Dudleyz vs Hardyz:

10 Reasons You'll Never Forget this War

Buh Buh Ray and D-Von Dudley are two of the toughest and meanest men in wrestling. Matt and Jeff Hardy are two of the most daring and exciting men in wrestling. All four men refuse to back down from a challenge and their feud is capturing headlines and the imagination of wrestling fans everywhere.

Here's why you'll be talking about this feud for a long time-and maybe even for the rest of your life.

1. It's the best damn tag team feud the WWF has had in a long time. For about two years now, the WWF tag team picture has looked just like that: a picture. As in stagnant and two-dimensional. Remember those great wars between The British Bulldogs and The Hart Foundation? Well, did you know that in the 1990's, not one WWF tag team feud was even a runner-up for PWI's Feud of the Year?

Singles wrestling is great, but a tag team feud can really be special (remember Harlem Heat vs The Nasty Boys and The Midnight Express vs The Rock 'n' Roll Express in WCW?). The Dudleyz vs Hardyz has rekindled interest in the WWF's tag team scene.

2. The triple threat number-one contender ship match for the WWF World tag team title. Edge, Jeff Hardy and D-Von Dudley all wanted to become top contenders to the WWF world tag team title, but for a while it seemed as if Edge and Jeff were more intent on destroying D-Von. Edge and Hardy double-teamed D-Von several times, giving Buh Buh Ray no choice but to interveneonly to get hit by a sensational double-suplex by the Matt Hardy and Christian. Finally, D-Von scored with a reverse DDT on Edge for the pin to earn the title shot at No Way Out.

3. D-Von and Buh Buh Ray are simply out of their minds. These products of ECW are two of the most sadistic SOB's to have ever stepped inside a wrestling ring. They love punishing their opponents. In fact, D-Von and Buh Buh Ray both admit that they would rather seriously injure their opponents than beat them.

"Would I rather break my opponent's leg and lose or not do any damage and win?" Buh Buh Ray said. "That's a stupid question. Whadda you think?"

4. The week before. The stage was set for a violent match at the Royal Rumble when the Hardyz and Dudleyz met at the SmackDown prior to the pay-per-view. The Dudleyz had set up a table beneath the ramp leading to the ring and were ready to give Jeff Hardy a Royal Rumble preview of what it would feel like to crash through a table. But Matt Hardy came to the rescue and Buh Buh Ray got a taste of his own medicine.

5. Table for four. The WWF's first-ever table match at the Royal Rumble was everything it was stacked up to bepun intended. Buh Buh was the first to crash through a table, courtesy of a guillotine legdrop and a flying splash by both Hardyz. Jeff and Matt tried to set up D-Von, but he moved out of the way, and both Hardyz crashed through the tables. However, the only way to win the match was by putting both of your opponents through a table with offensive moves. The Dudleyz set up two steel steps inside the ring and place a table on top. Matt Hardy was power-bombed through the table. At the entrance to the ring, the Dudleyz set up two tables on top of each other. Jeff, however, went Buh Buh through a table, then sent D-Von through the table with a senton bomb for the win. Already, the match is being talked about as a Match of the Year candidate.

6. Deception is sweet. Does anybody know how to spell respect? Yeah, it's R-E-S-P-E-C-T, as Aretha Franklin told us, but when the Dudleyz are involved, it's spelled D-E-C-E-P-T-I-O-N. The night after the Hardys won the table match at Raw, the Dudleyz professed to have newfound respect for the Hardyz. Backstage at the First Union Center in Philadelphia, the Dudleyz offered to shake the Hardyz' hands. Matt and Jeff reluctantly agreed. It turned out to be a big mistake.

7. Hey Terri, how's your neckand back? In one of the most horrifyingly gruesome spectacles in wrestling history, Buh Buh Ray laid the smack down on Terri, the manager of The Hardy Boyz, by power-bombing her through a table. The beautiful Terri suffered whiplash, and whether she'll ever return to the ring remains to be seen. After shaking the Dudleyz' hands, the Hardyz were wrestling The New Age Outlaws when Buh Buh Ray and D-Von walked to ringside. It looked as if the Dudleyz were about to help the Hardyz, but instead Buh Buh Ray pulled Jeff out of the ring, grabbed Terri and power-bombed her off the top rope and through a table.

"All I know is that it takes a coward to do something like that to a lady," Jeff Hardy complained. "There was no reason for him to do what he did. You'd better believe that we're not ever going to forget it."

Let's hope not.

8. Let's beat up the hot babe in the doctor's outfit. Maybe that's not a sane person's idea of fun, but nobody ever said the Dudleyz were sane. When D-von and Buh Buh Ray tried to put B.B. through a table, Edge and Christian prevented them from doing it. The following week, Buh Buh Ray acted as if he had injured his leg during a match. After the match, B.B. was one of the EMT's who tried to help him onto a stretcher. Buh Buh Ray got up, grabbed her, and drove her through a table.

The Hardyz were not at all impressed.

"Like we've been saying all along," Matt said, "that's not the kind of thing you do to a lady."

9. It's the tag team feud even ECW fans are watching. ECW fans have a high standard for violence, mayhem, and excitement, but we happen to know because they're telling us that ECW fans are tuning in to the Dudley vs Hardyz war.

"It's hardcore," said ECW fanatic Steven Eames.

That is the highest praise possible.

10. It might never end. Well, never's a strong word, but for the moment, there's no end in sight for this feud that has already carried on for several months. Dudleyz vs Hardyz might be capturing our attention for a good long time.