[dramatic music playing]
["The End" playing]
♪ You came to me ♪
♪ In a dream last night ♪
♪ You were standing ♪
♪ In a brilliant light ♪
♪ One minute here ♪
♪ But the next you were gone ♪
♪ I thought you could stay ♪
♪ But I was so wrong ♪
♪ The end is here ♪
♪ The game is over ♪
♪ No more pretending ♪
♪ No more ♪
♪ No more! ♪
♪ The end is here ♪
["Sweet Home Alabama" playing]
[narrator] And now, WWE Armageddon.
["Sweet Home Alabama" continues]
[explosions]
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] With over two tons of unforgiving steel
hanging ominously over our heads,
we welcome you to Armageddon,
headlined by the six-man Hell in a Cell WWE title match
that could make or break the careers of any--
or all of the six WWE Superstars.
As our fans in WWE New York look on,
these men will put their livelihoods on the line tonight, King, here, live.
[Jerry] I'm gonna tell you something, JR.
I've been around this business a long time.
I got pretty good instincts,
and I got a real, real bad feeling about tonight.
[Ross] And there you see it.
The most unforgiving, satanic structure ever created in sports entertainment.
The infamous Hell in the Cell on display for all to see here tonight,
but, King, it's as true as I am sitting here,
someone, maybe more than one's career
could end here tonight in Birmingham, Alabama.
And don't think for a minute that Mick Foley doesn't know that.
I think Mick Foley's a bitter man.
His career was ended in this very Hell in a Cell match,
and he wants one of these other six Superstars
to suffer the same fate tonight.
Mick Foley made a very bold statement before we went on the air.
Let's take you back and hear Mick Foley's guarantee about tonight.
I will live up to my word.
Should someone become seriously injured tonight,
I will resign as WWE commissioner.
[Ross] And, Mick Foley, as you know, King, is a man of his word.
If someone is seriously injured here tonight,
we have seen the last of our commissioner.
[Jerry] Well, you can kiss him goodbye if you ask me,
because, Foley, what do you expect to happen
when you put six of the top Superstars in the World Wrestling--
Hey, wait a minute.
[Ross] Somebody arriving here.
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[Ross] Armageddon says it's the end of the world
preceding the day of judgment.
-Please stop. Let me-- -[Ross] Wait a minute.
Let me do it. Let me do it. Let me do it.
Hello, Vince.
-[Jerry] Oh! -Come on.
Vince, I sure hope you feel better.
A lot better.
Mr. McMahon, you're not gonna like this.
Commissioner Foley's got that Hell in the Cell
hanging right over the top of the ring tonight.
-Is that right? -Yes, sir.
Well, maybe not for long.
-[Jerry] What? -Maybe not for long at all.
-[man] You need any-- -I intend-- what?
-[man] You need any coffee? -I don't want any damn coffee.
I'm not in the mood for coffee.
[Ross] What's he mean for, "Not for long?"
[Jerry] I don't know, but it looks like Vince McMahon means business.
He warned Foley not to have this match.
-["Loaded" playing] -[crowd cheering]
[bell ringing]
[announcer] The following contest is the six-person,
Intergender Elimination Match.
Introducing first in the ring, Matt, Jeff, the Hardy Boyz,
and Lita!
[Ross] Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is a six-person,
Intergender Elimination Tag Team Matchup that all got started
when Dean Malenko defended the light heavyweight title against Lita.
If Lita lost, she would go on a date with Dean Malenko,
and that date happened last Thursday night on SmackDown.
Lita going for a hurricanrana that was blocked.
Malenko's got the submission on, and Lita's gotta tap out.
And, Malenko successful.
[Jerry] And now, we have a date.
[whistling]
[Lita] Okay.
[Jeff] Look, you know how to get in touch with us if you want.
-We're just a phone call away. -[Lita] I'll call you guys.
Guys, guys. She's in good hands, and I mean very good hands.
Tonight will be a night you will never, ever forget.
Maybe, Dean, it'll be a night you'll never forget.
Enough of the games, Lita.
You can't deny your feelings for me.
You know as well as I do there's chemistry between us.
Dean, you are right.
I am so attracted to everything about you, and I want you, Dean.
-I want you now. -Waiter, check!
Ever since you approached me, I just wanted to ask one question.
-How's your wife feel about that? -What?
As far as my wife is concerned, let that go for now.
Well, baby, there's just one thing left.
-What's that? -Turn off the lights.
[Lita] I actually like to do it with the lights on.
-Champagne, Dean? -What?
-[glass shattering] -[Dean] Ow!
Oh, that hurt.
[grunting]
[laughter]
Told you I'd give you a night you'd never forget, Dean.
[laughter]
That was awesome, guys.
["Radicalz" playing]
[Jerry] Well, JR, I told you those Love Connection dates never do work out.
[announcer] Their opponents, accompanied to the ring by Terri,
representing The Radicalz,
Perry Saturn, Eddie Guerrero,
and the Light Heavyweight Champion, Dean Malenko.
[Jerry] Look at Dean. He's hot, and I don't blame him.
[Ross] Malenko gotta be very angry and certainly embarrassed, and here we go.
[bell ringing]
[Ross] And Malenko trying to single out Lita here in this six-person Intergender--
-[Jerry] Wait, he's eyeing here. -[Ross] Elimination matchup.
[Jerry] Uh-oh. Look out. Watch yourself, Dean!
[Ross] This match will continue 'till one team
has been eliminated completely.
And Matt and Jeff Hardy focusing on Perry Saturn.
[Jerry] Oh.
[Ross] So as soon as referee Jack Doan will-- uh-oh.
Eddie Guerrero taken down.
[Jerry] Oh, no. Watch yourself, Eddie.
Oh, man!
[Ross] And the Hardys double-teaming Eddie Guerrero.
Here comes Malenko back in, and he doesn't fare too well either.
Malenko had to be utterly humiliated
and what was he thinking, being a married man?
And Lita goes up top.
[Jerry] Well, I gotta admit, he made a big mistake.
-[Ross] Oh, my. -[Jerry] Oh.
[Ross] Jeff Hardy over the top with a plancha,
catching Eddie Guerrero up high.
And now, it's Perry Saturn and Matt Hardy.
[Jerry] As I was sayin', I gotta admit, Dean Malenko was--
he did make a big mistake.
You never wear your wedding ring out on a date.
What's wrong with him?
[Ross] And he was in bed with his socks on.
[Jerry] Oh, I didn't notice that.
-[Ross] Kinda nerdy, don't you think? -[Jerry] Well, a little bit.
Eddie. Eddie, come on.
[Ross] Malenko somewhat distracted,
conversing with Eddie Guerrero perhaps for a strategy.
[crowd chanting] Eddie sucks! Eddie sucks! Eddie sucks! Eddie sucks!
[Jerry] Wait a minute. Listen to this crowd, JR.
They're not too enamored with Eddie Guerrero, are they?
[Ross] Well, there's a tag on Saturn tagging in Eddie Guerrero,
the former Intercontinental Champion.
The man who, at one time, was about to marry Chyna.
Come on! I can't hear you, ya bunch of morons!
[Ross] And we will have several falls here in this matchup,
several decisions to say the least, as it is competed under elimination rules.
And because of the intergender status,
which Lita is obviously fully aware of, she knew there was some males obviously.
[Jerry] I don't think she has any problem with that.
Oh.
She certainly doesn't have any problem leading males right into a hotel room.
Oh.
[Ross] Jeff Hardy with a tag, aimed at The Radicalz,
and taking Saturn and Malenko off the apron.
[Jerry] Man, oh, man.
[Ross] Nice elevation by Jeff Hardy,
and Eddie Guerrero
tryin' to figure a way to slow down Jeff Hardy.
He'll take every chance in the book, as will his brother, Matt.
A little misdirection with the Irish whip there by Guerrero.
[crowd chanting] Lita! Lita! Lita!
[Jerry] We're gettin' the Lita chant going here.
[Ross] And what must these men be thinking that are gonna be involved
in the Hell in a Cell tonight?
I'm sure all six are isolated in their own areas.
-Oh. -[Jerry] Oh, look at this.
[Ross] Attempted hurricanrana, and then Jeff anchored himself
to the top turnbuckle, preventing the hurricanrana.
[Jerry] Look at this!
[Ross] And now, Lita taking out Eddie.
Oh, my! The Swanton by Jeff Hardy!
-[Jerry] Wait a minute! Whoa! -[bell ringing]
[Ross] And Eddie Guerrero's been eliminated.
[Jerry] See, I told you, Lita doesn't have any problem gettin' physical with men.
Get outta there.
[Jerry] Floozy!
[Ross] Well, Malenko was making some pretty sleazy overture if you ask me.
[Jerry] Oh, man!
[Ross] Look at that beautiful corkscrew.
[Jerry] Right to the head of Perry Saturn.
[Ross] Jeff Hardy may not have a long career,
but his star is burning bright as we speak.
[Jerry] Yeah, with all of these death-defying moves,
the Hardys, oh, do every night, their career may not last past tonight.
Look at this.
[Ross] Uh-oh. Saturn saw that one coming.
[Jerry] This could be a career-ender. Oh!
[Ross] Death Valley Driver by Saturn just drilled Jeff Hardy,
and now we're even here at two each.
Matt Hardy and Lita.
Jeff will have to return to the locker room, as-- oh,
there's a cover and a near fall on the sunset flip.
[Jerry] Yeah, one of those two you're talking about is Lita,
so you might as well say it's like 1 1/2.
[Ross] Well, the cover.
Somewhat of a chauvinistic thing to say, don't you-- don't you think?
[Jerry] Well, come on.
She looks good and everything, and she wrestles good, but--
[Ross] And, oh, there's Terri.
Hey, back it off.
[Jerry] She ain't gonna be able to hang out there with Perry Saturn
or Dean Malenko. Let's face it.
[Ross] And a martial arts kick by Saturn
after the distraction by Terri on the outside.
[Jerry] I would expect you to be objective about something like that.
[Ross] I'm usually fairly objective about most things.
Oh, what a suplex.
-One, two-- -[Ross] But, no!
Matt Hardy just barely able to kick out.
[Jerry] So you're usually pretty objective.
You're really stuck for an answer, aren't you?
Come on. Tell the truth.
It's like 1 1/2.
[Ross] Well, I would say that Jeff is a man who's a--
[Jerry] Oh, man!
[Ross] What a counter from a headscissor right into that slam by Matt Hardy.
Off the rope.
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
Whoa.
[Ross] The leg drop off the second turnbuckle.
Oh, but the dropkick by Malenko.
Very unique save there, and Jeff--
[Jerry] Oh, look out.
[Ross] Matt's-- well, they make a tag here,
but maybe that doesn't help him when Lita's in there with Saturn.
-[Jerry] Oh, no! -[Ross] Oh, Twist of Fate.
One, two, three!
[Jerry] Oh, look at-- look at-- look at Terri!
Woo-hoo! Where is she going?
[Ross] A Twist of Fate eliminates Saturn, and Terri doesn't like her man--
[Jerry] You don't like-- oh!
There's a little twist of fate for you.
[Ross] Little she-devil.
[Jerry] Look out! Oh!
[Ross] Oh, the spear by Lita, taking down Terri.
[Jerry] Oh, my gosh!
[Ross] Almost hit Terri right out of her hair.
[Jerry] Right out of her clothes!
I like it.
[Ross] And wait a minute.
-There's a roll-up by Malenko. -[Jack] One, two, three.
[Ross] And Malenko got the three!
Now, it's down to Malenko and Lita.
[Jerry] Oh, you gotta be kiddin' me.
[Ross] Everyone else has been eliminated but Malenko and Lita,
and Malenko gotta be lovin' this.
Malenko's gotta be lovin' life now, and he realizes it's just him and Lita.
[Jerry] Well, it's only fair.
The right will prevail.
Now what do you think, Lita?
After that underhanded trick you pulled on him in the hotel room,
there's nobody here now but you and-- you and Dean.
[Ross] Were you gonna say she should be in the kitchen
making barbecue sauce or something?
[Jerry] Yeah, right.
Look at this. Look, look at this. Oh.
Hey, wait a minute.
[Ross] Maybe Malenko will make another sleazy overture at her.
[Jerry] Look out!
[Ross] Nice-- oh, nice headscissor takedown.
-[Jerry] How'd she do that? -[Ross] Malenko down.
And Lita on the shoulders.
That's a nice little victory roll, and the near fall by Lita.
Malenko is the Light Heavyweight Champion here in the WWE.
That's how this whole thing got started, as you saw prior to the match.
[Jerry] This is all Lita would've had to do in that hotel room,
and Dean would've been happy.
[chuckles] Yeah, that right there.
[Ross] But he was wearing his socks!
Moonsault, and then, oh, a near fall!
[Jerry] See, this is kind of physicality that Dean was expecting on that date.
Yeah, that right there! Oh.
[Ross] Oh, DDT.
[Jerry] Maybe not that. That's what he got.
-[Ross] Well, Lita all over-- -[Jerry] Hey, wait.
The pants coming off?
[Ross] That's just wishful thinking on your part there, ace.
-[Jerry] Mine and Dean's. -[Ross] Uh-oh.
Malenko with a right hand.
[Jerry] Oh, boy.
[Ross] And this intergender matchup--
we're down to one more fall to decide this one.
Good lord, look at this!
-[Jerry] You gotta admit, Dean-- -[Ross] Oh, the superplex!
[Jerry] That did it.
[Ross] Malenko superplexing Lita,
and Malenko certainly was-- this has gotta be all.
-Oh, come on. -[Jerry] Ah!
-He's not finished. -[Ross] Oh, that's enough.
Come on.
Malenko obviously had the match won, and now another knockdown by--
[Jerry] You don't wanna finish this match prematurely.
[chuckles] Oh!
[Ross] I've heard he's had problems with that, but that's--
[Jerry] Hey, hey, hey.
[Ross] Malenko missing.
Oh, the reverse elbow didn't miss.
And this is--
[Jerry] This would've been so easy for Lita.
A nice date, some flowers, good food.
[Ross] You're just hoping-- you were just hoping Lita was easy.
-[Jerry] What do you mean? Oh. -[Ross] Oh, backbreaker by Malenko.
And Malenko, the lateral press and--
-[Jerry chuckling] -[Ross] All right.
Malenko, now, you've proved your point, Malenko!
[Jerry] You think he's-- oh, now the pants are coming off.
[Ross] Malenko, with a Texas Cloverleaf, the submission move, and Lita tapped out.
-[bell ringing] -["Radicalz" playing]
[Ross] Look at Malenko still punishing Lita!
[bell ringing]
[Jerry] You can't blame him!
[announcer] Here is your winner, Dean Malenko!
[Jerry] He was humiliated. He was embarrassed.
Not only that, he was beat up in that hotel room,
thanks to Lita and the Hardys.
[Ross] Malenko, the icon of sleaze.
-[Jerry] Hey, wait. -[Ross] All right. Leave her alone.
[Jerry] Maybe he's gonna give her one more chance.
[Ross] One more chance to what?
[Jerry] Well, maybe go out on another date,
or maybe just go out of the ring.
[Ross] He's throwin' her out like she was a piece of garbage.
[Jerry] Well, she kicked him to the curb, and-- hey, hey.
Wait a minute.
[Ross] Well, The Hardys back.
Matt and Jeff Hardy, but the damage has been done here.
[Jerry] I'll say.
Finally, his honor's been restored.
[Ross] Please.
He has no honor.
Lita. Lita, Lita, great effort. Tremendous effort. So close.
Michael, I didn't-- I know I can beat him.
I know I can.
Lita, it's okay.
Lita, it's okay. We know that.
[Jerry] What did she say? She knows she can beat him?
[Ross] Well, she's a gamer. She's not gonna give up.
[Jerry] She's been knocked senseless.
[crowd cheering]
Kurt. Excuse me, Kurt. The moment is soon at hand.
Six-man Hell in a Cell is waiting for you tonight,
and in fact, some people say
that this could be the make or break moment of your career.
Kurt?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Lilian, did you actually ask me a question?
What am I supposed to do, stop my training just to chat with you?
Well, since you seemingly can't do your job right,
which is to ask people questions more talented than you are,
let me turn this around and ask you a question.
Are you Bulgarian?
No.
Do you know any Bulgarians?
I can't say that I do, Kurt.
Well, I do.
That's because I beat Bulgarians and Czechoslovakians and Turks
and every other nationality you could think of
to win these prestigious Olympic gold medals.
So, if you think I'm sweating an eyebrow, or a nose, or a badass,
or a fat ass, or a redneck?
I don't think so.
Well, with all due respect, Kurt, this is Hell in the Cell,
something that the likes of you have never experienced before.
And in fact, it made and ended Mick Foley's career.
You don't think I know that?
Don't you think I know, with all my amateur wrestling,
with my Olympic trials and my professional wrestling,
that everything I've done in my life, nothing has prepared me for this?
I'm an Olympic gold medalist.
I should not have to be put in such a barbaric match in front of--
well, no offense, Alabama, but a bunch of inbred hicks.
And you know what? Don't get me started on Mick Foley.
Everyone says that this is the match that made him famous.
How'd it make him famous?
What? By being thrown off a cage?
Or chokeslammed through a cage?
Or backdropped through a cage?
Well, no thank you.
You know, I'm not worried about being made famous,
because I'm already famous.
I'm an Olympic gold medalist, not to mention the WWE Champion.
And Foley may play the fool very well, but make no mistake about it.
He is a cold-hearted sadist.
And I'm not about to let my career come to an end.
Would you like to see my career come to an end, Lilian?
I--
I didn't think so, but, rest assured, my opponents would.
But you know what?
That's not gonna happen because I'm not ready for my career to come to an end.
And after I win this match,
with my victory and my career well in hand,
I'm gonna take a shower,
down a nice cold glass of 99% fat-free milk,
and hop on the first plane out of here.
And that, Lilian, is true.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some more training to do.
["Sweet Home Alabama" playing]
[Ross] Well, Kurt Angle, I tell you what.
I think he's more concerned than he lets on, King.
It all goes down here tonight.
[Jerry] Well, of course he's concerned.
And how dare Lilian Garcia interrupt Kurt Angle
right in the middle of training before the biggest match of his career?
[Ross] Lets take you back to an infamous Hell in the Cell moment
with Triple H and Mick Foley.
[Jerry] Oh, my God. Hunter, he's got some bad--
he's got some cruel intentions for you.
He's gonna piledrive him on the fire.
[Ross] I think that's what Cactus was signaling, a piledriver.
Oh, God. Can that-- can that--
[Jerry] Oh, thank goodness.
[Ross] Oh, my God!
For the love of God! The cage broke!
The ring broke, and Cactus Jack has broken in half!
[Jerry] Cactus Jack is broken.
[crowd chanting] Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit.
["Promenade" playing]
[Jerry] I love to see those Hell in a Cell moments.
-[bell ringing] -[Jerry] And I love to see this guy.
[announcer] The following contest, scheduled for one fall,
is for the World Wrestling Entertainment European Championship.
Introducing first, from Blackpool, England,
weighing 240 pounds, the European Champion, William Regal!
[Ross] Well, Mr. Regal, last Saturday night, eight days ago,
lost the European title in his home country.
