Matthew Moore Hardy was born on September 23,1974 and is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling.
108 Facts About Matt Hardy
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Matt Hardy is a 14-time world tag team champion, having held the WWE World Tag Team Championship six times, the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship three times, the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship, ROH World Tag Team Championship, and WCW Tag Team Championship once each, and the TNA World Tag Team Championships twice.
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Matt Hardy's eccentric "Broken" gimmick, which he debuted in 2016, garnered praise from wrestling critics and earned him multiple awards, including a second Best Gimmick award, becoming one of the most talked about characters in all of wrestling.
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Matt Hardy was born in Cameron, North Carolina, the son of Gilbert and Ruby Moore Matt Hardy.
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Matt Hardy played baseball as a child and throughout high school, but had stopped by his senior year.
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Matt Hardy played football, either as a linebacker or a defensive end.
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Matt Hardy was a good student at Union Pines High School in North Carolina, and was a nominee for the "Morehead Award", a scholarship to any university in North Carolina.
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Matt Hardy attended University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he majored in engineering; after a year he dropped out due to his father being ill.
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Matt Hardy then attended Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst to gain his associate degree.
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Shortly after Matt Hardy sent in a tape for the World Championship Wrestling Amateur Challenge using the ring name High Voltage, a tag team named High Voltage began competing in WCW, causing Matt Hardy to change his name to Surge.
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Matt Hardy worked as a jobber for the World Wrestling Federation from 1994 up until he signed a full-time contract in 1998.
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Matt Hardy continued to wrestle sporadically in the WWF throughout 1994 and 1995, losing matches against Crush, Razor Ramon, Hakushi, Owen Hart, the imposter Undertaker, Hunter Hearst Helmsley and "The Ringmaster" Steve Austin.
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Matt Hardy teamed with Jeff for the first time in the WWF in 1996, losing to teams such as The Smoking Gunns and The Grimm Twins on WWF television.
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The Matt Hardy Boyz used a cruiserweight, fast-paced high flying style in their matches, often leaping from great heights to do damage to their opponents.
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The Matt Hardy Boyz competed in the first ever Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match, for the WWF Tag Team Championship against The Dudley Boyz and Edge and Christian, but were unsuccessful.
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Matt Hardy defeated Jeff and Lita the following night on Raw in a two-on-one handicap match.
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Matt Hardy defeated Christian, who was vying for Lita's affections, on the following edition of Raw.
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Matt Hardy defeated Kane in a no disqualification match at Vengeance, but lost a "Till Death To Us Part" match against Kane at SummerSlam, resulting in Lita being forced to marry Kane.
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Matt Hardy then spent almost a year off from wrestling due to a severe knee injury.
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Matt Hardy's release was largely due to unprofessional conduct with social media after discovering that Lita was having a real-life affair with his best friend Edge.
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Fans began a petition on the internet, wanting WWE to re-sign Matt Hardy, and amassed over fifteen thousand signatures.
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Matt Hardy released two character promotional vignettes, that he was planning to use before he was offered a new contract.
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Matt Hardy called himself The Angelic Diablo with the tagline "the scar will become a symbol" in reference to the way in which he had been treated by Amy and Adam.
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Matt Hardy appeared at a scheduled Ring of Honor event on July 16,2005, in Woodbridge, Connecticut, where he defeated Christopher Daniels via submission.
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Matt Hardy cut a brief worked shoot promo where he criticized WWE and John Laurinaitis.
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On July 11,2005, on Raw, Matt Hardy attacked Edge backstage and again later during Edge's match with Kane.
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Matt Hardy called out Johnny Ace as security had him in handcuffs taking him out of the arena.
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Seconds after the victory, Hardy was attacked by Edge, and as he was being carried backstage, Matt counterattacked Edge in the locker room.
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Matt Hardy caught an interfering Lita with the Twist of Fate and won the match with a leg drop off the top of the cage.
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Matt Hardy refused the offer, which led to him facing the tag team on several occasions with a variety of partners.
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At No Mercy, in their home state, Matt Hardy beat Helms in a non-title match.
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Matt Hardy was defeated by MVP at The Great American Bash for the United States Championship.
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Since MVP was unable to compete, Matt Hardy faced his replacement, former world champion boxer, Evander Holyfield.
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Matt Hardy made his return at a live event in Muncie, Indiana, on March 1,2008.
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On March 30,2008, at WrestleMania XXIV, during the Money in the Bank ladder match Matt Hardy cut through the crowd and attacked MVP to prevent him from winning the match.
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Matt Hardy made his official in-ring return the next night on Raw, losing a singles match to WWE Champion Randy Orton.
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Matt Hardy declared himself as a fighting champion that would take on all challenges, defending the United States championship against Shelton Benjamin, Elijah Burke, Chuck Palumbo, Mr Kennedy, Chavo Guerrero Jr.
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Matt Hardy was drafted to the ECW brand on the June 23,2008, episode of Raw during the 2008 WWE Draft, in the process making the United States Championship exclusive to ECW.
