[rock music playing]
[narrator] And now WWE No Way Out.
[crowd cheering]
[explosions]
[Ross] On a night where championships will be decided,
where the main event for WrestleMania most certainly will be determined,
and where The People's Champion has grave retribution on his mind.
What adverse effect will the poisonous nWo have
on tonight's No Way Out extravaganza?
["Rockhouse" playing]
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] Wait a minute.
[Ross] But apparently, we're not gonna have to wait very long
to-- to get that answer.
Jim Ross and Jerry "the King" Lawler live here at the Bradley Center
here at ringside.
Fifteen thousand, two hundred and thirty-five fans have sold out
the Bradley Center weeks ago,
and, King, the poison has arrived.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Hollywood Hogan, Hall, and Nash,
the three men who built the old WCW
but did more to destroy that company,
that brand than any other entity,
are now full-fledged members
of the World Wrestling Entertainment, thanks to Mr. McMahon.
[Jerry] And Mr. McMahon even said that he regretted bringing
these three individuals into the WWE, but he felt he had to do it.
I'm gonna tell you what, J.R.,
if you wanna thank somebody for these three guys being here,
you can thank Ric Flair.
[Ross] What do you mean by that?
[Jerry] What do you mean by that? He's the one that drove Mr. McMahon
to the point to where he brought these guys here.
Ric Flair did it.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] These guys are like a pack of dogs.
They run in a pack.
They will affect their will on anyone at any time.
[Jerry] Tell the truth, J.R., tell me right now.
Did you ever, in your wildest dreams, think that you would ever see
Hogan, Nash, and Hall
in a World Wrestling Entertainment ring again?
[Ross] Well, you never say never in this business,
but I was damn sure hoping that they wouldn't be in a WWE ring again.
Wow.
Maybe we'll get a look, kind of an indication,
as to what these three men have on their mind,
what their agenda will be here tonight.
[Jerry] Well, I think we're gonna get an indication, all right.
[Ross] They perceive that they are bigger than our business.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] I just got a bad feeling about this,
the way this program is starting here tonight.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Let's listen up, J.R., pay attention.
Let's see what they got to say.
These fans need to-- they need to get on their good side.
You know…
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] Give him a chance.
Maybe show him some respect.
[Ross] Why?
…we're here tonight to set the record straight.
We came in here earlier today,
and you would not believe
the amount of heat we had with The Boys.
[crowd cheering]
Some of the stares were actually kind of frightening.
[crowd] What?
And for what?
[crowd] What?
I mean, because of some reputation we have?
[crowd] What?
[crowd cheering]
I mean, in the last couple of weeks,
words have been thrown around in association with the nWo like "poison."
[crowd] What?
-[Jerry] We've heard that. -"Cancer."
[crowd] What?
You know, some people say that we're "self-serving."
[crowd] What?
You know, some people actually have used profanity
and have said that the nWo is a bunch of company-killing bastards.
[crowd] What?
[Jerry] I think that was you that said that, J.R.
[crowd booing]
And speaking for myself and my two friends here,
let me tell you something.
That hurts our feelings.
[crowd] What?
I mean, what is it we've done?
What awful thing did we do?
-[crowd] What? -[Ross] King, their feelings are hurt.
Give me a break.
I mean, all we want is a fair chance…
[crowd] What?
…a clean slate.
[crowd] What?
We want the ability to come out and prove to you, great fans…
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] They're applauding the fans.
…not only can we do it
but nobody does it quite like us.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] That was-- That was actually pretty humble.
[crowd cheering]
Hey, y'all.
[crowd cheering]
We're not the bad guys.
[crowd jeering]
Heck, we're a bunch of marks.
[Jerry scoffs]
We're fans.
[crowd] What?
We just want the opportunity
to work with some of the great WWE superstars.
[crowd cheering]
I mean, we might even get some autographs.
[Jerry chuckles] Hey.
Maybe take some pictures.
[crowd] What?
If we're lucky, uh, we might even get to drink some beer with The Boys.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Oh, not you.
But the point is,
we don't want any trouble…
because deep down,
we're just like all of you.
[Ross] Sure they are.
Sure they are, King.
[Jerry] Well, maybe-- maybe we should give them a chance.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] I never thought I'd see this,
never thought I'd hear Hulk's voice
on a WWE broadcast again, but I think we're about to.
[Ross] I agree, King, neither did I.
[Jerry] He's choked up.
-[Ross] Oh, come on. -[Jerry] He's emotional.
[Ross] Don't buy into this.
[crowd] Hogan! Hogan! Hogan!
[Jerry] Listen to his fans.
[Ross] I don't-- King, I don't think
you or nobody else is believing a word of this.
You know, Scott and Kevin, I couldn't agree with you more.
We're just like all of you out there.
[crowd cheering]
I mean, we might be a little richer,
a little more famous, but I mean, we're not here to kill the WWE.
We're here to make it better.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] That's a relief.
All we wanna do is give the WWE fans
exactly what they want, and all we want from you is a chance.
[crowd cheering]
But it's up to all you out there
and all The Boys in the back if we get our chance.
That remains to be seen.
But I could tell you one thing right now,
in all sincerity,
there's one man who gave the nWo a chance,
and that was Vince McMahon.
[crowd booing]
And right now, I'd like to thank Vince McMahon for the opportunity.
And I wanna tell you, Vince McMahon, we will not let you down.
[crowd chattering]
God bless Vince McMahon. Thank you.
-[crowd booing] -[applause]
And God bless all of you too.
-[crowd cheering] -[Ross] And the uppercut.
And last of all, God bless America.
Thank you for the chance.
-[crowd cheering] -["Rockhouse" playing]
[Jerry] Should we give them a chance, J.R.?
[Ross] I can't speak for you.
I don't buy into one word that we've just heard.
How corny is that? I mean, next thing we'll be taking signs from them again.
I mean, "God bless America," who could give a damn about America?
They could care less about the fans that are here.
These three guys care about only one thing, and that's each other.
[Jerry] But wait a minute, let me-- let me ask you this.
Is it possible, J.R., is it-- is it possible that they've changed?
[Ross] I assume that anything is possible, King,
but I got a-- I'm not convinced, let me tell you that.
I'm just not convinced.
[Jerry] Well, maybe you got to give them a chance to convince you.
[Ross] Are you buying into this, huh?
[Jerry] I just-- You know, I'm just--
Well, when Hulk said, "God bless America," you know.
[Ross] He got the rise out of you
that he wanted to elicit out of everybody else, in my estimation.
These guys were not humble guys,
they're here to help the WWE.
They've got their own agenda.
They've always had their own agenda.
We knew that coming in here.
They built one company and then destroyed it,
the old WCW.
Maybe they've changed.
You've changed over the years, J.R.
Not necessarily for the better, but you've changed.
Maybe these guys have changed for the better.
-[Ross] Well… -[rock music playing]
[Ross] Milwaukee, the Bradley Center, 15,235 have sold out
this, uh, beautiful facility several weeks ago,
the first day the tickets went on sale.
And it is a very honest beginning to this event.
-[singer] Turn it up! -["Bangin' It" playing]
[Ross] The appearance of the nWo.
[Jerry] Well, I wanna tell you something, J.R.
I'll be-- I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm relieved.
I thought that-- I mean, I really was expecting devastation,
and destruction, and-- I mean--
[bell rings]
[Howard] Ladies and gentlemen, this is Tag Team Turmoil,
with the winners of this contest getting a Tag Team Championship match
at WrestleMania.
Entering the ring,
the combination of Scotty 2 Hotty
and "The Hip Hop Hippo" Albert.
[Ross] Well, two teams will begin this match.
When one team is eliminated, another team will join the match.
Tag Team Turmoil continues until there's only one team remaining.
Six teams have entered this competition, a match made by co-owner Ric Flair.
[singer] ♪ Christian! Christian! ♪
[Ross] And the winning team meet the Tag Team Champions at WrestleMania.
[Jerry] This is a great entrance.
["At Last" playing]
[Howard] Coming down the aisle,
the team of Christian and Lance Storm.
[Ross] The charismatic Christian--
or should I say the charismatic Lance Storm.
I'll stick with my original thought.
And in any event, Christian,
a seven-time former WWE Tag Team Champion.
[Jerry] I think Lance Storm had that surgery on Canada.
I think he had a charisma bypass, and it worked.
[Ross] They got public health care, you know.
[Jerry] They do? That's a good thing.
[Ross] So, six teams will enter the competition.
We'll start with these two teams.
When one of these two teams has been eliminated--
[bell rings]
[Ross] …another team will, uh, enter this matchup.
And certainly the team that has drawn the, uh--
[Jerry] Well, these two teams that start out there, you know,
that's not the best, uh--
-[Ross] No. -[Jerry] …that's not the luck of the draw.
Like, this is sort of like the Royal Rumble.
[Ross] No, you're right.
[Jerry] When you start out first, you got the long haul to go.
-Whoa! -[Ross] Yeah, are these--
are these two teams ready to go that distance here tonight?
And it's Lance Storm and Scotty 2 Hotty kicking it off, and a roll-up by Scotty.
And got a near-fall on Lance Storm.
From Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
tough young Canadians, uh, joining forces here tonight in Christian and, uh, Storm.
-[Jerry] Look at this. -[Ross] On top.
[Jerry] How strong is The Hip Hop Hippo?
-[Ross] Very. -[Jerry] Oh, he just dropped the man.
[Ross] Albert, six-eight, 350,
and a Giant Swing.
[Jerry] The Giant Swing.
He did that on poor Stacy Keibler. She was dizzy for a week.
[Ross] Have you ever wrestled Don Leo Jonathan, King?
Look at this. A knockdown by Albert, hook to the leg,
and Christian able to-- to interrupt it here.
Again, once a team is eliminated, pinfall, submission, or disqualification--
[Jerry] Watch it, Christian, look out behind you. Oh!
[Ross] Looking for Edge to use that headbutt.
About as effective as anybody.
They should be going by massive hits.
A knockdown by Storm,
and Lance Storm is very talented,
just got powered off that lateral press.
[Jerry] You think when he was a little kid,
the other kids made fun of him about how big his head was?
-[Ross] I suspect not too often. -One, two, three…
[Jerry] His brother used to sit in the grocery store to get ten pounds
of potatoes. He said, "What am I carrying?"
She said, "Your head." What a-- Oh, look at this.
[Ross] And a double clothesline by eight and three eighths.
Pittsburgh Panther Scotty 2 Hotty gets the tag in.
Scotty and Albert would like to worm their way into that--
[Jerry] Oh my gosh, look out.
[Ross] …that green spot at WrestleMania for tag team competition.
And Christian…
Nothin' prettier than a martial arts kick for his trouble,
and Storm now saving Christian perhaps from the, uh, three-count.
[Jerry] Right. Coming right out here in front of us, J.R.
[Ross] Scotty 2 Hotty tossed outside.
And, uh, Albert… well, a big size and strength advantage for Albert.
But he's gotta connect for it to be effective.
[Jerry] Let me tell you something, J.R.-- Whoa, look out.
[Ross] His adversaries and Lance Storm as well.
[Jerry] Oh, we may see it here.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] Oh.
Are you ready for this?
Are you ready, J.R.?
-Here it comes. -[Ross] I don't know. I think I am.
-[Jerry] W-O-R-M. -[crowd] W-O-R-M.
[Jerry laughs]
Here comes that Worm.
Uh-oh, watch it.
[Ross] And-- Oh, Storm's trying to de-Worm Scotty.
-[Jerry] Oh! -[Ross] Oh, that did it.
The Unprettier right there face-first,
as Scotty driven down,
-Storm holding back Albert. -[bell rings]
[Ross] And this match continues now,
our third team to come face Storm and Christian.
[Ross] Scotty and Albert have been eliminated.
["Loaded" playing]
[Ross] And it is the returning Hardys.
[Jerry] They're back.
[Ross] Former Prime Time Tag Team Champions.
[Jerry] Oh, look at these fans, J.R.
They can't wait to get 'em some Hardys.
[Ross] And the Hardys accompanied by Lita, who'll be at ringside…
[Jerry] I can't wait to see Lita. There she is. Ooh!
[Ross] …and, Jeff, have been away
from our broadcast for quite some time,
and they have been missed, no doubt about it.
And the double team by the brothers…
[Jerry] Oh man.
[Ross] …from the state of North Carolina.
[Jerry] Wow, that can't feel good.
[Ross] Good slam by Matt Hardy.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Well, I'll tell you what, this is a--
a shove from the outside by Storm, a direct hit, and if you win this,
you go to the-- a tag team main event at WrestleMania, certainly.
Let's go. You gotta get out of here, come on.
[Ross] A tag made, Storm in, Christian will go out eventually.
[Jerry] Eventually.
I just can't-- I gotta tell you, J.R…
[Ross] A cover.
-Two. -[Jerry] …I'm relieved.
I feel good about tonight now, all of a sudden.
Oh, I feel better now I've seen Lita,
but I was-- I was just expecting, like I said,
devastation, destruction, chaos, and all sorts of stuff from the nWo, but…
[Ross] Storm again looking for a three, and Matt Hardy fights out.
[Jerry] I can't get over how nice they were.
[Ross] You're buying into it, huh?
I don't-- I got a condo now at Fort Marshall, so…
-[Jerry] You do? -[Ross] You buy into that?
[Jerry] Well…
-[Ross] I guess not. -[Jerry] What a cynic you are, J.R.
[Ross] I just-- Well, I may be. You may-- You're right.
[Jerry] I like to take stuff at face value.
Can't you just try that every now and then?
[Ross] Well, I should perhaps.
[Jerry] Yes.
-Uh-oh, look out. -[Ross] Butt shot.
[Jerry] That's not good for your face value.
[Ross] Christian hung up there on the top rope.
Two.
[Ross] Christian has the opportunity, as does Storm.
If they win this matchup, they go to Toronto, Christian's hometown…
[Jerry] Uh-oh, here we go.
[Ross] …at WrestleMania next month,
and Jeff Hardy gets the tag from his brother, Matt.
[Jerry] Look out, oh! Ow!
[Ross] The unorthodox, uh, risk-taking style of Matt and Jeff Hardy,
and Jeff Hardy really asserting himself here with his speed and quickness.
-[Jerry] Man. -[Ross] A Russian leg sweep there by Jeff.
[Jerry] Oh no!
[Ross] A pinning combination, there it is, and Christian interrupting the count.
[Jerry] That would've been great.
[Ross] That would've been a very unique pinning situation there, to say the least.
Jeff Hardy-- Oh, there's a takedown, and right into the half crab.
[Jerry] That should do it.
[Ross] That is a painful maneuver right there, and just as it looked
as if Jeff was gonna tap out.
Matt Hardy now looking for the Twist of Fate, can't execute it.
[Jerry] Oh, missed!
[Ross] Misfire by Storm, hitting his own partner,
a twist of-- Oh my.
[Jerry] Look out. Whoa.
[Ross] Swanton by Jeff, the legal man, hooking the leg,
-and the Hardys-- -[bell rings]
[Ross] …eliminate Christian and Storm.
Two teams remaining.
[Jerry] Whoa, the Hardys are back.
-[firework whistles] -[Ross] Uh-oh, wait a minute.
We got a temper tantrum going on? Whoa.
Somebody's gonna change Christian's diaper.
["We're Coming Down" playing]
[Jerry] "Diaper?"
[Ross] These big boys will cry, I tell you.
[Jerry] I see somebody I'd like to diaper,
or at least put the baby powder on and say, "Woo-hoo!"
[Ross] Well, I guess a renewal of a-- of a great tag team rivalry here,
the Dudleys and the Hardys.
[Jerry] These guys have had some wars, haven't they?
[Ross] They certainly have. The Dudleys,
six times they've been WWE Tag Team Champions.
[Jerry] Oh, look at the Hardys start right where they left off.
[Ross] Some of the tag team titles will be decided later tonight.
We're looking for the number one contenders here.
That's the Hardys and the Dudleys now.
One more team left-- or two more teams,
Billy and Chuck and the APA.
[Jerry] And the speed in this match, it just keeps, uh, accelerating.
[Ross] These guys are not paid by the hour, as the old saying goes.
[Jerry laughs] Oh, look out.
[Ross] And nice teamwork and a powerslam by D-Von Dudley
and got a-- got a near-fall there.
[Jerry] Do you like the way Stacy Keibler comes and stands
right in front of us, J.R.?
[Ross] I think she's flirting with you.
-[Jerry] Me? Really? -[Ross] I believe so.
-[Jerry] Woo-hoo! -[Ross] I think she might be--
-[referee] …two. -[Ross] …quasi-smitten.
[Jerry] "Quasi-smitten?" Is that a medical condition?
Look out.
[Ross] Bubba Ray Dudley, what's he gonna do here?
Oh, look at, Bubba.
Submission move here by Bubba Dudley.
[Jerry] I'd rather look at Stacy, but-- Oh!
[Ross] And, uh, Jeff, sensing that Matt was about to tap out there,
interrupted that, uh, submission combination by Bubba Ray Dudley.
Now D-Von is in.
[Jerry] All right, J.R., you know how big Albert's head is, eight and three-eighths…
[Ross] Yes.
[Jerry] …how long do you think Stacy's legs are?
[Ross] That's way down your area. That's your-- That's your--
-[Jerry] Can I go measure them? -[Ross] Of our team, that's your deal.
-[Jerry] Can I measure 'em one time? -[Ross] I'm not gonna-- That's up to her.
-I'm not gonna-- -[Jerry] Oh.
[Ross] I'm not gonna be implicated in your measure.
-[Bubba] Pin him. -[Ross] Doesn't sound right.
There's a lateral press and a near-fall.
Jeff Hardy has been isolated, to say the least,
and these Dudleys can do that better than just about anybody I've ever been around.
They are as good a tag team combination as you will find in this business.
-Go, Jeff Hardy! -[Ross] And some of the same can--
I'm gonna say the same for the Hardys.
[Jerry] How long had the Hardys been gone?
[Ross] Just a couple of months, I think.
[Jerry] Jeff could've done something with that hair.
[Ross] That might've been a low blow there, King.
-I'll just go check-- Oh, never mind. -[Jerry] Oh, yeah, right.
[crowd chattering]
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Ross] Bubba blocking that suplex--
-[Jerry] Uh-oh! -[Ross] Here's Bubba.
Three hundred and twenty-five pounds, he was looking for every bit of it
to land on the chest cavity of Jeff Hardy,
and unfortunately for Bubba Ray, nothing landed.
-[Jerry] You're amazing, J.R. -[Ross] Why is that?
