[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] Here stands the sinful man to face his Judgment Day.
He has turned his back on his family
and spilled the blood of his brother.
I didn't wanna do it, Rey! Why'd you make me do it?
Right now, I have your blood on my hands.
At Judgment Day, I'll have your life.
[narrator] This man has surrendered to his desires…
Booker, I wanna have sex with your wife.
[narrator] …and let his passion grow into an unstoppable rage.
Come on, you want some? Because I want your blood.
[narrator] There's no running from what he's done.
There's no hiding from the inevitable.
[narrator] What lies ahead for these men is pure agony.
[Cena] You have to beat your opponent so bad.
That they say, I Quit.
[JBL] I have been busted open, black-eyed and I have bled buckets.
And through it all, the words, I Quit, never crossed my mind.
[Cena] The last two words to come out of your pathetic mouth will be,
I Quit.
[narrator] How long can they endure the pain?
How long before one man must abandon every last ounce of pride and beg…
[JBL] To say the words, I Quit.
[narrator] …for mercy.
[JBL] Means another man owns your soul.
[announcer] And now, SmackDown presents
WWE Judgment Day.
[upbeat music playing]
[audience cheering]
[Michael] We are live at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The first of four titles on the line tonight is the paparazzi
dream to Tag Team Champion.
[Tazz] A red carpet, too cold.
Look at Melina how hot and the Tag Champs.
[Michael] MNM, Mercury to the left,
Melina in the middle and Nitro to the right…
-Oh, yeah, left and right. -[Tazz] …striking a pose.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Welcome to the biggest night in pay-per-view history.
[audience cheering]
And welcome to the world of MNM, Mercury, Nitro and Melina.
We are hotter than anyone
who has ever walked the red carpet in Hollywood.
And my boys are tougher than everyone on SmackDown.
So, get your cameras ready
because you are about to have a brush with greatness.
-[Tazz] Sounds good to me. -[Michael] A brush with greatness.
[Tazz] I think she looks great.
[upbeat music playing]
[bell ringing]
[Greg] The following contest is scheduled for one fall
and it is for the WWE Tag Team Championship.
Making their way to the ring
being accompanied by Melina from Los Angeles, California,
at a combined weight of 430 pounds,
they are the Tag Team Champions, MNM.
-[Tazz] Watch this, Cole. -[Michael] Oh, I'm watching.
[Tazz] This is my favorite entrance, right, of all time.
I'm on the record saying that.
Watch, watch.
He's got a good camera angle here.
She's making us wait. That's okay.
-[Tazz laughing] -[Michael] She's teasing you.
[Tazz] They're filming. See Nitro and Mercury are filming.
-Look at that. -[Michael] Oh, my God.
[Michael] Well, she is Melina and they are the Tag Team Champions.
Young, brash, cocky, yet confident, MNM.
Hello again, everybody,
and welcome to SmackDown presents Judgment Day
from the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
I'm Michael Cole alongside Tazz.
-Are you ready, partner? -[Tazz] Oh, I'm ready, baby. I'm ready.
I wanna see more of Melina, MNM. This is cool. I'm ready.
[Michael] And also our Spanish colleagues,
Hugo Cervantes and Carlos Cabrera joining us as well.
[Tazz] Hey, guys.
[speaking Spanish]
[audience cheering]
[Greg] And the challengers at a combined weight of 490 pounds,
Charlie Haas and Hardcore Holly.
[Michael] I'll tell you what, MNM has got their hands full here tonight.
Remember, the veteran, Hardcore Holly owns a pinfall victory over Joey Mercury,
this past Thursday night on SmackDown.
So, perhaps the momentum in the corner of Holly and Haas.
[Tazz] Oh, that could be, Cole. But then again, that was a singles match.
Completely different deal in a Tag Team match.
Different strategy altogether.
[Michael] But let's not forget both Holly and Haas,
multiple-time Tag Team Champions,
and they've been teaming together for a while now,
so perhaps there could be a big upset for them here tonight.
[Tazz] I have to judge, but I think Haas and Holly are credible.
Like I said earlier, they were both Tag Team Champions
with different partners in the past.
But I'll tell you, MNM, they seem to be on a roll.
And this is their debut pay-per-view match here on SmackDown.
[Michael] A lotta pressure on the line.
[Tazz] I'll tell you what, I mean, after hearing Melina say
that they're hotter than anyone who walked the red carpet in Hollywood
and that her boys are tougher than anybody, I mean, come on.
I don't think that they're sweating the pressure.
They're probably good with pressure.
-[clapping] -[Michael] Look at that.
And look at Charlie Haas now,
set to kick things off against Johnny Nitro of MNM.
Locked up center of the ring.
Tag Team titles are on the line.
Remember, MNM won the Tag Team championship, stunning,
Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio in just their first match ever here on SmackDown.
So, they've had the titles here for a while now,
defending them successfully.
[Tazz] Absolutely, and let's see.
Right now, as long as in the short time we've seen MNM,
they've worked as a big time cohesive union,
hence, why they are the Tag Team Champions.
But Haas got the test of strength, but got stopped there.
Yank of the hair and now into a keylock,
-into a keylock on Charlie Haas by Nitro. -[Michael] Look at this,
Nitro and Charlie Haas, great bridge that time by Charlie Haas.
[Tazz] He's got that lower back strength from that,
oh, that amateur wrestling background. Look at this, arm drag.
Just about arm dragging Nitro out of the ring.
-Haas doesn't look happy. -[Michael] No, not at all.
And look at Haas with the shoulder to the ribs
and Nitro popping into the hard way.
And suddenly Charlie Haas,
the former All American and Big East Champion
from Seton Hall University is in control of Nitro.
[Tazz] And look at this, the power. Oh, my God.
And that's controlling the one arm.
He's got wrist control and threw the man up.
Now, I think Haas might be going for another one. So, he said, let's see.
Look at this. Oh, great,
[Michael] A nice arm drag.
Charlie Haas to the back, shoulders down and a kick out.
And that's where Charlie Haas is so unique.
He's got those mat-based skills, very unique in the ring.
-And here's hardcore Haas. -[Tazz] He sucked that arm drag in deep.
And now Nitro, they wanna deal with the ever tough hardcore Haas.
I mean, he didn't say that they're tougher than anybody.
Tell you what, we wanna match toughness, match it against Holly.
[Michael] Pound-For-Pound, perhaps the toughest superstar
in the SmackDown locker room,
Hardcore Holly.
Multiple-time Hardcore Champion, Intercontinental Champion,
Tag Team Champion.
Holly ripped off the ropes.
The man that he defeated Thursday on SmackDown, Mercury.
Up over the top is Holly. Slides underneath the legs.
And there's the veteran instincts of Hardcore Holly,
controlling the pace of the matchup.
Whoa. [clapping hands]
[Tazz] Nice standing switch right there by Holly.
Mercury hanging on to the ropes.
[Michael] Holly ducks underneath the right hand.
And there's that beautiful standing dropkick.
[Tazz] One of the best in the game today in regards to dropkicking.
No one dropkicks like Hardcore Holly.
Great height and now look at this.
[Michael] Oh, look out.
The referee, Jimmy Korderas, is right there, but that is illegal.
That is a kick to the gut, ladies and gentlemen.
And Hardcore Holly just caught Nitro as well.
[Tazz] Tell you what, if it's moving, Holly will hit it.
[Michael] But Mercury trying to take advantage of that slight distraction.
-[groans] -Oh, uh-oh.
[Tazz] Well, right there, a chop right to the--
-Get him outta the corner. -I'll do it as I want.
[Michael] But how wise is it to chop Hardcore Holly?
[Tazz] Well, that's what I was just thinking.
You don't wanna start a kick to that deal with Holly.
Watch out. Oh!
Listen to that. [chuckles]
God, how do you explain that?
[Michael] You don't. You just listen.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] He's saying, no more, I don't think Nitro…
I don't think Mercury wants another one.
Uh-oh.
Oh, with authority!
[Michael] Oh! Nitro gets one as well.
Those shots echoing throughout the Target Center.
[Tazz] Hey, I've been hit by those chops, believe me.
You don't have to tell me about it--
[Michael] Hey, Melina better be careful. She doesn't get one.
[Tazz laughs] No, that… Did it hurt? I don't know. You never know.
Answer, it would hurt
[Michael] Whipped into the corner, here's Mercury. Hardcore Holly.
-[Tazz] Oh, no. -[Michael] Watch out.
Mercury hanging out for dear life. Charlie Haas.
[Tazz] Charlie broke the handgrip. Go for it!
[Michael] And the referee with Haas, and a kick by Nitro.
The referee went to Charlie Haas, doing his job, and Nitro took advantage.
[Tazz] Well, Mercury was set up for that Alabama Slam right there.
But I'll tell you, good teamwork by MNM right there to break that up.
That'd have been the end of it. You can't keep champs--
[Michael] That's the one thing I've been saying about MNM.
-These guys are veterans in the ring. -[Tazz] Look at Nitro.
[Michael] At least they look like veterans,
as Nitro delivers that big knee to the gut.
But here's the kick again. Referee distracted. Watch Nitro.
[Tazz] Holly had him set up. Melina liked him and I don't blame Melina.
Holly had him set up for that Alabama Slam.
I'm telling you, the coup de grace for Holly and now, look at this.
[Michael] Look at Nitro, punching the closed fist,
and then the choke to Holly.
[audience booing]
[Tazz] That's with that front face lock, cutting the ring off now.
These guys, Tag Team wrestling 101 right here.
Keep the man in your corner.
[Michael] Let's go hardcore champs for these great SmackDown fans.
And what a neckbreaker by Mercury.
And the end could be near. Here's the cover kick out.
And remember, the surgically repaired neck of Hardcore Holly.
[Tazz] You got to cover. You got to hook a leg too there.
I mean, you're pinning, trying to get a pin cover on someone like Holly.
They are brutal chops, man.
