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Twist of Fate DVD Review
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Dan 'The Mouth' Lovranski
Live Audio Wrestling Co-Host

POSTED: June 10, 2008 - 5:11 pm

CATEGORIES: Wrestling

The latest WWE offering for home video is two separate documentaries chronicling the careers of high flyers Matt and Jeff Hardy.

Both men have had unique careers with their own personal set of triumphs and tragedies, and it's obvious that they decided to do it this way because they want to continue to push both of them as singles performers rather than their past as a tag team. In the end, however, it would have flowed a little bit better as one solid documentary, but Hardy fans will hardly care.

Disc 1 is the Matt Hardy story, but it also covers both his and Jeff's careers as a tag team, from their backyard trampoline, to their own league, to being jobbers on WWE TV, before finally achieving major success as the Hardy Boyz. Even their brief reunion last year is covered on this disc.

From there, it goes through Matt's solo career including the infamous love triangle between himself, Lita and Edge. Aside from this, Lita is barely mentioned in the rest of the documentaries. While we'll never know how much of the stuff they said during this angle was legit or not (like Lita's appearance on Byte This, which they show clips from here), Edge's comments of 'Well, at least we got a good angle out of it" really ring hollow here.

This first disc is quite good and the documentary benefits huge from the fact that Matt and Jeff videotaped everything they did as kids, so you get to see it all play out.

Disc 2 is devoted to Jeff and that's all. Since the Matt disc gave the tag team rundown, this one mostly focuses on Jeff's different interests like music, his crazy, homemade motorcross track, his "Imag- I-Nation" and so on.

The sad part about a lot of this stuff is that it doesn't appear Jeff has been able to follow any of these other pursuits to the end. His muse musically seems to still allude him, and things like his motorcross track have fallen apart and are unused.

As for this drug suspension, he doesn't really go into details, but the disc ends with his triumphant return to the WWE after that.

Ironically, Hardy was out on a second suspension at the exact time they began promoting this disc.

There isn't a lot in the way of extras, but at least there is no overlap with the Ladder Match DVD, which features most of the Hardys'

death-defying contests with Edge, Christian and the Dudley Boys. You do get the crazy match they had with the Dudleys at Royal Rumble 2000.

One of the highlights is an old OMEGA match, the promotion that Matt basically ran as a teenager. It's the Hardys against the Serial Thrillaz, one of which was Gregory Helms. Helms, The Hardys and Shannon Moore do a new commentary for it that is quite funny.

Overall, Hardy fans will be pleased, but the fact that the first disc covers their combined rise to fame and Matt's career while the second disc is just Jeff makes the whole thing kind of lopsided. It's like they had a complete documentary made and just ripped out all the Jeff bits.

COMMENTS (5): Submit A Comment
1. JR
June 11, 2008 - 11:43 am

In your opinion Mouth is this a buy are a rental?

2. Mouth
June 11, 2008 - 11:57 am

It depends on how much you like the Hardys. If you're a diehard fan, you'll probably want to buy it. If you're more of an overall fan of wrestling or if the Hardys aren't at the top of your list, then you might just want to rent it.

3. JR
June 11, 2008 - 12:00 pm

Thanks, probably rent it then.

4. Stradlin
June 17, 2008 - 9:31 am

Dan The Mouth Is The Meaning Of AWESOME

5. bryan
June 28, 2008 - 6:57 pm

do you think Dan they'll ever come out with an edge dvd?btw i bought this dvd today and its awsome

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