[announcer] The World Wrestling Federation, for over 50 years,
the revolutionary force in sports entertainment.
[music]
[Vince McMahon] Tonight, one man hopes to implement
the final fate of his Royal Plan.
King Mabel will be the next World Wrestling Federation champion.
[laughs]
[Vince] The reigning WWE champion, running on high octane,
is determined to set that plan aflame.
I'm gonna come at you with a blow torch,
and your kingdom, soon Armageddon.
[Vince] Tonight, one man still suffering the shame of a most humiliating defeat,
hopes his demented dentist can extract revenge.
[Jerry] SummerSlam, Hitman, your career is terminal. [laughs]
[Vince] But this so-called patient
claims to be a master at the art of dentistry as well.
I know you like you pull out teeth,
but I like to knock them out the old-fashioned way with this.
[Vince] Tonight, one man has foolishly entered
a cryptic world of shadows and darkness.
Undertaker, I've taken your urn.
[Vince] After the casket match,
will he ever revel in the land of the living again?
I will put you in a casket and steal your soul.
[Vince] And tonight, as the Intercontinental belt dangles
high above the ring,
one man hopes to climb the ladder and recapture gold.
Everybody knows what happened last time.
[Vince] One man has designs on reaching the highest echelon of excellence.
Heartbreak Kid is gonna climb that ladder and stake his claim
as the greatest athlete in WWE history.
[Vince] Tonight, these WWE superstars must all face the heat
as super size Stridex Pads present WWE SummerSlam.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Welcome everyone to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!
[crowd cheering]
Welcome everyone to the largest crowd
in the history of the Pittsburgh Civic Arena.
Some 18,062 fans have jam-packed the arena,
officially known as the Igloo.
But the only thing cold about the Igloo here tonight
is the presence of the World Wrestling Federation champion
Big Daddy Cool Diesel.
Hi, everyone, welcome to SummerSlam.
Vince McMahon here along with Jerry "the King" Lawler.
That's right. It's been a long, hot summer
and it's going to be a long, hot SummerSlam for Diesel.
That's right. Even Big Daddy Cool is gonna face the heat tonight.
You know, McMahon, it takes a King to know a king
and tonight at SummerSlam, a king will become
the new World Wrestling Federation champion,
King Mabel! [laughs]
Before we begin our first match, ladies and gentlemen,
standing by is Dean Douglas who will be critiquing tonight's matches.
Dean Douglas in his, uh, satellite classroom, if you will,
is gonna be critiquing. Dean, go ahead, take it away.
-[nails scratching] -[Dean laughing]
Definition.
Dean is an administrator in charge of counseling
and disciplining his students.
Tonight, for those of you, McMahon, who are intellectually impaired,
I'm gonna be conducting summer school
here in the Pittsburgh Civic Arena on SummerSlam. [laughs]
[crowd] One, two, three!
-[crowd cheering] -[entrance music playing]
-[bell ringing] -[Vince] And here we go!
Here comes the 1-2-3 Kid.
[crowd cheering]
[announcer] From Minnesota, Minneapolis, the 1-2-3 Kid.
[Vince] The 1-2-3 Kid.
And take a look, if you would,
some 18,062 fans have said in the opening, "Yes, indeed."
They have jam packed the Civic Arena.
This is the largest crowd ever in the Pittsburgh Civic Arena!
That includes families clapping for the Kid
who are ready for WWE action.
[Jerry] They knew the King was in the house, that's why, McMahon,
not only King Lawler but King Mabel.
-[Vince] Two Kings in the same house. -[Jerry] Almost too much.
Who knows what's gonna happen here, ladies and gentlemen,
live SummerSlam here in Pittsburgh.
And on his way to the squared circle right now,
here is the White Angel as he is known.
Here is, ladies and gentlemen, Hakushi.
[Jerry] Oh, yeah.
[Vince] Hakushi had some problems earlier this weekend.
As a matter of fact, on his way to the SummerSlam,
Hakushi actually lost a match as a result of s Skip.
Watch Skip here on the outside,
who's scheduled to wrestle here later tonight and Skip… There!
Brandon Horowitz, Barry Horowitz won another match,
unbelievable.
Horowitz wins, Horowitz wins.
We'll be hearing that later on tonight.
Who knows what's gonna happen?
There's the man who suffered the loss at the hands of Barry Horowitz,
thanks to Skip and Sunny.
[Jerry] And I can assure you, that was the most humiliating defeat
of his entire career,
to lose a match to the likes of Barry Horriblewitz.
He's not gonna be in a good mood.
[Vince] Well, maybe not.
Nonetheless, Hakushi, ladies and gentlemen, without, I might add,
the benefit of his follower, Shinja.
Hakushi sort of adapting to the American ways.
Matter of fact, King, rumor had it,
he was stopped over at the Burger King n the way here.
[Jerry] Hey, don't you start that, McMahon.
All these morons here in Pittsburgh.
-[entrance music playing] -[crowd booing]
[Vince] "The White Angel" Hakushi,
known as the modern day kamikaze. He is greeted a round of boos
here by this capacity crowd.
However, make no mistake about this man's athletic prowess,
an extraordinary competitor, much like the 1-2-3 Kid.
Both individuals are big time risk takers.
[Jerry] That's right. And it's caught up to the 1-2-3 Kid
more times than not.
You got to admit, he's been out of action a lot of times
and tonight he could be put out of action permanently.
[bell dings]
[Vince] Yes, indeed. Who knows what's gonna happen?
And I would suggest that
probably the odds-on favorite to win this encounter would be
the gentleman from Japan, Hakushi.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Take a look at him, McMahon, I can assure right now…
[Vince] With all the tattoos all over the torso,
you wanna to let us in on what that… What is the meaning of those tattoos.
[Jerry] Well, I've learned through my sources
that there's a different sort message for each match.
Those tattoos signify or involve something concerning the 1-2-3 Kid.
Only Hakushi knows for sure what it means.
[Vince] I see. That's a brilliant deduction.
-You didn't tell us anything. -Well… I didn't?
[Vince] No, I don't think so.
And in the event, ladies and gentlemen, yes, it's SummerSlam,
we're ready for action, the 1-2-3 Kid against Hakushi,
lock up in the middle of the ring.
The 1-2-3 Kid with all kind of martial arts skills
and you might add that Hakushi with equal the martial arts skills of the 1-2-3 Kid,
lightning-like quick resources.
-[Jerr] Far surpass him. -[Vince] Really?
[Jerry] I would think that… I would think the 1-2-3 Kid
might even be embarrassed in trying martial art.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] I don't think the 1-2-3 Kid will be embarrassed about anything.
-[Jerry] What about that hair? -Look at that maneuver!
And the kids winds up a modern day kamikaze, Hakushi.
Nice take down by the Kid, he's up and ready for action.
[Jerry] Okay. That was pretty impressive.
[Vince] Very impressive.
[Jerry] I just like to needle the Kid because he looks like one.
-[Vince] Looks like one what? -A needle.
-[Jerry laughs] -[Vince] Oh, you're a riot.
What sort of King-ly advice did you give Mabel?
[Jerry] Oh, well… Oh, just stay tuned for that.
Royal surprises are gonna be popping up all night.
[Vince] We're gonna be looking forward to all the royal surprises here tonight,
live at SummerSlam.
Hakushi now, whipped to the far side, the Kid down to the canvas.
Off the rope over the Kid. Hakushi now from the far side. Whoa.
Underneath that right back flip.
And a kick-out by Hakushi.
-[Jerry] Whoa! -And both men are ready for action.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] 1-2-3 Kid and Hakushi,
tremendous competition.
The 1-2-3 Kid has had quite a bit of success by the way,
not only in a single competition but also in tag team competition.
[crowd chanting] Hakushi!
[Vince] Listen to the fans.
1-2-3 Kid, a two-time co-holder of the WWE tag team championship.
[Jerry] Listen to these people at Pittsburgh, they're going,
"One, two, what comes after two?"
[Vince] All right. Wise guy. Off the rope.
Down goes Hakushi, nice exchange.
The Kid over Hakushi.
Collision, no, big block by Hakushi. Off the rope and… Wow.
Both men going for the crescent kick, both men missing.
Both men are ready to rock and roll here.
Highly competitive matchup, the 1-2-3 Kid and Hakushi.
[Jerry] You know who they most want to impress?
-Uh… -[Jerry] Dean Douglas.
[Vince] Really? Well, no question about that.
I guess it's pretty tough to impress Dean Douglas.
[Jerry] Well, nobody wants to be degraded by the King or by the Dean.
-There you go. Look. -[Vince] A chop there.
Hakushi attempting to assert himself. And again.
Hakushi with his very first… and another chop there.
Hakushi's very first SummerSlam.
Let me try that again.
SummerSlam appearance.
Oh, my goodness.
And… Oh.
Oh, my goodness, look at that.
-[crowd cheering] -What a maneuver by the champ!
What a counter.
Underneath, the Kid off the ropes and the Kid…
-[Jerry] Look at this. -[Vince] Oh!
Down again.
[Jerry] Both of these guys are gonna pull out all the stops.
Both of these guys… See, that's the whole thing about this martial arts thing.
Hakushi knows he's the master at it.
1-2-3 Kid, he's gonna try to impress Hakushi.
It's not gonna work.
He's gonna be beat his own game.
[Vince] That remains to be seen.
Both individuals, very, very competitive,
and as you've seen many times before, Jerry,
you can never count the 1-2-3 Kid out, never count him out.
[Jerry] If had that stripe shirt,
I bet at the end of this match, I could count him out.
[Vince] And to the buckle, and to the Kid with authority.
-[Jerry] Look at this! -And look out, here comes Hakushi.
[crowd cheering]
That's some of the athleticism we made reference to a little bit earlier on.
And Hakushi getting a cheer from some of the fans on ringside.
[Jerry] And well deserved.
[Vince] Well, mostly boos now coming from the upper section.
[crowd booing]
[Jerry] That's those people you let in free.
-[Vince] Beg your pardon? -I see them up there.
[Vince] The ones with the King T-shirts? The Burger King guys.
[Jerry] Hey, look at him, hey.
[ref] One, two, three…
[Vince] Hakushi risking disqualification
and again this capacity crowd doing what they can
to get the Kid revved back up.
And look at Hakushi! Right across the chest.
Wow.
Right in the sternum area.
[Jerry] Cat-like move by Hakushi, watch this.
[Vince] I'll grant you that.
[crowd cheering, booing]
[Vince] Posing for a bit of effect here, Hakushi, sensing he has things
pretty much well in control, I would suggest he does.
But again you never can count the Kid out, no matter what.
[Jerry] Hakushi cannot really understand the rude reception that he's received
here in the United States. A man of his talent, a man of his ability.
[Vince] Yeah.
[Jerry] Well, he should be treated with more respect.
[Vince] Hakushi went to work now on the left leg.
[Jerry] And that is a good idea, very good idea by Hakushi.
That's what the Kid depends on.
All of those high-flying aerial maneuvers,
he's gotta get up there with those legs of his.
Take those legs out and he's history. There you go. There you go.
[Vince] Back into the hamstring again.
Hakushi, bit by bit, is pretty much dissecting the 1-2-3 Kid.
I'm impressed with the skills of Hakushi.
Hakushi with no momentum at all, coming in to this matchup.
Oh, my goodness, to the head,
with a loss to Barry Horowitz just this weekend.
[Jerry] That's not momentum, but that's incentive.
-Ooh. -And again to the back of the head.
[crowd cheering]
I would suggest the official likely to call this one.
Much more of that and the official is gonna stop it.
The 1-2-3 Kid is not exactly defenseless, nonetheless… Wait a minute, here we go.
-Hakushi! -[Jerry] Look at that.
-[crowd cheering] -[Vince] Oh, yeah.
Cover, a count, and a kick-out. The Kid kicks out.
[Jerry] That kid's pencil neck is not gonna withstand much more of this.
[Vince] Pretty much a sloppy cover, I guess, by Hakushi.
And now, Hakushi intent on wearing down the 1-2-3 Kid,
working in the trapezius area.
Kid trying to get back on his feet.
Jams the elbow.
[crowd cheering]
And Hakushi, one chop and the Kid is right back down.
There we go. Off the rope, Hakushi.
[Jerry] Oh, look at that.
[Vince] What a back body drop that was.
[Jerry] That could finish him.
[Vince] And Hakushi now-- Oh, right up under the jaw.
Hakushi on one side of the ring, he's a panther-like individual.
The Kid trying to get back up. Look out.
-Hakushi all the way out. -Wow.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Unbelievable.
[Jerry] Wait a minute. Hakushi's hurt too.
That could have easily hurt both individuals.
Hakushi, known to be the modern kamikaze.
Boy, did he ever take a risk. And I don't think he had to.
-I know it. You're exactly right.
-That was not a smart move. -Take another look.
Double feature will keep the live action on the right of the screen,
on the left if we can. There we go.
-Here it comes. -Oh, look. Look at this maneuver.
[Vince] All the way over the top and then down.
Unbelievable. Back to live action. Hakushi from the top!
[Jerry] Well, now, maybe it did all pay off.
[Vince] And a cover, two…
-[Jerry] He got it. -No, he didn't.
-Did get it now? -[Jerry] That was a three count.
-[Vince] Only a count of two. -Man.
[Vince] And the Kid slammed down to the canvas.
Hakushi, really taking it to the 1-2-3 Kid.
Hakushi, catlike again, right up to the top.
The modern day kamikaze now up the top.
What's gonna happen here?
-The body drop. -[Jerry] Oh, no.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] The 1-2-3 Kid has a chance after all.
Can he capitalize on the mistake of Hakushi?
[Jerry] I'm gonna tell you, that's what's wrong with Hakushi.
Too many risks. He could-- When he kicked the Kid out of the ring,
he could have counted a 50 a while ago, but, no, he had to dive out after him.
[Vince] A chop, a block. Look at this, the Kid blocking again,
another chop by the Kid.
The Kid using his feet now as well, sets up Hakushi.
No, a reversal, off the rope and… Oh!
[Jerry] Wow, look at that.
[crowd cheering]
What a maneuver that was by the 1-2-3 Kid.
Now, Hakushi on the outside of the ring.
The 1-2-3 Kid, watch this.
No.
Oh, my.
[crowd cheering]
The Kid with a high risk in his own right and taking it to Hakushi.
Now, the 1-2-3 Kid has the momentum.
-Look at that. Oh! -[Jerry] Oh, no.
-That will do it, cover. -[Jerry] Right on his face.
[Vince] One, two and he beat him.
-[Jerry] No, he didn't. -No, he didn't.
-[Jerry] It's amazing. It's amazing. -Wow.
[Vince] A scoop and a slam, the Kid.
High risk maneuver coming up again. Here we go.
Open that parachute, all the way up to the top.
-[Jerry] Look out, Hakushi, look out. -The 1-2-3 Kid.
Yes, that does it.
One, two, and he got him.
No.
He didn't get him.
The Kid off the rope again and… Uh-oh, look at that.
One, two, he got it.
-[bell ringing] -[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] You talked about it, McMahon, and we all saw it.
One too many high risk maneuvers that cost the 1-2-3 Kid.
[Vince] Hakushi victorious. We'll take you back and show you the way
that he dropped the 1-2-3 Kid.
However, the 1-2-3 Kid with a great maneuver.
The 1-2-3 Kid climbing up the top,
the Kid, a high risk aerial maneuver by the 1-2-3 Kid.
It paid off but then again it cost him.
There we go.
[Jerry] There you see the Kid, fixing to come off to the top.
Just-- I mean, just slammed right off the top rope and flew right down.
-Look at this. -[Vince] Unbelievable.
[Jerry] Right on to the head and neck of Hakushi.
[Vince] And then from there, the Kid off the rope and a kick.
You saw how Hakushi moved into that kick.
[Jerry] There it is right there, hooking the leg.
[Vince] Hooked the leg and a three count.
Hakushi victorious and we take you now, ladies and gentlemen, to Dok Hendrix.
Dok, are you there?
