Matt Hardy featured in the first ever scramble match in WWE history for the ECW Championships.
WWE Unforgiven 2008 featured the first Championship Scramble match in WWE history, and Matt Hardy recently looked back on the bout, which also included Mark Henry, The Miz, Chavo Guerrero, and Finlay.
Speaking on the Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, Hardy was asked to describe how challenging putting together the match was.
“It was tricky. I remember it was very, very difficult. There’d never been one before, so we were kind of breaking new ground. We were the first Scramble Match. By the way, Matt Fact: Matt won the first Scramble Match in WWE history. It was tricky, it was an interesting concept, and I dug the fact that they tried something out of the box. They were trying something new and something different. But it was cool, and my favorite part of that match was that, if I’m not mistaken, after I got that last pinfall where I was the current champion or whatever, I remember I kept breaking up every single near fall that happened after that for like three minutes. It was a sprint [laughs]. I remember being so winded towards the end of that because it was an absolute sprint. I said like I want you guys to cover, cover, cover, over. I just want to be trying to save my ass the whole while,”
Matt Hardy On The Extreme Life Of Matt Hardy
When Hardy won the bout, he became a world champion for the first time in his illustrious career.
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When Hardy won the bout, he became a world champion for the first time in his illustrious career.
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