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00:00Thanks very much, well, ladies and gentlemen, we are just moments away.
00:03The first fall of this two-out, three-fall match, King, will be in a street fight.
00:08Oh, you got that right.
00:09I don't know, I gotta think that that favors Triple H.
00:12And then the second fall will be inside a steel cage.
00:17Well, I don't know, I gotta think that that favors Triple H, JR.
00:21And the third fall, if necessary, in the ladder match, let's take you back, folks,
00:25to Survivor Series, when this personal animosity escalated off the page.
00:31The first ever elimination team for that is down to two men, Shawn Michaels and Triple H.
00:37I love it, these guys hate each other.
00:39I got it, swing, hit music, the cover, the cover, he's got it now.
00:45Shawn Michaels, Shawn Michaels is the world's champion.
00:49Triple H, how does it now feel to be the one sitting in the hospital bed
00:57watching me as the new world heavyweight champion?
01:05I've got something I want, Shawn, something that belongs to me.
01:09What the hell is Triple H?
01:11What's he doing here?
01:12What the hell is he doing here?
01:13They're going to go back.
01:14They hate each other.
01:15They're trying to completely destroy each other.
01:17Oh, no.
01:18Oh, my God.
01:18No.
01:19I'm not right there on the chair.
01:21Shawn Michaels, look at his face.
01:23My God.
01:24What has Triple H done to our champion?
01:27Hey, Shawn, you put your tail between your legs, you go home,
01:32because I am going to force you to admit it to yourself that now I am the man.
01:40And now I am the one that is twice as good as you.
01:44Shawn Hunter, after everything that you two have been through,
01:47it's clear to me that your world title match at Armageddon cannot be just a regular match.
01:54Your world title match at Armageddon will be two out of three falls.
02:00The first fall is going to be a street fight.
02:04The second fall will take place inside a steel cage.
02:12And if it goes to a third fall, well then, Hunter, you're going to have a chance to compete in a match that Shawn Michaels made famous.
02:21A ladder match.
02:23A ladder match.
02:26Shawn, Hunter, the end is near.
02:32The end is near.
02:39The end is near.
02:43The end is near.
02:47The end is near.
02:48Hey, Shawn, face back now.
02:50I am the man.
02:52I will cripple your ass.
02:55H-B-K is dead.
02:58You're going to find out, Hunter, that the heartbreak kid is alive and well.
03:02You're going to see the shoe stopper.
03:05You talk about hatred.
03:07Pure, unadulterated hate between Shawn Michaels and Triple H.
03:11And Triple H.
03:12The end is near.
03:13The end is near.
03:14The end is near.
03:20Time to play.
03:25Time to play the game.
03:41It's all about the game.
03:43And how you play it.
03:44It's all about control.
03:45And if you can take it.
03:47It's all about your debt.
03:48And if you can pay it.
03:50It's all about pain.
03:51And who's going to make it?
03:53I am the game.
03:54The bowling contest is for the World Heavyweight Championship.
03:58And it's scheduled for the best two out of three balls.
04:01The first ball will be a straight fight.
04:03The second ball will be held inside a steel cage.
04:07And the third ball, if necessary, will be a ladder back.
04:12At this time, accompanied by nature boy Ric Flair,
04:16here is the challenger from Greenwich, Connecticut,
04:20weighing 272 pounds, Triple H.
04:26Triple H is the number one contender
04:28for the World Heavyweight Championship.
04:30The Cerebral Assassin is a calculating career killer.
04:35And tonight, the game wants to win the world title.
04:39And it'll love to end Shawn Michaels' career here tonight.
04:44Well, it's it for all at Armageddon.
04:46You're right.
04:47We've heard it over and over.
04:48The end is near.
04:50And the game may be the end of Shawn Michaels.
04:52Time to play the game.
04:56This is such a personal matchup.
05:08Yes, it's for the richest prize in our business,
05:11as far as I'm concerned.
05:13The World Heavyweight Pack.
05:15But Shawn Michaels and Drew Bates, at one time, were best of friends.
05:19They were like brothers.
05:20I am your man, and I know you can't take me.
05:24But those days are long gone.
05:27They've come to an end.
05:28Uh-oh.
05:29I think I'm cute.
05:32I know I'm sexy.
05:34I've got some moves.
05:36They drive so cool.
05:38While I've got some moves.
05:40Everybody move on.
05:42I say cheer.
05:44Up and down.
05:46They fly.
05:47I'm just a sexy boy.
05:49Well, let me just say this, JR.
05:51It looks like HBK.
05:54It looks like the Showstoppers.
06:01But is it really?
06:03Or is it just Shawn Michaels?
06:06Well, I'll tell you what, Nick.
06:08From California, Texas, weighing 225 pounds,
06:11the World Heavyweight Champion,
06:14HBK, Shawn Michaels.
06:18The way we went off the wall last week with Shawn Michaels jumping up that semi.
06:23Right in.
06:24Driving his elbow into the black heart of Triple H,
06:28who was in approximately in that dumpster.
06:31I think that answers our question.
06:34Is it going to be Shawn Michaels or is it going to be HBK?
06:37And senior referee Earl Hedman will be officiating this hugely important man time.
06:44Well, I don't think it truly answered the question, JR.
06:48Sure.
06:49That was HBK.
06:50That wasn't a showstopper jumping off the top of that semi.
06:53But if you ask me, that was Shawn Michaels,
06:56who had to lay in wait and hit Triple H with a shovel to get Triple H into that position.
07:02I'm just a sexy boy.
07:03Now what's going to happen when they face each other nose to nose tonight?
07:07On the way to find out is to step back and watch this two out of three fall matchup.
07:12Shawn Michaels, a proud athlete.
07:14The soul of a warrior.
07:15I can't believe that Shawn Michaels had the audacity to taunt Nate.
07:19You don't taunt Rick Clear and get away with it.
07:21He's mocking him.
07:22Get him off!
07:23Get him off!