Well, Vinnie Mac, here I am. I'm standing with what is fixing to be
the future WWE Champion.
And now, come on, King Mabel.
You gave me the first scoop. You've been unfolding plan after plan.
Come on, tell me. What's the final plan?
Come on, gotta know, gotta know. Come on.
-Dok… -Yeah.
You, just like everybody else around the world,
is gonna have to wait until it unfolds. [laughs]
Big Daddy Cool, what's the old saying?
Fool me once, shame on me.
Fool me twice, shame on you.
But three times?
What's your story, Big Daddy Fool?
You think the thing with the British Bulldog was the big one?
-Yeah. -Uh-uh. It's tonight.
And you will see.
Long live the King.
[laughing]
[Vince] Thank you very much.
Well, I guess we're…
[Vince] Yeah. Go ahead there, Dok.
In any event, it takes a King to know a King, right, Jerry Lawler?
[Jerry] That's right.
And as the King said, the Royal Plan continues to unfold.
Tonight will be the greatest surprise of all.
I can't wait to see the look on the faces of 18,062 people here in Pittsburgh
when they see that belt go around the thin waist of King Mabel.
[harpsichord music playing]
[Vince] And take a look if you would. Yes.
[laughing]
Hunter Hearst Helmsley, ladies and gentleman, an American blue blood.
And I would suggest that he looks down on any number of individuals
in this jam-packed Pittsburgh Civic Arena, the Igloo.
Can't be bothered.
It's like he smelled something foul in the air, you know.
[Jerry] I like the way his nose points up while he looks down on you.
[Vince] I beg your pardon?
[Jerry] His nose is on the air.
Look at these people. They shouldn't even attempt to try to converse with him.
[Vince] Hunter Hearst Helmsley, an extraordinary competitor.
And there's his seal.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley, ladies and gentlemen,
notwithstanding his arrogance,
is unquestionably an extraordinary competitor.
He will be put to the test however by the WWE's Bob "Spark Plug" Holly.
I believe Bob Holly is gonna defeat the undefeated Hunter Hearst Helmsley
here tonight in Pittsburgh.
And it's time to start your engine.
[rock music playing]
[crowd cheering]
[announcer] His opponent from Talladega, Alabama,
weighing 232 pounds, Bob "Spark Plug" Holly.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Yes, siree. Bob "Spark Plug" Holly.
We saw in our first matchup, a risk-taker for sure,
two individuals from Hakushi to 1-2-3 Kid and this man, yes, indeed,
he'll take a risk on the race track or in the squared circle.
[Jerry] Can you imagine poor Hunter Hearst Helmsley?
He's gonna have to be soiled by this grease monkey
with those filthy, greasy fingernails of his, Bob "Spark Plug" Holly.
Look at the look on Hunter's face.
-[Vince] Oh, this is gonna be… -[bell dinging]
[Jerry] I can't even imagine it myself.
[Vince] Is it degrading for Hunter Hearst Helmsley?
-[Jerry] Without a doubt. -Please.
[Vince] I mean, that's just two complete opposite worlds.
[Jerry] You're looking at the kind of guy in Bob "Spark Plug" Holly
that would spend his honeymoon at a monster truck rally or something.
And then you got a man over here who, his idea of fast-food restaurant would be
some place that would serve Kentucky Fried quail
or pheasant under glass.
[Vince] Kentucky Fried quail.
-[Jerry] Yeah. -I see.
[Jerry] Or squab. Ever heard of that?
-[Vince] Squab? -Yes. That's the kind of--
[Vince] What Hearst Helmsley would eat.
Sounds like a detergent.
-[Jerry] Oh, man. -Squab?
[Jerry] Are you sure you're not from Alabama like Bob there?
[Vince] I'm not from Alabama. Anyway, here we go.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley, a little reluctant to lock up
but Bob "Spark Plug" Holly looks at his little consultation with the official.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley better be happy we're indoors.
If it were raining, if we were outdoors, Hunter Hearst Helmsley might drown
with that nose stuck up in the air as far as it is.
Look at this.
-[Jerry] Here we go. -Here we go, scoop and here we go!
Down to the canvas.
Nice arm drag take down by Bob "Spark Plug" Holly
and Hunter Hearst Helmsley starting to beg away a bit.
And Hunter Hearst Helmsley angry.
[ref yelling]
-[Vince] Look at that, over the shoulder. -That's right.
[Jerry] See, don't make any mistake about it, McMahon.
This guy is a gentleman but he's also tough.
[Vince] I see.
Hunter Hearst-- Oh, my goodness.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley with Bob "Spark Plug" Holly.
-[Jerry] Wow. -Reverse knife edge with authority
and Hunter Hearst Helmsley at the moment--
Oh, wait. Oh, my goodness. Nice maneuver on the part of Bob Holly.
Elbow right the chops.
Bob Holly with a hard right hand.
Whoa.
Holly with a kick to the midsection.
Bob "Spark Plug" Holly winding up Hunter Hearst Helmsley to the buckle and…
Oh!
Wait a minute. Oh.
A clever maneuver on the part of Hunter Hearst Helmsley.
[Jerry] Clever, I'll say.
Look, Spark Plug doesn't have a clue where he is right now.
[Vince] "Spark Plug" Holly may have thought that he hit the wall there.
Uh-oh. Now, Hunter Hearst Helmsley obviously taking advantage
of every single situation he possibly can.
-Look at this. -Ooh. Wow.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley, undefeated, pouring it on Bob Holly.
[Jerry] Man.
I'm getting tired, McMahon, of you making a big deal of the fact
-that Bob Holly is a race car driver. -What do you mean?
[Jerry] It's not a big sport. It does not take an athlete to sit in the car,
turn left for 500 miles, big deal.
[Vince] I'd like to see you do it.
I'd like to see you in a go-cart, maybe bumper cars.
[Jerry] Don't start.
[Vince] Bob "Spark Plug" Holly having his problems with Hunter Helmsley.
-On the right! -Oh!
-[Vince] What? -[Jerry] Whoo-hoo!
They're gonna get-- He's gonna get arrested for speeding
down on Fort Duquesne Boulevard here in Pittsburgh.
[Vince] We've been notified, we're gonna try to break a camera.
-We're told that… -[Jerry] Look at that.
[Vince] We're told the British Bulldog has arrived here
at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena. He is not scheduled--
Not scheduled at all to be here tonight.
What's going on, Jerry Lawler? Do you know anything about that?
[Jerry laughs] Royal Plans, Royal Plans. Look at this.
[Vince] And now the knee.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley with a knee to the back of Bob "Spark Plug" Holly.
[Jerry] From Talladega, Alabama.
[Vince] On cover. We got one, two, and a kick-out by Bob Holly.
And again, we're gonna try and pick up more information if we can
on the arrival of the British Bulldog.
This spells trouble for the WWE Champion for sure, considering what happened
last Monday night.
Down to the canvas, nicely done,
and Hunter Hearst Helmsley taking his time now.
And Mr. Helmsley, what's he gonna do now?
-[Jerry] Watch this. Ow! Ow. -Drives the knee.
[Vince] I'll say.
And that could do it. No, a kick-out again.
[Jerry] If I was from Alabama, I sure wouldn't admit it.
[Vince] And driving the knee.
What a minute, there he is.
There he is. Let's get--
Let's see if we can get a word back there with the British Bulldog
arriving here in the Pittsburgh Civic Arena.
The Bulldog going back to the locker room area it appears,
and apparently no comment there.
Nonetheless, that spells big-time trouble for the WWE Champion.
Look at this.
Hunter hanging on the rope, trying to gain a bit more leverage.
Turn around, ref.
Disqualified.
-[Jerry] Come on, give up. Look at this! -And a reversal.
Yes.
And now, oh, look at that, over the top. Whoa.
[Jerry] Hip toss right over the top rope.
[Vince] Hunter Hearst Helmsley
with his undefeated streak on the line here tonight live at SummerSlam
against Bob "Spark Plug" Holly.
[Jerry] He landed so hard, he'll probably drive his entire next race
with his left turn blinker on.
[Vince] Left turn blinker…
[Jerry] He did that once before, I heard.
[Vince] Bob Holly now, back on his feet in the ring, off the rope
and… wait a minute!
Stay with him, yes, pedigree!
[Jerry] Oh, oh, wow.
[Vince] That can turn the complete complexion of the matchup right around.
Bob Holly must seize the opportunity.
[Jerry] Yeah, Bob, everybody in Alabama is counting on you.
[Vince] Bob Holly having his problems with Hunter Hearst Helmsley, as anyone would,
and Hunter appearing to recuperate a little bit before Bob Holly.
Sets him up now for the ride, off the rope and--
-Oh. -[Jerry] Look at Holly.
[Vince] Look at that maneuver. Holly now, with Hunter to the ropes
and drop kick.
And that's about all Bob Holly had.
[Jerry] All the strength he had.
Come on, Hunter, if you could just get over there, roll him over and cover him.
[ref] One!
[Vince] Hunter Hearst Helmsley would like nothing better than to put the,
what he calls the "pedigree" on Bob "Spark Plug" Holly.
-[Jerry] I'd love to see it. -Hopefully, we will not see that maneuver.
[Vince] It's devastating and one of the reasons why
Hunter Hearst Helmsley remains undefeated.
[Jerry] Watch this.
[Vince] Bob "Spark Plug" Holly in his very first SummerSlam appearance
wants to make it a success! And… yes!
-[Jerry] Oh. -He's gonna do it.
Oh, with a clothesline.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Hunter took too much time.
He telegraphed that move and it cost him.
[Vince] And Bob Holly moving in now.
Bob Holly climbing up. Here we go.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley to the buckle, coming back out, back body drop.
Look at that.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley with his nose in the air, all right,
in a different manner.
Now, whipped to the buckle again.
Coming off, dropkick.
And Bob Holly building momentum.
Get up!
[Vince] Here we go. Bob Holly now with Hunter Hearst Helmsley
starting to beg off a little bit.
And the American blue blood Hunter Hearst Helmsley,
having his problems. To the buckle. Coming back out and back--no.
[Jerry] Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Here we go. Got him hooked in it.
[Vince] Yes, the pedigree.
That's what we spoke of earlier,
shoots the half, hooks the leg, a cover and a count to victory.
[bell ringing]
[harpsichord music playing]
[announcer] The winner of the match, Hunter Hearst Helmsley.
[Jerry] Quite a move, impressive.
[crowd booing]
[Vince] Thumbs down for Hunter Hearst Helmsley,
nonetheless, he obtained yet another victory.
Right now, let's take you to the War on the Water
that took place yesterday,
a number of supportive firemen against a number of the WWE Superstars.
Todd?
[Todd] Well, folks, yesterday, thousands of people turned out
for the Stridex War on the Water.
A tug-of-war between the City of Pittsburgh firefighters
and WWE Superstars held in front of Three Rivers stadium
and benefiting the Pittsburgh Firefighters Monument fund.
Obviously, everybody enjoying a beautiful day along the waterfront,
including this man, Pittsburgh mayor Tom Murphy,
who shared a laugh with team captain Bam Bam Bigelow.
The crowd enthusiastically cheering on the city of Pittsburgh firefighters
who arrived in grand style and, you know what,
the World Wrestling Federation Superstars got a friendly welcome as well.
Now, folks, at stake in this contest, the losing team would have to take a swim.
Now, the firefighters tried their best to pull the WWE Superstars into the river
but could not overcome the strength and bulk of Mabel, Henry Godwinn,
Savio Vega, and Bam Bam Bigelow and you see the end result.
Yes, the firefighters were good sports and a big splash was made
for a very worthy cause.
The firefighters demonstrating their aquatic abilities in Pittsburgh
with the World Wrestling Federation.
[rock music playing]
[Vince] Oh, yeah, how many points, King, would you give to those guys in the water?
[Jerry laughs] I don't know.
But next time you're near that lake, I might wanna drop in.
[Vince] Not a very nice thing to say.
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, tag team action coming at you.
…Jacob and Eli Blu.
[Vince] Jacob and Eli Blu, identical twins.
And don't think they won't use that to their advantage.
And Uncle Zebekiah.
Jacob and Eli Blu ready to lock up with the Smoking Gunns.
Uh-huh, here we go.
[country rock playing]
[announcer] Their opponents from the great state of Texas,
weighing in a total combined weight of 512 pounds,
Billy and Bart, the Smoking Gunns.
-[Vince] Here we go. -[bell ringing]
Billy and Bart against Jacob and Eli.
This should be an extraordinary tag team matchup.
All right.
We go through this every time.
We know that's Billy in the ring,
Bart on the outside. Now Billy locking up with…
Is that Jacob or is that Eli?
[Jerry] You're doing the name-calling.
[Vince] You're supposed to know. Look at that.
[Jerry] Okay, that's Jacob.
[Vince] That's Jacob, huh?
And to the buckle.
[Jerry] Whoa.
[Vince] Look at that maneuver. Jacob working on Billy.
[Jerry] Taking it right to the cowboys, aren't they?
[Vince] By the way, ladies and gentlemen, the WWE superstar line is wide open.
The 1-2-3 Kid and-- Oh, look at this, dropping the elbow,
Hakushi.
I wonder who's gonna do the translation there.
Nonetheless, the superstar line, we'll give you more information on that later.
And again, here comes Jacob.
Jacob and Eli doing a pretty good job
of keeping Billy away from tagging his partner, Bart.
[Jerry] I thought I said that was Jacob that was in there.
-[Vince] Cover, one, two and-- -Whoa.
[Vince] Off the rope, Billy now.
And Eli, look at that. Bam!
The Smoking Gunns.
They have been smoking for sure.
Billy listed at 254, here comes Bart listed at 258.
From the top, down.
And these men are in extraordinary condition.
[Jerry] Yeah, that's why though-- I don't understand how they--
Why they have to dress up in some silly costume like cowboys.
[Vince] They are cowboys. They're the real deal.
Oh, to the buckle.
[Jerry] I never liked people that dress up in silly-looking costumes.
[Vince] Billy went to college on a rodeo scholarship.
[Jerry] A what?
[Vince] You heard me, a rodeo scholarship.
You never heard of that?
[Jerry] I'm afraid I haven't.
And I got more degrees than a thermometer.
[Vince] More deg--Never mind.
The Blu Twins, Jacob and Eli in control, Wait a minute!
[Jerry] Oh, no! Referee out off position.
[Vince] And all they got was one, close to two.
Bart winding up, now, I've now forgotten who's in there.
Is it Jacob or is it Eli? Tag was made, Billy the legal man.
Look at that. Bart with a kick, clothesline,
down he goes.
-[Jerry] This may be over. -On cover, two and--
Interference on the part of the Blu Twins.
Billy with a right hand. Uh-oh.
Look at this double team effort behind the official's back.
No tag.
Billy… Oh!
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] That's a tag team for you right there.
That's teamwork.
[Vince] Uncle Zebekiah, the brains behind the brawn,
two big mountain men from the Appalachia region.
Jacob and Eli.
The cover, the count and three. No!
Billy double-teamed behind the official's back.
Anything can happen here in the World Wrestling Federation.
No question about that. Almost an understatement these days.
[Jerry] Watch this.
[Vince] Oh, and Billy.
Oh, no. Come on, ref, get in there.
Hanging upside down, he's helpless.
[Jerry] Get that cowboy boot hooked in there.
[Vince] And the official needs to assist Billy
who's on the canvas. And now a fresh Blu twin
either Jacob or Eli back in.
You got to be a computer wiz
to keep track of which one of these Blu Twins is in the ring at all times.
Oh, man!
[Jerry] All in.
By the way, I bought five copies of Windows 95
and I don't even have a computer.
[Vince] Makes sense to me.
Bart looking for the tag.
Billy is in trouble.
Oh, come on, ref.
And that just raised them up.
Meanwhile, double-team action going on behind the official's back again.
And Zebekiah doing a masterful job of coaching these Blu Twins.
And Billy has to tag in his partner Bart.
[Jerry] That's the whole idea of tag team wrestling.