[Jerry] How do you know everybody--
the size of their heads, how much everybody weighs?
I bet you know Willie Nelson's middle name. Ooh.
[Ross] Oh my.
Jeff Hardy has got a tag to his brother, Matt…
-[Jerry] Look out. -[Ross] …and a DDT on Bubba Dudley.
[Jerry] This match-- This match is so fast and furious,
it's hard to keep up with the action. Here we go.
-Oh, that did it. -[Ross] Nice leg drop there.
This should be all… Yeah, well, we'll never know.
Bubba stopped the count and, uh, Jeff Hardy stopped Bubba.
[Jerry] Look at this.
-[Ross] Oh, combination offense there. -[woman] Come on, guys!
[Ross] Russian leg sweep, high-impact, to say the least.
[Jerry] I think D-Von still don't know where he's at.
-Now he's out the ring. -[Ross] Well, that's nothing new.
[woman] Come on, Jeff!
[Jerry] Hey, look at this, J.R. Are you ready for this?
Stacy is in the ring.
-[Ross] Stacy-- -[Jerry] Oh, Lita's in the ring.
[Ross] And Lita taking matters into her own hands,
separating Stacy from Matt Hardy.
[Jerry] What's he--
[Ross] And Bubba Dudley, what a shock that was.
[Jerry] Don't bruise the puppies.
-[Ross] Uh-oh, wait a minute. -[Jerry] Wait a minute.
[Ross] Bubba Dudley looking to get physical with Lita
and not in a very kind and gentle way.
-And the-- -[Jerry] Oh my.
[Ross] …the Bubba Bomb.
-The Bubba Bomb. -[Jerry] Hey, what's Lita doing?
Look out. Oh. [laughs]
[Ross] The Litacanrana on Bubba.
Bubba right outside.
-And Jeff Hardy-- -[Jerry] And Jeff Hardy-- No.
[Ross] The somersault plancha to the outside.
Both men exposing their anatomies to that concrete.
[woman] Come on, Bubba, get up!
[Jerry] Eat your heart out, Evel Knievel.
Look out. Oh.
[Ross] Oh, with a roll-up. Well, I'll be--
-[Jerry] He got him. -[bell rings]
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] He got him.
Oh.
[Ross] Matt Hardy with a roll-up.
-That eliminates the Dudleys. -[Jerry] D-Von can't believe it.
[Ross] And, uh, D-Von got a heavy lift in on Matt
before he left the ring and--
-Look out. -[Jerry] Here they go on the floor.
[Ross] A 3D on the floor by the Dudleys.
And even though the Hardys have eliminated Bubba Ray and D-Von…
How do you like that, Jeff?
[Ross] …it's Bubba Ray and D-Von walking out of here.
[Jerry] Take a look at that again.
There's Jeff flying through the air right down on Bubba Ray,
but then the 3D on the floor.
Well, the guys were looking at Stacy, but…
[Ross] That's devastating.
-[singer] ♪ You look so good to me ♪ -["You Look So Good to Me" playing]
[Ross] And what a golden opportunity for our next team…
-[Jerry] Hey. -[Ross] …and it's Billy and Chuck.
[Jerry] Billy and Chuck.
Somebody better revive Jeff Hardy quickly.
[Ross] And this one may be, uh-- this one may not last long.
Jeff Hardy made Matt fight for him by himself here,
almost in a handicapped situation
after Jeff got 3D'd on the floor by the-- by the Dudleys.
[Jerry] I feel sorry for you, Matt. Ooh!
[Ross] I tell you what, we've-- these guys…
[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Ross] …Billy and Chuck, say what you want to about them,
but they are-- they've been on a great roll.
They're amazing athletes.
Wow, super kick by Chuck catching, uh, Matt in the face.
-The Famouser and the hook to the leg-- -[bell rings]
[Ross] …and the Dudleys did the damage.
Billy and Chuck get the victory.
[Jerry] Oh, it's like a handicapped match.
I mean, Jeff Hardy never revived.
-He never got in the match. -["Protection" playing]
[Ross] And here comes our final team,
and the crowd on their feet signifying that business has just picked up.
So, now we're down to the APA,
Billy and Chuck, the winning team,
will go to WrestleMania and meet the WWE Tag Team Champions.
[Jerry] Bad news for you, Billy.
[Ross] Billy, a former seven-time Tag Team Champion has, uh,
yet to reach the promised land with Chuck.
[Jerry] Look at that.
-[Ross] Oh man, they haven't been-- -[Jerry] Championship?
[Ross] Yeah. You always talk of that.
And now Faarooq catching Chuck.
[Jerry] Look out.
[Ross] Cover there by Faarooq after that shoulder block.
Chuck is, uh-- seemingly enjoys dressing up like a cigar-store Indian.
Look at those-- Look at those ponyt-- pigtails, whatever they're called.
-[Jerry] Right. -[Ross] What are those called?
-[Jerry] Well, they're real, but I mean-- -[Ross] I know they're real.
-[Jerry] Are you jealous? -[Ross] Oh, no. I'm not jealous of them.
-[Jerry] How do you know they're real? -[Ross] You just said that about 'em.
[Jerry] Well, you said you knew they were.
[Ross] Well, I'm assuming his hair is real.
[wrestlers grunt]
[Ross] That clothesline was certainly-- was certainly real.
-That was a real one. -[Jerry] That was a real one. Yes.
[Ross] And a hard knockdown.
Bradshaw doesn't get knocked down too many times,
and I'm nervous he's gonna get knocked down,
and he didn't get back up eventually.
He's as tough as a two-dollar steak.
[Jerry] You know, we talked about the size of Bradshaw
and Faarooq, The APA, but-- Whoa, man!
And the strength, but you gotta-- you gotta admit, Billy and Chuck,
I mean, these guys are-- these guys are huge--
these guys are big too.
You gotta blend those there.
-[Ross] I think that might be Billy. -[Jerry] Yeah.
Come on, Billy. Oh!
[Ross] That ain't gonna help things. There's a cover.
Faarooq looking for the three. Got a near-fall.
Again, what's on the line here is the chance to be in a tag team main event
for the tag team titles at WrestleMania.
[Jerry] Doesn't get any bigger than that, does it, J.R.?
[Ross] No, it does not, not in my book.
And, uh, Faarooq isolated from Bradshaw
in that Billy and Chuck
have half of the ring.
And that's not a good place for Faarooq to be in.
That's teamwork, like it or not. Billy and Chuck are functioning as one.
[Jerry] I'm just-- just pict--
trying to picture you with pigtails like that, J.R.
I think that-- I think that would be a good look for you.
[Ross] Oh, you reckon? You reckon so?
I don't think so.
[Jerry] I can just see those pigtails sticking out of that hat right now.
[Ross] Oh, Lord.
[Jerry] Did you ever wear those when you were a teenager?
-[Ross] Oh, no. -[Jerry] No?
[Ross] Uh-uh.
Got a haircut every Saturday in the '60s.
[Jerry] Whether you needed it or not?
[Ross] And Bradshaw's had about all this he's gone have,
and we got two referees out here trying to restrain Bradshaw,
and that-- that is not an easy feat.
If it can be done at all.
In the meantime, Billy and Chuck doing a good job
of maintaining the isolation on the powerhouse Faarooq.
[Jerry] Have you ever been to Bradshaw's house?
[Ross] I've been by it.
-Shut up. -[Ross] Out there in Tyler, Texas.
[Jerry] I heard about it.
You need to tell him that a centerpiece did not come from a taxidermist.
'Cause it's not-- it's not correct. Oh, look at this.
-[Ross] Oh, look out. -[Jerry] Oh my, that's it.
-That is it. -[Ross] What a hard spinebuster.
And, uh, Billy took the brunt of that force on his shoulder, I think.
[Jerry] I think that was a spine, hip, and skull buster, J.R.
[Ross] And Faarooq now,
at least he's-- he's pointing in the right direction.
[Jerry] Let's see that again. And listen, listen to this. Ooh!
[Ross] That's some significant whiplash for Billy.
And now Bradshaw got the tag,
and that is exactly what Billy and Chuck did not want to happen,
a revived and fresh Bradshaw.
And what a shot that was right in the face of the, uh,
the blonde--
[Jerry] Somebody needs to revive Billy.
[Ross] Billy's, uh, having a hard time, and let's reverse it--
[Jerry] Bradshaw's getting a little physical here, ain't he?
[Ross] That's Bradshaw's way of life.
[Jerry] Now what?
[Ross] Oh my God!
Oh, for the love of Pete, for the love of clothesline.
-[bell rings] -[crowd cheering]
[Ross] How do you do? APA win it.
[Howard] The winners of Tag Team Turmoil, APA!
[Jerry] They win it emphatically, don't they?
[Ross] The APA will head to WrestleMania guaranteed
to meet the WWE Tag Team Champion.
[Jerry] I don't think I've ever seen a clothesline quite like that one.
Look at this.
Oh my gosh!
[Ross] And that is a slobberknocker.
[Jerry] And once again, look and listen.
Ooh, man!
[Ross] Man, that is some strong, snug impact, I'll tell you.
The APA heading to WrestleMania,
where they'll fight the Tag Team Champion.
[Jerry] Man.
Ric Flair,
co-owner of the World Wrestling Entertainment.
The nWo has already made its impact felt here tonight.
Michael, they've done a lot more than that.
When they walked in the door this afternoon, they sent themselves,
the whole place went upside down, and I can't believe for one second
that the nWo would think they could stand in the middle of this great arena
on a great Pay-Per-View
and try and sell that bunch of crap to the wrestlers back here.
There's a whole dressing room full of WWE superstars
that are dying to walk out that door and teach these guys about respect
the minute the nWo gets out of line.
What--
So, what now?
You're an authority I owe respect to?
You know, maybe you shouldn't worry about keeping your eye on the nWo.
Maybe you should worry about who's keeping their eye on you.
And that would be you?
I suppose you're right.
Gives you something to think about, doesn't it?
[microphone crackles]
["Gold-Lust" playing]
[Ross] That was somewhat intimidating, to say the least.
[Jerry] Yeah.
Something for Mr. Flair to think about.
[Ross] But, folks, you talk about a guy that is absolutely pet coon crazy…
[Jerry] Oh…
[Ross] …The Bizarre One.
[Jerry] "Pet coon crazy?"
[Ross] Two weeks ago, ladies and gentlemen,
we heard Goldust talk about him, and he--
and RVD has just finished the match,
RVD looking at the titantron from--
Through the crowd, from behind came Goldust.
[Jerry] That's when we learned that, obviously,
Rob Van Dam was the he or the him that-- ooh,
that Goldust said-- I think it's some kind of envy or something.
He's got something in for Rob Van Dam, for some reason.
That's what we haven't figured out yet, why.
[Ross] Goldust utilizing the Shattered Dreams
and then the Curtain Call, that neckbreaker.
A bizarre human being.
[Jerry] Have you done any investigative reporting
to try to find out what's the background,
what's the-- what's the deal with RVD and Goldust?
[Ross] I think he-- No, I just thought I might ask you
why Goldust singled out Rob Van Dam.
I don't know if anybody but Goldust really knows.
[Jerry] Well, I tried to-- tried to talk to Goldust the other day,
tried to get an interview with him,
but he was too busy watching some old movie.
[Ross] Yeah, breathing through his teeth.
It just goes to show that the apple can bounce
miles from the tree on occasion.
[Ross] This guy plays this-- the strangest, weirdest head game
than anybody I know.
[Jerry] You like to watch him in a letterbox format like that?
[Ross] Why?
[Jerry] You like watching a movie at home with it?
I never liked watching a movie like that.
[Ross] Do you like watching Goldust in a little box?
-[crowd cheering] -["One Of A Kind" playing]
[Jerry] Well, let me see. I think I like watching it more
than I like watching this guy go, "Rob Van Dam."
That really gets on my nerves.
[bell rings]
[Howard] The following contest is scheduled for one fall.
Introducing from Battle Creek, Michigan,
weighing 230 pounds, Rob Van Dam!
[Ross] Lot of RVD signage here tonight
here in Milwaukee and--
-[Jerry] Look out, here we go. -[Ross] Goldust. Oh man,
-Goldust almost beheaded Van Dam. -[bell rings]
[Jerry] Whoa.
[Ross] And taking Van Dam quickly over the top.
[Jerry] They knocked our cameraman down.
[Ross] Van Dam is tough to the extreme,
but he may have a hard time getting out of the blocks here.
[Jerry] I told you there's something--
Goldust has-- he's really got it in for Van Dam.
Looks like he's on a vendetta, for some reason.
[Ross] We have seen Goldust be very, very aggressive on occasion,
and here comes the educated feet.
He of the honor roll feet, RVD.
And now Van Dam getting right in the face of Goldust.
-[crowd chanting] RVD! RVD! -[Ross] Van Dam has--
There's a chant going up for Van Dam here in Milwaukee.
Amazing flexibility, such a unique style.
King, I would think that RVD will be hard to prepare for.
[Jerry] Oh, without a doubt, but you said yourself,
how do you prepare for somebody that's, uh-- what d'you call it, "Pet coon crazy"?
[Ross] And there's a cover.
Van Dam comes at you in so many ways.
He's having to knock you out with your-- with his--
with a shot to the-- with his fist, or it could be a foot.
[Jerry] Yeah, but how do you prepare for Goldust?
[Ross] Van Dam has.
I don't know how you prepare for Goldust.
Goldust is regrouping here, and that's not a bad strategy
after he got his quick start.
[Jerry] I still think that Goldust, the way he prepares for all his matches,
he just sits around and watches old movies.
And double those-- What's-- Wait a minute.
-[crowd booing] -[Ross] Where's he headed now?
I thought Goldust-- He's singled out RVD, again, folks.
For what reason, we don't know.
But in any event, I thought that Goldust came to No Way Out to fight,
and he seems to be procrastinating so much.
[Jerry] Well, he's-- you call him pet coon crazy,
I'd like to say he's Gone with the Wind, you know.
[Ross] You like movies, don't you?
[Jerry] Yeah, I love movies.
-Get off-- -[Jerry] You know, but you love movies.
What's your favorite movie line, J.R.?
This guy speaks of nothing but movie lines.
What's your favorite movie line of all time?
[Ross] Probably a John Wayne something.
[Jerry] Well, yeah, but I mean, your favorite--
You know what my favorite movie line is?
[Ross] I have no idea.
[Jerry] See that movie American Pie, when the little girl sits there and said,
"One time, at band camp, I stuck a flute up--"
[Ross] Okay. Okay. I saw that.
Take it easy, American Pie boy.
[Jerry] It's my favorite movie line of all time.
[Ross] And Goldust…
[Jerry] You saw American Pie?
-[man] Oh man! -[Jerry] Oh!
[Ross] Goldust over the wall to the concrete at the hands of Van Dam,
and Van Dam back in the ring,
breaking the referee's ten-count.
[Jerry] Uh-oh. Here comes those educated feet again.
[Ross] One went to Harvard, and one went to Yale.
[crowd chattering]
[Ross] Van Dam again back on that ring to break the count.
-[crowd chanting] RVD! -RVD!
-[Ross] Right back at-- -[Jerry] Ooh. Oh!
[Ross] Van Dam got some hang time there
and found his mark, Goldust, hanging on that wall.
[Jerry] Like Black Hawk Down.
[man] RVD! RVD! RVD!
[Ross] Did I see American Pie?
-Look at this. -[Jerry] Look at that-- Boom! Ooh!
[Ross] Man, that is amazing agility.
[Ross] We said Van Dam is tough to the extreme,
and-- Oh, he's put downstairs, Goldust.
He saw that one coming and got the knee right in the face of RVD,
and now Goldust on the outside.
-[Jerry] Watch it. -[man] Oh!
[Ross] Driving the knee right into Van Dam on the elbow.
I wonder if that was a Bionic Elbow, probably not. And Van Dam-- Lower back.
Look at Goldust opening up on Van Dam.
Some shots right to the face.
[Jerry] Goldust's got that look, uh--
He looks like somebody I saw on a movie recently.
Did you see The Mothman Prophecies?
-[Ross] I missed that. -[Jerry] I wish I had.
But anyway, Goldust sort of looks like that.
Oh.
[Ross] Goldust using his backside,
and Van Dam quickly kicks out.
Goldust is, uh, in great shape.
He's lean and ready to go,
and he's right now dominating RVD offensively. Oh, blocking that foot,
that's what you gotta do to Goldust.
[crowd chanting] RVD! RVD!
[Ross] The crowd getting, again, behind Rob Van Dam.
[Jerry] I think this crowd is a little bit, uh…
they're a little bit surprised that Rob Van Dam is taking
this kind of abuse from Goldust.
[Ross] And certainly, Ric Flair was a little taken aback
by the disingenuity of the nWo.
-Look now, Van Dam, my God. Let go of him. -One, two, three, four…
[Jerry] Oh!
[Ross] Goldust about to get disqualified here.
[Jerry] Well, you just thought Goldust was nothing but a movie buff, didn't you?
[Ross] Well, I--
You know, he's a three-time former Intercontinental Champion. He's--
-He's not all sizzle, I'll tell you. -[Jerry chuckles] Look at this.
Ooh!
-[Ross] Right in the lower back. -[pained yell]
[Ross] Well, Goldust knew right where he was going,
right for the kidney area.
A sledge right in the kidney area of RVD, and Van Dam now has been grounded.
And that is not, uh, a good sign for RVD.
[Jerry] Now what? Oh man.
[Ross] RVD hung up there, and again the torque on that back.
Goldust inflicting the pain on Van Dam.
We saw a great camera shot there.
-Right in the chest. It could be it here. -One, two…
[Ross] Oh, Van Dam able to get his shoulder up before the three-count.
[Jerry] I'm very, very impressed with Goldust here tonight.
[Ross] And The Bizarre One started quickly,
was resilient when Van Dam mounted his offense,
and has been in control since.
And again, hung up again,
and Van Dam catching in the throat and the lower back.
[Jerry] It's so nice he thought he'd try it twice.
Looks like a double feature.
[Ross] Goldust has got a great game plan here,
and he is, uh-- he is utilizing it to perfection.
And now, again, focusing on that lower back,
and this a-- certainly a-- reversing a camel clutch by Goldust,
sitting on that lower back, pulling back with the chin.
[Jerry] They don't have double features at the movies anymore, do they, J.R.?
That's a drive-in.
Do you still have drive-ins out where you live?
[Ross] Oh, they're big in Oklahoma.
And Goldust…
he's certainly, uh, no worse emotionally, right back to-- right back to his focus,
and that's a hook on the lower back and the neck.
[Jerry] How about arthouse? How are they out in Oklahoma?
