The famous TNA wrestler belongs to the white ethnic background and his nationality is American. Born as the first child to Gilbert Hardy (father) and Ruby Moore Hardy (mother), Matt grew alongside his younger brother and current tag team champion Jeff Hardy, who is also a professional wrestler. The wrestling duo is famous for their tag team called The Hardy Boyz.
Matt attended Union Pines High School in North Carolina and was a nominee for the Morehead Award. After completion of his High Schools, he attended The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and majored in engineering. He dropped out after his father got ill and later joined Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst to gain an associate degree.
He started his early career with his brother Jeff and his friends and started their own federation, the Trampoline Wrestling Federation (TWF). They later created their own wrestling promotion, OMEGA Champion Wrestling, where he competed under his ring name High Voltage.
After he sent his tape to the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Amateur Challenge using the ring name High Voltage and started competing in WCW, with another ring name Surge.
The Hardys have wrestled for several other North-Carolina based wrestling organizations and captured the New England Wrestling Alliance (NEWA) Championship as Wolverine in 1994. He teamed with Venom to claim the New Frontier Wrestling Association (NFWA) Tag Team Championship in March 1995 as High Voltage.
Hardy worked as a jobber during his early career in the WWF. He then signed a full-time contract with WWF and made his debut in a match against Nikolai Volkoff but lost the staged match via submission. He has played various other matches with professional wrestlers during his WWF career.
He won various championship titles such as ECW championship, WWF European Championship, WWF Hardcore Championship, WWE Cruiserweight Championship, WWE United States Championship during his career in WWE. He is the six times World Tag Team Championship and one time for the WCW Tag Team Championship with Jeff Hardy.
He then moved to Total Nonstop Action and made his debut at the Genesis pay-per-view, as a part of the heel stable Immortal. Debuting as a surprise opponent against Rob Van Dam and defeated him to prevent Van Dam from receiving a match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship held by his brother, Jeff Hardy.
He won World Heavyweight Championship for two times and World Tag Team Championship for two times with Jeff Hardy during his TNA career.
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Hardy is one of the best professional wrestlers of all time and has a huge fan following. He is a good friend of several fellow wrestlers like Marty Garner, Shannon Moore, and Gregory Helms. Besides wrestling, he used to play baseball during his childhood. He also played football either as a linebacker or a defensive end during his high school.
Moving on to his personal life, he has been in a relationship with former WWE Diva Amy "Lita" Dumas. They first met at an NWA Mid-Atlantic Show and dated after a few months of their first meeting Matt and Lita broke-up after having an affair of about six years. The reason behind the break up was her affair with Adam "Edge" Copeland, a fellow wrestler and one of the hardy's closest friends.
He started dating with "Rebecca Sky" Reyes in February 2011. Rebecca Victoria "Reby" Hardy Reyes is an American model, actress, television personality and professional wrestler, born on August 6, 1986. The couple got married on October 5, 2013, after having an affair for several of years. On June 23, 2015, his wife gave birth to their first child named Maxel Hardy. The couple invited another baby boy to their lives on June 8, 2017, named Wolfgang Xander Hardy.
He stands 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 234 pounds. He earns a salary of $322,000 from WWE and earns $330,000 from TNA. As of 2018, his net worth is reportedly around $3 million as per many tabloids.