I am throwing straight up into a boot there.
[Michael] Oh, and a clothesline.
[Tazz] Very impressive by Mercury right there with that clothesline.
[Michael] Here's the cover. Shoulders down again. Holly kicks out.
But how many times have you seen somebody deliver a clothesline
with that type of force to Hardcore Holly?
[Tazz] It's not easy to knock Holly off his feet. He's just so strong.
Well, I'll tell you, MNM doing the right thing here.
They know… They cut in the ring in half,
preventing Holly from getting over to Charlie Haas.
It's the knee, legal maneuver
and then utilizing the five count, like it or not, it's effective.
[Michael] Nitro using the ropes,
his knee into the throat of Hardcore Holly.
Probably getting a few more [inaudible].
[Tazz] You know, I'm not too sure if I like Melina's outfit tonight.
[Michael] But let's see what's the matter with it.
[Tazz] Well, it's kinda a multicolored,
like a multicolored kinda an Indian type of,
like an Aztec type of thing. I'm not really into those things.
[Michael] Okay, Ralph Lauren.
Now look at Hardcore Holly. Nice step there, takeover.
Holly needs to make a tag here.
Ducks underneath the right hand.
Holly planting Nitro, could be the turning point of the matchup.
[Tazz] That full motion driver and got Johnny Nitro.
He landed hard, man.
[audience chanting]
Listen to these people.
[Michael] How jacked are these great fans in Minneapolis?
[Tazz] But right now, I'll tell you,
Nitro needs to tag in Mercury and as does Holly.
Melina's concerned--
[Michael] Hardcore doesn't know where he is.
Hardcore was heading to the wrong corner.
But here's Charlie Haas with the right hand.
Haas is the freshman, taking out Mercury.
[Tazz] Beautiful, look at this backdrop here by Charlie Haas.
[Michael] Charlie Haas whipping Mercury across the ring.
Nice dropkick, almost took the head off of Mercury.
And there's a spear taking down Nitro.
[Tazz] Charlie Haas is cooking on all cylinders here.
[Michael] Did you feel that impact?
[Tazz] Watch out, though. There goes Nitro.
Thanks for coming. Got eyes in the back of his head.
Charlie could feel it, come on, man, do it.
-[Michael] What's he gonna do? -[Tazz] I don't know.
[Michael] You've got to be kidding me. You've got to be kidding me.
[Tazz] Melina went to bend the ankle.
Didn't though, suicide plunge by Charlie Haas.
[Michael] I've never seen that outta Charlie Haas.
The emotion is pouring outta him tonight.
[Tazz] That was outstanding. What a move right there.
[Michael] And Melina did grab the leg of Haas.
Uh-oh. Haas has got a handful of hair--
[Tazz] Oh, no. Don't hurt her now, easy.
[Michael] And Mercury almost ran into Melina.
Melina knocked off the apron. Here's the cover, no.
[inaudible].
[audience cheering]
[Michael] What a match!
And Haas, small package. Shoulders down. He's got it here.
And again, a kick out by Mercury.
Just surviving is Mercury.
[Tazz] Tell you what, Haas coming outta the box here.
Watch out here?
[Michael] Haas wants to regain Tag Team gold.
[Tazz] Lift of that exploded suplex there. Nice work.
[Michael] Kick to the midsection by Holly.
Here's Nitro, whipped into the corner, Hardcore Holly.
Shoulder-first to the post and that can cost the battle.
[inaudible].
[Tazz] Charlie beat…
[Michael] Charlie Haas has got it beaten here.
-That's at least a five count. -[Tazz] Watch him go, there's two.
Got it?
The referee was trying to get Nitro outta the ring.
[Michael] Charlie Haas complaining, he's got a beef, he had the matchup.
Look at the knee to the back, the referee had his back turned.
-[Tazz] Watch out. -[Michael] Now hung up
on the top rope by Nitro. Mercury looking to take advantage.
-[Tazz] Look at this. -[Michael] The snapshot.
The snapshot connecting and you got to be kidding me.
MNM is gonna steal another matchup.
-They stole another one. -[bell ringing]
[beat music playing]
[Greg] Here are your winners and still WWE Tag Team Champions,
MNM.
[Tazz] I tell you, like Melina said,
hotter than anyone who walked the red carpet in Hollywood,
and tougher than anybody in SmackDown,
Still Tag Team Champions. An outstanding matchup.
Mercury and Nitro. Look at Melina. My God.
[Michael] But it's shame
that the matchup had to end the way that it did.
[Tazz] Why is it a shame?
[Michael] Charlie Haas and Hardcore Holly left it all on the table,
including something I've never seen out of Charlie Haas before.
[Tazz] Look at that suicide plunge that was unbelievable.
Watch this knee to the back here.
[Michael] Referee, his back was turned.
[Tazz] Nitro right there with the knee to the small of the back.
-[Michael] That wasn't it. -[Tazz] And they hot shot the neck.
And then they set up for this double team move there.
And they get a snapshot after pulling that game.
I'll tell you what, I don't know what to count as victories for MNM.
Oh, my God. You know, I like the Indian outfit now. I love Aztecs.
Man, she's smoking.
[Michael] How do you think MNM is gonna party tonight
after picking up this victory?
[Tazz] I'm gonna ask if they're gonna let me come hang out with him.
[Tazz chuckles]
-[Michael] That would ruin their rap. -[Tazz laughs]
[Tazz] They're gonna love that, I'm pretty cool.
-You know what I mean? -[Michael] Okay.
[Tazz] She's smoking, though.
[Tazz] I like the boots.
I like the boots. And I'll tell you, I'm impressed that MNM,
leaving Minneapolis, Judgment Day, still Tag Team Champions.
[Michael] Retaining the gold here tonight. What a way to kick off Judgment Day.
-[upbeat music playing] -[audience cheering]
[Michael] Coming up next…
The Big Show. At 7 feet, 500 pounds is Stevie.
He needs Carlito, who has some backup.
[Tazz] Carlito, as he calls Matt Morgan, his big backup,
the massive Matt Morgan.
You've got to watch out if you're Big Show.
I'm telling you, Carlito's a threat in his own right, Cole.
But you've got to watch Morgan. Can't wait to see this.
[Michael] This situation all began in Carlito's Cabana a couple of weeks ago.
Carlito making Big Show an offer he could refuse.
He wanted Big Show to be Carlito's bodyguard.
Big Show said he was gonna play second fiddle to no one.
He would grab Carlito and take the apple,
planning to give Carlito a bit of his own medicine.
But it was Big Show who would actually need medicine.
[Tazz] Yeah, absolutely. And no one knew what was in that apple.
It was a tainted apple, a poisoned apple, a rotten apple.
And Big Show felt the effects of that in a humongous way.
[Michael] Look at Big Show.
[Tazz] That's one bad apple spoiling a whole bunch, you know.
[Carlito] Carlito knew you weren't smart enough to realize
what a good offer he was making you.
So, it's just like they say, it takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch.
Looks like you had that one bad apple.
-[Tazz] That's what I just said, Cole. -[Carlito] That's cool.
[Michael] And then Carlito adding insult to injury.
[Tazz] Yeah, well, that right there is very insulting, no doubt.
And then this past Thursday on SmackDown…
[Michael] Well, Carlito would hire a new bodyguard,
a new backup, Matt Morgan.
But Big Show didn't care.
He wanted to get his hands on Carlito some retribution.
[Tazz] Oh, initially, Carlito wasn't sweating Big Show.
He was ready to fight Big Show. But you know what?
Put Matt Morgan to work.
Let's see what this mammoth-like man will do.
And, God, look at this. Look at these two giants.
[Michael] Watch what Matt Morgan does to Big Show here.
Have you ever seen anybody do this to Big Show?
[Tazz] Oh, come on.
Shoot him off those ropes like that, come to think of it, no.
Not one man… Oh, uh-oh, now Carlito got caught.
[Michael] Yeah, Carlito got caught.
But his new bodyguard, Matt Morgan…
would pay huge dividends for Carlito in the cabana.
[Tazz] And Carlito almost went for a nasty ride.
But Matt Morgan doing his job right there with that steel weapon,
that steel chair into the spine of the Big Show.
[audience chattering]
[Carlito] I spit in the face of people who don't wanna be cool.
[Michael] And again, the X Factor in this matchup may indeed be the muscle,
the backup in Matt Morgan.
[bell ringing]
[Greg] The following contest is scheduled for one fall.
Approaching the ring from the Caribbean, weighing in at 230 pounds, Carlito.
[Tazz] I just wanted to give Carlito his due.
Let's tell the viewers, the WWE fans,
Carlito is the star of the Cabana.
You see every week on SmackDown, right? Come on, tell them.
[Michael] I'll tell you, the thing about the Cabana is this.
I think Carlito really does need some backup.
He does need a bodyguard.
Because think of all the controversy
that Carlito was stirred up over the past few weeks in the Cabana.
[Tazz] Well, I agree with that.
I think the Cabana brings excitement.
It definitely does and… Oh, some…
MNM, we just saw MNM, right?
They debuted. They crashed the party. They crashed the Cabana.
[Michael] The problems between Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio
are accentuated on the Cabana.
The Big Show with the Cabana.
[Tazz] Speaking of problems,
Carlito's got to deal with the largest assassin in the world,
which could be a problem.
[upbeat music playing]
[audience chattering]
You know…
[audience booing]
Carlito was talking to his good friend, Randy Moss.
[audience booing]
And he warned me about Minnesota.
He told me he left because you people in Minnesota…
you're not cool.
[audience booing]
You know why you people aren't cool?
Because you don't appreciate talent…
like Matt Morgan.
[audience booing]
You people laugh at him just because he's…
Carlito, we laugh at you all the time.
…different.
But you know what? Matt Morgan is different.
He's bigger, stronger, and tougher than all of you combined.
[audience cheering]
The only thing he has in common with you people
is that he's gonna sit back
and watch Carlito destroy the Big Show.
