[intro music playing]
[Mr. McMahon] Recently, I announced a master plan.
I'm damn sick and tired…
[echoing] …sick and tired…
I'm damn sick and tired of watching you…
[echoing] …of watching you…
walk around with that WWE Championship belt.
[Martin Luther King Jr.] I have a dream.
[Mr. McMahon] A master plan that would guarantee…
[echoing] …guarantee…
…that "Stone Cold" Steve Austin would lose the WWE Championship.
Ask not what your country can do for you…
[Mr. McMahon] You won't do business, you refuse to do business.
…ask what you can do for your country.
[Mr. McMahon] You wanna do things the easy way…
You gotta do things the hard way.
[Martin Luther King Jr.] I have a dream.
[Mr. McMahon] …a master plan.
Undertaker and Kane,
you are the single-most destructive force in the history
of the World Wrestling Entertainment.
[Franklin Roosevelt] …the only thing we have to fear is…
[Mr. McMahon] …the master plan.
[Franklin Roosevelt] …fear itself.
[Mr. McMahon] I will never…
[echoing] I will never…
I will never forgive or forget!
I'm damn sick and tired…
[echoing] …sick and tired…
…of watching you…
[echoing] …watching you walk around…
Vince McMahon didn't screw "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
Stone Cold screwed Stone Cold!
[crowd cheering]
["I Won't Do What You Tell Me" playing]
[crowd cheering]
[crowd booing]
[JR] Welcome, everyone, to WWE Raw.
I'm Jim Ross alongside Jerry Lawler.
We're at ringside in a sold out Joe Louis Arena here in Detroit.
And, yes, that's "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's music,
but the former WWE champion is-- Well, he's not here,
It's Mr. McMahon with a lot of protection, King,
with a bigger entourage than usual.
[Lawler] Yeah. But what's the biggest thing about McMahon other than his smile?
It's the WWE title he's holding it in his hands!
What a great day for Mr. McMahon!
[JR] One thing we know for sure, Stone Cold is no longer the WWE Champion.
But just who is?
Is it The Undertaker or Kane?
We'll have to find out tonight.
The bottom line has it that Mr. McMahon screwed "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
out of the WWE title, last night at Breakdown.
I don't think you can sand blast the smile off of McMahon's face…
-[Lawler chuckles] -…since last night.
[Lawler] Right. It had to be surgically removed.
Well, I thought you might be a little upset with me.
[crowd booing]
But time heals all wounds.
However, the next time that I say "I guarantee you" something,
I bet you listen to me.
[Lawler] You can take it to the bank.
And you know what?
That's all I ever wanted from "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
I simply wanted him to listen to me and take direction.
We could've done this the easy way, Austin.
Oh, but no, we had to do it your way.
We had to do it the hard way.
[crowd clamoring]
However, now, I'm proud to say we're doing things the Vince McMahon way.
[crowd booing]
And as such,
Austin, unlike the last time that you lost the WWE Championship,
let me assure you there will be no rematch.
[crowd booing]
Let me repeat that.
There will be no rematch.
[Lawler] Wow.
[JR] Very unfair.
However…
[crowd chattering]
…in a magnanimous gesture,
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin,
to show you that I…
I don't-- I…
[crowd chanting] Austin! Austin!
[Lawler] Starting an Austin chant?
[JR] What are you saying?
[crowd cheering, chanting]
To show you, Austin, that I don't carry a grudge,
tonight we will celebrate your career, Austin.
I will deem, I will decree tonight "Stone Cold" Steve Austin Night.
[crowd cheering]
[Lawler] Well, how big-hearted, JR.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Austin,
we have, uh, some choice individuals,
that I believe are a professional welcoming committee,
is here to welcome you to make certain that indeed you have
easy access to and from this facility.
[JR] Detroit police officers.
However, that's not the only reason for a celebration tonight.
There's another.
Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, in this very ring,
we will crown
a new World Wrestling Entertainment Champion!
-[Lawler] Whoo-hoo. -[crowd booing]
And that new WWE champion
will be presented the official
World Wrestling Entertainment Championship belt.
Not this one across my broad shoulder.
Oh, no, you see…
This was a championship belt that "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
had made for himself.
Look at it, with a skull on it.
[JR] How embarrassing.
[crowd cheering]
[Mr. McMahon] There's only place
that this championship belt is going,
and that's…
above my fireplace,
on my mantel,
in one of my homes.
[Lawler cackles]
-[crowd booing] -[JR] Bring a tear to a glass eye.
[Mr. McMahon] It'll be placed there with all my other awards and trophies.
So what about it, Stone Cold?
Will you join us tonight…
for your own celebration?
Will you, Austin, join us as we present
the official WWE Championship belt to the new
World Wrestling Entertainment Champion?
We anxiously await your response.
In the meantime, Commissioner,
if you would.
[crowd chanting] Austin! Austin! Austin!
[Lawler] What's he doing now?
-[JR] Oh. Give me a break. -[Lawler] Oh. Yes!
The Commissioner is placing
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin's championship belt
around its belt owner
of the WWE Championship--
What are you doing? The owner of the WWE…
himself, the svelte waist of Vince McMahon.
I thank you very much.
I hope you enjoy the evening.
-Thank you very much. -[crowd booing]
[Lawler] What a jovial Mr. McMahon!
[JR] McMahon wants to make sure that Austin doesn't get his hands on--
-[Lawler] Look at him! -["I Won't Do What You Tell Me" playing]
-[Lawler] Look at him! -[JR] Oh, yeah,
he's Stone Cold for the day.
-Who is the WWE Champion? -[Lawler] Well, he's made it
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin Day.
[JR] Well, and it maybe Mark McGwire day 365 days a year in St. Louis.
[Lawler] Look at this!
[crowd booing]
[JR] But there'll never be Vince McMahon day in Detroit, Michigan.
Let me tell you that.
Well, folks, in addition to that, tonight right here,
we have two WWE Championship matches on tap.
Certainly, King, a European title is one of those.
[Lawler] That's right.
X-Pac, the new European Title holder is going to put it on the line
against Val Venis.
[JR] And the Tag Team Championship confrontation.
Southern Justice says it's time.
Will it be for the New Age Outlaws?
We'll find out live, right here tonight.
And certainly, Mr. McMahon
with all of the Detroit police officers surrounding this arena
with him at all times to make sure Stone Cold doesn't get close
to the owner of the WWE.
Right there you see 'em.
Welcoming committee.
[Lawler] I thought that was a police escort for Stone Cold
to get in the building.
-[JR] Oh, you know what it's for. -[laughs]
[JR] Oh, by the way, last night at Breakdown
you said you're gonna make a statement
regarding your much publicized confrontation with Jim Carrey.
["Oh, You Didn't Know?" playing]
[Road Dogg] Oh, you didn't know?
[Lawler] Yeah, well you know what? I guess--
[Road Dogg] Your ass better call somebody!
[Lawler] Look at this, just a minute.
I got something to say about Jim Carrey.
[crowd cheering]
Roger that.
You see that this Dogg got his voice back.
[JR] Trying times, no doubt about it, for the group known as DX.
[crowd cheering]
[JR] Triple H's knee, the Road Dogg's throat.
Last night, it was X-Pac's eye.
And the big stud there, Billy Gunn
has shouldered the load for DX,
and it hasn't been easy, let me tell you.
[Road Dogg] Cut the music.
[music fades]
I may require a little assistant… a little assistance.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
children of all ages,
D-Generation X proudly brings to you
it's WWE…
[all] Tag Team champions of the world!
[crowd cheering]
The "Road Dogg" Jesse James,
The "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn,
-the New… -[crowd] Age Outlaws!
-[crowd cheering] -[Lawler] Wow!
Man, Detroit, that was pretty good,
but for some reason, I think we can get a hell of a lot louder than that.
[crowd cheering loudly]
[JR] This is amazing.
This huge crowd…
Joe Louis Arena has been sold out for weeks
in anticipation for tonight's event, WWE Raw.
Two titles on the line.
You've got to wonder if Stone Cold is going to show up.
[yelling] If you're gonna deal with the New Age Outlaws, we got two words for you.
[crowd] Suck it!
[rock music playing]
[JR] Well, I'll tell you one thing, King, I wanna know more
about this Jim Carrey thing.
[Lawler] I'll tell you when we come back.
I got a few choice words for Jim Carrey.
And, folks, will Stone Cold be here when we come back?
He just might.
[JR] We have a ruckus crowd here tonight,
live in the Joe Louis Arena in the Motor City.
And, King, you've been all over the media with this Jim Carrey controversy.
-What's the story? -[Lawler] Well, let me just say this.
Like "Stone Cold" Steve Austin is not here yet,
well, Jim Carrey is not here yet either.
And I thought maybe he'd be here in person tonight
to listen to what I had to say about him.
So until he is here in person I'm going to save my comment.
I will just say that what has been reported so far is far from the truth.
[Southern Justice's theme song playing]
If I had savagely attacked Jim Carrey, he would still be in the hospital today.
I'll save whatever else I got to say until Jim Carrey comes here in person.
[JR] All right, ladies and gentlemen, the Tag Team challengers
for the WWE Tag Team gold.
Southern Justice is on their way to the ring.
And, certainly, it was pretty darn physical last night
at Breakdown, in a 6-Man Tag Match.
-Right there, boom! -[crowd exclaiming]
A symphony for Jeff Jarrett seemingly,
and X-Pac got a splinter in the corner of his eye,
and luckily we can say that his eyesight has not been permanently damaged
but it has been rough going for DX the last several weeks.
Triple H got his knee operated on, a little over a week ago,
He's gonna try to tape it up and go at Breakdown.
But Mark Henry saw that didn't happen.
-[Lawler] Right. -[bell ringing]
[JR] Jeff Jarrett dropped the guitar on Road Dogg's throat,
Luckily that's getting better.
X-Pac will be defending the European Title tonight, bad eye or not.
And here we go.
[JR exclaims]
What a shoulder block by Mark Canterbury!
Over a 300 pounds, he's a runaway bull here.
[Lawler] Watch it!
[JR] Oh, look at the power. There's a lot of power right there.
[crowd cheering]
[JR] And Canterbury taken down.
Billy Gunn and the Road Dogg making double sure there was no three.
Southern Justice got a little back up with Jeff Jarrett out here, King.