[Ross] Oh, they're scarce, but they do exist.
-[crowd chanting] RVD, RVD! -[Ross] RVD…
here this crowd are…
cheering him on,
but Goldust has pretty well silenced the crowd
as far as the RVD chants.
[Jerry] Did you hear about the guy from Oklahoma that almost froze to death
when he went to the drive-in?
-[Ross] No. -[Jerry] Yeah.
He went to see Closed for Winter.
[crowd chattering]
[pained yell]
[Ross] Now, Goldust again reaching back on Van Dam.
You know what? Van Dam's feet are not too dangerous in this position.
[Jerry] Well, that's Goldust's strategy.
[Ross] A very good strategy.
Good game plan by The Bizarre One.
What do you say, Rob?
[Ross] He has singled out RVD.
Didn't know-- Didn't know RVD had a very-- Oh.
Well, that was a very unique counter.
[Jerry] The Golden Globes are hurtin'.
-Ooh! -[Ross] And Goldust able to regroup.
-Will this be enough here? -One, two…
Well, a hook to the leg got a two-count.
And Van Dam used a lot of energy and strength to kick out of that.
"Closed for Winter."
-[Jerry] You just now got it, didn't you? -[Ross] Oh, I got it.
-[Jerry] Oh, okay. [chuckles] -[Ross] Afraid I got it earlier.
-[Jerry] Uh-oh. -[Ross] Van Dam locked in.
Nice backslide. Here's a backslide.
Hooked to the elbow, both arms were hooked good.
-[Jerry] Man. -[Ross] As Goldust got--
got up, got knocked down.
[Jerry] We're seeing all these fancy maneuvers,
and I thought we were gonna see Goldust lose
to the old-fashioned backslide.
[Ross] Last kick by Van Dam, I think, got Goldust right in the solar plexus,
may have driven the air out of the-- the golden one.
Van Dam has taken a beating in this match.
[crowd clamoring]
-[Jerry] Man, that's unusual. -[grunting]
[Ross] Van Dam is beating Goldust with a punch now.
Goldust's gotta try to get back to that lower back of Van Dam's if he can.
Easier said than done though.
And a heel kick by RVD.
[Jerry] Yeah, but it was blocked by Goldust.
-[Ross] At the far side. -[Jerry] Look at this.
-Hey. -[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Van Dam with a monkey flip.
[Jerry] Whoa!
[Ross] Equilibrium affected no doubt by those blows earlier by Goldust.
-[Jerry] He recovered. -[Ross] Yeah, he did recover very well.
There's a cover.
And it seemed not enough body-on-body there.
Goldust got his left shoulder up,
and Van Dam a little frustrated at the count.
I thought the count was fine quite frankly.
Van Dam with a scoop.
-And-- -[Jerry] Oh man!
[Ross] That was a Rolling Thunder,
and it-- it hit its mark. That should be enough there,
and a-- Oh, Goldust again,
and Van Dam had it-- that cover cinched up pretty well, King.
[Jerry] Both of these guys are dishing out the punishments.
Oh, look out.
[Ross] Goldust trying to get an uppercut in, that didn't work.
Now, Van Dam…
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] …is on the top turnbuckle.
[Jerry] He's going for it. Oh no!
[Ross] Looking for the Five-Star Frog Splash, but not today.
And Goldust-- Oh, with a DDT.
[Jerry] It is over. He planted Rob Van Dam.
[Ross] Should be over right now. A hook to the leg and three-- No.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] What?
[Ross] Man, that was a real long two-count.
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[Ross] And Goldust is signifying that the end is near.
Will it be time for the Curtain Call?
But who knows about Goldust, who knows what he's gonna do?
[Jerry] Pet coons?
You said, "Pet coon crazy."
[crowd chattering]
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[Ross] Oh, Van Dam landing on his feet with a kick.
Well, that heel caught Goldust.
Could be enough there, and-- No!
[Jerry] Man, oh man.
[Ross] This time, Goldust showing his resiliency.
Goldust picks Van Dam back up to his feet and comes aggressively.
[Jerry] It's like one of those movies you go to that you don't want it to end,
and then all of a sudden it ends and then…
[Ross] Goldust kicking, Van Dam coming in.
[Jerry] Look out. Oh no, he missed it.
[Ross] Goldust missed a Bulldog headlock.
Van Dam, he doesn't seem to be quite himself here.
Van Dam getting him to move the feet.
Goldust knocked down.
[Jerry] He's hit that move about four times,
and he still hasn't done enough yet to--
[Ross] Van Dam again goes up top, King, and-- Oh!
[Ross] This time, Van Dam hits the Five-Star Frog Splash.
Got the hook of the leg, and this time, it's over.
-[bell rings] -[Jerry] The end.
["One of a Kind" playing]
[Howard] Here is your winner, Rob Van Dam!
[Jerry] Probably not the ending Goldust had envisioned, but what a match!
[Ross] I think there will be a sequel
the way that Goldust took it to RVD here tonight.
They matched up well.
Van Dam fortunate that he hit the Five-Star Frog Splash.
What a great game plan by Goldust.
Unbelievable impact.
[Jerry] And did he ever hit it?
Watch this.
Man.
[Ross] Van Dam, the way he put his own body in peril.
RVD with a very hard-fought victory over Goldust.
I gotta believe, uh, these two will play together again someday.
[Jerry] Man.
[crowd cheering]
Hey, brothers, it's "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
It's The Rattlesnake.
[crowd cheering]
Toughest SOB in the World Wrestling Entertainment.
[crowd cheering]
Wait a minute, Austin.
We don't want any trouble, bro.
We brought you a gift, ice-cold beer from the nWo.
[crowd cheering]
What?
We brought you some beer, man, a gift.
-That's for me? -It's for you.
You heard I like to drink beer?
I heard you like to drink a lot of beer.
I ain't thirsty.
You wanna save it for later?
All right, man. Enjoy it, Steve.
Thank you.
[beer cans clang]
[crowd cheering]
Let the man through, brothers.
[Booker T] ♪ Can you dig it, sucka? ♪
-[crowd cheering] -["Can You Dig It?" playing]
[Ross] Well, ladies and gentlemen,
I don't think Stone Cold is buying into the disingenuity of the nWo, King.
[Jerry] Well-- Now, wait a minute, J.R.
[Ross] He turned down the beer.
[Jerry] Yeah, he must be sick or something.
I've never seen "Stone Cold" Steve Austin turn down a beer in his life.
-He's drinking beer with the devil. Whoa. -[explosions]
[bell rings]
[Howard] The following contest is scheduled for one fall.
It's for the World Wrestling Entertainment Tag Team Championship.
Introducing first, the challengers at a combined weight of 533 pounds,
Booker T and Test.
[Ross] Now, Booker T and Test are former Tag Team Champions,
will be challenging, uh, Tazz and Spike Dudley here momentarily,
and certainly, the WWE Tag Team Champions, whomever they may be at WrestleMania,
we know now that Tag Team Turmoil earlier tonight, King, will meet The APA
at WrestleMania.
[Jerry] What's up with Stone Cold?
Well, he spotted all of this stuff that--
well, that everybody said about the nWo.
Yeah, he threw down a good-- probably a good six-pack.
-It was a gift. -[Ross] He didn't wanna drink one.
-[Jerry] Like the welcome wagon. -["If You Dare" playing]
-[Ross] Yeah. -[Jerry] In reverse.
-[explosions] -[crowd cheering]
[Howard] At a combined weight of 398 pounds,
the World Wrestling Entertainment Tag Team Champions,
Tazz and Spike Dudley!
[Ross] Combined weight of 398 pounds makes this the--
the smallest WWE Tag Team Champions ever.
The forcibility and desire should be,
and they will be measured by--
-in feet and or pounds-- -[bell rings]
[Ross] …and I think that Edge and--
or excuse me, Test and Booker T know that full well.
They're not gonna take Tazz and Spike Dudley lightly.
We saw how that backfired on Booker T
last Thursday night on SmackDown when he was beaten by Spike Dudley.
[Jerry] Well, I'm just amazed that Tazz and Spike Dudley have remained
the WWE Tag Team Champions for as long as they have--
Nothing to do with their size.
I mean, let's face it, Tazz is as tough as they come.
[Ross] Exactly.
[Jerry] But it's just the fact
that they're just such an unlikely tag team.
[Ross] I'm not saying their size is a detriment.
I'm saying that you can't judge your proverbial book by its cover.
These guys are not the biggest--
[Jerry] Even if the pages are stuck together?
-[Ross] Well, that's your book. -[Jerry] Oh.
[Ross] Tazz waiting, Test coming in.
[Jerry] Look out.
[Ross] Tazz and Spike, that great teamwork.
They believe in each other, and they believe
that they are the best tag team in the World Wrestling Entertainment,
and one thing that takes you a long way is
when you get the gold, you can say a lot of things.
[Jerry] Well, that signifies that you are the best.
And they've certainly been challenged many times. There you go.
[Ross] It was a dropkick by Spike that went to the knee of Booker T.
[Jerry] Well, if you don't have time to get all the way up to the hip,
-go to the knee. -[Ross] And Spike Dudley fighting--
[Jerry] Look at this.
[Ross] Right in the face of Test, who is looking to--
-[Jerry] Uh-oh. -[Ross] …powerbomb little Spike.
He weighs 150 pounds, they say, soaking wet.
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[Ross] Another shot by Tazz.
[Jerry] Hey, that would've been at least a five or six-count.
[Ross] And, uh, Booker T and the referee, uh, detained.
-Proverbial malfunction and conjunction. -One, two-- Let's go.
[Ross] And the referee and Booker T in the, uh, challengers' corner.
I don't think that Test and Booker T, as you said, after what has happened
-the last week or so are gonna take-- -[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[Ross] …Tazz's lightning.
[Jerry] Well, this is not gonna be good.
Oh!
[Ross] Now, Spike, leg hooked here,
and Tazz very quick to interject himself there.
[Jerry] Whoa. Look at Tazz. He won't back down from anybody, will he?
[Ross] Oh, he won't. Tazz is pit bull tough, no doubt about it.
-[Jerry] Boom! -[yells]
[Ross] A good chop by Booker T on Spike Dudley,
and it certainly should be no surprise
that you would think that the challengers, with as much size
and strength advantage as they have, would want to isolate Spike Dudley,
who's, as we said, about a buck 50.
[Tazz] Come on, Spike! Come on!
[grunts]
[Jerry] You know that Spike's older brothers went off
to become big WWE superstars.
To Spike's credit, I heard that he dropped out of ninth grade
to take care of his poor mother.
[Ross] Oh really?
[Jerry] She was 31 at the time, but that's okay.
-Oh! -[Ross] Right hand--
I-- You hear these stories, I don't hear a thing about them.
[Jerry] I know. All you find out is how much people weigh
and how big their heads are.
-[Ross] Right. -[Jerry] I--
-[Ross] I don't get the good stuff. -[Jerry] I get the in-depth stuff.
[Ross] Yeah. Well, Spike's getting an in-depth beating
right now by Test and Booker T.
And the-- the longer Spike stays isolated--
-[wrestlers grunt] -[Jerry] That'll take your head off.
[Ross] …the quicker Test and Booker T become the Tag Team Champion.
-[crowd cheering] -Come on. Make the tag, Spike.
[Ross] Now, look at Test.
-Get over there, Booker! -Come on.
[Ross] See, this is a wasted motion, and a cheap shot on Tazz,
giving Spike a little--
[Jerry] Well, then, I think that Test right now is being guilty
of doing what you said they shouldn't do. I think he is taking--
you know, he's taking Spike a little bit lightly right now.
I think he just feels he's got the upper hand,
but that should bring him back to reality.
[Ross] Test missing the elbow,
Spike trying to come back with an offensive flurry,
and maybe he should make a tag instead, but--
[Jerry] Would have been the smart thing to do. Ow.
[Ross] A headbutt in the abdomen,
and Spike Dudley looking for the Dudley Dog.
Oh my goodness!
And Spike just got manhandled, did not pass the test on that one.
[Jerry] No, he didn't.
[Ross] Straddled the top rope, fell onto the floor,
and now he's getting stomped by Booker T on the outside.
[crowd chattering]
[Jerry] Poor Spike.
[Ross] Oh, Spike's been physically decimated.
He's been dissected.
-And there's a cover, and Spike-- -On the rope! He's on the rope.
[Ross] …too close to the rope. That's what saved him.
There's no way Spike would've been able to kick out of that situation.
-[Tazz] Come on, Spike! -[Ross] From my point of view anyway.
[Jerry] Well, he's definitely in dire straits, you could be right.
All he had to do was reach out and get to those ropes.
-[crowd chattering] -One, two, three-- Out.
[Ross] Booker T. I'd rather not, but I have to.
Uh-oh, wait a minute.
[Jerry] I think Booker T can feel it. He--
-Oh, he's digging it right now, so… -[crowd cheering]
-[Ross] Loves it. -[Jerry] Hey, look at this.
[Ross] Amazing.
[Jerry] There it is, the spin out of nowhere.
Oh, what a Spinaroonie. [laughs]
[Ross] Wasted motion, hook of the leg, and here comes Tazz.
-[Jerry] Out of nowhere. -[Ross] Spinaroonie.
-[crowd chattering] -That's a do or die. [speaks indistinctly]
[Jerry] Like that? Spinaroonie?
-Should be commercials about it. -[Ross] I don't know if it's logical.
I will get you.
-[Ross] What's it supposed to do? -[Tazz] I will get you.
[Jerry] I don't know, it's a craze thing. It's sort of like coke or something.
Or it's sort of like-- more like a hat, you know, somebody wearing a hat.
-[crowd chattering] -I'm coming after your punk ass!
Get off.
[Jerry] What's going on?
[Ross] Well, now, come on.
-And-- -[Jerry] Oh man!
[Ross] Spike trying to get that Dudley Dog
and probably got a DDT on him, it would look like.
-One… -[clapping]
[Ross] Spike bought himself a little bit of time there, right?
I'm not so sure it's too little, too late.
[Jerry] Come on, Booker, not again.
Tazz trying to give Spike a hand,
a helping hand.
Best place-- Best place to find a helping hand's
at the end of your own arm. Get up and hit him, Spike.
[Ross] And-- Oh, Spike makes a tag.
Spike tags in Tazz.
-[Jerry chuckles] -[crowd chattering]
[Ross] Tazz with a barrage of clotheslines.
-[Jerry] Oh my God! -[Ross] Borderline suplex by Tazz--
-[Jack] One, two-- -[Ross] …and exposed himself there
to the-- to the illegal man.
[Jerry] I was about to say Tazz has had his Wheaties today,
but, oh man, look at that.
[Ross] Tazz ducking the big foot of-- the big boot.
-[crowd chattering] -[Ross] Look at this.
-[yells] -[Jerry] And again.
Wheaties is that cereal with the orange box, is it?
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Oh, headbutt by Tazz.
Tazz looking for the Tazzmission.
-And Spike Dudley in illegally. -[Jerry] Oh, he got it!
[Ross] And Spike Dudley with a Dudley Dog,
and then Spike's been pulled outside by Booker T.
[Jerry] Now, who's the legal man, J.R.?
[Ross] I think it's Tazz and Test.
-Oh! -[Jerry] Oh!
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Two T's in this match.
-The hook of the leg and-- -One, two-- No! No!
It's two! He's up.
[Ross] Tazz just couldn't capitalize
as quickly as he would have liked to, I'm sure.
[Jerry] Tazz is still looking for that headbutt.
[Ross] Tag team titles on the line here,
and, uh-- Oh, now, look at this shortcut-- Hey, ref.
-And referee Jack knows-- -You did grab onto the rope!
-Knock it off! Your feet had the rope! -[crowd chattering]
[Jack] That's two!
-[Jerry] You better watch out, ref. -[Ross] Good officiating.
[Jerry] Test still has that immunity.
-[Ross] Oh, yeah, immunity. -[Jerry] Now, there you go-- Hey!
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] Oh, wait, what the heck?
[Ross] And Test tapping out for the Tazzmission.
-[bell rings] -[Jerry] Wait a minute.
-["Just Another Victim" playing] -[Jerry] Wow, did you see that?
[Howard] The winners of this match and still Tag Team Champions,
Tazz and Spike Dudley!
[Ross] Now, when you're a bully, and you wanna impose your will
on a referee half your size,
sometimes that's what happens.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] Well, I guess you're right.
Let's look at this again.
I think immunity didn't help any in this situation.
He was gonna take it out on the ref, but look,
Jack Doan bounces off, pushes Test right into that Tazzmission.
[Ross] Right in a cover position, and nothing for Test to do
but tap out to the Tazzmission.
[Jerry] Well, I think referee Jack Doan was more than happy
to signify the ringing of the bell.
[Jerry] They're still the champs!
[crowd cheering]
Well, Rock, Rock, we all know what The Undertaker--
The Undertaker did to you a couple of weeks ago,
giving you the Tombstone on top of the limousine.
And the question for you is, how is your physical condition?
How is The Rock's physical condition?
"How is The Rock's physical condition?" Coach, you ask The Rock.
It was just ten days ago that The Rock was talking to you
when The Undertaker attacked The Rock
from behind and tried to end The Rock's career, tried to end my career!
You see, Undertaker, all because you thought The Rock disrespected you.
Undertaker, you have no idea
what it's like when The Rock disrespects you.
You have no idea what it's like to be disrespected by The Rock.
You see, Undertaker, for ten days straight, ten days straight,
not one, not two, seven, eight, nine, ten days straight,
The Rock sat at home and thought about one thing, one thing only.
The Rock wasn't thinking about respect.
The Rock wasn't thinking about his injured neck.
The Rock was thinking about coming here
and whooping your candy-ass all over Milwaukee!
[crowd cheering]
[crowd chanting] Rocky! Rocky! Rocky! Rocky! Rocky!
Undertaker, tonight, you are exactly what you say you are,
dead man walking.
[crowd cheering]
If you smell…
-what The Rock is… [whispers] …cooking? -[crowd] …The Rock is cooking?
[Ross] The Rock wants retribution.
But can he get it against The Deadman? We'll find out tonight.
-["Never Gonna Stop" playing] -[singer] ♪ You think you know me… ♪
[Ross] WrestleMania four weeks away in Toronto's SkyDome,
the hometown of the challenger for this championship match.
[singer] ♪ Take me to the home ♪
♪ Kick boots and ultra live… ♪
[bell rings]
[Howard] The following contest, scheduled for one fall,
is The Brass Knuckles on a Pole match for the Intercontinental Championship.