-[audience booing] -[clapping]
And that, that's cool.
[Tazz] I'll tell you what, Carlito doesn't seem to be…
[Big Show theme song playing]
[fireworks exploding]
[Tazz] Carlito doesn't seem to be sweating the Big Show.
[Greg] And standing 7 feet tall, weighing in at 493 pounds,
The Big Show!
[Michael] Well, it's absolutely no laughing matter
for the world's largest athlete tonight.
Big Show did not take too kindly to the tainted apple
that he bit into a couple of weeks ago.
And he's got his eyes, that he's focused on Carlito.
[Tazz] And Carlito, look, he's got that bounciness stuff.
He's ready to rock and roll.
[Michael] He was ready to rock and roll.
[Tazz] Maybe he's not loose yet, I don't know.
He did push off that left ring quick, but you know what?
Got a 500-pound giant in the ring, you know?
Gotta pick your spots, Cole.
[Michael] You're talking about the size differential
in this matchup.
Big Show goes 7 feet tall, 500 pounds. Carlito's about 5'10", 234.
[Tazz] Hey, listen, it's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog now. Now, come on, Cole.
[Michael] Yeah, we do know that Carlito's got fight.
He did win the United States Championship in his debut on SmackDown last year.
[Tazz] Let's see what happens.
Look, don't get yourself cornered, Carlito. That's what you don't wanna do.
See, this is smart. This is smart by Carlito. He's just…
break the count and get outta the ring
and just let the referee control the Big Show.
Whoa, whoa.
[Michael] The Big Show, the former two-time WWE Champion…
taking his time. Big Show's not getting suckered into this game either.
[Tazz] He's smart about that. Big Show, it's not his first picnic.
We do have apples at picnics, but it's not his first, first run here.
He knows that he can be walking into a hornet's nest,
[Michael] Especially with Matt Morgan outside the ring. Carlito.
[Tazz] Cole, I wonder if Big Show got that rotten,
that bitter taste outta his mouth right now.
[Michael] I hope so. That was not a pleasant sight.
Remember, he had to go to the hospital, have his stomach pumped.
-Oh, my God. -Carlito, with one hand,
Big Show tossing Carlito into the corner like a sack of apples.
-[Tazz] Yeah. No doubt. -[Michael] Oh, my God.
That's like taking a frying pan, and hitting yourself in the chest with it.
[Tazz] And then that headbutt
with that damn nearly the largest head in the world, this headbutt.
[Michael] Look at that.
Matt Morgan grabbed the leg of Big Show, causing a distraction.
Carlito tried to take advantage.
[Tazz] I mean, Carlito, now, now, now, Carlito's caught here in the corner.
Uh-oh. Oh!
That's just… That's gotta be just making his legs shake.
Look at this. Watch out, look at the biel.
[Michael] What a biel.
Now, if you're Carlito,
how the hell can you combat the strength of Big Show?
How do you get into this matchup? The size 22 army boot.
[Tazz] You hope the big show gets tired.
Hope he punches himself out, that's what you hope.
[Michael] Punches himself out, and keeps delivering those chops.
[Tazz] I know. I'm starting to like the [inaudible].
[groaning]
Oh, my! Couldn't quite call that.
[Michael] Can you explain to the viewer what that is?
[Tazz] I've never been chopped in the chest by him.
I wish I'd have one less peck,
but I've been in the ring with the Big Show,
and he smothers you with size, but that's gotta be numbing his legs.
Look at his slam. That's a fundamental move, a body slam,
but it's from a giant, a man over seven feet tall.
[Michael] So, you're ready to be more than you're seven feet in the air
than the mat below.
[Tazz] Good job, Cole. You're catching up.
[Michael] So, and Big Show,
it seems like he's toying with Carlito here a little bit.
[Tazz] Yeah, he is, though and…
[Michael] Getting just pulled over the top rope,
and the Big Show went sailing, and referee Brian Hebner didn't see it.
Carlito did the right thing, drawing the referee,
and the bodyguard paid some dividends there.
[Tazz] it's the right time to do something like that
-[Michael] Oh, look at this. -[Tazz] Oh, now.
Right out in front of us here.
[Michael] Right hands, and then the boot from the 6'10", 320 pounds.
[Tazz] Right behind the referee's back too and…
I'll tell you what… I heard those strokes.
[Michael] Here's the cover, looking to take advantage here.
There's two, and a kick out with authority.
[Tazz] Those few shots by Morgan might have did some damage to Show,
because I heard them as loud as day right here.
And now with Carlito, man, like a shock that sees that…
[Michael] Big show with one arm and a dropkick by Carlito.
And he's doing the right thing here.
Carlito is trying to keep the big man off his feet, but again, one hand.
[Tazz] Like a fly, just like an annoying fly,
Big Show's throwing around a man like Carlito,
but Carlito's trying to muster up some offense.
[Michael] Headbutt like that typewriter head-sized skull of the Big Show.
[Tazz] Now you don't wanna let Big Show build momentum.
-Oh, my God. I felt the table here shake. -[Michael] I did too.
-Wow. -Oh.
Big Show is an absolutely amazing physical specimen.
[Tazz] Remind me of that back leg kick. King Kong bummed me with that avalanche.
That's what that reminded me of. Uh-oh, watch out.
[Michael] Oh, the referee took an elbow to temple.
Brian Hebner has been knocked outta the ring.
Matt Morgan knocked off the apron, but the referee's down.
[Tazz] Carlito's in trouble, Cole.
-[Michael] Big show, low blow, no referee, -[Tazz] Oh.
Carlito with a low blow.
[Tazz] Timing is everything. You got to pick your spot in life. Carlito…
picked this spot. There's no referee, he is outta action.
Hey, you got to take over. You got to take advantage.
-Oh, my God. -[Michael] Carlito.
-[Tazz] Watch out. Cole, look at this. -[Michael] He has arrived.
-Oh, my God. -Matt Morgan with a boot off the skull.
What the hell is this? Oh, my God. What the hell is this?
[Tazz] He's got the power. What does he do?
[Michael] I think that's an F5.
-[Tazz] He didn't just F5 a 500 pound. -[Michael] Yes, he did.
Carlito can't even believe it.
[Tazz] The referee's still down.
[Michael] Carlito into the cover. Morgan put the referee back in the ring.
-Look at this. [Tazz] There's a cover, not this way.
-You got to be kidding me. -[bell ringing]
[upbeat music playing]
[Greg] Here is your winner, Carlito.
[Tazz] I'll tell you what. Carlito picking up the scraps right there.
An impressive, amazing 500 pound F5
by the big backup of Carlito, Matt Morgan.
I'll tell you what. That was more than amazing, Cole.
That was a miracle.
[Michael] I hope we get a chance to see that again.
Because I still cannot believe that Matt Morgan just F5,
a 500-pound man in the center of the ring.
And talk about a bodyguard. That is major muscle.
[Tazz] Let's take a look. We've got a replay here.
Let's take a look.
Carlito was about to get chokeslammed
and a boost and a mush.
[Michael] Watch this. -[Tazz] Now, look at this.
Watch this power. Fireman's carry,
and you hear the people gasping and then watch this.
F5, 500. Look at the look on Carlito's face.
Carlito couldn't believe it.
[Michael] And then Matt Morgan threw the referee back in the ring.
And as you said so apropos,
Carlito picked up the scraps left by Matt Morgan.
[Tazz] I'll tell you, Carlito with Matt Morgan in his corner
is gonna be one hell of a force to be reckoned with.
[upbeat music playing]
That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about.
[upbeat music playing continuous]
[Michael] You know what's gonna be something to see later tonight
-here at Judgment Day? -What?
Kurt Angle versus Booker T.
And this is simply about Booker T defending his wife
after verbal abuse from a sick and perverted, Kurt Angle.
[dramatic music playing]
[Michael] Kurt Angle is arguably hotter than any time in his decorated career.
I can't believe a time that Kurt Angle has been as focused,
has been intense, has been as hot as he is right now.
[Tazz] Kurt Angle's gonna be the next five-time WWE Champ.
[Michael] In a four-way elimination matchup
here tonight on SmackDown.
The winner to meet John Cena for the WWE Championship.
-[Michael] Kurt's got a chair in hand. -Angle's [inaudible]. Angle's… Oh!
Oh, and a chair thundering off the skull.
Booker T has been eliminated.
We are down to two men.
Who's gonna get an opportunity at the WWE title?
Kurt Angle with the ankle lock locked in.
The referee's been knocked outta the ring.
[Tazz] Is JBL gonna tap him?
[screams]
[Michael] Booker T with revenge.
Booker T was eliminated in the same way.
[Kurt] Booker, you cost me something that means more to me than my family.
A shot at the WWE Championship.
Now, I want you to tell your husband that I want him at the Judgment Day.
And you can be that ringside.
I accept your challenge.
That's great.
But it's too bad that when I'm through with you,
you're gonna have to go home with that gutter slut.
[tense music playing]
[interviewer] Good many people believe that your actions from last week,
stalking Booker T's wife, Sharmell, was conduct unbecoming of a WWE Superstar
and an Olympic gold medalist like yourself.
The fact is, Sharmell struck me first.
Not once, but over and over again.
I don't hurt women.
I make them feel good.
We all have our vices.
Mine just happens to be…
gutter sluts…
like Booker T's wife.
[Booker] Kurt Angle ran off with the mouth about my wife.
I'm gonna take him out right now.
I need you to wait right here.
I don't want you to have no part in this.
[Michael] Booker T is fired up.
And every one of those shots,
I'm sure is dedicated to his wife, Sharmell.
Uh-oh. And Kurt is driving Booker T shoulder first into the steel post.
Watch out! The Angle Slam connecting.
Booker T's in trouble.
[commentator] What the hell? Where's Kurt going?
[tense music playing]
Booker, I wanna have sex with your wife.
What the hell are you doing here?
Kurt, get out now!