[Lawler] Well, you know, I also understand that in this huge crowd
is the… One of the guitar players for Marilyn Manson,
but they haven't been near as busy
as Jeff Jarrett has been with this guitar lately.
He's been really playing some music, hasn't he?
[JR] Oh, I tell you what, we've also got the…
Some of the members of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team with us tonight,
among other dignitaries.
And a knee to the midsection caught Canterbury off guard there a little bit.
He was looking for something else and…
And Billy Gunn crossed Canterbury up.
[Lawler] He was thinking curveball and got a fastball.
[JR] Tell you what, I really admire Billy Gunn.
Here's a guy that has carried the load physically for the…
For DX with all of these injuries that had besieged the DX group.
Oh!
But you got to… You got to think-- Uh-oh.
Oh! Neckbreaker.
Billy's got to be physically and just mentally exhausted.
He had to wrestle twice yesterday.
There's a cover.
[Lawler] Well, if he wouldn't stick his nose in other people's business,
maybe that wouldn't have happened.
[JR] Of course you're referring to the fact
that Billy Gunn volunteered to help Stone Cold last Monday on Raw.
[Lawler] Right.
[JR] A snapmare takeover.
And, uh…
-[Lawler exclaims] -[crowd cheering]
[JR] Dennis Knight was joop-jived and knee-dropped.
The Tag Team title on the line here.
Oh, what a shot to the kidneys.
By Canterbury and the clothesline.
[Lawler] Right. And in the chest.
You know what, it just goes to show there's no place for good Samaritans
-here in the WWE. -[JR] We got cover!
And Road Dogg close enough to the ropes
to get the referee to stop the count there.
[Lawler] Billy Gunn tries to help "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
and he gets rewarded by Mr. McMahon.
[JR] Yeah. He had to wrestle both members of DOA…
-[Lawler chuckles] -…last night on Heat.
[Lawler] Whoa!
[JR] Nobody there for Dennis Knight.
Knight and Canterbury
have been WWE Tag Champions on two occasions
And there is a tag made.
And maybe the best pure athlete in the WWE, Billy Gunn in there.
And look at the power, and he has got uncanny, uncanny agility.
[Lawler] What?
[JR] Great dropkick.
-[crowd cheering] -[JR] Canterbury on the outside now.
-[Lawler exclaims] -[JR] Oh, the rocker-dropper.
That maybe it right there--
Wait a minute, Jeff Jarrett has got the guitar in the ring.
[Lawler] Look out!
[JR] And Road Dogg…
-better put-- -[Lawler] Ref, get that--
-[JR] Oh! -[Lawler] Look at that!
-[crowd cheering] -[bell ringing]
[JR] Oh, you got to believe that there's some retribution,
some payback here.
Yeah. And it will be a disqualification!
Billy Gunn looks stunned.
[announcer] The winners of this match as a result of a disqualification…
Southern Justice!
-[Southern Justice's theme song playing] -[JR] There are your winners,
Southern Justice!
[JR] Oh, Billy Gunn, I think, had matters in hand,
but Road Dogg just couldn't resist.
One swing of the guitar--
Uh-oh, wait a minute.
[imperceptible]
Oh, Road Dogg and…
more specifically, Billy Gunn…
seemingly very upset.
[Lawler] Well, Billy Gunn… He thought that he had the match won.
He was just fixing the pudding away, and all of a sudden…
[JR] Oh, wait a minute.
There's X-Pac trying to be the peacemaker here.
Uh-oh.
Oh, Billy inadvertently just popped X-Pac in his injured eye
And, no, he couldn't have meant to do that.
X-Pac's got to defend the European Title tonight,
against Val Venis and that ain't going to be easy.
[crowd cheering]
It's always hard when you go against Val Venis.
And wait, look who's here.
Triple H and Chyna.
Triple H is…
[imperceptible]
Wow, Billy Gunn is…
As we said, folks, he's got to be physically and mentally exhausted
from the load he's carried in the last couple of weeks.
And all great entities have problems,
and there'll be more problems when Severn and Owen Hart meet next.
…not what your country can do for you…
[Mr. McMahon] You won't do business, you refuse to do business.
…ask what you can do for your country.
I have a dream.
[Mr. McMahon] …a master plan.
Undertaker and Kane,
you are the single-most destructive force in the history
of the World Wrestling Entertainment.
I'm damn sick and tired…
[echoing] …sick and tired…
[echoing] … of watching you walk around…
Vince McMahon didn't screw "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
Stone Cold screwed Stone Cold!
[JR] We are live, ladies and gentlemen, here on Raw in Detroit.
And there's Mr. McMahon's welcoming committee
for "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
Let me tell you this, folks, if Austin wants to get into this arena
he will get in this arena somehow tonight…
-[Dan Severn's theme song playing] -[bell ringing]
[announcer] The following is a Submission Match.
Making his way to the ring from Coldwater, Michigan,
weighing in at 251 pounds, Dan "The Beast" Severn!
[JR] Great ovation for the hometown boys, so does Big Dan Severn.
And, folks, we're gonna…
We're gonna… Trying to get a word with Michael Cole here,
As a matter of fact, Michael Cole is standing by.
There's some of the Red Wings.
Michael Cole is standing by with a quick update for us, folks,
on this DX controversy. Michael?
-[indistinct yelling] -Well, folks, we are outside
D-Generation X's locker room.
Something is going on inside the locker room.
As you can hear a fracas, a ruckus of some sort.
Now, folks, even in the tightest of families
there is always an argument or two
and if we have any information later on in the evening,
we'll try to bring it to you. Back to ringside.
[JR] Okay, Michael, thanks very much.
Let's not make too much of this DX situation, folks.
Every great team, as you know, King, from time to time
has a problem or two.
[Lawler] Well, I wish Michael Cole had just shut up
and put that microphone up against the door.
We could've heard more.
-[crowd cheering] -[Owen Hart's theme song playing]
[announcer] And his opponent…
from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, weighing in at 237 pounds,
Nation member, Owen Hart!
[JR] Interesting set of circumstances have brought this match together,
ladies and gentlemen.
Remember, Dan Severn trained Owen Hart for Owen's match,
the Lion's Den Match with Shamrock, at SummerSlam.
And we see Dan Severn kind of throwing in the towel.
He, maybe, could've help Owen but Dan Severn decided to walk away
from the controversy.
And that really has upset Owen Hart, King.
So this match has been signed a Submission Match between Owen Hart
and Dan "The Beast" Severn.
[Lawler] Well, you can't blame Owen for being upset.
You just talked about great teams.
These two guys have the opportunity to be a great team,
Severn working with Owen showing him all the…
-All of the tricks of the trade there. -[bell ringing]
Then, all of a sudden, when the going got tough, Severn walked out on Owen Hart.
Look at… Look at this.
[JR] I think Severn did a little… Mocking him a little bit,
but I'm very… I hope that DX gets their issues taken care of.
There's a great throw there, a suplex and Severn with a very--
-[Lawler exclaims] -[JR] Double leg takedown,
and Owen Hart and Severn spilling outside on the apron here.
[referee] Get off. One, two…
Severn is, what's known in the Ultimate Fighting game as a grappler.
He is a very, very skilled, uh, mat tactician, not a striker.
And certainly it was in Detroit here…
-Oh! -[crowd exclaims]
[JR] …where Severn beat Ken Shamrock in the UFC.
And now Owen Hart with a "Nugget" chant in the background
trying to gain some sort of advantage here.
I think in a pure wrestling match, King, Severn has a distinct advantage
-perhaps in a catch-as-catch-can-- -[Lawler exclaims]
-[JR] Oh, professional style. -[Lawler] Man!
[JR] The answer go to Owen Hart.
[Lawler] That's right. This is not a pure wrestling match
unless Owen lets Severn make it to one.
It's a Submission Match, right? I mean…
[JR] Exactly.
And Owen Hart in action at Breakdown.
Before 17,000-plus in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
-Owen took on Edge-- -[Lawler] Oh, God.
[JR] Running powerslam by Dan "The Beast" Severn,
who lives in Coldwater, Michigan.
And, oh, my! Beautiful.
Nice spinning heel kick by Owen Hart.
You don't see that, of course, in the UFC.
Owen locking up, belly-to-belly suplex.
And Owen Hart right now, stealing a page from the Severn playbook.
[Lawler] Well, right.
I mean, Severn coached Owen for his big match against Shamrock.
Now it's coming back to haunt him.
Oh.
-[JR] Uh-oh. Severn looking for that. -[Lawler] Uh-oh.
-[JR] That submission move! -[Lawler] Look out, Owen!
[JR] And Owen Hart better figure something out here quickly.
-[Lawler] Look at that! -[JR] And he does.
A gut wrench upside down-- Uh-oh.
Oh, my God! Severn's head exposed.
[Lawler] Beautiful.
[JR] Severn just got dropped right on his head from the…
That piledriver.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh, well.
Severn not moving.
Hey, guys, Dan Severn is not moving.
[man] We're gonna have to stop for that.
He can't…
[crowd clamoring]
[JR] What is he telling the referee? He can't?
I can't. I can't.
[JR] Referee Tim White… We got to…
He's telling the referee that he can't move his arms.
Oh, God.
Well, folks, we've got to take a break.
Obviously, we'll be back.
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[indistinct chatter]
[chatter continues]
[crowd cheering, applauding]
[chatter continues]
Straight down the spinal column, just felt like…
[continues indistinctly]
[physician] Take some deep breaths.
[physician] Okay.
-[man] Hey, Kevin. -He's good, he's good.
He's going to be okay. He's going to be okay.
You're going to be okay.
[indistinct chatter]
All right, we should start going, boys.
We should start rolling.
[indistinct chatter]
-Okay. Let's go. -Let's get ready.
Let's move out.
[JR] We're back live, ladies and gentlemen.
Dan Severn being assisted here after suffering the piledriver
at the hands of Owen Hart and here's a…
Here's a look at it.
[Lawler] Watch and see if you can see how far his head is…
-[crowd exclaims] -[JR] Oh! Oh, yeah.
A very good look there and…
That's quite… I think we've seen it enough.
Uh, Truck…
Can we just start over?
Dan Severn, obviously…
I'm not going to speculate on how badly he's hurt,
I'm not going to play that game.
I don't know.
Watch out, lift those legs up.