Won it back this past Monday night on Raw
as we're being seen live around the world, including the UK, Germany, Canada.
Hello to all my friends here in Alabama.
[crowd booing]
[Jerry] Well, this should be good. William Regal in Alabama.
Oh. [giggles]
Now, I know that you will all cheer for my opponent, Hardcore Holly,
because he's from your State of Alabama.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] He's an Alabamian.
What do you call 'em? Ala-- what are they?
That's very good, but I am the one that cares about you fine people.
[Ross] Oh, yeah, right. Sure you do.
And what I'm about to tell you will enrich your lives forever.
[Jerry] What a guy.
Number one,
there is an invention that we have had in England for hundreds of years
called a handkerchief, and if you use it,
you won't look like the slobs that you do most of the time.
[Jerry] Handkerchief.
[Ross] What a jerk.
Number two, it's fine to wear overalls.
I know most of you do,
but you should at least wash them once a week.
Honestly, it makes for a lot better hygiene.
[Jerry] Would probably improve the smell in this arena, wouldn't it, JR?
Number three,
it's all very well and good
to love your farm animals.
[Jerry] Oh.
But loving your farm animals is something completely disgusting,
and you should all stop it.
-[Jerry chuckles] -[Ross] What is he talking about?
[Jerry imitates goat bleating]
-[crowd chanting] Asshole! Asshole! -Number four--
["How Do You Like Me Now" playing]
-[Jerry] Hey. -[Ross] Thank God.
[Jerry] Wait. I didn't hear what number four was.
[Ross] I think Hardcore Holly has heard enough, the challenger.
[announcer] His opponent and challenger, from Mobile, Alabama…
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[announcer] …weighing 234 pounds--
[bell ringing]
[Ross] And Hardcore Holly, a native Alabaman, residing in Mobile,
to take on William Regal here deep in the South, King.
[Jerry] Come on. Are you kidding me? An Ala-- I still can't say it.
What are they?
[Ross] An Alabaman.
[Jerry] Oh, an Alabaman wearing the European title?
Are you kidding me?
Why, William Regal would barf,
albeit gentlemanly.
[Ross] Regal, those left hands find their mark on the face
of Hardcore Holly, who loves to fight.
Regal is the-- quite the accomplished pugilist as well.
[Jerry] Yeah.
[Ross] Holly ran right into the ring post.
[Jerry] These Alabamans love to fight, and that ain't all they love,
according to William Regal.
[imitates goat bleating]
[Ross] I don't know what he was thinking about.
He was never a Future Farmer of America.
He's not done any research.
[Jerry] Maybe he's Hardcore Ho-Ho-Ho-Ho-Holly.
[Ross] Holly with a suplex, buying some time here
in this early going after nailing--
getting nailed in that-- with the ring post.
And now, Holly going for the cover, and a near fall on the European Champion,
the first of five championships to be decided here tonight at Armageddon.
[Jerry] JR, do you have a handkerchief on you?
[Ross] Uh, I have a Kleenex.
[Jerry] Just as I thought.
See, William Regal can enrich your life as well.
Oh, man!
[Ross] Man, what a shot that was.
[Jerry] "What a shot that was" is right, but speaking of shots,
you need to come prepared from now on.
I'm gonna-- for Christmas, JR,
I'll get you a nice set of hankies,
like these ones I have right here in my coat pocket.
Everyone should carry a handkerchief at all times.
Get him out. One.
[Ross] Well, you're so kind since the day you got here.
Front facelock.
-[Jerry] What? -[Ross] Never mind.
Get him down.
[Ross] Sometimes you're just-- you're just as disingenuous as William,
William Tell Regal.
[Mike] Two.
[Jerry] He's kin to William Tell?
[Ross] I doubt it. I don't-- who knows?
-[Jerry] Man, oh, man! -[Ross] Superplex right off the top rope.
[Jerry] Beautiful move.
[Ross] Worked well for Malenko earlier with Lita.
[Jerry] Yes, it did.
[Ross] And Regal now, on top with a lateral press.
Got a kickout.
Hardcore Holly in great shape.
Didn't wanna-- didn't wanna walk out of here a loser in his home state,
and Regal keeping the burner turned up.
[Jerry] His home state of Alabama.
What is the-- what's the-- what's the state slogan here,
"4 million people, 15 last names"?
-[Ross] That's not even funny anymore. -[Jerry] Is that not right?
-[Ross] Not funny anymore. -[Jerry] Oh, wait, wait. Look at this!
[Ross] Little bow and arrow, the submission move by William Regal.
[Jerry] It's bow and arrow. He is kin to William Tell.
[Ross] And he's making an overture at…
-[Jerry chuckles] -[Ross] …William-- at Hardcore Holly.
Referee Mike Chioda asking Holly if he wants to give it up.
[Jerry] Go ahead and-- well, he can't tap out in this.
Squeal like a pig.
Oh.
[Ross] Already back on those farm animal sections, aren't you?
[Jerry] Right.
[Ross] Sharp kick right to the head, the left side.
Regal, obviously, is a southpaw, left-handed and left-footed.
-[Jerry] Ow. There you go. -[Ross] Look at that.
-Both arms underhook. -[Jerry] Uh-oh.
He blocked it. Watch it. Oh, boy.
[Ross] Well, Holly-- Hardcore Holly muscling Regal up.
Look at the strength of Hardcore Holly.
[Jerry] Oh.
[Ross] Unbelievable power by Hardcore Holly.
And we have the cover, and almost got the title.
[Jerry] Boy, that was close.
[chuckles] People in Liverpool, England just-- they almost passed out on that one.
[Ross] Our fans staying up late with us tonight in the UK,
and we thank them for that.
-[Jerry] Oh, man. -[Ross] A hard knockdown.
Boy, this ain't ballet.
Another right hand by Hardcore Holly, taking it to William Regal.
Beautiful dropkick, textbook dropkick by Hardcore Holly.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] All right, JR. Let me just ask you a question here.
You were in England last week, right, Sheffield to be exact?
[Ross] Exactly.
-[Jerry] And-- ooh. -[Ross] Nice slam.
[Jerry] Just compare the people of Sheffield,
their manners and how they acted
to the people you've met here today in Alabama.
[Ross] Wouldn't see that much difference in people.
Good people are good people wherever you find 'em.
-Oh. -[Jerry] Oh, man.
[Ross] Hardcore Holly.
Man, he had a-- he came off with a purpose on that one.
And there's the cover. We've got a-- no, we don't.
William Regal, tougher than I thought.
[Jerry] Well, did you see anybody in England chewing tobacco?
[Ross] Actually, no.
-[Jerry] What about here in Alabama? -[Ross] Couple of--
[Jerry] Look at-- look at those two-- look at those two right on the front row.
Hey, and they're both women. [laughs]
[Ross] Oh, stop it. Oh, look out.
The STF, submission move.
-Hardcore Holly in the ropes. -[Jerry] That's it.
-Tap out. -[Mike] Four, break it.
[Ross] Holly got that left arm with the steel plate in it.
Certainly, we-- Holly has discovered, can be a pretty awesome weapon.
[Jerry] Oh, yeah. Gosh.
Just remembered I forgot to warn Regal about that before the match.
[crowd chanting] Holly. Holly. Holly.
-[Ross] Oh. -[Jerry] There it is! Did you see that?
[Ross] There's a shot right there, and Regal just got his lights dimmed
by the left-- hey, wait a minute.
There's Raven.
-[Jerry] Hey. -[Ross] What the hell is he doing here?
Where'd he come from?
[Jerry] What about Raven?
[Ross] Raven just DDT'd Hardcore Holly.
[Jerry] He's gone. For what-- wait a minute.
[Ross] I don't believe this.
["Promenade" playing]
[announcer] The winner of this match,
and still European Champion, William Regal.
[Ross] I'm not so sure that William Regal even is aware of what occurred.
[Jerry] I don't know if he realizes that Raven was out here or what but…
[Ross] Well, Raven just crawled in from a gutter somewhere
and DDT'd Hardcore Holly, who looked to be in control.
[Jerry] Well, yeah.
Thanks to that-- well, here you see Raven just showing up out of nowhere.
Hey, maybe Raven hates Alabama too.
[Ross] Well, not a good day for the hometown man, Hardcore Holly.
Regal looking to get outta here with his title.
["Sweet Home Alabama" playing]
[Ross] Ladies and gentlemen, we are just a few minutes away.
Six men putting their livelihood on the line,
and we thought that Kurt Angle, Rikishi, and Triple H had an alliance.
We found out that was not to be last week.
Watch this.
[crowd cheering]
-[Ross] Watch Angle, King. -[Jerry] Oh, I know.
Well, this was a good move.
It's gotta be every man for himself in this Hell in a Cell match.
[crowd cheering]
Rikishi, we just witnessed Kurt Angle breaking an alliance
you had with Triple H and Kurt last Thursday on SmackDown.
Does that now make you concerned about Triple H?
Tonight, inside Hell in a Cell,
do you worry, Rikishi, that Triple H will now turn on you?
Do I worry about Triple H turning on me?
Whatever happens, happens.
You see, I've sacrificed my whole entire life,
my mind, my body, my soul, for a chance at the WWE title.
And whether the alliance is down with Rikishi or not,
I really don't give a damn, because any man that comes my way,
any man that tries to stop me from becoming the WWE Champion
will find out exactly what I'm willing to sacrifice.
Because tonight, I will sacrifice each and every one of them.
-["Who I Am" playing] -♪ Don't treat me like a woman ♪
♪ Don't treat me like a man ♪
[Ross] And Chyna, The Ninth Wonder of the World,
has been challenged by Val Venis.
Is she gonna be up for the test here tonight?
[explosion]
[Jerry] Well, I see a few thousands that are certainly up.
♪ Treat me for just who and what I am ♪
♪ Don't treat me like a woman ♪
[Ross] Certainly Chyna's altercation last week with Val Venis
had been well-documented.
Let's take another look.
And not only Val Venis, but Ivory attacking Chyna from behind.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] And Ivory soon realized she was somewhat over-dressed.
[Jerry] Yeah, you got that right.
Oh, but then as Chyna was just about ready to finish Ivory off,
look at this attack by Val Venis,
knocked Ivory right over our table, right into our laps.
[Ross] Brought her to the cold concrete,
and look at Ivory deep in the bones of Chyna,
and Val Venis had challenged Chyna, and Chyna has told
"The One" Billy Gunn, "Whatever happens, do not come out here."
She wants to do this all on her own.
["Censorship" playing]
[Jerry] Well, then, I gotta give her credit.
That's the way it should be.
-["Censorship" continues] -[bell ringing]
[announcer] The following contest is scheduled for one fall.
Introducing, accompanied by fellow Right to Censor member
and Women's Champion, Ivory.
-[Ross] Oh, look at Chyna. -[Jerry] Now wait.
[Ross] Chyna going after Val Venis, a proud Right to Censor member,
along with the Women's Champion, Ivory.
Look at Ivory from behind.
[Jerry] Oh, no.
-[Ross] Oh. -[Jerry] Oh, man.
[Ross] Ivory's gonna defend her Women's title later tonight
in her Triple Threat match, if you're keeping score.
[Jerry] Oh.
[Ross] Oh, and Val Venis has went for a nice ride
with a rather abrupt ending, at the hands of Air Chyna.
[bell ringing]
[Jerry] Chyna got a lot of pent-up frustrations
thanks to Val Venis, that she's taking him out quickly here.
[Ross] You know, Chyna was on the cover of Playboy, King.
[Jerry] Yeah?
[Ross] Val Venis and Right to Censor, the first group to criticize
and wanna burn those Playboys.
They wanna try to stop publication, they insisted in that.
[Jerry] Well, they're--
[Ross] And when Eddie Guerrero failed, Right to Censor gets sued.
[Jerry] You know how stupid they are.
It still went on to be one of the best-selling issues
ever in the history of Playboy Magazine.
You know I bought my share. [giggles]
[Ross] And Chyna now hammering away at Val Venis,
as he's caught in the crossfire here by The Ninth Wonder of the World.
Oh.
Close to six feet tall, around 200 pounds.
[Jerry] Uh-huh.
-[Ross] She is in magnificent condition. -[Jerry] I'd like to weigh her sometime.
Oh.
[Ross] Why would you do that? Never mind.
-[Jerry] What do you think-- -[Ross] That's a stupid question.
There's a cover.
[Jerry] Oh, you think you know, do you?
[laughs]
[Ross] I don't even wanna go there.
-You want her to sit on your lap. -[Jerry] No, please. That's all right.
[Ross] You're terrible, you know that?
-[Jerry] Oh, come on. -[Ross] Val Venis--
[Jerry] Give me a break, JR.
Don't be hypocritical like Right to Censor.
-[Ross] Oh. -[Ivory] Yes.
[Ross] Russian leg sweep. What do you mean by that?
[Jerry] Well, I mean, you know what--
[Ross] I'm a happily married man, buddy boy.
[Jerry] Oh, okay.
[Jerry] And there's a cover by Val Venis, who's not happily anything.
He and the other Right to Censor jerks are gonna see Right to Censor
defend their tag titles in our tag team matchup tonight.
[Jerry] Watch out, look at Ivory.
Look at this.
[Ross] With the referee's back turned, with Chyna down and vulnerable,
Ivory's-- she thinks she's, uh, The American Badass, and she's not.
[Jerry] She's certainly not that.
[Ross] Val Venis with a big advantage here now,
both arms underhook, and Val Venis…
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Ross] …with a suplex,
taking Chyna down with authority,
reaches back, and hooks the leg, but Chyna kicked out.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Ivory's got her body all covered up with that long skirt.
You know, she doesn't have a bad body.
[Ross] You're proud about that, but--
[Jerry] She got a butter face.
[Ross] A butter face?
[Jerry] Yeah, everything looks good about her, but her face.
[laughs] Oh. Uh-oh. Right in the eyes.
Bitch.
[Ross] Val Venis scooping up Chyna with that slam.
[Jerry] Look at this.
[Ross] Nobody there in that exchange,
as Chyna able to avoid the contact.
[Jerry] Well, like you said, Chyna asked that "The One" Billy Gunn
not come out here and be involved in this match whatsoever,
but I wonder if she knew that Ivory was gonna be here at ringside.
[Ross] Well, that's the kind of woman Chyna is.
-[Jerry] Oh, man. -[Ross] She's very independent.
[Jerry] A shot there.
[Ross] Of course, her autobiography's gonna be out next month,
and that is a-- that is gonna be quite the read, I can tell you.
Nice neckbreaker by Chyna, taking down Val Venis.
Now Chyna's got the leg hooked.
She hooks the near leg, and the opposite shoulder came off the canvas.
Maybe a tactical error there.
[Jerry] Well, possibly.
[Ross] Certainly not a mistake that you would've made, obviously.
[Jerry] Oh.
[Ross] Val, going downstairs.
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Ross] Oh, Chyna going upstairs.
-[Jerry] There you go. -[Ross] Now Chyna going for the cover.
[Jerry] Whoa, man!
Look at the-- look at that face.
[Ross] That's Lilith Crane, if there ever was one.
[Jerry] You got that right.
[Ross] She is-- she'd get kicked out of the Librarians Union.
[Jerry] Or she was actually not.
That was my eighth grade English teacher, had a face just like that.
It would curdle milk.
Oh, man, can you hear those shots?
[Ross] Thought you liked her? You took eighth grade twice.
[Jerry] Actually, three times.
[Ross] Chyna, a little bit momentum, and Val Venis…
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Ross] …with a powerslam.
I don't know.
Chyna's got a massive sustained offense here against an athlete of the caliber,
the stature, the strength of Val Venis.
And all due respect to Chyna,
she is outmuscled, outsized here considerably by Val.
And Val looking for the Money Shot, King.
[Jerry] This is it. Oh, no.
[Ross] He didn't find it.
Chyna now has a golden opportunity to capitalize here,
after a mistake by Val.
Chyna doesn't have a lot left, crawling slowly.
[Jerry] Hook the leg, cover him.
[Ross] Chyna's got the leg hooked,
and again, Val Venis-- Oh.
[Jerry] Oh, man, I thought the referee's hand touched.
[Ross] That's how close it was,
about four to six inches away for the three.
[Jerry] Come on, stay on the offense, Chyna.
[Ross] Great power by Chyna, scooping up Val Venis.
-Uh-oh. -[Jerry] Hey, look at this.
[Ross] And then Ivory tripping Chyna.
And Chyna said, "I'm tired of this."
"I've had enough of this."
Uh-oh. Lilith tripped.
[Jerry laughs] Catch her. Catch her, Chyna.
[Ross] She's running like scolded dog, is Ivory.
Get out of the ring. Get out.
-[Jerry] Oh, look at Lilith now… -[Ross] Oh.
-[Jerry] …she's crawling. -[Ross] Uh-oh.
-[Jerry] Uh-oh. -[Ross] Chyna took her eye off
and there's the fisherman's suplex by Val.
-[Jerry] Wait a minute. -[bell rings]
[Ross] And Val Venis gets the victory over Chyna.
[Jerry] What about this, ref?
[announcer] Here is your winner, Val Venis!
[Jerry] You let everything go on here.
["Censorship" playing]
[Ross] Val Venis with a victory, he must be happy about that.
It was-- it certainly was not easy, and not without the help of Ivory.
[Jerry] That's what I was gonna say, it was certainly a two-on-one--
hey, look at this.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] Yes!
[Ross] Chyna grabbing the Women's Champion.
[Jerry] Finally, get her!
This-- oh, yeah.
-[Ross] Look at Val. Chyna-- -[Jerry] Watch it. Watch it.
[Ross] Oh, Chyna's gonna powerbomb Ivory,
-and Val Venis now -[Jerry] Oh.
[Ross] with a powerbomb of his own, dropping the air out of Chyna.
And Chyna was gonna plant Ivory.
[Jerry] 'Cause Ivory's been the downfall of Chyna not once, but twice tonight.
Yeah, I guess you two are proud of yourselves.
That's the Duke and Duchess of Dork.
[Ross] That's where she belongs, in his armpit.
[Jerry] Ew.
What could be worse than a two-by-four wrapped in barbed wire?
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] I don't know, if anything could be worse--
oh, my God.
-Fire. -[Jerry] Oh, my God!
[Ross] That two-by-four with barbed wire is burning!
-[Jerry screaming] -[Ross] Hunter, you--
Hunter, you better get out of there!
[Jerry] You gotta call the fire department.
Get out of there, jump! He's got a fire!
[Ross] Cactus just hit Hunter in the face with that burning two-by-four
Cactus has a dream and it's coming true tonight!
[crowd cheering]
What is it? What is it?
I need to talk to you, very seriously.
All right. Now, okay, before, let me just talk to you first.
You know I'm hurting physically as well as emotionally,
you know that, and this is not the time
or the place to talk about your mom and I-- and my divorce, is it?
Oh, Dad, no, no, no. All personal issues aside, okay?
Tonight, I'm hurting too.
I'm really very seriously afraid for Triple H.
I mean, Dad, I remember last year's Hell in the Cell match against Mick.
Hunter could barely even walk afterwards.
It was brutal, and that was against one guy.