-Shut up! -Now! Get out!
[Kurt] And I'm not just talking any kinda sex with your wife.
[Sharmell screams]
That kinda beastly haughty sex.
[Sharmell screams]
Perverted sex.
[Booker T] Sharmell!
The hell! Oh, my God!
-You okay, baby? -[screams]
-Help! -Help me!
I've been told to issue an apology for my actions last week.
So, Booker, Sharmell, for the anguish I put you both through,
I apologize.
However…
I want Sharmell to admit that she is a gutter slut.
Sharmell, did you tell Booker?
Did you tell him why you were screaming?
It wasn't because I was beating the hell outta you, Book.
She was screaming because she wanted more.
Your wife, she molested me.
She fondled my privates.
And what's more, we both loved it.
Booker, I'm gonna break your ankle.
And Sharmell…
after I dominate your husband…
Somebody help me!
…I'm gonna give you exactly what you want,
and that's dominate you.
[tense music playing]
[breathing heavily]
[grunts]
[panting]
I need you ready tonight, okay? This is serious.
I need you to take Kurt Angle out.
You ain't gotta worry about that.
After what this chap did, after what he said,
after putting his hands on you…
I'm gonna take his ass out.
Baby, nobody has ever disrespected me the way Kurt did.
[knocking on door]
Come in.
-Hi, delivery for Sharmell. -Delivery?
Baby, what'd you get me?
I mean, this is sexy and all,
-but you need to focus. -What is this crap? That body is crap.
-What is this? -What?
-Ugh. -Kurt Angle!
I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna kill him.
This is the last damn straw, baby.
I can't take it no more.
Would you wait right… I ain't waiting on no match tonight.
I'm gonna take care of this business right now.
Baby, I need you to handle that sucker.
Ah!
[breathes heavily]
Oh!
[woman] Ooh, Chavo.
[Michael] You know, is Kurt Angle absolutely insane?
I mean, he's got to face Booker in the match tonight.
Now he continues to stoke the fire with that crap.
[beat music playing]
[Tazz] All right, Cole, there's not much I can say about it.
It's Kurt's a little different.
-That's the best way to put it. -[Michael] Different?
[bell ringing]
[Greg] The following contest is scheduled for one fall,
and it is for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship of the World.
Introducing the challenger from El Paso, Texas,
weighing in at 200 pounds, Chavo Guerrero.
[Tazz] Cole, some guys have fetishes. You know what I mean?
Some guys like cheese sandwiches and that's their fetish.
-Some guys like little stuff. -[Michael] Yeah. Keep defending the guy.
-Keep defending the pig. -[Tazz] I'm not defending.
[Michael] You're trying to make excuses for him.
He's doing this to another man's wife. He's sick and he's perverted. Enough said.
[Tazz] I didn't do nothing. I don't know what you're getting mad at me for.
We've got a Cruiserweight Championship match.
Don't get mad at me. I didn't do anything.
[Tazz sighs]
[upbeat music playing]
[Greg] And from Austin, Texas, weighing in at 195 pounds,
is the Cruiserweight Champion of the World, Paul London.
[Michael] This is what SmackDown is all about, ladies and gentlemen.
The Cruiserweights and the Cruiserweight Championship.
-My question is this, Tazz. -[Tazz] What?
[Michael] That man, Chavo Guerrero,
does he have the Champion, Paul London's number?
Remember, over the past couple of weeks,
Chavo has a count out victory and a pinfall victory
in a Tag Team matchup against Paul London.
Chavo, perhaps, is in London's head.
[Tazz] Hey, listen.
Chavo Guerrero is a former four-time Cruiserweight Champion.
So, you're gonna tell me that no one can doubt the fact
that Chavo cannot walk outta Judgment Day
New Cruiserweight Champion, I think Chavo can.
But Paul London, this guy's one of the most exciting guys
that I've seen in the ring to date.
-[bell ringing] -[Tazz] He's very impressive
in a different kinda outfit.
[Michael] Second of four title matches here tonight at Judgment Day.
You said Paul London's different, he is, but he has the heart of a champion.
How many times have we seen him down and out with stitches in his head?
He took that post off the ribs a few weeks ago,
and he continues to battle back and retain the title.
[Tazz] He's tough, don't doubt Paul's tough, That's what it's about.
That's how he become successful in this industry. You've got to be tough.
[Michael] Two of the greatest Cruiserweights
in the world in this matchup. Going for the takedown. Paul London does.
[Tazz] Kick and fighting from the bottom is Chavo.
London went for that single leg,
and Chavo is just pounding on the man right now. Pounding on Paul London.
[Michael] Chavo wants his Cruiserweight Championship back.
The bottom line is this.
Chavo lost that title in a battle royal
in which Chavo Guerrero won it a couple of months back.
And look at this. Chavo continues to hammer away.
The third generation superstar,
Chavo Guerrero of the Guerrero Wrestling Family.
Of course, the grandson of Mexican legend, Gory Guerrero, the son of Chavo Sr.
-Look at this. -[Tazz] Whoa, whoa!
[Michael] Contemporary backbreaker to the knee.
Or the back. Excuse me, knee to the back.
[Tazz] Again, those body problems you have.
But now right there, you see Chavo Guerrero is hopping around.
He's feeling good. He's picking his spots. He's waiting.
But look at this. London trying to get an ankle pick.
Right in the kidneys with a second kick by Chavo Guerrero.
[Michael] And Chavo really taking it to the champion here.
Paul London bouncing off the top turnbuckle.
Chavo Guerrero has been the aggressor since the get-go.
Had the opportunity to talk to Chavo a little bit earlier today.
All he could talk about was bringing home the gold tonight.
[Tazz] I'll tell you what.
He might be bringing home Paul London's ribcage.
Because he's working on Paul London's ribs
throughout this early goings on in this matchup here.
[Michael] And again, that stems back to a couple of weeks ago in a matchup
in which London was counted out against Chavo Guerrero.
London was knocked off the top rope.
And remember, that steel post, the corner post,
hit Paul London in the ribs.
-[Tazz] That's right. -[Michael] Counted outta the matchup.
[Tazz] Anybody who's had a rib injury, which I have, I'm telling you,
it lags with you for a long time.
And all these competitors, all these SmackDown superstars
know when a guy's hurt.
And you gun for that injury. You go after it.
That's how you win matches.
[Michael] And look at this.
Paul London exploding off the ropes, taking Chavo down.
[Tazz] He's got some quick speed, burst, real short steps with that close,
look at that standing leapfrog there, watch out here, Chavo.
[Michael] Hurricanrana.
Yeah, Paul London with that very unorthodox style, into the cover.
Hooks the legs, trying to put Chavo away, couldn't do it right there.
[Tazz] Paul London has such an incapability
to leave a vertical base and just get on top of your body.
He's so quick with that vertical leap, very aggressive.
[Michael] But again, Chavo right back on the attack.
[Tazz] That's the veteran instincts of a Chavo Guerrero.
I mean, I don't know. Whoa!
[Michael] Look at that mule kick into the second turn buckle.
[Tazz] It's nasty.
[Michael] There's the dropsault, the one that he's perfected here on SmackDown.
[Tazz] Now he could be setting Chavo up for his deal.
London is known for that 450 splash off the top.
-[Michael] He's going for the 450 here. -[Tazz] He's doing it.
[Michael] Chavo countered. Knees to those ribs.
Knees to the bad ribs, what a counter by Chavo.
[Tazz] Well, this one's over. Thanks for coming, London.
I'll tell you what, we're gonna have a new champion here.
[Michael] Chavo can walk.
[Tazz] I said it earlier building some of that heat,
Chavo Guerrero has a plethora of experience and ability
and craftiness
and suckering this kid in for that 450 was proof to my point.
[Michael] I'd like to thank all our great fans joining us
all over the world for Judgment Day tonight,
including on Skybox office in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia,
-all over the world enjoying Judgment Day. -[Tazz] Including Brooklyn.
[Michael] Look at the Champion trying to battle back.
Right hand to the gut. London back to his feet.
I mean, this kid has got some heart.
-Doesn't he, Paul? -[Tazz] He sure does.
I mean, but now what? Chavo's on the attack, Cole.
[Michael] Suplex by Chavo. London landed high and tight.
Hook to the leg, cover, and London, again surviving in a count of two.
[Tazz] Chavo Guerrero has just got this cockiness in him now.
He knows. He's taking his time. He knows.
Look, he's got him set up. Bam, right in the ribs.
The injured ribs, he's got London right where wants it.
It's a matter of time.
[Michael] Chavo Guerrero hammering away on Paul London.
[Tazz] London's trying to get away. I mean, he's hurt.
London's hurt. He probably can't breathe well.
-It's illegal. -One, two, three.
[Tazz] Got a five count to break that.
[Michael] Chavo using the full-five count.
Again, the veteran instinct of the former four-time
Cruiserweight Champion.
[Tazz] Chavo now setting him up. Setting up Paul London,
we front facelock for maybe vertical…
Look at that slingshot right across the ribs again--
[Michael] The ribs again. And Chavo, that was a direct kick right to the ribs.
Here's the hook of the leg. Shoulders down.
And the champion more weakly this time.
[Tazz] I don't think Paul London even knows where he's in so much pain.
I'm surprised he didn't grabs that bottom rope
instead of inserting an injury. But Paul London's a gamer. He's tough.
[Michael] Again, talk about that rib injury again.
As Chavo goes to work on the abdomen area, he makes it hard to breathe, right?
[Tazz] Absolutely. Especially when a guy has an abdominal stretch on you,
which this is the name of this move here.
And that just strips apart, pulls apart your ribcage,
intercostals, the upper part of your ribs.
You know, it's tough to breathe when someone does that.
[Michael] Chavo's really got it locked in here.
Paul London, the champion, in agony with his title on the line.
[Tazz] Well, see, now, if Chavo would take that toe
and wrap it around Paul London's calf,
he might get London to tap out, outta this.