[JR] You see the impact of the piledriver,
and…
obviously, we'll… We got to keep on going here, folks.
-[indistinct shouting] -[crowd cheering]
[bell ringing]
[announcer] The following contest
is scheduled for one fall with a 20-minute time limit.
Making his way to the ring,
being accompanied by Commissioner Slaughter
from the Rocky Mountains,
weighing in at 456 pounds…
the man they call Vader!
[JR] Well, ladies and gentlemen, we are live here in Detroit,
and I… Vader with Commissioner Slaughter.
I don't get it.
Is it… Is Commissioner Slaughter with Vader, I mean, what's…
[Lawler] I think he's just following him.
[JR] Well, Vader to take on Al Snow.
Uh-oh, well…
[JR] And, certainly, Al Snow notched his gun with a…
In what many people believe to be a huge upset last Monday night.
Biggest ever over Commissioner Slaughter in a Boot Camp Match, King.
[crowd cheering]
Well, I mean, you don't see it here.
Sarge put up a… A valiant fight but--
[bell ringing]
Unbelievably, the head won!
And then, of course, the…
The Commissioner's good friends came out and tried to make things right.
[JR] Yeah, Shemp and Moe, King.
And then, Scorpio,
who's a buddy of Al Snow, came in to make sure
no more damage was done.
So that, apparently, was the motivation.
[man] What does everybody want?
-[crowd cheering] -[music playing]
[announcer] And his opponent,
being accompanied to the ring by head,
from Lima, Ohio, weighing at 249 pounds,
Al Snow!
[JR] What an ovation for Al Snow here,
who along with Scorpio,
victorious at Breakdown in Tag Team action!
[Lawler] Well, JR, you had an interview with this guy,
maybe one of these days you can explain this to me, I just don't get it.
And I certainly don't get the attraction of Al Snow and his head.
[JR] Ladies and gentlemen, 10-10-321 proudly presents
WWE Judgment Day: In Your House.
It's only three weeks away
from the historic Rosemont Horizon in Chicago.
10-10-321, just dial it and save up to 50%.
[bell ringing]
Well, we know the motivation now
for Vader and Slaughter being together here.
-Obviously, uh… -[Lawler] Look… Look, the…
Al Snow is talking to that head now.
[JR] Well, he is a little… Al is…
He's a couple of, uh, pieces of baloney away from a sandwich.
[Lawler] He marches to a different kettle of fish.
[JR] What?
-[Lawler] You heard me. -[JR] Vader… Huge size advantage here…
-[Lawler exclaims] -…over Al Snow,
and of course, Al Snow the partisan favorite here in Detroit.
[Lawler] Yeah, this is Detroit.
-[Al Snow groans] -[JR] This is…
-[Lawler] Oh. -…opportunity for Al Snow.
This will be another upset, quite frankly,
if Al Snow were somehow able to defeat Vader
in this one-on-one match-up.
[Lawler] I still can't believe that Al Snow beat Commissioner Slaughter
in a Boot Camp Match.
That's the Commissioner's match.
[JR] Vader simply overpowering
-Al Snow here. -[Lawler] Uh-oh, here we go for the ride.
[JR] Belly-to-belly suplex by Vader.
-Vader somewhere around 400 pounds… -[Lawler chuckles] Yeah.
…and a real slobberknocker at Breakdown against Bradshaw.
Bradshaw victorious in that one,
and the encore presentation of the controversial Breakdown,
will be tomorrow night on pay-per-view.
Al Snow better be very resourceful
and extremely quick.
[crowd cheering]
Al Snow finally scoring a knockdown on Vader.
Al has traveled… A 16-year journey
to earn respect and make it here in the WWE.
[Lawler laughs] Oh, man.
[laughs] The Commissioner's hoping that Vader will knock Al Snow's head off.
[JR] Al Snow getting knocked down, he's getting right back up.
[Lawler] When you talk about that long journey,
you sort of reminiscing of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin,
used to talk about how many years it took him
to become the WWE Champ.
Now he's a beaten man.
[JR] Well, I don't know about that. Austin is a very…
-[Lawler] Whoa! -[JR] Excellent head kick by Al Snow.
Going for the cover. One, two, and there's our beloved Commissioner.
All fair and square, Slaughter preventing the three count there.
[Lawler] Watch it.
Swing the head at him.
[JR] Vader with a clubbing right hand on Al Snow, caught Al right on the head.
-[Lawler chuckles] Which one? -[JR] Well, I'll tell you…
Mr. McMahon has got quite the…
[Lawler] Look out! Oh, no.
-[crowd cheering] -[JR] Al Snow using that wooden head
right in Vader's face.
-[Lawler] No! -[JR] And that will be three.
-Al Snow has upset Vader. -["What Does Everybody Want?" playing]
[announcer] Here is your winner, Al Snow!
[Lawler] He hit him with the head.
[JR] Al Snow used his head all right and upset the mastodon.
And Commissioner Slaughter's plan just backfired
all over his massive chin.
Well, folks, we do expect Stone, I don't know about you, King,
I expect "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, somehow, some way, to get in this arena,
-even though it's surrounded by police. -[Lawler] Hey, hey, look at this.
[JR] Well, maybe the DX situation is a little more serious than we thought,
-or maybe he could-- -[Lawler] Yeah, he is…
[Lawler] Right. Billy's not coming, he's going.
[JR] I've never seen so many police officers in my life
at a wrestling arena.
Folks, it's coming up next,
a 6-man Four Corners Elimination Match
to determine the number one contender for the European title. It's next.
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-["You Think You Know Me" playing] -♪ You think you know me ♪
[crowd cheering]
♪ You think you know me… ♪
[announcer] …and their opponent, from Toronto, Canada,
weighing at 242 pounds,
Edge!
[JR] Well, folks, this is a first,
a 6-man Four Corner Elimination Match.
Two men will start in the ring, tags can be made to anyone,
when you lose, you go back to the locker room,
the match continues until only one man remains.
And that man will meet the European Champion,
whomever that may be, right here next week on Raw.
[Lawler] Watch it.
-[JR] And Edge and Gangrel… -[bell ringing]
…will start it off here.
D-Lo Brown, Marvelous Marc Mero,
Jeff Jarrett, and Darren Drozdov on the outside.
[Gangrel groans]
[Lawler] You know the European title match is yet to come tonight.
-[JR] Right. -[Lawler] The winner of this match
could be facing Val Venis.
[JR] Exactly right. Val Venis to challenge X-Pac, injured eye and all.
And X-Pac, he may be ripe for the pickings with all this DX controversy tonight
and the fact that X-Pac has got the bad eye,
it may be a good night for Val Venis, to rise to the occasion.
-[JR] What a leg legs takedown. -[Lawler] Well, speaking of controversy,
have you done that investigative reporting yet?
Have you found out just what the background is
between these two individuals… Gangrel and Edge?
-[JR] Absolutely not. -[Lawler] Something there, something big.
[JR] And I tell you what, last night, another card was played
-in that, uh, deck of wild cards. -[Lawler] Yeah.
[JR] We saw another mysterious man--
-[Lawler] He fell. -[crowd chanting]
[JR] We saw another mysterious man make an appearance.
[chanting continues]
-[Lawler] At Breakdown last night. -[JR] Oh, nice move right there.
-And Edge just defeated Gangrel… -[Lawler] What?
-…with a nice cradle,
and it's D-Lo Brown in next.
D-Lo and Edge. Gangrel has been eliminated.
[Lawler] Gangrel is gone but he slipped off that middle rope.
He was…That was the beginning of his demise. Look at this.
[JR] You make one small mistake with athletes of this caliber…
-Who sucks now? -…and oftentimes it is fatal,
it was that time for Gangrel.
D-Lo Brown, the former European Champion.
-[Lawler exclaims] -[JR] Oh, lost the title a week ago
to X-Pac, King, in our absence.
[Lawler] And D-Lo has been distraught ever since.
-[JR] Edge makes the tag to Droz. -[Lawler] Watch it.
[Lawler] Use your chest projector.
[crowd cheering loudly]
[JR] Flying clothesline
by the former Maryland Terrapin and Denver Bronco.
Pow! Powerslam by Droz.
D-Lo trying to create some distance there, King,
but Droz still found him with that dropkick.
[Lawler] I was gonna say he better try to tag out, he did.
[JR] Jeff Jarrett, your buddy from Tennessee,
seeing his, uh, first action in this, uh…
-[Lawler] Watch it, Jeff. -…Elimination Match.
Stakes are high, you're going to get that European title match next week
if you win it here.
Come on, Jarrett.
[JR] I believe in my heart that "Stone Cold" Steve Austin,
the former WWE Champion,
no matter that the police are surrounding the Joe Louis Arena,
Austin, I think in my heart,
will be here tonight.
[Lawler] Well, I'll tell you what is going to happen for sure tonight.
I'll guarantee it that Mr. Vince McMahon,
right after this match, is going to name the new WWE Champion in that very ring.
Oh, how about it, D-Lo?
-[JR] Well, I'll tell you it was… -[Lawler laughs]
…Austin got screwed out of the title last night by--
-[Lawler] Screwed himself. -[JR] He did not. Not in my view.
[Lawler] That's what Mr. McMahon said.
[JR] Folks, if you didn't see it, you can catch it tomorrow night
on the encore of Breakdown on pay-per-view.
-[Lawler exclaims] -[JR] I know The Undertaker
and Kane are here.
And obviously, which one will be named the WWE Champion?
[Lawler] Who do you think?
[JR] Well, I'll tell you what, I don't know.
It's McMahon's call. It's his football.
-[Lawler chuckles] -[JR] And Droz with a football block
into those rather unforgiving steel ring steps.
[Lawler] And what about McMahon with that…
Well, the… The old WWE belt,
the one that used to belong to Steve Austin,
he's going to have it mounted. [chuckles] Like it or not,
like a big head of a deer or an elk or something.
[JR] Well…
[Lawler] Wait a minute…
[JR] Jarrett's out here, I guess he got counted out.
[Lawler] When?
[JR] And did Droz get counted as well? I think so.
Droz and Jarrett both have been counted out.
The action is fast and furious.
Marvelous Marc Mero in,
Mero looking for the DD… no, the, uh… the TKO
with a Fallaway Slam.
[Lawler] Don't hit him below the belt.
[JR] Mero now. Impressive last night against Droz…
-[Lawler] Here we go. -…at Breakdown.