Tonight, Triple H has to face five other opponents in that cell,
and Dad, I had to come to you.
I am scared.
That damn Foley?
I'm gonna put a stop to this right now.
-Thank you. -That's what I'm gonna do.
I knew I could come to you.
[Ross] Well, there you see the Hell in the Cell,
but King, I'm a little perplexed, what does Vince McMahon mean
he's gonna put a stop to this right now?
I mean, the cell is hanging there,
six men are expected to go in there tonight
and put their livelihoods on the line in the hopes of winning the WWE title.
What do you mean, what does he mean?
When he says he's gonna put a stop to it, he means he's gonna put a stop to it.
I'm sure that Vince McMahon is gonna go to Mick Foley right now and say,
"This match is not gonna take place."
They don't have to lower that thing all the way down here.
They can haul it back up to the top of this arena.
Well, one man that certainly knows, perhaps better than anyone,
what it's like to be in the Hell in the Cell is The Undertaker.
And The Undertaker, earlier today, shared his thoughts about hell itself.
[Kevin] Standing in the center of the ring is The Undertaker.
Many hours from now, here in Birmingham, all the seats in the arena will be filled,
fans prepared to see Hell in the Cell tonight.
Workers, as we speak, are putting the finishing touches
on the cell, and I wanted to know your thoughts
as we stand in this center of the ring with this cell all around you.
My thoughts?
What do you think my thoughts are?
You know, this is the time for reckoning, a reckoning with myself.
To this day, I still have visions
of the things that I've done to men in this cell.
And then knowing what I'm gonna have to do tonight
to win the WWE Championship.
You see, this cell brought out a side in me,
hell, it even scares myself.
You know, it's a side that's almost more animal than it is human.
I want-- no, I crave…
the feeling of taking another man and ripping his face off.
Taking his face and grinding it against the steel
till the flesh is gone and all that's left is blood.
Hell in the Cell number one, Shawn Michaels,
I took his battered little body and I threw it up on my shoulder,
and I rammed it into the cage, man.
And he bled, and he bled,
and the more he bled, the more I wanted him to bleed.
Man, now that was a rush.
[suspenseful music playing]
[crowd cheering]
[crowd chatter]
See, I don't think you understand.
You see, nobody understands when this animal in me comes out,
that there's nothing, nothing is too violent.
After I'd already busted him open, I took Shawn Michaels,
and I took him to the top,
and his little busted up little body
was hanging by his broken little fingertips right up here.
But this side of me, no, I didn't wanna reach down and help him up,
I wanted to break every finger on his hand
until he fell and crashed to the ground.
See, that's what this match is all about.
Do unto others before they do unto you.
[crowd cheering]
[crowd chatter]
[crowd cheering]
You see, the beating that I gave Shawn Michaels in Cell number one,
it was the worst beating anyone had ever received in the WWE.
Hey, man, but now it's time for Mick Foley
and the animal in me, hey, it's only growing.
Come here, I wanna show you something.
It was right here.
When I snatched Mick Foley by the neck
and I chokeslammed him through that cage, and he landed right there.
It was called The Chokeslam from Hell.
[crowd cheering]
You know, Foley's neck could've broke.
Hell, I wanted his whole body to break.
It was the most vicious that I'd ever felt,
but lo and behold, we end up on top of the cell again,
so I grabbed his ass and I took him and I threw him as hard as I could.
[suspenseful music playing]
[crowd cheering]
Do you know what the scariest part of this side of me is?
It's that I like it.
This is the side of me that made Mick Foley famous.
This is the side that made Shawn Michaels even more famous.
So, the only thing left to wonder about…
is who…
I'm gonna make famous tonight.
That's sick.
Sick and perverse, a sadistic side of The Undertaker and a great question.
Somebody's gonna get hurt tonight here, very, very--
-["No Chance in Hell" playing] -Now, wait a minute, here we go.
Maybe this man will bring some sense to this situation.
[Ross] Well, there's the chairman of the World Wrestling Entertainment,
Mr. McMahon, along with Pat Patterson
and Gerald Brisco, his-- well, his associates.
♪ We'll find their place in line ♪
[Jerry] Yeah, I refer to them as stooges.
Man!
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, accompanied to the ring--
[Jerry] His heart is not two sizes too small!
[Ross] I don't know what Vince McMahon meant
when he said he can't let this go on, but how do you stop it?
How do you stop what's already been signed?
-[announcer] Mr. McMahon. -[Jerry] I don't know,
but if Patterson don't get those steps fixed…
[Ross] Mr. McMahon, after 34 years of marriage,
humiliating, absolutely embarrassing,
his lovely wife, Linda,
last Thursday night on UPN SmackDown, that was--
[Jerry] Okay. I guess you're saying he shouldn't have done it
right on public television, but there's no easy time
to do something like that when you-- when you feel in your heart that your--
well, that your wife's not good enough for you, there's no--
-there's no perfect time to tell her. -[Ross] It wasn't on public television,
it was on UPN.
-[Jerry] Whatever. -Just for the record
[crowd booing]
Just for the record,
I meant every word I said on last week's SmackDown.
-Just for the record. -[Ross] Wow. That's sick, 34 years.
I will not apologize for one remark that I made.
I meant it when I said that I, Vince McMahon,
have given all of you WWE fans my life.
I meant that.
I meant it when I said to the CEO,
and my wife of over 30 years,
I meant it when I said, "I want a divorce."
[Jerry] Emphatically.
I meant it when I said to my wife, Linda McMahon,
that she never was good enough for me and she never would be.
-[Jerry] Ugh. -I meant that too.
[Ross] So sad.
But, you know, I also meant it
when I expressed genuine concern
for the six WWE superstars forced to compete
in this Hell in the Cell match by Commissioner Foley.
-[Jerry] See, he's got a soft side. -[Ross scoffs]
My heartfelt sympathies for these superstars,
quite frankly, has fallen on deaf ears.
My overriding concern for their welfare
has been rebuked and trivialized by Commissioner Mick Foley.
So, therefore, tonight
[crowd chanting] Asshole! Asshole! Asshole! Asshole!
-[Jerry] Wait a minute. -[crowd chanting] Asshole! Asshole!
[Jerry] People here in the South are so rude, JR.
Tonight, I've come before you
with my heart in my hand.
[crowd booing]
[Ross] What heart?
Tonight, I come before you, not as Vince McMahon,
the owner of World Wrestling Entertainment.
I come before you tonight, not as Vince McMahon,
a certified billionaire.
[Jerry] Wow.
I come before you tonight as Vince McMahon, simply…
simply a concerned and compassionate humanitarian.
[Ross] Oh.
-[Jerry] What? -[Ross] Ugh.
-[Jerry] Humanitarian? -[Ross] God.
And as a passionate humanitarian,
I would ask for you to join me tonight,
join me in preventing Commissioner Mick Foley
from presenting this Hell in the Cell match here tonight.
-[crowd booing] -[Jerry] I agree, but what we can do?
I'm asking you to open your hearts, I'm asking you, as well,
to simply--
to simply come forward, show your support.
I'm asking you tonight to send a message to Mick Foley,
send a message to America,
send a message to the entire world as we broadcast here tonight,
that you will not condone, nor will you encourage,
nor will you allow the Hell in the Cell match
to be presented here tonight in Birmingham.
[Jerry] Amen! Let me go up there.
[Ross] Will you sit down, you're embarrassing me.
[Jerry] He said-- he said, "Come forward and show your support."
[Vince] Now, I'm gonna ask you something.
I'm gonna ask you a question…
[Ross] Put your hands on the television.
…but before I ask you the question,
I want each and every one of you
to contemplate the results of this Hell in the Cell match.
I want each and every one of you,
as you're contemplating the results of this match,
I want five seconds of silence.
[crowd booing]
[Jerry] He said silence.
Shh.
And those of you who will support this endeavor
and will send that message, I'm asking you to join me and stand up.
Stand up and join me. There's one.
Stand up! There's two.
-[Jerry] Stand up, JR. -[Ross] Oh, King.
[Vince] Stand up and join me. Stand up, everybody.
-[Ross] King, sit down. -Stand up!
You will not take part in this.
You will not let this hedonistic match occur.
Stand up. There's more of you, there's more!
Stand up!
-[Jerry] He's getting some converts. -Damn it, I said stand up!
-[crowd booing] -[Jerry] He's a billionaire, stand up!
Get up, JR.
[Ross] He ain't no Jimmy Swaggart, that's for sure, or maybe he is.
Very well.
Then not only will it be on Mick Foley's conscience,
but tonight,
after the Hell in the Cell match is over
and you survey the carnage,
and you see your favorite WWE superstar
-mired in the afterbirth of this match. -[Jerry] Ugh.
Not only will it be on Mick Foley's conscience,
by God, it'll be on each and every one of yours as well.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Think about it, people.
-["No Chance In Hell" playing] -[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[Ross] Well, so be it.
Mr. McMahon, he tried to-- he tried to--
[Jerry] He tried to reason with these people.
-[Ross] Oh, yeah. -[Jerry] Tried to talk
some sense into them. Think about it, JR.
-[Ross] He doesn't-- -[Jerry] Do you wanna see your favorite
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin or The Rock?
Do you wanna see him mired in the afterbirth of this--
of this Hell in a Cell match?
[Ross] Well, of course not.
But they knew what they were getting into when they signed it.
Nobody said it was gonna be easy to keep being in the WWE.
And it damn sure isn't gonna be easy in this next matchup.
It's Last Man Standing.
Oh, how much more physical can it get?
And can you believe it all started with a hot cup of coffee?
[Jericho] I want this match. I need this match.
[Mick] Kane, Jericho, it's got to come to an end,
and it will in a Last Man Standing contest.
I have a feeling things are going to come to a head at Armageddon.
Because when this whole thing started with Kane
and I thought it was all about coffee.
Ooh, God. Sorry, champ.
I hope that coffee didn't burn you.
[Kane] You think this is about coffee?
This is about a man with a burning rage deep down inside of him.
[Kane] You wanna see Chris Jericho?
Well, the more you cheer for him, the more I hate him.
[Jericho] This is about a man who cannot look into the mirror
without seeing the ugly, bitter,
unforgiving monster that's just waiting to escape.
[Kane] The more you wanna see him, the more I want to end him.
[Jericho] And the man I'm talking about isn't Kane,
that man is me.
[Michael] This fight for survival with Kane has unleashed
a side of Y2J we rarely see.
Sunday at Armageddon on pay-per-view, Jericho and Kane take it to another level
Commissioner Mick Foley says this has to end
and it will in a Last Man Standing match.
[Jerry] Poor Jericho, I just don't think he realizes.
I don't think he knows what he's in for here.
[Ross] Kane just stands there, Kane won't go down.
[Jerry] We know you're a monster, but do you have a heart?
Is there any quit in the monster?
[Ross] Jericho is obsessed!
-[Jerry] What is wrong with him? -[Ross] He's possessed.
Desperate people do desperate things,
and that certainly was a desperation move by Y2J.
[Michael] Y2J, Chris Jericho, with steel chair in hand
would be perfectly legal in a Last Man Standing match
on pay-per-view at Armageddon.
[Jerry] And that means you've got to keep your opponent down for a ten-count,
that's the only way you can win this thing.
Have you ever seen Kane down for a ten-count?
I don't care what happens to him, he pops right up.
[Michael] Jericho, Kane, Sunday at Armageddon, Last Man Standing.
Who will it be?
[explosion]
[Jerry] No.
["Out of the Fire" playing]
[Ross] He'll walk through hellfire and brimstone.
The "Big Red Machine" Kane, in order to disfigure the face
of Chris Jericho, he may get it done in Last Man Standing.
[bell rings]
[announcer] The following is the Last Man Standing match.
In the ring, weighing 326 pounds, Kane!
[explosions]
[Ross] It's hot at Armageddon, King.
[Jerry] JR, you've got to think that--
I mean, Armageddon was just made for Kane
and this Last Man Standing match.
That's what it's all about.
["Break the Walls Down" playing]
[crowd cheering]
[explosion]
[Ross] It's not about pinfalls, it's not about submissions in this one!
This match can end only
when one man cannot continue after a ten-count.
[announcer] weighing 227--
[Ross] There goes Kane.
-[bell rings] -[Ross] Remember no disqualifications
and no count-outs, King.
[Jerry] Look at this.
Look at this wreckage that's already in the back of this arena.
[Ross] No pinfalls, no submissions,
-and now… -[Jerry] Wait a minute.
[Ross] Kane and Jericho fighting out of sight.
-[Jerry] Where are they? -[Ross] Try to get a camera back there.
We're as clueless right now, folks, as you are.
Jericho and Kane going somewhere in the back.
[Jerry] Hey, Ed, do we have a camera back there?
What the hell's going on?
[Ross] We are trying to get a camera, I don't think anyone…
-[Jerry] Director. -[Ross] …suspected that these two men
-would go directly-- there they are. -[Jerry] Finally, thank you.
[Ross] And this is not in a padded area, look at the concrete.
[Jerry] Oh, my God. Look out!
[Ross] Kane throwing that ammo case, gotta weigh several hundred pounds.
[Jerry] That would've ended this thing early.
[Ross] This is certainly a--
those workers, I think, ought to be moving out of the way.
[Jerry] Out of the way, guys.
[Ross] They must work by the hour.
Something poked right in Kane's eyes.
Some remnants of that truck.
-Who's that? Oh, it's Mideon. -[Jerry] What the heck?
[Ross] Guys getting a bird's eye view of this match-up.
This has the same qualities of a Texas Deathmatch
for our long-time fans, inasmuch as the match can end
only when one man can't answer the referee's ten-count.
But you can only imagine the punishment that must be dealt out
before that count becomes effective.
[Jerry] I'm just trying to figure out exactly where these guys are right now.
[Ross] As long as they're not near the announce table.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] Well, that's good.
Oh, here they are.
[Ross] Kane and Jericho now, fighting back out here.
-This match can-- -[Jerry] Watch out.
[Ross] This match can end-- I'm assuming can end anywhere.
[Jerry] Well, I mean, even if you got a--
if you have to get a three-count before the referee starts a ten-count?
[Ross] I don't think so.
[Jerry] You see how you should be all--
you should always be up on all the stipulations and rules here.
[Ross] My understanding, that is not the case.
Pinfalls and submissions are irrelevant.
-And Kane… -[Jerry] Oh, man.
[Ross] …he's bouncing off the steel steps.
[Jerry] That ugly, scarred, hideous face.
[Ross] Jericho giving up about a foot in height,
at least 100 pounds in body weight,
but nothing in courage and heart.
[Jerry] Look at this. Man, oh, man.
[Ross] The first elbow by Jericho, right off the top rope,
and the youngster from Winnipeg now.
Mounts Kane and hammers down with those right hands.
[Jericho] Come on, you son of a bitch!
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[Ross] And Jericho talking some trash to Kane as, perhaps, you heard.
[Jerry] Not a good idea, if you ask me.
[Ross] Big forearm shot by Jericho on the side of the face
of the Big Red Machine.
Oh, Jericho has only been in one other Last Man Standing match-up,
and that was in July, and that was at Fully Loaded,
where he lost to Triple H.
[Jerry] Watch this.
Bad news for Jericho!
[Ross] Kane to the side.
Look at the arms of Kane, that's a seven-feet tall, around 325,
and driving Jericho's spine
right into the steel ring post.
[Ross] We're going-- A good powerslam right on the floor.
[Jerry] Can they do it?
[Ross] The great Teddy Long's got his ten-count,
that's the only reason a referee is here.
-[Teddy] Three! -[Ross] He's up to three.
[Teddy] Four!
[Ross] A deliberate of the five maneuver count.
Big blow by the knee.
[Jerry] It would take more than that to keep Y2J down.
But of course Kane's perfectly capable of delivering a lot more than that.
-Like this! -[Ross] Oh!
Jericho trying to block that shot to the ring steps.
[Jerry] You break an arm that way.
[Ross] That's what I was starting to say. His face and his arm, buddy.
[Jerry] This is all about Jericho's face.
-[Ross] Kane is bitter. -[Jerry] That pretty boy face of his.
-[Kevin] Kane is bitter, he's angry and-- -[Jerry] Well, what do you expect?
What if you-- what if you were like Kane and every day, you know he's got to take
that mask off sometimes and try to shave that scarred face,
or whatever it is when he looks in the mirror.
What do you think he feels like?
And then see somebody like Y2J parade around here and all the girls
fall in love with him, looking at-- and think he's so handsome.
[Ross] Jericho has never asked the girls to fall in love with him.
He can't help that his mom and daddy had good genes.
Good DNA.
[crowd chatter]
[Ross] Well, you're a ruggedly handsome man.
[Jerry] Yeah?
[Ross] What if Kane had his sights set on you?
You might sing a different story.
[Jerry] Hey, you're right.
[Ross] Big Kane burying the shoulder.
[Jerry] You know what I'd do, I would distance myself
from somebody like Kane.
And that's been my advice to Jericho for a long time.
Why does he keep-- Jericho is-- he's insisted on this.
He keeps coming back for more.
[Ross] Jericho's got a lot of guts and a lot of fight.
And Kane is measuring those right hands
and this one will not last much longer at this pace.
[Jerry] You think I'm ruggedly handsome?
[Ross] I was only using that as a figure of speech.
-[Jerry] Okay. -[Ross] Don't get any ideas.
Kane shot right to the ear, right in the temporal lobe of Jericho.
And Jericho trying to fight back.
This is about as…
-[Jerry] Man. -[Ross] …unscientific, unwrestling,
traditional wrestling as one could get.
[Jerry] Well, you don't want to wrestle your opponent
and you don't want to pin your opponent as you said,
you want to knock the opponent down and knock him senseless
and wait for long enough so that he can't answer a takedown
and he can't get to his feet before that referee counts to ten.
Whoa, look at this!
[Ross] Jericho has some of the qualities that the great Shawn Michaels has
as far as being resilient and able to get in there with anyone of any size,
'cause it's absolutely irrelevant in his own heart.
But, Jericho may have bit off more than he can chew.
-[Jerry] Oh, my God. -[Ross] And this-- look at this angle.
There's a lot of power in the Big Red Machine
and I just don't see how Chris Jericho is gonna match up with him.
And it may be-- well it-- a submission is irrelevant.
Jericho could tap all he wants, he's got to stay down for a ten-count
and I don't think Jericho will do that as long as he's conscious.
[Jerry] Well, I agree with you.
I think he's gonna have to knock Chris Jericho completely out.
One!
[Jerry] Maybe this is-- this could do it right here though if you cut off…
-Two! -[Jerry] …the supply of oxygen
to somebody's brain, they're gonna pass out.
Three! Come on, Kane. Drop him, he's out. He's out.
[Ross] Now the referee will have a--
he's now back to the place where he can use a ten-count.
[Teddy] Two!
[Jerry] Like you saw, Y2J couldn't raise his arm on that…
-[Teddy] Three! -[Jerry] …count of three, he's out.
[Ross] Under normal circumstances this match would have been over.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] And the crowd here trying to get behind Jericho.
-[Teddy] Six! -[Ross] Up to six.
-[Jerry] Look at Kane. -Seven!