Keep a fresh man in, wear your opponent down,
don't give him the opportunity to tag.
These, guys, are the best at that.
[Vince] And down with a knee.
And a cover, a count, and a kick-out.
Zebekiah on the outside,
on the inside, I think Jacob or Eli,
take a look at that if you will.
Jacob listed in 320 pounds, Eli listed at 320 as well.
[Jerry] Uh-oh. For the ride-- No.
[Vince] Reversal. Did you see that?
And… a slam!
[Jerry] Man, these guys are strong.
[Vince] Two and three. Got him.
-Oh, I don't know about that count. -[Jerry] I don't either.
[Vince] That was very, very close.
[Jerry] That's what I don't like about these officials.
They love to give guys like the cowboys here every opportunity,
every little break.
You think a guy like me or the Blu brothers there get breaks?
No.
[Vince] Oh, really? That's the way you see it, huh?
[Jerry] They'd get counted out so quick it'll make your head spin.
And-- Oh, how about that!
[Vince] What a maneuver that was by Billy. Now Billy must tag his partner Bart.
These big Blu Twins are rugged mountain men.
They epitomize brute strength, brute force, here he comes.
And…
[Jerry] Look out. Billy makes… Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
[Vince] Bart, the southpaw, hammering away.
Bart-- Oh, yeah!
[Jerry] Wow.
[Vince] And Bart with a scoop and a slam.
A one-man gang in there.
Look out from behind. Whoa!
[Jerry] Gonna get that size 18 boot right in the mouth.
[Vince] Off the rope.
[Jerry] Whoa!
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] One Blu Twin launched into the other and look at this.
From the top, Billy, here we go,
and… yes!
One, two, yeah.
-[Jerry] No! Oh, come on! -[bell dings]
[country rock music playing]
[announcer] The winners of the match, the Smoking Gunns.
[Vince] The Smoking Gunns victorious.
[Jerry] Look at that three count, McMahon.
[quickly] One, two, three. One, two, three.
[Vince] And a tremendous victory for the Smoking Gunns.
[music continues]
[guns firing]
[Vince] Let's go back, take another look, ladies and gentlemen, at the way
Billy and Bart overcame the Blu Twins.
Look at that from the top, the sidewinder, down.
Unbelievable.
That's one way to put away a mountain man for sure.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, Barry Horowitz ready to lock up with Skip.
Let's take you back now
and Todd Pettengill is gonna tell us how this match got to SummerSlam.
[Todd] Barry Horowitz, a World Wrestling Federation journeyman
that was best known for racking up one of the longest losing streaks
in Federation history.
His run at successive loses ran the gamut of years,
too many to mention.
Skip of the Bodydonnas,
with the flawless, perfect, and impeccable Sunny by his side.
This health guru and fitness fanatic was making short workouts of his,
what he claimed, out-of-shape opponents.
But then the unthinkable happened.
Barry Horowitz defeated Skip before a nationally televised audience
when he rolled up the Bodydonna from behind
during one of Adonis's push-up breaks.
Then, to add insult to injury,
weeks later, Horowitz accepted the challenge
and went the distance with Skip in a 10-minute time limit match
to gain his second victory over the Bodydonna
in less than a month's time.
Now, Skip and Sunny are livid.
Never had they been so humiliated in their perfect lives.
The blemish on their sculptured bodies that reads "Barry Horowitz"
has overwhelmed them.
Tonight at SummerSlam, it's their chance to Stridex out that unruly imperfection
once and for all.
[Vince] And here they come, the Bodydonnas.
[Sunny] I'm sure everybody will agree that we were cheated once
and then, guess what? We were cheated twice.
But tonight, I promise you that third time's a charm for the Bodydonnas.
And Mr. Barry Horriblewitz will regret ever stepping in with a Bodydonna,
and that's a promise.
[Vince] And there you have it from Sunny.
Skip and Sunny, fitness gurus, if you would.
We plan on showing everyone.
We plan on teaching Mr. Barry Horriblewitz,
that good-for-nothing, out-of-shape natural born loser,
a lesson that he and all of you will never soon forget.
[Jerry laughing]
[Vince] That remains to be seen.
Thus far, Barry Horowitz, not Horriblewitz,
Barry Horowitz has had the number of Skip
and here he comes.
["Hava Nagila" playing]
[Jerry] What's the record, McMahon,
for the shortest match in SummerSlam history?
[Vince] Hey, wait a minute. Here he comes.
Barry Horowitz.
[Jerry] What's he in such a hurry to go up there and get beaten for?
[Vince] I don't know.
[Jerry] Hey!
[bell ringing]
Horowitz sets up Skip, the bell officially begins the match.
Look at that, back body drop!
Barry Horowitz now. Oh, my goodness, drives the knee.
Barry Horowitz in control, look at that.
Skip has no idea what's hitting him, look.
Horowitz is all over Skip.
[Jerry] Get out of the ring.
[Vince] It's gonna happen again.
Yes!
Yes.
Horowitz all over Skip.
Skip can't believe it.
Skip now being set up again, Horowitz taking it to him
and from there-- Look at that!
Leg sweep nicely done.
[Jerry] I suggest you skip out of there, Skip.
[Vince] Yeah, here we go. Over the top to the outside.
Barry Horowitz.
[Jerry] That's all right, that may be the best thing
that happened to Skip so far.
He needs time to collect his stuff.
Don't rush back in, what's the matter with you?
[Vince] And coming in the hard way is Skip.
Skip and Sunny having problems, Skip trying to escape,
Barry Horowitz all over him.
[Barry groans]
[Vince] And Horowitz now on the receiving end.
-Ooh. There you go. -[Jerry] A right-hand.
[Sunny] Come on!
I got him, it's no problem.
[Jerry] He's got him, no problem.
[Vince] Yeah, you heard that.
And Horowitz in some trouble.
-[Jerry] Knew it's just a matter of time. -Wait a minute.
Is it a reversal? Yes, indeed.
That's a tough one. Here he comes. Nobody there.
And look at that.
[Jerry] Turn around.
Look at that.
[Vince] Horowitz now with Skip, pulls him up.
One, two.
-[Jerry] No. -[Vince] Oh, no.
Horowitz hanging on to the rope, Horowitz back up on the apron.
Skip and Sunny confident the third time would be the charm.
You heard what they said. You heard that snark.
-Wait a minute. -[Jerry] What's he gonna do here?
No way.
[Vince] Yes, to the outside!
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Can Barry Horowitz win another match?
-Wait a minute. -[Jerry] What's she doing?
Get out.
Get out. Go!
[yelling indistinctly]
Hey, this is not boxing, this is wrestling.
You get out.
[Jerry] She's trying to throw in the towel.
[Vince] Can you believe that?
Sunny tried to stop the match.
[Jerry] This isn't Tyson-McNeeley.
Look at this, Sunny tried to stop the match, it didn't work.
She threw in the towel
and the referee threw it out to the capacity crowd.
Sunny thinks Skip is in trouble and I would concur with that.
Horowitz off the rope. Wait a minute. Behind the official's back.
Sunny just grabbed the ankle.
Whoa, look out.
[Vince] And the odds are not in Barry Horowitz's favor to win this match.
[Jerry] I knew something was up when I looked at his name
and beside his name in the program it said, "Yeah, right."
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] And Skip showboating a bit.
However, it was the showboating of Skip that cost him his victory.
Wait a minute, look at that.
A suplex nicely done and Skip now in the buckle.
What's he gonna do here?
Skip drops a leg from way up above.
Is that enough to put Horowitz away?
[Jerry] Go for the cover.
[Vince] He wants to punish him, I believe.
He wants to teach him a lesson.
Again, it was the showboating of Skip that cost him what was to have been
a certain victory when Horowitz cradled Skip
and got his very first victory.
Listen to this capacity crowd.
[crowd chanting] Barry! Barry!
[Jerry] I can't believe that these morons think Barry Horowitz can beat Skip.
That's was a fluke.
[Vince] Well, he beat him fair and square in the middle on one occasion,
the first occasion.
And as we found out earlier from there, the time limit ran out.
Skip and Sunny challenged Horowitz to a 10-minute matchup.
-[Jerry] That's right. -Horowitz lasted.
He lasted to 10 minutes. So, officially he won a second match.
This, of course, the third one, and a gut-wrench suplex.
[Jerry] You don't… you don't really think, McMahon, you, I'm asking you.
You don't think Horowitz can really win this match, do you?
[Vince] I think anything can happen here in the World Wrestling Federation,
but not too likely.
[Jerry] You probably also think that Ebert
can beat the heck out of Siskel too.
[Vince] Now, I'd like to see that.
[Jerry] Yeah, me too.
-[Vince] Siskel versus Ebert? -Oh, Siskel could take him easy.
[Vince] It should happen here on the WWE if it ever happens anywhere.
-[Jerry] Watch this, watch this. [laughs] -Oh.
And across to the throat. Come on, ref, get in there.
What about now, huh? Get a good shot of that loser!
Come on, get a shot of this guy.
[Vince] A loser.
[Sunny] Give it up, Horowitz!
[Vince] Skip and Sunny verbally taunting Barry Horowitz.
There is talk of Barry Horowitz actually-- Oh, look at this, and a slam,
actually coming under contract to the World Wrestling Federation
if in fact he wins the match.
Oh my, missing with the elbow.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Horowitz with so much riding on the outcome of this matchup.
If Horowitz somehow he got a victory… Off the rope and… Down he goes.
And cover, one, two! Oh my goodness, that was close for Skip.
Off the rope, Horowitz, launching down again, another cover.
Two! And almost got him.
[Jerry] He's given it everything. He can't do it. Let's face it.
Horowitz, look at this! Trying to get it down, one, two--No.
And again.
A number of near falls and Skip and Sunny turned it right around
with that clothesline.
[crowd cheering, booing]
[Jerry] There you go.
[Vince] Barry Horowitz.
[Jerry] All these couch potatoes can eat their hearts out now
along with everything else they eat.
[Vince] Barry Horowitz, living proof, ladies and gentlemen, that desire
makes the difference for sure.
He ain't nothing but a loser!
[Vince] Barry Horowitz lost I don't know how many hundreds of matches
here in the WWE before winning his very first one
at the hands of Skip.
My goodness, look at this.
[Jerry] And he's paying for it now.
[Vince] You still can't take that victory away from him though
and give him credit for hanging in there.
Perseverance pays off.
Here we go. Listen.
[crowd chanting] Barry! Barry!
[Jerry] Listen to these people.
You know why they're getting behind him? They can identify with him.
They're a bunch of losers as well.
[Vince] Off the rope, Horowitz from the other side… No.
One, two.
Not enough.
Horowitz… Powerslam by Skip.
Skip and Sunny…
[Jerry] Uh-oh. It's that time.
[Vince] Again to the jumping jacks.
Skip a powerhouse, for sure.
And Sunny loves what she sees at the moment.
[Vince] I wanna bring them over and let them help get you in shape,
work out, you know, all that sort of stuff.
[Vince] Off the rope, oh my goodness.
Look at this. And Skip.
No.
Skip putting the finishing touches on Barry Horowitz.
[Jerry] Look at those muscles.
[Vince] Nonetheless.
The charm, huh? Horowitz has made it…
Cover, one, two!
Hey, hey wait a minute.
That was a sloppy cover if there ever was one.
[Jerry] And another slow count.
[Vince] Give Horowitz credit, he has made it.
He made it to the World Wrestling Federation
made it to a major WWE pay-per-view extravaganza.
Finally had his victory and look at him, he's still in the match.
Oh, an uppercut.
Wait a minute, maybe he's more in this match than we think he is.
[Jerry] He's won one match, big deal.
Come on, Skip put him away.
[Vince] Horowitz now dazed, and so is Skip.
[crowd chatter]
Horowitz being set up by Skip,
off the rope now, leapfrog, nicely done, front kick.
And nothing happens.
Both men had the same idea at the same time, who will recover quicker?
[Jerry] There's the answer to that question.
Skip's in better shape, better condition.
[Vince] Skip, now, what's he gonna do?
This capacity crowd very much behind Barry Horowitz.
Horowitz, Skip keeps going up.
Oh.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Oh no.
[Vince] Wait a minute, look at this.
[Jerry] Oh, no. Oh, no. And a third one.
[Vince] Down goes Horowitz.
-I thought for sure… -[Jerry] Yeah, me too.
[Vince] Horowitz was gonna be able to suplex Skip.
Skip now on the top.
If he hits with this, forget about it.
Caught himself with the backhand-- Oh!
[Jerry] He got him.
And one, two, and… no!
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[Vince] Now, wait a minute.
Punish him a little more.
[Jerry] I don't know if I agree with that, McMahon.
I think I would have put my opponent away right then.
[Vince] Skip-- Oh, wait a minute.
Uh-oh, no, no, no, no, piledriver, no, reversal, yeah.
[Jerry] See. Big mistake, you had him.
[Vince] Skip may rue the day.
-[Jerry] Oh! -Look at that.
Skip now, a half of measure off
and Barry Horowitz right on target.
Horowitz sets up Skip for the ride, the far side, dropkick.
Sunny trying to encourage Skip.
Skip down on the canvas
and Barry Horowitz…
Horowitz, wait a minute. Horowitz going outside.
-Horowitz is going… -[Jerry] There goes Sunny.
Wait a minute, Sunny is coming up, Sunny trying to chase him.
Sunny is shaking the rope and Horowitz is dropped.
[crowd cheering]
And now Horowitz being set up by Sunny.
Sunny… Will Skip put him away?
Look at that. Oh!
From the top.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] And wait a minute, Hakushi.
Hakushi coming down to ringside now.
Remember, it was Skip who cost Hakushi a victory earlier this weekend
at the hands of Barry Horowitz.
-[Jerry] What's he want? -I'm not sure.
[Jerry] He has no business here.
[Vince] But you can tell that Skip and Sunny aren't too happy
that Hakushi is coming back to the ringside area.
Wait a minute.
[Jerry] What's he gonna do?
Skip's challenging to get the ring.
Hakushi wants to come in.
Hakushi on the top, what is this? To the outside!
Wait a minute. One, two, yes. Yes.
-Horowitz wins. Horowitz wins. -[bell ringing]
[announcer] The winner of this match, Barry Horowitz.
-["Hava Nagila" playing] -[crowd cheering]
Help me! Get me out of here!
[Vince] Can you believe it?
Anything can happen here in the World Wrestling Federation.
[song continues]
Oh, yeah. From one Barry to another.
Let's go back and take another look.
Here we go.
Over Skip, over Horowitz, Hakushi to the outside
and look at that inside cradle.
The referee turns around, Horowitz wins again, unbelievable.
[Jerry] Man, oh man.
[Dean laughing]
[Vince] Let's take you now, ladies and gentlemen,
standing by for our critique,
let's take you to the satellite classroom of Dean Douglas.
[laughing] Now, let me call it right down the middle exactly as I see it
in a fair and impartial way
but before we start, definition.
Vivify, it means to imbue with renewed life or vigor.
If we go in my satellite classroom as you like to refer to it, Mr. McMahon,
you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
Hakushi comes to the ring and he distracts for just a second
Skip of the Bodydonnas
and gives Barry Horowitz the opportunity to be vivified, if you will,
to come out of it and to score the pinfall victory
and we'll see it, one, two, and three.
It's a travesty.
It's a travesty, if you will, Mr. McMahon.
I sit at the top.
Summer school is in session here at SummerSlam
in the World Wrestling Federation.
The definition I gave was "vivify."
Now, I ask you, ladies and gentlemen sitting at home,
was it a vivification for Barry Horowitz
what Hakushi did to draw the attention of the referee
and to draw the attention of Bodydonna Skip?
To give Barry Horowitz the victory, one, two, three,
I've got to say it goes like this.
For the referee, I give the grade of F, for failure and abrogation,
to notice that Barry Horowitz was getting a distraction.
And as far as Barry Horowitz goes, I give the grade of S,
for slacker
because like those students I had in school,
he won off of other people's victories
and other people's distractions.
Vince, back to you at ringside.