-[JR] Oh. Looks like-- -[Lawler] D-Lo!
[JR] Mero lost his balance.
[Lawler] Look at D-Lo laughing.
[JR] Edge right at Mero's face here.
-[JR] Oh! -[Lawler] Oh, no!
[JR] Hurricanrana.
-Snapmares Mero right off the top rope. -[crowd cheering loudly]
Edge going for the cover.
-That should be it. -[Lawler] Look at D-Lo.
-[JR] Oh, D-Lo… -[crowd cheering loudly]
…with his Lo Down,
missed Edge, but he got Mero.
[crowd cheering]
[Lawler] And he don't even care… Ah!
[JR] Edge, with a great dropkick.
Mero's out of it. One, two, three.
[crowd cheering loudly]
-So that leaves Edge and D-Lo Brown. -[Lawler] Where's D-Lo? Where's D-Lo?
-[Edge yells] -[crowd cheering loudly]
[JR] Oh, man, it's down to two men.
What a crossbody,
as the 6'4'', 240-pound rookie from Toronto, Edge,
cleared the top rope and caught D-Lo Brown
with a scintillating crossbody.
You talked about high risk, you just saw--
[Lawler] Hey, wait a minute.
[JR] That's Gangrel back.
Oh, there's that… There's that kid. There's that young man… Oh!
-[crowd cheering] -Sky High.
And the distraction cost Edge,
-and D-Lo Brown wins it. -[D-Lo Brown's theme song playing]
[Lawler] Who is that person?
-[JR] Who's that guy with Gangrel? -[announcer] …winner, D-Lo Brown.
[JR] And what is their relationship, if any, to Edge?
There's got to be something there, folks.
-But what is it? -[Lawler] Why is he a distraction to Edge?
Why did it bother Edge so much?
[JR] Got to be something there, King.
I know… You know, they say, there's… Where there's smoke, there's fire.
There's a whole hell of a lot of smoke here.
[Lawler] Uh-oh, watch…
[JR] D-Lo Brown now will meet the European Champion here next week.
It could be Val Venis,
because Val has a title shot tonight against X-Pac.
[Lawler] Boy, D-Lo's happy.
He's got a chance to once again, be the champ of Europe.
[JR] Well, ladies and gentlemen, up next, the party continues.
Mr. McMahon celebrates "Stone Cold" Steve Austin Night,
but will he name a new WWE Champion?
[rock music playing]
[JR] And look at the… Look at the police
-around the arena. -[Lawler] Come in, Austin,
it's a welcoming committee.
[JR] If Austin wants in, Austin will get in. It could be next.
[JR] We are back live, ladies and gentlemen.
Here in Detroit, a lot of tension surrounding the arena
and surrounding this event here tonight,
as Mr. McMahon has his welcoming committee,
Detroit's finest,
-surrounding the Joe Louis Arena… -[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
the owner of the World Wrestling Entertainment,
Mr. McMahon!
[JR] Well, we are at the time and the place
with a special presentation, apparently, of the WWE Championship,
but the question is, to whom?
To whom will Mr. McMahon…
[crowd chattering]
…anoint as the WWE Champion?
Will it be The Undertaker or will it be his younger brother, Kane?
[Lawler] You got me there. Who do you think, JR?
[JR] I can't predict McMahon anymore.
[Lawler] Well, what a scene. This is… This is total class.
Look at that, red carpet treatment on the ring.
And look at the podium and that… Oh, it's…
-[JR] A new WWE… -…on the glass.
…a new WWE title belt.
-[Lawler] This is total top drawer. -And now, ladies and gentlemen,
the moment we have been awaiting.
[crowd booing]
We are about to present
the most coveted prize in the whole game
to a worthy WWE Superstar.
[crowd chanting] Austin! Austin! Austin!
This ceremony
is a solemn one,
to be conducted
with dignity and respect.
[crowd booing]
As these dignitaries stand before you tonight,
it is indeed our honor and our privilege,
to bestow
the World Wrestling Entertainment title
to the worthy Superstar.
With that in mind,
let me, firstly, introduce to you
"The Phenom" The Undertaker!
-[bell tolls] -["Dark Side" playing]
[JR] Well, it will be either The Undertaker or Kane.
Both men… After a double chokeslam at Breakdown,
both men executed a pin
-on "Stone Cold" Steve… -[Lawler, JR exclaim]
…last night at Breakdown.
[Lawler] Is this any indication
who the new champion is going to be, the fact that Mr. McMahon
is inviting The Undertaker out here first?
[JR] It's hard to predict anything that McMahon does.
I can tell you this,
when McMahon gets to East Lansing, Michigan, tomorrow night,
I don't think he'll get a very… Very rousing reception.
He'll be treated like a Michigan Wolverine
in East Lansing tomorrow night,
rather rudely and deservedly so, some would say.
[music continues]
The Breslin Center will be rocking and that…
-[Lawler exclaims] -…that man could be…
Oh man, he is… He is unbelievable.
"The Phenom" The Undertaker.
[Lawler] And don't be coming here,
saying that The Undertaker made a deal with the devil.
-He made a deal with Mr. McMahon. -[JR] That's what I meant.
[Lawler] It's a business deal.
-[JR] Oh. -And now, ladies and gentlemen,
may I introduce to you,
Kane!
[crowd cheering]
["Burned" playing]
[JR] Kane and The Undertaker in that lopsided,
as far as rules are concerned-- Oh, my!
…Triple Threat Match, against Stone Cold at Breakdown,
where over 17,000 fans
attend the Copps Coliseum
to see Austin get screwed right out of the WWE title.
But Mr. McMahon's master plan didn't quite come full circle, King,
because there was no clear cut winner
which has necessitated this presentation.
And I would say that Mr. McMahon has a tough decision to make.
[Lawler] Well, if he chooses The Undertaker,
do you think Kane will explode on The Undertaker?
Where's the explosion?
-Thank you. -[JR] Kane with some mind games
for everybody.
You think, McMahon's got enough security
-around him? -There's no question,
Undertaker,
that both you and Kane deserve to be the WWE Champion.
The two of you singlehandedly
covered "Stone Cold" Steve Austin for the Championship.
The two of you who have had
-tremendous battle… -[JR] Oh, wait a minute.
-…between the two of you… -[JR] There's Austin.
[Lawler] Wait a minute.
Austin in a Zamboni.
[McMahon] The two of…
[Lawler] What the…
What is he doing?
[McMahon] Don't let him in here.
[JR] Austin is coming to the arena.
Don't let him in here.
[JR] Austin is tearing down the place.
Austin's raising hell.
-[crowd cheering loudly] -[JR talking indistinctly]
[Lawler] You wanna go over?
[JR] Stone Cold! Stone Cold is here!
-[Lawler] He's gonna crash it. -[JR] He's gonna crash McMahon's party.
-[Lawler] He did! -[cheering continues]
[JR] Oh, my God! Austin's got McMahon!
Austin's got McMahon!
[Lawler] Get him! Get him!
Oh, yeah.
[JR] All the cops are cuffing Austin.
[Lawler] Lock him up.
[JR] Mr. McMahon just got a small dose of what all the folks say
that he's got coming, just a small dose,
but Austin may pay the price here.
[Lawler] Lock him up!
[JR] There's about eight Detroit police officers
that are handcuffing the former WWE Champion.
[Lawler] Is Mr. McMahon all right?
[JR, sarcastically] "Is Mr. McMahon all right?"
-Is Mr. McMahon… oh, who cares? -[Lawler] Look, look, look.
-[Lawler] Oh, he's got him again. -[JR] Austin handcuffed.
The Rattlesnake thrashed, McMahon, even handcuffed.
[Lawler] He tried to bite him.
Austin's going to wipe that smile
-off McMahon's face permanently. -[Lawler] Get out of there.
Get out of there, Vince.
He'll kill you.
-[crowd cheering] -[imperceptible]
[JR] Austin got screwed out of the title last night,
and he's damn sure not going to stand for it.
We still don't know who the WWE Champion is.
[Lawler] Where is the… Oh.
-The belt. -[man] Get him out of here.
[JR] You know, it's a damn shame that McMahon's ego is so huge
that he had to create his own master plan
to ensure that Austin will get screwed out of the WWE title at Breakdown.
Austin took out the audio, ladies and gentlemen,
with that Zamboni.
I know folks are having trouble hearing us.
Just bear with us here. We're live.
[Lawler] That idiot has run over all our cables and wires and everything
with that Zamboni out here.
Lock him up. Lock him up.
[crowd cheering]
[JR] Boy, this crowd is on their feet.
Everybody's standing for the one and only Rattlesnake.
And it looks like Austin's going to jail.
[Lawler] Yes!
-[JR] It took eight police officers. -I ain't through with you, Vince.
I ain't through with you, not yet, by a long shot.
[JR] Mr. McMahon was gonna present the WWE title to the new champion,
we still don't know who that's gonna be.
-There's no fooling around here. -[JR] Austin crashed the party
-with a Zamboni machine. -That son of a bitch ain't gonna be safe
from "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Easy there, bud.
[Stone Cold] All right, all right. I've done it before,
-I've done it before. -Get him out! Take his ass to jail!
All right.
Take his ass to jail!
-[officer 1] Simmer down, simmer down. -You go to jail,
-you son of a bitch! -All right, all right, hold him down.
-You go to jail! -[officer 2] Hold him down. Hold him down.
-Pull him back. -[officer 3] We got him.
-[officer 4] Take him out of here. -[officer 2] Relax, relax.
-Relax. -[indistinct shouting]
Relax, we got him… We got him.
[JR] Folks, our audio problems, as we understand, are corrected.
Mr. McMahon just apologized for his language.
[Lawler] Slam… Slam the door on him.
-[JR] Oh, come on, Vince. -[officer 2] All right.
[Mr. McMahon] Let him go! Let him go.
Let him go! Yeah, bring it!
[JR] Yeah, let him fight. He's handcuffed.
[officer 2] Relax, relax.
[JR] It might… It might be a fair fight that way.
Well, Austin's going to jail.
but this just may not be the last time we see Austin tonight, King.
[Lawler] Oh, what are you thinking?
You think you've got friends down at the… Down at the pokey?
No, he's got to be locked up, and you're gonna be put under the jail.
