Most Valuable Player is an award, typically for the best performing player in a sport or competition.

MVP may also refer to:

In sports:

• Montel Vontavious Porter, ring name of professional wrestler Hassan Assad
• Manuel V. Pangilinan, Filipino businessman and sports executive
• Steve Lombardi, professional wrestler better known as the "Brooklyn Brawler", whose alias was once "MVP"
• Dale Torborg professional wrestler better known as "The Demon", whose alias was once "MVP"
• Messi-Villa-Pedro, attacking trio from FC Barcelona in 2010-2011 season

In film and television:

• MVP: Most Valuable Primate, 2000 comedy film
• Most Valuable Players (film), a 2010 documentary film about
• MVP (TV series), TV drama about the lives of hockey players' wives
• MVP, an Australian sport show hosted by basketball star Steve Carfino
• Mike-Vinny-Pauly, a term made popular by the cast members of Jersey Shore (TV series)

In music:

• MVP (album), a reggaeton album by various artists released in 2003
• MVP (group), a hip hop group
• "MVP", a song by the extreme metal band Despised Icon which is included on their fourth album Day of Mourning (album)
• "MVP", a single released by underground rapper Big L, in which MVP stands for "Most Valuable Poet"
• ""M.V.P.S.", a shout-out song by Ice-T from the 1991 album O.G. Original Gangster, in which MVP stands for "Most Valuable Players"

In science:

• Minimum viable population, minimum sustainable population value used in biology, ecology and conservation biology
• Mitral valve prolapse, heart valve condition
• Major vault protein, primary protein associated with the cytoplasmic vault organelle

In computing:

• Get a Mac, an Apple ad campaign often referred to as "Mac vs PC"
• Hauppauge MediaMVP, network media player often shortened to "MVP" (Music, Videos, Pictures)
• Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, award and recognition program
• Minimum viable product, concept used in software feature estimating
• Model View Presenter, software engineering design and architectural pattern
• Motion Vector Prediction, a term used in motion compensation in video compression

Other uses:

• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a state in the Federal Republic of Germany
• Manuel V. Pangilinan, Filipino businessman
• Michael Van Patrick, known as MVP, a comic book character created by Dan Slott and Stefano Caselli for Marvel Comics
• MVP (video game), 1989 arcade game from Sega
• Maximum Vapor Permeability, the extent to which "breathable" fabric will let moisture vapor pass through (usually measured in g/m²/24h)

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Jeff Hardy
Ring name(s)	Galaxion[1] Gladiator[1] The Iceman[1] Jeff Hardy[2] Mean Jimmy Jack[1] Willow the Whisp[3] Wolverine[1]
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[4]
Weight	215 lb (98 kg)[4]
Billed height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[5]
Billed weight	215 lb (98 kg)[5]
Born	(1977-08-31) August 31, 1977 (age 34)[6] Cameron, North Carolina[5]
Resides	Raleigh, North Carolina
Billed from	Cameron, North Carolina[2]
Trained by	Dory Funk, Jr.[2] Michael Hayes[2]
Debut	October 15, 1993

Jeffrey Nero "Jeff" Hardy^[6] (born August 31, 1977)^[3] is an American professional wrestler, painter, poet, singer-songwriter and musician who is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).^[7] He is also known for his stint with the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWE).

Before gaining prominence in WWE, Hardy performed for the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts (OMEGA), a promotion he ran with his brother Matt.^[3] After being signed by WWE, the brothers worked as jobbers,^[8] before gaining notoriety in the tag team division, partly due to their participation in Tables, Ladders, and Chairs matches.^[9] With the addition of Lita, the team became known as Team Xtreme and continued to rise in popularity.^[2] As a tag team wrestler, Hardy is a six-time World Tag Team Champion and a one-time WCW Tag Team Champion.^[2][10] Noted for his seemingly fearless airborne moves, Hardy's offensive toolbox more resembles a stunt man's than a pro wrestler's.^[11]

Hardy has also experienced success as a singles wrestler and is a five-time world champion, having held the WWE Championship once, the World Heavyweight Championship twice and the TNA World Heavyweight Championship twice, a four-time Intercontinental Champion, and has held the Light Heavyweight, and European Championships once each. He is also a former Hardcore Champion, having held the championship on three occasions. Between WWE and TNA, Hardy has won 21 total championships.^[10] He received his first major main event push in WWE towards the end of 2007, including challenging for the WWE Championship at the Royal Rumble in 2008, and eventually won the WWE Championship at the Armageddon pay-per-view in December 2008.^[12][13] Hardy went on to win the World Heavyweight Championship twice, before he left WWE in mid-2009. He returned to TNA in January 2010, and in October of that year, he won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship for the first time. Moreover, Hardy is involved in motocross, music, painting, and other artistic endeavors.^[14] He is currently a member of the band Peroxwhy?gen.^[15]

