5 memorable matches between real-life brothers or sisters in WWE, WCW, and AEW

#3 Jeff Hardy vs Matt Hardy, WrestleMania 25

Rather than working the respectful brother vs. brother match, the Hardys took things Extreme at WrestleMania 25.

Whereas the brother vs brother match at WrestleMania 10 between Bret and Owen Hart was largely technical and built-in intensity via submission holds, fifteen years later, Matt and Jeff Hardy told a very different story.

The Hardys were locked in an intense rivalry based on Matt’s kayfabe attempts to ruin his little brother’s life. Feeding into each character’s sensibilities, they competed under Extreme Rules in a match full of ladders and chairs.

The match was a fun enough spectacle, though the consensus, in the end, seemed to have been that everyone would rather see the Hardys teaming up than going to war with one another. Matt’s heel character also never seemed to fully click, both for fans having to stretch their disbelief about his evil persona and for the worker beneath the gimmick simply working out better as a face.