[JR] There's Austin's fans all over the world,
maybe even including the Detroit police.
Oh, poor Vince is hurt.
[man] "Badd Ass" Billy Gunn, "Road Dogg" Jesse James,
X-Pac, Chyna, and Triple H.
They are D-Generation X,
and they're on top of the World Wrestling Entertainment.
But when you're on top, there is only one direction you can go.
[crowd cheering]
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[JR] We are live here, ladies and gentlemen, in Detroit.
Just moments ago, this building was shaking
when "Stone Cold" Steve Austin commandeered a Zamboni machine,
defied the police barricade
and defied the authority of the WWE owner, Vince McMahon,
who is in the ring, King,
preparing to name a new WWE Champion.
That's why Stone Cold took out the audio.
You think the Rattlesnake cared?
[Lawler] I wanna tell you, just when I thought I'd seen everything,
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin showed up on a Zamboni and crashed McMahon's party.
Just watch this… what he did.
All the way up and rammed into the ring.
[JR] And, uh, then, Austin would come right across the top of the Zamboni.
-Watch the clothesline. -[Lawler] Right over Vince. Oh!
[JR] Right over the top rope, caught McMahon right in the face,
and then Austin was giving him some.
The Rattlesnake…
then was accosted,
and subdued there, somewhat, by about eight police officers, King.
[Lawler] Right. Well, justice finally prevailed. They locked him up.
They sent him to jail.
And he should be incarcerated for a long, long time.
[JR] Well, maybe he will be, and maybe he will not be.
He may be back here before we go.
[Mr. McMahon] Before we were so rudely interrupted…
-[Lawler] Uh-oh. -[JR] We're back live here, folks, now.
-Back with our presentation, apparently. -We were about to present
the WWE Championship.
However,
if you recall,
the deal was
Undertaker and Kane,
you would get the title shot
as long as you kept
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin away from me.
For three times…
[shouts] Three times in less than a week,
Austin has brutally attacked me.
[crowd cheering]
[Lawler] That's right.
So, let me say this.
You didn't live up to your end of the deal.
I'm not gonna live up to mine.
[Lawler] What?
-What's he saying, JR? -You're gonna have to fight for it.
On the next pay-per-view,
October 18,
you two are gonna battle it out
for the WWE Championship.
[JR] That's the Judgment Day, in three weeks.
Whether you like it or not.
And by the way,
since you can't seem to keep Stone Cold
out of your business and mine,
good… I'm gonna put him in it.
Austin is gonna be the guest referee.
-[crowd cheering] -[JR] Oh, my God in Heaven.
-[Lawler] What? -[JR] Austin to referee
-Kane and The Undertaker on Judgment Day. -And Stone Cold…
Austin, I just hope that somewhere
your cell mate is telling you all of this right about now.
[Lawler chuckles]
Because I wanna be there
to watch him suffer the indignity
of having to count one of you two monsters
to the WWE Championship.
[Lawler] Can you imagine that?
[Mr. McMahon] However…
so that everyone here in this arena is not cheated,
so that everyone at home watching Raw
gets their money's worth,
that in this ring tonight,
you will see Undertaker and Kane
in a Handicap Tag Team Match…
-[Lawler] Take charge, Vince. -…against three individuals.
[JR] Three?
Ken Shamrock…
[crowd cheering]
Mankind…
[cheering continues]
[Lawler] What?
…and The Rock.
-[crowd cheering loudly] -[JR] Oh, yeah!
Shamrock, Mankind, The Rock
against The Undertaker and Kane, here tonight live.
And maybe,
just maybe, you can get it right.
I'd like to wish you the best of luck.
You know why?
Because I think the two of you are gonna need it
because as far as I'm concerned,
it's like dealing with the handicapped.
[JR] Uh-oh, easy.
One's physical
and the other is mental.
-[JR] Look at the look of that face. -Good luck to you both.
-[Lawler] Wait a minute. -[crowd cheering loudly]
Get your hands off him.
You need to watch your ass…
[crowd cheering]
…because the next time
you get out of line with either one of us,
you're gonna be the one handicapped.
and that… I will promise.
[JR] Mr. McMahon has been warned.
[imperceptible]
-[Lawler] Uh-oh. -[JR] Oh, he got caught.
-[Lawler exclaims] -[JR] Oh! The Undertaker just
nailed McMahon.
[Lawler] He can't do that.
[JR] The Undertaker assaulting Vince McMahon.
The Undertaker is annihilating Vince McMahon.
[Lawler] Where are the cops? No!
-[JR] And now Kane. -[crowd cheering loudly]
Kane and The Undertaker are stomping the owner of this company.
[Lawler] 911, call it.
Get him… Oh, no!
[JR] They're going for McMahon's knee.
[Lawler] And break his leg.
[JR] Undertaker trying to break McMahon's leg.
[Lawler] No. No!
[JR] Undertaker… ripping up the knee. He's tearing, he's ripping.
[Lawler] Get in there, Brisco.
Somebody help Mr. McMahon.
-Patterson, where are you? -[Mr. McMahon screams]
-[JR] McMahon… -[Lawler] Commissioner.
-He's in pain. -[JR] McMahon being crippled.
-[crowd cheering loudly] -McMahon's been crippled.
Kane, calling off McMahon's henchman,
but the damage has been done.
The Undertaker and Kane…
-[heavy thud] -There goes Brisco.
The Undertaker and Kane
have crippled
-Vince McMahon. -[Lawler] No.
[JR] McMahon's leg may be broken.
His knee may be absolutely destroyed.
Oh, no, no.
[Lawler] What are they gonna do?
[JR] Undertaker's got those steel steps.
[Lawler] No way.
Get over there, Ross. Help him.
[JR] Oh, look… Oh, no. Oh.
They're holding the ankle and the knee across the steps.
-Undertaker. -[Lawler] Oh, no!
[Lawler exclaims]
My, God!
Oh, my God!
[crowd cheering]
[JR] Vince McMahon's leg's got to be shattered now.
[Lawler] Don't move it, don't move it.
[JR] McMahon, writhing in pain
at the hands of the two men
that will meet for the WWE title in three weeks
in the Rosemont Horizon at Judgment Day,
with Steve Austin as the referee.
[Lawler] How can this happen, JR?
McMahon didn't mean it when he called them handicapped.
-[man] I can't believe… -Call a doctor.
[JR] Man, we… McMahon needs an ambulance.
Boy, you better not move him.
My God. What else can happen here?
[JR] Folks, we are back here live,
and certainly, this whole thing has become so chaotic.
Earlier tonight, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin was arrested, uh, for…
-[Lawler] Attacking Mr. McMahon. -[JR] He did attack Vince McMahon.
McMahon had the whole arena surrounded by police
to make sure that Austin wouldn't attack
before McMahon could present a new WWE champion.
Now we are back here live now.
[overlapping chatter]
[man 1] Someone hold him. Hold him, he, uh…
-[man 2] Come on. -[man 3] I got him.
Where is the ambulance?
-Give him something for pain. -Where is the ambulance?
-[JR] The ambulance, uh,
has taken Dan Severn
to the hospital and has not returned yet.
And here is why, folks, Mr. McMahon needs an ambulance.
He insulted The Undertaker and Kane,
refused to name either the WWE champion.
And then we saw this.
[Lawler] They may not want to watch this.
-Don't look. -[JR] You want to turn away here, folks.
[Lawler] Oh, look at his leg.
[JR] Well… we thought that The Undertaker or Kane
would be named the WWE Champion.
Now, we are back live, back in the locker room area.
[overlapping chatter]
The medical attendants…
[Lawler] That's got to be a compound fracture.
I can assure you. Why does he not have his own ambulance?
Wait, he's having to wait for his own ambulance?
-["Are You Ready" playing] -[crowd cheering]
[Lawler] This is not right.
♪ …Degenerate into some… ♪
Mr. McMahon should have a stretch…
[announcer] Following contest is scheduled
for one-fall with a 20-minute time limit.
First, let me introduce this special referee,
DX member and the Ninth Wonder of the World,
Chyna!
[JR] Boy, this is gonna be a controversial situation, as well.
Controversy is the order of the night here in Detroit.
-[Lawler] Whoo! -[JR] Chyna to be the guest referee
when Faarooq takes on Mark Henry.
It was, uh, Mark Henry who, last night,
uh, before breaking out and assaulting Triple H,
-who had a bad knee… -[Henry groans]
…and then Chyna took matters into her own hands, King.
[Lawler] Yeah, look at this. She attacked…
There's a lot of attacks going on.
She attacked Mark Henry…
[man 1] Come on, he's trying to go.
…just as Mark Henry was leaving the locker room.
[indistinct shouting]
-[JR] Mark Henry… -…get your hands on me again.
[man 2] Hey, Chyna. Come on.
You couldn't wait to get your hands on me again, could you?
[JR] Oh. And here… Chyna is about to attack.
Chyna with a pipe.
She's making Mark Henry feel like Nancy Kerrigan.
-Kiss my… -[Lawler] Oh, look at that.
-Look where her behind was. -[JR] I saw it.
Mark Henry thought Chyna, his girlfriend, uh,
-yesterday on Heat. -["Better Know Your Role" playing]
That was a scary thought.
[announcer] And introducing the participants.
First, from Silsbee, Texas, weighing in at 400 pounds,
Nation member and the "World's Strongest Man",
Mark Henry!
-[Lawler] He got… Blowing kisses to his… -And his opponent…
-he weighs in at 278 pounds… -…girlfriend…
[announcer] Faarooq!
[JR] Folks, while we have just a moment,
big week here at the WWE. It's been a huge night tonight.
Wednesday night, we're gonna be at Grand Rapids, Michigan,
Thursday, Hampton, Virginia,
Friday, Richmond, Virginia,
and Saturday in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
[Lawler] Hurry up.
Faarooq and Mark Henry, no strangers to each other.
That's for sure. Faarooq, the former leader of the Nation,
-You know… -[Lawler] What?
[JR] It was a real heinous thing for Mark Henry to do.
Hunter Hearst-Helmsley, Triple H, had knee surgery about a week ago.
Look at the power of Mark Henry, The World's Strongest Man.
Dr. Jim Andrews down in Birmingham-- Oh, look at this.
[Lawler] Oh, man!
[JR] Leg drop right across the face of Faarooq on the floor.
Operated on Helmsley about a week ago.