07:24Get him in it!
07:25Oh, referee Earl Hedman just made it.
07:27Did he go?
07:28I think he just made it.
07:29He just called the match.
07:30Already the bell hasn't sounded.
07:32Rick Clear been ejected?
07:34Clare can go take a shower!
07:39That race is absolutely livid.
07:42That is unfair to Clare.
07:43Well, I don't know if it is or it isn't but as the referees call this final and...
07:49What did Triple H do to deserve that?
07:50Or what did Clare do to deserve that?
07:51I don't have any idea.
07:52It doesn't matter.
07:53The call was made.
07:55And this is the first fall this match is a street fight.
07:59There's no displacement, there's no count outs.
08:02The match will continue until one man either loses by pinfall or submission.
08:07Anything goes in a street fight.
08:11They aren't exactly wearing their street clothes.
08:14I did hear that HBK used to walk down the street dressed like that.
08:18And again, these weapons.
08:20Oh boy, here we go.
08:21It's all legal.
08:22These two men can use anything.
08:25That's right.
08:27I wouldn't be surprised to see Shawn Michaels drive that semi in here up against the ring and try to jump off of it.
08:31Well, stay tuned.
08:33You never know.
08:35Triple H pulling that trash can from around the ring.
08:38Again, it's legal in this environment.
08:40Look at Shawn Michaels.
08:42Shawn Michaels, nobody home.
08:44And Triple H able to, he stepped right out of the way.
08:48And Shawn Michaels, was Triple H just a step quicker than Shawn Michaels?
08:53Whether he was or he wasn't, it's certainly a very smart move from the cerebral assassin.
09:00It's just hard to put into words what this comeback for Shawn Michaels has meant for so many of us.
09:05Away from the ring for over four years, King, after severely injuring his back back in 1998.
09:13I realize all that.
09:15But was it a smart decision to make that comeback?
09:18I mean, could it cost him his health in his, you know, in his later years?
09:22Well, I think you're, I think you're, you know the answer.
09:24Yes, it could.
09:25And he's done.
09:26But it's something Shawn Michaels had to do.
09:28Triple H choking away.
09:30It's legal, but nothing the referee can do about it.
09:34The referee in this fall.
09:35Only here to count the pin fall or ring the bell for submission.
09:39They can stay out of the ring and fight all over the building if you want, right?
09:44That's the way I see it.
09:45That's the way that the.
09:46The street.
09:47The street fight environment.
09:51I can't believe Shawn Michaels coming back after over four years.
09:56Now he just would be good, but to be great.
09:59Oh, Shawn Michaels thinks to become the world's heavyweight champion.
10:03And quite frankly, King, I don't know if another athlete in the world could have done that.
10:07Four years hiatus.
10:08Oh!
10:09Crossed body.
10:10Trying to connect with Triple H, but instead connected with a trash can.
10:15Got that right.
10:16That's a Shawn Michaels move against me.
10:19Triple H, for so long, lived in his view anyway, in the shadow of Shawn Michaels in the late 90s.
10:30I find it interesting that before Shawn Michaels is injured, Triple H had two title reigns.
10:35When Shawn Michaels got hurt and had to sit down for four years, Triple H has had ten different title reigns.
10:42Well, I think that, what you just said, proves Triple H's point.
10:47One shot, once Shawn Michaels was out of the way, Triple H became the man.
10:52Yeah, when he's out of the way, Triple H's truly in his heart, in his heart of hearts, in order to become the man.
10:58In any event, Shawn Michaels setting his table up.
11:02You're the one that said Triple H had a black heart.
11:05If that's the case, he don't care how he becomes the champion.
11:08As long as he's the champion.
11:09Good point.
11:10Wait a minute.
11:11A face lock by Shawn Michaels with that table set up.
11:13The first fall of this two-out-three-fall match.
11:14A streak fight.
11:15Locked.
11:16Triple H, the bigger and stronger of the two, is the number one contender.
11:17His size and strength came into play there.
11:18That's why I stay.
11:19Oh!
11:20Triple H in this contest.
11:21I'll tell you something else, King.
11:22Because as anything goes in this first fall, in my view, the first fall of this particular
11:26three-fall match is the most important fall of this entire contest.
11:27Do you think in your mind whoever scores this first fall, is not gonna win this entire
11:34match?
11:35I think because of the streak fight, because you gotta believe that whoever
11:39可以 for the five games, has fought?
11:40He's got a win.
11:41He's got a win.
11:42He's got a win.
11:43He's got a win.
11:44He's got a win.
11:45You know what?
11:46He's got a win.
11:47I had a win.
11:48That is to've seen him.
11:49He's got a win.
11:50That's a win.
11:51He's got a win.
11:52He's got a win.
11:53I've made a win.
11:54Because you've got to believe that whoever prevails in the first fall is going to punish and pulverize their opponent.
12:02So where that opponent may not be able to recuperate, no matter how resilient both these men are.
12:07He's got a good point, but believe me, oh man, he's a cerebral assassin.
12:14He's big and strong and he's smart.
12:17He got his foot up, saw it coming, and shoved that trash can right back in the face of the world's heavyweight champion.
12:22You've got to hand it to the game.
12:23So far, every one of these big high-risk, well, these patented HGK maneuvers has been thwarted.
12:30Thwarted by the game.
12:32Almost every single one of them.
12:33Thomas got his beat up in the face of the game.
12:36He's coming across the body.
12:37The game's trying to, he's trying to roll through.
12:40And another pound it up.
12:41No, he got a near fall.
12:42That is the power and strength advantage.
12:44And the Triple H works in on a bad wheel there, apparently.
12:49That quadricep all taped up.
12:52Obviously, in a lot of pain, giving him a lot of problem, but that's not going to stop Triple H, believe me.
12:58Mentor and advisor Rick Flair has been ejected from this contest unfairly.
13:04Probably cut Triple H's right leg off at the knee and he'd still compete here tonight.