Let's not go back to Vince. Let's come here.
I don't think Barry Horowitz cares about vivification or any of that.
He just knows he's got a victory.
Folks, now I'm in the locker room.
Shawn Michaels expected to join me momentarily
and we're talking about the ladder match here tonight
for the Intercontinental Championship.
You don't think this match is grueling? Let's go back and take a look.
Razor Ramon and Shawn Michaels, Madison Square Garden,
the ladder match, take a look at this.
Absolutely incredible athleticism, you see the bad guy, Razor Ramon,
throwing Shawn Michaels off of that ladder
in a match that people are still talking about today.
And Shawn Michaels, I guess the obvious question is,
how do you prepare for this kind of matchup?
We've seen Razor Ramon totally focused.
We've kind of seen him throw friendship out the window here.
He said he's gonna take this belt away.
First of all, it is impossible to prepare for a match like this
and there is no more grueling match in the WWE than a ladder match.
And there's only two cats in the World Wrestling Federation that can do it.
That's Razor Ramon and the Heartbreak Kid.
And you know something, for over a year this has been eating me,
you know, I made history but I was the losing part
and I can't have that.
I don't have to put this belt on line.
I got news for you, folks, it's a lot harder to get pinned or submit
than it is to run up a ladder and pull it off.
I'm the one with everything to lose and nothing to gain
but I need this for me.
There isn't an injury,
there isn't anything that is gonna keep me from getting up that ladder this time.
You know something? I got nothing in my life.
I've got nothing except the Intercontinental championship,
the most important thing in the world to me,
and Razor Ramon, rest assured, wild horses, nothing,
nothing on the face of God's green earth is gonna keep the Heartbreak Kid
from traveling up that ladder
and taking the World Wrestling Federation Intercontinental title.
Thus, making me what I have always said I have been,
the greatest Intercontinental champion ever.
The stage is set for the historic ladder match here tonight.
Shawn Michaels and the "Bad Guy," Razor Ramon.
Let's get you back to ringside.
[Vince] All right. Thank you, gentlemen, very much.
And in the ring right now, well, there she is.
This is for the World Wrestling Federation Women's championship.
Introducing first and currently in the ring,
accompanied by Harvey Wippleman,
is the challenger, she is from Walls, Mississippi,
weighing 230 pounds, Bertha Faye.
[Vince] Bertha Faye.
Ain't she lovely?
[Jerry] Well, I don't know. Harvey Wippleman thinks so.
He's totally smitten.
-[Vince] Right. -He's smitten.
He told me that when he first laid eyes on Bertha Faye,
he lost control of all bodily function.
Well, I'm not gonna go there.
-Oh, my goodness. -[Jerry] Look at her.
[sultry rock music playing]
[Vince] Well, well, well.
[Jerry] It just keeps getting hotter and hotter, yes indeed.
[Vince] It's a Blaze for sure.
[announcer] From Tampa, Florida, she weighs 140 pounds,
ladies and gentlemen, World Wrestling Federation Women's Champion,
Alundra Blayze.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Alundra Blayze.
Defending her WWE title against Big Bertha Faye.
And what a tremendous matchup this is likely to be,
ladies and gentlemen.
On this April 3, Alundra Blayze regaining her title from Bull Nakano,
and unquestionably what was one of the great WWE matches.
If you have to wonder whether or not this match can compare to
that one when Alundra won the title once again.
[crowd cheering]
However, that was also the debut of Bertha Faye.
And unfortunately, as result of her debut and her actions around the ringside area,
-Alundra Blayze suffered a broken nose. -[Jerry] Yeah.
[Vince] And look at Harvey hiding behind Bertha.
[Jerry] Right now, I can assure you that Alundra Blayze is outweighed…
-[bell ringing] -…by at least 90 pounds in this match.
[Vince] I see. That's on one hoof.
[Jerry] Uh-oh. You better watch out.
Harvey, don't take kindly to somebody insulting his Bertha Faye.
Look at her.
[Vince] Bertha Faye. My goodness.
Couldn't she get a more garish looking outfit?
Vince, look at that. Hey. Hey. Uh-oh. And down!
[Jerry] Ow.
[Vince] Aludra Blayze with all the martial art skills.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, back on the Superstar line-up…
Barry Horowitz.
[Jerry] Uh-oh, look at that. Leg trip.
[Vince] More on the superstar line up to conclude, you know, this matchup.
Winners and losers.
-[Jerry] You heard of "Buns of Steel?" -Yeah.
I think Bertha Faye has got Buns of Cinnamon.
-Probably pretty-- Out! -Look out.
Oh, my goodness.
[Vince] But she knows how to throw that weight around.
She is an athlete for sure.
And Bertha Faye has an opportunity here to be the WWE women's champion.
And down.
Oh, my goodness. Look at this.
Oh my goodness.
[Jerry] Steamroller.
Yes, indeed, Bertha Faye.
[Jerry laughs]
[Jerry] I love it. Look at Harvey.
Now, that's pretty impressive.
[Vince] Well, I'll say. I'm impressed.
[Jerry] So was he.
-[Vince] Lipstick on the side of his face. -Yeah.
[Vince] I think he put it there.
[Jerry] Oh, come on.
[Vince] Alundra Blayze on her feet,
maybe not for long with the way this match is going. Uh-oh.
Yank to the hair.
[Jerry] I asked Harvey what he would do
if he came home to Walls, Mississippi some time…
…found another man there in the trailer with Bertha.
[Vince] Yeah. Oh!
He said, "I'd hit him over his head with his white cane
-and throw him and his dog out." -One, two!
He said what?
[Jerry] "I'd hit him over his head with his white cane
and throw him and his dog out."
[Vince] Harvey didn't say that. Oh, my goodness. Look at this.
Aludra Blayze, having big time problems here with Bertha Faye.
[Jerry] Big time.
[Vince] And Alundra… Oh, my goodness.
Driven down to the-- oh, no.
[Jerry] Oh, no. Uh-oh.
Bertha Faye is going up.
Big Bertha is going higher.
[crowd cheering]
Big Bertha…
-No! -[Jerry] Oh!
The whole building shook.
[Vince] And Alundra-- Oh my goodness.
Alundra Blayze and Big Bertha, look at this.
Alundra for the ride to roll up.
One, two and… And can't quite put her away.
Whoa. Series of knees to the midsection.
Look at that right hand and left-- And down!
Wow. What strength on the part of Big Bertha.
I'm impressed.
And so is Harvey.
Look at that.
And… oop.
A cover.
A count, and…
-[Jerry] Whoa, what a move. -Look at that. Yes, indeed.
Going to the canvas, Bertha Faye.
Alundra Blayze off the rope. Alundra, yes, drives her down again.
Alundra Blayze with tremendous momentum now
and trying to get for the third time.
Alundra Blayze with a cover.
Turn around, ref.
Where is the ref?
[Jerry] Harvey's got him distracted.
[Vince] Oh, come on. That was a three count.
Hey, look out.
-And if I were Alundra, I'd be angry. -[Jerry] She is.
She's gonna get Harvey out of there.
There she goes.
Oh, Harvey fell.
[Vince] Harvey fell. And look at this.
What? Alundra got his jacket.
[Jerry] Hey, look out.
Alundra, from behind now.
[Jerry] That's an expensive suit she just tore off of Harvey.
[Vince] Uh, no, you're not.
And trying to drive her finally, one, two and-- And a kick-out.
[Jerry] Too much weight.
[Vince] Momentum going the wrong way.
[Jerry] She gotta weigh at least 250.
[Vince] Off the rope. Down goes Alundra Blayze.
Bertha Faye, now sets up the WWE women's champion,
off the rope and look at that maneuver.
[Jerry] No. Bertha Faye.
[Vince] One, two, she's got it. No, she didn't.
[Jerry] No, she did not. That's too much weight to hold down.
Bertha Faye, pretty much in this matchup.
Alundra Blayze with a dropkick, that might do it.
Alundra, what's she gonna pull out of her arsenal now?
And another one.
[Jerry] I'm surprised that Bertha Faye can get up so quick.
I thought if you knock her down,
she rocked herself to sleep trying to get up.
[Jerry] Well, unfortunately for Alundra Blayze,
that was one time too many.
And oh, no. Oh, no.
[Jerry] Look at this.
[Vince] Whoa.
One, two and yes.
[bell ringing]
-Can't believe it. -[Jerry] She got her.
[entrance music playing]
-[Jerry] We got a new champion.
-[Vince] Really? -Bertha wins.
[announcer] WWE Women's Champion, Bertha Faye.
[Jerry] Bertha wins.
[Vince] Wait a minute. That was saved for Barry Horowitz.
Oh. Excuse me.
[Jerry] This is the greatest victory in the history of SummerSlam.
[Vince] I can't believe it.
I can't believe that Bertha is the new WWE Women's Champion.
Look at this.
Bertha with Harvey and the pink lady's WWE championship belt.
Here's Jim Ross.
Bertha Faye, you're the new WWE women's champion.
Jim Ross, you don't put your hands on my girl!
You can look but you certainly can't touch.
I'm happily married, Harvey.
Well, let me tell you something right now, Jim Ross.
What just happened right here at SummerSlam,
is Bertha Faye just finished the make-over she started six months ago
on Alundra Blayze in the World Wrestling Federation.
Now, a truly beautiful and deserving princess
holds the WWE Women's Championship.
-[Vince] Can't believe Jim Ross. -That's right.
Alundra Blayze, Barbie doll, whatever you want to be called.
Look at this and weep
because I have the beauty.
I have the man.
And I have this shiny gold belt
to put around my Slim Fast waist.
[Vince] Oh, my goodness. Slim Fast waist. We've heard enough, ladies and gentlemen.
[man] During the Undertaker's illustrious World Wrestling Entertainment career,
there had been many opponents who had been bold enough
to trespass on the dark side.
However, thus far, none have returned the same.
In April, at WrestleMania XI, one dared to cross that line again.
Under the influence of the diabolic Million Dollar Man, Ted DiBiase,
the Supreme Fighting Machine Kama, stole the one possession from which
the Undertaker claimed he gained his mystical power, the sacred urn.
Then to throw yet more dirt on the coffin,
Kama melted down the Grim Reaper's guiding light
and hung it as a symbolic trophy around his massive neck.
With the absence of his sacred urn,
he Undertaker reached out to his creatures of the night
to utilize their power as his driving force.
The creatures were, as always, there for him,
carrying a black wreath with them at all times
in protest of Kama's callous actions.
Unfortunately for them, the reef was nothing more than a thorn
in the big man's side.
With the look of death in his black pupils,
the Supreme Fighting Machine took it upon himself
to rip the creature's symbol of death to shreds in the middle of the ring.
Then, to the shock of all, the last deadly sin was committed.
After a creature of the night climbed into the ring
in an attempt together the torn symbol of darkness,
Kama attacked him like a rabid dog.
In an act of pure hatred, he picked up the creature of the night
and slammed him down to the hard canvas.
To the Undertaker, this was an act that blackened his darkest cloud.
Deep within his dark soul,
Kama's funeral procession had already begun.
Due to the actions of Kama,
World Wrestling Federation interim president Gorilla Monsoon
immediately ordered that the much anticipated matchup
between the Undertaker and Kama at SummerSlam be a casket match.
The stipulations, the first combatant in the casket with the lid slammed down
is claimed the victim.
Tonight, one man meets his taker.
Will the Grim Reaper be broken down once again by the Machine
or will it be lights out for Kama as he rests in eternal peace?
Wait no longer, ladies and gentlemen, the casket match is at hand.
[announcer] …and closing the lid.
Introducing first and currently in the ring…
We are live and this is SummerSlam.
From Las Vegas, Nevada, weighing 330 pounds,
the Supreme Fighting Machine, Kama.
[entrance music playing]
[Jerry] I don't know, McMahon.
Everybody I've ever seen get in the ring with the Undertaker,
they may try not to show…
-[The Undertaker's entrance music] -[cheering]
[Vince] And that's why.
[Jerry] I was gonna say they may try not to show the fear
but it's always there.
[Vince] Listen to that.
[crowd cheering]
You can hardly hear yourself think.
[announcer] He's from Death Valley, weighing 328 pounds,
the Undertaker!
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] 18,062 fans have jam-packed the Igloo.
And now there is something cold about this facility,
you can feel the dampness, feel the coldness coming into the arena.
[Jerry] Take a look at that phenomenal athlete.
[somber entrance music continues]
[Jerry] Looks to me like if he were alive, he'd be a very sick man.
[Vince] The Undertaker,
ready to step up into the ring.
[bell tolling]
[Jerry] You can feel the chill up and down the spine.
[Vince] Kama, appears not to be afraid of the Undertaker.
[Jerry] I'm telling you, McMahon, I don't think he is afraid.
[Vince] And the Undertaker,
bringing light back to the arena.
And this is the Supreme Fighting Machine.
Kama is the man who has the intestinal fortitude to--
[Jerry] Well, there it is, there it is. There's the casket.
[Vince] Someone will be placed inside that casket.
The lid will be slammed down shut.
Look at that.
-[bell ringing] -[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Undertaker all over Kama.
The Undertaker, I believe will show no mercy. Look at this.
Wild with his right hand a moment ago.
Kama being-- Kama set up for the ride to the buckle.
Oh, my goodness.
The Undertaker, yes, on target.
[crowd cheering]
-Both hands in Kama. -[Jerry] Wow.
[Vince] What strength that takes.
[Jerry] Don't worry about being brave Kama, get out of there.
-[Vince] And even the officials-- -Look out from behind.
[Paul] Oh no! No!
[Vince] Everyone respects the presence of the Undertaker,
perhaps except Kama.
-Oh, over the top. -[Jerry] Whoa!
[Vince] And did you see that?
There you go, he might be scared of that.
[Vince] He got the willies when he landed on the casket. Clothesline.
Unbelievable, Kama thrown over the top rope
and landed right on top of the casket.
That might be as close as he gets to that casket.
Will it be the Undertaker stuffed inside the casket?
It happened once before and it was a long, long time
after the Undertaker was stuffed in that casket
until we saw him again.
Reversal.
The Undertaker moving in.
Do you see that?
[Jerry] I can assure you Ted DiBiase,
he's got something up his sleeve.
[Vince] The Undertaker incensed over the recent actions of Kama
when Kama put his hands at some of the Undertaker's creatures of the night.
[Jerry] Look at Paul Bearer.
I think he's trying death from the neck up.
On the top rope.
[Jerry] Look at this.
[Vince] The Undertaker controlling his balance.
The Undertaker…
And Kama down.
[Jerry] He's pointing at the casket. Oh, they're opening it up.
[Vince] Here we go.
The lid lifted on the casket. Wait a minute.
Look at that. Oh, my goodness.
He's in. He's in.
Trying to reach out.
Kama… He's coming out.
[Jerry] We got the SummerSlam coffin camera going.
-We got a what? -[Jerry] SummerSlam coffin camera.
Never heard of a coffin camera.
There it is.
[Jerry] It's inside the cam-- It's inside the coffin.
[Vince] Oh, my goodness.
And a clever maneuver on the part of Kama who's getting out
of that casket very quickly.
Kama now going upstairs.
Look at this.
Kama all the way up to the top.
Kama, bringing the Undertaker down to the canvas
[Jerry] He just planted the Undertaker.
[Vince] Uh-oh. And here we go.
[crowd cheering]
Nothing can stop the Undertaker.
At least I don't think anything can.
A block, a chop by the…
Now, look at that maneuver.
The rules in this matchup, very simple, ladies and gentlemen.
It's simply the first man who can stuff the other inside the casket
and try and shut the lid will be the victor,
but right now Kama drives the Undertaker down.
And make no mistake about the athleticism of Kama.
They don't call him the Supreme Fighting Machine for nothing.
But again, the Undertaker sits right up.
And the Undertaker getting close to the casket.
The lid is up.
Kama, with the Undertaker,
drives him down, drives him into the casket, yes.
-Kama… -[Jerry] He feels right at home.
Kama, giving it a try.
Look at this.