Approaching the ring is the challenger from Toronto, Canada,
weighing 240 pounds, Edge!
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] William Regal has become infamous for the utilization of the brass knuckles.
Not standard WWE wrestling equipment, I should add.
Well, the brass knucks are suspended on the pole,
attached at the corner of the ring here, King,
and brass knucks are legal tonight in this matchup.
[Jerry] Yeah. Well, as long as you're trying the pole to get the knucks.
["Regality" playing]
[Jerry] Listen to this music, very ominous.
[crowd cheering]
[Howard] From Blackpool, England, weighing 240 pounds,
the World Wrestling Entertainment Intercontinental Champion,
William Regal!
[Ross] Fair share of fans there at the United Kingdom,
England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland,
and Wales have mixed emotions about this man representing them.
And there you see the brass knucks, but they're hanging on the pole.
[Jerry] I heard that William Regal's mother is from Wales.
-[Ross] Oh really? -[Jerry] And his father
is from normal Paris.
["Regality" continues playing]
[Jerry] Now, wait a minute, look at this harassment again.
This is not right.
The brass knuckles are up on the pole. Is that referee an idiot or what?
[Ross] It's not the only pair of brass knuckles in the world.
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Ross] And Edge--
Edge has interrupted the searching.
I don't know if they'd come back, invite him to the back side,
but he's not gonna waste any time here.
-[Jerry] Here we go. -[Ross] Hey, look out here.
[Jerry] See, this Edge, something needs to be done about him.
[Ross] Well, something is being done about him.
He's trying to get some-- He wants that Intercontinental title back.
Edge wants to go to his hometown in Toronto at WrestleMania
as the Intercontinental Champion.
-[Jerry] And what about all the fans over… -[bell rings]
[Jerry] …at Blackpool, England, right now?
They're pulling for their hometown boy.
[Ross] They're staying up late, watching us live,
and we appreciate it.
-[grunting] -[Jerry] Look at this.
[Ross] Nice takedown by Edge.
[Jerry] With those brass knucks dangling from that pole, he wants-- Look at Edge.
[Ross] Now, the other issue, you don't have to necessarily use the brass knucks.
If you pin your guy-- your opponent before the retrieval, that's okay too.
-[grunting] -[Jerry] Uh-oh.
Edge has a little extra caveat here, a little cherry on the sundae,
those knucks dangling.
And something by Edge, looking for the three.
Not gonna take any--
-[Jerry] Watch it, watch it. -[Ross] …waste any motion.
You can't turn your back on the Southpaw.
[Jerry] And look at this, what a move there.
-[Ross] Regal using Edge… -[Jerry] Grab 'em, get 'em.
[Ross] …as a stepladder-- uh-oh, or a footstool.
[Jerry] Yeah, a footstool, kind of.
[Ross] Oh! A nice dropkick by the challenger, six-four, 240.
And the man's still in his twenties, and Regal, who began competing,
fighting for money at the age of 15, as we have documented,
he mentioned in Blackpool, England, his hometown.
[Jerry] Yeah. He'll just do it to fight, I mean, just fight all-comers.
[Ross] As a teenager?
[Jerry] Uh-oh, look out.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] Hey, wait a minute.
Can he grab it?
[Ross] Heads up. That was close.
[Jerry] Now, obviously, if you get the brass knucks,
you got a huge advantage.
-[crowd chattering] -[Jerry] Let me ask you this.
Do you think that William Regal when he was just a tyke,
uh, 14 or 15, just a teenager,
do you think he had the power to punch then that legendary left hand?
[Ross] Well, I-- I--
[Jerry] I bet he knocked out everybody in the neighborhood.
[Ross] Uh-oh. And hard--
hard to believe that that power of the punch is-- is--
[Jerry] Do you think he ever knocked his mom out?
[Ross] Of course not-- Oh, well, I would hope not.
[crowd chattering]
[Ross] I would think that the power of the punch is, uh,
influenced by the brass knucks
that Regal has used on numerous occasions and now--
[Jerry] He had brass-- He had brass knucks when he was 15?
[Ross] I didn't know that he had brass knucks when he was 15.
I was talking about in more current times, like in the last month or so.
[Jerry] See, that's how rumors get started, J.R.
Not good. Don't be a rumormonger.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] And…
Well, look at those brass knucks,
they're dangling there, clanging against that nice and shiny pole.
-[Jerry] Uh-oh. -[Ross] And Edge--
[Jerry] Oh my gosh!
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Edge with a dropkick.
[Jerry] William Regal almost pulled Edge's pants down there. Whoa.
[Ross] And Regal raking the eyes. That's a unique way of getting out
of a pinning predicament, just rake the eyes.
[Jerry] It works.
[Ross] Edge going behind, but not for long as Regal counters.
[Jerry] Regal knows every counter there is, every hold.
-[Ross] Oh, look at this. -[Jerry] And then he'll invent some.
You got him folded up, go for those knucks.
[Ross] Regal stomping away, now with the foot.
Well, the foot's legal, holding the ropes isn't.
[Jerry] See? I don't even see William Regal even attempting
to go for these knucks. It's always Edge.
He's the one that always wants to get this unfair advantage.
I think William Regal's bigger now,
he'd like to win with just the power of the punch.
[Ross] Yeah, or cheating on this abdominal stretch.
You know, it was over a week ago that Edge got the internal injuries
at the hands of Regal. We saw--
[Jerry] Look at Edge, look at Edge, he's gonna try to pull the hair.
Watch it. Watch his hand.
[Ross] Edge is gonna try to pull the hair, you saw Regal using the ropes.
[Jerry] I mean, look at Edge's hand.
[crowd chanting] Regal sucks!
-Regal sucks! -[Jerry] What?
-[chanting continues] -[Ross] Oh, people chanting "Regal sucks!"
[Jerry] This is not the way you treat someone,
a visitor in our country from another country.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Nice headlock take over by Edge and sidestepping Regal,
and the reigning Intercontinental Champion--
[Jerry] Better get up quick, he'll be throwing those knucks.
[Ross] Out here in front of us and now, Edge has a golden opportunity.
[Jerry] He's quick to take the shortcut.
[Ross] Find that pole.
What do you mean shortcut?
[Jerry] He's gonna try to use those knucks.
He realizes he can't beat William Regal in a fair match.
[Ross] Why don't you like Edge? Was it-- is it his hair?
You're jealous of that hair.
[Jerry] Are you kidding me, my cat has coughed up better looking hair than that.
-[Ross] Oh, look out! -[Jerry] Whoa, man, oh man!
[Ross] Edge on that-- standing on the top turnbuckle,
about to take-- to climb the pole and retrieve the brass knucks.
[Jerry] Well, why don't William Regal go get the knucks?
Perfect opportunity right now, William.
[Ross] I think Regal may be so confident that he doesn't need the knucks.
He doesn't want to take that unnecessary chance of climbing the pole.
[crowd chattering]
[Ross] It didn't pay out too well for Edge there.
[Jerry] Quite a fall for Edge.
Uh-oh, look at this.
-On the floor! -[crowd gasping]
[Ross] And double arms hook right into powerbomb, again,
those-- that internal injury,
ribs and torso taking a pounding.
[Jerry] Forget about that internal bleeding that Edge had suffered
-at the hands of the power of the punch. -[crowd chanting] Regal sucks!
[Ross] You know, those things are--
you never know exactly how those issues heal,
how quickly they heal.
[Jerry] Like your nose, you know, get your nose is broken,
that's really bad.
[Ross] Well, Regal's had that experience. He had three surgeries.
-[Jerry] Three? -[Ross] Thanks to Edge.
-[Jerry] See there? -[Ross] Now Regal looking
-for the Regal stretch, and-- -[Jerry] That's it.
-Come on! -[Ross] He's got the-- got him locked in.
[Jerry] Oh, you're right, look at Edge.
[Ross] Oh, Edge is bleeding again from the mouth.
-This is not a good sign. -[referee] He doesn't give up.
[Ross] And the referee said Edge is not giving up but…
-[Jerry] Might as well give up. -[Ross] …at some point
this referee has got to make a decision.
[Jerry] He needs some medical attention, Edge.
[Ross] Damn right he does. Edge bleeding out.
[Jerry] Going to tap out.
[Ross] Bleeding from the mouth and Edge is not gonna quit here.
-[Jerry] Live to fight another day. -[crowd cheering]
[Ross] He wants that Intercontinental Championship back.
[Jerry] Is that belt-- is that bigger than your health?
-Tap out. -[Ross] Well right now,
it certainly appears that that's exactly what Edge is thinking,
"I'm not gonna quit. I've got to win this Intercontinental title back,"
and his blood-stained hand reaching for that bottom rope.
And look at Regal.
Already got that STF, Regal stretches his hand
and Edge finally gets to the bottom rope.
Man, there's a lot of damage done here.
-Those ribs. -[Jerry] Yeah.
Oh! That same maneuver that he-- that he used on the floor to bring that--
[Ross] Again, jarring the ribs and lungs.
Cover and a near fall.
-I don't like the-- -[Jerry] Uh-oh, wait a minute.
[Ross] This internal bleeding is a-- is a serious issue.
[Jerry] What about this? This is gonna get serious right now.
-[Ross] It sure is. -[Jerry] Got nobody to stop him.
[crowd booing]
[Ross] Regal climbing to the top. Here he goes.
-[Jerry] Oh, wait, where did he come from? -[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Edge with everything he had left,
shoving Regal, and you saw how Regal landed there.
And unless he's wearing a sanction cup,
I suggest he's in a great deal of pain.
[Jerry] I would suggest so as well.
Let's see how Edge did that. I didn't even see it coming.
[Ross] Oh, neither did Regal.
We saw the results and Edge is holding his side there.
He's got to be hurting like hell.
Now, he's on the outside.
Both men now would love to negotiate those brass knucks
into this outing, impossible--
-[Jerry] Oh my God. -[Ross] My God.
[Jerry] Boom.
[Ross] I think Regal was trying to powerbomb Edge,
Edge tried to kick out of it.
[Ross] I think Regal got the worse of it. Did you hear the thud when his body hit?
[Ross] Both men crashed and burned.
[Jerry] What about it, ref?
Are they gonna be able to continue?
Let's see that again.
Listen to this thud.
Oh man.
[Ross] It certainly looked that the Regal wanted to powerbomb Edge
off the apron of the ring.
His kicking those legs and cramming that body, got the--
well, it wasn't pretty but it sure hurt.
[crowd chattering]
[Jerry] Well, that could have cracked Regal's ribs.
[Ross] And Edge can't win the Intercontinental title
by a count-out, for the record.
[Jerry] Yeah, I will-- I will-- for the record,
I'd hate to see Regal get counted out.
[Ross] Yeah, well, the only good news here
is the referee has got to start to count all of it.
Edge has got to get Regal back in the ring…
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] …but it looks like Edge has got one thing on his mind,
that's to retrieve the brass knucks hanging from the pole
-and punish the champion. -[Jerry] Oh, yeah. But look at--
look how bad he's bleeding out.
Gross.
[crowd chanting] Edge! Edge! Edge!
[Ross] I tell you, this is-- those internal injuries
are not to be taken lightly, obviously.
I don't know. I'm not doctor and this referee is not either
but you don't want that decision on your conscience.
[Jerry] I can see where Regal is going with every one of those blows.
[Ross] And a hard left hands to the face of the challenger.
[crowd booing]
[Ross] Now, Regal back up and Regal--
[Jerry] He's got 'em!
[Ross] Regal has got the brass knuckles.
[Jerry] Now, we're about to witness the power of the punch.
-[Ross] Oh, wait a minute! -[Jerry] Oh!
-[Ross] Oh, a suplex! -[Jerry] Man.
[Ross] Edge came up from behind, hooked Regal in a--
[Jerry] Look, the knucks are loose.
[Ross] Around the waist and then drilled in that suplex
-and there you see the brass knuckles. -[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Do we have to put it back on the pole or what?
[Ross] I think they're fair game now.
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[Ross] Whomever gets the brass knuckles can use them
in any way they choose in this matchup
for William Regal's Intercontinental title.
And Edge is still bleeding from the mouth.
[Jerry] Oh, Edge sees them. He sees those knucks.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Edge has-- trying to get those knucks
and look at Regal kicks the knucks outside the ring
-out of harm's way, literally. -[Jerry] Well, that was--
well, that bought him some time.
[Ross] And-- oh, a shot there.
Both legs are hooked, it should be all but it's not.
I'll tell you what, if you wanna be a champion
and you know what it takes to be a champion,
one thing is always there, King,
that's never quitting and that's exactly
-what we're seeing from Edge. -[Jerry] Oh, spear.
-[Ross] The spear. -[crowd cheering]
-[Jerry] Oh, look at Edge. -[Ross] He only knows how bad
he is hurting right now, holding those ribs.
-Well, he didn't go for the cover. -[crowd cheering]
-[Jerry] Oh no! -[Ross] But he got--
oh, there's a lot of payback in the mind of the challenger here tonight.
-[Jerry] William, he's got the knucks. -Come on, you son of a bitch! God damn it!
[Ross] And this is-- the end is near for-- oh, William Regal.
[Jerry] Hey!
[Ross] Wait a minute.
-He-- -[Jerry] What was that?
[Ross] I think it was another pair of knucks.
[bell rings]
[Jerry] You said yourself knucks are legal.
-[Ross] Not those knucks. -["Regality" playing]
[Howard] And the winner of this bout and still Intercontinental Champion,
William Regal.
[Ross] The knucks on the pole were legal.
I don't know where those other knucks came from.
I'm assuming they're in Regal's tights or his boots or some place.
[Jerry] Well, let's see. Oh, okay. You can see it.
He's just-- I guess, he just got them out of those tights.
[Ross] Exactly.
[Jerry] I thought the ref checked him.
[Ross] Well, he didn't finish checking him.
And Regal clutching the Intercontinental title
and a battered and bloody Edge never quit
but the illegal use of the knucks were the downfall of the challenger.
[Jerry] He needs a doctor.
Kurt, you obviously seem very confident as you head into your match with Triple H
and especially now that Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley
-has been named the guest referee. -Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hold on a second, Lilian.
Are you insinuating that that my confidence has anything to do
with Stephanie as a guest referee?
Well, as far as that's concerned, I am confident.
Confident that Stephanie is gonna do a fair and honest job as the ref,
but I'm confident against Triple H for a different reason,
because I am far more superior than him in every way.
Do you see these babies?
Do you see them?
That's gold.
I didn't win these babies at a state fair.
Oh, no, I didn't get these out of a box of Lucky freaking Charms.
I got these because I was the best in the whole entire world.
And Triple H, if you're not still out of it
after the beating that I gave you last week on SmackDown,
I want you to listen very carefully because Triple H,
Stephanie lying about her pregnancy
was the best news I've ever heard
because you would have made a terrible, lousy father.
Oh, yeah, but cheer up Triple H
because tonight, I'm gonna be your daddy.
And Daddy is walking out of No Way Out with the title shot at WrestleMania.
And that Lilian, is true.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Well, that match is gonna come here tonight
but coming up momentarily, it is a match about respect
as far as The Undertaker is concerned, but an emotional match.
A match about retribution as far as The Rock is concerned.
These two men on a collision course, momentarily.
[Rock] Oh, yeah, last Sunday was the night of unexpected at the Royal Rumble.
Maven eliminating The Undertaker.
[Ross] My, God.
Maven propelled, went up, just eliminated The Undertaker.
-[Jerry] What? -[Ross] My, God.
My, God, I don't believe it.
[man] Was Rock in the Rumble?
No, he weren't in the Rumble.
So it's none of his business,
but he sees fit to tell the whole world who eliminated The Undertaker.
You see everything is a big joke to The Rock.
Everything is about song and dance.
But you see, Coach, I don't sing and I don't dance
but I don't get disrespected.
[Michael] Oh boy, what the hell is this?
[Jerry] What?
[Michael] The Undertaker.
-[Jerry] Undertaker, -[Michael] A chokeslam.
What the hell was that all about?
That evil, sadistic Undertaker screwed Rock.
[Rock] You see, Undertaker, when you came in The Rock's match,
you chokeslammed The Rock costing The Rock the undisputed championship,
so now Undertaker, The Rock's big announcement, at No Way Out
Deadman walking is gonna walk right into going one-on-one
with The Great One.
I'm gonna take The Rock, and I'm gonna teach him the word respect.
[Ross] Oh my God Almighty.
The Undertaker may have concussed The Rock with that lead pipe.
[Jerry] But The Undertaker ain't ashamed of his actions, not one bit.
Look at him.
[Rock] Undertaker, you wanna beat some respect into The Rock,
well, you'll get something straight?
You see, The Rock does not answer to you.
-[Michael] Wait a minute. It's The Rock. -[Jerry] What?
-[Michael] The Rock with a steel chair. -[Jerry] No.
-Undertaker-- -[Jerry] Look out!
[Michael] Revenge for the lead pipe on Raw.
A Rock Bottom, Rock Bottom by The Rock.
Hardcore title on the line.
Now, here's the cover.
-[Jerry] No. -[Michael] He's got him.
-He's got him. -[Jerry] What the hell?
[Michael] The Rock has aided Maven.
Maven has won the Hardcore title and beat The Undertaker.
[Rock] We ain't even. We ain't even this week.
We ain't even next week and at No Way Out, we damn sure ain't gonna be even.
Now, the faster--
[Undertaker] If you do disrespect me, I will show you what will happen.
[Michael] Oh my God. No.
No, Rock, we ain't even.
[Tazz] What a sick, sick human being.
[Ross] The Rock and The Undertaker, these two men get it on at No Way Out.
[Jerry] Well, it's all about respect.
You know, that's what The Undertaker has been craving.
[Undertaker] The beatings will continue
until I teach Rock the word respect, respect.
[Ross] Something's gotta give here.
[Rock] You see, Undertaker, you're going home
with The Rock's black boot shoved right up your ass.
[Undertaker] You know, fear and respect they go hand in hand.
[Ross] I guarantee you, it will be a knock-down,
drag-out slobberknocker between that man, The Rock and The Undertaker at No Way Out.
["Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" playing]
[crowd cheering]
♪ Keep rollin', rollin' Rollin', rollin' ♪
♪ Now move in, now move out Hands up, now hands down ♪
♪ Back up, back up Tell me what ya gonna do now ♪
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] I tell you, King, this one's--
I got a real bad feeling about this man.
[Jerry] I always get a bad feeling when I see The Undertaker.
[Howard] The following contest is scheduled for one fall.
At the ring from Houston, Texas,
weighing 305 pounds, The Undertaker.
[Jerry] That's even a good-looking motorcycle,
-isn't it? -[Ross] It certainly is.