13:08Well, we've seen him come back through great, great injury.
13:12Now what?
13:13For quadricep.
13:14The trickier injury, he sustained at Survivor Series.
13:18Oh, and a hard right hand.
13:21Come on, Triple H!
13:22Locking Shawn Michaels down.
13:24I can tell right now, the game has something devious in mind.
13:28Oh, here it is.
13:29Wait a second here.
13:31Two tables set up on the outside.
13:35Shawn Michaels.
13:36He's trying to counter the game.
13:40He did!
13:41He does!
13:41That took a lot out of Tampkin.
13:43But he bolts over.
13:44Hooks the four leg!
13:45It got a near fall out of it.
13:47In this first fall, street fight.
13:48Remember back at SummerSlam, Shawn Michaels' first match in over four years was a street fight.
13:56It was against the game.
13:58That hearty race-like high knee.
13:59And Triple H lost the match in a non-sanctioned match at SummerSlam to Shawn Michaels in the same basic environment.
14:07I realize that.
14:09Also, look at this.
14:10Where's Triple H going now?
14:11But Triple H has got to be smarter than just that last group I saw from him.
14:16He's going to have to avoid doing things.
14:18He's going to have to take a further injury to that right leg of his.
14:24You've got to wonder Triple H is able to separate his will to be the world's heavyweight champion from his personal animosity for the man he considered.
14:33Oh, his best friend.
14:35And that's a shot right to that lower back.
14:37And you've got to wonder, King, how vulnerable is Shawn Michaels' lower back?
14:41And will Shawn Michaels' back become a crucial factor in the outcome of this match?
14:47Well, it looks like it's becoming a target, that's for sure.
14:50Nobody knows better than Triple H the damage that that HBK or Shawn Michaels' back has suffered through the years.
14:57Much of it at the hands of Triple H.
14:59Remember the sledgehammer attack after Shawn Michaels beat Triple H at SummerSlam.
15:04Remember what we've seen Triple H do to Shawn Michaels using just one of these metal chairs.
15:08And it's all legal.
15:08I think you can see it again.
15:09And it's all legal in a street fight.
15:11And look at Shawn Michaels.
15:12Shawn Michaels countering.
15:14Oh, look at him.
15:15Takes the game.
15:16And the game now.
15:17We'll find out just how it feels to have that lower back punished as never before.
15:23Well, that looked like the showstopper to me.
15:27John Michaels, we know he can be a controversial.
15:31He can break as many rules inside the ring as anybody.
15:33And a hard-eyed reflip right after that backbreaker on the chair.
15:37And Triple H's lower back.
15:39That huge muscular back.
15:40Sandy Evans' hands on that.
15:42Another hard shot.
15:43And Michaels doing everything he's got to see in the game for that very uncomfortable ride with an even worse landing.
15:52But for the moment, the showstopper has showed up.
15:54And then he can stay for the party.
15:57The longer this first ball goes in this barbaric environment of a street fight and no disautification.
16:05And back to the back goes Shawn Michaels.
16:07He won't waste any motion now.
16:09But the longer this ball goes, it's just going to continue to shorten the career and take more and more out of both men.
16:17I'm surprised that Shawn Michaels doesn't go after that leg.
16:21I mean, that bandage on Triple H's right leg should be just like a big red bullseye.
16:26But that back's got to be the most vulnerable part of the anatomy for the game right now.
16:33And you can see it.
16:34You can feel it.
16:35And leave him.
16:35That garbage can, it'll leave the pin of a bullseye on Triple H's back.
16:40Again, around that lower back.
16:41And Shawn Michaels, whose lower back caused him to retire, essentially, for over four years.
16:50And now the game can see exactly how that whole thing is.
16:54HBK, sweet, sweet, sweet.
16:56What a counter by the game.
17:01And then torquing that knee and twisting the knee, taking it down with that 265 pounds right on the knee joint.
17:09I used to never see that happen to HBK.
17:11You'd never see the showstopper get that big superkick block.
17:15Would you, JR?
17:15Do you ever remember that?
17:16Look at this.
17:17Not very often.
17:18But is that a testament to he's a half a step slower or just the Cerebral Assassin's ability to counter?
17:25Well, it's probably a little bit of both.
17:27And if HBK or the showstopper is half a step slower, believe me, the Cerebral Assassin is going to take every advantage of the stand.
17:35Oh, my gosh.
17:38The game driving that knee right into the trash can.
17:42He has to miss.
17:44That's what he has to give up, JR.
17:45First ball would be over and Triple H would win it.
17:47And do you know how long then Shawn Michaels would last inside that steel cage?
17:51About 30 seconds.
17:52I don't like his chances if that were to occur.
17:55And again, the game, the well-named Cerebral Assassin is focusing on that left knee.
18:02And Shawn Michaels, back as a tip of his music, it was countered into a quick screw-like take-down by the game, twisting and turning on the knee joint as he dropped 265 on it.
18:17And you know what you've got to realize?
18:19If there's anybody, anybody in this game that knows the moves of Shawn Michaels, it is the game.
18:24It's Triple H.
18:25Well, there's no doubt about that.
18:26They travel together.
18:27They train together.
18:28They strategize together.
18:30One time they were virtually acceptable.
18:32And a chop block by the game.
18:34They're four to DX together.
18:35Oh, no, no, no, no.
18:37Referee again asking Shawn Michaels if he wants to give it up.
18:40And you heard the reply.
18:42It was a no, emphatically.
18:45And again, Triple H focusing on that one body block.
18:51I'll tell you what, Shawn Michaels had an advantage.
18:53He's got a decent speed coming in here.
18:55It's a nullifying one.
18:56It certainly will nullify it.
18:58It is a more of the smart tactics by the number one contender.
19:05You know, Triple H seems to me that he needs to be the world's heavyweight champion to exist.
19:11Well, in the WWE, he needs it.
19:13We heard Shawn Michaels say that.
19:14Shawn Michaels certainly believes that.