[crowd chanting] Rest in peace! Rest in peace!
Kama over the top and into the casket.
That'll do it.
Slam the lid.
[Jerry] Get out.
Wait a minute. DiBiase's up there.
[Jerry] DiBiase distracting the Undertaker.
[Vince] And what used to be his urn, the necklace, the lid…
No, almost slammed shut on Kama.
Kama getting back in.
[Jerry] DiBiase saves the day for Kama.
And the Supreme Fighting Machine taking it to the Undertaker.
Kama with a shot to the midsection. and again.
Kama throwing those devastating right hands.
Kama now trying to set up the Undertaker, winds him up.
Oh, my goodness. Look at this.
Kama just as adept at using his feet as he is his hands.
[Jerry] You know, McMahon, my specialty's being right
when other people are wrong.
And I said this once before,
we may see the Undertaker quit before this match is over.
We may see him crawling across the ring on his hands and knees,
climb to his own coffin and pull that lid down shut just to get away from Kama.
[Vince] Anything can happen here in the WWE, no question about that.
Kama in control.
I mean, Alundra Blayze was defeated by Big Bertha,
anything can happen here tonight.
And speaking of Alundra, she's back on the WWE Superstar line.
Both she and, of course, I'm sure a jubilant Bertha Faye.
[Jerry] Oh, yeah.
[Vince] More on that later on. Right now, it's Kama
taking it to the Undertaker.
Kama with another right-hand.
And Kama shows very little respect for the Undertaker.
[Jerry] Well, you know why? Because ordinarily in the past,
right in about this point,
you can look over there at that talent scout for a cemetery, Paul Bearer,
and he would be holding that urn up, offering power to the Undertaker.
But there's no urn anymore.
[crowd chanting]
[Vince] This capacity crowd with the "rest in peace" chant.
[Jerry] That ain't gonna get it.
Undertaker to the back.
[Jerry] Whoa.
[Vince] Kama moves in and missing. Look at that.
And a clothesline there. Oh, wait a minute.
The Undertaker would have been driven down into that casket
had that lid been opened.
[Jerry] Come on, referee, you moron, do your job.
You know, McMahon, that would have been it.
[Vince] I agree.
Come on, Kama, you're almost there. Put him away.
[Vince] DiBiase, very anxious.
Hoping that Kama can put the Undertaker away.
But Kama is giving the Undertaker time to recuperate
and a shot and down goes again the Undertaker.
[crowd cheering]
[Ted] Get up, Undertaker!
[Vince] Horrible taunting.
Come on!
Come on.
Paul Bearer taking charge of that.
-[Jerry] Look at Paul Bearer. -Ted DiBiase.
[Jerry] He crazy?
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] He wants to get at Ted DiBiase.
[Jerry] What is he thinking with?
He might drop into a morgue an offer to fight any man in the house
but he ain't gonna put his hands on DiBiase.
[Vince] Oh, no. Look at this.
DiBiase says to Kama, put him away.
The Undertaker on the outside, the right-hand punch.
Undertaker, Kama on the outside.
The officials are trying to get control of this one.
-[Jerry] Watch it. -Oh!
Kama set up.
Wait a minute. Ted DiBiase distracting again.
Oh, my goodness.
And the Undertaker-- Oh, no.
Driven into the steel post.
[Jerry] Drag him around to the casket.
[crowd chattering]
[Vince] There's no count out or submission in this match up at all,
ladies and gentlemen, we said before.
Oh, no.
Anything goes.
[Jerry] Get that casket opened.
The object of the matchup is simply to stuff your opponent in the casket
and slam the lid.
Oh, what's this?
What's this?
Kama, oh.
He almost winced the Undertaker's neck to smithereens.
[Jerry] He can't get it open with him laying on the top of it.
No way,
-[Vince] The Undertaker. -The top of the casket split.
[Vince] Look at that. Look out. Look out. Oh, no.
And again, Kama.
Establishing-- Look at this.
Here's pressure to the Undertaker,
both men on the outside, both men on the casket.
A headbutt by Kama, another one.
[crowd chatter]
Oh, no. No.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Oh.
Kama, over the top.
[crowd cheering loudly]
[Jerry] I hate that guy.
[crowd chanting] Rest in peace!
[Vince] Listen to this capacity crowd.
[crowd chanting]
[Jerry] Just when you think you got him finished off, he rises up.
[Vince] Off the rope and Kama for the powerslam.
[Jerry] Wait a minute. He may not rise.
[Vince] And cover.
-[Jerry] Where's the referee? -Hey, that means nothing.
You can count to a hundred.
-Oh, I forgot.
Go get him inside. Get him in the casket.
Well, open the casket, you idiots.
Oh, there he is again, he's up.
[Vince] Maybe not for long.
Kama drags the Undertaker right back down.
What a grueling matchup this has been.
Interim WWE president Gorilla Monsoon making this just--
Well, going from a normal match into a casket match.
We saw the remnants of the urn just a moment ago.
Oh, my goodness.
Things do not look good basing upon the facial features of the Undertaker.
[Jerry] Look. This is what I like.
Nothing the referee could do about that either.
[Vince] No, I agree. Wait a minute.
Paul Bearer's acting up again.
-Paul Bearer. -[Jerry] Look at that.
Shoving Kama's feet off the rope.
Oh, Kama almost got…
Undertaker on his feet now.
Maybe not for long.
Kama, trying to dominate the man from the dark side
and doing a pretty good job of it.
What a matchup this is.
[Jerry] I can't believe it.
Paul Bearer just got glasses.
He can't believe it.
[Vince] Kama has unquestionably
proven he is worthy of the title, Supreme Fighting Machine,
thus far here tonight,
He has been taking it to the Undertaker.
-And again -[Jerry] Uh-oh.
The glove outstretched, trying to reach for the power
of all the Undertakers creatures of the night
who have jam-packed the Igloo, the Pittsburgh Civic Arena,
and here they go again.
The largest crowd in the 30-year history of the Igloo, listen to this.
[crowd] Rest in peace!
[Jerry] Look at that.
But can they… Can those creatures give the Undertaker the power of the urn?
I don't think so.
[Vince] The Undertaker's powers are unquestionably being threatened
here tonight live at SummerSlam by Kama.
[Paul yelling]
[Vince] Paul Bearer doing everything he can to incite the Undertaker.
[crowd chatter]
[Vince] But Kama-- Oh, wait a minute.
Kama's dominance continues.
The Undertaker-- And wait a minute!
Oh.
The Undertaker, driving Kama down to the casket. The Undertaker now.
The Undertaker starting to move.
Kama is giving it… Well, he's giving it his all, for sure.
Oh, my goodness, right in the small of the back.
In the corner now, from the near side to the far side.
Kama with tremendous power.
[Jerry] They got to get that casket open. The Undertaker's ready to be buried.
-[Vince] No. -Whoa.
[Vince] The Undertaker on his feet.
Another boot to the midsection.
Undertaker missing there.
Oh, and Kama right on target.
Kama with the Undertaker off the rope, from the other side.
-Yes! -[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Back and forth, back and forth, come on, Kama.
[Vince] Paul Bearer feeling the power.
Can the Undertaker feel it?
The lid is open.
Kama's in trouble
and clothesline, he goes over. Oh no!
[Jerry] Oh, they're both in and it's closed.
[Vince] Wait a minute. Both men are in there. Both men are in the casket.
Both men. The lid has been closed they better open the lid.
Somebody open the casket.
What are they doing in there?
[crowd chanting] Rest in peace!
[Vince] Oh, wait a minute.
It's Kama coming out first.
The casket has been obliterated.
Look at this. Kama. Oh, wait a minute.
The Undertaker trying to pull Kama back down.
The Undertaker trying to pull Kama into the grave.
Oh.
Kama is down.
[Jerry] Now, get out of there. Kama, get out of there.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Will the lid be slammed shut?
[crowd cheering]
No, Kama's on feet.
[Jerry] He's out.
[Vince] Unbelievable.
Kama, back in the ring. Undertaker, back in the ring.
Both men were in the coffin, the lid was shut down on both men,
there's no winner yet.
And… Oh, no.
[Jerry] No.
Wow.
[Vince] Kama.
[Jerry] I don't think the coffin's gonna survive this match,
much less the Undertaker.
[Vince] Kama gives the signal for the casket lid to be open.
The Undertaker, moving but barely.
Kama, trying to set up the Undertaker now.
Off the rope, underneath, Kama.
[Jerry] No.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Yeah.
[Jerry] Each man's been looking for that one big move to finish off the other,
the Undertaker may have just found it.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] The Undertaker gives the signal for the lid to be lifted
on the casket.
[crowd cheering]
Kama.
[Jerry] This place is going nuts.
Yes.
[Vince] Oh scoop.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] How can he hold him up there?
Where'd he get the power?
No, no.
[crowd cheering]
Incredible.
[Vince] Can the Undertaker get Kama into the casket?
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Look at DiBiase, he sees this slipping away.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Undertaker starting to roll Kama, will he get him in?
Will he get him inside in the casket?
Kama, trying to hang on.
Will the lid come down?
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] You need to shut the lid. Yeah!
-Done. Done. -[bell dinging]
[crowd cheering]
[announcer] The winner of the match, the Undertaker.
[crowd cheering]
[bell tolling]
[Jerry] What a matchup.
[Vince] What a grueling matchup for both men.
[somber music playing]
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] The Undertaker victorious here tonight at SummerSlam.
He had come here to right a wrong and he did exactly that.
[music continues]
The Undertaker.
Look over here.
All in the new World Wrestling Federation generation.
[music continues]
-[Jerry] What a phenomenal athlete. -[Vince] What a phenomenal matchup.
All right. Jerry "The King" Lawler, we've seen the casket match.
Up next is gonna be Bret "The Hitman" Hart against Isaac Yankem,
after which, the ladder match is scheduled
and, of course, then the WWE title match up,
Big Daddy Cool Diesel against another King.
But right now, let's talk about Isaac Yankem.
I can't wait, McMahon.
This is what SummerSlam is all about, as far as I'm concerned.
Oh, really.
This is where my own personal dentist, Isaac Yankem, not "yank 'em, "
Yankem, DDS, is gonna go in that ring and he's gonna take
Bret "the Hitman" Hart and when he gets through with him,
all 18,062 of these morons
are gonna get to see Bret Hart's teeth rolling around on the ring
like a bunch of Chiclets.
It's gonna be great. I can't wait.
Oh, it is, huh? All right.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's a good look at Isaac Yankem, DDS.
Yeah, watch.
[upbeat music playing]
[man] It seems that the feud between Bret "the Hitman" Hart
and Jerry "the King" Lawler has been going on since the beginning of time.
Thus far, nine and half times out of ten,
it's usually the Excellence of Execution who comes out on top,
that is unless, of course, the Burger King decides to reach into his
unethical bag of tricks.
Usually, the King is a good sport in defeat,
but what happened at the King of the Ring
may have been too much even for him to handle.
At the finale of the Kiss My Foot match which the King himself requested,
Bret Hart not only shoved his foot into the King's mouth
and watched all of his little piggies go home.
But to add a jewel to the crown, Lawler, well, tasted his own puppies as well.
Outraged by his humiliation, Jerry "the King" Lawler decided
to do what he does best, go out and get somebody else
to fight his battles for him.
The King recruited a dentist,
Isaac Yankem, DDS,
a demented tooth fairy who takes great joy
in witnessing the pain of his innocent patients.
Lawler claims that Yankem is a great wrestler and that
at SummerSlam, he'll get his royal revenge
when the mad dentist extracts the Hitman from the World Wrestling Federation.
Bret, on the other hand, claims that Yankem is nothing more
than a deranged drill sergeant
and promises to put both him and Lawler
back under the decayed cavity which they came from.
[Jerry] That's right.
Are you ready, Pittsburgh?
Are you ready, SummerSlam?
I wanna introduce to you my very own personal dentist.
[drill whirring]
He don't believe in painless dentistry
and he's gonna show the Hitman that tonight.
Come on, you morons, make him welcome.
-[Vince] Oh my goodness. -[Jerry] Here he is.
Isaac Yankem, DDS.
[crowd booing]
[Vince] Unbelievable.
What's this man all about?
Isaac Yankem or Yank 'em,
as Jerry "The King" Lawler would have it said.
Yeah, I'll say.
We know very little about Isaac Yankem.
Listed at six-feet ten inches
and weighing at approximately 300 plus pounds,
Isaac Yankem from the Decatur, Illinois/
[Jerry] He looks like decayed from Illinois.
[Vince] Decatur, Illinois.
-got a question for you. -[Jerry laughing] What's that?
[Vince] How could a dentist have teeth this rotten?
[Jerry] That's the sacrifice that this man makes
to show all these little idiots out there what can happen to you
if you don't brush after every meal, if you don't floss regularly.
He makes that sacrifice to show as an example to all of these
little rotten teeth idiots that you see here at ringside.
[Vince] Standing by now, ladies and gentlemen,
we have Todd Pettengill with "The Hitman" Bret Hart, I believe.
-Todd, are you there? -Vince, thank you very much.
Obviously, Jerry Lawler has been drilling this message into the fans heads.
He's gonna try to extract revenge.
Again, Jerry Lawler keeps poking at "The Hitman" Bret Hart.
Bret, this is your chance to finally shut the mouth
of the Burger King once and for all
and you're gonna have to do it with Isaac Yankem, DDS.
Well, let's all hope and pray that that's the case.
Jerry Lawler, he's still brooding about the fact
that he lost and had his foot and my foot
crammed on his dirty stinking throat.
But Isaac Yankem, DDS, it's a different story.
This guy's a big guy, he's a tough guy, he talks about how big and bad he is.
You know, Jerry Lawler, you can go ahead and send a chiropractor,
anybody you want after me
because one after another, they're all gonna go down.
Isaac Yankem, DDS, you big tooth fairy,
I'm gonna knock a hole through you this big.
I-- You know what?
I might not-- I might just knock all his teeth right out of his face.
[Jerry] Yeah, right.
Jerry Lawler, I've had it up to here with you and Isaac Yankem,
you're stepping in the ring with the Excellence of Execution.
I don't care if you're a dentist.
You better look at me because I am the best there is,
the best there was and the best there ever will be,
and you are going down.
[Jerry] That's an orthodontist dream right there.
[Hitman entrance music playing]
[Jerry] I didn't realize Bret Hart had some nice teeth.
[announcer] From Canada, weighing 234 pounds…
[Vince] Here he comes.
…"Hitman" Hart.
[music continues]
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] All right. "The Hitman" Bret Hart.
[crowd cheering]
[music continues]
Yeah.
[Vince] Bret Hart.
[music continues]
[Vince] Isaac Yankem.
[Jerry] Yank 'em. Yank 'em.
[Vince] Now, what's going on in his head?
Did he hear this extraordinary ovation?
Unquestionably, one of the most gifted athletes in the history
of the World Wrestling Federation.
And here we go with the Hitman,
giving away those red hot sunglasses to this youngster,
it has been autographed, yes, indeed
by the "Hitman" Bret Hart.
[Jerry] So what's the big deal?
Did you see what Yankem was doing on the way out here?
He was handing out toothbrushes
And they don't even know what they were.
[Vince] Look at him. Take a look at that man's kisser, would you?
[Jerry] Oh, I can't wait McMahon.
[bell ringing]
[Vince] Wait no longer. The bell had sounded.
We are ready for action here at SummerSlam,
we are live from the Pittsburgh Civic Arena, the Igloo.
Being broadcast all over the world. Isaac Yankem.
[Jerry] Look at him. There's power for you.
There's some strength in that man's body.
[Vince] He certainly looks strong, a big monster, 300 pounder.
[Jerry] Six-foot ten inches.
There you go.
[Jerry] Look at this.
[Vince] And Isaac Yankem, risking disqualification here
right from the get-go.
[Jerry] Choke him right down.
Both men will be on the WWE Superstar Line a little bit later on after the match-up,
assuming…
-[Jerry] Yeah, listen. -Thank God, no teeth extracted.