[Jerry] He just shakes his head in disbelief.
[Ross] Well, Jericho trying to fight back up.
Kane interrupts the count. I think Kane likes that.
And this gives Kane the opportunity to dish out more punishment.
Out of desperation, Jericho got a foot up,
slowed Kane down momentarily.
-[Jerry] Oh! -[Ross] Oh, my goodness.
-Jericho trying to-- -[Jerry] Look at the strength
and the power of Kane, with one arm he caught Jericho in midair.
[Ross] Jericho was looking for a spinning heel kick,
-got caught in midair. -[Jerry] Oh, man.
[Ross] And the hang time was there but nobody home for Kane.
-[Jerry] Look out! -[Ross] And Jericho this time does score.
But that's not gonna be enough to get Kane down.
[Jerry] Maybe this will.
No, man!
[Ross] Jericho going for the Lionsault.
Kane saw it coming obviously,
rolled his knees right up into Jericho's abdomen,
and now the Big Red Machine…
-[Jerry] What's he gonna do now? -[Ross] …climbing upstairs,
and the end could be near for the young man from Winnipeg.
[Jerry] Oh!
Yeah, that could do it right there.
[Ross] That clothesline caught Jericho in the face, and again Jericho down.
-Two! -[Ross] Last Man Standing.
There must be a ten-count reached by the official for this one to end.
-Four! -[Jerry] Well, he's stirring.
-Five! -[Jerry] He's gonna come around.
[crowd cheering]
Six!
[Ross] Another matchup Commissioner Mick Foley
has come under some criticism for.
It was a match, as you said, King, that Jericho wanted.
[Jerry] He wanted it. He begged for it.
He's a glutton for punishment.
[Ross] And another knockdown.
[man] Beat him Kane!
[Ross] I don't know how much more Jericho or any other human being can take of this,
unless Kane has-- makes some huge,
ridiculous mistake, this one is virtually academic.
[Teddy] One!
[Jerry] This is a perfect case in point to all you young people out there.
Be careful what you ask for.
You just might get it.
Y2J wanted Kane.
Now, he's getting all of him he can handle.
Four!
-[Jerry] Don't forget that-- -[Teddy] Five!
-[Jerry] Look at this. -[Ross] Up to five,
and Jericho again just will not stay down.
It may be the best thing for Jericho's career
-to stay down and he's telling Kane.. -[Jerry] Oh, look.
-Come on. -[Ross] …come on and get it.
-[Jerry] What? -[crowd cheering]
-[Jerry] Well-- -[Ross] Is Jericho nuts?
-[Jerry] You come on and get it, Y2J. -[Ross] I admire his courage.
Oh, one-armed Chokeslam to Hell by Kane!
Almost breaking Jericho in half.
[crowd cheering]
[Teddy] One!
Two!
[Ross] Kane, that chokeslam, has gone to a neutral corner.
[Jerry] A huge chokeslam that was.
-Five! -[Jerry] Up to five.
[Ross] We're halfway there.
-[Teddy] Six! -[Jerry] Look at that face.
You don't even want to get up and face that again.
-Seven! -[Ross] At seven.
Eight.
[Ross] Well, this one's done.
-[crowd chatter] -[Teddy] Nine!
-[Ross] And Jericho's stirring, King. -[Jerry] Wait a minute.
[Ross] Kane can't believe it and neither can I.
I mean, what's it gonna take against--
[Jerry] He got up-- got up onto his feet at nine and three--
[Ross] Wait a minute. Kane now has got that steel chair.
Gonna use that as a weapon.
[Jerry] You asked what it was gonna take.
[Ross] Aw, a gut shot downstairs.
[Jerry] Oh, my God-- ooh!
[Ross] And a steel chair right in the spine of Chris Jericho.
Then, Kane must-- it's like Kane, now he'll-- uh-oh.
[Jerry] Get ready, ref.
[Ross] I don't like the looks of this at all.
[Jerry] I think he'd count past ten all the way to 20 or 30 here.
[Ross] That steel chair lying in the ring,
not a good sign for Jericho.
Tombstone Piledriver.
Jericho fighting to get off Kane's shoulders.
Oh, and goes-- a low blow!
Jericho with a low blow catches Kane with a DDT.
-[Jerry] I can't believe Kane-- -[Teddy] One!
[Jerry] I guess anything goes here, huh?
[Ross] Absolutely anything goes,
and now the referee has got a count on,
I'm assuming, for both men.
Kane…
…got that low blow,
and Jericho closer to the ropes, and that may be good for Jericho.
I don't think he can get up on his own.
[Jerry] Yeah, but I think Kane's gonna make it
before the count of ten, surely.
-Oh! -[Ross] Jericho up, and now so is Kane.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] Wait a minute.
[Ross] Oh! God, what a shot!
What a-- what a shot to the head by Jericho.
[Jerry] Jericho hit Kane so hard he--
the recoil from that blow knocked Jericho down.
[Ross] But Jericho with no advantage 'cause of the double count.
Jericho up,
-so Jericho is up. -Four!
[Ross] And the-- and the count on Kane is up to four.
-Five! -[Jerry] He's gonna get up again.
This is amazing.
[Ross] It's almost like Jericho wants Kane to get up.
[Jerry] Well, I'm sure that Jericho wants to deliver more punishment, but…
don't tempt the fates.
[Ross] Flying forearm by Jericho takes Kane down to one knee.
Jericho quickly up top.
Jericho looking for something big here offensively.
[Jerry] Look, there he is!
[Ross] And the missile dropkick caught Kane…
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] …and will that be enough to keep the Big Red Machine down?
[Jerry] He's not even-- oh, I was going to say,
he's not even going for the cover, that's because he doesn't need a cover.
Needs to keep him on his back for a ten-count.
Oh!
[Ross] Jericho with a bulldog taking down Kane again,
and now Jericho using the steel chair that Kane brought into the ring.
[Jerry] Oh!
What's he gonna do now?
[Ross] I have no idea, chair lying
[Jerry] Whoa.
[Ross] Jericho used the chair and brought it up with a moonsault.
Kane is hurt, but the same maneuver hurt Jericho.
[Jerry] Right, that's gotta take as much out of Jericho as it did out of Kane.
-What's he thinkin'? -Three!
[Ross] I don't know if he is thinking.
-I think Jericho's going on instincts. -[Teddy] Four!
[Ross] Fighting for survival here against that monster.
[Jerry] Hey, if these guys will go to any lengths to make sure
his opponent is not able to get to his feet,
what is he up to?
-Seven! -[Jerry] Seven.
[Ross] Jericho, with a gut check here.
[Jerry] Jericho's up.
[Ross] Jericho up…
and Kane gets up.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Kane sat up at about nine.
[Jerry] Oh, man!
Did Jericho ever run into that?
[Ross] And Jericho may have-- he may have used everything
that he had in his arsenal.
Oh, no. Oh, no!
-[Jerry] No! -[Ross] Oh, God!
Kane just military pressed Jericho over the top rope,
all the way to the floor and the Big Red Machine
coming right out after Jericho.
[Jerry] That's gotta be a drop of about 15 feet straight down onto that floor.
[Ross] Corner of that boot right into the heart of Jericho.
And Kane-- I have no idea where Kane's going.
[Jerry] Watch it!
Come on. Get up, Jericho.
[Ross] Hard right hand another by Kane.
Well, these guys are in no man's land here.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] You got that right.
[Ross] Jericho getting wore out here.
Getting punched around like a government mule by Kane.
-[Jerry] Oh! -[Ross] They're back in the tech area.
[Jerry] They look like they're fighting in the middle of the war zone.
[Ross] Surrounded by equipment are Kane and Jericho,
and how much more can the human anatomy stand?
Oh, my God!
You gotta be kiddin' me.
-Kane standing on that case. -[Jerry] Uh-oh!
-[Ross] Look out here! -[Jerry] No, he isn't scared!
[Ross] Kane looking for a Chokeslam.
[Jerry] Look out!
[Ross] And now that Jericho taking Kane's face right into the table.
[Jerry] He's intent on using that table as a-- as
a-- well, he's using Kane's face as a battering ram into that table.
[Ross] Kane has been into the table now face-first.
[Jerry] You think that's enough to keep him down, JR?
[Ross] I have no idea.
-I shudder to… -[Jerry] I bet not.
[Ross] …predict Kane.
And what it's gonna take to keep Kane and quite frankly, or Jericho down.
[Jerry] The referee's up to six?
[Ross] Jericho said, "What the hell do I have to do-- "
-[Jerry] What's it gonna take? -Hey, come on, Jericho.
-No, no, no, Jericho. -[Ross] What is Jericho doing here?
Jericho, no.
[Ross] Might need some help.
[Ross] Look at all those barrels.
-[Jerry] Wait a minute. No, wait! -[Ross] What is Jericho thinking?
-[Jerry] Look out! -[Ross] Oh, my God!
-[Jerry] No! -[Ross] Those barrels just fell on Kane!
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Those barrels just fell on top of Kane!
-Kane is -[Jerry] Kane is buried under…
Two!
[Ross] Kane is buried, you're right, King!
Kane's buried under those-- under those barrels.
[Jerry] Referee, don't just stand there and count.
Try to help-- see if Kane is all right.
-Six! -[Ross] Jericho is up!
-Jericho is up! -[Jerry] But where's Kane?
-[Ross] Kane's under those barrels! -Eight,
-nine! -[Jerry] He's buried!
-[Ross] Jericho is up! -[Jerry] Look at this, look at this!
[crowd cheering]
-[bell ringing] -[Ross] And it's over.
Jericho's done it! Jericho has done it!
-[announcer] Here's your winner -[Jerry] Yeah, but I saw a hand come out.
-Chris Jericho! -[Jerry] I swear I did!
I saw a gloved hand reach out from under those barrels.
["Break the Walls Down" playing]
[Ross] Chris Jericho may never be the same but he can say at Armageddon
that he beat Kane in a Last Man Standing Match.
[Jerry] Oh, my gosh. Check out Kane.
Check him out.
[Ross] All those barrels falling on Kane and pinning Kane down to the concrete.
[Jerry] Do you think he's crushed?
[Ross] I have no idea but I--
all I know is that somehow, some way
Chris Jericho has prevailed against the Big Red Machine.
Perhaps the gutsiest kid in the WWE.
And somewhere underneath those barrels lies the Big Red Machine.
[Jerry] Take a look at this.
What do you think that weighs?
All those barrels-- oh, my God!
[Ross] A dozen barrels there, King.
[Jerry] Yeah and then look, look, look-- take a look right between
the legs of Jericho. You can see that gloved hand.
Kane lives.
He's somewhere down there.
Mick, it's gonna be fine.
[Jonathan] Hey, Debra.
Is Mr. Foley available for an interview?
Aw, Coach, he is very upset but you--
if you want to give it a shot, go ahead.
Okay, thanks.
Commissioner Foley?
After having just seen that particularly brutal Last Man Standing Match,
are you having any second thoughts about the 6-Man Hell in a Cell match
-you made for tonight? -Second thoughts?
Understand, Coach, I feel responsible for all the participants
in the Hell in a Cell. So, yeah, seeing Kane
trapped underneath a bunch of barrels
does not provide a particularly good omen for me, does it?
-[Jonathan] No, sir. -Okay, but you understand Vince McMahon
may have been right about a lot of things in his career,
but when it comes to the Hell in a Cell, Vince McMahon is dead wrong.
You see, the people do want to see this match and the match will take place.
But as far as having second thoughts, Coach, I have second thoughts,
third thoughts, fourth thoughts and fifth thoughts.
This match is all I think about.
And the more I think about it, the more I know I'm right.
But all the same, I'll be real happy when it's over with.
-["Sweet Home Alabama" playing] -[Ross] And you are looking live,
ladies and gentlemen, at downtown New York City,
the home of WWE New York.
[announcer] Live from WWE New York,
please welcome "The Heartbreak Kid"
Shawn Michaels.
-["Sexy Boy" playing] -♪ I know I'm sexy ♪
♪ I got the looks ♪
♪ That drives the girls wild ♪
♪ I got the moves that really move 'em ♪
[Ross] Hey, Shawn, it's-- Shawn Michaels, it's JR.
Can you hear me?
I can hear you a little bit, JR.
[Ross] You're looking great.
And I know that you were in the very first Hell in a Cell matchup.
Can you tell us-- you got any advice for these six guys here tonight?
Well, I'll tell ya. I wish I could,
but I was the WWE guinea pig in this match
and to start it out is one thing.
But as the Hell in a Cells have gone on,
no man can predict to how it's gonna go.
And especially with six men, it's very tough.
One-on-one, you can get a rhythm.
Six guys in there, I got no idea what's gonna happen.
[Ross] When you think back about Hell in a Cell I,
what goes through your mind with your experiences with The Undertaker?
I gotta tell ya.
The first thing was fear.
The fact of the matter is this is a match,
whether anybody wants to agree or disagree,
tailor-made for The Undertaker.
I saw what he said earlier and it's true.
In that match, he's a different man.
So, you gotta watch him, boys and girls.
[Ross] Shawn, thank you very much.
Wish you were here.
Take care of yourself.
-["Sexy Boy" playing] -I will, JR.
And thank you so much.
Hope that I'll see y'all soon.
-[Ross] And I like that hat. -Thank you.
[Ross] Shawn Michaels knows what it's about.
He paid the price in the Hell in a Cell, but he's not alone.
So has our commissioner, Mick Foley.
♪ Up and down their spine ♪
[dramatic music playing]
-[Ross] Oh, God it's-- -[Jerry] What is that?
[Ross] Thumbtacks.
[Jerry] Uh-uh.
[Ross] Thumbtacks.
My God!
This is off the page.
-[Jerry] No! -[Ross] A chokeslam
-[Jerry] No way! -[Ross] Oh, what a sadistic thing!
A chokeslam on the tacks!
My God!
What else can be done?
What else will The Undertaker do to Mankind?
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Unbelievable, ladies and gentlemen.
It's gonna happen tonight.
The livelihood of six men on the line,
their careers on the line,
but one will walk out of Hell in a Cell tonight
maybe not in one piece but with the WWE Championship.
["Sweet Home Alabama" playing]
[Ross] King, it has been a lot of fun here today in Birmingham,
our big slobberknocker barbecues.
There's some of the Birmingham Bolts.
They will be kicking off in February in the XFL.
[Jerry] I hope that guy's a lineman. He's huge.
I'd hate to line up across the line from him.
Wow!
-["You Think You Know Me" playing] -♪ You think you know me ♪
[Ross] Coach Gerry DiNardo's gonna have a great crew here in Birmingham.
And, uh, here comes a couple of--
[Jerry] Oh, wait, wait, wait.
You said it, a great crew.
Here they are.
[Ross] I wasn't gonna use that adjective, but whatever.
[Jerry] Look at this!
[Ross] Four Corner Tag Team Championship Matchup.
♪ You are lost and scared ♪
[sirens wailing]
[bell ringing]
[announcer] The following contest is the Four Corners Match
for the World Wrestling Entertainment Tag Team Championship.
Introducing, accompanied by Steven Richards,
from the Right to Censor,
the World Wrestling Entertainment Tag Team Champions,
Bull Buchanan and The Goodfather.
[Ross] Well, folks, let's take you back and show you the ruse
the Dudleys pulled on RTC.
RTC thought they had recruited the Dudleys, King.
[Jerry] Oh, it was great.
If putting people through tables is wrong,
then I don't wanna be right!
[Jerry] Yeah. Look at this.
Like you said, old Steven there.
That white-socks-wearing nerd,
he really thought that he had two converts.
Instead… [chuckles] …he got table-ized.
[sirens wailing continues]
[Ross] Bubba and D-Von got some blood at Steven's expense.
Steven's still feeling it.
I've got a good veterinarian-- I mean, a good chiropractor for that ass.
-["Get Rowdy" playing] -[Road Dogg] ♪ Oh, you didn't know? ♪
♪ You better call somebody ♪
♪ The D-O-Double G and K-Kwik get rowdy ♪
-♪ Rowdy ♪ -[Jerry] Get rowdy.
[Road Dogg] ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪
♪ Yeah, we get rowdy ♪
♪ Yeah, move some things ♪
♪ K-Kwik talking about moving things ♪
♪ Come on, we gettin' rowdy ♪
♪ 'Bout to move some things ♪
-[Road Dogg] ♪ One more! ♪ -[K-Kwik] ♪ Move some things ♪
♪ Come on, we gettin' rowdy ♪
♪ 'Bout to move some things ♪
♪ K-Kwik screamin' move some things ♪
[K-Kwik] ♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Two real G's and we 'bout to get rowdy ♪
♪ You didn't know? You better call somebody ♪
♪ Steppin' through the dust Cause I'm mystical ♪
♪ No damn doubt about it K-Kwik And Road Dogg gettin' rowdy ♪
♪ 'Bout to move some things ♪
-♪ Me and Road Dogg ♪ -[Road Dogg] ♪ Road Dogg ♪
[K-Kwik] ♪ With the cash and change ♪
[Road Dogg] ♪ Check yourself And realize we're all that ♪
♪ If you step your ass up And get your Hat Rack Crack ♪
♪ No doubt about it ♪
♪ You can call it a bet ♪
♪ Putting all the knuckleheads Haters to rest ♪
♪ Shut your ass up and toss it around ♪
♪ Cause we're two real G's With the real-ass sound ♪
♪ We get rowdy ♪
♪ Let's go ♪
♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪
♪ We gettin' rowdy ♪
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
["We're Coming Down" playing]
[Jerry] Wait a minute. I think I just saw--
[announcer] Entering the arena,
D-Von and Bubba Ray, the Dudley Boyz.
[Jerry] Those cars weren't in very good shape
to begin with, were they?
[Ross] No they weren't. Road Dogg and K-Kwik wear the colors
of the Crimson Tide of Alabama.
The tag team title's on the line here in a Four Corner matchup.
Two men will start, one from either team or any team.
Anyone can tag at any time.
[Jerry] Boy, look at Steven Richards.
He is really hot at the Dudleys, isn't he?
[Ross] Well, that just breaks my heart.
[Jerry] Yeah, me too.
What about K-Kwik and Road Dogg, Edge and Christian
refer to them as the Rapping Reekazoids?
What is he-- did you see Road Dogg's hair when he came out here?
He looked like Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch movie.
[Ross] And I don't know who it's gonna be.
Mike Chioda, the referee here.
Some-- well, D-Von Dudley being double teamed
by the Tag Team Champions, Right to Censor.
[Jerry] They got Right to Censor riled up big time.
[Ross] And there is a first cover of this matchup.
Two!
[Ross] Another unique set of rules here with four teams in one match.
[Jerry] That's the Four Corners, huh?
There's a team in every corner.
[Ross] There you go.
You're right on top of your game tonight there, pal.
[Jerry] See? And you accuse me of never preparing.
Come on, D-Von!
[Ross] There's a knockdown by Bull Buchanan.
Tags in his partner The Goodfather.
Doesn't have to be his partner, but it could-- it can be anybody.
[Jerry] Why just tag anybody other than your partner though?
[Ross] Well, I think as this match unfolds,
we may see that happen, but it's a good point.
If you're in control, stay in control.
