Jeff Hardy

Jeffrey Nero Hardy (born August 31, 1977) is an American professional wrestler and musician.

He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

He is best known for his tenures in WWE and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time as well as one of the most daring high flyers and risktakers throughout his career.

Together with his brother Matt Hardy, the tag team The Hardy Boyz are widely regarded as one of the major teams that revived tag team wrestling during the Attitude Era and one of the greatest tag teams in professional wrestling history.

Born and raised in Cameron, North Carolina, Hardy started his career as a youth performing in the Trampoline Wrestling Federation, which he started alongside his brother Matt Hardy.

Eventually, that would transition into the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts (OMEGA) as they became older.

Their mother died of brain cancer in 1987, when Jeff Hardy was nine.

He developed an interest in motocross at age 12 and got his first bike, a Yamaha YZ-80.

He had his first race when he was in the ninth grade.

Hardy played baseball when he was young, but had to stop after he crashed during a motocross race, injuring his arm.

He also played football during high school as a fullback and linebacker.

He briefly competed in amateur wrestling in high school.

He had to stop playing football in high school, after he was ordered to pick between professional wrestling and football, and he chose wrestling.

Hardy's favorite subjects in school were U.S. history and art, which he did for extra credit.

Hardy, along with his brother Matt and friends, started their own federation, the Trampoline Wrestling Federation (TWF) and mimicked the moves they saw on television.

Later on, the TWF went under several names, eventually being integrated into a county fair in North Carolina.

The brothers and their friends then began to work for other independent companies.

They drove all over the East Coast of the United States, working for companies such as ACW and other small promotions.

Before arriving in the WWF, Jeff and Matt formed their own wrestling promotion, the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts (OMEGA) with Thomas Simpson.

The promotion was a more successful version of the original TWF and included talent such as both Hardy brothers, Shannon Moore, Gregory Helms, Joey Matthews, and Steve Corino, among others.

In OMEGA, each of the brothers portrayed several characters; Hardy portrayed such characters as Willow the Wisp, Iceman, Mean Jimmy Jack Tomkins, and The Masked Mountain.

While there, Hardy held the New Frontier Championship (NFC) as a singles competitor and the Tag Team Championship with Matt.

As a tag team, the Hardy Boyz worked as enhancement talents for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1994, and were signed to full-time contracts in 1998.

They gained notoriety in the tag team division, partly due to their participation in Tables, Ladders and Chairs matches.

With the addition of Lita, the team became known as Team Xtreme and continued to rise in popularity.

The promotion folded in April 1998 when they signed contracts with the WWF.

Hardy cites Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior, Sting, and Shawn Michaels as his childhood inspirations to wrestle.

After splitting up as a team in 2002, Jeff's popularity as a singles wrestler began to grow.

However, the brothers still teamed up sporadically in the years afterward, and together they have held twenty-one world tag team championships between WWE, TNA, ROH and other promotions.

In 2003, Hardy, along with his brother Matt, co-wrote an autobiographical book of memoirs titled The Hardy Boyz.

Their book was a New York Times Best Seller.

Jeff Nero Hardy is the son of Gilbert and Ruby Moore Hardy, and the younger brother of Matt Hardy.

Hardy had great success in his singles career, capturing his first of six world championships, the WWE Championship in 2008 and going on to hold WWE's World Heavyweight Championship twice and the TNA World Heavyweight Championship three times.

Within WWF/WWE, he has also won the Intercontinental Championship five times, the Hardcore Championship three times and the European, Light Heavyweight, and United States Championships once each.

Having won the required championships, he is the 18th Triple Crown Champion and 9th Grand Slam Champion in WWE history (one of five men to complete both WWE Grand Slam formats, and one of two to win all original Grand Slam titles).

He has headlined numerous pay-per-view events for WWE and TNA, including TNA's flagship event, Bound for Glory, on two occasions.

Readers of Pro Wrestling Illustrated named him "Most Popular Wrestler of the Year" on two occasions.

Outside of professional wrestling, Hardy is involved in motocross, as well as artistic endeavors, particularly music and painting.

He is currently a member of the band PeroxWhy?Gen, with whom he tours and has released three studio albums and four extended plays.