[Jerry] Be sure you call in, listen to Bret Hart, he'll go,
[lisping] "Hello, who's speaking?"
Because he'll be talking without any teeth.
[Vince] In different rooms on a Superstar Line as we speak,
Undertaker and Kama.
Oh, look at this.
Look at this, Bret Hart now, I see as he right hands it,
a knee by Isaac Yankem.
Well, thus far.
Look at that, he followed-up with an elbow,
thus far I'm impressed with Isaac Yankem.
[Jerry] You're gonna be more impressed. Don't worry about that.
This man has been a great wrestler in the past
under an assumed name.
[Vince] What was his assumed name?
[Jerry] I'm not gonna tell you that.
He only wants everybody to know him by his name and it's Yankem,
not yank 'em.
[Vince] Bret Hart-- Bret Hart, oh, no.
Caught in mid-air and slammed on the canvas.
Yankem, off the rope and, no.
[crowd cheering]
Yankem on the receiving end,
Bret "The Hitman" Hart pouring over the mid-section now.
Bret Hart, up and at 'em. The Hitman-- Oh-oh.
Rake to the face turns him back around.
[Jerry] Yeah. Come on, Isaac.
I don't want him to finish him off too quick.
I want him to sort of make him suffer.
[Vince] Isaac Yankem.
-[Jerry] To make it painful. -With decaying teeth.
Imagine how bad the man's breath is. Have you gotten that close to him?
-You must've. -Don't worry about that, McMahon.
Don't worry about his breath. oh!
[Vince] To the buckle, Yankem driving the elbow again.
Speaking of teeth and breath,
I wonder why Stu and Helen didn't come along with Bret.
I heard-- I heard Stu, Bret's father, goes to the dentist twice a year,
once for each tooth.
[Vince] A hard right hand by Yankem.
Bret Hart now to the buckle, now Isaac Yankem, missing on the elbow.
-Bret Hart an opportunity… -[Jerry] Look out.
[Vince] Right to the spine area.
Yankem down with a clothesline.
Bret Hart off the rope now, another clothesline.
[Jerry] Get out of there, Isaac.
[Vince] Bret Hart with momentum now and over the top.
[Jerry] Oh!
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Sit down, Jerry Lawler.
[Jerry] Come on, Isaac.
Come on.
Bret Hart, what is he… Over the top.
Look at that.
[Jerry] Look at Bret Hart, he's pulling out all the stops,
he'll do anything to beat my man.
Come on, Isaac!
[Vince] And Bret Hart taking matters into his own hands
on the outside with a couple of kicks to the sternum area.
Isaac Yankem on the receiving end of the headbutt,
hexed on the outside as well as the inside.
Bret Hart with a score to settle here, this is personal, no question about it.
Thanks to you, Jerry Lawler.
[Jerry] Come on, ref.
The referee should have disqualified Bret Hart already.
-What do you mean he should have? -He's out there pounding
my dentist on the floor.
He's supposed to stay in the ring.
-[Vince] Bret Hart now. -Look out. Look out.
[Vince] Up on the second rope and a clothesline, nailing Isaac Yankem.
-Yankem… -No, no, no. Oh, no.
[Vince] Here we go.
Sharpshooter coming up.
Yankem, sharpshooter on to a receiving end of a headbutt
to the lower abdominal region.
[Jerry] Come on Isaac.
I still think, McMahon, that Isaac is just waiting for…
he's waiting for Bret Hart to just wear himself out.
[Vince] Oh, my goodness. He's waiting for what?
[Jerry] Bret Hart to wear himself out.
-[Vince] Yankem. -Spent all his energy.
You don't know how strong…
[Vince] Oh, wait a minute, Isaac Yankem for the cover, yes.
Two and yes! Oh, that was close.
The look on your face.
Oh, my goodness.
Jerry Lawler, ladies and gentleman, concerned.
As well he should be. Reversal there, off the rope and over the Hit--
-No. Yeah. -[Jerry] Yeah.
Yeah.
[Jerry] Get out. Get out.
One, two and-- Almost the count of three.
And again, a concerned look on Jerry Lawler's face.
[Jerry] Come on. Get him, Yankem.
[Vince] You're supposed to be impartial, you always remind me of that.
[Jerry] You're supposed to be impartial.
[Vince] But you're-- Please.
Yankem, now, with a reversal.
Bret Hart underneath the roundhouse from the other side
and Bret Hart…
[Jerry] Drop him, whoa.
Dropped down across the rope on-- Holding the rope.
[Jerry] Come on. Go to work on him Isaac.
You see, Isaac and I are friends.
-You're friends? -Yeah, I care about--
I don't have any friends.
I care about what happens to this guy.
Nothing makes close friends like having a common enemy
and we both hate Bret Hart.
[Vince] Why would Isaac Yankem hate Bret Hart?
[Jerry] Because of what he did to me.
Oh, man.
Yes, yes.
[crowd booing]
[Vince] Jerry "The King" Lawler applauding the skills of Isaac Yankem.
-And Bret Hart arguably… -[Jerry] I think his teeth are loose.
Bret Hart the greatest technical wrestler in the history of the WWE,
but we haven't seen a great deal of that technical skill applied
and this could very well-- Look, we see a disqualification coming up!
Almost.
[Jerry] Just showing just a little bit of that strength.
Go for his teeth. Go for his teeth.
-[Vince] His teeth? -Yeah.
See, you didn't see it McMahon, when he was coming to the ring
he was giving away toothbrushes
and he tried to give some kids toothpaste and the kid said,
"I don't need that, my teeth aren't loose."
[Vince] Unbelievable.
[Jerry] Come on, Isaac. Look at this.
[crowd chattering]
[Vince] A counter, one, two and three.
-Got it. -No.
Isaac Yankem with an opportunity to really make a name for himself,
this is our first look at Isaac Yankem, DDS, in action.
Come on.
If Isaac Yankem can defeat Bret Hart, what feather in his cap.
His first outing and a victory over Bret Hart.
Unbelievable.
Anything can happen here in the WWE.
Yankem, a big strong individual,
over 300 pounds.
Oh, oh, look at this.
[Jerry] Oh, my. Oh, my.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] That's the old dentist pull.
[Vince] Oh, wait a minute.
A reversal, one, two, it's over.
It's not over. It's not over yet.
And Jerry Lawler is breathless.
[Jerry] Come on, Isaac.
And a kick to the ribs by Isaac Yankem.
[Jerry] You don't know what this means to me, McMahon?
[Vince] I think I have some idea.
[Jerry] You don't know what it was like having to kiss his rotten, stinking foot.
I would have rather give mouth-to-mouth recitation to a hog with halitosis,
it was horrible.
Come on, Isaac.
[Vince] What? Bret Hart's foot was probably bad enough,
what about your own stuffed down in your mouth?
What did that taste like?
[Jerry] Like Carnation Milk compared to his.
Three, four, five. Come on.
[Jerry] Come on, Isaac.
[Vince] Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
[Jerry] Look at this.
[Vince] No, I wouldn't agree with that.
It's all right to disqualify someone but keep your hands off the official.
-Oh, my goodness. -[Jerry] Yes, yes.
[Vince] No one should touch an official
and no official should touch a WWE Superstar.
[Jerry] You got that right.
[Vince] I bet interim president Gorilla Monsoon will have
something to say about this.
[Jerry] Yeah. Tell him. Tell him. Tell him.
-[Vince] Now, wait a minute. -What?
[Vince] What is the meaning of that doctor's bag
that Yankem brought to ringside? What's-- What does he have in that bag?
Wait a minute. Pow.
-Oh, no. -[Jerry laughing]
Blast him, Yankem.
Blast him.
[Vince] Jerry Lawler-- Oh, no.
Right in front of us and down goes Bret Hart.
[crowd chattering]
[Jerry] Look at that.
-Bret Hart on the… -[Jerry] What's the matter, Hitman?
[Vince] Wait a minute. Look at this, Lawler.
[Jerry] Hey, Hitman. You don't look so tough now, do you?
Look at him.
[crowd chattering]
[Jerry] What's the matter Hitman, huh?
[crowd chattering]
[Vince] Bret back up on his feet.
A moment ago, Jerry Lawler bending down yelling at "The Hitman" Bret Hart.
[Jerry] I like to grab him by that stringy hair of his
and pull it out by the roots. Do it for me Isaac.
Do it for me, baby.
Drill him right now.
[Vince] Yankem with the hard right.
Yankem with another forearm into the back. Uppercut.
Wait a minute, what's this?
[Jerry] Bret Hart begging for some Novocain.
[Vince] Wait a minute look.
Don't tell me he's going all the way up to the top.
[Jerry] Come on!
[whooping]
[Vince] No.
Unbelievable.
On cover, one, two, yes. No.
Bret Hart lifting his shoulder just in a nick of time.
And Isaac Yankem upset over that call by the official.
[Jerry] Pinfall if I've ever seen one.
Get on him, Isaac.
[Vince] Bret Hart ducking out of the way.
Bret Hart-- No.
Bret Hart down to the canvas
[Jerry] Yes.
[crowd chattering]
[Vince] Isaac Yankem, DDS.
[Jerry] He's doing-- He's doing it for me, McMahon.
He's doing it for me.
[Vince] Oh, whatever he's doing, it's obviously a very effective job
here on Bret "The Hitman" Hart.
[crowd chattering]
One, two-- No, and kick-out again by Bret Hart.
And wait a minute.
Yankem on the outside.
[Jerry] Yankem, get in the ring.
[Vince] Isaac Yankem, back up.
Bret Hart, wait, wait a minute. Look at this.
[crowd cheering]
Bret Hart diving through the ropes, hammering with Isaac Yankem.
Got him into the steel steps
and that will knock your teeth out if anything left.
Things are turning not well for Isaac Yankem at the moment.
Bret Hart back in the ring now.
The Hitman trying to set up Isaac Yankem, DDS.
Can the Hitman? Wait a minute.
Here we go and, ah! That'll do it.
One, two and then yes! No. No.
The Hitman Bret Hart determined to win this match, determined.
[Jerry] My voice is gone, McMahon.
What are you gonna do without me?
[Vince] The rope. No.
No. And wait a minute, Bret Hart, that's it.
[Jerry] No.
-[Vince] Cover. Bret Hart do, it. -[Jerry] No, no.
[Vince] Two. Yes.
We got three, didn't we?
Bret Hart with a look of disdain on his face,
thought for sure we had a three count.
[Jerry] Come on.
On the big dentist from Decatur, Illinois.
And what's gonna happen here?
[Jerry] Oh, no.
Can Bret Hart put away this big monster?
Bret Hart, here we go. Please don't do it.
[Jerry] Get outta the way.
The Hitman up and…
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] That should do it.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Here we go.
-The sharpshooter. -[Jerry] No!
-Over. -[Jerry] No.
That's gonna do it.
[crowd cheering]
Yes.
Hey, wait.
Wait a minute.
What are you doing?
Jerry "the King" Lawler joining inside the ring.
Isaac Yankem got on the rope.
The hold must be broken.
[indistinct yelling]
The sharpshooter would've got Yankem in a matter of seconds
and then perhaps surrender.
It was Lawler who shook that rope.
Look at this from behind.
[crowd cheering]
Landing on his feet.
Yankem, look at Bret Hart.
A big forearm across the back of the neck.
Jerry "The King" Lawler has put the…
Oh, yeah!
Lawler has to get back to broadcast position.
A cheerleader with misjudgment.
He'll do anything to help Yankem finish off Bret Hart.
Maybe finish his career.
[crowd jeering]
Yeah, yeah.
[Vince] Isaac Yankem on the apron.
Wait a minute. He's going up.
A big dentist going up to the top and now right on top.
For the ride.
[crowd cheering]
Isaac Yankem in big time trouble now.
[crowd cheering]
Bret Hart pounding away with a vengeance, as Lawler looks on.
He's completely forgotten his broadcast obligation.
Yankem back to the other corner.
Nicely done.
Bret's gonna do that again.
Wait a minute, to the outside.
Wait a minute. Oh, no.
[crowd cheering]
What's Bret Hart doing?
Oh no, Bret Hart hog-tying Yankem by the outside.
Come on! Disqualify him.
Disqualify him. He can't do that.
[Vince] Jerry Lawler beside himself…
And Bret doesn't care if he's disqualified. Look at this.
Bret Hart intent on hammering away.
Isaac Yankem in big-time trouble.
Wait a minute. Lawler is in the ring.
He is almost in the ring, but he's back out now.
Hey, what do you--Where are you going?
Wait a minute.
What's this? Oh!
[crowd cheering]
Hitman trying to give Lawler another one.
Another one.
Bret hammering…
Oh, no.
And Isaac Yankem drilling Bret Hart.
This match is way out of hand.
[ref] Two, three…
Bret Hart shoved back in the ring with assistance from Lawler.
Yankem with Bret Hart now.
What's he gonna do?
Bret Hart was taking it to Jerry "The King" Lawler on the outside
until Yankem came off from way up above on the other side and missed.
[crowd cheering]
The Hitman now backs up again and…
And wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Lawler's dirty habits.
Lawler hanging onto him.
Got him. Oh!
Wait a minute, Jerry Lawler hanging on.
Five, six, seven…
Look, what are they doing? What are they doing?
[bell ringing]
[ref] Disqualified.
[Vince] Get him away from there.
Bret Hart is hanging in the rope.
They're pulling him.
They're pulling him, adding more pressure.
[bell ringing]
[Vince] A deliberate disqualification.
Yankem and Jerry Lawler pulling on Bret Hart.
[bell ringing]
Please, somebody stop that.
Bret Hart tangled in the rope.
[Vince] Bret Hart trying to… trying to loosen the rope.
[bell ringing]
[indistinct yelling]
[Vince] Yankem finally… Pulling Yankem away.
Bret Hart trying to get off the ropes.
And finally Bret Hart on the canvas.
[crowd booing]
[Vince] This match is way out of hand, way out of line.
Jerry Lawler and Isaac Yankem, I believe now came into this matchup
not even caring whether they won or lost,
just to give damage to Bret Hart and did they do damage.
[indistinct yelling]
And wonder whether or not Bret being tangled up,
being choked in that rope
means Bret Hart is gonna need medical assistance.
"The Hitman" Bret Hart trying to get back to his feet.
Look at concern on a lot of youngsters' faces.
Yes, Bret Hart getting back up and Bret Hart is angry.
This will be a night that Hitman Bret Hart will never forget, I can tell you that.
Bret Hart caught in the middle of ropes, chokes.
Bret Hart, the official victor as a result of a blatant disqualification.
It was blatant. Make no mistake about that.
But, nonetheless, the Hitman back up on his own power.
Let's take you over now, ladies and gentlemen, to Dok.
Are you there, Dok?
Vince, I can't believe what I've just seen,
but I'm standing here with Razor Ramon, The Bad Guy.
He's got an opportunity to make history,
become the first four-time Intercontinental champion.
Will it be the same result as WrestleMania X?
Will history repeat itself?
You know Dok, that history,
it got a way of repeating itself.
And I know, Boy Toy, you say that was then and this is now.
A new time, a new place…
[man] Bret, you okay, Bret?
A new era.
And let's face it, we're the new generation.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but Razor, you know,
he's the Evel Knievel of the World Wrestling Federation.
He doesn't mind taking chances.
You know what, me?
I take a chance, every chance I get.
And Boy Toy, chico, it is not just your precious gold that is on the line.
It is your body, your career.
I'm willing to turn it out tonight, man.
And you know why?
Because your pain brings me pleasure.
You say the time for talking is through.
You're ready to dance?
Well, Razor, he leads.
Well, there you have it, the anticipated wait.
Now, back to you, Vince.
[Vince] Thank you, Dok Hendrix. Yes, indeed, ladies and gentlemen.
Here comes The Bad Guy.
[announcer] Our next contest is a ladder match.
It is for the World Wrestling Federation Intercontinental championship.
The only way to win is by climbing the ladder
and retaining the WWE Intercontinental championship belt
suspended above the ring.