[Jerry] Woo-woo!
Remember when the good old days, when The Ho Train used to arrive?
[Ross] Oh, it's been derailed, The Ho Train.
-[Jerry] Right. -[Ross] And Bubba Ray Dudley
trying to derail The Goodfather.
[Jerry] Quite frankly, I miss the Hos.
[Ross] Oh, man. The Dudleys
just did a number on The Goodfather.
There's a cover and D-Von got a near fall.
[Jerry] Do you miss the Hos, JR?
[Ross] Well, certainly.
[Jerry] I used to really hang out with the Hos a lot.
I used to see them walking and then you know…
-[Ross] Easy. -[indistinct chatter]
-[Jerry] They are. -[Ross mutters indistinctly]
[Jerry] Look at that hair.
[Ross] Road Dogg has a unique hairstyle to say the least.
[Jerry] Plenty of unique hairstyles in this match.
[Ross] And there was a tag made.
Goodfather didn't like the tag but Christian made the tag--
or Edge I should say, and Road Dogg now being isolated.
If Edge and Christian pin the Road Dogg,
-then Edge and Christian are… -[Jerry] Oh, look, look, look.
-[Ross] …the tag team champions. -[Jerry chuckles]
Did you see that?
[Ross] And…
these two boys, and Edge and Christian,
the former tag team champions, they are really full of themselves.
-There's no doubt about that. -[Jerry] What's wrong with that?
[Ross] Nothing. Nothing, if channelled the right way.
[Jerry] Hey, wait a minute.
-What the heck? -[Ross] Uh-oh!
-There's the-- -[Jerry] This is great!
[Ross] The cover! Pin it-- man.
[Jerry] Bubba Ray was doing a Road Dogg impersonation
and Road Dogg caught sight of it
and he-- they nailed each other,
much to the delight of Edge and Christian.
[Ross] I'm not sure if Bubba should be doing any dancing.
[Jerry] Wait a minute.
[crowd] We want tables!
[Jerry] There's so many people here in Birmingham.
[crowd chanting] We want tables!
[Ross] They want tables, and three teams want tag team titles.
[crowd chanting] We want tables!
[Ross] RTC, the champions, have no advantage
going into this match as the tag team champions.
[Jerry] Hey. Whoa!
[Ross] Nice teamwork by the Road Dogg and K-Kwik.
What's up, Alabama?
[Ross] K-Kwik certainly a…
[Jerry] K-Kwik can bust a move or two in a minute here.
[Ross] …very promising young rookie here in the World Wrestling Entertainment.
[Jerry] Look at this.
Oh, man!
-[Ross] Well, this kid is athletic. -[Jerry] Look.
[chuckles]
[Ross] I could never do that, even in junior high.
[Jerry chuckles] Is that right?
[Ross] There's the reversal by Edge, and look at Christian.
You had to believe-- oh, we'll see it coming.
Christian was gonna do something
and now the-- now,
Edge tagging in his brother Christian,
who apparently, these two men are gonna focus now on K-Kwik's shoulder.
[Jerry] K-Kwik comes from an athletic family.
His father invented the limbo dance.
Remember the limbo dance?
-[Ross] He did? -[Jerry] Yeah,
trying to sneak into a pay toilet.
[Ross] Oh!
Man, that's a low blow.
[Jerry] Yeah. Who would think low?
[Ross] And Edge now isolating K-Kwik and really nice teamwork,
Edge bringing Kwik back into the Edge-Christian corner.
[Jerry] Well, I mean, you know, that-- that's why
if you ask me, I've gotta favor Edge
and Christian in this matchup. If they keep focused,
they know that the-- well, they are a team in this thing.
[Ross] Well, they have nice hair.
Armbar takedown. I know you like that.
And there's-- the leg is hooked.
Here we go! Oh! A near fall.
[Jerry] Now see, this is very distracting to Edge and Christian.
[crowd chanting] We want tables!
[Ross] Fans here at this matchup loudly chanting, "We want tables!"
[Jerry] Do they not have tables at home?
[Ross] Of course, they do.
[Jerry] Do they want tables for Christmas? What's the deal?
[Ross] I think that they want tables from Armageddon,
and they don't even have to be gift wrapped.
[Ross] And-- wait a minute.
What the-- blind tag.
The Goodfather just tagged himself back in.
All that work that Edge and Christian did,
well, for naught apparently because The Goodfather
got the tag back in.
He's working on that injured shoulder of K-Kwik that Edge and Christian started.
[Jerry] Man, they'll pull that thing right out of the socket if they're not careful.
-Do you wanna give it up? -[Road Dogg] Get up!
[Ross] Goodfather looking for that submission in the hammerlock.
K-Kwik's got a busted lip, it looks like.
Got blood on his teeth.
[Jerry] Look at Goodfather's hairstyle.
[Mike] Come on. Keep it down.
[Bubba] Shut up.
[Ross] There's a tag and here comes Bull Buchanan.
[Jerry] Why doesn't everybody look good like that, JR?
[Ross] I just don't care about that.
-Oh, man! Look at this power. -[Jerry] Oh, man!
[Ross] A lot of strength by Bull Buchanan.
[Jerry] Oh, that Bull is so strong.
[Ross] RTC. And there's a-- there's a tag.
Now, Bull's gotta go and Edge back in.
[Jerry] I bet K-Kwik was glad of that.
[Ross] You gotta stay in your corner when you get the advantage.
Edge and Christian should stay right there.
They got a good chance of walking out of here the tag titles if they can.
Easier said than done.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Gonna have here, this is gonna reek of awesomeness.
Uh-oh! Wait a minute.
-[Ross] It reeked of stupidity. -[Jerry] Oh!
[Ross] Edge milking the crowd, for what?
And he paid for it and now he-- both men are down.
Edge has gotta-- you need to pull K-Kwik back into the corner
and then tag his-- and then tag Christian.
It's that simple.
-And-- -[Jerry] Oh, look at this.
[Ross] Oh. Now, that was a pretty smart move by Christian, King.
-Oh, K-Kwik got the tag on the other side. -[Jerry] Wait a minute.
[Ross] And there are the Dudleys.
Here comes-- Bubba Ray's in.
-[Jerry] Oh, man! -[Ross] And Edge is the legal man,
I think, has got hotshotted.
Come on, bitch!
[Ross] Oh! Oh my God!
What elevation.
-[Jerry] Oh, man. -[Ross] Sidewalk slam by Bubba Ray
and these Dudleys
[Jerry] They're on fire right now.
[Ross] They are gonna be hard pressed not to win the tag titles here.
[Jerry] Wait a minute. We got everybody in the ring.
[Ross] All eight men there.
Hey, wait.
Goodfather over the top.
-[Jerry] We got seven. -[crowd chanting] We want tables!
[Jerry] Everybody in here wants tables.
[Ross] All right. The other RTC, Bull Buchanan,
tossed to the outside.
[Jerry] Look out!
Oh, my gosh.
Caught in midair.
[Ross] And then this ain't nice.
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Ross] Shoulder breaker.
K-Kwik got the shoulder breaker,
and here comes Road Dogg with a double clothesline.
[Jerry] Off the ring apron.
-Oh! -[Ross] Oh, what a superkick by Steven.
That white-socks-wearing nerd with a cheap shot on the Road Dogg.
[Jerry] Wait a minute. Look at what's going on in the ring.
Are you ready for this?
Wassup!
[chuckling]
Look out, D-Von!
-Whoa. -[Ross] D-Von, use your head.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] And now what?
-[Jerry] What do you think? -[Ross] What's Bubba got on his mind?
Table!
[crowd cheering]
Get the table!
[Ross] Bubba's almost euphoric.
I think Bubba's got wood on his mind.
[Jerry] And D-Von's got it in his hand.
The tables have arrived.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Hey, look out.
[Ross] Oh.
Hey, that's an ingenious use of the tables.
[Jerry] Gotta use the one table. I think there's more under there.
[Ross] Oh, no. First team to get the pin wins the tag team titles.
[Jerry] Look out.
[Ross] Clothesline off the top.
That should just about do it for Edge
and-- oh, Christian just pulled Bubba out of the ring.
[Jerry] Nice slide there.
[Ross] And Bull Buchanan back in.
[Jerry] Oh, 3D!
[Ross] 3D is right.
Bull Buchanan landed right on Bubba.
[Jerry] I don't think Bubba even cares.
Bubba's putting that foot right on the head of-- and another one.
-Yes! -[Ross] Another 3D on RTC.
[Jerry] I say that Dudley's got it going on, JR.
Again?
[Ross] The Dudleys are dominating.
Those damn Dudleys are gonna win the tag titles.
[Jerry] We're gonna get wassup.
We got two wassups.
Look out. Oh.
We got two too.
[Ross] Another low blow by D-Von Dudley,
undetected by the referee.
[Jerry] Look at this. Steven Rich-- oh.
[Ross] And a DD-- oh, Steven Richards just taken out--
and now a spear by-- wait a minute.
Hey, wait.
And Bubba Dudley got his shoulder up.
[Jerry] How'd he do that?
[Ross] I thought the Dudleys were gonna get screwed right there
with D-Von getting taken out by the DDT on the outside.
[Jerry] Got DDT'd right on that table.
[Ross] Oh!
Higher you can do it-- well, a high impact there just took out Bubba.
Christian got-- Christian's not the legal man!
-[Jerry] Got him. -[Ross] Come on!
[Jerry] Oh, Edge is the legal man, right?
[Ross] We got new tag champs.
[announcer] The winners of this bout
and new World Wrestling Entertainment Tag Team Champions,
Christian and Edge.
[Jerry] JR, this reeks of awesomeness.
[Ross] Well, I'll tell you what.
Christian was not the legal man when he nailed Bubba Ray Dudley,
allowing Edge to get the one, two, three.
-[Jerry] Wow. -[Ross] Bottom line
is that those two young men are four times
WWE Tag Team Champions.
["Metalingus" playing]
[Ross] Oh that's-- this reeks of sucking.
Three weeks since you were in that car that Austin dropped from that forklift.
I mean, it's a miracle that you survived.
And now you're gonna put your body on the line,
not only against Austin,
but against Rock, against the Undertaker,
-against Rikishi and-- -Steph.
The World Wrestling Entertainment Championship
is the most important thing in the world to me.
It's my life.
I'm The Game. What good am I if I'm not the best?
And I know-- I know you remember what happened last year.
I know you remember Hell in the Cell.
I ended Mick Foley's career.
But I know you remember what happened to me.
I was beaten, barbed wire, I was bloody.
I spit up blood for a damn week.
Oh, yeah. And what about the last three weeks
when you've been coughing up blood everywhere?
Steph, it doesn't matter.
Understand that it doesn't matter to me.
I don't care what it takes.
If I have to put my body, my health on the line, it doesn't matter.
This is the most important thing in the world to me.
This is what I do.
This is my life.
You should know that better than anybody else.
I don't care if it takes me my last damn breath.
I will be the World Wrestling Entertainment Champion again.
No one will stop me.
The cell is not gonna stop me.
Austin will not stop me.
Taker, The Rock, Rikishi, Angle,
nobody will stop me until I get what I want,
and that is to be the World Wrestling Entertainment Champion.
[Jerry] Be careful, Triple H.
It's really dangerous up there.
You saw what happened the last time.
[Ross] Oh, no.
This is not good at all.
Cactus Jack,
trying to get to the top of the cage.
-[Jerry] Oh, oh, no. -[Ross] He's getting hammered.
He's almost to the top of the cage.
-Oh, Cactus-- -[Jerry] Look out.
[Ross] Oh, for God's sakes!
Oh, my God!
Cactus is broken in half!
[Jerry] That's it. It's finally over.
-[Ross] And Triple H-- I can't. -[Jerry] Kiss the career goodbye.
[Ross] Oh, Mick is hurt.
["I've Got It All" playing]
[Ross] Another Hell in a Cell moment.
More history will be made tonight as we prepare
for the Intercontinental Championship.
[bell ringing]
[announcer] The following contest scheduled for one fall
is for the World Wrestling Entertainment Intercontinental Championship.
Introducing first, weighing 264 pounds,
the Intercontinental Champion,
"The One" Billy Gunn.
[Ross] Well, "The One" Billy Gunn set to defend the Intercontinental title.
He's been called the best athlete in the WWE.
[Jerry] Wait a minute. Who called him that?
[Ross] Well, I call him that.
Others have called him that.
[Jerry] Chris Benoit never called him that.
["Shooter" playing]
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Well, it's not about potential.
[announcer] His opponent and challenger from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
weighing 229 pounds, Chris Benoit.
[Jerry] It's about results, ain't it, JR?
[Ross] Absolutely. And I'll tell you something else,
it may be a show of disrespect.
Our Intercontinental Champion is wearing two earrings.
I don't think I've ever seen a champion defend a title,
that I can recall, wearing earrings.
I bet this phony, old Oklahoma redneck,
-I can't help it, but I got a feeling… -[bell ringing]
[Ross] …Benoit may make a-- he may make use of that.
[Jerry] What's two earrings mean? Anything?
[Ross] I don't know. Hell if I know.
[Jerry] Like jewelry?
[Ross] I got no piercings.
I don't know anything about them.
Collar-and-elbow tie-up here as he--
-Chris Benoit -Come on, break it off.
[Ross] who says he is the best technical wrestler the WWE,
-I can't argue that point. -[Jerry] Right.
Back off, you nothing.
[Ross] A challenger here for the Intercontinental title.
All right.
[Ross] Talking about Billy Gunn's athleticism,
he's six-five, 260, has one of the highest vertical leap in the WWE.
An outstanding athlete in several sports,
but this is not several sports.
This is one.
And Chris Benoit says he's the best at it.
[Jerry] The best technical wrestler in the--
he says in the history of the WWE.
-[Ross] Well that-- -[Jerry] He certainly means right now.
[Ross] That covers a lot of ground. There's no doubt about it.
[Jerry] But he's not the Intercontinental Champion, is he?
[Ross] No, he isn't.
And, uh, this is our third of five title matches.
Nice drop toehold.
An arm drag takeover.
And make it a pair by "The One" Billy Gunn.
Hip block, nice move.
Going for the cover.
A bit too early for that as Benoit kicked out easily.
[Jerry] You know what I think happens in a lot of Benoit's matches?
He goes around, claiming to be the best technical wrestler in the WWE,
and then when he gets in the match,
all his opponents wanna try to prove him wrong.
So, they go out there and they start all this technical wrestling
and then they find out Benoit really is the best technical wrestler in the WWE.
That's why everyone loses to the guy.
[Ross] Yeah. He's also one of the best brawlers, King.
How would you face him?
What would you do strategically?
[Jerry] Well, I don't know. I saw when, uh,
-"Stone Cold" Steve Austin tried to… -[Ross] Oh, man.
[Jerry] ..tried to brawl with him. He can-- you're right.
He hung with The Rattlesnake, didn't he?
[Ross] Yeah.
Benoit hangs with everybody
whether you like him or you don't and-- oh.
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Ross] Billy Gunn.
There's a great case of Benoit using Billy Gunn's own momentum,
side stepping him and taking Billy right to the steps.
[Jerry] Nothing technical about that.
As a matter of fact, if you were, uh, gonna try to compete on a technical level,
you'd still be inside the ring, not out there having to deal with metal steps.
[Ross] Benoit has an XFL linebacker mentality.
-[Jerry laughs] -[Ross] You'd lot rather he hit you
in the mouth than do anything artistic.
And a shot back of the leg.
[Tim] Three!
[Ross] He may have-- hey may have charley horsed that thigh
which is painful as heck in those ring steps.
[Jerry] Speaking of painful, that's a great thing about Benoit.
He knows-- he hurts you every time he touches you.
He knows where to touch you,
how to hurt you with everything that he does.
No wasted motion, no wasted movement.
[Ross] As certainly not.
And Benoit now focusing on that knee.
He saw he injured that, uh, that appendage
-and now he's gonna expose it… -[Jerry] Oh, watch it.
-[Ross] …even more. -[Jerry] He'll hurt you too, referee.
[Ross] Benoit, the master of the Crippler Crossface,
and I thought perhaps that would be his focus.
It seemed as though Billy had rotator cuff surgery
just a few months ago.
[Jerry] Well, you don't wanna-- you don't wanna give away your game plan.
I'm sure he's got that in the back of his mind somewhere,
but you don't have to zero in on it right now.
[Ross] He may not have to use it now with that knee being damaged.
And another vile kick by Benoit right to the head of "The One" Billy Gunn.
[Jerry] Now that he's seen both those earrings Billy Gunn's wearing,
he may just, uh, maybe intent on inflicting a little punishment.
[Ross] Nice sunset flip here. Here we go.
Nice counter by Billy Gunn.
The One got the sunset flip.
And look at that dropkick right to the knee.
Benoit not going anywhere with that knee.
Very, very, sound strategy.
And Benoit, the lateral press.
[Jerry] I don't know how much that would-- does it hurt a lot
to have your earring ripped out?
[Ross] How would I know?
[Jerry] I don't know.
[Ross] I've never worn an earring.
My daddy would return from wherever he is and kick my butt.
[Jerry] I just think that-- oh.
Like you, if I went in there and my opponent had two earrings on,
I might try to pull one of them off or out.
[Ross] I would be thinking about it.
I don't think Benoit isn't-- hasn't crossed his mind, but right now,
Benoit's too busy trying to dismantle that knee of "The One" Billy Gunn.
And, uh, no matter you hurt-- oh!
-[Billy] Oh, Jesus! -[Jerry] Man.
[Ross] Leg whip-- legless takedown, which puts a lot of torque on that knee.
And "The One" Billy Gunn, I don't care how big or how strong you are,
in this position where he is, on the canvas, he's not-- uh,
that size, that power is absolutely irrelevant.
And now Benoit with the figure-four leglock,
one of the oldest maneuvers in the game.
One tap. Let me know.
[Jerry] Well, speaking of The Game, did you see how adamant
The Game was earlier there with his wife Stephanie?
-[Tim] Two. -[Ross] There-- look at the cover.
-I certainly did. -[Jerry] I think The Game
is willing to sacrifice body and soul…
-[Ross] Oh, he is. -[Jerry] …both
to be the WWE Champion again.
[Ross] No doubt about that. And he made it very emphatic that
the WWE title is the most important thing in his life,
which I found somewhat unusual saying that to his own wife.
-[Jerry] Uh-oh. Look at this. -[Ross] Oh, nice reversal.
"The One" Billy Gunn reversing the figure-four.
Pressure now is on Benoit.
He's gonna reach for the ropes and he
-[Jerry] He made it. -[Ross] He makes it.
[Tim] Break it. Let it go. Let it go.
-Everybody off. -[Ross] And the fighting Irishman,
Tim White stepping in and breaking the hold.
[Jerry] You know, I never got to comment earlier either.
I loved the--
I loved the statements made by our WWE Champion Kurt Angle earlier
when he referred to all of his opponents as of different body parts.
You know, he said he wasn't afraid of an eyebrow or a nose
or a bad ass or even a fat ass and not even a redneck.
Those are inflammatory comments to say the least, aren't they?
[Ross] Oh, yeah. And it's like when people are whistling
walking through the graveyard.