19:16That's what this is all about.
19:17Shawn is.
19:18Hey, Jolly from Nature Boy.
19:22Nature Boy has got detected, but he's enjoying this right now.
19:25I'm sure he's watching it on the monitor.
19:26In your four leg lock up.
19:27Cryed by the game on Shawn Michaels.
19:30And boy, Nature Boy.
19:33There's handiwork coming to the front here.
19:35Obviously, Flair has popped this.
19:37Great maneuver to Triple H.
19:39Oh, no.
19:40What do you say?
19:41What do you say?
19:41Michael's, I sure came in here wanting to protect his back.
19:44Not thinking perhaps that his knee may be the focus now from Triple H.
19:49And he'll think back on the strategy.
19:51With Michael's having all that speed and quickness.
19:54There's a little negate there, the cover.
19:56And the referee Earl ever found two.
19:58No, no, no.
19:58Man, the pain's got to be shooting through Shawn Michaels' body from the top of his head
20:03to the tip of his toes.
20:05Oh, you can't imagine, J.R.
20:06I've had this applied to me many times.
20:07You can't imagine the pain that you feel from this.
20:10I mean, just seeing it does not do it justice.
20:14Especially when you consider what happened preceding this figure four.
20:18The figure four alone is bad enough.
20:21The trash can, the leg take down.
20:25And Shawn Michaels trying to fall on his back,
20:27trying to get to those ropes which would at least fall to break.
20:31Come on, Shawn.
20:32Come on.
20:32John, what did he say?
20:33Cash.
20:35Triple H.
20:37He's not referring to Shawn as HBK.
20:40He's not referring to him as, he's calling Shawn Michaels.
20:44Come on, Shawn.
20:44Tap.
20:45Triple H.
20:47Sliding back to the center of the ring.
20:49In great position, and Shawn Michaels.
20:50Shoulders are down.
20:51So much pain.
20:53You almost forget their shoulders are down.
20:55They're down again.
20:56And he got another near fall.
20:57It's too late.
20:58I don't think I can recall someone remaining in this figure four for this length of time.
21:04You want me to tell you something?
21:06Well, there may be a reason for that.
21:08You know, this is personal.
21:10I don't think the Triple H just wants to beat Shawn.
21:12I think he wants to drag this thing out.
21:14I don't think he wants to humiliate him in the process.
21:16You know, Shawn Michaels trying, trying desperately to turn it, reverse the pressure here.
21:21Shawn Michaels reversing the figure four in the game quickly.
21:25Gets himself unhooked before the pressure becomes so great on his knees, he'll be in the same position Shawn Michaels is in.
21:32Look at this.
21:33The damage, I believe, is done, J.R.
21:34And now, here comes that trash can lid again.
21:36Michaels has lost his speed, quickness advantage here.
21:39The game back up to his vertical base with that weapon.
21:42Oh!
21:44Scramble brains and eggs.
21:46Who is smarter than Triple H?
21:48Where did you think?
21:49Where did everybody?
21:50This has got to be in here.
21:51Shawn Michaels.
21:53Well, I'll tell you what.
21:54Where did you think and where did everybody in this arena and where did Shawn Michaels think that Triple H was going to hit Shawn with that trash can lid?
22:00In the knee, right?
22:01Yeah, I would have guessed that.
22:02But where did he blast him?
22:03He scrambled his brains just like you said.
22:05Look at that shot, this is a trash can.
22:10Listen to this.
22:12Wow!
22:12That scrambled brains and eggs, let me tell you.
22:15That shot right to the head, and now they're on the outside.
22:17And again, in this first fall, the street fight can't be disqualified, can't be counted out.
22:23Shawn Michaels is currently able to stand in his bigger, stronger, more powerful adversary.
22:28The game now, imposing his will on the world's head of weight champion.
22:32A little Triple H, imposing a little bit of will on the referee as well.
22:36I don't know why the referee bothers to tell them to get back in the room.
22:38They can go anywhere they want now.
22:41Shawn Michaels' Texas-sized heart cannot be measured in inches and pounds, but he is still a human being.
22:48And when your body starts going, when it becomes dismembered and dismantled, as Triple H is doing here,
22:54he's still a human being, and I can't see Shawn Michaels being able to survive in the street fight much longer.
23:01Uh-oh, wait a minute.
23:02This is a street fight, you know.
23:04Look, where are these guys about to go?
23:06Oh, man!
23:07Let's see where Shawn's going.
23:09Shawn Michaels, what are you doing?
23:10That sheet metal.
23:12Metal wall.
23:15Triple H is thinking about something here.
23:17I don't know if you've got an evil mind, JR.
23:19Oh, he's got a sick mind.
23:20If I were you, Shawn, I would stumble, stagger, do whatever, crawl if you have to, and get away from that fire.
23:26Get back towards that.
23:27Got it.
23:28Uh-oh.
23:28That two-by-four has got, that's barbed wire.
23:33Uh-oh.
23:34Triple H has got a two-by-four loaded with barbed wire.
23:39And he's going to hit Shawn Michaels right in the face with it.
23:41What the hell?
23:43It's going to look like Wignall.
23:45I don't know.
23:45He has second thoughts.
23:46Is he showing that he's got a heart?
23:50He does have a heart.
23:53Wait a minute.
23:55Maybe he's just got a better idea.
23:58The hell is...
23:59He's just mesmerized by that fire.
24:09Oh, no!
24:10You've got to be...
24:11Oh, my God!
24:12The two-by-four is on fire!
24:15It's a run in fire!
24:16And the cerebral assassin with a sightseller to become the world's heavyweight champion.
24:23He did in his own sick mind.
24:25Triple H had a better...
24:26Oh, yeah!
24:27Shawn Michaels scored a kick.
24:29It may have been long, but maybe not.
24:32In any event, Shawn Michaels...
24:33Wait a minute.
24:36Now, Shawn Michaels has got that...
24:39Oh!
