The Hardy Boyz

The Hardy Boyz (also known as The Hardys, The Hardyz or Team Xtreme) were a professional wrestling tag team, consisting of real-life brothers Jeff and Matt Hardy. They are best known for their time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), later renamed World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and later for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

They first began teaming together in 1993 in independent promotions in North Carolina, winning the NWA 2000 Tag Team Championship in NWA 2000, and founded the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts, where they held the OMEGA Tag Team Championship. They both signed contracts with the WWF in 1998, and were given Michael Hayes as their manager. After dumping Hayes, they had a quick stint with Gangrel, and then Terri, before gaining a permanent manager in their real-life friend Lita. The addition of Lita led to them being renamed "Team Xtreme". They split as a team in 2002, but reunited in 2006 to feud with MNM, before focusing on their singles careers again in 2007, although they occasionally teamed together. Following a scripted feud between the two brothers in early 2009, Jeff left WWE in August, with Matt departing in late 2010. The Hardys reunited in TNA in January 2011 as members of the Immortal stable. In August 2011, Matt was released from his contract with TNA, but returned in 2014, and the brothers won the TNA World Tag Team Championship in March 2015.

WWE Insurrextion

Insurrextion was an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view television show that ran from 2000 to 2003. It was produced by the WWF/WWE exclusively for the United Kingdom. From 2002 it was a Raw brand exclusive show. After the 2003 show, all-UK exclusive pay-per-view shows were stopped. Triple H was featured in the main event of all four versions of the event. Insurrextion's theme song was "Burning Tree", a WWF Production Theme.

Dates and venues

Results

2000

2001

2002

Insurrextion (2002) took place on May 4, 2002 at the Wembley Arena in London, England, and was the WWF's first pay-per-view event promoted under a WWF brand (Raw). It was also the last UK televised PPV show to run under the WWF name; due to a lawsuit by the World Wildlife Fund, the Federation changed its name to World Wrestling Entertainment and started to use the WWE name on the (May 13) episode of WWF Raw.

Brock Lesnar

Brock Edward Lesnar (/ˈlɛznər/; born July 12, 1977) is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler, professional American football player, and mixed martial artist. He is currently signed to WWE. Lesnar is a four-time WWE (World Heavyweight) Champion, a former UFC Heavyweight Champion, and an NCAA Division I Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, making him the only person to have won a WWE championship, UFC championship, and NCAA championship in a career. He is also a one-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, making him a five-time world champion in professional wrestling.

After his successful amateur wrestling career at Bismarck State College and the University of Minnesota (106 victories and 5 losses), Lesnar signed with WWE (then the World Wrestling Federation) in 2000. He was assigned to its developmental promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he was a three-time OVW Southern Tag Team Champion with Shelton Benjamin. After debuting on WWE's main roster in 2002, he won the WWE Championship on three separate occasions with victories over The Rock and Kurt Angle (twice). Lesnar won his first (Undisputed) WWE Championship five months after his main roster debut at the age of 25, becoming the youngest WWE Champion in history. He was also the 2002 King of the Ring and the 2003 Royal Rumble winner, making him the youngest King of the Ring and Royal Rumble winner as well. Following his match with Goldberg at WrestleMania XX, Lesnar left the WWE and pursued a career in the National Football League (NFL). He was named a defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings but was cut prior to the start of the 2004–05 season. In 2005, Lesnar returned to professional wrestling and signed with New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), where he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in his first match. After a contractual dispute with NJPW, he also wrestled as IWGP Heavyweight Champion in the Inoki Genome Federation (IGF).

Shawn Stasiak

Shawn Emile Stipich, DC, (born July 21, 1970) is an American-Canadian chiropractor,motivational speaker and former professional wrestler. He is best known under the ring name Shawn Stasiak and for his stints with World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment, where he is a fifteen time Hardcore Champion, and World Championship Wrestling, where he was a three time World Tag Team Champion. He is also the son of former WWWF Champion Stan "The Man" Stasiak.

Early life

Stipich was raised in Oakville, Ontario, and attended White Oaks Secondary School, where he wrestled at a high school level. After graduating, he attended Boise State University. While at BSU, Stipich made it to second place in the Pacific-10 Conference two years in a row before graduating with a bachelor's degree in communications.

Professional wrestling career

After graduating from BSU, he later trained as a professional wrestler under Dory Funk, Jr. and debuted in 1996 as Shawn Stasiak in the Pacific Coast Championship Wrestling promotion.