Quite the machine, and so is the man riding it,
over a decade of destruction.
Certainly seemed to have aligned himself with very prominently,
I might add, with one of the owners of the WWE.
[Jerry] Well, I didn't like the way he called out Ric Flair earlier.
[Ross] Former three-time WWE Champion obsessed with respect.
[crowd cheering]
["If You Smell" playing]
[Ross] Oh, no, The Rock straight to the ring.
[Howard] Weighing…
[Jerry] Look out. No introduction needed.
[bell rings]
[Ross] We know who he is, The People's Champion
not wasting any time.
[Jerry] He's showing The Undertaker absolutely no respect.
[Ross] And The Rock would like to have this one end quickly,
aggressively and physically.
[Jerry] Oh, look at The Undertaker.
-He's reeling. -[Ross] He is rocking.
He is reeling, being Rock all right, by The Brahma Bull,
but The Undertaker turning the table but The Rock counters again.
[Jerry] I just don't think The Undertaker was ready
for this kind of assault from The Rock.
[Ross] The Rock, ten days ago, concussed by Booger Red
on the-- head first on the top of that limo.
There's a cover and The Rock got his left shoulder off the canvas.
[Jerry] The Rock is supposed to come down to the ring and get in and--
well, go to all the corners, and climb the ropes
and look at the people, and raise his eyebrow, this went right?
Come on. Get him off the rope.
[Ross] Rock not in a celebratory mood here in No Way Out,
looking for retribution over that career-threatening action
that was perpetrated ten days ago by The Undertaker.
[crowd chattering]
[Ross] The Rock getting Chokeslammed on the hood of the limousine.
And then taken to the top of the limo for the Tombstone piledriver.
It was delivered by The Undertaker.
[Jerry] I mean, almost drove The Rock's head right to the roof of that limousine.
[Ross] Undertaker making use of that forearm
right in the face of The Rock.
Six-ten and a half, The Undertaker just over 300 pounds.
[Jerry] Wow, did you hear that?
[Ross] And The Rock fighting back, but can barely-- can take a shot though,
I tell you.
And it comes back for the--
those fingers extended right to the throat it would seem
and a knockdown with the elbow.
[Jerry] Now, I'm a big fan of The Rock.
He is a big guy, but look at The Undertaker
he's almost dwarfed The Rock here, didn't he?
No.
[Ross] Rock reaching with that neckbreaker.
Didn't get as much of it as he wanted as evidence by The Undertaker
starting to move around quicker than The Rock.
The Rock, a former six-time WWE Champion.
The youngest man to ever win
the World Wrestling Entertainment Championship.
And The Undertaker knocking the prodigy back down,
the first third-generation Superstar in WWE history.
This match is not about titles.
It's not about being a number one contender.
-[Jerry] About respect. -[Ross] It's not about WrestleMania.
And you're damn right, it's all about respect.
[Jerry] You got to admit, The Rock had not learned his lesson.
[Ross] What lesson did he not learn to start with?
[Jerry] If somebody drove your head, J.R., through the top of a limousine,
wouldn't that teach you to respect that person and not try to irritate him,
not try to anger him, not try to get on their bad side, what The Rock do?
Oh, no, he comes out here like a-- like the proverbial scalded dog.
Not even doing his usual introduction, just trying to jump
right in The Undertaker's face. No respect.
[Ross] Undertaker with the headbutt there.
Has Rock in a bad way there in the corner,
and certainly Rock started a phonetic pace here,
a very quick, in-your-face offensive pace
that The Undertaker has slowed down to a sadistically methodical one.
-And The Rock fighting out of that corner. -[Jerry] Look out.
Here comes The Rock laying some smackdown.
Uh-oh.
[Ross] Sidewalk slam.
Damn.
That was an impactful sidewalk slam by The Undertaker,
driving the air out of The Rock.
Now, got the cover and Rock kicking out just before the three,
and there was not a lot of energy in that kick-out
by the-- by The People's Champion.
[Jerry] Not a lot of energy left in your body
after you get a sidewalk slam like that from The Undertaker.
A normal man would have been history.
[Ross] The Rock certainly instrumental,
quite frankly responsible in Maven
upsetting The Undertaker and becoming the Hardcore Champion.
[Jerry] Upsetting? J.R., that was much bigger than an upset.
That's like the end of the world to The Undertaker, and I don't blame him.
I mean, come on, give him a break.
Maven, a Raw rookie?
Getting not one but two wins over The Undertaker.
[Ross] Maven also eliminated The Undertaker at the Royal Rumble,
which The Undertaker probably will never forget,
quite frankly the beating that Maven's received, right?
[Jerry] And then-- and then, you know what happened at Royal Rumble
and then Rock mouthed off about it, that's why we're here tonight.
[Ross] A shot right to the head by The Undertaker.
Measuring those kicks, certainly no wasted motion by this veteran
who has campaigned for over 11 years, here in World Wrestling Entertainment.
[Jerry] All he wants is a little respect.
I bet Ric Flair will respect The Undertaker from now on.
[Ross] You know, King, respect is not all about fear and aggressiveness,
it's about earning respect, it's about your attitude to your…
-[Jerry] Oh! -[Ross] Wow.
The Undertaker got hung up there.
[Jerry] You mean, Undertaker hadn't earned the respect in 11 years here in the WWE?
[Ross] I think-- I think he has earned plenty of respect, right?
[Jerry] Well, you know--
[Ross] He just got some self-esteem problem.
He's the one who's got anxiety.
[Jerry] Oh.
[Ross] Undertaker knocked over the top, right outside here.
[Jerry] You better respect him over there, Hugo.
You got to get out at the Spanish announce table, show some respect.
[Ross] Brahma Bull connect with that right hand.
And Booger Red introduced to the steel steps.
I don't know about that Booger Red term.
You know, that seemed-- that lacks a little bit of respect.
[Jerry] Oh, look at here we go, here we go.
[Ross] And so does that.
We don't need any…
[Jerry] Easy Rock, yeah.
Undertaker go.
Go.
-[Ross] Oh, The Rock -[Jerry] Thank you.
[Ross] The Rock knows what it's like to be driven
through a table by The Undertaker.
[Jerry] Poor Spanish announce table is cursed, isn't it?
[Ross] That I don't-- I don't even speak good English.
Much less Spanish.
Thank God for that.
And The Rock, his head bounced off the steps,
and now The Rock has set the table, so to speak,
and it looks like The Undertaker is gonna take advantage of it.
[Jerry] He's looking at that like a big buffet table, wasn't he?
More like how you would look at a buffet table.
Oh man. Oh, oh, wow.
That hurt me.
[Ross] That hurt Rock's ancestors.
Look at The Undertaker taking a seat talking trash to The Great One.
[Jerry] Well, he could sit there and talk for about 15 minutes now if he wants to.
[Ross] Yeah, I think he's got some time.
[Jerry] The man has got to go-- got to go to school, J.R.
Respect school.
[Ross] Yeah, he has a perverse principle.
Let me tell you.
[Jerry] Oh. Oh. Oh. Look out.
[Ross] You know, I wanted to tell you, to stay after school
and The Undertaker rolling into the ring.
Now, he did that so he could break the referee's count,
so that Undertaker and Rock cannot be counted out easily.
[Jerry] You know what's he doing J.R.,
The Undertaker is respecting the rules, respecting the authority.
Now, he just wants some respect back.
[Ross] Well, I just had a-- I haven't plugged in this time
to the generous side yet.
-[Jerry] Oh, plug that in. -[Ross] Yeah, right.
That right hand almost beheaded The Rock, took him right over the top,
right out to the concrete.
I can't say it's not a surprise to see these two men up there
amongst the over 15,000, selling out the house here
in Bradley Center.
[Jerry] What are they doing?
[Ross] Undertaker-- uh-oh.
Look at this, trying to-- trying to pull…
[Jerry] Out the exit door.
Oh.
[Ross] And The Rock reversed The Undertaker right into that door,
follows it with a couple of hard right hands.
[crowd chattering]
[Ross] And it's hard to say what's gonna happen on here
in this proverbial no man's land, surrounded by concrete.
[Jerry] Hey, wrong door.
[Ross] Undertaker, that big arm around the neck of The Rock,
dragging The Rock back toward to the ring here.
[Jerry] They're coming back this way.
[crowd clamoring]
[Jerry] Let me tell you, you'll never know what's gonna happen
when you go see WWE live, maybe right over your laps.
[Ross] But maybe closer to the WWE Superstar that you ever dreamed.
[Jerry] I've seen some laps I'd like to get into in these crowds.
[Ross] Rock getting gripped like a government mule here
by The Undertaker at this point in time in the matchup.
[man] Oh, what's up, J.R.?
[Ross] Oh, hard elbow.
What an elbow right down on the chest of The Rock, driving more air out of him.
-Yeah, get in the ring. -Come on.
[Ross] This is-- this is-- this is sadistic.
Undertaker, you can tell that he enjoys hurting people.
And he's real good at it.
[Jerry] Why would you ever wanna mouth off and risk the wrath from that man?
Hey, remember the Spanish announce table?
[Ross] Huh? Why would you say that?
Are you gonna promise all your money?
The Rock again getting just pulverized.
[Jerry] Just a few pesos.
[Ross] And now, The Undertaker gonna go with a cover,
and Rock starting to-- kicking out.
Undertaker hook to the leg this time, Rock still kicks out
and now, the big time fist bones dropping right back in the--
right back in the face and Undertaker seems to be getting little frustrated,
but keeps missing The Rock too many times.
[Jerry] Well, I'm not counting out The Rock.
Except, you got to remember, we haven't seen it too many times
coming off the heels of The Great One concussion.
That could be difference maker in this match, J.R.
[Ross] Well, The Rock would never use an injury
or not being a hundred percent as an excuse ever.
[Jerry] Why not?
[Ross] It's just not his style.
He's fighting back here.
A hundred percent or not, with everything he's got and whatever he's got left,
we're gonna get it here and-- oh.
[Jerry] Oh, Rock got it.
[Ross] And The Rock lowered his head, The Undertaker
with a veteran adjustment there.
[Jerry] Whatever Rock had left just left.
[Ross] And I tell you what, that was a huge DDT.
The Undertaker-- and finally gets the cover.
[Jerry] Man, oh, no.
Wait a minute. Not a temper tantrum from The Undertaker.
[Ross] Undertaker showing a lot of frustration there.
[Jerry] It was Christian-esque, wasn't it?
[crowd chattering]
[Ross] Rock at least had the wherewithal to kick-out and landed on his gut,
off his back.
[Jerry] Oh, squeezing The Rock's back.
It could get broken right here J.R., it could snap.
[Ross] Rock's lower back has been punished on more than one occasion in this match.
Now The Undertaker using his strength and a huge leverage advantage,
he's six-ten and a half, and that upper body strength is predominant here.
Please say Rock, huh.
[Jerry] Uh-oh, looks like The Rock sort of just-- kind of floating away, J.R.
He's leaving us.
[Ross] Referee Mike Chioda checking The Rock's arm.
[Jerry] Hanging in there.
[Ross] Got a call to check that arm,
if it drops three times,
the match is stopped and it didn't drop once,
as it's being checked and The Undertaker, again keeping that shoulder as is,
pushed right in the sternum, squeezing the lower back.
Please say, Rock, you wanna give up?
Please say, Rock. Huh?
[Jerry] I'm afraid this could be it for The Rock.
[Ross] Of course not a typical ride in the limo that The Rock is used to…
-[Jerry] That's one, J.R. -[Ross] …ten days ago, I know it.
-[Jerry] Two. -Two.
[Jerry] Make a count, ref.
-It certainly matters. -[Ross] If arm drops again, it's over.
-[Jerry] Whoa. -[Ross] The Rock's hanging in there.
The Rock is hanging in there, and that Brahma Bull's heart
is still beating strongly.
Scores a little right hand, that maybe all The Rock can do right now
is just fight with those fists.
[Jerry] But will that be enough against the Deadman?
Ooh! That might be.
[Ross] Nice clothesline by The Rock, knocking down The Undertaker
but The Rock is down as well.
[Jerry] That'll buy The Rock some time, though, just a little time to recuperate.
On our time, The Rock needs it badly.
[Mike] Two.
[Ross] Undertaker starting to stir as is The Rock,
with the sellout crowd here in Milwaukee.
[Jerry] Over 15,000, right, J.R.?
[Ross] Exactly.
[Jerry] They're trying to pump some life into The Rock.
They wanna see him lay some smackdown.
[Ross] Fifteen thousand, two thirty-five, live here in Milwaukee tonight,
as The Rock walked right into a right hand,
responds with a right of his own, but I don't like The Rock's chances
in a fist fight with The Undertaker in a condition The Rock's in now.
But he keeps fighting back.
I don't think The Rock believes my knowledge.
[Jerry] I don't think he does either.
[Ross] Now, still-- a DDT.
That quick-- and look at The Rock.
[Jerry] Look at The Rock.
[Ross] And dreaming ropes there.
[Jerry] He snapped back to life.
Look at this.
[Ross] The spirit over-pouring.
[Jerry] Now, wait a minute.
One minute, Rock is down.
He's devastated, the next minute, we're about to witness
the most electrifying move in sports entertainment to date, J.R.
Here it comes, from the rope, People's Elbow.
-[Ross] Uh-oh. -[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Ross] And The Undertaker-- oh, a low blow.
[Jerry] The People's Low Blow.
[Ross] And The Undertaker got kicked right in Death Valley there.
[Jerry] Uh-huh.
-[Ross] And The Rock… -[Jerry] Now what?
[Ross] Uh-oh.
Laying some serious smackdown on The Undertaker.
[Jerry] Trying to check him in to the old SmackDown Hotel but…
-[Ross] And now The Undertaker. -[Jerry] Chokeslam, he got him.
[Ross] A Chokeslam.
[Jerry] That did it.
[Ross] The Rock went for the ride, but The Undertaker after that low blow…
[Jerry] I just wonder if The Undertaker's gonna be able to cover, he got him.
[Ross] The cover, enough time, as The Rock's right shoulder
that came shooting off the canvas
and The Undertaker ain't buying this at all from the referee.
[Jerry] Not the referee's fault, Rock kicked out.
He did it fair and square.
You're dealing with The Rock, Undertaker.
That's why he's the People's Champion.
[Ross] Now what?
Undertaker, where is he going?
-The Spanish announce table? -[Jerry] Get out of the way! Not here!
Uh-oh.
What the hell's this? Is he…
[Jerry] He's gonna run The Rock over with a motorcycle.
[Ross] That would be interesting, considering that The Rock's in the ring.
[Jerry] He can pop a wheelie and jump right in there.
[Ross] What is this? What is The Undertaker doing here?
Sitting on his motorcycle.
The Rock was in a bad way.
Shut up.
Hey. What the hell you're doing, Taker?
Huh.
[Ross] Undertaker just threw the referee back into those steps.
[Jerry] What's he's doing?
[Ross] I don't know he's--
[Jerry] Oh, he's starting-- I think he's pulling some-- uh-oh.
[Ross] Oh my God.
A lead pipe.
And if he hits Rock with the lead-pipe cinch,
then The Undertaker is gonna win this damn thing,
-if that thing hits The Rock. -[Jerry] Hey, wait a minute.
[Ross] Oh, there's Ric Flair.
[Jerry] What the heck?
What?
What is he doing?
[Ross] Putting a hard chop on The Undertaker,
and that woke up the Deadman.
He just knocked Flair down with that shot right to the face.
That lead pipe is in the ring.
[Jerry] Well, you're right, it was like that chop woke The Undertaker up--
now put Rock-- and no, he missed him.
[Ross] Undertaker looking for The Rock's head,
dropped a Spinebuster.
[Jerry] Wait a minute.
Sharpshooter, J.R. Sharpshooter.
[Ross] The Rock's got the Sharpshooter on The Undertaker.
[Jerry] And he can't reach that lead pipe.
[Ross] The referee there to see if The Undertaker is gonna give it up.
He's about to tap, The Undertaker is about to tap
-[Jerry] Look at this. -[Ross] Over man-- Deadman.
[Jerry] Look at this.
[Ross] What the hell is Mr. McMahon doing here?
He's trying to save The Undertaker.
[Jerry] Oh, I think he just figured he's trying to interfere.
[Ross] Undertaker was about to tap out.
[Jerry] Look out.
[Ross] And McMahon brought into the ring by The Rock.
[Jerry] He's the owner of this company.
-[Ross] And so is Ric Flair. -[Jerry] Look out.
Oh, no.
[Ross] McMahon on Dream Street.
But The Undertaker comes from behind on The Rock.
[Jerry] Yeah but, Mr. McMahon--
Look out. Oh, no.
Here we go.
Whoa.
[Ross] Flair just nailed The Undertaker with that lead pipe.
[Jerry] With The Undertaker's own lead pipe.
[Ross] Into the Rock Bottom, the Rock Bottom,
the hook to the leg, the Rock Bottom and it's over.
-[bell rings] -["If You Smell" playing]
If you smell what The Rock is cooking.
[Howard] Here's your winner, The Rock.
[Jerry] What happened in there? And look at this.
[Ross] Ric Flair with The Undertaker's lead pipe,
just hit the American Badass right between the eyes
that lead to the Rock Bottom
and The People's Champion…
with a victory over The Undertaker.
[Jerry] I cannot believe that Ric Flair insinuated himself into this match.
[Ross] I think all Ric Flair was gonna make sure that The Undertaker
didn't use that lead pipe on The Rock.
[Jerry] Yeah. But instead he made sure that he used it on The Undertaker,
Ric Flair himself.
[Ross] Well, the second time in three days
that Flair has been kicked in the face by The Undertaker.
[Jerry] Oh, I'd hate to hear what you'd be saying right now
if Vince McMahon had hit The Rock with something.
That've been the-- that would've been a miscarriage of justice.
That would have been awful, wouldn't it?
[Ross] Well, The Brahma Bull…
showing a great deal of resiliency.
It wasn't easy. It wasn't a pretty match.
It was a very physically intense match.
Mr. McMahon obviously coming down
to try to help The Undertaker out of predicament.
[Jerry] We just came down to offset the damage done by Ric Flair but--
[Ross] Well, if The Undertaker hadn't used that lead pipe,
I don't think we'd have even seen Ric Flair.
[Jerry] Undertaker didn't use the lead pipe.
[Ross] He was going to.
Well, folks, looking live now to the heart of New York City, Times Square,
the home of WWE New York.
For tonight, ladies and gentlemen,
inside, I'm sure having a great time, enjoying the wonderful food,
Mr. Perfect.