[Jerry] Look out. Oh!
[Ross] And The One trying to-- a little high risk move there, and Benoit
going behind the belly-to-back suplex, and Benoit maintaining the waistlock.
[Jerry] The patented winning move right here.
The suplex, as you would say in Oklahoma, until the cows come home.
[Ross] Dropping The One, the Intercontinental Champion,
right on his-- right on his head.
[Jerry] And then he'll suplex you when the cows get home.
[Ross] There's the trifecta there by Benoit, who right now,
is owning "The One" Billy Gunn
in this battle for the Intercontinental title.
-And Benoit-- -[Jerry] I smell a headbutt coming
from the top rope.
-[Ross] Benoit… -[Jerry] Man.
-Oh, no! -[Ross] …just barely missed
"The One" Billy Gunn barely.
And I mean, uh, within inches moving out of the way,
and Benoit ate a face full of canvas.
Two!
[Jerry] Well, that-- that's not usually on Benoit's diet either.
Three!
[Jerry] He's not used to that happening to him.
[Ross] "The One" Billy Gunn reaching down and trying-- addressing that left knee
that has been assaulted by Chris Benoit, who just missed his headbutt from the top.
[Jerry] But Billy's earrings are still intact.
[Ross] Billy blocks a right hand, throws a right hand of his own.
I think the Intercontinental Champion gonna turn it on here…
-[Jerry] Look out. -[Ross] …with this Powerslam.
There's a hook of the leg and a near fall.
-Two. -[Jerry] That was very close.
[Ross] All on two counts.
And, uh, The One somehow, even on one leg,
gotta use as much power as he can.
And he does.
Boy, that knee really bothering the Champion.
[Jerry] Yeah, it's hurting him big time.
[Ross] Yeah.
[Jerry] The question is, is he hurting-- is Billy hurting
Benoit enough to end this thing here?
Oh, that's a good one.
[Ross] Jackhammer.
But Billy's own knee buckled on him.
[Jerry] Yeah. I thought it was gonna go.
[Ross] Maybe he signaled for the Famouser,
-and he got it. -[Jerry] Got it.
[Ross] Trying to-- trying to capitalize.
There's the cover. Should be all.
Oh, my!
Benoit, left shoulder came shooting off the canvas.
[Jerry] You gotta admit, I think Billy Gunn would have had him
had he been able to get there and capitalize on that Famouser
just a little faster.
[Ross] Billy's knee, the worse for wear,
to say the least here.
[Jerry] Uh-oh. Look at this.
[Ross] And Billy Gunn…
-[Jerry] Oh, no. -[Ross] …looking for the cobra clutch.
And now, Benoit attempting the Crippler Crossface
on the Intercontinental Champion.
[Jerry] Look at this. He is like a rabid wolverine
and he's got no way he can't get it.
Look at-- look at Billy Gunn.
He's trying everything in-- oh.
[Ross] Well, Benoit in a burning mode to get that Crippler Crossface on.
-[Jerry] Hey, wait. -[Ross] But the six-five champion's
foot is on the rope,
and Benoit's gotta break the hold.
[Jerry] Well, if don't gotta-- yeah, he did.
[Ross] Or get disqualified and blow his chance
of winning the Intercontinental title.
[crowd chatter]
[Jerry] But the damage was done though.
[Ross] Benoit is a machine.
-He is a machine. -[Jerry] Oh!
[Ross] Oh, Billy's leg buckled again.
-[Jerry] Gave out. -[Ross] He couldn't get--
he couldn't get Benoit up and over.
Well, I'll tell you, what a bad break
this would be for the Intercontinental Champion
coming out of rotator cuff surgery, now he's damaged that knee.
[Jerry] He could have knee surgery.
[Ross] That would be a snakebit son of a gun in my view.
[Jerry] And I don't think-- I don't think Billy's damaged
his knees, Benoit's damaged it.
Either way, it's damaged.
[Ross] Fatigue setting in here on both these men as in a hard-hitting matchup.
Billy knocked back to the corner.
He's holding himself up by the ropes, it seems to me like.
[Jerry] I don't think-- I don't think Benoit gets fatigued.
Oh, man.
[Ross] Benoit doesn't make a lot of mistakes.
He is a machine to say the least.
There is the cover right there.
One, two, and Billy--
"The One" Billy Gunn kicking out.
[Jerry] Very, very close.
[Ross] You gotta wonder, King, how much
more gas does the champion have in his tank,
trying to compete here on one leg against a man the quality of Chris Benoit.
[Jerry] Oh. Well, Benoit is certainly taking the gas out of Billy's tank
-as we speak. -[Ross] Another suplex, lateral press.
[Jerry] Nope. Man.
-[Ross] I'll tell you what-- -[Jerry] I gotta hand it to Billy Gunn.
He's showing great resilience.
-[Ross] Wait a minute. -[Jerry] Look at this.
[Ross] Inside cradle. Here we go. No, we don't.
-A lot of resourcefulness… -[Jerry] No.
[Ross] …out of Benoit now.
Got the Crippler Crossface.
[Jerry] He's got him and it's bad.
[Ross] Benoit with the Crippler Crossface!
-[Jerry] There it is. -[Ross] And the champion taps out.
-["Shooter" playing] -[Ross] Benoit has done it…
with a sadistic Crippler Crossface.
[Jerry] He's a dangerous, dangerous man, JR.
[announcer] The winner of this match and new
World Wrestling Entertainment Intercontinental Champion,
Chris Benoit.
[Jerry] He can lock that Crippler Crossface on anybody at any time.
[Ross] The Rabid Wolverine came to Armageddon
and he's leaving with the Intercontinental title,
thanks to the Crippler Crossface, and the damage done to The One's knee.
[Jerry] Yeah, we witnessed it.
Tonight was Billy Gunn's Armageddon.
[Ross] Folks, earlier today, I had to opportunity to sit down
with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and he's running on caffeine.
You'll see what I mean.
["Shooter" playing]
I just-- I can't-- I can't get it.
I mean, I've been doing this over 20 years.
You know, I think I got pretty good instincts,
but I woke up at four o'clock this morning
thinking about how the Hell in a Cell ended Mick Foley's career.
I woke up this morning at four o'clock thinking about how the Hell in the Cell
damn sure shortened Shawn Michael's career.
How in God's name, Steve,
can you prepare for something like this tonight?
I don't think you can prepare for something like this really,
because, hell, I didn't even sleep last night.
You woke up at 4:00? I didn't even sleep.
I've been drinking coffee all day.
I just wanna get the damn match started,
and I think we'll just let everything fall as it may.
You know, you talk about Mick Foley and Shawn Michaels,
how it shortened one man's career and it ended the other.
Well, you can take all that tonight and multiply it times six
because it ain't gonna be nothing pretty.
It's gonna be flat out brutality.
I know that the man that orchestrated the plan to put you out of business,
and he damn near did it, is in this match, talking about Triple H.
And the man that drove the car, ran over you like a road kill,
Rikishi, in this matchup.
Is that a distraction or more motivation?
You're damn right it's motivation all the way, but I can't-- yeah.
And by the same token, I can't be distracted
by trying to extract too much revenge out of those guys
because the ultimate price is
the World Wrestling Entertainment Championship,
and that's what I'm setting my sights on.
Are they gonna get their ass whooped by Stone Cold? Damn right, they are.
But I'm looking for the World Wrestling Entertainment Championship belt,
and I think everybody in that ring is.
And I don't trust a sumbitch there.
And if someone in there trusts "Stone Cold" Steve Austin,
they're barking up the wrong tree.
And I can sit here and talk to you as much as you want to
but the bottom line is "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
wants to get the match started, whip somebody's ass,
and that's all I gotta say about that.
-[crowd cheering] -["Slow Death" playing]
-[Ross] He's ready, King. -[Jerry] He's ready.
-Oh, hey. -[bell ringing]
[announcer] The following contest is a Triple Threat Match
for the World Wrestling Entertainment Women's Championship.
Introducing first, Molly Holly.
[Jerry] Molly Holly, she looks like she's ready too, JR.
[Ross] This is a Triple Threat Match for the WWE Women's title.
And the first lady to score a pinfall or submission
-walks out of here with the gold. -["Emergency" playing]
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[Ross] And it could be-- [Jerry] Here we go.
[Ross] It could be this young Canadian.
-[Jerry] Oh, baby. -[announcer] Coming down the aisle,
Trish Stratus.
[Jerry] You know, Stone Cold was talking about coffee.
I told Trish earlier I'd like-- for she and I to stop by at Starbucks
and then we could go back to her place and let me grind her coffee.
Hoo-hoo.
[Ross] Will you get out of here?
-[Jerry] What? -[Ross] You'd make her pay for it
-unless you had a coupon. -[Jerry] Oh, look at that.
You know, Alan Greenspan is wrong.
Inflation is a good thing.
[Ross] I think Howard's a little--
-["Censorship" playing] -[Jerry] Oh, baby.
Oh. Here's a buzz killer.
[announcer] And introducing the World Wrestling Entertainment Women's Champion,
-Ivory. -[Ross] I think Ivory
should start dating The Fiend.
They'd have beautiful children.
[Jerry] Oh, my goodness.
Are they-- would they be allowed to breed?
[Ross] I wouldn't wanna go on a long car trip
with that-- uh, with that Ivory, let me tell you.
Ivory, the Women's Champion, putting her gold on the line.
-And again, in this environment, King… -[bell ringing]
[Ross] …in this Triple Threat Match, these rules,
it doesn't matter who's got the title coming in.
It's who gets the first pinfall or submission wins and wins the gold.
-[Jerry] Wait a minute, Molly. -[Ross] Ow.
[Jerry] Lay off Trish. Concentrate on that Ivory.
Oh. Leave Trish to me.
[Ross] That's a nice hard knife edge to the pectoralis area.
[Jerry] What area?
-Pectoralis area? -[Ross] Beautiful.
[Jerry] They got milk area.
-[Ross] Oh, look at that. -[Jerry] Oh, look at that. Oh, man.
[Ross] Monkey flip out, and Molly Holly knocked down
by the WWE Women's Champion, Ivory.
But if Ivory or, uh, Molly had their way
[Jerry] Ivory-- whoa!
[Ross] Beautiful dropkick by Molly.
[Jerry] A double dropkick.
[Ross] And inside cradle, Molly,
looking for the cover and Ivory had to break it up
because the pinfall would cost Ivory the WWE Women's title.
[Jerry] Oh, yeah. That's just about all she's got going for her.
Look at this.
[Ross] Oh, backslide.
And this time, it's Trish that interrupts the count,
the pinning predicament if you will.
Our fourth of five title matches.
[Jerry] Ivory, she-- look at this.
She's trying to horn in on everything.
Uh-oh.
They finally come to an agreement.
[Ross] And a double suplex by Ivory and Trish.
[Jerry] Let me ask you a question.
They got your favorite, uh, wrestling attire on in there.
[Ross] Well, a cheap shot by Ivory,
looking for the cover and Trish pulled Ivory off.
[Jerry] Get her, Trish.
Well, look at-- look at Ivory's wrestling attire.
Those long black pants.
Trish happens to get her wrestling gear at Victoria's Secret.
-[Ross] Nothing wrong with that. -[Jerry] Hey. No, you're right. Look out.
[Ross] Oh, double crossbody by Molly.
Oh, Molly got a near fall.
[Jerry] Very, very close.
[Ross] Ivory and, uh, Trish were busy with each other.
-[Jerry] Whoa. -[Ross] There goes Lilith.
[Jerry] Look out.
-[Ross] Oh, my. -[Jerry] Oh, yes.
[Ross] Easy, tiger.
Powerbomb.
[Jerry] Oh. Are you all right there, Trish?
[Ross] And from behind, the--
-[Jerry] Man. -[Ross] Molly tossed outside by Ivory.
Ivory going for the cover,
-and got-- and got it. -[bell ringing]
-["Censorship" playing] -[Ross] Molly did the work,
and Ivory got the cover.
[announcer] The winner of this bout and still Women's Champion, Ivory.
[Ross] A short, abrupt ending to this matchup.
[Jerry] Hey, wait a minute. Look who's here, JR.
[Ross] Oh, yeah, T & A.
Test and Albert.
Well, they're big shots.
[Jerry] Well, they're coming out to take care of Trish.
I mean, they can take care of Molly.
[Ross] Well, they're threatening Molly.
-[Jerry] Hey, look at this. -[Ross] And there's Crash.
-[Jerry] Ah, it's Crash. -[Ross] Crazy little Elroy.
Elroy challenging T & A to come get some.
[Jerry] Is he crazy?
Believe me, Elroy size does matter, get out of there.
-["Protection" playing] -[Ross] Hey, wait a minute.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] Oh, no.
-[Ross] Oh, my God, it's The Acolytes. -[Jerry] Oh, no. They're back.
[Ross] Bradshaw and Faarooq are back.
The APA back in business.
[Jerry] They look unwell and they look PO'd.
[Ross] T & A shut the APA down for a while.
[Jerry] No.
[Ross] And Farooq just manhandling Test.
[Jerry] Oh, boy.
[Ross] Oh, my God, the Clothesline from Hell by Bradshaw.
Bradshaw and Farooq dominant here.
[Jerry] This is not just a bad sign for T & A,
this is a bad sign for everybody in the WWE,
The Acolytes are back.
[Ross] And they just wanna whoop somebody's ass.
That's all they wanna do.
And it could be T & A.
A lasting ass-whooping by the APA.
Bradshaw and Farooq, they are back in business,
as this Clothesline from Hell will demonstrate.
[Jerry] Well, check this out. Wow.
And that Albert is a huge guy, at least his head is huge,
and he was planted with that.
The Acolytes are back.
[Ross] What's gonna happen here?
Undertaker fighting back.
He's fighting back. They're right above us, folks,
and I don't like it a damn bit.
[Jerry] Oh, my God.
-[Ross] Look out. Oh, my God! -[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Ross] My God Almighty!
My God Almighty! That'll kill him!
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] Oh, my God.
[Ross] As God is my witness, he is broken in half.
-My God, I-- -[Jerry] This is over.
-[Ross] I cannot believe what we just-- -[Jerry] This is over right here.
[crowd cheering]
-[Kevin] Rock, you are moments away… -[crowd cheering]
…from your first ever Hell in a Cell match.
Now, we know you're ready, but are you prepared?
Are you prepared--
[crowd cheering]
Finally, The Rock has come back to Birmingham.
[crowd cheering]
Birmingham, Alabama, tonight's the night, at Hell in a Cell,
careers on the line, WWE title on the line,
and make no mistake about it.
If The Rock has gotta go out there tonight
and face five pissed-off guys, he'll do it.
If The Rock has gotta go out there tonight
and put his career on the line, he'll do it.
If The Rock has gotta go out there tonight
and bleed from every single pore in his body
to become six-time WWE Champion, he'll do it.
[crowd cheering]
Now, as far as for tonight,
The Rock doesn't know whose careers will end,
The Rock doesn't know who will be made famous.
But The Rock does know that not one, not two, but three things will happen.
It's that The Rock is gonna sweat, The Rock is gonna bleed,
and just as sure as The Rock has earned the right and paid the price
to stand before you tonight,
to say The Rock will whip all their candy asses.
[crowd cheering]
[crowd chanting "Rocky"]
Tonight, The Rock is gonna walk straight into Hell
and walk out WWE Champion.
[crowd cheering]
If you smell what The Rock is cookin'.
["Know Your Role" playing]
[Ross] Yes, indeed. It is all on the line.
Six men for the first time in WWE history
will compete in the Hell in a Cell.
And yes, indeed, Lord, someone
is coming home to you with WWE gold.
There's six putting it on the line,
and here's how it all came together here tonight.
[Mick] Well, let's face it.
This year we have seen
a multi-layer hit-and-run automobile accident.
We have seen a man dropped
40 feet in an automobile off of a forklift.
We've even seen our WWE Champion Kurt Angel chokeslammed off of a stage.
But make no doubt about it,
it will come to an end in Armageddon
because six men will fight for the WWE Championship
in a Hell in a Cell match.
[Michael] Oh, my God. Hell in a Cell, six men at Armageddon.
[Ross] Mr. McMahon is here.
-[Jerry] He's here. He's back. -[Ross] Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
[Vince] Only a sadist like Mick Foley,
only someone with a demented, twisted mind could take six WWE Superstars
and put them in the most hellacious match ever.
You have to compete in this Hell in a Cell match this Sunday.
Think about it.
You've got more to lose than anyone else.
You've been there before of all people.
You know what Hell in a Cell is all about.
I don't like you in Hell in a Cell.
I don't like a lot of these guys in the Hell in a Cell match.
It's a lousy investment you're going in there.
I wanna protect my investment, all right?
-[Jerry] Oh. The Stunner. -[Ross] Oh. Oh, the Stunner.
[Ross] Austin just stunned Mr. McMahon.
-[Jerry] What? -[Ross] Well, now, wait a minute.
It's The Rock.
-[Jerry] What is The Rock gonna do? -[Ross] Oh, don't tell me.
-[Jerry] Oh, no, it's Mr. McMahon. -[Ross] The Rock--
[Jerry] Oh, no. Oh.
[Ross] A Rock Bottom.
Rock Bottom.
-[Jerry] What? -[Ross] Wait a minute.
Oh, my God. It's The Undertaker.
[Jerry] Please tell me he's not gonna do this.
-No. -[Ross] Oh, no. The Last Ride.
[Jerry] Vince.
[Ross] Oh, my God. The Last Ride.
[Jerry] I think that The Undertaker and The Rock,
and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin have made it clear to Mr. McMahon
that they wanna be a part of Hell in the Cell.
[Mick] Kiss my fat ass, Vince, and have a nice day.
-["O Fortuna" playing] -[Ross] It is a perverse…
-[Jerry] Satanic. -[Ross] …vile, diabolical structure.
[Michael] Hell in a Cell.
[Ross] Over two tons
-of unforgiving steel. -[Jerry] Satanic.
[Ross] We're gonna see six men for the first time in history--
[Michael] Inside Hell in a Cell
with the World Wrestling Entertainment title on the line.
[Ross] It will be every man for himself.
I do expect careers to be made
and maybe careers to be ended.
[Michael] Every man for himself.
[Jerry] There will be suffering, there will be blood.
[Michael] There's gonna be hell to pay.
[Jerry] The most dangerous match
in the World Wrestling Entertainment's history.
-[Michael] It's Armageddon. -[Ross] Oh, God.
-It looks like a car wreck. -[Michael] Every man for himself.
[Ross] This device of doom and destruction.
-[Jerry] Hell in a Cell. -[Mick] I do expect careers to be made
and maybe careers to be ended.
[Jerry] There will be suffering.
[Mick] There will be hell taking place inside that cell
until there is one WWE Champion.
[Ross] This is a war.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Ladies and gentlemen, I've had the privilege
of sitting here for over 20 years.
I don't have a good feeling about this.
Is this what sports entertainment is all about?
[Jerry] It's coming down, JR.
That cell, that massive steel cell.
It's coming down.
[Ross] This match must be won in the ring by pinfall or submission.
The man that scores the first pinfall or submission in the ring
will be the WWE Champion.