Helmsley, not a smart move, but he was gonna try to tape his knee up
and fight Mark Henry last night at Breakdown.
But Mark Henry made sure that that didn't happen
because during Heat, just the hour before Breakdown… Oh, powerslam!
…Mark Henry assaulted Helmsley,
and Helmsley re-injured that knee.
[Lawler] Hey. How about a count, Chyna?
[crowd cheering]
[JR] She may not be the most objective official, ladies and gentlemen,
if you know what I mean,
if you smell what I'm cooking.
[Lawler] I'm just wondering if that ambulance has gotten back there
for Mr. McMahon yet-- Oh!
-What about that? -[JR] A low blow,
-and a-- Oh! A count. -[bell ringing]
[Lawler] What! No way! Come on now!
[announcer] Here is you winner, Faarooq!
[JR] I wouldn't assume that Chyna's gonna have a long illustrious career
as an official,
but her officiating debut will never be forgotten by Mark Henry.
[Faarooq's theme song playing]
[JR] And I don't think the-- Mark Henry seems to be infatuated.
-Wait a minute. What is this? -[Lawler] What's this now?
[JR] Watch that…
Somebody just served Chyna some papers.
That's gonna be pretty darn important, King. It's airborne delivery.
What the heck could that be?
Well, I don't know what it is, but Chyna just tore it up.
Chyna was served some papers of some description, King.
And Mark Henry gathering up the scraps.
-[indistinct chatter] -[JR] And now we're back live at…
Look at… Look at Mankind trying to console Mr. McMahon.
[Lawler] Well, finally the ambulance is here.
[Mr. McMahon] No dropping!
[Lawler] Don't move his leg!
-[Mr. McMahon yelping] -[JR] He's fastidious.
He's got a ride in a civilian ambulance.
He probably wouldn't get a private room at this late hour.
[Lawler] Come on, that's the ultimate indignity.
They're probably gonna have to do surgery on his leg.
[JR] Take him to a veterinary.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, still to come…
The European Title on the line.
Val Venis will challenge X-Pac.
And, King, that's not all.
Our next one is gonna be a war.
Handicap Tag Match.
The Rock, Shamrock, and Mankind will take on The Undertaker and Kane.
But, right now, Michael Cole is standing by
with the World's Most Dangerous Man.
Ken, tonight, you're gonna team
with the two men that you faced inside the steel cage
last night at Breakdown: In Your House,
The Rock and Mankind.
You're gonna team in a Handicap Match against The Undertaker and Kane
later on tonight, in Detroit.
I don't like Detroit much.
And I don't like what happened to me last night at all.
[crowd clamoring]
Rock, Mankind, Undertaker, Kane,
as far as I'm concerned, I owe every one of you.
And tonight, it will be payback time.
And, Mankind, don't think I forgot about the chair.
Let's get it on!
[man] You're looking at 106,000 pounds of raw, unbridled energy.
Only a machine this powerful can tame the rugged earth.
Only a man this rugged contain the machine.
Some men move furniture. This man moves mountains.
He's Steven Regal, a real man's man!
[dramatic music plays]
[crowd cheering]
[announcer] And their opponents, at a combined weight of 507 pounds,
Mosh and Thrasher, The Headbangers!
[JR] The Headbangers! Oh, here we go! The Headbangers!
[bell ringing]
To take on The Oddities here in tag team action,
and for some reason The Headbangers,
The Jersey Boys are noted pretty jovial,
but they got problems with The Oddities, for what reason, I don't know.
They're interested to see what kind of reception The Headbangers get
in the Continental Airlines Arena.
We go to Meadowlands this Sunday, in East Rutherford, New Jersey,
for live WWE action.
Last week on Raw, The Headbangers destroyed
old Douglas's Cartman doll, King.
We saw it on the USA Network,
out in California-- Oh!
[Lawler] And they start to surprise old Doug.
They kind of turned on him.
They were dancing with him at first and…
wound up losing his little Cartman doll. I want to find that doll anyway.
Remember when they put my crown on top of it? That looked stupid.
[JR] No comment.
In any event, last evening in Heat,
some problems with Golga, Mosh,
The Oddities, Headbangers, the whole nine yards.
-And-- Oh! -[Lawler] Look at this!
[JR] Mr. McMahon is on his way to the hospital.
We still don't have any word back
regarding the apparent serious injury to Dan Severn.
And Mr. McMahon is on his way as we speak.
He's rolling towards the hospital right now.
[Lawler] Well, hopefully, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin has arrived
at the big house by now.
[JR] Big foot by the seven-footer, Golga, or Kurrgan rather.
Insane Clown Posse from right here in Detroit.
They got two albums on the Billboard chart.
These crazy, son of a guns have sold over a million records.
[Lawler] Well, this is sort of like a battle of the bands match here.
I don't think the Insane Clown Posse is the kind of music
that The Headbangers listen to.
[referee] Let me handle this.
[Lawler] They're more Marilyn Manson type.
[JR] And as King said earlier, we got some Marilyn Manson band members…
-[Lawler] Yeah! -…here with us tonight.
[crowd cheering]
-[Lawler] Look at this! Look at this! -[JR] ICP…
-There's some tripping and distracting. -[Lawler] What!
-[JR] And what a splash by Kurrgan. -[Lawler] Wait a minute,
-who do they think they are? -[bell ringing]
-[JR] And The Oddities get the duke. -[crowd cheering]
-[The Oddities' theme song playing] -[JR] Oh, man, I tell you what,
we are live tonight in more ways than one.
He is the number one contender for the vacant WWE title.
Here is The Rock, standing by with Michael Cole.
Congratulations for being the number one contender--
Shut up! Listen, the fact of the matters is this.
The Rock did exactly what he said he was gonna do,
when he walked into Breakdown last night.
He walked into People's Cage,
he flexed the People's Eyebrow,
he dropped the double People's Elbow,
and he planted some poor jabroni with the Rock Bottom.
So now, tonight, The Rock has to go into the damn People's Ring,
with the same two jabronis who The Rock beat last night as his partners.
But that's okay, because The Rock is now the number one contender
for WWE Title.
But make no mistake about it.
The Rock could care less about being the number one contender,
because whether you like it, whether this piece of trash over here likes it,
whether this big, fat, female pig over here likes it,
the fact of the matter is this,
is that there ain't nothing, and The Rock means nothing
that could ever compare to being The People's Champ.
[crowd cheering]
[JR] Ladies and gentlemen, the European Champ,
X-Pac of DX will meet Val Venis
for the European Title.
Val Venis and X-Pac is coming up next.
[sighing deeply]
Honey, did you find them earrings you dropped? [laughs]
Not yet. But I'll keep looking.
[laughing]
[sighing, chuckling]
["Hello Ladies" playing]
[JR] We're back live, ladies and gentlemen.
[bell ringing]
[announcer] The following contest is scheduled for one fall,
with a 60-minute time limit.
And it is for the World Wrestling Entertainment European Championship.
-Introducing first, The Challenger… -[JR] I can't believe that Terri Runnels
-as she walks to the ring now… -…being accompanied to the ring by…
[announcer] …Terri Runnels from Las Vegas, Nevada!
-Weighing in at 242 pounds… -[JR] …is with Val Venis again.
…Val Venis!
[JR] Well, anyway, ladies and gentlemen, Venis to take of here.
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-Hello, ladies. -[crowd cheering]
[Lawler] Ha-ha!
[JR] He's not talking to you, King.
So The Big Valbowski is here in Motor City. [chuckles]
[crowd cheering]
Well, we all know what that means.
So, ladies, show me your headlights
'cause I'm about to drive you all night long.
[crowd cheering]
["Make Some Noise" playing]
[JR] And here we go, the European Championship on the line, momentarily.
Big opportunity for Val Venis.
This could be his night in more ways than one.
X-Pac injured last night at Breakdown,
after being hit over the head with a guitar by Jeff Jarrett.
Some splinter and fragments got in X-Pac's eye.
[Lawler] Well, that Jeffs' fault.
[crowd cheering]
[JR] Well, this young kid brings so much energy,
so much excitement and charisma to the table.
And, you know, folks, with that injury he could have… He could have easily
canceled out of this match-up, and after the…
[Lawler] Do you think for a minute that Mr. McMahon
-would let him… -[bell ringing]
…cancel out of a title match?
[JR] Well, that's the right thing to do.
And Val Venis may have caught X-Pac on a good night.
Again DX having somewhat of internal problems,
don't read any more into it than we have, quite frankly.
Billy Gunn having some problems with each and every member of DX
earlier tonight.
And Billy Gunn has left the arena.
And again, maybe, cooler heads will prevail tomorrow-- Oh, no!
-[Lawler] Speaking of heads! -[JR] Nobody there for Val Venis' time.
Val Venis at Breakdown defeated Dustin Runnels
and Val shocked the world in more ways than one.
-Oh! -[Lawler] What a kick!
[JR] Nobody does it better than X-Pac.
When that young lady, and I'll use that term loosely, joined Val Venis.
She is still married to Dustin Runnels by the way.
Just thought I'd bring that up, King.
[Lawler] I understand that, JR.
I know what you're doing, smell what you're cooking.
[JR] X-Pac just tore that eye patches off anyway.
[Lawler] Smell this.
-[JR] I'd rather not. -[Lawler] No, do you think…
Do you really think for on minute…
I'm just wondering about something you mentioned earlier.
You think for one minute that Austin might have a friend down at the jail?
[JR] Absolute possibility.
There's a lot of Austin 3:16 shirts
in every arena in the country no matter what the banner is.
[Lawler chuckling] Yeah, there's a lot of them in every jail too.
And now he's probably wearing one there.
[JR] Can you believe that at the Rosemont Horizon,
in three weeks, Sunday, October the 18th, in Chicago
-Austin's got-- Stop, Terri! -[crowd cheering]
[JR] Austin's gonna referee the match between The Undertaker and Kane
to determine the WWE Champion.
[crowd cheering]
[JR] Oh, you're talking about some combustible elements…
-[Lawler] Oh! -…in the Windy City,
three weeks from-- Oh, man!
-[Lawler] Yes! That is… -[JR] Absolutely a shocking move…
-[crowd cheering] -One, two… No, it's not.
[Lawler] And I gotta correct you on something you said earlier,
that was Val Venis that pulled X-Pac's eye patch off.