24:40Oh!
24:40Oh, my God!
24:41Oh, my God!
24:42Oh, my God!
24:43Shawn Michaels has hit the game right in the face with that barbed wire!
24:46The flaming barbed wire!
24:47The flaming barbed wire!
24:48The flaming barbed wire!
24:49The flaming barbed wire wrapped around a two-by-four!
24:53That was sick!
24:54That was sick!
24:56It was damn sick!
24:57And Shawn Michaels, not only did he want to rip Triple H's face off, he wanted to set him
25:02up...
25:03Look at it!
25:04Uh-oh!
25:05You see the buzz?
25:06Look at this, this is...
25:07Oh!
25:08That is heinous!
25:09That is heinous!
25:10And that's how high the stakes are!
25:12And the game has been busted open at the hands of the two-by-four, the burning two-by-four,
25:18and that barbed wire!
25:19And now I gotta face a fact here, Shawn Michaels would never have pulled a stunt like that!
25:25This is definitely HBK!
25:26This is definitely the showstopper now, JR!
25:28Shawn Michaels, he did it to the game and for the game to do it to the champion!
25:34And straight right hand by Shawn Michaels!
25:37His bad back!
25:38His knee has gotta be killing him!
25:40And look at the game!
25:41Trying to create a little distance!
25:42The game said, I don't know if I want any more of this!
25:45And that barbed wire rips off the forehead!
25:49Triple H nut goes flamed!
25:51And the seared effect on his face!
25:53Get him away!
25:54Come on!
25:55Triple H's head!
25:56Bouncing off that steel ring post like a basketball!
26:00And the bloody number one contender now!
26:02Who had a distinct advantage!
26:04Can you see if we need to get a close-up?
26:07Has Triple H's face been burned?
26:09The burn in his eyes or his face is burned?
26:12That could be worse than the blood!
26:14Whoa!
26:16Shawn Michaels, that trash can lid, again!
26:20I don't like to agree with you very often, JR!
26:22But now that I think about it, you're right!
26:24Whoever wins this first fall after this abuse they've both been put through!
26:28Is gonna have a huge advantage!
26:30And I say that because of the street fight rules in this first fall!
26:34And you see what these two men are taking out of each other!
26:37Out of themselves!
26:38Out of their body and soul in this first fall alone!
26:41Trying to absolutely destroy each other!
26:43All of a sudden the world champion!
26:45Oh!
26:46God!
26:47Oh!
26:48Jesus!
26:49God Almighty!
26:50That was a...
26:51A dropped toehold in Michaels' face!
26:53Crashing into that steel chair!
26:54He's out!
26:55He doesn't have a clue!
26:56And Michaels DDT!
26:57The game with a thunderous DDT!
26:58Taking down the world's heavyweight champion!
27:00And this street fight!
27:01This first fall of a potential three-fall match continues!
27:04And either one of these guys' last three-falls...
27:05Two more!
27:06Losing a lot of blood!
27:07One more look!
27:08They are just...
27:09Sean's head bounces off the chair!
27:10Oh my God!
27:11You hear that?
27:12A sickening fud of a man's skull against a steel folding chair!
27:13He's out!
27:14He's out!
27:15He's out!
27:16He's out!
27:17He's out!
27:18He's out!
27:19He's out!
27:20He's out!
27:21He's out!
27:22He's out!
27:23He's out!
27:24He's out!
27:25He's out!
27:26He's out!
27:27He's out!
27:28He's out!
27:29He's out!
27:30He's out!
27:31He's out!
27:32He's out!
27:33He's out!
27:34He's out!
27:35He's out!
27:36He's out!
27:37He's out!
27:38He's out!
27:39He's out!
27:40Oh!
27:41A legal logo in a street fight!
27:42You're right!
27:43The game going for that pedigree!
27:45All legal!
27:46And Shawn Michaels!
27:47And elevated himself right in the game's face!
27:50His bloody face!
27:51And the World's Champion, the Number One Contender, are both down!
27:54Oh look at this!
27:55Shawn Michaels is up!
27:56No!
27:57And he'll be damned!
27:58Shawn Michaels is down!
27:59Shawn Michaels is down!
28:00Shawn Michaels dipped up in the game, another chop block right on that bad knee, and now the game.
28:05The credit blows Shawn Michaels up. Pedigree! Got him! Got him with a pedigree!
28:11The pedigree by the game, the hook of the line, and Triple H wins the first ball!
28:17The winner of the first goal, Ripple!
28:20How big is that, JR? How huge is that?
28:23It's very big. We've always talked about Shawn Michaels' toughness, his resilience,
28:28he's a fearless competitor, but now he's got a bad wheel.
28:33And now, the second fall will be contested inside the steel cage!
28:40Oh my gosh. To win the fall, you must win it by either pinfall or escape through the door or over the top.
28:50In either case of escape, both feet must touch the floor.
28:56So the cage...
28:57They don't get any rest? They don't get any...
28:59They're gonna get enough...
29:00Recover?
29:01The only time they're gonna rest is, as this cage is lowering, pinfall or escape is the rules, as you heard.
29:09Boy, look at Triple H, how smart is he?
29:11He's loading up this ring with weapons that he can use during this cage match.
29:16Man, this is gonna be another bloodletting, if you ask me.
29:19Shawn Michaels on one leg now, down one fall.
29:23Triple H may make it two out of three, and Triple H's finest hour was, it'll be close to two years,
29:30it'll be two years in February, when he beat Stone Cold Steve Austin, two straight balls in a three-ball match.
29:35The cage still being lower.
29:36It could be over.
29:37This one may be this one.
29:38This whole thing now may be academic team, but that first ball taking so much out of both men.
29:47Well, the game is obviously hurting, but nothing compared to Shawn Michaels, who is down and has a decision on trying to fight this match on one leg.
29:56You're right.
29:57Shawn Michaels is here with us now, no doubt about that.
30:02HBK and the Showstopper have left the building.