["My Time" playing]
[Ross] The first opponent or is he the first victim?
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] What must The Game be thinking about?
[Jerry] He's thinking about surviving this match.
-[bell ringing] -[announcer] The following contest
is the Hell in a Cell Match
for the World Wrestling Entertainment Championship.
Introducing first from Greenwich, Connecticut,
weighing 260 pounds,
"The Game" Triple H.
[Ross] As we have said throughout the night,
these Hell in a Cell moments,
it was Triple H who retired Mick Foley
back in February of this year
in this same very vile structure.
[Jerry] Yeah, and if you ask me, JR, that's the reason.
That's what's brought this match about tonight.
Foley's a bitter man.
He's retired thanks to a Hell in a Cell match
and he wants to see these other Superstars suffer the same fate as him.
[Ross] No one would know
the toll that the Hell in a Cell took on Triple H
better than his wife, Stephanie.
You saw, you heard her concerns
as she addressed her husband earlier tonight.
This match will have casualties.
Again, this match must be won in the ring
-by pinfall or submission. -["Bad Man" playing]
[Ross] And here comes
-a 400-plus-pound challenger. -[announcer] Weighing 424 pounds,
Rikishi.
♪ Want bad women, Bad cars, bad hoods ♪
[Ross] Is he prepared to suffer?
-Is he prepared to bleed? -[Jerry] Oh, I think so, JR.
This is the only man out of these six Superstars
who's never known what it felt like to be the WWE Champion.
He's never worn the WWE gold,
but perhaps tonight is Rikishi's night.
That's what he wants out of this match.
He's prepared to suffer.
[Ross] It was Triple H who devised that elaborate plan
to run down "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
It was Triple H who convinced Rikishi to be the wheel man
on that fateful night last November,
now 13 months ago.
-["Medal" playing] -[Jerry] Oh.
[crowd cheering]
[announcer] From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, weighing 229 pounds,
the World Wrestling Entertainment Champion,
-Kurt Angle. -[explosions]
[Jerry] Let me ask you this, JR.
Do you think that this great American hero,
when he was standing on that platform holding his hand in the air
representing United States of America, receiving those gold medals,
do you think at that moment he ever dreamed
he'd be in a sadistic Hell in a Cell match?
[Ross] No way in hell, and Rikishi,
who got nailed by Kurt Angle last week on SmackDown,
wants Angle in the ring now,
and this ain't Atlanta or this ain't 1996.
[Jerry] Oh, it was every man for himself there.
That's the way it's gonna be tonight.
-[bell tolling] -[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Keep listening to Limp Bizkit.
Listen to The Undertaker make his way to the ring.
♪ Deadman walking ♪
-["Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" playing] -[singer] ♪ Now I know ♪
♪ Y'all be lovin this right here ♪
[announcer] From Houston, Texas, weighing 330 pounds,
The Undertaker.
[Ross] Well, this man doesn't have a Limp Bizkit,
I can guarantee you.
He's got more testicular fortitude than maybe anybody in this matchup,
because The Undertaker has been to hell on more than one occasion
and, by God, he has survived.
[Jerry] Now, you heard what Shawn Michaels said.
The Undertaker, he transforms.
He becomes a different man.
He becomes an animal when he gets inside these Hell in a Cell matches.
[Jerry] Oh.
[Ross] The Undertaker is almost perverse
-and sadistic in his comments… -[Jerry] Look out.
[Ross] …he made earlier in the day.
And Kurt Angle is still our champion, has still not got into the cell.
[Jerry] Look at all of these officials in the ring just to keep these--
keep these opponents apart until this match starts.
[Ross] Well, we have a--
♪ If you smell What The Rock is cooking ♪
-["Know Your Role" playing] -[crowd cheering]
[announcer] From Miami, Florida, weighing 275 pounds,
The Rock.
[Ross] The Rock walking right into the cage, showing no fear,
and Kurt Angle still has yet to enter this hellacious cell.
[Jerry] You can't blame him.
Kurt Angle has the most to lose.
He can't be in any hurry to get in there with people like The Rock.
Sure. Everybody could lose their career, they could lose their health,
but Kurt Angle could lose all that plus the WWE Championship.
[Ross] And Angle doesn't have to be involved in a decision to lose this gold.
[Jerry] Look at The Rock.
-["I Won't Do What You Tell Me" playing] -[Jerry] Oh.
[crowd cheering]
[announcer] From Victoria, Texas, weighing 252 pounds,
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
[Ross] Stone Cold.
Walking in-- Austin making a beeline for Kurt Angle.
[Jerry] Here we go.
[Ross] Austin bringing Angle right into the--
-right into the cell. -[bell ringing]
[Ross] And this match is underway
and now, Austin landing right hands on the face of The Game.
[Jerry] Leave it to The Rattlesnake to get the mayhem started.
Look at this.
[Ross] Remember, the match has gotta be won in the ring.
We've got several officials here.
We'll have a standby official
because of the dangerous element,
the risk involved of being in this cell.
I don't-- wouldn't want to be senior referee, Earl Hebner.
The Rock and Rikishi here.
[Jerry] Everybody hammering away at each other.
Everybody hammering away at somebody, ramming faces into that steel wire.
An unforgiving side to this Hell in a Cell.
[Ross] Austin taking The Game down with a clothesline.
And The Rock knocking down the 400-plus-pound Rikishi.
And that's referee Tim White putting that chain around the door.
[Jerry] Locking it up with that huge padlock.
No way for these men to get out now.
[Ross] Indeed these men are immersed…
-[Jerry] Oh, look at this. -[Ross] …in a steel hell.
[Jerry] Poor Kurt Angle. Not only does he have to keep himself
[Ross] Oh, a near fall.
First one of the matchup, King.
[Jerry] Kurt Angle's gotta keep himself from being pinned,
but he's gotta watch out of the corner of his eyes
and watch his-- make sure nobody else gets pinned
or Kurt can lose his title that way.
[Ross] And Rikishi strangling The Rock on the outside.
[Jerry] What is The Undertaker-- what's he got?
What's The Undertaker putting on Kurt Angle?
What is this?
Referee, do something.
[Ross] There's nothing the referee can do.
[Jerry] What do you mean? He's just gonna stand by
and let-- watch this man be assaulted with some sort of weapon there?
[Ross] No disqualifications, King.
You know as well as I do, somebody's gonna get hurt here.
Stone Cold said he was willing to bleed.
He was willing to suffer.
You gotta believe that goes for every man in this matchup.
And now, Rikishi and The Rock back in the ring.
Looks like they're transactin' business
and Rock laying the smackdown on Rikishi
who retaliates and stops The People's Champion.
[Jerry] Oh, watch out here, Rock.
Oh, look at The Rock.
Man, he launched himself.
Did you see that, JR?
[Ross] The Rock, a 260-pound missile there.
[Jerry] Watch it.
It's hard to keep up with all the action.
These guys-- oh. Kurt Angle's got The Undertaker down now.
[Ross] Mr. McMahon tried last week to get these guys
to duck out of this match.
[Jerry] Can you blame him-- can you blame him, JR?
This is a multi-million-dollar investment.
This is--
this is probably a billion dollars' worth of talent in this ring.
Oh, and they're trying to destroy each other.
[Ross] Triple H with a facebuster on Stone Cold.
-But can't connect with a clothesline. -[Jerry] Oh!
[Ross] It's Austin with a Lou Thesz press.
Austin with the right hands on The Game.
[Jerry] Oh, I can't-- oh, I can't blame Vince McMahon
-for not wanting to see this. -[Ross] There's a cover.
Austin got the near fall.
If Austin had pinned Triple H, Austin would be the WWE Champion.
[Jerry] I believe Vince when he says he's sincerely concerned
about the health of these individuals and their welfare, but--
-[Ross] Oh, baloney. -[Jerry] What?
-You think it's just money? -[Ross] I think you're damn right
it's just money.
They're assets.
[Jerry] Yeah. They're huge assets.
-[Ross] They're accounting interest. -[Jerry] Oh, yeah.
[Ross] There's a cover there by Austin.
One, two-- oh, how close was that one?
[Jerry] Man, just think of the loss that Vince would suffer
if one of these great Superstars or more than one of them
were permanently injured or had to retire.
[Ross] He probably went out and bought big insurance policies
on each and every one of them.
[Jerry] And do you think somebody would insure a Hell in a Cell match?
Not even Lloyd's of London would touch that.
[Ross] I don't know, sometimes they're pretty stupid.
Down goes Austin with that high knee by The Game.
And then Kurt Angle, our champion, choking The Rock.
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
Triple H got "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
This is a good idea here.
Work on those knees of The Rattlesnake.
[Ross] And The Undertaker just took Rikishi up and down on the outside.
And now The Rock laying' the smackdown on the WWE Champion.
[Jerry] Oh, look out, Kurt.
-Whoa, look out, Kurt. Oh. -[Ross] Samoan drop by The Rock.
The Rock going for the cover.
-He's got the leg hook. -[Jerry] Whoa.
[Ross] Oh, and that was barely,
and I mean, by God, barely, got a shoulder up.
[Jerry] It's that intensity, pulling it out when you need it to.
[Ross] And those four men on the outside
better keep an eye on the ring-- in the ring.
[Jerry] I didn't see anybody getting in there
to try to stop Kurt Angle from being pinned by The Rock.
Everybody's tied up with their own problems right now.
[Ross] Undertaker just jerked up Kurt Angle
right out of the ring by his arm.
Never seen anything quite like that before.
Angle tossed back in.
And The Rock down.
And here comes The Undertaker.
Undertaker may be a Last Ride away from winning the WWE title here.
And Angle tossed on the outside.
[Jerry] Well, he's not gonna be able to do it inside the ring.
Of course he doesn't have to pin Kurt Angle
-to become the champion, does he? -[Ross] Exactly right.
[Jerry] But all of these guys need to understand one thing-- oh, man.
[Ross] Austin suplexed on the outside.
[Jerry] Looks like I see some blood on the chest of Austin.
Is somebody already bleeding?
You said it yourself, JR, this match has to be won inside the ring.
[Ross] That's the rules.
[Jerry] Right now there's nobody fighting inside the ring.
-[crowd chanting] Rocky! Rocky! -[Ross] Rikishi with the right hands
on his cousin, as he likes to say, his family member, The Rock.
[Jerry] Binding it up-- binding it up for The Rock.
-[Ross] Oh, stop it. -[Jerry] Rikishi trying to help The Rock
become a multimillionaire.
[Ross] Undertaker unloading some big old right-handed soup bones.
[Jerry] Oh, look at that.
[Ross] And the elbow on The Game, Kurt Angle now.
[Jerry] That proved Kurt Angle's playing no favorites.
He's every man for himself.
Kurt right after Rikishi there.
-Oh, man. -[Ross] Rikishi's hard head.
Austin has knocked down Triple H with an assist from The Undertaker.
[Jerry] Knocked him down really hard too.
[Ross] Austin stomping away on The Game.
[Jerry] Referee Earl Hebner,
you need to get around on this side over here.
We got a-- check out this clothesline one time.
-[Ross] Bam. -[Jerry] Man.
[Ross] Another right hand by The Undertaker.
This is-- this is so, so physically intense.
And now, The Game's face
-being rubbed on the steel. -[Jerry] Wait a minute.
Don't rake his nose off. What is he doing?
Referee, over there.
[Ross] From one side of the cage to the other,
The Rattlesnake
punishing and torturing The Game.
-[Jerry] Steve Austin. -[Ross] Oh, my God, Kurt Angle,
he's being manhandled by The Rock.
[Jerry] Where is he? Oh, my gosh, Kurt.
[Ross] The Undertaker measuring Rikishi.
[Jerry] Oh, look at-- look at what The Rattlesnake has done to--
done to Triple H with that steel cage, that cell.
-[Ross] And you can see that cut. -[Jerry] He's lacerated.
[Ross] Big time, as The Game lacerated.
-[Jerry] Oh, no. Look at this. -[Ross] Thanks to just that.
[Jerry] And look at Austin. He's not content.
He wants more.
That Austin's sick. You gotta admit it, JR.
[Ross] You gotta be sick to survive.
If you're not sick in this match, King,
you shouldn't be in it because this is a sick match.
[Jerry] Oh, that's a sickening sight right there.
Oh.
Gosh, he's gonna do it more.
What is he doing? He's a-- look at this.
[Ross] Austin looking over his shoulder, making sure no one was in the ring,
and The Game his face raked right down the steel
-from one side to the other. -[Jerry] Stop him. Someone, stop him.
[Jerry] Referee, stop this.
He's not gonna have a face left.
[Ross] All the way around the Hell in a Cell
and then right into the post.
[Jerry] Triple H is gonna be disfigured.
I'm telling you, only somebody like sadistic Stone Cold
would do something that to a fellow man like that.
[Ross] And just think Triple H's wife
is witnessing this back in the-- in the locker room area.
[Jerry] Stephanie, Stephanie, turn your face.
-Don't look. -[Ross] Oh, my God,
right on Austin's neck taking 424-pound Rikishi,
the biggest dead leg in the business
right on Austin's neck.
[Jerry] And that's not a good neck to begin with.
[Ross] And now Rikishi, is he gonna help or is he gonna hammer The Game?
[Jerry] There's that alliance.
At least-- at least two men-- uh-oh.
-[Ross] Oh, Triple H. -[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Look at this.
-Oh. -[Ross] Pedigree on Rikishi.
It could be over here.
-There's two. -[Jerry] Oh.
And The Rock saved the title for someone else.
[Jerry] Man.
[Ross] Huge right hands by The Rock.
[Jerry] I can hear those shots way over here. Uh-oh.
[Ross] DDT.
DDT on The Game.
[Jerry] Here comes Kurt.
[Ross] And Kurt Angle makes sure the three didn't go down.
-[Jerry] Oh, damn. -[Ross] Man, what a right hand.
[Jerry] And look at this.
[Ross] Oh, the Olympic Slam by Angle.
He just threw The Rock with the Olympic Slam.
[Jerry] This could be it. There's nobody to save him.
-[Ross] And now cover. -[Jerry] Out comes The Rattlesnake.
[Ross] Austin in.
Austin stopped the count.
[Jerry] Oh, no. Stunner.
[Ross] And it's gonna be over.
It's gonna be over here.
-Austin trying to get the cover. -[Jerry] Nope, not quite.
[Ross] And The Undertaker says, "Not now."
[Jerry] Deadman Incorporated, open for business.
-[Ross] Next victim. -[Jerry] No.
[Ross] Chokeslam.
The Rattlesnake got chokeslammed by The Undertaker,
who's now going for the cover.
[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Ross] Enough time, it was The Game pulling The Undertaker's foot.
Austin was trying to kick out,
but I don't know that he would have made it.
[Jerry] Boy, look at this. Vince McMahon has got to be--
he's gotta be concerned about this.
We're starting to see the carnage develop.
Look at Triple H.
-[Ross] Look at the velocity. -[Jerry] He's a bloody mess.
[Ross] The Undertaker throwing another human body at that steel.
[Jerry] This is Mr. McMahon's worst fear coming true.
These men aren't gonna stop
until they've completely destroyed each other.
[Ross] And that's exactly what we're seeing right before our eyes,
live here tonight in Sweet Home Alabama.
[Jerry] Watch it. They're coming right into your home here.
Oh.
[Ross] Shades of what The Undertaker did to The Heartbreak Kid three years ago.
[Jerry] And, he enjoyed it. He admitted he loved it.
[Ross] Austin almost beheaded Rikishi with a thunderous clothesline.
[Jerry] Oh, man.
[Ross] And now Austin's back on The Undertaker.
[Jerry] Look out.
[Ross] I don't know what he-- oh. He's landed right on his feet.
-[Jerry] How did he do that? -[Ross] Oh, wow.
And then Austin turned around right into the right hand
by the biggest man in this matchup, Rikishi.
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Ross] And he got the Lou Thesz press.
[Jerry] There we go.
He's opening a can of whoop-ass.
[Ross] And the man that drove down Austin 13 months ago.
-Hey, wait a minute. -[Jerry] What the hell?
[Ross] What the hell is this?
[Jerry] It's Vince. What's he doing?
[Ross] I have no-- McMahon and his stooges.
[Jerry] With some sort of truck.
All right. All right.
[Ross] What are they doing?
[Jerry] Backing some kind of truck up to the ring.
[Ross] I see that.
What is McMahon orchestrating here?
[Jerry] Oh, he hurt himself getting off of that truck.
Hook it up. Come on.
This is coming down.
-[Ross] What the hell is he-- -[Vince] This damn cage is coming down.
[Jerry] Wait a minute. He's brought--
he's commandeered a truck from the backstage area.
Look at this. They've ripped the door off the Hell in a Cell.
[Ross] McMahon has commandeered a truck
and they ripped the door off the Hell in a Cell.
I'm gonna take the whole damn thing down.
-[Jerry] He's gonna-- -Watch yourself. Coming back.
[Jerry] He's trying to rip the whole cell down.
Bring it all the way back.
-[Ross] I can't believe this. -[Vince] Bring this damn thing back.
Bring it back.
Come on, bring it back some more.
That's good.
-I want the whole damn thing to come down. -[Ross] While McMahon is trying to protect
his investment quite obviously here.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] He's got a construction crew.
They're gonna tear this ring down.
[Ross] Mr. McMahon vowed-- he vowed, King,
that this match would not take place.
I'm gonna take this cage back.
-[Jerry] This is Armageddon. -I'm gonna take this Hell in a Cell back.
[Ross] I can't believe what we're seeing.
McMahon almost like a demolition crew here.
[Ross] Well, Vince is a man of his word, as he--
-["Wreck" playing] -[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Wait a minute.
[Ross] It's Commissioner Mick Foley.
[Jerry] Wait a minute.
[Ross] What's Foley doing, King?
-Wait just a minute. -[Mick] I don't even know,
whether I'm not moving this…
This cage is coming down.
[overlapping chatter]
-You can't do that. -Yes, I can.
Come on. No, no, let's get a-- let's get
[Jerry] Look at this.
[Ross] The commissioner nailed it, powers it on Brisco.
-[Jerry] Uh-oh. -[Ross] Oh, now, the commissioner
looking it down the barrel of the-- of Mr. McMahon.
[Jerry] Don't you dare. He's a billionaire.
He owns this company.
Cane him, Vince, cane him.
-What? -Take him out.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] What's this?
[Ross] The commissioner is having McMahon taken out of here.
[Jerry] You can't do that.
He'll buy his own police department.
I own this damn place.
-[Jerry] He'll buy this town. -[Vince] I own this damn place.
Damn it, I own the WWE.
[Ross] Well, you don't own this building and this match is not gonna stop
if the commissioner's got anything to say about it.
[Jerry] I can't believe it. Mick Foley's had Vince McMahon removed
and now he's taking the stooges out--
I mean, well, Vince and his associates out too, Patterson and Brisco.
[Ross] Mick Foley, our commissioner's making damn sure
that we've got a WWE Champion here.
-[Jerry] Wait a minute. -[Ross] What's The Game doing?
[Jerry] Triple H is out of the-- he's out of the cell.
[Ross] Like bleeding profusely from that laceration thanks to Stone Cold.