And, Perfect, I'd love to get your thoughts on tonight's event,
especially on who wants to gets there at WWE New York.
What do you think of the show so far?
Any time we are in New York City and you're live,
I should be out there with these guys, we're having a great time,
but when I look around
and I see the teeth on that guy…
-and the hair on that guy… -[Jerry] Yeah.
…even the rats are ugly here, it's hard for me--
Let me show what perfect really is.
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
-He said even the rats are ugly, J.R. -Take a look at the arm.
Take a look at the back, not too much.
[chuckles] Everybody knows one thing is for real
when Mr. Perfect's in town, it's going down.
Whoever thought that I would be a role model?
Perfect. Mr. Perfect.
[Jerry] He's wired. [laughs]
[Ross] All right. Well, thank you very much.
[rock music playing]
[Ross] Well, that's maybe what Kurt Angle's gonna feel here tonight
if Triple H has his way, extremely numb.
But how in God's name can The Game get a fair shake,
his soon-to-be ex-wife, a special referee.
Oh, God.
-[Jerry] There is it. -[Ross] Oh, Triple H is out, no.
[Jerry] Kurt, turn around, you didn't win yet.
-Oh. -[Ross] Facebuster.
Angle in trouble. Angle in trouble.
-[Jerry] No, Kurt, no. -[Ross] Oh my God.
It's over. It's over.
He went through eight months of hell just to make it back.
Triple H is going to meet the undisputed WWE Champion
at WrestleMania.
[Kurt] That was my Royal Rumble.
That was my only chance at winning it on my first try,
and I will never forgive Triple H for that.
I'm everything that Triple H is and more.
I'm stronger, tougher and, yeah, I'm badder.
[Ross] Angle has gone Olympic on The Game's ass.
I have some good news for you.
You know, Mr. McMahon just informed me
that you and I, we're gonna have ourselves a little match at No Way Out.
You know, your title shot at WrestleMania,
since you "won" the Royal Rumble,
that title shot is gonna be up for grabs.
Oh, it's true.
[Ross] Well, that's not fair.
Hunter, listen, I know that you're in a really bad mood right now,
but I've got some news that is going to change your whole world.
I had an epiphany.
It does seem like our marriage is falling apart.
It does seem like we're fighting all the time
and I realized that there is only one way
to prove our love for each other.
We renew our wedding vows.
[Ross] Oh, if they renew their wedding vows?
No.
[Stephanie] You have to do this.
You have to do it for me, Hunter, there's-- there's no other choice,
Hunter, it's because I'm pregnant.
[Jerry] What?
[Ross] Oh my God.
[Jerry] Huh?
[Ross] The Game is gonna be a daddy.
[Jerry] There's gonna be a little Game.
What is the great news, doctor?
You're the proud parents and will be the proud parent
of a-- of a beautiful baby.
[Stephanie] And we're gonna renew our wedding vows.
[doctor] That's smashing.
[Stephanie] It's smashing.
-[giggles] -[Triple H] It is smashing.
Listen, this showed up for you in Flair's office.
-Eh? -On his desk.
-He just wanna make sure that you got it. -Thanks, man.
[woman] Hunter, look, on that tape,
that guy is not a doctor, he's an actor.
[man] This is very smashing, a family vacation,
come to St. Ives, smashing beaches.
[Triple H] Oh my God.
[woman] Hunter, I am so sorry.
Stephanie has been lying to you, she was never pregnant.
[Ross] Mr. McMahon and Stephanie are not aware
that Triple H knows the young lady is not pregnant.
[Triple H] As I look into your eyes tonight,
I see you for what you truly are.
[crowd cheering]
A no good lying bitch.
We are through.
[Ross] Oh my God.
[Jerry] Hell knows no fury like the wrath of the woman scorned.
[Vince] Triple H humiliated me and my daughter, Stephanie, last Monday.
Triple H committed the cardinal sin
when he struck my daughter down.
That's a sin for which you, Triple H, will eternally pay.
[Jerry] There's no way out for Triple H now.
He's stuck in there.
[Stephanie] When you face Kurt Angle
and your WrestleMania title shot is on the line, baby,
I'm gonna be
the guest referee.
-[laughs] -[Michael] Oh my God.
With that evil Stephanie as referee,
there could truly be no way out for Triple H.
["My Time" playing]
[Jerry] Well, J.R., that pretty much tells the story, doesn't it?
[Ross] Very accurately, very sincere.
[Jerry] Wowee.
Probably the hottest referee I've ever seen in my life, J.R.
I thought Jacqueline looked hot, but Stephanie is even better.
Look at this.
[Ross] The soon-to-be ex-wife of The Game.
I think it's so obvious she's not gonna be fair,
she's not gonna be impartial.
[Howard] Ladies and gentlemen,
allow me to introduce the special guest referee
for the forthcoming contest,
Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley.
[Jerry] Give it up, J.R.
[Ross] She would make that French figure skating judge
look like a saint.
[Jerry] Oh, she is smoking.
Would it kill you to clap just one time, just a little round of applause?
[Ross] That'd be as disingenuous as the nWo
I don't-- I don't care to live my life that way. Thank you.
♪ Or don't you understand Your own confusion? ♪
[Jerry] You know what this means, don't you?
[Ross] She's yelling at Howard.
[Jerry] Explaining to him how to do his job too.
-Telling him to make another announcement. -[Ross] Oh, that's good,
-which is not possible. -Ladies and gentlemen,
I've been corrected,
your special guest referee for the forthcoming contest,
Stephanie McMahon.
[Ross] Oh, she's back to being a McMahon then?
[Jerry] She's already dropped the "Helmsley",
that didn't take long, did it?
[Ross] Playing an emotional game with her soon to be former husband,
alleging she was pregnant.
["Medal" playing]
[Ross] And you wanna know what went through, you--
[Jerry] You know, sometimes they're pregnant, J.R.
Oh, J.R., she's pregnant.
[Ross] That's sad.
[Jerry] Sometimes those test strips turn to the wrong color.
[crowd chanting] You suck! You suck!
[Jerry] This is not good, listen to these people.
-[bell rings] -[Howard] The following contest
is scheduled for one fall,
it's the number one contender match!
Where the winner could get a title match
against the undisputed WWE Champion at WrestleMania.
-[Jerry] And that's big, J.R. -[Howard] Entering the ring,
from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
weighing 237 pounds,
Kurt Angle.
[Ross] And no extent may surprise for the next 30 minutes
searching Kurt for foreign objects.
[Jerry] Have you ever seen a referee clap for one of the--
well, one of the participants in the match?
[Ross] Only if she is gonna screw one of the other participants.
[Jerry] Hey, J.R. I think she's done doing that.
["The Game" playing]
-♪ Time to play the game ♪ -[Ross] Game time.
[Howard] From Greenwich, Connecticut,
weighing 272 pounds,
Triple H.
[Ross] I got a feeling The Game's gonna be moving out of Greenwich, Connecticut.
♪ It's all about the game ♪
[Ross] Don't think we're so snobbish here.
If you don't live there, you're gonna pay money to go to the beach.
[Jerry] I know. Their fire department doesn't even make house calls.
[Ross] Game time.
♪ I am The Game, You don't wanna play me ♪
[Ross] Boy, this should be a grueling round attack
and look at that evil,
almost demonic expression on that young woman's face.
[Jerry] I've said it before and I'll say it again.
There's an old saying,
hell knows no fury
like the wrath of a woman scorned.
And she had been scorned, J.R., Stephanie's been scorned.
[Ross] How do you figure that?
[Jerry] Oh my God, he struck her down.
He embarrassed and humiliated her on worldwide television.
[Ross] Are you condoning the fact that she tried
to make him and everybody else think she was pregnant with their child?
[Jerry] All she was trying to do was a little manipulation.
-Look at this, whoa. -[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] She was trying to get her husband to renew his wedding vows.
That's all, as simple as that.
She just wanted to tell to the world how much she loves him.
[Ross] Well, I'll tell you what, if you got Triple H in the office pool,
I don't like their chances as long as this woman is the referee.
[Jerry] You know, there's another old saying,
if you love somebody, you gotta lie to 'em very now and then.
[Ross] I ain't never heard that old saying.
[Jerry speaks indistinctly]
♪ I am the game You don't wanna play me ♪
[Ross] No one has accomplished more in their short career than Kurt Angle.
Two-time former WWE Champion,
but Triple H can't take his eyes, much like The King, off Stephanie,
but for a much different reason.
[Jerry] Well, Stephanie, don't-- look, don't--
she needs to take her eyes off of Triple H.
Don't look at that glistening body of his and those bulging biceps.
Don't get turned on, don't go back on what--
Oh, look, she's reminding The Game…
-[Ross] Oh, yeah. -[Jerry] …that she is in charge.
Just like most managers, man, she's the boss.
-[Ross] Kurt Angle. The roll out. -[Jerry] Hey! Whoa!
[Ross] And Stephanie down very quickly to--
[Jerry] Quick count.
[Ross] There's the inside cradle, inside cradle.
Angle not wasting any time.
You wouldn't think that there might be a fast count on the-- in the off ring,
you know, on most occasions.
[Jerry] They were fast but--
[Ross] And Triple H countered Kurt Angle.
And a hard knockdown with that taped right hand,
and this former four-time champion already complaining that,
and rightfully so,
that his former beloved had a little quick count there.
Little quick on the trigger.
[Jerry] And then he's complaining that she was slow counting on Kurt,
but she's probably tired.
[Ross] Kurt Angle, he'll go Olympic on you, I tell you that.
[Jerry] Now, can I go on record once again
or did I already go on record for saying it?
But let's face it, The Game has-- he's got no chance.
[Ross] Keep going on the record tonight,
I can't deny
that I think you're probably gonna be right, unfortunately.
And look at The Game kicking away at Kurt Angle.
[Jerry] I know what everybody wants to think out there.
It's The Game, it's what he spent eight months recuperating.
This is all about his shot at WrestleMania.
And-- ooh!
I mean, he's contested everything,
but, unfortunately, I'm afraid that's what's gonna happen.
[Ross] The Game has had great success at the last couple of No Way Out events.
He beat Mankind in a Hell in a Cell two years ago,
and last year, with Stone Cold, two out of three falls.
[Jerry] Yeah, but they never had a scorned wife as a referee.
[Ross] That is a fact.
[Jerry] Be careful in there, Stephanie.
What hear these great people saying here in Milwaukee?
[Jerry] They're all drunk, I bet.
[Ross] Nice suplex by Angle.
[Jerry] I think they want Stephanie to take her shirt off.
-[Ross] Well, you started that. -[Jerry] Well--
[Ross] I know that sign over there is your handwriting.
The main event at WrestleMania will feature one of these two men,
and this shouldn't even have come to this, quite frankly.
-Oh my God! -[Jerry] Oh my gosh!
She's dead.
[Ross] Kurt Angle looking at clotheslining The Game,
but he got the referee inadvertently.
[Jerry] No, she's not-- help, somebody.
[Ross] We got no referee here. We need some help out here.
[Jerry] Go help her, J.R.
-[Ross] Why don't you go help her? -[Jerry] I will.
-[Ross] Maybe a mouth to mouth. -[Jerry] I will help her,
she's knocked-- she's unconscious.
[Ross] And look at The Game, he's opening up on Kurt Angle
but quite frankly, there's nobody here to count the fall.
Nice high back body drop.
Great elevation there by The Game on Kurt Angle.
-[Jerry] Come on. -[Ross] And Angle, over the top.
[Jerry] Help your fellow fallen referee there.
[Ross] Upside down on his head and the-- our referee is not moving.
[Jerry] Oh, look at this.
I guess you could see he's really traumatized
by the fact that his wife was almost decapitated.
He's actually laughing.
[Ross] He may be thinking that she's got exactly what she had coming to her.
[Jerry] Look at this.
Oh, I don't know if I can stand to watch this!
Oh, no. Her chest.
[Ross] Her chest.
Is that all you think about, is her chest?
And look at Angle hard hammering those right hands.
Again, these other officials are helping Stephanie up, "her chest."
And now Triple H, swinging neckbreaker.
[Jerry] How could you leave her right in the gutter, J.R.,
she's a young, beautiful, innocent woman.
[Ross] And there's Tim White.
And Triple H got a near-fall.
Down the near-fall--
[Jerry] Steph, are you okay?
Are you all right?
What's Tim White doing in there?
[Ross] Well, could you suggest somebody else do it?
-Stephanie is-- -[Jerry] Look at Triple H,
he's actually waving goodbye to his fallen wife.
[Ross] And if her lawyer has any way, he'll be waving goodbye to his money too.
-[Jerry] You got that right. -[crowd] Four, five, six
[Ross] Triple H taking care of some business here
with those right hands on Kurt Angle.
And Angle-- and Angle and Stephanie, wink, wink, here,
were in collusion here like Angle's got a little bit of plan B.
-[Jerry] Oh, I saw that, yeah. -[Ross] He might have
to win this match on his ability.
[Jerry] Yeah, not now, I don't like Kurt's chances.
Like I said from the start, it's not looking good for Kurt.
[Ross] Kurt Angle.
[Jerry] Oh.
[Ross] A German suplex locked in, delivering two.
[Jerry] Oh.
[Ross] And The Game trying to block the third one.
Did momentarily but--
and now the three suplexes, the hook to the leg here,
and Triple H, that great upper body strength,
they were a power out of.
[Jerry] It looked like a slow count if I've ever seen one.
He timed that with a sundial.
[Ross] Tim White, the fighting Irishman
from the world famous Friendly Tap.
And has-- Angle, now, stomping away.
Not only is he beating The Game up right now,
he's been talking The Game.
[Jerry] Have you heard what Kurt Angle said?
[Ross] Saying that he wouldn't make a good father.
What does Kurt Angle know about being a good father?
[Jerry] Look at this biased referee.
Well, I won't-- this is--
[Ross] Well, I mean-- tough talking about Tim White's chest.
[Jerry] Well, what kind of father you think Triple H would be?
[Ross] What is that for us to say?
There's the elbow, hook to the leg, and again--
[Jerry] You know, one thing Stephanie could sing that song,
"You're the reason our kids are ugly."
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Imagine the nose that little baby would've had.
[Ross] Well, it could've been prominent.
[Jerry] Be going and picking up peanuts with it.
[Ross] This crowd getting into the head of Kurt Angle
with-- sometimes it's not that hard to do.
And this time, it's The Game turning Angle around.
Stephanie must be the best news that could happen to The Game.
-Stephanie is-- -[Jerry] Oh, look at that!
[Ross] Suplex. Too busy for the good news.
He's gonna get rid of the woman in divorce court,
and now she's not refereeing in this match,
I'd say he's having a pretty good week.
There's a cover, he's got a kick out, though,
is The Game as…
[Jerry] Let me look at that suplex one more time, J.R.
Come on, call this. Beautiful.
[Ross] Belly to belly overhead suplex.
-Angle-- -[Jerry] And another one.
[Ross] Nobody could suplex as well as Kurt Angle.
There's no doubt about that.
Angle, hook to the leg.
And again, The Game…
[Jerry] He learned that in the Olympics.
[Ross] I think he probably learned it before he got to the Olympics,
but in any event,
a true story, what I figure, sticking to it.
Another belly to belly overhead, that's three.
And hook to the leg and--
I know that The Game is in great shape, King,
but he's a human being also.
[Jerry] You heard what Kurt Angle said.
Kurt thinks he's bigger than The Game, he think he's stronger than The Game,
he thinks he's better than The Game.
Well, he had his own personal referee until now.
[Ross] Yeah, that would be a little bit more help.
That would close the deal I think.
Just not to be, as now, Kurt Angle--
Kurt Angle shouldn't even be in this match. And--
[Jerry] You should-- you know what you should be doing right now,
you should be checking on Stephanie's condition.
[Ross] I figured that would be more down your alley.
[Jerry] You're the one with the hotline.
[Ross] How are we gonna do the hotline anyway?
Oh, wait a minute.
-[Jerry] Look at this, now. -[Ross] A good reversal by Kurt Angle
-and now Angle-- -[Jerry] That's a sleeper.
[Ross] That's one way to slow The Game down.
Angle using that sleeper hold,
and The Game--
it'll slowly fading away here.
The guy gets hurt,
he tears his thigh muscle, the quadricep femoris,
actually, yeah.
Out eight months,
-goes to Royal Rumble and wins it. -[Jerry] Right.
[Ross] He should be at the main event at WrestleMania
until he offended his soon-to-be former father-in-law,
-Mr. McMahon. -[Jerry] And exactly, how did he do that?
He called Mr. McMahon,
the owner of the company that Triple H works for,
-he called him a-- -[Ross] Asshole.
[Jerry] Thank you. There you go,
-continue your story now. -[Ross] And now,
so I guess punished by having to fight with Kurt Angle here
for the number one contender slot
that he-- that Triple H rightfully won at the Royal Rumble.
[Jerry] Well, he should've kept his mouth shut.
[Ross] Angle--
[Jerry] How many jobs do you know in the world
that you can go around and call your boss an asshole
and get away with it.
-[Ross] Not too many I've ever had. -[Jerry] Yeah, that's right.
So, Triple H is not gonna get away with it either.
At least he wasn't until Stephanie got knocked out of this match.
[Ross] Triple H trying to free himself.
And Angle pugnaciously holding on to the sleeper.
-And that's one way-- -[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Ross] One way to cause the separation.
You son of a bitch.
[Ross] And Angle quick to regain the advantage.
Angle is like a piranha now, he's not-- he's gonna stay all over The Game.
Who's the bitch now, huh?
[Jerry] Talking a little smack to Triple H.
Oh, no.
[Ross] Finds his great strength,
going to the front there, walking around out of the corner
into the powerbomb situation.
And Triple H delivered the powerbomb on Kurt Angle.
[Jerry] There's so much on the line here.
Which one of these guys are gonna get up and go to WrestleMania?
[Ross] For every athlete that has any class or character,
both of these guys quite frankly do.
They bleed this business.
To be in the main event of WrestleMania is a tremendous honor.
It's a great challenge,
but it's a great honor to be in the main event
at the biggest event, the World Series or the Super Bowl of our business.
[Jerry] The ref's at nine.
[Ross] Both men are back up.
We're live here in Milwaukee.
Bradley Center sold-out,
first day tickets went on sale several weeks ago.
And now The Game reasserting himself physically on Kurt Angle,
both guys in great condition.
-[Jerry] Whoa! -[Ross] There's a high knee,
a la Harley Race and the knockdown by The Game.
-And again-- oh, The Game -[Jerry] Telegraph that.