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Matt Hardy dropped the United States Championship to Shelton Benjamin at the Great American Bash pay-per-view on July 20,2008, which meant that the title returned to SmackDown.
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Matt Hardy won the title match at SummerSlam by disqualification due to interference from Henry's manager, Tony Atlas, thus he failed to win the title.
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At Unforgiven, Matt Hardy won the ECW Championship during the Championship scramble match, defeating then-champion Henry, The Miz, Finlay and Chavo Guerrero Jr.
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Matt Hardy continued to feud with Henry until No Mercy, where Hardy successfully retained the title.
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Matt Hardy lost the title to Jack Swagger on the January 13,2009, episode of ECW, which was taped on January 12.
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At the 2009 Royal Rumble pay-per-view, after losing an ECW Championship rematch to Swagger, Matt Hardy turned on his brother when he hit Jeff with a steel chair, allowing Edge to win the WWE Championship, turning heel for the first time since 2004.
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At WrestleMania 25, Matt Hardy defeated Jeff in an Extreme Rules match, and in a stretcher match on the following episode of SmackDown.
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Two weeks later, in a rematch from WrestleMania, Matt Hardy lost to Jeff in an "I Quit" match at Backlash, in which he legitimately broke his hand.
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Matt Hardy continued to wrestle with his hand in a cast, incorporating it into his persona and claiming that he was wrestling under protest.
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Matt Hardy reignited his feud with MVP on Raw for the United States Championship.
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Matt Hardy formed a tag team with William Regal, and the two acted as henchmen for General Manager Vickie Guerrero.
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Matt Hardy had suffered a tear in his abdominal muscle two years previously, but had not needed surgery until it worsened, and became a danger to his health.
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In early 2010, Matt Hardy began an on-screen relationship with Maria; but was brief and the relationship ended when Maria was released from her WWE contract.
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Matt Hardy was suspended by Vince McMahon because he attacked McIntyre after McIntyre lost to Kofi Kingston at Over the Limit.
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Matt Hardy was able to get his revenge on McIntyre during the Viewer's Choice episode of Raw when chosen as the opponent for McIntyre, with General Manager Theodore Long stating that Hardy was suspended from SmackDown, but not from Raw.
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However, at Fatal 4-Way, Matt Hardy prevented McIntyre from regaining the Intercontinental Championship, thus continuing their feud.
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Matt Hardy was featured in the SmackDown Money in the Bank ladder match but was unsuccessful in winning with Kane coming out victorious.
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On October 15,2010, WWE announced that Matt Hardy had been released from his contract.
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Matt Hardy later stated that his release had been in effect two weeks before WWE made the announcement.
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On January 9,2011, Matt Hardy made his debut for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling at the Genesis pay-per-view, as part of the stable Immortal.
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Matt Hardy was the surprise opponent for Rob Van Dam, and defeated him to prevent Van Dam from receiving a match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, held by Hardy's brother Jeff.
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Matt Hardy announced his retirement from full-time professional wrestling due to injuries on September 1,2011.
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On February 9,2013, Hardy lost the Pro Wrestling Syndicate Championship back to Matthews.
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On February 16,2013, at Family Wrestling Entertainment's No Limit, Matt Hardy wrestled a TLC match for the FWE Heavyweight Championship against the champion Carlito and Tommy Dreamer, but he was defeated.
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On November 30,2013, at WrestleCade, Matt Hardy defeated Carlito to become the first ever WrestleCade Champion.
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On May 3,2014, following a match between Christian York and Drolix, Matt Hardy defeated Drolix to become the new MCW Heavyweight Champion.
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At Maryland Championship Wrestling's Shane Shamrock Cup, Matt Hardy defeated Luke Hawx in a TLC match for Matt Hardy's title and Hawx's Extreme Rising World title.
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Matt Hardy won the match, but he gave back the title to Hawx.
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On February 9,2015, Matt Hardy appeared on FWE's "No Limits 2015" iPPV, challenging Drew Galloway for the ICW World Heavyweight Championship, but was defeated.
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On November 28,2015, Matt Hardy lost the WrestleCade Championship to Jeff Jarrett at WrestleCade IV in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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Matt Hardy regained the title in a triple-threat cage match against Jarrett and Ethan Carter III in Hickory, North Carolina on May 20,2016.
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Hardy, billed as "Broken" Matt Hardy, lost a no-disqualification match to Bully Ray, with Ray proposing the no-disqualification stipulation at the last minute, and Hardy accepting there and then.
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On March 12,2016, Matt Hardy challenged Drew Galloway for the WCPW World Heavyweight Championship at a British Championship Wrestling event in a match taped for an episode of WCPW ReLoaded.
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At Death Before Dishonor X: State of Emergency in 2012, Matt Hardy returned to Ring of Honor, confronting Adam Cole and challenging him to a match for the ROH World Television Championship.
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On December 16 at Final Battle 2012: Doomsday, Matt Hardy defeated Cole in a non-title match.