[Jerry] The whole top of his head
had been practically ripped off. Look out.
[Ross] And Austin pounding The Game from behind.
-[Jerry] Get him back. -[Ross] Where was The Game headed?
[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Ross] My God, this has spilled out of the cage.
[Jerry] Done that all right. Look out.
[Ross] This is getting deadly and nasty here.
And again Triple H's face bouncing off the hood of that car.
[Jerry] Hey, that's a-- hey, wait a minute.
That's about a $90,000 camera.
Oh.
[Ross] He-- Austin just used a camera as a weapon.
[Jerry] Triple H went right through the sunroof.
Oh, no.
[Ross] Triple H's head and a splatter of blood on the hood of that car.
And there's The Rock, Kurt Angle, and Rikishi outside.
Here comes The Undertaker.
[Jerry] I'm telling you, I knew I had a bad feeling about this.
[Ross] There's not a damn soul left in the ring.
Mr. McMahon has commandeered a construction truck
and ripped the door right off the hinges.
[Jerry] Oh, my God.
[Ross] But the Hell in a Cell is continuing.
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Ross] Oh, God.
Austin face first right through that window.
[Jerry] Oh, my God. It's all right.
[Ross] Austin went face first right through the window of that truck.
[Jerry] Better get the paramedics out here now.
Look at Austin.
Watch Austin. Let's take a look back as he gets this camera,
the boom camera that's on.
The shot's coming from the camera. Watch this.
Look at Triple H. Oh.
[Ross] Austin has been-- his face rammed right through the window of that truck.
[crowd chatter]
[Ross] Austin has been busted wide open.
-[Jerry] And here's how. Oh, man. -[Ross] Right there.
The glass right in Austin's head.
[Jerry] Head first right through-- oh, wait.
What's happened here?
We knew this was going to be brutal, JR.
I told you, I had a bad, bad feeling about this match.
[Ross] The Game is bleeding.
And now The Rock looks like he's bleeding as well.
[Jerry] Foley, look at this.
Look what you've done, Foley.
[Ross] Mick Foley said he'd resign if anyone was seriously injured
in this matchup.
[Jerry] Well, you better get the papers out ready to sign and resign.
Austin's head's already been rammed through the windshield.
This is terrible.
Kurt, are you all right?
[Ross] Undertaker focusing on Kurt Angle here
amongst these ruins of cars.
[Jerry] Well this is-- this is--
[Ross] What is Rock doing here?
Rock and The Game on top of that car.
-[Jerry] Oh, God. Oh, no. -[Ross] Oh, God, no.
-You've gotta be kidding me. -[Jerry] You can't do this out here.
[Ross] Triple H trying to fight out of the Rock Bottom and there's a low blow.
There's a low blow on the top of that car.
[Jerry] Thank God Mr. McMahon was here tonight
to free these animals from that cell.
Get off! Damn it!
[Ross] My God, this carnage is…
25 or 30 minutes deep,
trial of this Hell in a Cell.
-[Jerry] Look out! -[Ross] Pedigree on the top of that car!
[Jerry] Dead for The Rock.
[Ross] The Rock just got Pedigreed on that automobile.
[Jerry] Kurt's back is bleeding.
[Ross] Oh, God, look at the carnage.
This is ungodly.
[Jerry] Look at-- look at Austin.
I don't even know how he's getting to his-- oh, that'll stop him!
[Ross] Austin bleeding profusely.
[Jerry] Can you imagine Austin's head run right through the window of a truck?
The Rock's busted now.
[Ross] Oh, Rock is bleeding.
For God's sake!
Where will it end?
[Jerry] Oh, it'll end with Foley resigning, I'm sure.
Look at this.
The Rock's nose is bleeding, his head is bleeding.
His eye is bleeding.
[Ross] And The Game with a taped right hand.
[Jerry] Do you see what we're having here?
This is a demolition derby.
These men are demolishing themselves, their bodies, their careers.
Oh, no, not Kurt!
Not through the windshield-- oh, God.
[Ross] Undertaker slamming the WWE Champion
on the hood of that automobile.
[Jerry] Thank God. I thought he was going through the windshield.
He's already cut.
[Ross] And bleeding from his back and his arm.
-[Jerry] Poor Kurt. -[Ross] This is carnage,
like I've never seen carnage.
Got carnage here.
[Jerry] Kurt doesn't need to be subjected to this kind of brutality.
[Ross] This is the most vile, aggressive environment
I've ever witnessed in 20 years.
[Jerry] Oh, look out! Oh, my gosh.
[Ross] And Angle going shoulder first into the car,
and Undertaker head first in the same junk car.
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[Ross] Austin-- oh, my God.
-You've got to be kidding me. -[Jerry] No, you can't do this.
[Ross] You've got to-- don't do it.
[Jerry] Look out. Oh!
[Ross] The Game almost went right through the windshield.
His head bounced off that car.
-Oh, my God. -[Jerry] I'm telling you, JR,
they said they would bleed. They said they would suffer.
They said they would do whatever it takes to become the WWE Champion
and every one of them meant it.
I don't know how-- I don't know how Kurt's gonna have to do it,
but this--
[Ross] And Triple H catapulted…
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Ross] …right into the hood--
the windshield of that car.
[Jerry] Watch it. The Rattlesnake got a-- one of those huge barrels.
Oh!
[Ross] Austin was going for Triple H's head.
[Jerry] Those barrels got to weigh a couple hundred pounds each.
[Ross] Good God Almighty.
[Jerry] If you don't believe that, just ask Kane what they weigh.
[Ross] And The Undertaker and Kurt Angle making their way back towards the ring.
[Jerry] Oh, my God, yeah, unfortunately they're making their way towards us, JR.
[Ross] Good God, all of them?
They got Angle's head right into the ring bell.
[Jerry] You heard The Undertaker say in these matches he transforms.
Look at this. He'll do it.
Oh, my God!
[Ross] Right on Angle's head, and now Undertaker choking Kurt Angle,
trying to choke the life out of WWE Champion.
It's like the American Badass is an animal possessed.
[Jerry] We don't have any official over here.
We gotta get somebody to help Kurt.
Come here, Hebner.
[Ross] There's nothing Hebner can do or an army of Hebners.
[Jerry] Oh, man.
[Ross] Straight right hand, knocking down Angle.
[Jerry] I'm ready to move, JR.
-[Ross] Remember the match has… -[Jerry] Get ready to run.
[Ross] …gotta be won in the ring,
but these men are just beating the holy hell out of each other,
and now The Undertaker.
[Jerry] I told you.
We're gonna get out of here, JR.
[Ross] Where are we gonna go?
[Jerry] I don't know, but I ain't staying here.
I don't want them to beat my arm again.
[Ross] Angle's got the steel chair.
[Jerry] Watch it, people. Watch it.
Look out. Oh.
[Ross] Oh, God Almighty.
Angle just hit The Undertaker between the eyes…
-[Jerry] Kurt, are you all right? -[Ross] …with a steel chair.
"Kurt, are you all right," damn it, King.
[Jerry] Kurt, are you okay?
You need some-- need some help?
[Ross] Oh, give him your water.
[Jerry] Well, he's-- he needs help.
[Ross] Undertaker busted wide open from ear to ear.
And Triple H is trying to get away from Austin.
[Jerry] Oh, my God.
[Ross] Triple H is climbing up top.
[Jerry] Don't go up there.
[Ross] My God, I don't believe it!
[Jerry] Bad things happen when people go to the top of that-- that cell.
Don't go.
-[crowd cheering] -[Ross] Triple H.
[Jerry] Look out.
Look at The Undertaker.
[Ross] Undertaker busted wide open and now hammers Angle.
Triple H trying to get away from Stone Cold.
[Jerry] Watch it.
[Ross] Kurt-- and Angle thrown on the concrete.
[Jerry] Stay out there.
Those people are your only protection.
[Ross] Oh, my God. Austin's trying to--
Austin's climbing to the top.
[Jerry] Don't do it, Rattlesnake.
[Ross] Austin climbing to the top.
[Jerry] The Game's already up there.
Don't do it.
[Ross] The Game looking the other way.
[Jerry] Oh, my God.
They're both up there. The Rattlesnake.
[Ross] Triple H is looking down for Austin.
Triple H is looking for Austin and he's right behind you!
-[Jerry] Look out! -[Ross] That son of a bitch!
[Jerry] There he is.
[Ross] Austin with the right hands!
-[Jerry] He is a-- -[Ross] Another right hand!
[Jerry] Oh!
-[Ross] Triple H-- -[Jerry] Oh!
Oh, my God. No, no!
-[Ross] My God! Triple H is near the edge! -[Jerry] No! Oh.
[Ross] The Game near the edge.
And now The Game retaliates on Austin.
[Jerry] Oh, my gosh.
Now look who's going up there.
[Ross] Now Kurt Angle's trying to get away from The Undertaker.
[Jerry] Kurt is doing anything to get away from the--
[Ross] For the love of God.
Austin got the Stunner!
Oh, my God. The Undertaker going on top of the cage.
-Brings back hellacious memories. -[Jerry] Oh, you're right.
You know what happens when The Undertaker goes to the top of the cage?
Just ask Mick Foley. Foley, are you watching this?
[Ross] Undertaker now on top.
[Jerry] Get out here, Foley.
[Ross] Who is The Undertaker going to make famous tonight at Armageddon?
[Jerry] Oh, my God.
Will The Undertaker throw The Rattlesnake off of that cage?
[Ross] A right hand by Austin.
[Jerry] Look out, Kurt. Oh.
[Ross] The Rock and Rikishi have beat the hell out of each other.
They're both on the floor.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] Oh, no. You know what?
Look at The Undertaker.
Maybe The Undertaker can be the one to fly off of that cell.
Maybe he can fly all the way to Hell.
[Ross] These four men just beating the hell out of each other.
[Jerry] Oh.
[Ross] Austin a right hand on Angle.
My God, they're so high up.
[Jerry] Oh, look out! Oh, Kurt's head rammed into that cell.
[Ross] Angle's head right into that support beam--
that steel support beam.
[Jerry] Do something, Rattlesnake.
Help Kurt.
Don't let The Undertaker finish him off.
Oh, look how dangerously close to the edge they are.
[Ross] Angle has been busted open at the hands of The Undertaker.
The WWE Champion is bleeding.
[Jerry] Huh?
Kurt's bleeding?
Kurt Angle's bleeding?
[Ross] And The Game's trying to climb down.
[Jerry] Kurt Angle's never bled.
[Ross] The Game is trying to climb down.
Maybe the smartest thing he's ever done.
[Jerry] Tell me that Kurt Angle's not bleeding.
I can't-- I didn't see that.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Austin grabbing The Game by the hair.
Will The Game break the ice?
And the-- Triple H just trying to get the hell off the top of the cell.
[Jerry] Oh, he's smart.
Oh, please.
Don't throw Kurt Angle off that cell, Undertaker.
Don't do it.
Oh, I think The Undertaker's just looking around to see where Kurt's gonna land.
[Ross] It's almost like The Undertaker is possessed,
a demonic possession overcoming The Undertaker.
And what-- and Rikishi now.
[Jerry] What?
[Ross] Rikishi trying to get the hell away from The Rock.
[Jerry] Rikishi can't climb up on that-- that cell.
He'll do anything to get away from The Rock, though.
Look at this.
He is--
[Ross] Kurt Angle bleeding right on the top of the cell.
-Rikishi-- -[Jerry] Rikishi's there.
[Ross] Rikishi, 424 pounds.
[Jerry] Oh.
[crowd cheering]
-[Ross] Oh, God. -[Jerry] Oh, my God.
He's got a chair.
[Ross] Undertaker's threatened the time keeper to throw him a chair
or, "I'll take your head off."
And The Undertaker got a chair.
[Jerry] Oh, Kurt.
-No! Oh! -[Ross] Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
A steel chair in the face of the champion,
and now Rikishi's got the chair.
-[Jerry] Whoa! -[Ross] And The Undertaker got it
right in the back of the head.
[Jerry] What a sight this is.
Look at those shots.
This is-- oh, look out. Oh!
[Ross] Rikishi assaulting The Undertaker and Kurt Angle with a steel chair.
The Rock fighting with The Game on the floor,
and there's Austin with The Game.
Good God Almighty.
Rikishi's eliminating The Undertaker and Kurt Angle.
[Jerry] This Rikishi is rotten to the core, isn't he?
I mean, he's taking potshots at everybody.
He's picking 'em off one by one.
Kurt, see if you can get down.
You need medical attention.
I don't think Kurt's ever seen his own blood before, JR.
[Ross] Well, he's seein' plenty of it now.
[Jerry] Oh, no. Look out, Kurt.
Here comes that rotten Rikishi again.
-[Ross] Rikishi's got that chair. -[Jerry] Look out, Kurt. Get away.
[Ross] He's using it as a weapon.
[Jerry] Oh, Kurt.
Kurt Angle intelligence.
[Ross] Get the hell off that cage.
-[Jerry] Oh, my God. -[Ross] Oh, The Undertaker's up.
-[Jerry] Oh, my God. -[Ross] The Undertaker's up.
[Jerry] Hello, Rikishi?
Whoa!
[Ross] Right hand by The Undertaker.
Rikishi on dream street.
[Jerry] Yes, he is.
Yes, he is.
[Ross] Oh, knelt down.
Oh, my God.
[Jerry] No.
Get down.
Somebody's-- one of you guys get down from there.
[Ross] The headbutt on the bloody head of Rikishi,
from the bloody head of The Undertaker,
who just got knocked down by the 424 pounder.
[Jerry] Well, I'm gonna tell you something, JR,
I just got a feeling The Undertaker's thrown--
he's thrown people,
but I got a feeling The Undertaker's gonna be thrown.
I got a feeling The Undertaker's gonna fly from that cell tonight.
-Uh-oh. -[Ross] No helping Rikishi, really.
-[Jerry] Uh-oh. -[Ross] Rikishi, really.
[Jerry] Oh, get away.
No, Rikishi, no!
[Ross] Oh, Rikishi on the edge.
You can see the end of the world from here.
[Jerry] Don't.
Don't.
-Oh, no. It's nearing. -[Ross] Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
Don't do it! Don't do it, Undertaker!
-[Jerry] No! -[Ross] Oh!
Good God! Oh, God!
Rikishi from up on top of the cage and into the bed of that truck!
I can't believe it
and neither can these warriors in this match.
Rikishi has been planted
by The Undertaker at the top of the cell.
[Jerry] My God, look at this.
420 pounds-- oh!
[Ross] My God, and the-- and this match continues.
[Jerry] Rikishi's body's been broken in two.
He's-- somebody help him.
Get help out here.
What?
[Ross] And now The Rock and Austin nose-to-nose.
It's anybody's ball game for the WWE title.
[Jerry] Look out. Here they go.
[Ross] Fighting last for-- The Rattlesnake and The Brahma Bull.
[Jerry] It's every man for himself, JR.
This is only right, and The King of Whoop Ass has been--
[Ross] Whoa!
[Jerry] And now they're smacking each other right there!
Ah! Oh!
-Stone Cold-- -[Ross] Austin looking for the Stunner.
Spinebuster.
Austin down with a spinebuster.
My God.
Rikishi's been-- he's been eliminated.
The Undertaker in a bloody mess on top of the cage.
[Jerry] Where's Kurt? Where's Kurt?
[Ross] And the WWE title is still on the line!
The title's still at stake!
Everyone is exhausted!
They've lost blood!
They've been battered, and you have The Rock.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] You gotta be kidding me.
Not now, not in the cell.
We're gonna see the People's Elbow?
[Ross] And The Rock pins Austin.
The Rock is-- and The Game makes sure that didn't go down.
Good God. Oh.
[Jerry] It looks like The Game's not over yet, JR.
[Ross] Stone Cold down.
The Rock to a knee. The Game up.
Three men hoping to be a champion,
Kurt Angle on the outside.
[Jerry] Where's The Undertaker?
He's still not able to get down from the top of that cell yet.
[Ross] The Rock now laying the smackdown on The Game.
This hellacious matchup,
the damnedest thing I've ever seen,
-it still continues. -[Jerry] Oh! No!
Look out!
[Ross] And there goes Rock Bottom!
Rock Bottom! It's over! It's over!
-[Jerry] No! -[Ross] And Austin makes--
Austin stopped the count.
[Jerry] So close.
[Ross] The Rock would've been the champion right there.
[Jerry] The Rock was in a--
I mean, he was within a hair of being the new WWE Champion.
-[Ross] But he's angry. -[Jerry] Oh, my God. Look at Kurt.
[Ross] It's every man for himself.
[Jerry] JR, I've seen-- I've seen the Olympics.
I've seen World Series.
I've seen Super Bowls, but I've never seen anything like this.
Kurt!
[Ross] If this son of a bitch ended now,
it lived up to all those expectations.
I guarantee you.
I've never seen anything like it.
[Jerry] But it ain't over, JR.
-It ain't over. Stunner. -[Ross] A Stunner!
[Jerry] Now it's over!
[Ross] Austin got the Stunner on The Rock!
-[Jerry] Now it's over. -[Ross] It may be over now!
It may be over now!
[Jerry] We've seen it.
-The Stunner on The Rock. -[Ross] Austin trying to get the cover.
Austin going for the cover,
and Triple H.
[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Ross] Oh, Triple H with a neckbreaker on Austin.
-Hey, wait a minute. -[Jerry] Look at Kurt.
-[bell rings] -[Ross] Kurt Angle.
-[Jerry] Look at Kurt. -[Ross] Kurt Angle pinned The Rock.
[Jerry] He just got a hand on top of The Rock.
[announcer] The winner of this bout and still
World Wrestling Entertainment Champion,
-Kurt Angle. -["Medal" playing]
[Ross] The Rock got nailed with a Stunner.
Austin was going for the cover, but he was stopped by The Game.
And Kurt Angle took advantage of the Stone Cold Stunner
to pin The Rock and retain the WWE title.
[Jerry] But look at this carnage, JR.
A billion dollars' worth of-- worth of talent.
Mr. McMahon has gotta be in shock.
[Ross] The Undertaker, a bloody mess on top of the cage
while Rikishi's broken body has yet to move in the back of that truck.
And Kurt Angle is still the WWE Champion.
[Jerry] But I don't think Kurt knows it.
I don't think he can believe it.
What a great champion.
He probably got another concussion, but what a great champion.
Look at this.
Oh, his ear is bleedin'.
He's bleedin' from every orifice.
[Ross] Kurt Angle's gonna walk out of Armageddon
a bloody mess,
-but with the WWE title. -[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Ross] And Austin nailed Angle with a Stunner.
["I Won't Do What You Tell Me" playing]
[Ross] Austin had one more Stunner left in him,
and he does deliver this special delivery to Kurt Angle,
but it's too late.
[Jerry] Oh, my God.
Kurt is still the champion, I think.
Yes.
This is just what Mr. McMahon feared.
This is-- this is carnage.
This is-- this is the afterbirth of this Hell in a Cell.
[Ross] My God, ladies and gentlemen,
have you ever seen anything like this in your life?
[Jerry] This is all on Mick Foley's hands.
[Ross] What a night for the WWE,
but what a night for Kurt Angle
and the war continues