30:05Well, I wouldn't say that.
30:06They left with that pedigree, JR, just like I told you.
30:09Well, we'll see about that.
30:10It's not over yet.
30:11Somebody's gotta win two falls, and right now the game is up one fall to none.
30:17Well, I told you, if you'll remember back, that the street fight, that first ball being a street fight favored Triple H.
30:22And now the cage favors Triple H.
30:24Well, Shawn Michaels beat the game in that Elimination Chamber back of the Survivor Series.
30:29Let's go!
30:30That was a little different.
30:31That wasn't a cage match.
30:32Oh, look out.
30:33Eric Bischoff, our general manager, adaptation of the cage.
30:37Oh, man!
30:38Let's face it.
30:39Shawn Michaels is right into the steel cage.
30:41It's over.
30:42He's history.
30:43Triple H is an amazing competitor.
30:46He lined up Michael.
30:47Oh, Shawn Michaels is a dangerous match.
30:52Oh, oh!
30:53Oh, Shawn Michaels is now busted open as well.
30:55Shawn Michaels has been lacerated.
30:57This steel cage, it'll rip you worse than that barbed wire if you're not careful.
31:01Oh, jeez!
31:02Two!
31:03Two!
31:04Two!
31:05Two!
31:06Two!
31:07Two!
31:08Two!
31:09Two!
31:10Three!
31:11Two!
31:12Three!
31:13Three!
31:14Three!
31:15Three!
31:16Three!
31:17Three!
31:18Three!
31:19Three!
31:20Three!
31:21Three!
31:22Three!
31:23Three!
31:24Three!
31:25Three!
31:26Three!
31:27Three!
31:28Three!
31:29Three!
31:30Three!
31:31Three!
31:32Three!
31:33Three!
31:34Three!
31:35Three!
31:36Three!
31:37Three!
31:38and take two balls from the game.
31:40I mean, there's a cheese grater.
31:47You're leaving Shawn Michaels epidermis all over that cage.
31:52What?
31:52That's his skin.
31:55The outer layer for Shawn Michaels.
32:01It's a shame to see this.
32:03Shawn Michaels who dominated the WWE until it was injured
32:06in 1998.
32:07That was HBK.
32:09That was the showstopper.
32:11This is Shawn Michaels.
32:12We knew this was going to happen, JR.
32:14No, who's we?
32:15You got a mouse in your pocket?
32:16I didn't we.
32:17I didn't know it was going to happen.
32:19I'm not counting Shawn Michaels out yet.
32:21I still believe.
32:22I still believe Shawn Michaels.
32:24His heart is beating, and he's got the stone of a warrior.
32:29He's not going to quit.
32:30These fans, they're dreaming.
32:31They're hoping that HBK can come back.
32:34Sorry, folks.
32:37We thought it would be Shawn Michaels back being the big factor in this match.
32:41That has not been the case.
32:43And Michaels will step off.
32:45He's been beat up.
32:46He's been battered.
32:47He's been fried.
32:49And it reverses the game.
32:51And the game was face first.
32:52Okay, okay.
32:53He's still got a little bit left.
32:54Shawn's still got something left there.
32:55Shawn Michaels came, coming back in the coming of the world.
32:58One of the great stories of all time in the WWE, and him retaining it here.
33:04Perhaps it even top that.
33:05After what we have seen in the first fall, Shawn Michaels on the Lutez press.
33:12And Shawn Michaels now with a straight right hand on the number one contender from late.
33:17And vintage HBK, I got to admit, vintage showstopper.
33:19But you wouldn't ordinarily see HBK just get flipped off like that after that dance press.
33:24And kind of those pistol moves.
33:26Hey, he's going to get out.
33:27Shawn Michaels trying to escape.
33:28He can win this match last second.
33:29Get over.
33:30Get out.
33:30Shawn Michaels goes on the top.
33:31And both feet hit the floor.
33:32It's over.
33:33And the game was at two straight.
33:34Shawn Michaels trying to bring Triple H back in the ring.
33:38And Manny talking about no man's land.
33:41These two on that top rope.
33:42And Michaels sliding right down the cage.
33:44He's got to keep a hold of his foot.
33:45Losing more skin and more hide.
33:47With the foot, Shawn.
33:48He's the world's champion.
33:49Shawn Michaels has got to stop the game.
33:51Or it's over.
33:52He's got to bring the game back into the cage.
33:55Or it's over.
33:56Triple H's body is out, but Shawn's got a hold of his hair.
33:59Triple H's both feet have got to touch the floor.
34:01And Shawn Michaels.
34:02And Shawn Michaels.
34:04Hey, look.
34:05Look who just.
34:06Look who just showed up back at ringside.
34:09That's Ric Flair back at ringside.
34:12But the focus is on the top of this cage.
34:14Man.
34:15Whoever.
34:16If somebody falls to the floor.
34:18And obviously both feet would touch.
34:20This one's over.
34:21And look.
34:22Shawn Michaels.
34:23That's even worse.
34:24He's hooked.
34:25Shawn Michaels.
34:26His other knee now getting twisted there.
34:28Getting twisted in that cage.
34:30Shawn Michaels trying to pull himself back up.
34:33What is this?
34:36Triple H directing traffic.
34:38He's telling.
34:39What the hell is Flair doing?
34:40Hey.
34:41He's doing what he's told to do by Triple H.
34:44But I don't know what Triple H told him to do.
34:46I know that.
34:47Apparently Triple H told.
34:48He's trying to get some tables out.
34:49But.
34:50Shawn Michaels.
34:51Shawn Michaels now.
34:52He escapes.
34:53He wins his second ball king.
34:54Triple H has got a handful of hair.
34:55Triple H holding on.
34:56What is this?
34:57Holding on again.
34:58And then pulling Michaels.
34:59What is Flair doing?
35:00Setting up a third table.
35:01J.R.
35:02But what happens if.
35:03If the game is.