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Matt Hardy received his title shot at the following day's Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings, but was defeated by the defending champion, Jay Briscoe.
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On December 14,2013, at Final Battle 2013, Matt Hardy defeated Adam Page in a singles match; later on in the main event, Matt Hardy aided Adam Cole in retaining his title and forming a tag team with him.
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Matt Hardy announced that OMEGA would return in January 2013 with an event titled "Chinlock For Chuck".
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On November 21,2015, Matt Hardy won the OMEGA Heavyweight Championship for the second time, defeating former student Trevor Lee.
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On May 8,2015, Matt Hardy vacated the TNA World Tag Team Championship due to his brother Jeff being injured.
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On June 28,2015, Matt Hardy was among the five wrestlers who competed for the TNA King of the Mountain Championship at Slammiversary, with Jeff Jarrett ultimately emerging victorious.
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However, EC3 filed an injunction that banned Matt Hardy from appearing on Impact Wrestling for a month, which forced Matt Hardy to relinquish the title in order to stay on the show.
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However, Matt Hardy had been participating in the TNA World Title Series for the vacant title.
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Matt Hardy faced EC3 in the TNA World Title Series finals, but lost the match via pinfall.
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Matt Hardy won the TNA World Title from EC3 on the January 19,2016, episode of Impact Wrestling, becoming the first man to defeat him in a one-on-one match in TNA.
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Kurt Angle then came out to try save Jeff, and Matt Hardy had Tyrus attack Angle from behind.
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Thanks to Brother Nero's sacrifice, Matt Hardy was able to confront Rosemary and prevent his son Maxel from being abducted, which turned Matt Hardy babyface as a result, and he furthered the face turn by healing Brother Nero in the Lake of Reincarnation.
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On November 1,2014, Matt Hardy traveled to Japan to compete for Wrestle-1 at the promotions Keiji Muto 30th Anniversary Hold Out show in a triple threat match against Seiya Sanada and Tajiri, which he lost.
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On December 2,2016, Hardy returned to ROH for the second time while still under contract with TNA, appearing at the promotions Final Battle pay-per-view show as Broken Matt, where a video message showed him addressing The Young Bucks and The Briscoes.
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Moments after winning the titles, Matt Hardy announced in a post-match promo that both he and Brother Nero had signed "the biggest ROH contracts in history".
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At the WrestleMania 33 pay-per-view on April 2,2017, Matt Hardy made his surprise return to WWE, along with his brother Jeff Matt Hardy, being added as last-minute participants in the ladder match for the Raw Tag Team Championship, defeating Gallows and Anderson, Cesaro and Sheamus, and Enzo and Cass to win the Raw Tag Team Championship.
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At Payback, The Matt Hardy Boyz retained their championships against Cesaro and Sheamus, who attacked them after the match.
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Subsequently, at Extreme Rules, The Matt Hardy Boyz lost the titles against Cesaro and Sheamus in a steel cage match, and failed to regain it back the following month at the Great Balls of Fire event.
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Two days later on SmackDown Live, The Matt Hardy Boyz defeated The Usos to win the SmackDown Tag Team Championship.
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Matt Hardy then got himself into a brawl with him moments after, and was viciously attacked by Orton.
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Matt Hardy made his All Elite Wrestling debut on the March 18,2020, episode of Dynamite, reverting to his "Broken" gimmick and being announced as the replacement for the kayfabe injured Nick Jackson on The Elite's team at Blood and Guts.
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At Double or Nothing, Matt Hardy teamed with The Elite to defeat The Inner Circle in the first ever Stadium Stampede match.
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Matt Hardy then switched to his Big Money persona as he focused on managing Private Party.
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Matt Hardy then approached Adam Page to accompany and befriend him, and during tag team matches, Matt Hardy would always tag himself in and pick up the victory for his team to Page's behest.
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At the Revolution event, Matt Hardy lost to Page despite multiple interferences from Private Party.
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At Double or Nothing, Matt Hardy competed in Casino Battle Royale but was eliminated by Christian Cage.
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Matt Hardy reunited with his brother Jeff, thus turning face in the process.
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Matt Hardy was in a six-year relationship with wrestler Amy Dumas, better known as Lita.
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Matt Hardy married wrestler Rebecca Reyes, better known as Reby Sky, on October 5,2013.
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Matt Hardy had previously been an addict, and credits his wife for helping him get clean.
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Matt Hardy is good friends with fellow wrestlers Marty Garner, Shannon Moore, and Gregory Helms.
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In November 2011, Matt Hardy was removed from court-ordered rehab and sent back to jail for drinking.
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Matt Hardy appeared in the February 25,2002, episode of Fear Factor competing against five other World Wrestling Federation wrestlers, including his brother.
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Matt Hardy appeared on the October 13,2009, episode of Scare Tactics, as a mental patient who threatens to attack the prank's victim.
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Matt Hardy plays himself in the 2013 film Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies in which he and his real-life wife Reby Sky battle the undead.