5 Great WWE Raw matches you should watch again

#2 Jeff Hardy vs. The Undertaker

Jeff Hardy was the perfect underdog foil for Big Evil.

In pretty much any era, it’s hard to accept Jeff Hardy as anything but an underdog if cast as an opponent to The Undertaker. In the summer of 2002, this was especially so, as Hardy had not yet won a world title or in any meaningful way broached main event status. But there the Charismatic Enigma was, challenging The Dead Man for the WWE Championship in one of the few contexts in which it seemed he could conceivably win—a Ladder Match.

This is an offbeat and tremendously fun match. It tells about the story one would expect, with Hardy the never say die face against The Undertaker at the peak of his heel biker run playing the merciless bully. The Phenom wins out, as you’d expect, but the journey to get there is pretty electric as the crowd buys in more and more that Hardy has a chance and the match is more competitive than anyone might have expected to go in.