35:04If the game goes off the top of the cage.
35:05And goes through those tables.
35:06He wins this match.
35:07It's escaping.
35:08If you escape the cage.
35:09And both feet touch the floor.
35:10It's over.
35:11That's an escape.
35:12Maybe the game's trying to figure a way to.
35:14I don't know.
35:15Break this ball.
35:16If you roll down and climb down on those tables.
35:17Michaels has got the game back inside the cage now.
35:19Flair at three tables.
35:20That's not what Flair wanted to see.
35:21And he finally knows that, is.
35:22If the game is and.
35:23Then he would do this.
35:24No.
35:25If he's like.
35:26If the game goes off the top of the cage.
35:27If the game goes off the top of the cage.
35:28And go through those tables.
35:29He wins this match.
35:30It's escaping.
35:31If he escaped the cage and both feet touch the floor.
35:32That's over.
35:33That's an escape.
35:34Maybe the game's trying to figure a way to.
35:35I dunno.
35:36Break his ball.
35:37Break his ball.
35:38If he roll down and climb down on those tables.
35:39I dunno.
35:40That's not what Flair wanted to see, it's not what Triple A wanted to feel.
35:47Look at this, Earl Hebner is livid that Flair's back out here,
35:50but I don't think there's a thing he can do about it as long as he's inside that cage.
35:53Flair's got to give a fish to fry here now.
35:55He's trying to adjudicate this contest.
35:59HBK, now that's a showstopper move.
36:05Okay, I'll give him that.
36:06He pulls one out every now and then.
36:08He reaches way down deep, pulled one out.
36:13But see, this is part of the HBK that is not good.
36:18Hey, you're wasting time.
36:19What's Flair doing?
36:21Flair, that son of a bitch does not belong in that cage.
36:25He called him that.
36:26He has no business thing in there at all.
36:29Shawn Michaels, now, it's still just, you did it.
36:33Two against one.
36:34Well, it is not.
36:35Shawn Michaels, you keep the hell out of it for Ric Flair.
36:37And two lights escapes.
36:38It's over.
36:39Whoa, whoa.
36:40That went out the door.
36:41Two lights was halfway out the door.
36:43And now Flair's got a kick, a chair.
36:46Whoa!
36:47And Shawn Michaels took Flair.
36:48Oh, my God.
36:50It's one against two, and one's winning.
36:52Shawn Michaels just went deep on two occasions.
36:56To the opposite field on Flair.
36:58Oh, yeah.
36:59Flair's leading.
37:00Flair's leading.
37:01Flair's got just exactly what he deserves.
37:04Oh, no.
37:05Watch it.
37:06That's Flair.
37:07That's safe.
37:08The former 16 title champion has gotten too close to the fire.
37:13And he'll realize you better not hook Flair once you can't kill.
37:17Oh, this is bad.
37:18Come on, ref.
37:19Do your job.
37:20Get Flair out of there.
37:21We're going good.
37:22Flair is a bloody mess.
37:23But he can't be disqualified in a cage match.
37:25And the game, he just got back to his feet.
37:26He won the first ball with a pedigree.
37:27Triple H.
37:28Triple H.
37:29Oh, Michael's counter to pedigree.
37:30In the back body drop.
37:31Oh, no.
37:32It's a sweet Tim Music on Flair.
37:33It's a handicap match.
37:34Let's go.
37:35He got the shot in.
37:36The sweet Tim Music on Triple H.
37:37Handicap cage match.
37:38Oh, Shawn, you've got to cover it.
37:39You've got to cover Triple H.
37:41No, I think Shawn wants to, he wants to inflict some punishment.
37:44He wants to humiliate.
37:45Triple H.
37:46This could be a huge mistake for Shawn Michaels in this cage match.
38:03There's no doubt he can pin Triple H right here.
38:10Shawn Michaels going to do here.
38:11Michael's down one fall to none.
38:13In this potential three fall match.
38:15We're in the second fall.
38:16In this cage match.
38:17Uh-oh.
38:18Well, just as the game wanted to cripple Shawn Michaels.
38:23The put the showstopper back in a wheelchair.
38:26This is not smart.
38:27Why don't you just go ahead.
38:28Climb out of the ring.
38:29Win this fall.
38:30Take your chances on the third.
38:31Try to remain the champion.
38:32But no.
38:33HBK has to show up.
38:34The showstopper has to please the people.
38:35Oh, geez.
38:36He's got to defy it all right here.
38:37This is.
38:38Oh, geez.
38:39Right to the table.
38:40Right to the black heart.
38:41And Shawn Michaels evens it all up.
38:42At one fall apiece.
38:43The world this fall.
38:44Evening this bout at one fall apiece.
38:45Shawn Michaels.
38:46And now.
38:47And now.
38:48And now it's a ladder match.
38:49We've said if necessary.
38:50It's just become necessary.
38:51And I said that.
38:52I said that the street fight favored Triple H.
38:53And I said the cage match.
38:54And now.
38:55The third and deciding fall will be contested as a ladder match.
38:59Shut up, Howard Finkler.
39:00We know that.
39:01The second fall.
39:02The cage match I thought favored Triple H.
39:03At one.
39:04And now.
39:05The third.
39:06And deciding fall will be contested as a ladder match.
39:07Shut up.
39:08Howard Finkler.
39:09We know that.
39:10The second fall.
39:11The cage match.
39:12I thought favored Triple H.
39:13But.
39:14Even I have to admit.
39:15The ladder match favors Shawn Michaels.
39:17Shawn Michaels had the first ladder match.
39:20My God.
39:21Look at flair.
39:22Oh, he's a wreck.
39:24He's a wreck.
39:25That was going to be a win.
39:26Now.
39:27Give me a win.
39:28He's a wreck.