-Try saying that, X-Pac's eyepatch. -[crowd cheering]
[JR] Great athleticism by the youngster from Minneapolis.
[Lawler] He can't see where he's going.
[JR] Well, he had a heck of a time last night.
-That was a physical 6-Man-- -[Lawler] Oh!
[JR] Look at this great move.
-This kid's got those educated feet. -[crowd cheering]
This is a 6-Man Tag Match.
-Oh, come on! -[Lawler] What?
[JR] Terri Runnels just tripped X-Pac.
[Lawler] Don't try to tell the referee you didn't see it, X-Pac.
[JR] And now, Val Venis.
-[Lawler] Good move! -[JR] Fisherman suplex,
that could be all. We may have a new champion with that.
[Lawler] A long, long two.
[crowd cheering]
[Lawler] I can't believe that Terri Runnels
getting involved-- Wait a minute.
[JR] Well, folks, business is about to pick up.
[Lawler] Oh, look at that… Terri!
[JR] Because Chyna must have seen what Terri just did!
-[crowd cheering] -[JR] And Chyna shoved
little Terri Runnels down.
[Lawler] She almost shoved her into East Lansing.
[JR] Saturday, tomorrow night, the Brentwood Center.
[Lawler] Wait-- Whoa!
[JR] And The Big Valbowski is being challenged…
-Oh, yes! -[crowd cheering]
[JR] You take care of the ball, you pay for it!
[Lawler] Look at this!
-[bell ringing] -[JR] And referee Tim White,
with both Chyna and X-Pac stomping away at Val…
[Lawler] I don't think that Val appeals to Chyna.
She's not impressed!
[JR] Well, Val's not Chyna's type apparently.
-Come on. -[referee] Come on.
Come on, Chyna, go!
-Chyna, let's go. -[JR] Oh!
[announcer] The winner of this match as a result of a disqualification,
Val Venis!
-[crowd booing] -[JR] Val wins by disqualification.
X-Pac is still the European Champion.
And next week we'll meet D'Lo Brown right here on Raw
as a result of D'Lo winning the 6-Man Four Corners Elimination Match
earlier here tonight.
["Hello Ladies" playing]
[JR] Terri Runnels with him, like a nice appetizer for Chyna.
Well, I guess Terri will be consoling her new man, if that's indeed the case.
[Lawler] Don't kiss him to make it better right here.
[JR] Or is it a glorified one-night stand?
[Lawler] Wait a minute. They'll fix the place with tonsil hockey.
[JR] Oh, good Lord!
Well, I don't think we need to…
stay hung on this shot.
-["Gold-Lust" playing] -[JR] What the hell is that?
-Goldust music. -[Lawler] What?
[crowd cheering]
[JR] Will you listen to this ovation?
This is amazing!
These fans are standing.
[Goldust] Hey, Val.
I told you he was coming back.
[Lawler] What the hell is…
Obviously that's Goldust. I don't know where he is.
That's Goldust falling from the ceiling here all over the arena.
[Lawler] And look at Terri Runnels!
-[JR] She cannot believe it. -[Lawler] Going nuts!
[JR] I tell you what, folks, it just gets crazier and crazier.
And when you talk about insanity
and deranged people, they better talk about not Michael Cole, but Mankind.
Mike, take it away.
Mankind, last night at Breakdown: In Your House,
you took on The Rock and Ken Shamrock inside a steel cage,
but tonight you have to team with those two men
to take on The Undertaker and Kane
in a Handicap Match.
Well, two things became very apparent after Breakdown.
Number one, Mankind swings a mighty chair, you can just ask Ken Shamrock about that.
And, number two, in the 100 and plus years of professional wrestling's existence,
last night's People's Elbow was the worst move I've ever seen.
But I'm not about to let the fact that I did a Mark McGwire impression
with Ken Shamrock's head,
or the fact that I split the People's Eyebrow
worse than Bill and Hillary Clinton's marriage,
Inauguration Day 2001,
stand in the way of tonight's match with Undertaker and Kane.
I'm looking for our friendship and mutual respect to more than overcome
Kane and Undertaker's prowess and geometric knowledge,
and it will be a nice day!
[JR] Well, it ain't gonna be…
It ain't gonna be pretty, folks. Here they come.
The most destructive force in WWE history.
On their way to the ring.
[JR] We are back live, ladies and gentlemen, here in Detroit,
Joe Louis Arena,
and we are ready for a very unusual 3-on-2 Handicap Tag Match.
And Ken Shamrock not getting a very warm reception here, King,
-in the Motor City. -[bell ringing]
[announcer] The following Handicap Tag Team Match
is scheduled for one fall with TV time remaining.
Making his way to the ring, from Sacramento, California,
weighing in at 243 pounds,
"The World's Most Dangerous Man"
Ken Shamrock!
[yelling]
[JR] Ken Shamrock lost to the favorite, Dan Severn,
in the Ultimate Fighting Game, right here in Detroit, sometime back.
And by the way, folks, we're gonna be live in the Nassau Coliseum,
Monday, October the 12th, for Raw is War.
Tickets are still available, but buy it quickly, in Long Island.
[announcer] And his tag team partner, he weighs in at 287 pounds…
-Mankind! -[crowd cheering]
[JR] Mankind, Shamrock and The Rock will be teammates.
They were opponents, last night at Breakdown.
[Lawler] You think… You think they're gonna be able to co-exist?
[JR] Oh, hell no. There they go.
[Lawler] No! There's your answer right there-- Wait a minute!
[JR] Mankind smacked Shamrock with a steel chair.
[Lawler] Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
[JR] And Shamrock and Mankind--
[Lawler] Hold up, your partner…
[JR] I know, they knew they're partners. You think they care?
-And who's gonna stop them? -[Lawler] What!
You better get The Rock out here!
[JR] This is not a match. This is a… Simply a confrontation
between rivals who have been forced to be partners here tonight.
-[Lawler] What… -[JR] With The Rock against
against The Undertaker and Kane.
[The Rock] Do you smell what The Rock is cooking?
-[crowd cheering] -["Electrifying" playing]
[JR] Boy, this is an ovation!
I mean a…
A rippling ovation.
[Lawler] Well, Mankind and Shamrock were just fighting each other.
What do you think they're gonna do to The Rock?
He's the one that was the winner last night.
[JR] The Rock, the number one contender for the WWE title.
That will be decided three weeks at Judgment Day…
-[Lawler] Ah! Here we go. -…in Chicago.
And now, The Rock and Shamrock are hooking it up
and getting it on!
Rock got busted open over his eye last night
in that Triple Threat Cage Match.
Now these three men are supposed to be partners!
These three men are supposed to be on the same team!
[Lawler] They just don't get it!
[JR] And, now, The Rock and Mankind
taking some of the venom out of Ken Shamrock.
-[bell tolls] -["Dark Side" playing]
[crowd cheering]
[JR] Well, that's… Nobody can stop their fight
unless maybe it's The Undertaker and Kane.
[Lawler] Or Mr. McMahon, if only he were here.
-[fireworks exploding] -[crowd cheering]
[JR] A 3-on-2 Handicap Match.
[announcer] And their opponents, first from Death Valley,
weighing in 328 pounds,
The Undertaker,
and his Tag Team partner, Kane!
[JR] The brothers, The Undertaker and Kane will be against each other
at Judgment Day, in three weeks, in Chicago!
Steve Austin will be the referee on that night.
We will decide and determine who the WWE Champion truly is.
Thanks to our beloved, convalescing Mr. McMahon.
-You think he's been sedated? -[Lawler] No. I hope so.
Do you think he's in a private room?
[Lawler] It's a little emergency room somewhere.
[theme music continues]
-Shamrock now. -[Lawler] Look at this!
What are you guys doing?
-[JR] Shamrock back on Mankind. -[bell ringing]
[JR] Shamrock will never ever forget that chair shot to the face
at Breakdown, delivered by Mankind McGwire. Oh!
[Lawler] JR, this is the weirdest Handicap Match I've ever seen in my life.
Then, well, look at this!
Mankind is out here fighting Shamrock, his own partner.
[JR] And The Rock left in there with The Undertaker and Kane.
This will maybe over swiftly, aggressively, and suddenly.
[Lawler] Is this what McMahon had in mind?
[JR] I don't know what McMahon has in mind anymore.
How do you figure out Mr. McMahon?
If you can, let me in on it.
It's The Undertaker and The Rock.
The Rock is the number-one contender for the WWE title.
The champion could be The Undertaker.
We'll find out on October, the 18th, in three weeks.
[Lawler] Could be Kane!
[JR] Oh, look at this. Amazing agility.
I mean, they are seven-footer,
328 pounds, is The Undertaker.
[Lawler] I though it was gonna be Kane and The Undertaker
that wouldn't be able to co-exist.
[JR] Well, these Raw events are absolutely an experience,
a once in a lifetime experience.
We're talking about two weeks in the Nassau Coliseum,
Milwaukee, The Bradley Center on Monday, October the 19th.
Raw is War will be at Madison, Wisconsin
on Tuesday, October the 20th at the Kohl Center,
our debut there.
[Lawler] Come one, ref.
[JR] Referee Earl Hebner and rightfully so, folks,
a little intimidated by the mere presence of the…
[Lawler] Well, his hands are absolutely full with this match, I mean…
Everybody is fighting everybody.
[JR] Now The Rock fight back.
The Rock nailing Kane, avoiding the clothesline-- Oh!
[JR] But Kane didn't avoid that contact.
[crowd cheering]
[JR] And there's a tag, Mankind and Kane,
former WWE Tag Team Champions.
[Lawler] Well, they have to fight each other.
[JR] Mankind drilling Kane
with those stinging right hands right to the head,
and now Kane simply overpowering the mere 300-pound Mankind.
Mankind and… Talk about being in Death Valley.
-Tag made, "The Phenom" The Undertaker. -[Lawler] Go!
[JR] Often called the conscience of the WWE,
now wailing away on a man who may have the highest threshold of pain
of anybody ever in this business,
Mick Foley, Mankind.
[Lawler] I hope Steve Austin has a conscience.
He should really be ashamed of himself right now.
[JR] Austin jailed earlier, thanks to Mr. McMahon.
Mr. McMahon hospitalized earlier, thanks to The Undertaker and Kane.
Austin will get here…
Austin will be back here before McMahon will,
if Austin does make it.