Because that'll really then torture your ribcage even more.
[Michael] Paul London can feel it, you know that.
[Tazz] And that prevention from fighting that leg, that's what he's doing.
[Michael] But look at this. Wow. What a counter.
Almost surprising Chavo there. But again, back to a…
[Tazz] Hold on. Look at how fast Chavo goes.
Right back. Kicks out. Bam, on point. Again, craftiness. He's a veteran.
[Michael] Well, he's a veteran. Many years in the ring
as Paul London whipped across the ring.
And again, rib-first into the turnbuckle.
And a shot to the kidneys. But you'll feel that in your ribcage area.
[Tazz] Oh, absolutely. It's going to rock the middle of your body.
[Michael] London landing on his feet.
-And look at this. -[Tazz] Nice.
Beautiful belly-to-belly suplex right there.
Pop those hips quick.
Gotta wonder what that took outta London.
It'd be certain as anything,
certain of popping his hips on that suplex.
[Michael] But again, that was outta pure desperation,
wasn't it, by the champion.
[Tazz] I think it was the quick thinking, thinking on his feet, Paul London,
to pull that suplex off.
It's tough to do that during a match when you're hurt.
The guy's going after your gold.
You're on a grand stage like a pay-per-view like Judgment Day.
And then you peel off a suplex to defend yourself.
Impressive by London.
[Michael] Cruiserweight champion trying to get back into the ball game,
it was a big shot.
And another forearm to the side of the head of Chavo.
[Tazz] Nice forearms right there again. And now London trying for a nice reversal.
[Michael] Oh, London up over the top, landed on his feet.
It is a heel kick.
That's the tremendous balance of London. He's so explosive.
Puts the inside leg this time, and another near fall.
[Tazz] Paul London, I'm telling you, he's such a tremendous athlete in there.
God, it's unbelievable how quick he gets to his feet.
Get him outta the corner.
[Michael] That's why he's the cruiserweight Champion,
and a proud one at that.
Chavo whipped across the ring again. London quickly.
And you see London starting to pick up the pace a little bit here.
[Tazz] He knows this is his opportunity, London.
He sees that window of opportunity's open. He's going for it.
[Michael] Nobody home, again, rib-first in the turnbuckle.
Number one contender missed. There's an enziguri kick back to the head.
[Tazz] Standing enziguri. Very tough to do.
-Look at this! -[Michael] Hooks the leg again.
Shoulders down. And Chavo, aware with all to grab the rope.
[Tazz] That's what I'm saying.
Why kick out when you can use the bottom rope as your ally?
[Michael] Again, could Paul London, the athlete, be questioning himself
since he hasn't been able to pick up a victory
over Chavo in recent weeks?
[Tazz] I don't know. You're saying he might have written space in his head?
-That could be. -[Michael] Uh-oh. Look at this.
-Rolling through. -[Tazz] Chavo counter.
Chavo's got the ropes left. And London kicked out.
[Tazz] Well, kudos to Paul London, able to kick outta that.
But again, the assault, the attack on the ribcage again by Chavo.
[Michael] Chavo Guerrero in control,
as he has been for about 80% of this matchup.
-[Tazz] Watch this. Watch out. -[Michael] London blocked it.
And now an elbow to the back of the head.
Actually, the nose that time. And another elbow.
[Tazz] I dunno if he got all of that though.
I don't know if London got hold of that.
Watch. Oh, my God. Look at that moonsault there.
[Michael] Lands on his feet. And a kick to the ribs again by Chavo Guerrero.
-Oh, my. -[Tazz] Oh, go for that gory bomb.
London's got… Oh, he had London caught there.
[Michael] He had London caught. And then look at Chavo,
-and a spin kick caught Chavo. -[Tazz] Sure did.
A very impressive spin kick. Uh-oh. Chavo…
I thought London was going for a cover there.
[Michael] Paul London going after the apron here.
Chavo Guerrero's in trouble.
[Tazz] Well, if London could, he, that, those ropes are his best friend,
he's so good off those.
[Michael] Cruiserweight champion going to the top rope.
Chavo rolling wisely outta the way. These two men know each other so well.
[Tazz] He's going for… he's going for bomb.
[Michael] Right at the top rope taking out Chavo Guerrero.
[Tazz] God, he landed hard.
Paul London, man, he got some of Chavo,
but, man, you've got to figure how his ribs are feeling.
[Michael] But that's what the Cruiserweight Championship means
to these two great athletes.
We've seen Paul London week after week
put his body on the line as we take another look.
[Tazz] Take a look at this heel right off the top rope.
And I'll tell you what, yes, he did, Paul London did catch…
he got a graze on Chavo Guerrero
but still, you take the brunt of that sometimes.
[Michael] Oh!
Chavo with a counter as London was trying to get back into the ring.
And the number one contender bought himself some time.
And again, second of four title matches here tonight
at Judgment Day.
[Tazz] And Chavo through the second rope.
Paul London got that suicide plancha by Chavo Guerrero.
[Michael] London taking out Chavo Guerrero.
[Tazz] Tell you what, both men leaving it all out here in the ring.
Let's check out this diving suicide plunge by Chavo Guerrero.
Look at this.
[Michael] All part of what the Cruiserweight division is about.
And now what's Chavo doing?
Chavo to the second rope. Chavo to the top rope.
And London caught it.
[Tazz] Took out one of those legs,
like breaking down a table with three legs there.
[Michael] Paul London, a champion, caught Chavo Guerrero.
And London trying to take advantage.
[Tazz] Chavo is not where he wants to be, he's getting beat on,
he's sitting on that top turnbuckle, that's not a good spot to be in.
[Michael] Not at all.
-Chavo, again, all eyes to the ribs. -[Tazz] What's he doing?
What's London doing? Watch London…
fighting out towards Chavo real hot,
fighting out and Paul London is trying to hang on here, look out.
-[Michael] That was Chavo's neck. -[Tazz] What's Chavo doing it, Cole?
-[Michael] You got to be kidding me? -[Tazz] Oh, no, he's gonna take him off.
[Michael] He's trying to take London up here.
[Tazz] Go for that, go, back…
[Michael] There's a back body drop, Chavo's in trouble.
London hopes to take advantage.
[Tazz] I think Chavo undergoing for that gory bomb, but now look at this.
-Look at Paul London. -[Michael] Paul London, top rope.
Fifty splash connecting.
London retains the Cruiserweight Championship.
[upbeat music playing]
[Greg] Here is your winner.
And still Cruiserweight Champion of the World,
-Paul London. -[Michael] I'll tell you what.
Whenever Paul London is down and out,
whenever it looks like the champion IS going to lose the title,
he somehow digs deep down inside, and he gets the job done.
[Tazz] That's because he don't quite.
Paul London don't quit.
And in my opinion, Chavo Guerrero's got nothing to be ashamed of.
That was an outstanding,
I mean, that was a great matchup by two great cruiserweights,
Paul London though leaving Judgment Day Cruiserweight Championship in hand.
[Michael] That was a great matchup.
A great emotion by the Cruiserweight Champion,
Paul London.
That's what SmackDown is all about, folks, the Cruiserweight division.
As we take another look at Paul London recovers from what happened
towards the end of this matchup.
[Tazz] You see right here, London, he goes for this halo,
and then he catches some of his elbow, that will put him in the [inaudible].
Probably got it right, but London landed hard on his ribs.
Look at this.
450 which he went for earlier in the match.
You got caught in the ribs.
Let's take a look at this angle here. Look at this, Cole.
You have no idea how hard it is to do that move.
I can tell you this. I could never do it.
That was impressive.
[Michael] Paul London with a huge victory here tonight on Judgment Day,
perhaps silencing his demons over the fact
that he hasn't been able to pick up a win over Chavo Guerrero.
-Where'd he go? Hey, where you at? -Hey!
Hey!
Yeah.
Want to give my wife gifts,
you lose your way to this crap, where you at?
Yo!
-Anybody here seen Angle? -We've not seen Kurt--
Have you seen Angle, man?
I have not seen him. I have not seen him.
-I'm sorry. -Yo.
[whistling]
Yo Angle…
Yo Angle, where you…
Where you at, sucker?
Yo man, you seen Kurt Angle?
He ain't around here.
Hey, Angle, where you at?
Yo, you seen Kurt Angle, man?
-Oh, no, man, he-- -Have you seen Kurt Angle?
-Look, I didn't see him-- -I know somebody in here seen Kurt Angle.
-You seen Kurt Angle, man? -Sorry, but I hadn't seen him, man.
I'm telling you, if I see him, I'll tell you.
I'll tell you what, man.
-Look, look-- -Yo, Bob.
-If I see him, I promise-- -I'll tell you what.
If anybody in here see Kurt Angle, you tell him I'm looking for him.
You tell him Booker T is looking for him.
Tell him.
[audience cheering]
Did you find him? [screams]
I just wanna tell you something.
I could find you anywhere, anytime.
And after I beat your husband tonight, you're all mine.
["The Medal" music plays]
There's my music.
I got to go, baby. See you soon.
[screaming]
-["The Medal" music playing continuous] -[heavy breathing]
[Michael] Kurt Angle should be locked up.
[Tazz] Oh, that's not good.
-Wow. Take a look at. -[Michael] Kurt Angle.
He's gonna get what he has coming to him right now.
[Tazz] You know, for once I agree with this audience.
Kurt Angle sucks.
[Michael] He's a sick, sick pervert.
The audacity of Kurt Angle.
He'd act like that toward any woman, let alone another man's wife.
No class, no morals. A pig.
[audience cheering]
[bell ringing]
[Greg] The following contest is scheduled for one fall.
Making his way to the ring, is the only Olympic gold medalist.
In WWE history and the former WWE Champion,
Kurt Angle.
[Michael] We got to do it. We got to be out here
and do our job and stay partial in all this.
I'm gonna go on the record and tell you one thing right now.
