double attack from the Hardyz and Jeff’s cover doesn’t even get 1. Bubba Ray Dudley reverses an irish whip and slams Jeff, covering for 1. D-Von Dudley gets in the ring, knocking Jeff back into the ropes with right hands. Jeff Hardy ducks the clothesline and kicks D-Von down. Matt gets the tag and attacks in the corner as the Hardyz utilise the 5-count. D-Von sends Matt across the ring but a hip toss is blocked, Matt gets a backslide for 2. D-Von hits what would become the Saving Grace for 2. Matt is sent off the ropes into a spinning back elbow. Bubba Ray is tagged back in the match, he drops Matt with a neckbreaker and hits elbow drops for a 2 count. Back to D-Von, Matt Hardy blocks his back into the steel cage but gets caught in the heel corner. Bubba Ray gets a tag and lifts Matt Hardy on his shoulder. Matt scrambles to his feet hitting an inverted DDT, avoiding the cage again. Jeff Hardy gets the hot tag, knocking The Dudleyz down with clotheslines and dropkicks.
Jeff Hardy covers Bubba Ray as Matt knocks D-Von down to stop the interference but Bubba kicks out. The Hardy Boyz hit the Poetry in Motion on D-Von then on Bubba Ray. They agree to climb the cage but the Dudleyz are en-route. Matt brings himself and D-Von down to the mat with a Russian legsweep from the top rope. A Bubba Bomb means everyone is down on the mat but Bubba Ray Dudley is the first to his feet. Matt Hardy brings Bubba back down to the canvas and covers, but only gets 2. D-Von Dudley breaks up the second cover and the Dudley Boyz team up on Matt. He’s sent off the ropes and a flapjack sends him into the steel cage. Jeff Hardy wakes up in time to be launched into the air but he grabs the cage and starts climbing. Bubba has to cut him off, Jeff is in the electric chair and gets hit with the Dudley Device which leaves everyone down again. The Dudley Boyz are the first to their feet and they hit the back suplex/neckbreaker combination on Jeff Hardy. Matt breaks up the pin but is sent into the cage by D-Von Dudley, trapping him between the cage wall and the ropes. D-Von is sent into Matt by his own partner, and then Bubba makes the same trip.
Stacy Keibler celebrates and on a possibly related note, I’m rooting for the Dudley Boyz here. Jeff is sent into the cage wall but it doesn’t look like he knew if he was supposed to block it. Jeff is sent into the cage wall a second time before D-Von Dudley knocks him down in the corner with right hands. Bubba Ray places Jeff’s lifeless body in the middle of the ring as each Dudley climbs a turnbuckle. Jeff rolls out of the way of a splash from D-Von and a back senton from Bubba Ray as his home State crowd gets some hope. Matt Hardy hits a double clothesline from the top rope. D-Von runs into a back elbow, Matt uses Bubba Ray Dudley’s own momentum to send him into the cage and plants D-Von with a neckbreaker. Bubba elbow drops his own partner as he tries to break up the cover and gets caught with a DDT. Bubba Ray kicks out at 2 as Jeff Hardy gets back to his feet. He takes down D-Von Dudley and hits the leg drop to the “abdomen” before helping Matt backdrop Bubba Ray.
The Hardy Boyz hit a leg drop and a splash from opposite corners, Jeff Hardy covers and D-Von Dudley breaks it up. Matt Hardy tries to climb out of the cage but gets his foot stuck in the top. D-Von Dudley connects with a right hand, leaving Matt Hardy hanging from his leg. In the ring, Bubba Ray slams Jeff Hardy for the Wazzup Headbutt. Bubba Ray Dudley swings Matt into the cage before asking Stacy to get a table. She flashes her ass and steals the key for the steel cage from Nick Patrick’s pocket. Stacy Keibler helps D-Von get the table in the ring as the referees argue. The table is set up but Matt Hardy takes down Bubba Ray as Jeff hits a DDT on D-Von. Matt Hardy scales the cage, he fights off Bubba Ray Dudley and sends him down to the mat before dropping to the floor. Both Dudley Boyz are still in the ring with Jeff Hardy and the table. Jeff Hardy crawls over and covers Bubba Ray, 1, 2, 2½! He fights with D-Von near the table and crawls under to get to the side of the ring. Jeff Hardy climbs the cage as Matt tells him to come down to the floor.
D-Von Dudley is set up in the table so Jeff takes the chance and crashes and burns with a Swanton Bomb through the table. D-Von moves out of the way at the last second and Bubba Ray Dudley makes a cover within the wreckage to win the match.
WINNER: THE DUDLEY BOYZ (Undisputed Tag Team Championships)
This is
always going to be a good match, everyone got to shine and Jeff Hardy’s big
risk cost The Hardy Boyz the match. Matt Hardy escaping the cage before
ensuring Jeff was in a condition to get out too could also be said to have cost
them the match but Jeff couldn’t help going for the big finish. He wanted to
put an exclamation point on the title victory after a hard-fought match. [***½]
7/10
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