-[Lawler] Yeah, that's the-- -[crowd exclaiming]
[JR] What the hell!
-The Rock just hit his own partner. -[crowd cheering]
[JR] And I'll tell you what, this is bizarre.
Oh, a near fall there, The Undertaker…
on Shamrock with the assist from The Rock.
[Lawler] See, The Rock don't care.
He's already been declared the number one contender.
He's got nothing to prove here.
[JR] And there's a cover.
Undertaker, Shamrock reaches down and kicks out here.
[Lawler] Well' I'll tell you what, can you imagine
Steve Austin as a referee
for The Undertaker-Kane match?
[JR] I just… I try to…
There's a million images coming through my mind
of what kinda chaos and…
extraordinary aggression
we're gonna see on the 18th of October.
-Do you think-- And it maybe… Not. -[Lawler] Cover.
[JR] It's almost over.
Shamrock, he's a tough son of a gun. There's no doubt about it.
[Lawler] Do you think Steve Austin even knows that yet?
Do you think somebody's told him down at the camp?
Maybe he used his one phone call.
Who do you think he called?
-[JR] I don't know. -[Lawler] Surely they don't have cable
in jail, do they?
[JR] How would I know?
Mankind and The Rock somehow co-existing on the outside.
In the meantime, Shamrock will be well-placed to make a tag.
The dropkick… The dropkick by Shamrock.
-[Lawler] Boom! -[crowd cheering]
[JR] We thought Mr. McMahon was going to name either The Undertaker or Kane
the WWE Champions earlier tonight.
McMahon surrounded himself… And there's a tag.
-…with Detroit police officers… -[Lawler] Yeah.
…to make sure Austin wouldn't crash the party.
Austin commandeered a Zamboni machine.
Austin did crash the party.
He attacked Mr. McMahon.
And boy, McMahon was hot
because The Undertaker and Kane didn't protect him, King.
[Lawler] Well, I mean, I've never seen such a thing.
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin drove a Zamboni machine
right into the Joe Louis Arena here.
[JR] A cannon ball by Mankind on Kane.
-[Mankind groans] -[JR] Now there's The Undertaker.
[Lawler] Austin rammed that Zamboni into the ring and then he dove
on Vince McMahon.
[JR] And then McMahon had Austin arrested,
taken to the jail, here in Detroit.
[crowd exclaiming]
Listen to that impact. Enough said.
And then, instead of naming The Undertaker or Kane
the WWE Champions,
after they double-teamed Austin at Breakdown,
McMahon got infuriated with the demonic brothers.
[Lawler] Well, they didn't protect him.
[JR] And he's gonna make them wrestle.
The Undertaker and Kane gonna wrestle in three weeks, at our next pay-per-view,
Judgment Day,
and Austin's gonna be the referee.
-[crowd cheering] -[JR] That night will determine
the WWE Champion.
[Lawler] Wow.
-[JR] But, first… -[Lawler] Mr. McMahon,
he did one other little thing tonight.
-He forced Kane… -[JR] Uh-oh.
[JR and Lawler exclaiming]
[Lawler] …Kane and The Undertaker into this Handicap Tag Match.
But I don't think this has worked out like Mr. McMahon planned it.
[JR] This was perhaps punishment
for The Undertaker and Kane, yes, I will agree with that.
It also is somewhat punishing for The Rock, Shamrock, and Mankind
to have to be partners after beating the hell out of each other
in a solid steel cage…
-[Lawler] Uh-oh. -…just last night at Breakdown
-in a Triple Threat Match. -[Lawler] Uh-oh. Watch this, JR.
[JR] Kane up on top.
Watch his agility, he's a big red missile…
-[crowd exclaiming] -…that found its mark, 325 pounds…
There's the cover.
No! He didn't get it.
Near fall situation there.
[JR] And there's another tag.
That WWE title match just last night--
And, by the way, the encore
of Breakdown will be tomorrow night on pay-per-view.
That match last night at Breakdown was… The title was the most controversial match
for a title, I think I've ever seen…
in that kind of… In a Triple Threat environment.
[Lawler] Right, and it was still up in the air.
Tonight, who was the champion?
Was it The Undertaker?
Was it Kane?
And now we still don't know.
[JR] And Austin proved once again that he is indeed the toughest SOB
in the WWE to merely being able to walk out of the ring last night.
[Lawler] Wow!
[JR] Oh, what a shot.
Mankind caught The Undertaker coming in.
Mankind matches up very well with The Undertaker.
They've been in some wars.
They've been buried alive.
That was a shot right there by The Phenom, knocking down Mankind.
-[Lawler] And-- -[JR] There's a cover.
What?
[Lawler] Just thinking about last night, JR,
can you believe… Do you remember when Mankind dove
Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, like, off the top of that cage?
[JR] Must have been 15, maybe 20 feet there.
[Lawler] Yeah, but nobody was home when he got to the bottom.
[JR] Folks, if you missed Breakdown, you gotta set that VCR
tomorrow night and watch it on pay-per-view.
The Rock wants piece of The Undertaker.
-The Rock is-- -[Lawler] Look out!
[JR] Oh, man, trying to get-- My, God!
He may have just busted his knee caps
and broken his shins right there.
Folks, we have taken our last commercial break.
[Lawler] We're gonna be here for the duration.
[JR] Absolutely.
-Watch it. -[Lawler] Kane in front of us here.
[JR] Uh-oh.
-[Mankind screaming] -[JR] Big, evil son of a gun
with a steel chair, and that's bad.
That's bad for whomever it's intended for.
[Lawler] What's The Rock doing now?
[JR] Rock and Shamrock up on the apron.
[Lawler] Uh-oh, look out, Mankind!
[crowd exclaiming]
[Lawler] What a shot right to the side of Mankind's head.
Good God Almighty, he's knocked out.
[JR] Poor old Mick Foley
in his Mankind attire…
He ain't gonna last much longer.
[Lawler] He gets those brain cells scrambled
four or five times a night. I don't see how there's any left now.
[JR] This could be it right here.
Uh-oh.
Well, he has enough wits about left in that brain,
his brain wasn't too scrambled. He got the foot on the bottom rope.
Certainly don't see any bald 45-year-olds playing the air guitar here.
That's Kane, the youngster… the younger brother of The Undertaker.
Seven feet tall,
325 pounds, I think he's still growing.
And he could be the next WWE Champion.
We'll know that in three weeks.
Good move by Mankind.
Now he needs to make a tag.
Oh, look at that.
Kane sat up just like his brother, The Undertaker.
[Lawler] Well, what would his brother, The Undertaker do
if Kane was declared… or if Kane wins that match?
I mean… What if… That's gonna be on The Undertaker's mind right now.
How can they co-exist? That's what's surprising to me.
[JR] Remember the battles that The Undertaker and Kane have had.
-[Lawler] Yeah. -[JR] And some of them have been real…
real epics,
from the standpoint of the Inferno Match.
The match they had at WrestleMania.
Mankind has just been isolated.
Very sound, smart strategy.
Mankind being double-teamed at Breakdown, it was-- Oh, downstairs.
And a DDT, that maybe it.
-[crowd cheering] -Maybe that's the move
-Mankind was looking for. -[Lawler] He got him.
[imperceptible]
[JR] The Rock wants… He wants in.
And so does Shamrock.
[referee] Four!
[Lawler] The Rock goes screaming, "Come on, you jabroni, tag out."
[JR] Shamrock, will he take Mankind's tag? I'm not sure.
-Mankind tags in The Rock. -[crowd cheering]
The Rock fired up on The Undertaker.
The Rock all up in The Undertaker's face.
The Rock looking to lay the smackdown.
-There's a DDT! -[crowd cheering]
[JR] He's found a DDT. That could be all.
No. And a near fall.
Oh, this jumps to The Rock.
-Only two years in the business. -[Lawler] Look at that!
-[crowd cheering] -[JR] Oh, here we go, yes.
[Lawler] You're kidding me.
[JR] Yes. It's the People's Elbow.
The People's Elbow on The Deadman.
-Boom! -[crowd cheering]
[JR] Right in the heart. Does he have a heart?
And Kane interrupted the count.
The Rock going in for the cover.
Here comes Shamrock.
Shamrock trying to head off Kane.
The Rock and The Undertaker are the legal men here.
Undertaker firing back up,
a shot in the face of Mankind.
[Lawler] This is chaos. Look at this.
[JR] Shamrock and Kane up and over.
And The Rock now,
taken The Undertaker to the corner.
The Rock, the youngest man to ever be
the Intercontinental Champion.
He wants to be the WWE Champion.
Makes the tag to Mankind.
I think there's a score to settle here.
[Lawler] I think this is more like what McMahon had in mind.
Finally, The Rock, Shamrock, and Mankind
are operating as a unit.
Finally, it is 3-on-2 just like McMahon wanted it to be.
[JR] Undertaker and Kane,
are they gonna be taken to the woods here by these three men?
-Is that the penance for Mr. McMahon? -[crowd cheering]
-Oh, Shamrock-- -[Lawler] Oh, look at that!
[JR] Shamrock looking for that ankle lock.
Shamrock looking for that ankle lock! But Kane in…
Oh, Kane came in quickly.
[referee] We got 35 seconds.
[JR] There's a tag made right there.
Here comes The Rock again.
Shamrock nails Kane!
The Rock and The Undertaker, toe-to-toe.
Rock set for the ride.
-[Lawler] Look out! -[JR] Oh, wait a minute!
The Rock knocked down by The Undertaker.
And we're just about out of time here, I'll tell ya that.
-Oh! Wait a minute! -[crowd cheering]
[JR] Rock Bottom! Rock Bottom!
-[crowd cheering] -[JR] Yes!
[crowd] One, two, three!
-[crowd cheering] -[bell ringing]
[The Rock] Do you smell what The Rock is cooking?
["Electrifying" playing]
[announcer] Here are your winners,
the team of Ken Shamrock, Mankind, and The Rock!
[crowd cheering]
[JR] The number one contender for the WWE title, The Rock,
just beat The Undertaker!
On a night where Mr. McMahon has been hospitalized,
on a night where DX's foundation has been shaken.
And don't forget "Stone Cold" Steve Austin has been sent straight to jail!
Oh, ladies and gentlemen, it's gonna be a big week.
We'll see you right here, next week on Raw!