I refuse that this match was 11 years ago... 11 freaking years ago! This match was only just a few years ago, right? RIGHT?! Well, 2009 was an extremely successful year for SmackDown with guys like Chris Jericho, Rey Mysterio, John Morrison, Jeff Hardy and CM Punk all shining like the superstars they are. The summer featured an incredible feud between both Hardy and Punk with Punk making his first heel turn in his WWE career. Their feud culminated in a big TLC match here at Summerslam in Los Angeles.
If you haven't seen any of their matches from 2009, do yourselves a favor and do so. As a matter or fact, watch everything Hardy was doing around this time frame. Nobody in the company was hotter than him, not even John Cena. Their match here at Summerslam did not disappoint. I was so stoked to see this match go on last at the biggest event of the summer, nobody else on that card was holding a candle to these men. This match would be one of Hardy's final WWE matches before returning to the company in 2017 so it was evident that he wanted to leave on a bang. That he did. I don't recall a match where Hardy was as reckless as this one, you could almost feel the passion in his eyes watching this one. The shot of him standing atop the ladder as he was ready to hit a Swanton Bomb on Punk was one of the most insane shots you will ever see in a WWE ring.
Punk secured the win and the World Heavyweight Championship in the process before quickly being met with The Undertaker and a Chokeslam soon after. This was my first time watching this match in years and it absolutely holds up with some of the best you will see out there. Hardy seriously left it all out on the line here. Go watch this.
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