I hope Booker T kicks Kurt Angle's ass here tonight.
[Tazz] Well, that very well may happen.
Booker T is beside himself, running rough shots to the locker
trying to find Angle.
He's smack dab in the middle of the ring and Book-man is coming.
This is not gonna be pretty, Cole. I can tell you that right now.
[Michael] This all started when Booker T cost Kurt Angle
that number one contender slot in the Fatal Four-Way Elimination Match.
Angle started it, eliminating Booker T with a chair in the first place.
[Booker T] Can you dig it? Sucker!
["Can You Do It Sucka" music playing]
[Greg] And from Houston, Texas, weighing in at 256 pounds,
Booker T!
[Michael] Imagine what is going through Booker T's mind.
I'll say it fast.
[Tazz] I mean, look at Kurt's face, though.
You see Kurt? Look at him.
He's sick. He's demented, Cole.
But he's confident.
He's an Olympic gold medalist. He's former WWE champion.
[Michael] Booker T, not wasting a moment, taking it to Kurt Angle here
with the right hand.
Booker T, an emotional wreck, beating the hell outta a man
who's been making advances on his wife for weeks now.
[Tazz] I told you it wasn't gonna be pretty.
-You don't mess with another man's wife. -[Michael] And what a right hand.
Here we… Kurt Angle suckered us all in Thursday night on SmackDown.
We thought he really apologized
and said he was gonna dominate Booker T tonight
and then dominate Booker T's wife after the match.
[Tazz] He did apologize. Kurt Angle fulfilled his obligation.
But then, he went well blast.
He just went back to insulting Sharmell.
-[Michael] And look at Booker T. -[Tazz] Weird stuff.
[Michael] For Booker T, it's about beating the hell outta this man tonight.
[Tazz] I don't blame booker…
I don't blame Booker at all but that's what you got to watch.
You got to watch Angle no matter how whacked out he is.
He's got that front face like he's on his Olympic medalist.
That's not where you wanna be.
I'm telling you, he's dangerous.
[Michael] For Kurt Angle, you need to try to weather this emotional storm
in the early part of the matchup to survive, I guess. Right?
[Tazz] I would think so. Yeah.
But Booker now on purpose, staying right on Kurt Angle.
[Michael] Now, Booker T has been waiting for this night for weeks now.
You saw what he did to Mark Jindrak on Thursday night.
Oh!
And Kurt Angle, I believe, is bleeding from the mouth already in this matchup.
[Tazz] I'm not surprised. I'm not… Look at Kurt.
He's just trying to get a double up or something right there on Booker.
[Michael] But now the shoulders from this demented superstar
driven into the ribs of Booker T.
-[Tazz] Oh, man. -[Michael] An uppercut.
Kurt Angle was on such a major roll coming outta WrestleMania,
defeating Shawn Michaels.
Both of us believed he was gonna be the number one contender
for the WWE title.
And Kurt Angle, in his mind, believes Booker T took it all away from him.
[Tazz] That is, so to, so did Kurt Angle. He believed it too.
And so if you, you know, I don't think that gives Kurt the righteousness.
-He feels that Booker… -[Michael] Snapmare, takedown.
[Tazz] That booker caused him that opportunity for the WWE title,
we don't think that was.
[Michael] For God's sake, it's an athletic competition.
It has nothing to do with personal issues of somebody's wife.
I mean, how does that come into play?
What the hell did Sharmell do to deserve this?
And what did Booker T do to deserve it?
[Tazz] Nothing.
[Michael] Kurt Angle continues to control Booker T,
and this is to your point earlier on, Tazz,
to control Booker T, take that emotion outta him,
that early fire that Booker T had in, wear it outta him.
[Tazz] You don't want get caught on the mat with angle.
You don't wanna get in a wrestling game. He's got a side headlock on Booker.
That's… You got to be careful with Angle.
He's so dangerous with is, with his hands and his holds.
[Michael] Big shoulder knock down by Kurt Angle.
Kurt Angle, beginning to pick up momentum here.
There's a nice hip toss, pop and a hit.
Kurt Angle begging off here.
Maybe you should have thought about this, Kurt,
before you did what you did to Sharmell.
Maybe you wouldn't be in this predicament now.
[Tazz] Well, Booker T is just stomping all over the face and chest of Kurt Angle,
and Kurt deserves every kick that he's getting.
[Michael] Booker T wants this to be an all-out fight, a brawl.
That's what he wants this matchup to be.
[Tazz] Just don't count. Just don't count Kurt Angle out.
You can't count Kurt Angle out. You know that.
[Michael] Of course I do.
Like you said before, Olympic gold medalist,
four-time WWE champion.
[Tazz] That was a snapmare right here by Booker T.
[Michael] What Booker gonna do? Watch. Look. Just a dropkick right to the jaw.
Maybe that'll shut up Kurt Angle.
Somebody else just stomped on his mouth.
Kurt has been putting his own foot in his mouth over the recent weeks.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] Kurt's hurting. Kurt might be not moving away.
That, look at the eyes of Booker T.
-[Michael] And you can feel it. -[Tazz] Oh, look at that.
He then suckered him in.
-[Michael] He got it. He got it. -[Tazz] Booker T battled out.
[audience cheering]
[grunts]
Kurt trying to do something, but right there countered by Booker T.
Angle's still down. You gotta watch Booker here.
Let's watch this kick here by Booker. Look at this.
[Michael] Oh, my God.
[Tazz] There's a… Another kick right there.
[Michael] Knocking Kurt Angle off his feet.
[Tazz] Booker T's got the momentum and Kurt is like he's hurting here.
[Michael] Kurt Angle looks like he's really hurting.
Straight right hand.
[Tazz] You gotta stay on Angle. Look at this. Watch out.
[Michael] Angle hung up on the top ropes.
And look at the position that Kurt Angle's in.
He is a sitting duck.
[Tazz] I'll tell you, Booker's gonna have his way right now with Angle.
Oh!
[Michael] A scissor kick by the rage-filled Booker T.
And then Angle's injured neck,
that surgically repaired neck, bouncing off the apron.
And Angle is down and out.
And look at the eyes.
The eyes of Booker T will tell the story, ladies and gentlemen.
Three.
[Tazz] There's no quit, there's no stop in Booker T here.
[Michael] But Kurt Angle cannot stand up.
-[referee] Five. -[Tazz] Kurt's hurt. Definitely hurt.
And Booker T's all over now. Hey, don't mess with someone's wife.
[Michael] I was gonna say, what do you expect?
What did Kurt Angle expect Booker T was gonna do?
Was gonna saunter out here and have a wrestling match?
Is that what Kurt Angle thought?
Watch this. Watch the back of the head.
Boom.
Right there.
And look at this.
And Booker T off the reversal by Angle.
[Tazz] Well, Kurt turned the tide.
Booker broke the count. The count out almost got counted out.
And then Kurt Angle running face first, Booker T into that steel post.
[Michael] And now suddenly, like that, Kurt Angle is back in control.
Booker T back into the ring.
-Now, let's see. -[Tazz] Look at his post here.
Look at this. Face first into that steel post.
[Michael] If you're Kurt Angle, mate, if you wanna end this match
as quick as you can,
don't allow Booker T to get back into things.
There's that high knee lift.
[Tazz] Remember, what Kurt Angle said.
I can find you any, to Sharmell, I can find you anywhere, anytime.
And after this match, you're all mine.
And that's what Kurt said to Booker's wife.
[Michael] Well, he said last week he was gonna dominate Booker,
then dominate Sharmell.
Nope.
And now Angle is dominating Booker T.
[Tazz] Yes, with driving that elbow right there.
Pointing the elbow right across the floor to Booker T.
-Now that high forearm. -[Michael] Big uppercut.
Wow.
[Tazz] [inaudible] right up above the forearm.
And now he's stomping all over the Book-man.
[Michael] Kurt Angle's feeling it now. He can feel that his prey is down and out.
But watch this now. Look at this, boom. Nice suplex by Kurt angle, pop and…
Kurt into the cover, shoulders down and Booker T
kicks out perhaps on emotion alone.
See Kurt Angle mouthing back at the referee,
Charles Robinson, saying it's three.
[Tazz] Well, if you're Booker T,
I don't know what you'd do if you lose this match.
What are you gonna be thinking about? What's he gonna, you know what I mean?
[Michael] That is a great point.
[Tazz] Well, maybe he should be thinking about it.
Booker now is in trouble here.
He's caught in the body scissors. He's caught in the rear naked choke.
Angle's got him in submission on the mat.
Booker's in trouble.
[Michael] Booker T, maybe you gotta first start about
thinking about how to get outta this thing.
[Tazz] Exactly. You gotta try and get to a vertical base if you're Booker.
Again, getting caught on the mat with a man of caliber,
-Kurt Angle is just… -Come on, Book.
…this is death.
You could be done if you don't fight outta it
and get up or try to get up.
You could be done.
[Michael] Kurt Angle talking to Booker T.
-He's telling him. -[Tazz] Talking to him.
-[Michael] Telling him, tap out. -[Tazz] Well, that's what you do.
And you gotta, I'll tell you what.
I think that's a great strategy.
I mean, like Kurt or not, talk to man.
Tell him, "I'm gonna whip you. I'm choking you out.
I'm gonna hurt you. Get in his head.
And Angle's getting in his head in more ways than one.
[Michael] These great SmackDown fans in the Target Center
trying to will Booker T on.
Booker T on flat out emotion. Back to his feet.
There's the right. There's the left to the ribs of Kurt Angle.
And here comes the former five-time WCW champion.
[Tazz] Watch those right hands after those chops.
A nasty by Booker T.
[Michael] Kurt Angle hanging on and Booker T got caught up.
Perhaps a bit overzealous that time.
Booker T got caught up on the top rope.
[Tazz] Well, the match sense, the ring sense of Kurt Angle
to hang on to that top rope.
Look at this.