Early life[link]

Hardy is the son of Gilbert and Ruby Moore Hardy, and the younger brother of Matt.^[2][8][16] Their mother died of brain cancer in 1986, when Hardy was nine.^[8][17][18] He developed an interest in motocross aged 12 and got his first bike, a Yamaha YZ-80, at age 13.^[19] He had his first race when he was in ninth grade.^[20] Hardy played baseball as a child, but had to stop after he crashed during a motocross race, injuring his arm.^[20] He also played football during high school as a fullback and linebacker.^[19] He briefly competed in amateur wrestling in high school.^[21] He had to stop playing sports in high school, after he was ordered to pick between professional wrestling and playing sports, and he chose wrestling.^[22] Hardy's favorite subjects in school were U.S. history and art, which he did for extra credit.^[23]

Professional wrestling career[link]

Early career[link]

Hardy cites Sting, The Ultimate Warrior, and Shawn Michaels as his childhood inspirations to wrestle.^[24] Hardy had been on World Wrestling Federation (WWF) television as a jobber—a wrestler who consistently loses to make his opponents look stronger—as early as age sixteen. His first WWF match was against Razor Ramon on May 24, 1994 in Youngstown, Ohio, with "Macho Man" Randy Savage mentioning on-air in a commentary role "Welcome to the big leagues".^[25] The next day he wrestled against The 1-2-3 Kid, and the match aired on the June 25 episode of Superstars.^[26] He occasionally wrestled as a jobber as late as 1997 (including a match against Rob Van Dam during the ECW "invasion" storyline that had Hardy billed as being from Virginia instead of Cameron, North Carolina)^[27] before beginning his first major run in 1998.^[8] Hardy, along with his brother Matt and friends, started their own federation, the Trampoline Wrestling Federation (TWF) and mimicked the moves they saw on television.^[8] Later on, the TWF went under several different names, eventually being integrated into a county fair in North Carolina. The brothers and their friends then began to work for other independent companies. They drove all over the East Coast of the United States, working for companies such as ACW and other small promotions.^[6]

Before arriving in the WWF, Matt formed his own wrestling promotion, the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts (OMEGA) with Thomas Simpson.^[3] The promotion was a more successful version of the original TWF and included talent such as both Hardy brothers, Shannon Moore, Gregory Helms, Joey Matthews, and Steve Corino, among others.^[28] In OMEGA, each of the brothers portrayed several different characters; Hardy portrayed such characters as Willow the Wisp, Iceman, Mean Jimmy Jack Tomkins, and The Masked Mountain.^[3] While there, Hardy held the New Frontier Championship as a singles competitor and the Tag Team Championship with Matt.^[3][29][30] The promotion folded in April 1998 when they signed contracts with the WWF.^[31]

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment[link]

The Hardy Boyz (1998–2002)[link]

Team Xtreme at King of the Ring in 2000.

The Hardy brothers eventually caught the eyes of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). After being signed to a contract in 1998,^[8][32] they were trained by Dory Funk, Jr. in his Funkin' Dojo with other notable wrestlers such as Kurt Angle, Christian, Test, and A-Train.^[6] When the team was finally brought up to WWF television, after months of 'jobbing' and live events, they formed the acrobatic tag team called the Hardy Boyz.^[3] While feuding with The Brood in mid-1999, they added Michael Hayes as their manager.^[3] On July 5, they won their first WWF Tag Team Championship by defeating the Acolytes, but lost it back to them a month later.^[33] After the dissolution of the Brood, the Hardys joined forces with Gangrel as The New Brood and feuded with Edge and Christian.^[3][34] This stable did not last long, however, and on October 17, 1999 at No Mercy, the Hardy Boyz won the managerial services of Terri Runnels in the finals of the Terri Invitational Tournament in the WWF's first ever tag team ladder match against Edge and Christian.^[8][35]

In 2000, the Hardy Boyz found a new manager in their real-life friend Lita.^[2] Together, the three became known as "Team Xtreme".^[2] They continued their feud with Edge and Christian throughout 2000, defeating them for the WWF Tag Team Championship on two occasions.^[36][37] At SummerSlam the Hardy Boyz competed in the first ever Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match (TLC match), for the Tag Team Championship against the Dudley Boyz and Edge and Christian, but were unsuccessful.^[9]