Introducing first from Miami, Florida, weighing 287 pounds,
The Bad Guy, Razor Ramon.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] A thunderous ovation for the Bad Guy, Razor Ramon.
And what a matchup is this going to be.
Yes, WrestleMania X was some match that everyone will never ever forget.
You wonder, can this upcoming match
equal the one at WrestleMania X.
Who knows what's gonna happen.
It's live, it's SummerSlam, it's the World Wrestling Federation.
[crowd cheering]
[entrance music playing]
[Vince] All right.
Four-time WWE Intercontinental Champion, should he win here tonight.
However, I can tell you this.
As badly as The Bad Guy Razor Ramon
wants to take the title from Shawn Michaels,
-Michaels once the-- Here we go! -[Micheals entrance music playing]
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Take a look at this.
[announcer] World Wrestling Federation Intercontinental champion,
the Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels.
[Vince] This man is being like that!
[music continues]
[Vince] And bringing to the match, the ladder.
Here we go.
[crowd cheering]
Shawn Michaels climbing up one side of the ladder and down the other.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] What an ovation!
[music continues]
[crowd cheering]
[fan] Bah! Sit down!
[Vince] Shawn Michaels.
Shawn Michaels getting ready to rock the house, rock the Igloo,
here live in Pittsburgh at SummerSlam.
The Intercontinental title is up for grabs.
Shawn Michaels ready to lock up with Razor Ramon,
but in a moment, we're gonna have the lowering, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes, here it comes.
We're trying to lower what is going to hold
the Intercontinental Championship belt.
Yes, everyone looking up.
That, ladies and gentlemen,
is going to hold the Intercontinental Championship belt.
Both men with the opportunity to make WWE wrestling history here tonight.
Two great competitors.
Shawn Michaels, unquestionably one of the greatest athletes to ever
step into the ring of the World Wrestling Federation,
against The Bad Guy Razor Ramon.
You could feel this anticipation.
This electricity.
Joining me now, ladies and gentlemen, in the broadcast position, Dok Hendrix.
Dok, unbelievable action thus far here tonight.
[Dok] I just can't believe it.
When they say there's nothing hotter than SummerSlam,
they ain't lying. And I'm gonna tell you right now
I couldn't leave you in a lurch. I had to come out and help you.
-In a lurch? -In a lurch.
I'd been carrying you for months on Superstars.
Don't thank me now. Let's get to this match.
I can't wait to see this match.
[Vince] All right. Here we go.
Hanging in the balance, the Intercontinental Championship belt.
Yes, it is glistening from high above.
A ladder will be needed to come into the ring.
And wait a minute.
What we have here is the officials protesting.
You would have to be Andre the Giant and have a jet pack on your back
to be able to reach that.
But, now, this is gonna have to be positioned.
[Dok] An interesting point about SummerSlam,
this is the eighth SummerSlam
and in the previous seven,
the Intercontinental title has swapped hands,
has been a hot potato with the exception of 1993.
[Vince] It has indeed been a very, very hot potato.
And wait a minute. Now, Shawn Michaels says lift it up.
Wait a minute. What's this about?
[bell ringing]
[Vince] All right.
In any event, both men looking up.
The bell has rung.
And Razor wants it, so does Michaels.
I mean, that championship belt is way up there.
A little consultation going on now.
Two men, both wanting to go.
[crowd cheering]
Don't wait for-- Oh, my goodness!
[Dok] All right.
[Vince] Razor hammering away on Michaels.
Razor now, ring set up.
Razor off the rope over Michaels.
Look at this. Unbelievable.
Look at that. Whoa. Look at the skill.
Look at the speed of Michaels missing with the kick.
Razor hanging on the rope.
He knew it was coming.
[Dok] Razor Ramon is gonna watch out for that Sweet Chin Music.
[Vince] If Michaels nails Razor with the kick, he's gonna go out.
[Dok] Oh, yes, if I'm Razor Ramon, I attack the legs of Shawn Michaels.
I take that offensive weapon away immediately.
[Vince] Locking back up now.
A roundhouse, but nobody home,
and Shawn Michaels so quick.
Michaels little quick left and a right.
Oh, look out, now Michaels puts on a brake, but nobody's there.
Razor with the-- Oh, no!
Oh, oh, baby.
Razor's Edge almost applied. Did you see that back over there?
[Dok] Yes, I did, both men… Both men trying to end it early.
They both obviously done their homework.
[Vince] No question about that.
They have come here, ladies and gentlemen,
to have a go at it, and that they'll do.
Michaels winding up The Bad Guy.
Razor Ramon with a bit of reversal there,
working on the left arm and so, Razor, the larger of the two.
Razor now, uh-oh, on the receiving end of a right hand,
and another.
Michaels reaches up.
Lefts and rights with a lot of technical skill, and…
Whoa.
[Dok] Wow.
[Vince] Now that was powerful on the part of Razor Ramon.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] And he's gonna get the ladder,
you got to remember, Razor Ramon's six-seven,
it's gonna be easier for him to reach the belt than Shawn Michaels.
[Vince] Wait a minute, Michaels is coming after him.
[crowd cheering]
And again, ladies and gentlemen, the object of this match
is simply to retrieve the ladder, bring it back in the ring,
and grab the Intercontinental Championship belt from high above
and take it off
and then from there, if you're the holder of the Intercontinental belt,
you're the winner.
And here we go, and… No, don't tell me.
Razor, blocking… Michaels.
Oh, oh.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] I might suggest that's it.
[Vince] Yes, that is it.
Oh, wait a minute, Michaels is moving.
[crowd cheering]
[man] Yeah! Get him!
Do it again.
[Vince] Shawn Michaels unquestionably the most resilient athlete
in the history of the World Wrestling Federation.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Michaels now thrown back,
let's go to a double feature if we have it.
Razor, that's live action on the right.
Look at this. Michaels all the way over the top, Michaels down.
Look at that, unbelievable.
Back to the live action,
Michaels on his feet, maybe not for long.
Here we go. Here comes Razor's Edge.
[crowd cheering]
Michaels, yes, backslide!
Michaels missing with the boot.
And a double clothesline and both men go down.
Unbelievable.
-I thought that was gonna be it. -[Dok] I did, too.
Both of them giving it their all.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] Who are you rooting for?
I just hope both men come out of this alright,
both men great competitors.
There is no question.
At WrestleMania X,
that particular ladder match that both men were involved in before
took extraordinary something of each contestant, out of each athlete,
I didn't think they'd ever be the same again, and maybe they weren't.
Razor, reversing it.
Razor whipping Michaels, this time high above.
[Dok] Oh!
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Look at this, oh, Razor with Michaels, yes.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] Unbelievable, I'll tell you who the big winner here is tonight,
it's gonna end up being Sycho Sid,
because he's gonna be relishing this as he watches this.
[Vince] No question about that, Sycho Sid will meet the winner
of this matchup on September 11.
It will be on Monday Night Raw.
Sid to meet either Razor Ramon
or Shawn Michaels.
[crowd cheering]
And here he comes,
Razor's gonna bring the ladder into the ring,
so Razor, the first man to put the ladder in play.
[crowd yelling]
[Dok] Come on, Razor.
[Vince] Razor bringing the ladder to the ring.
Wait a minute, Sycho Sid looking on, watching live action.
Let's go back out to the arena.
And look at-- Oh!
The angle-- Oh God!
[crowd cheering]
Sycho Sid watching this matchup,
who will he face and what condition the one will that individual be in?
Wait a minute, here we go.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] Here goes, the four-time Intercontinental champion.
History in the making.
Climbing the stairway to heaven.
[Vince] Climbing up, reaching for it. And no!
[crowd cheering]
Shawn Michaels coming in just in the nick of time.
[Dok] Okay. Come on, Shawn.
You're rooting for Shawn to win?
[Dok] No, I don't care.
[Vince] The ladder in play now.
Oh, wait a minute.
Michaels, what's he gonna do with the ladder?
Michaels inadvertently…
Inadvertent, I think it was.
-[Dok] I think he meant to do it. -Nailing Razor Ramon.
No, I don't think so.
He's trying to set the ladder back up.
Here we go, Michaels is gonna retrieve the belt.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Michaels going upstairs.
Razor trying to grab the ladder.
He has an ankle.
He has two ankles.
[crowd cheering]
Razor kicked off.
At the full moon.
Razor.
Can't stop, Shawn Michaels.
[Dok] Oh, no.
[Vince] Oh, no.
Did you see that?
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] He had to tear his knee on that, Vince.
[crowd cheering]
How can the ladder take the punishment?
[Vince] I don't know, but Shawn Michaels' really wrenched his knee
as Razor yanked him off the ladder.
Now, it's Razor's time.
Look at this,
Razor, what's he gonna do?
Let's go back another look…
Razor taking advantage of the unfortunate legs in there with Shawn Michaels.
Oh, no.
Unbelievable!
That's live action on the right.
Look at this, Michaels catching his leg and wrenching that knee.
Back to the action, oh, no.
This is such an intelligent move on Razor Ramon's part.
[Dok] Shawn's leg is injured,
thus, it will hamper him or totally annihilate him
from being able to complete his super kick.
[Vince] Michaels in big trouble now.
Shawn Michaels, ladies and gentlemen, coming to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
[Dok] Come on, Razor.
You just said, "Come on, Shawn," earlier.
[Dok] I know. See, I'm very objective.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] And again the ladder is in play.
Unfortunately for Shawn Michaels,
and Razor Ramon with his aggressive tactics,
receiving a few boos here from this capacity crowd.
But that's what it's all about, as Razor tries to win.
Wait a minute, I'm not so sure about that.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok]I think he slipped.
[Vince] Was Razor trying to set the ladder up
or was he trying to hit Shawn Michaels?
Razor Ramon will make sure that Michaels will not be able to climb the ladder.
Oh, no, here it comes.
A scoop, oh.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] That's it.
Razor Ramon will make sure that Shawn Michaels will not
climb the ladder all right.
I'm not so sure that Michaels will ever be the same.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] Oh, this is great. I got the best seat in the house.
[Vince] Razor Ramon, with very aggressive tactics here.
Razor with Shawn Michaels now, right where he wants him.
What's he gonna do?
whip him to the ladder. No, he can't whip him into the ladder.
Razor had the ladder set up.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] The Bad Guy, oh, my goodness,
is he ever working on that leg?
-Look at that. -[Dok] Very intelligent.
[Vince] Let's face it, if Michaels cannot stand up,
he certainly can't climb a ladder.
Oh, my goodness.
Razor driving in there to the hamstring area.
[Dok] Ask him, was he willing to put his body on the line.
[Vince] Oh, no, wait a minute.
[crowd cheering]
Razor with bad ribs and now just took a shot.
Right in the ribs with the ladder.
But can Michaels capitalize?
He's trying to get back up.
No. Michaels, he has that knee bending.
Oh, no.
Ramon with Michaels up and, oh.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] The Bad Guy is being beautifully bad. Ha!
[Vince] Razor Ramon wants to be the first man to ever
be the fourth-time Intercontinental champion.
And I guess maybe he's pulling out all the stops.
And again highly unusual WWE action here at SummerSlam.
We've seen a casket match, and here in the ladder match
anything goes as well.
[Dok] Well, I wonder how Bret Hart is.
[Vince] Wait a minute, look at this. Over the top. Gonna get him now, Dok?
[Vince] Oh, no.
Razor, oh, my goodness.
[Dok] Razor Ramon will not be denied here, Vinnie Mac.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Razor Ramon, oh, no.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] Oh, yes.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Razor Ramon continuing to make sure Michaels will not be
the victor, and no one knows Shawn Michaels
any better than Razor Ramon.
Razor knows of the tenacity.
Razor knows of the perseverance of Shawn Michaels.
Razor Ramon is not taking any chances
and I can't believe Michaels is on his feet,
going for the right hand, and another,
Razor setup Michaels off the rope,
and drop toehold nicely done.
[Dok] Smart wrestling maneuver there.
[Vince] Wait a minute, oh, no.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] I am super impressed here.
[Vince] Seventeen months ago it was Razor Ramon and Shawn Michaels,
the ladder match in Madison Square Garden.
It was Razor Ramon the victor.
And it appears as though there will be the same result here.
Let's not forget last year at SummerSlam,
[Dok] Razor Ramon won the Intercontinental title there.
[Vince] Yes, indeed.
[crowd cheering]
Here comes the ladder again.
[Dok] I feel for Shawn.
Ah!
[Vince] I don't think that was an accident.
I don't think that was an accident.
[Dok] Playing for keeps here.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Razor Ramon, with a foot to the midsection.
And now Michaels pretty much out of this match.
As Razor puts up the ladder,
Razor Ramon starts to climb.
Razor Ramon going upstairs.
Wait a minute, Michaels is hoisting himself with his hands.
Michaels, oh, my goodness.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] That's why they call him the Heartbreak Kid.
Nobody's got more heart than Shawn Michaels.
[Vince] I'll grant you that.
A desperate move on the part of Shawn Michaels,
nonetheless successful.
[Dok] Come on, Shawn.
[Vince] You were rooting for Razor a moment ago.
[Dok] I told you I don't care. It's just the greatest match I've ever seen.
[Vince] Razor Ramon and Shawn Michaels going at it, Pittsburgh, SummerSlam.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] And I'm not too sure if that was not intentional
on the part of Michaels.
Who can blame him?
Shawn Michaels with that left leg, obviously screaming in pain.
Nonetheless, no quitting this match.
Both Michaels and Razor making their way back to the ladder.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] Sycho Sid has to be licking his chops.
[Vince] Here we go.
Razor Ramon, hurry up.
Michaels got to do something quick.
Michaels climbing up.
Michaels and Razor Ramon and…
Oh!
[crowd cheering]
And that took a tremendous sum, I'm sure.
A lot of damage to Razor,
but Michaels himself, by delivering that blow,
had to feel it as well, but Michaels is on his feet.
Michaels holding… Wait a minute.
What's he doing on the ladder? He folds it up.
Uh-oh. Michaels is folding up the ladder.
Michaels blocks away and retaliate and again and again.
Michaels now with some steam.
Ramon for the line.
Oh, no. Reversal.
No, reversed again.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] Oh.
[Vince] Razor Ramon in trouble.
Michaels puts the ladder in the other corner.
Ramon, yes.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] He's a pinball.
[Vince] Oh, my goodness, the pinball.
Wow.
Shawn Michaels hooks up Razor.
Slamming onto the canvas.
Now, what's gonna happen?
[Dok] Lord only knows.
[Vince] Michaels sets up the ladder.
Michaels trying to-- Wait a minute. What's he doing?
He's going… Why is he going upstairs there?
[Dok]Don't tell me…
[Vince] He's gonna make a leap. Michaels is gonna make a leap.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Michaels…
Here were go.
Michaels sacking him.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Michaels going upstairs.
The ladder is out of position.
Can he make this with his athletic ability?
Can he reach from the top where he climbed to the ladder
and grab the belt.
[Dok] High risk.
Michaels from the top.
What's gonna happen?
Michaels… No!
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] He should have gone for it when he had a chance, Vinnie Mac.
Come on, Razor.
[Vince] Both men knew full well
but neither likely to be the same after this match was over.
But there's no question about that.
And no one has been victorious yet.
Who knows how long this match is gonna go.
And as you brought up early on,
Sycho Sid back in the locker room area, watching this matchup.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] And there we go with the double feature again.
Razor, look at that.
Unbelievable.
Back to live action on the right in your screen.
It's Razor with the ladder.
Razor recovering.
Razor is gonna go upstairs.
[Dok] Don't tell me they're both gonna try to climb it.
[Vince] There we go again, another shot
at what Shawn Michaels did earlier… and no one there.
Moving out of the radius in the nick of time.
But now, both men trying to--
Look at this, on opposite sides of the ladder. Keep going up.
[Dok] Come on, Shawn.
Come on, Razor.
Come on, Shawn. Come on, Razor.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Razor Ramon, the taller of the two.
Michaels, perhaps the gutsier.
I'm not sure.
The tension builds and build.