[Michael] Booker T landed high and tight. Kurt Angle rolled to the cover.
Shoulders down. Leg is hooked. Booker T rolls the shoulder out.
[Tazz] You don't wanna let Angle get a momentum with these suplexes
and these high impact moves.
If you let Kurt do that, he will take you out like that.
I'm telling you.
[Michael] And again, Kurt Angle back in control.
Straight right hand.
-Got another. -[Tazz] His body rolls in. Look at that.
What a sting of those punches.
[Michael] Oh, what an uppercut again. And another one to the jaw.
Yeah. Okay.
[Tazz] I'll tell you while you're here, we're talking about the smash mount style.
Kurt Angle just bringing a fight big time to Booker T.
[Michael] Kurt Angle suddenly switched into another gear here.
-[Tazz] I think that's… -[Michael] Now, look at him.
-He's mocking the man. -[Tazz] Look at that look.
Look at that look. Look at his face.
[Michael] Bad enough what he did to the man's wife
and how he's mocking him, beating the hell outta him,
and you know, Booker T's wife, Sharmell, is in the back watching this.
-[Tazz] She's got to-- -[Michael] Oh.
B driven to the ribs, hook to the leg.
A two, he's down and a kick out again.
[Tazz] First, Kurt worked on the ribcage at those body blows
and then he went for that backbreaker.
Now that reverse battle, that reverse gut-wrench
working the mid section, the ribcage area.
[Michael] Kurt Angle just trying to wear Booker T down,
get Booker T in the position that Kurt Angle can deliver an Angle Slam
or hook up the ankle lock.
[Tazz] Again, you're caught on the mat here.
You're caught on the mat by Kurt Angle.
You go to try and get up to a vertical base like a…
[Michael] Here's the cover shoulders Booker T has to exert more energy.
[Tazz] So much effort to kick out when your ribs are hurting,
especially if you got an Olympian on your back.
I mean, Kurt fold him over and he shut that half in to put Booker on his back.
[Michael] Again as we talked about earlier on the matchup, Tazz,
Kurt Angle had to ride that first wave of emotion
he knew he was gonna get from Booker T.
He did that and now he's in control.
[Tazz] That's a good point, Cole, and I agree with you.
And Kurt was able to withstand that emotional,
you know, ball of energy and anger and rage that,
and revenge that Booker had. And Kurt's on top here.
It's reversed bell, reversed gut-wrench.
[Michael] Booker T, doing all he can. Listen to that.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] Kurt might be bleeding on the top of his head.
It looks like there's some blood on his forehead
or if that's from his mouth or what it is.
[Michael] Booker T back to his feet.
Booker T trying to get out of this predicament here.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] Nice back elbow. Oh, and there's another one.
And that's what you gonna do, you, see smart by Booker
and prevent Kurt from keeping out that…
-Oh. -[Michael] What a shot. That's…
Booker T, here's the reversal, whipped across the ring,
ducks underneath the right hand and kicked right on the button.
Wow, man. That was some heavy impact.
-Kurt may have a broken nose. -[Tazz] He might have broke a nose.
He might have broke an orbital bone, orbital bone at the same moment,
knocked a tooth out, or maybe you're right, maybe, it was his nose.
[Michael] Kurt Angle trying to get back to his feet.
Referee Charles Robinson has began the count.
-[referee] Four. -[Michael] At a count of four.
-If both men are counted out here… -[Tazz] [inaudible].
[Michael] Kurt Angle trying to make it up. T trying to build some sort of momentum.
Kurt Angle first to his feet.
Booker T up as well, blocks the right hand.
Booker T with the right of his own.
Booker T with another right.
[Tazz] Looks like Booker now starts to build momentum here.
[Michael] Here comes Booker T.
-Booker T, trying… -[Tazz] Oh, my God.
[Michael] Starting to feed off emotion here.
Kurt Angle, reversal. Booker T off the rope.
-[Tazz] Oh. -[Michael] Flying right hand.
And a clothesline and here comes Booker T.
Suplex.
[Tazz] Nice snap with the hips there. Cover.
[Michael] Into the cover, hook to the leg, shoulders down.
-Kick out by Angle. -[Tazz] And now Booker is trying…
I've been telling you, his ribs got to be hurting
and he's trying to get the endurance to just mount a comeback.
Nice duck there.
[Michael] Oh, did you hear that?
[Tazz] I don't think Kurt hearing anything except birds flying around his head now.
[Michael] That will break a jaw.
There was blood flying everywhere and saliva, whatnot.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] Booker T now…
setting up for something. He's setting up--
[Michael] Kick to the mid section.
Booker T off the ropes here, go for the scissors kick.
Kurt Angle counters right for the Angle Slam.
-Both men… Booker T… -[Tazz] Booker, he's got him.
-One, two. -Get him Booker, two…
[Michael] Kurt Angle kicked out.
That was close.
[Tazz] Referee said his shoulder… Kurt Angle's shoulder came up.
That was close.
[Michael] Whoa, Booker T off the book end but look at Booker.
[audience chattering and cheering]
-Booker T has not given up. -[Tazz] Booker's in the zone, Cole.
He's in the zone, baby.
[Michael] Booker T is determined to beat Kurt Angle here tonight.
[Tazz] Busting out that spinaroonie.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] Now, he's focused on Kurt Angle, stalking Angle, kicked to the mid section.
Booker T off the rope.
Kurt Angle with that clothesline.
[Tazz] Nice counter.
Kurt had a feeling that Booker was gonna go with that axe kick.
That booky stuff bootching to go towards the end
and go for his finishing move and Kurt Angle was countering.
[Michael] Not only, because that clothesline knocked Booker T down
but it allows Kurt Angle to regain some composure,
catch his breath here.
[Tazz] Let's see if he can. Let's see if Booke… Nice reversal.
[Michael] Angle off the ropes, right hand and got that German suplex.
And Booker landed on his shoulder.
[Tazz] You don't wanna be caught here, Book.
[Michael] Oh, my God. A second German.
[Tazz] And a great grip, those hands, those fingers are locked.
Watch the hips pop…
[Michael] Now Booker T popping elbows of his own to the jaw of Kurt Angle.
Off the ropes, off to the ring, belly to belly throw.
-[Tazz] He's gonna get him. -[Michael] Into the cover.
-[Tazz] He's gonna get him. -[Michael] Hook to the leg,
shoulders are both down and Booker T kicked out.
[Tazz] What a match. What a match.
And you got to wonder what Sharmell is thinking in the back
she's got to be rooting her husband on here, obviously.
[Michael] Kurt Angle now, he's just… Look at this.
Just measuring this man.
Booker T… yes.
Look at this small package, hooks the leg.
[Tazz] Oh, did he get… did he get it?
-[bell ringing] -[Tazz] I don't know.
-[Michael] He got it. He got it. -[Tazz] Oh, no.
[Michael] Booker T got Kurt Angle.
Booker T countered the Angle Slam.
-[Greg] Here's your winner, Booker T. -[Michael] I just…
[Tazz ] I thought it was the other way around.
[Michael] No. Booker T and here comes Sharmell.
And look at the smile on her face.
[Tazz] Oh, I don't blame it. She's happy. She should be.
[Michael] Look at Kurt Angle from behind. -[Tazz] Oh, no.
[Tazz] What the hell. Come on, Kurt. You lost the matchup. Enough is enough.
How much more you're gonna put this man's word?
-Oh, no. -[Michael] Angle Slam.
-Angle Slam. -In front of Booker T's wife.
[audience chattering]
[Tazz] Oh, no. The match is over.
Sharmell beside herself.
[Michael] What the hell is this man gonna do?
Booker T sent outta the ring following the Angle Slam.
[audience chattering]
[Tazz] Sharmell coming to the aid of the husband.
Sharmell, she needs to get outta here, man.
[Michael] Oh, come on.
[audience chattering]
-[Tazz] She needs to… -[Michael] Just go away, Kurt.
Just leave her alone.
-[Sharmell screams] -[Tazz] Oh, no.
[audience chattering]
[Michael] What's he doing?
What the hell does Kurt Angle have in his hand?
-Oh, my God. Handcuffs… -[Tazz] Oh, no.
[Michael] The handcuffs that he sent to Sharmell earlier.
[audience chattering]
[mouthing]
[Sharmell screams]
Leave me.
[groans]
Kurt, no.
-[Tazz] He's hand, he's handcuffing her. -No.
He's gonna handcuff her in the ropes, Cole.
What the hell is wrong with this guy?
[Michael] Kurt Angle doing… Somebody's got to stop this.
-Oh, Booker T. -[Tazz] Oh, yes. From behind.
[Michael] Booker T from behind. Sharmell get the… outta the way.
[Tazz] Get that back outta here.
[Michael] There's a kick to the jaw.
[Tazz] Booker T… Now, what?
-[Michael] Oh, my. -[Tazz] Oh, my. Yeah. Get him Booker.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] Booker T has handcuffed Kurt Angle.
Kurt Angle's handcuffed, don't let him run.
-[indistinct shouting] -[audience cheering]
Come on!
[Tazz] Angle seems he's terrified, I don't blame him.
You cannot do [inaudible]. It's between me and you [inaudible].
[inaudible].
Oh, yeah. Booker T with a right hand.
[Tazz] Kurt can't go anywhere. He's handcuffed.
[Michael] It's Judgment Day for Kurt Angle.
-He can't run. -[Tazz] He can't defend himself here.
-[Michael] Who cares? -[Tazz] I hear you.
[Michael] Sharmell couldn't defend herself either.
[Tazz] You're right. I don't disagree with that at all.
[audience chattering]
[audience cheering]
I'm just glad Booker got into that ring and helped her, came to her defense.
[audience chattering]
[audience cheering]
No, Sharmell, no. Sharmell, no.
Don't you ever…
touch me again.
[Tazz] Oh, man. Damn! Whoa! Damn,
She's a wild, wild cat.