39:29flair oh he's he's a wreck flair is a his face is a crimson mask hospital time get his ass out of
39:39here my god this is amazing this is scary what what kind of internal injuries could that move
39:47have on both men on both men is right but
39:52john michael's able to immediately hook hook the leg of triple h and get the pin
39:58and the world's heavyweight championship as rick flair being escorted back to the locker room
40:02he's gonna need some medical attention sean michaels
40:05bringing that that huge ladder in the ring michaels has been bloodied so is the game
40:12we are down to the final and deciding fall and to determine who will be the world's heavyweight
40:18champ and look there the world heavyweight championship belt is being hoisted up in the air
40:23high up in the air
40:24no better get that belt up there before sean gets it
40:28he gets it now it's over john michaels stacking that ladder in the corner
40:33michaels in in the game it is a true gut check here deep deep in the fourth quarter
40:39of this world heavyweight championship match fourth quarter the third fall jr
40:44and that ladder is as we have said that steel the steps the post the cages the ladders so unforgiving
40:56the steel doesn't give a damn about an individual's anatomy
40:59well believe me sean michaels doesn't give a damn about triple h's anatomy and vice versa
41:05these two men have proven their innate toughness time again here and black holes ramming that
41:13ladder right to the head of the game that's about like getting hit by a car i would think
41:17oh man much like getting it look out oh that ladder right on the game adding insult to injury
41:25the game is still bleeding profusely the number one contender almost like a junkie needing that
41:32the world heavyweight championship to simply survive in his life
41:36oh that's on that's sean michaels assumption oh look at this
41:42ladder down this is going to be ugly here
41:46oh oh triplet's trying to he tried to twist his body away from that ladder but to no avail
41:53that probably made it worse his side ladder right on the edge of that ladder
41:58now sean michaels has got a he's got a one leg he's done everything he could do physically and
42:05mentally to survive the first two falls of this the slobber knocker of slobber knockers tonight
42:11here in armageddon what's he gonna do
42:13well king who do you think showed up here tell me is it sean michaels or is it the showstopper
42:19all right all right well he arrived late but showstopper's here now you're damn right he's here
42:26and his heart's beating stronger than ever and sean michaels what is he doing he can't reach the
42:32uh that title belt from there i'm telling you or maybe maybe he wants to get a boat grab that belt
42:39and one fell swoop and fall right up no look at it oh sean michaels going for a fix oh and the game
42:46able to to barely and i mean by inches avoid most of the contact oh and that may come back and haunt hbk
42:55he had the chance if he had only no taking that same amount of time look at this one more time
43:04oh that's like no the wiley coyote camera man what a what an abrupt stop to john michaels like he just
43:11landed with a splat jr john michaels carcass came and now the game is looking for pedigree and got his
43:18pedigree again a bloody challenger for the world's heavyweight title i told you it was sean michaels
43:24that was here tonight i told you all along you didn't say that you just you changed your mind
43:29more than an old old lady look at this now this is what sean michaels should have done just a few
43:36moments ago if he's taking that same amount of time and just set that ladder up instead of trying to
43:41do that huge splash on triple eight to grab that championship belt he'd still be the world heavyweight
43:45champion blake's not going to waste any time he's going right after the prize triple eight has got that
43:51ladder right under the world's heavyweight title belt this is the third and deciding fall we're all
43:56leaving that one fall apiece here at armageddon the number one contender now slowly with that bad leg
44:03well what do you expect you think you're just going to be able to climb up that ladder with these
44:06i'm surprised either these guys can stand up i walk i am too i wasn't complaining it's john michaels now
44:11trying to grab both feet of the game
44:13john michaels holding on to what may be the last step before losing the world's heavyweight
44:22championship if you can't get the game off that ladder
44:27john michaels jerking the the number one contender down
44:36this is gonna be over now oh man john michael sweet chin music takes the game to the outside
44:43does he have enough left does does hbk or the showstopper have enough left to get up now that
44:49triple eight is incapacitated we've talked for years about sean michaels resiliency his will to win
44:56and we're gonna the supreme test is here and now with with a bad wheel losing blood having the
45:03health need out of him in that street fight sean michaels is just three or four steps away
45:09he's gonna make it from getting to the top of the ladder john michael you're gonna do it can you
45:15believe this the place is not even in sight the comeback after four years was extraordinary
45:21and we got this three more steps he's gonna do it john michaels is gonna do it he's touching his top
45:29oh
45:37going through three tables the table setup
45:41by triple x's advisor rick there breathing i don't think he's breathing
45:48sean michaels has crashed and burned thanks to the game and that 12 foot ladder i don't think
45:54sean michaels doesn't give a damn as sean michaels ever takes another breath if he ever holds his child
46:02if he ever sets foot in a wrestling ring as long as he lives the game only cares about himself
46:08and being the world
46:21World Heavyweight Champions, Ripple 8.
46:25It's the paramedics.
46:26It's the helper for Shawn Michaels.
46:29Both these men may never be the same.
46:32Help Triple X.
46:33Leading profusely.
46:33Both these men may never be the same.
46:36The middle of the game, embracing the world's heavyweight title belt.
46:40Like it was a life-saving circus.
46:46God, God, I tell you what, folks.
46:48You got your dollars worth here tonight out of this event.
46:53Unbelievable.
46:55The game has lost the blood.
46:58He may have taken months off his career, too.
47:00And we'll see this again.
47:01This is what changed the whole thing around.
47:03Shawn Michaels thought he had it.
47:05Now he's trying to hold on for a gear up.
47:06No!
47:08That looked even worse the second time.
47:10Off the top of that ladder.
47:12And here you're looking at it again.
47:13Thurston's face.
47:14That may have ended Shawn Michaels' career.
47:20And it would have done at the hands of the game king.
47:23But the hands of the game are able to grab the biggest prize in the game.
47:28He's the world heavyweight champion, JR.
47:31And what an amazing performance by both men.
47:33But tonight, Triple H is the world heavyweight champion once again.
47:39And tonight, ladies and gentlemen, at Armageddon, Armageddon, Triple H has got that damn good.
47:45Yeah, you sure want to play it again.