A right now, a retaliation, another one.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Both men hammering. Oh, my goodness.
Look at that.
Headbutt.
Whoever stays up-- No! Oh no.
[crowd cheering]
And Michaels straddling the top rope as Razor Ramon drops to the outside.
[Dok] Sycho Sid and the Million Dollar Man have to be dancing in the streets.
[Vince] Unbelievable.
[Dok] Whoever wins this is gonna lose the title on September 11,
no doubt.
[Vince] Razor Ramon starting to move.
Will he have the gumption to get back into the ring?
Can Shawn Michaels get back up after straddling the top rope?
Wait a minute. Let's go back and take a look at it again.
Look at this.
Oh, my goodness.
Devastating.
Back to live action. It's Michaels with the ladder.
Razor getting back up.
Unbelievable tenacity.
Michaels, oh, no.
Michaels tried, I believe, to hit Razor.
He did not.
[Dok] He went for broke. I'd say he's busted.
[Vince] Both men having to take a rest.
Razor underneath the ring.
Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon will never be the same,
not after this one.
Interim WWE president Gorilla Monsoon ordered the ladder match
after the Shawn Michaels, Sycho Sid match had been announced.
Monsoon said, "No. That's not what the WWE fans wanna see."
"They wanna see a ladder match."
And that's what we have here tonight live from Pittsburgh at SummerSlam.
What a match.
[Dok] I'd say if I was DiBiase and Sycho Sid,
it was a blessing in disguise changing the match.
[Vince] It may have been. Sycho Sid though extremely upset.
Wait a minute. What's he doing?
[Dok] What's Razor…
[Vince] Hey, wait a minute.
Razor Ramon is pulling out that standby ladder.
Razor Ramon, when he was under the ring,
when he looked under the ring saw the standby ladder
in the event the first one broke.
What's this?
I've never seen this before.
Michaels sets the ladder up.
Michaels is going up.
Razor back on his feet.
Can he stop Michaels?
[Dok] He better.
[Vince] Oh, my goodness, did you hear that?
Did you see that? Oh, no. Wait a minute.
[Dok] Razor's Edge, bye-bye.
[Vince] Micheals, and down!
[Dok] Well, you got to give it to Shawn.
He gave it his all.
[Vince] Shawn Michaels on the receiving end of the Razor's Edge.
But Razor can't capitalize.
He's had too much taken out of him.
[Dok] Oh, I hate to see someone lose a match like this.
[Vince] Razor Ramon pulled out that standby ladder.
Yes. We are live.
We're in the Igloo, a record-setting crowd
watching this extraordinary historic event.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] And Michaels maybe out for good.
Razor… Starting to move.
Razor Ramon trying to get himself together.
Looks up at the Intercontinental Championship belt.
[Dok] Come on, Razor.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Razor Ramon now.
What's he gonna do?
[Dok] Hopefully put the ladder up and go get it.
[Vince] Razor looking upstairs, has the standby ladder.
I'm not so sure which one of the two…
or which one is the legal ladder.
It does it matter, I don't know.
We've never seen this before.
Ramon…
-[Dok] Well, there it is. -Sets up his own ladder.
Razor Ramon is gonna go up.
Shawn Michaels is-- Wait a minute.
Michaels is starting to move.
I can't believe it.
Shawn Michaels inching over.
Razor now.
[Dok] Come on, Razor.
[Vince] Wait a minute. Look at this.
Michaels is trying to get up.
[Dok] Come on, Shawn.
Shawn Michaels climbing his ladder.
Razor climbing the opposite ladder.
Who's gonna get there first?
[Dok] Razor is taller.
[Vince] Razor just grabbed it. Oh, a kick in the rib, he goes down.
[Dok] Shawn.
[Vince] Can Michaels get it?
No. He can't get it either.
And Michaels is hurt.
Unbelievable.
[Dok] So close yet so far.
[Vince] Both men down.
I thought we had seen it all in the first ladder match, we hadn't.
[Dok] No. Not indeed.
[Vince] Michaels… Oh, no, wait a minute.
Here he comes, Razor's Edge.
Oh, no.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Can Michaels do it?
Now, there's time.
Now, there's a chance.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] Come on, Shawn.
[Vince] Michaels is going up.
Michaels somehow putting one foot in front of the other.
Michaels can't reach it.
Michaels is going up again.
Michaels, now, can he do it?
Yes.
No. No.
He can't do it.
Michaels is now beside himself.
Look at this.
Can he do it this time?
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Razor is starting to move.
And he got it. He got it. He got it.
[crowd cheering]
[bell ringing]
[music playing]
[Dok] Wow.
[announcer] The winner of the match and still the Intercontinental champion,
the Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels.
[Vince] Wait a minute. Look at Razor.
Razor, what's gonna happen?
Razor grabs the Intercontinental championship belt.
[Dok] Hit him. Hit him.
-[Vince] Stop it. -Why?
[Vince] We've seen an extraordinarily athletic event here.
Razor spins Shawn Michaels around.
[Dok] Come on, hit him, hit him.
Razor hands him the Intercontinental Championship belt.
Look at this.
Yes.
[crowd cheering]
That's what it's all about.
[Dok] Aw.
[Vince] That's what it's all about for sure!
One of the most competitive WWE matches ever.
[music continues]
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] They took it to each other.
Michaels, Razor Ramon, unquestionably rematch of the century,
it could very well be.
Shawn Michaels deservingly
put the Intercontinental Championship belt over his shoulder.
The most resilient WWE Superstar there is today.
Unquestionably, the most flamboyant as well.
And some would even say the most athletic.
You wonder whether or not Dean Douglas will agree with this.
Let's take you now to the satellite classroom of Dean Douglas.
Go get 'em, Shawn.
Wow, I thought I've seen it all.
But let's start right off with the definition of "bad."
A failure to reach an acceptable level of performance.
I think here tonight here at SummerSlam,
the entire world sat in awe
and saw exactly why The Bad Guy… [laughs]
…Razor Ramon is called The Bad Guy.
Let's backtrack for just a second.
There is a slang or a street use of the word bad,
but we'll not go with that one because that means good.
Instead, let's go with the proper definition of what bad is all about
because it means failure to--
Yo, chico, I don't need some armchair quarterback,
some bookworm telling The Bad Guy how to fight.
No, wait.
All you've done so far is talk, man.
Now, wait one second.
You got no right to barge in here in my section of the…
Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah? Let's get it on.
Just wait one second there, my friend.
Wait one second.
This is a classroom and we don't need any violence here.
Well, that's what I thought there, Dean.
You all bluff and no stuff.
Okay.
Any way you want it.
[grunts]
Come on, chico.
You want some, man?
You wanna get it on, man?
You want some more, chico?
[Vince] Unbelievable.
Don't say it, bring it.
[Vince] Unbelievable.
Razor Ramon, ladies and gentlemen, taking it to Dean Douglas.
Douglas is angry, oh, my goodness. Oh, my.
Well, I was kind of glad to see him do it to him.
I never have liked chico.
[Vince] Oh, my goodness.
We just finished one extraordinary matchup.
Here we go. Here comes Mabel.
[bell ringing]
Or should I say King Mabel.
[Dok] And possibly the future WWE champion.
[announcer] Introducing first and accompanied by Sir Mo,
from Harlem, New York, weighing 568 pounds, King Mabel.
[Vince] 568 pounds and those men are struggling
carrying Mabel to the squared circle.
You wonder what kind of a struggle will the WWE champion Diesel have
with this huge monster, King Mabel.
The Royal Plan thus far has been flawless, Dok.
[Dok] Yes, it has and we've already seen that the Bulldog is in the building.
I know that Luger is here. I know Luger's involved.
[funky music playing]
All right. Ladies and gentlemen, you don't know that, no one--
-You don't know who's here. -[Dok] I got good sources.
[Vince] I know the British Bulldog is definitely here. We saw him earlier on.
All right. Let's take you now, ladies and gentlemen, to Todd Pettengill.
Thank you, Vince. You've been talking about the Royal Plan, this is it.
All the talking stops here tonight,
the 568 pound King Mabel on his way to the ring,
World Wrestling Federation championship.
This is it, Diesel.
You know something, people are talking about the Royal Plan.
Let me tell you something.
I don't know if this is smacks from Davey Boy Smith
or Big Mabel dropping those legs on Big Daddy Cool,
but Diesel is gone and Big Daddy Cool is alive.
You wanna play knights in shining armor?
I'm gonna get medieval on you, baby.
I'm gonna get medieval.
[Vince] All right. Indeed, he will.
And I would suggest to you that the time is just about now.
Big Daddy Cool Diesel, ready to crank it up.
[ominous blues music playing]
[Vince] Here he comes.
[announcer] From Detroit, Michigan, weighing 317 pounds,
World Wrestling Federation champion,
Big Daddy Cool Diesel.
[crowd cheering]
Can you feel it, Dok?
Can you feel from 18,000 folks here in the Civic Arena?
[Dok] How can I not feel it? This place is thundering.
[music continues]
[Dok] Big Daddy Cool.
Go, baby.
[Vince] And Mabel could be in some trouble
and then again the Royal Plan is ready to unfold.
Big Daddy Cool Diesel with a score to settle with this monster.
568 pounds of Mabel.
Look at that, the fireworks are gonna explode momentarily.
[music continues]
Big Daddy Cool Diesel.
And thus far the WWE has been doing quite well
running on Diesel power.
Wait a minute. Look at this.
[music continues]
[Dok] You have to wonder if we'll see that at the end of this match.
[Vince] That could be a bad omen for sure.
King Mabel.
The King of the Ring winner.
Is he the next WWE champion?
[bell ringing]
This capacity crowd of 18,062 on hand, ladies and gentlemen,
here we go.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Diesel series of elbows.
Series of forearms now.
Lines up the 568 pounds. Oh, look at this.
I'm gonna be the first Black champion!
[crowd cheering, booing]
[Dok] These are like two tanks colliding here.
We just see two jet fighters.
Everything these guys hit each other with will be serious damage.
[Vince] Oh, my goodness and down goes Big Daddy Cool again.
That's 300 plus pounds of WWE Champion Diesel,
but 568 pounds of this monster Mabel.
Diesel jammed to the buckle.
And thus far Mabel asserting himself here in the early stages
of this, oh, my goodness, of a match.
Oh, my goodness. And again,
Mabel taking it to the WWE champion.
One! Two!
[Vince] Come on ref, get in there.
King Mabel with his Royal Plan unfolding,
week after a week, day after day, and look at this now.
To the buckle-- No, is it… Yes, returned.
WWE champion Diesel with a clothesline.
[crowd cheering]
Here we go again and down.
[Dok] Wow.
[Vince] Mabel can definitely dish it out, but oh, my goodness,
can he take from the World Wrestling Federation champion?
Oh!
[Vince] Diesel and King Mabel going at it.
The heavy artillery out here right now.
A scoop and a slam now.
A block, a scoop. No, and no.
Oh, my goodness.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Mabel asserting himself and you wonder whether or not
WWE Champion Diesel would be able to slam--
Oh, look at this, underneath the roundhouse on the other side and… Yes!
Mabel still on his feet, under the clothesline.
Mabel is rocking, off the rope, and oh, yeah.
To the outside. Oh, my goodness.
Almost landing up in your lap there, huh?
[Dok] I hope not.
But like I said, these are two tanks colliding.
[Vince] Both of these men heading to separate rooms
from the WWE Superstar Line right after the match is over.
But who will be champion?
Currently, it's Shawn Michaels
and Razor Ramon in the Superstar Line.
Oh, no.
Mo distracting the WWE titleholder Big Daddy Cool Diesel.
And that's a thing that Diesel must do is keep his cool here tonight.
[Dok] If you have to wonder how much damage those legs-- Whoa!
[Vince] Look at this. Oh, no!
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Diesel taking it to Mabel, leaping over the top.
[Dok] And that's a seven footer, 370 pounds showing that agility.
[Vince] The World Wrestling Federation championship matchup.
[crowd chanting] Diesel!
[Vince] This capacity crowd trying to encourage Diesel but no, no, no.
Oh, wow.
Unbelievable.
[Dok] Oh, I started to say how much damage if there's two legs drops
from this Monday Night Raw by Mabel's part of the Royal Plan unfold
take out the champion.
[Vince] And Mabel gonna get to that post.
Mabel was gonna clothesline Big Daddy Cool right into the ring post.
And Diesel lifting the boot right into the kisser.
[ref] Three!
[Vince] By the way, we'd like to alert all the cable operators,
all the cable system, ladies and gentlemen,
we're gonna take this all the way to the max.
Stay with us all the way through.
And over the top, Big Daddy Cool Diesel.
The champion hammering away on Mabel.
Backs into the corner.
Pulls him back out now.
Let's see what he can do with him.
Pops the elbow, Mabel still on his feet.
If Diesel can get Mabel down.
If, that's a big if.
Obviously, Big Daddy Cool has the advantage,
a series of knee lifts there.
Mabel set up for the ride.
No, look out here comes reverse.
Look out, and no!
The cover.
One, two, three.
No, almost a count of three.
-That was close. -[Dok] That was real close.
[Vince] Oh, I can't believe that.
[Dok] You ever talked about sitting down on the job, wow.
[Vince] The WWE champion… The corner pad ripped from corner.
Well, I don't think that's gonna be a factor anyhow.
Did you see what Mabel did as he just dropped all of his 568 pounds
into the small of Diesel's back?
I don't think the WWE champion is gonna get up after that.
[crowd chanting] Diesel!
[Dok] How could he?
[Vince] Mo looking on.
Tag team partner, or should I say Sir Mo?
Diesel somehow making a move.
Look at this and a slam.
Look out. Wait a minute.
Oh, no.
[crowd cheering]
[Mo] Get up! Come on!
[Vince] Let's go back and show some of the action we saw earlier on.
If we still have it.
Mabel coming down with his 568 pounds.
A moment ago we saw Mabel, I think deliberately, turn into the official.
Wait a minute, Mo is in the ring.
The official is on the outside.
Let's stay with the live action.
Oh, no back to the live action.
Double team effort.
The official is still outside.
[crowd cheering]
[Dok] The Royal Plan unfolding.
-[Vince] And wait a minute. -[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Who's this?
Lex Luger!
And Luger coming in. You know, and he did the same.
Luger did the same thing with the Bulldog did, didn't he?
Hold on.
WWE champion Diesel over the top, fighting for his life.
Fighting for the World Wrestling Federation championship.
Oh, no. No.
Look at this.
Don't tell me. The official is still unconscious and--
Oh!
And so is the WWE champion.
That's gonna be the next World Champion!
[crowd jeering]
[Dok] I hate to see him losing like this.
[Vince] I can't believe Lex Luger who came in.
I'm not too sure whether or not if he was gonna try to hurt or help
the effort of the WWE champion.
Wait a minute. Luger is back here.
Luger.
[crowd cheering]
Luger with Mo.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] Now we know Luger's intentions.
Luger gets rid Mo, all the way to the back.
[Dok] Belly to belly, forget about it.
That's it.
[Vince] And the official back in the ring.
One, two,
no.
No. No.
[Dok] I can't believe it.
[Vince] Mabel now… Oh, no.
Mabel going upstairs.
Mabel, and… Oh!
A seesaw matchup.
The official trying to clear the cobwebs.
The WWE champion Diesel almost lost this thing just a minute ago,
but now with an opportunity to turn it around.
The WWE champion.
[Dok] What's he doing?
[Vince] A clothesline.
[crowd cheering]
Wait a minute. A cover.
One, two…
Yes!
-[crowd cheering] -[bell ringing]
[announcer] The winner of the match
and still World Wrestling Federation Champion, Big Daddy Cool Diesel.
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] The WWE Champion, Big Daddy Cool.
Still the World Wrestling Federation champion.
[blues music playing]
[crowd cheering]
[Vince] World Wrestling Federation titleholder Big Daddy Cool
standing above King Mabel with the championship held high above.
The capacity crowd here in Pittsburgh
behind the leader of the new WWE generation.
[music continues]
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