[Ross] Got a little-- oh, there it is.
that goes into an Arn Anderson's spinebuster.
The hook of the leg, should be, is that it? No.
And that was a close, close near-fall.
[Jerry] Two-count, just a two-count.
[Ross] And The Game measures that right hand.
Angle trying to counter, another facebuster by Triple H.
Hooking the leg, referee's in good position
and Angle able to kick out.
And now you start wondering how much is left in the tank
of the former Olympian.
[Jerry] Yeah, I-- I'm worried about it now.
I don't feel good about it at all.
I said that from the beginning, didn't I?
[Ross] Angle kind of-- yeah, you've been very concerned about it.
Angle kinda-- that's called a dog syndrome.
Unbecoming for an Olympic gold medal winner.
[Jerry] You see? When you change referees,
now Kurt, his whole strategy had to change.
-[Ross] I guess. Wait a minute. -[Jerry] Oh!
-[Jerry] What happened? -[Ross] What happened?
Angle just nailed the referee.
I think Angle wanna get his--
[Jerry] See, if we only had Stephanie out there--
this clumsy Tim White,
in the wrong place at the wrong time.
[Ross] How do you figure that?
He was there doing his job, Angle came from behind.
[Jerry] He stumbled right in the way
-of that forearm. -[Ross] How come
-we're not seeing that again? -[Jerry] An Olympic forearm!
[Ross] And that's a low blow right there that went undetected by the referee.
Tim White is-- he's barely moving.
[Jerry] Gonna hit him with a friendly tap.
[Ross] The Angle Slam.
The Angle slam-- a low blow
-and the Angle slam. -[Jerry] Oh, wait, look at this!
-[Ross] Now, wait a minute. -[Jerry] Look at this.
-[Ross] Oh, for God's sakes. -[Jerry] She's back.
[Ross] She's not even looking at the shoulders.
-She was counting at Triple H's feet. -[Jerry] What?
[Jerry] She's hurt.
-[Ross] There's the hook of the leg. -[Stephanie] Three.
[Jerry] Did she say three?
[Ross] I think she's not able
-to do the first count. -[Jerry] One, two…
[Ross] Triple H getting that shoulder up.
[Jerry] How is he doing that? Stephanie, count quicker.
[Ross] Angle now taking the advantage here.
One referee down in the ring.
[Jerry] Uh-oh, the straps have come down, now Kurt's getting serious.
[Ross] I've seen guys do that before.
[Jerry] Well, that means it's now time to get serious.
[Ross] And now Angle with an ankle lock.
[Jerry] Yeah, here we go.
Look out, oh, no.
-[Ross] Triple H countered… -[Jerry] Oh, no, not again.
[Ross] …and shoved Kurt Angle right back to the corner.
[Jerry] Triple H did that on purpose, J.R.
[Ross] Kurt Angle's favorite referee was standing.
[Jerry] Triple H did it on purpose.
[Ross] DDT.
The hook of the leg. How about a three?
[Jerry] See what you've done now, Triple H?
[Ross] Now, there's no referee there to make the count.
[Jerry] Thanks to Hunter.
[Ross] How do you got that now?
[Jerry] He kicked Kurt into Stephanie on purpose.
[Ross] I don't know that Hunter knew that Stephanie was behind--
[Jerry] Tim White is not the official referee
on record now, I don't think.
[Ross] Well, if he was, it wouldn't matter now.
[Jerry] Well, how clumsy is that guy?
[Ross] Knocked outside. Stumbled--
And there's another German suplex by Kurt Angle.
[Jerry] Look at Stephanie, that beautiful hair.
[Ross] At least you're not talking about her chest.
And Kurt Angle now, what's he thinking?
We got two referees down.
-[Jerry] What, Kurt, what? -[Ross] What are you-- what are you doing?
Well, that's a little bit of desperate measure, don't you think?
[Jerry] Oh, he's gonna let Stephanie sit down.
She needs her-- she's--
[Ross] Oh, he's not getting that chair for Stephanie's use.
I damn sure guarantee you that.
[Jerry] There's not been enough. Uh-oh.
[Ross] Triple H, he ducked the chair shot.
[Jerry] Wait a minute.
[Ross] Could be.
-[Jerry] Look out! -[Ross] Pedigree.
-[Jerry] Oh man. -[Ross] Man, The Game is really--
[Jerry] Oh, no, and look at this, right on top,
-here comes that clumsy Tim White. -[Ross] Tim White back in.
-The Pedigree, again, it's over here. -[crowd] One, two--
[Jerry] What the heck.
Did you see that?
[Ross] Stephanie just dropped an elbow on Tim White.
[Jerry] What?
[Ross] What is she doing now?
[Jerry] She's telling him who the referee is.
-It's her. -[Ross] Oh, low blow.
[Jerry] Get out of there, Tim White, before you get hurt.
[Ross] His shamrocks are…
[Jerry] She's in charge.
[Ross] The lucky charms of the Irishman.
[Jerry] Show him-- show him who the boss is. Uh-oh.
Now you can't hit the ref.
You cannot hit the ref, if you do-- wait a minute.
If he does, he'll be disqualified and he'll lose.
[Ross] Triple H, you gotta remember what's at stake here.
Triple H, if you wanna go to WrestleMania…
[Jerry] Hit her, you hothead, you'll lose.
[Ross] …you gotta stay composed.
[Jerry] Oh, he's got her hair. This is that.
[crowd cheering]
-[Ross] Oh my God. -[Jerry] He's gonna do work with her.
-He's gonna Pedigree her. -[Ross] Pedigree--
and the chair, the shot right to the spine,
right to the head!
Angle drove the chair in the skull of The Game.
[Jerry] He's still not down.
[Ross] The Game somehow-- my God, he's back up,
two chair shots, the Angle Slam,
Angle hooks the leg.
[Jerry] Two, three.
-[bell rings] -[Ross] I don't believe this.
-[Jerry] J.R.! -[Ross] You shouldn't believe it.
-[Jerry] I knew it was gonna happen. -[Howard] Here is your winner,
Kurt Angle.
[Ross] We said that Angle and Stephanie were gonna screw The Game
and that's exactly what happened.
[Jerry] It's gonna be an Olympic WrestleMania, how appropriate.
[Ross] It's all thanks to Mr. McMahon,
thanks to his daughter, thanks to the chair shots,
and thanks to Kurt Angle,
Triple H's winning the Royal Rumble didn't mean a damn thing.
[Jerry] And thanks to the good Lord,
sometimes good things happen to good people.
Yes!
["Medal" playing]
[Ross] How can you feel anything but sadness
about a man who did eight months rehabbing,
all down the drain?
Number 1!
His personal life has gone to hell.
[Jerry] J.R., why can't-- let's talk about the fact
that Kurt Angle is going to WrestleMania.
[Ross] Triple H's personal life has gone to hell.
His professional life has gone to hell,
thanks to that witch
of a future ex-wife of his,
eight months meaning nothing.
Can you not think about the fact
that Kurt Angle is now going to WrestleMania?
Let's talk about that a little bit.
-Oh, go ahead then. -Kurt Angle is going to WrestleMania.
Oh, there you go, that's about all you wanna say about that.
Here's a man that gave us everything he had,
eight months and a career-threatening injury,
he shouldn't have even been in this damn match,
if it hadn't been for his for soon-to-be future father-in-law.
Well, let me ask you this, did you not see the fact
that Kurt Angle was about to Pedigree his lovely wife?
Was he or was he not?
-It looked like he was, yeah. -It looked like he was and--
And nobody would've shed any tears
-on that one either, maybe you. -Well, Kurt Angle just--
Kurt Angle just happened to catch a quick victory,
and now Kurt's going to WrestleMania, an Olympic WrestleMania, J.R.
Two chair shots, an Olympic slam,
and the man's soon to be ex-wife, the referee.
Yeah, a little bit of an uphill climb.
The Game just got screwed out of the main event at WrestleMania.
That's what happened.
[Jerry] Well, let's see if that's exactly what happened.
There's what happened right there, you see, Triple H--
I cannot believe he's gonna do that to his own lovely wife.
[Ross] One chair shot,
another in front of the referee,
but she didn't call a disqualification.
-Of course not. -[Jerry] She didn't see it.
She was trying to recuperate from that--
[Ross] She's looking right at it.
She didn't give a damn.
[Jerry] Here's all she saw, completely legal Olympic slam.
[Ross] Stephanie has ruined The Game's personal life,
and now she's had a hand in ruining his professional life.
[Jerry] Boy, that is eight months down the drain.
-Wow. -[Ross] It's a sad damn day for The Game.
He deserves better than this, ladies and gentlemen.
He deserves better.
[Jerry] Look at Kurt, you're going to WrestleMania.
-[Ross] That's bigger than Disney World. -It's like-- it's like the Olympics.
Unbelievable.
I beat Triple H just like I said-- like I said I would, I did it.
I am the man. Hey, you, is my car ready to go?
Yes, sir. It's all fired up, ready to go.
All right. Listen,
if anyone asks where I'm going, you tell them I'm going to WrestleMania.
-Whoo! -[Jerry chuckles]
I'll see you later.
Yeah! Angle!
USA gold, baby.
[Ross] Maybe he's driving to Toronto.
[Jerry] He's not even gonna take time to shower or anything.
[Ross] Sick.
It's just a little bit of pain.
[Hogan] Hey, it's The Rock, come on, guys.
[Razor] Hey, wow. It's The People's Champ.
[Diesel] The Brahma Bull.
Hey, this is my son's favorite wrestler.
-Really? -Hey, how about a shot? Come on.
Okay. I'll take it. I'll take it.
-Picture with The Rock? -Yes, sir.
-For your son? -Yeah.
-No problem. -You're his man.
Okay. You guys get in there. Ready.
All right. That's a good one.
So much for the People's Taste.
[laughs]
What did you just say?
Oh, no, no, no, no.
It doesn't matter what you just said. See, you shouldn't have said that.
Rock was being a man, no problem. Picture for your son, no problem.
Rock will tell you what you could do with that camera.
You, chico, Razor Ramon.
You take that camera and shove it up your ass.
And then what you do, you give it to your big buddy,
Big Daddy Cool Diesel.
[The Rock imitating a whistling train]
you turn it sideways, and then you give it to him,
give it to Hogan.
Hogan, you take that camera, it's already shined up,
turned sideways, eat your vitamins, say your prayers
and stick it straight up all your candy asses.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] I can't believe those guys, the nerve of the nWo.
And will this be the last time we see that egomaniac
carrying both sets of championship belts?
It could be, King.
One of these two men will go to No Way Out
and meet the undisputed champion.
Stunner.
-The Stunner. -[Jerry] Oh!
[Ross] Austin hit the Stunner, the hook of the leg.
-[Jerry] No! -[Ross] Three!
And Stone Cold has earned the opportunity
to go to No Way Out
and meet the undisputed WWE Champion.
[Jericho] I am the undisputed champion.
To hell with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
I'm the man who beat you
to become the undisputed champion,
and I am not afraid of you
because I know that at No Way Out,
I am gonna beat the hell out of you, Austin.
[Stone Cold] My name is "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
and I am a drug addict.
It just happens to be that my drug of choice
is the World Wrestling Entertainment Championship.
And I need, I've got to have that championship.
I will do anything to Chris Jericho to get those belts.
Chris Jericho, you got No Way Out.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Jericho and the Rattlesnake
at No Way Out for all the gold,
one match for the undisputed championship.
[rock music playing]
["Hell Frozen Over" playing]
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] And there's The Texas Rattlesnake
with one thing on his mind
and that's to become a record-setting
seven-time WWE Champion.
The opportunity to go to the main event at WrestleMania is here
and now for the toughest SOB in the WWE.
[bell rings]
[Howard] The following contest, scheduled for one fall
is for the Undisputed World Wrestling Entertainment Championship.
In the ring, the challenger, from Victoria, Texas,
weighing 252 pounds,
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
[Jerry] What a night this has been here tonight at No Way Out, J.R.
Wow. We have seen it all,
but now it's gonna be capped off by this match.
The winner of this match is gonna get the right
to go to WrestleMania and face Kurt Angle.
It's gonna be an Olympic year, J.R.
[Ross] Undisputed title on the line
and the WWE title mean everything,
everything professionally to "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
It's the goal that drove him from a hospital bed to resume his career.
His chance to regain it is now.
["Break the Walls Down" playing]
♪ You know I got ya, yeah ♪
♪ One, break the wall down ♪
♪ Break down the walls ♪
[Howard] From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada,
weighing 229 pounds,
the undisputed World Wrestling Entertainment Champion,
Chris Jericho.
[Ross] Jericho won the undisputed title December 9th
in San Diego, California at Vengeance.
He became the 64th WWE Champion
but only the first ever Undisputed Champion
here in the World Wrestling Entertainment.
[Jerry] The only man that I never know
that beat Austin and The Rock in the same night, J.R.
Wow.
[Ross] That was an awesome accomplishment, no matter the way it was done.
[Jerry] Don't let those peons touch that gold.
[Ross] Jericho certainly a cocky, arrogant,
somewhat conceited ego-holic.
[Jerry] But rightfully so.
[Ross] He hates the handle that he is a transitional champion.
[Jerry] Well, he hasn't been. Where did you get that handle?
[Ross] He's talked about it himself.
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin certainly got in Chris Jericho's head
last Thursday night on SmackDown,
almost stalking Jericho into a nervous breakdown.
[Jerry] Well, he got in a lot of people's head
when Stone Cold came out and admitted that he was a drug addict. [scoffs]
[Ross] And his drug of choice, the WWE title,
and Austin pacing, nervously pacing
and not taking his eyes off the Championship gold.
[Jerry] Look at him. He's got to have--
Austin's got to have those titles, like you gotta have a fix.
[Ross] Austin has risked his own personal health
-and his quality of life… -[bell rings]
[Ross] …to return to the WWE.
He was motivated by one thing and that's the WWE title.
And now Austin, locking eyes with Chris Jericho.
[Jerry] Don't let him psych you out, Chris.
He's a master at this.
That's why they call him The Rattlesnake.
[Ross] Austin, he firmly plants himself into Jericho's head,
that's not gonna bode well for--
[Jerry] Oh, wow, there you go.
That's something the Rattlesnake's famous for, uh-oh.
[Ross] And now they both got one.
[Jerry] Hey, they're on even ground.
That's the way you wanna start a match like this.
[Ross] Collar-and-elbow tie up,
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin being forced back in the corner
by the Undisputed Champion Chris Jericho.
Senior referee Earl Hebner assigned to this contest.
The winner of this match will presumably go to WrestleMania
as the WWE Champion and certainly will meet Kurt Angle,
who has earned the right as the number one contender
by defeating The Game here earlier tonight.
You got to feel badly for Triple H but that's--
we'll talk about that at another time.
[Jerry] That's the way it is. What a huge victory for Kurt Angle.
Look at this. Wow.
[Ross] Jericho got the right hand now on "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
And Austin smiling, he's got a little
-[Jerry] What's he got to smile at? -[Ross] I'll tell you what,
that look is much more complex
than a smile, let me tell you.
And Jericho, hammering away.
[Jerry] I know exactly what this is all about.
Oh, right here at this beginning of this match,
it's one-upmanship,
each one of them trying to get inside the other one's head,
each one trying to get upper hand.
[Ross] Jericho tossed outside, quickly gets back in the ring.
Jericho have an advantage here I think, his feet and quickness on Austin.
Austin, a real ring general catching Jericho off the ropes,
hammering with that elbow.
-[Jerry] Oh! -[Ross] Oh.
Ric Flair-like knife-edge chops
by Stone Cold on Y2J.
Jericho, knocked down to his knees, and Austin is relentless here.
[Jerry] That's enough.
[Ross] He's not gonna beat him with that
but Austin's still gonna beat up the Champion.
[Jerry] Oh, that hurts. He could've chopped his head off.
Look out.
[Ross] And now Jericho's head rammed into the top turnbuckle.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Austin in-- very aggressive.
[Jerry] Look at these people.
[Ross] Rather barbaric style of Austin.
[Jerry] He just likes to hear these people say what.
[crowd chanting] What! What!
-[Jerry] No, no. -[Ross] Jericho getting up.
Up close and personal, all three turnbuckles.
[Jerry] Jericho is working his way to the bottom.
-Oh, don't stay there. -[Ross] Only nine--
only nine more turnbuckles to go and a knockdown by Austin.
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin started playing the mind games
with Chris Jericho on SmackDown last Thursday night.
[Jerry] Yeah, that was embarrassing
when he slapped that beer out of Jericho's hand
and told him he could get him just like that anytime he wanted.
Well, he's got him now, let's see what's he's gonna do with him.
[Ross] A suplex by Austin taking down Jericho.
Jericho, the undisputed champion has been the man.
He is the man.
And until somebody proves they can beat Jericho,
Jericho is gonna remain the man.
But look at Austin, he goes from one corner to the next.
[Jerry] He's almost chopped the blood out of Jericho's chest.
Oh man.
[Ross] Jericho's chest becoming a bright red.
[Jerry] Yeah.
[Ross] And Jericho going for the neck of the Rattlesnake
with that swinging neckbreaker, taking down Austin.
I think if someone told Austin
that he would never be the WWE Champion again,
he would get in his pickup truck and drive back to Texas
and we'd never see him again.
[Jerry] Right, because he'd have DTs and have withdrawals
just like any drug addict that couldn't get their fix.
He's got to have that championship. He's addicted to it.
[Ross] Arguably, the greatest WWE Champion of all time.
And Chris Jericho trying to establish his legacy now,
and then a knockdown of the challenger.
Who's going to WrestleMania?
Who's gonna be the man at WrestleMania in the main event?
[Jerry] Kurt Angle?
-[Ross] That's half of it. -[Jerry] That's for sure.
Oh, wow.
[Ross] Austin buried the right hand deep in the abdomen of Jericho.
-Jericho, taking a chance here-- -[Jerry] It's appropriate--
it's just so appropriate that it's Olympic year.
[Ross] Whoa!
[Jerry] Kurt Angle, Olympic gold medalist,
Olympic Champion, he should be at WrestleMania.
[Ross] And certainly Jericho is gonna pause to that as well as a Canadian.
And if he loses tonight, he's had a-- had a great run,
and he has begun to establish a great legacy here in the WWE.
But then again if Austin wins, he will--
and I like Austin's track record at WrestleMania.
-Hey! -[Jerry] Oh, you just like--
Get back in the ring!
[Ross] Austin is beating the hell out of Jericho.
[Jerry] How many of these chops?
[Ross] He has gotten Jericho so off his game.
[Jerry] Does he have to pay Ric Flair, like, royalties for that?
[Ross] I would doubt it, but maybe he should.
-Come on, Austin, let him off. -[Ross] Austin using these football blocks
or shoulder blocks.
Come on, hey.
[Ross] Driving that shoulder,
again into the abdomen of the undisputed champion,
and Jericho has been chopped in every corner of the ring thus far.
Now Jericho quickly sidestepped Austin,
who may have knocked his left shoulder down
or separated it as it struck the ring post.
Austin's own momentum came back to bite him that time,
and now Jericho-- let's see if Jericho can capitalize.
[Jerry] Oh, wait a minute. Listen to these.
There you go.
[Ross] Jericho with some hard shots of his own.
[Jerry] Watch this move right here,
the first mistake by Austin.
Oh. It could be serious damage.
Like you said, separate the shoulder, tear the rotator cuff.
[Ross] Austin trying to walk it off here.
[Jerry] Oh, you don't walk off a shoulder injury.
[Ross] And if Jericho is smart, he's not gonna let Austin
have any time to recuperate.
Oh! And Jericho walked right into another chop.
-[Jerry] Watch it. -[Ross] Austin measures Jericho
with a right hand and the referee, right out there amongst them, so--
[Jerry] Senior Ref Earl Hebner, get them back in the ring.
[Ross] Don't worry about these guys getting counted out
as long as the referee is outside the ring.
[Jerry] Hey, that's one of our-- of our 18-wheelers.
-There's a tractor trailer there. -Knock it off, get in the ring!
[Ross] And there's no way out of that one. Y2J…
[Jerry] Don't start calling the match and let's see them go, J.R.
-You see that? -[Jerry] Oh, look at that now.
[Ross] I think that Austin is bringing what we use,
number three or number one.
Come on! Get off!
[Ross] Jericho-- Austin is leading Jericho in the ring.
This is not a no disqualification match.
[Jerry] What are they doing on our big projector?
That thing costs about 30 grand, Austin.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] And Jericho right into that security railing there,
not 30 grand worth.
And Austin talking some trash to Jericho as they're coming back to the ring.
I think he just told Jericho, "I can beat you just like that."
But Jericho…
Jericho is not gonna take no for an answer,
but yes for an answer if it doesn't work.
[Jerry] Right. Man.
[Ross] The hard chops.
And Jericho tossing Austin back in the ring.
Y2J climbing the ladder now.
He's gonna take a chance here.
-And that's what he-- oh. -[Jerry] No.
[Ross] And Austin, out the corner of his eye
saw Jericho in a very precarious position.
-[Jerry] Bad chance. -[Ross] Yeah.
[Jerry] Man, he is lighting Jericho up.
[Ross] Now, Austin right back in Jericho's face,
front facelocking on the undisputed champion.
With a superplex off the top.
[Jerry] That could be it.
-[Ross] No. -[Jerry] Jericho is up.
[Ross] Jericho is very resilient. He's a tough guy, I tell you.
[Jerry] Tough guy, he's the undisputed champion, J.R.
[Ross] I know, but, I mean he's extremely--
-[Jerry] First ever. -[Ross] I know that.
-[Jerry] Only one in history. -[Ross] Okay.
[Jerry] Like the head honcho.
-[Ross] Main man. -[Jerry] Big cheese.
[Ross] Big kahuna.
And Austin, another superplex off the top.
That's taken its toll on the challenger as well,
you can tell Jericho, sort of the worse for wear here.
Whoa.
Jericho being put on that top turnbuckle for the third time.
-Knock it off, no. -[Jerry] Not another chop, please.
[Earl] Get off. Come on. Get off.
[Ross] Jericho has had two suplexes off that top turnbuckle.
[Jerry] About to get another one.
-There it is. -[Ross] And Austin again,
the third suplex off the top turnbuckle,
his third superplex.
And Jericho got to be-- tryna figure a way out of this.
It could be over here.
Austin, hooking that leg again, got a near fall,
and there's a great look at it there,
referee looking at both shoulders of Jericho.
[Jerry] The referee counted pretty fast too if you ask me.
[Ross] Got another near fall there.
[Jerry] Oh man.
Have I ever told you how I hate those chops, J.R.?
[Ross] Yeah. I don't blame you.
[Jerry] I don't know how Jericho has stood this many of them.
-[Ross] Turnbuckle. -[Jerry] I would've tapped out.
[Ross] And Austin worrying about his game plan but effective.
-[Jerry] Oh man. -[Ross] The chops, the turnbuckles,
the clothesline, not a lot of risk as far Austin--
[Jerry] Look at Jericho, asking for help now.
[Ross] Oh, Jericho, he cleverly positioned the referee to get that low blow in.
[Jerry] Have you ever seen so many referees out of position?
First Tim White, now Earl Hebner.
[Ross] What about the Little Princess?
[Jerry] She was right where she needed to be.
[Ross] The referee just got manipulated.
It's easy.
[Jerry] Steve Austin pushed him out of the way. Because--
[Ross] Jericho, a pretty shrewd move there,
got that low blow in.
That took Austin's mind certainly off being offensive.
The offensive low blow, the elbow to the spine
and now Jericho is hammering down on "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
Austin not even able to get his hands in front of his face there
as Jericho teeing off with those right hands.
And now, Jericho using the ropes, milking that count of the referee.
-I'm still the Champ. -[Ross] I think Jericho doesn't give
a damn about getting disqualified.
[Jerry] All he wants to do is…
-[Ross] Retain the title. -[Jerry] …be in WrestleMania.
[Ross] I can't blame Jericho for having that goal.
That's everybody's goal.
It add to your character to be a part of WrestleMania.
-[Jerry] Oh man. -[Ross] And Jericho now,
he is teeing off on Austin.
[Jerry] Do you know how much punishment
and abuse these guys have dished out and taken tonight?
[Ross] And their chests are just getting blood red.
And Jericho-- oh, Jericho, I thought Jericho lost--
-[Jerry] Oh, here we go. -[Ross] Lost control of the Irish whip.
[Jerry] No, he's got control.
-He's got to turn it into-- -[Ross] But he's got to control here
this Walls of Jericho.
Jericho trying to turn Austin over into the submission,
Austin fighting, has turned his back,
used his leg strength to free himself.
[Jerry] He flipped Jericho right out of that.
[Ross] It's obvious what Jericho wanted to do.
-[Jerry] Damn. -[Ross] Jericho again,
laying the leather hand to the "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's chest,
and the challenger for the undisputed title
being hammered here.
What the hell are you doing? Let him up, break free.
[Jerry] I'll tell you what, I'm impressed with the fact
that Jericho is basically-- he's brawled toe to toe,
he's matched every brawling maneuver that the Rattlesnake has come up with.
But you wouldn't have expected that out of Jericho, would you?
[Ross] No, I sure wouldn't.
[Jerry] But he's done it here tonight. That shows you why he is-- oh.
He can do it all, that's why he's the undisputed champion.
[Ross] And that could be a fatal mistake
to play Austin's game, if you use you lose and Austin is fighting back now.
The Rattlesnake--
Oh, wow, buckshotting the Y2J.
Austin has threw the point of the elbow in the solar plexus, hook to the leg,
and less than one count away from the new WWE Undisputed Champion.
[Jerry] Well, I think Jericho's foot was on the rope too or under the rope.
Watch it!
[Ross] Jericho sidestepping Austin again.
Austin going to the outside.
Jericho sidestepped the Rattlesnake earlier
when Austin's left shoulder struck the ring post.
And now Jericho…
certainly got something on his mind here.
-[Jerry] Yeah. -[Ross] Well, he's got evil intentions.
[Jerry] Inflicting more damage to Austin.
[crowd chattering]
[Ross] Austin, gone into the security wall.
And again, the referee-- the referee is trying to get these two men
fighting for the-- for the greatest prize
in all of sports entertainment back in the ring.
And now Jericho with that chair,
and Jericho could care less about getting disqualified,
at least he got unarmed momentarily by the referee.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] That was some good officiating.
[Jerry] Uh-oh, look out here.
Oh.
[Ross] Austin, I think was gonna try to bring Jericho into the table.
I don't think he can make his mind up, the table or the stairs,
-and Jericho able to counter. -[Jerry] I think we should move.
-Knock it off, Jericho. -[Ross] And now Jericho
bouncing off his head on the table.
Ah, this damn thing is…
-Come on. -[Ross] Austin is trying to block it.
Referee admonishing Jericho to get back in the--
back in the ring, and I think that's a great idea.
[Jerry] Yeah. I agree for once.
[Ross] Austin thrown back in the ring.
-[crowd chattering] -[man] Come on, Austin. Come on.
[Ross] Jericho now, the undisputed champion,
widening the offensive advantage here,
widening the margin on "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
in perhaps the most important match in Stone Cold's career.
[Jerry] Look at this. Moonsault.
[Ross] Jericho missing the Lionsault.
Austin with the opportunity now
to get back in the driver seat offensively,
to get back in the main event at WrestleMania,
to become once again the number one man in this business.
[Jerry] Sleeper.
[Ross] Jericho using that sleeper,
much as Kurt Angle utilized it earlier on The Game.
[Jerry] He doesn't have the same execution.
[Ross] He certainly does not.
[Jerry] You got to get behind him, Jericho.
[Ross] That is a not good execution of the sleeper by Jericho.
It may be more of a choke than a sleeper.
[Jerry] Well, as long as the referee doesn't call it, that's effective as well.
[Ross] And as long as the referee doesn't check it out, it may be a choke.
I don't know.
Austin back up trying to--
trying to get establish-- reestablish that vertical base, but to no avail.
We are in Milwaukee, Wisconsin tonight live.
Thank you for being with us wherever you may be around the world.
[Jerry] What a night this has been.
We've seen it all.
Well we haven't seen it all yet.
We are gonna see it all when we find out who is gonna be
the undisputed champion to face Kurt Angle at WrestleMania.
[Ross] APA going to WrestleMania to meet the tag champions.
But a heartbreaking loss for The Game
that has taken him out of the WrestleMania main event earlier tonight.
[Jerry] You still can't believe that really happened.
Well, it really happened, J.R., it really happened.
[Ross] I tell you what, referee is checking Austin's arm.
I'm not-- I'm not so sure if this has not been a well-disguised chokehold.
Austin fighting back up.
[Jerry] You're so paranoid.
[Ross] Austin fighting back with those right hands,
that brawling style that brought Austin to the dance.
-[Jerry] Oh! -[Ross] That's what he's got to use,
and Jericho made a mistake there.
[crowd cheering]
-[Jerry] Wait a minute. -[Ross] And now Austin
trying to turn Jericho seemingly over…
-[Jerry] That's not right. -[Ross] …into the Walls of Jericho.
[Jerry] We don't see Jericho trying to do the Stunner.
[Ross] Austin, both legs hooked.
[Jerry] Nobody can do Walls of Jericho-- what's this. Oh.
[Ross] And Austin catapulting Jericho face-first to the top turnbuckle.
-[Jerry] Look at this. -[Ross] Jericho, agile,
landing on his feet, Austin looking for the Stunner.
Connects with a clothesline instead, and another one.
And Austin now beginning to build seemingly a little momentum here.
-[Jerry] No. -[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Whiplash spinebuster there by Austin.
[Jerry] Whiplash is right.
[Ross] Again, you can look at this match a lot of ways,
but I don't think Austin has ever had a more important match
that gets him the title and the shot at WrestleMania all in one shot here.
[Jerry] Well, this is the biggest match one of these guys ever had.
[Ross] A powerslam.
He caught Jericho in midair, and there's a three.
Oh.
[Jerry] It wasn't a three.
[Ross] Well, it looked like a three.
Maybe I just wanted it to be a three.
[Jerry] Yeah. Now, you're talking.
[Ross] Jericho reverses the Irish whip,
followed by a bulldog taking down the challenger.
A very physical match. Now, Jericho…
-[Jerry] Oh, he hit it. -[Ross] …he got the Lionsault.
I don't know if he got as much of it as he wanted,
Austin was so far away.
[Jerry] It still did some damage to the Rattlesnake, I can assure you.
And again.
[Ross] Here's Jericho looking at it again.
-[Jerry] Got him twice. -[Ross] The second time, two Lionsaults,
and Jericho hooking the far leg,
-and got another near fall. -Two. Two.
-[Ross] Austin… -[Jerry] Man.
[Ross] …barely able to kick-out.
You can tell Austin's tank is getting near that "E" mark.
[Jerry] Jericho has hung with Austin.
That takes a little extra out of Austin.
You know, Austin told Jericho, "I could take it just like that
anytime I want." Well, he's obviously trying to take it.
He obviously wanted him here tonight, but he hasn't been able to take it.
[Ross] Hard shots again by Jericho sending Austin for--
oh, Jericho tried to follow the Rattlesnake in,
Austin avoided the contact and Jericho hit the ring post.
Will this be the opening?
-Oh, wait a minute. -[Jerry] Hey!
[Ross] Austin looking for the Lou Thesz press,
got countered.
And now can Jericho, for the second time…
[crowd cheering]
-[Jerry] He may have him. -[Ross] Can he do it?
[Jerry] He's got the Rattlesnake-- this is it, J.R.
[Ross] Jericho's got the Walls of Jericho.
[Jerry] Jericho and Angle at WrestleMania.
[Ross] The champion…
[Jerry] You got to tap out, Stone Cold, tap out.
[Ross] …looking to make Austin tap out.
[Jerry] There's no shame in tapping out to Walls of Jericho.
-What's he doing? -[Ross] Austin trying to relieve
some of the pressure, trying to crawl.
[Jerry] How's he doing-- look at these fans,
they're begging him.
[Ross] Austin trying to get to that bottom rope,
but Jericho has got the Walls locked in.
Austin expending a lot of energy,
maybe everything he's got left just to try,
to try to get to the bottom rope,
-and he did. -[Jerry] Oh, he did it.
[Ross] And the referee now calling for the break, gets the break.
And again the question, how much damage has been done by the Walls of Jericho?
-[Jerry] Oh, no, I-- -[Ross] And maybe--
Dude, stop.
-[Jerry] He's frustrated-- whoa! -[Ross] What the hell is that about?
[Jerry] I don't know. He threw Mark Yeaton with one hand.
[Ross] Our timekeeper getting man-handled with no reason.
And Jericho's got the title belt.
He also just-- oh, the referee got…
[Jerry] The referee got hit right on the ribs.
[Ross] Yeah, he sure did, right in the sternum I think.
And Austin-- Jericho trying to get outside,
Austin bringing Jericho back inside.
And Austin, he just now, he got a hard right hand in there
that caused Jericho to drop the title belt.
-And Austin-- -[Jerry] No!
-Oh man. -[Ross] Oh, a whiplash spinebuster
right on the title belt, Austin got the leg hooked.
We have a new champion here unless Jericho--
Right shoulder inches off the canvas.
[Jerry] Earl, did you not see that belt that Austin threw Y2J on?
[Ross] I don't think he could, King, Jericho was on the top of it.
Austin with-- oh, the breakdown by Jericho.
He countered the Stunner, the breakdown into the title belt.
Is this how Jericho is gonna win it?
-[Jerry] Look at this. -[Ross] No, it's not.
Austin able to kick out.
[Jerry] How did he kick out from that after bouncing his head
off that metal championship?
[Ross] The desire-- the desire to become the WWE Champion,
the most overwhelming desire that an athlete can experience.
Austin again, back into the--
[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Ross] My God, this has been a bad night for the zebras.
[Jerry] Bad night to be a referee.
-[Ross] And Austin now. -[Jerry] Austin, again, he's going for it.
[Ross] Austin's got the Walls of Jericho.
He's got the Walls of Jericho on the champion.
[Jerry] He got him.
[Ross] Is Jericho gonna tap?
-[Jerry] No. -[Ross] Jericho is tapping out.
Jericho is tapping out here.
-[Jerry] No, I don't know. -[Ross] Look up, ref, come on.
I'm begging you.
Referee knocked to the outside.
[Jerry] There's no referee.
[crowd cheering]
[Ross] Jericho staggers up and has retrieved that title belt.
-[Jerry] Look at this! -[Ross] Stunner! Stone Cold Stunner!
Austin got the Stunner!
-[Jerry] But, hey-- -[Ross] Austin got the Stunner!
[Jerry] Hey, look.
[Ross] What the hell. Wait a minute.
The gang of nWo.
Austin hit the Stunner.
The referee is down.
[Jerry] Look at this.
[Ross] What the hell is--
Oh, we wanna help the WWE.
Austin's fighting all three, the nWo, but three men,
-Hall and Nash… -[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Ross] …and Hogan taking down the Rattlesnake.
The three bastards knew that Austin had the match won.
They hit like a pack of dogs.
Austin fought them off as long as he could.
They struck like wild dogs, King.
Austin had the WWE title won.
[Jerry] Oh, no.
-[bell rings] -[Ross] Damn it.
["Break the Walls Down" playing]
[Howard] The winner of this bout
and still Undisputed World Wrestling Entertainment Champion,
Chris Jericho.
[Ross] But Jericho could give a damn
because he's still the undisputed champion.
He doesn't care how he retain the titles.
But "Stone Cold" Steve Austin had the match won.
[Jerry] Hey, wait a minute, nWo is not through.
[Ross] And these three-- these three wild dogs now
are having their way with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
They just robbed him of his dream of becoming the WWE Champion.
-Now look at Austin. -[Jerry] Look out.
[Ross] Austin is still fighting for everything he's got.
But these three men are too much for any one man to overcome.
[Jerry] Well, you got that right. I got to agree with that.
Man.
[Ross] I can't believe that.
This is-- this is sickening.
These three human beings have robbed Austin of his dream.
[Jerry] Uh-oh, don't tell me.
[Ross] What the hell is this?
[Jerry] What do you mean what is it?
It's the signature of the nWo.
[Ross] Austin has had two Stunners,
he's had three huge men beaten him down,
he's just been in a match with the undisputed-- Oh my God.
You got to be kidding me.
[crowd booing]
[Ross] The nWo just branded the Texas Rattlesnake.
["Rockhouse" playing]
[Jerry] Wow.
[Ross] First off, they robbed him of his dream,
and now humiliated by these three disingenuous pieces of--
[Jerry] Uh-uh, uh-uh.
I don't agree with what they've done here J.R.
but they've sent a message loud and clear, especially to "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
[Ross] The poison of the nWo is running through the veins
of the Texas Rattlesnake.
-[Jerry] What a night this has been. -[Ross] My God, I can't believe this.
The nWo just screwed Austin. s been. -[Ross] My God, I can't believe this.