-[Michael] Sharmell, kick his ass. -[Tazz] Beat the hell outta him.
[Michael] Go on, Sharmell.
[audience chattering and cheering]
[inaudible].
[Tazz] Oh, my God.
That's what happens to sick perverts, Kurt.
[screaming]
["Can You Do It Sucka" music playing]
[Tazz] Oh, my God.
Wow.
["Can You Do It Sucka" music playing continuous]
I damn near can't talk after seeing that, man, that's… Wow.
[Michael] There's an old saying, it's been used for a hundred years,
hell hath no fury like a woman's scorned, you just saw it.
[Tazz] That Sharmell is an emotional wild cat in the Max.
-[Michael] Can you blame her? -[Tazz] No.
[Michael] After all the sick things that Kurt Angle had said,
that Kurt Angle has done to Sharmell and to Booker T over the past few weeks,
he got what he deserves.
[Tazz] I'll tell you, he did.
-[Tazz] Kurt did definitely deserve. -[Michael] Absolutely…
God, who knows what Kurt would have did if he would've handcuffed Sharmell,
-you know what I'm saying? -[Michael] I know.
Let… Sharmell, it was like the emotion just poured outta her.
[Tazz] Look at her. She looks spent.
[Michael] It was a relief so to speak when she slapped Kurt
and beat that hell outta him in the corner.
-And that delivered that little… -[Tazz] She's crying, Cole. She's crying.
The emotions got… Take a look at this. Look at that.
One, two, three, four. She's all over, beating the hell outta him.
Oh, my God.
I'm not blaming her.
-[inaudible]. -Then, and then this.
And that one thing left to do.
Oh, God.
[Michael] I don't even think Booker T…
[Tazz] That moment… Kurt… Look at Kurt's reaction that,
you know, it hit where the sun doesn't shine.
[Michael] Usually. -[Tazz] And maybe he deserved it,
Kurt Angle did.
[Tazz] God.
Well, good for her, man, really.
I've still got chills down my spine watching that emotional outburst
by Sharmell just moments ago.
And see Kurt Angle finally getting on handcuffed here, so to speak.
[audience chattering]
[Tazz] No sympathy from the, this Minnesota SmackDown audience here.
[Michael] Does Kurt Angle deserve sympathy?
[Tazz] No. No, he doesn't deserve sympathy and…
And, you know, adding insult to injury there.
Kurt Angle can't get the handcuffs off.
Maybe let's us keep him handcuffed.
You know, go put him in Booker T's locker room, handcuff him to a lock room.
Let Sharmell get her way with him.
[Tazz] I don't think there's anything left to kick down there,
-you know what I'm saying? -Yeah.
I'll tell you what an emotional evening for Booker T and Sharmell.
Imagine what you would feel if it was your wife
that Kurt Angle had directed those verbal attacks to.
I would do exactly what Booker T did
and I'll go to beat the hell outta the guy.
And now you see Kurt Angle, he finally got Kurt unhooked
-from the rope and… Oh, man. -[audience booing]
I don't feel bad for Kurt, he's got to be hurting.
What a kick.
[Michael] Again, like you said,
no sympathy from these great SmackDown fans.
In Minnesota.
[Tazz] I'm still confused about Kurt,
you know, acting like this but he's wiped out. He is whacked out.
-[audience booing] -[Michael] He is whacked out.
He deserved everything that he got here tonight and more.
[Tazz] He got a lot. That's for sure.
I'll tell you. We have a very special guest here
at the target center in Minneapolis tonight.
How appropriate that this man is here tonight.
Former boxing legend, Roberto Duran is here tonight at Judgment Day.
And why is it appropriate that he's here tonight, Tazz?
Because remember Duran against Sugar Ray Leonard back in the early 80s,
the famous "No Mas" where he quit
-in the middle of the fight? -"No Mas", I remember.
We have a "I quit" match here tonight.
You know, he's gotta quit. He's an expert on quitting.
[Michael] JBL versus John Cena.
"I quit" match, the WWE Championship tonight.
Let's talk about your keys to victory in this matchup.
[Tazz] Again, this is the way I see once you go down in this match,
if I was one of these two party list
and I think right outta the box, I mean, he who gets an offense first
could prevent the other guy from being victorious and get him to quit.
I mean, so right away from jump street,
you wanna get on the offense and keep the offense.
And then number two, I would say pure persistence,
meaning that you got to stay on.
You got to press on your opponent to get him to say I Quit
or on the reverse end of the double meaning,
you know, be persistent not to quit.
You got to hang on and most importantly and the obvious, don't quit.
You don't wanna quit. I mean, you know, that's the name of this game.
You've got to try and have that intestinal fortitude
to just keep staying in there,
hang in in there when the going gets stuff.
And believe me, folks, it's gonna get tough and then I Quit…
[hip-hop song playing]
[Michael] Who's gonna quit?
Which one of those two men is gonna utter the two words
that'll change their life forever.
[hip-hop song playing]
[bell ringing]
[Greg] The following contest is scheduled for one fall
and it is for the WWE United States Championship.
Making his way to the ring from Miami, Florida, weighing in 257 pounds,
the United States Champion, Orlando Jordan.
[Michael] This is our third title match tonight.
Champions retained the titles
in the prior two matches here at Judgment Day.
Orlando Jordan, a rematch against Heidenreich this past Thursday night
on SmackDown. It was a non-title matchup.
And Heidenreich would surprise the United States Champion.
[Tazz] He sure would. I mean, right there with that modified side slam,
I think Orlando was going for a clothesline of sort
that Heidenreich got the win, got the duke anytime.
He got a victory. I mean, all over the United States Champion on the list.
As Heidenreich's friend, he's got a friend, see?
Heidenreich, this one.
[Michael] Oh, he's found a lotta friends over the past five weeks.
[Tazz] What I'm trying to say,
we got a victory of a non title match over a champion.
I'll you what, he's just right up there and then an opportunity to give it a shot.
-[Michael] And get to the title match. -[Tazz] There you go.
[Greg] And from New Orleans, Louisiana,
weighing in 285 pounds, Heidenreich.
[Michael] To call Heidenreich strange is not a stretch.
[Tazz] I don't think it's too strange.
I mean, I said earlier on Sunday night heat,
there's no grey area with this guy.
Either you're his friend or you're not? And if you're not, be careful.
[Michael] Can you imagine Heidenreich running around
with the United States Championship?
Do you think he would bring it into the park with the trees,
the ducks and ride the children's story land rides?
[Tazz] Of course, I think he would. Why wouldn't he?
I mean, I used to be a champion. I used to be…
My title to go to the supermarket to the park, everything.
That's what we would do--
[Michael] You had people carry it for you.
[Tazz] Anyway, look at Heidenreich.
I love that Heidenreich the walk, the walk.
[Michael] United States Championship on the line.
Orlando Jordan won the championship.
[Tazz] Actually, come to think of it, Heidenreich don't really walk.
He kinda marches. I like that. Uh-oh. Wait, listen up.
-[audience chattering] -[heavy breathing]
Before we get started, I got one thing I got to do.
[audience cheering]
I need to find me a new friend.
-[audience cheering] -[heavy breathing]
Who wants to be my friend?
[audience cheering]
Who?
[audience cheering]
-[Michael] Lots of them do. -[Heidenreich] Where is my friend?
Ref, get him back.
My…
[audience chattering]
Where is my friend?
[audience cheering]
Where's my friend?
-[Michael] He changed the words on you. -Where's my friend?
[Tazz] Oh, he found a friend.
You're my friend. My friend.
[audience chattering]
-What's your name? -Alex.
That's a good name.
[cheering]
-Where are you from? -Minne-freaking-apolis.
Minneapolis right here.
[audience cheering]
-Do wanna hear one of my disaster pieces? -Yes.
-One of poems? -Yeah. Yeah.
Let's go. Let's go over here. Come on. Come on.
[audience chattering]
[Michael] He's still doing the arm thing. Look.
[chuckles] What is wrong with this guy?
Sit down right here, this special chair, special chair.
-[Michael] Special chair there. -[Tazz] I heard him.
[audience chattering]
[Michael] Here comes.
"I've traveled the world in search of a friend
never ever knowing where the road might end,
where the road runs right through Minneapolis tonight
because I'm face…"
[audience cheering]
"Because I'm facing Orlando Jordan for a championship fight."
[audience cheering]
"Orlando Jordan is tough and he is the US champ
but the odds are in my favor when I hear the Heidenreich chant."
[audience chanting]
Almost done. Almost done.
"OJ looks like a rascal from his head down to his feet."
[audience chattering]
"Just from looking at his hair, I like to call him whole wheat…
[audience cheering]
[Heidenreich] OJ."
[Tazz] I think it was good.
And that was a poem by Heidenreich.
[Tazz] You know what, I'll not even explain it.
[Michael] Okay. It's his world. It's his mind.
[Tazz] Okay.
[audience chattering]
-[Michael] He's stalled himself too bad. -[Tazz] It looks like…
Oh, look at Orlando Jordan trying to take advantage
-this whole wheat. -[bell ringing]
-It's whole wheat anyway. -[Tazz] Oh, no, no.
-[Michael] I thought it was buckwheat. -[Tazz] Whole wheat, buckwheat, oatmeal.
-I don't know. -[Michael] Orlando Jordan,
the United States Champion on the attack at the early part of this matchup.
What a Segway here.
-The little girl's name is Alex, right? -[Tazz] Yeah.
[Michael] Alex, one of the [inaudible] yesterday.
Perhaps, Alex could help Heidenreich with the US Championship tonight.
[Tazz] Okay.
Oh, she's rooting on. She's feel a bit right now.
[inaudible]. I don't really… If I have to follow up.
Right now, Orlando Jordan, should be getting right all over Heidenreich here.
[Michael] Orlando Jordan, the United States Champion.
You got to understand, Orlando Jordan is got to be kicked off
over the fact that he's surprised by Heidenreich.
He lost that night title matchup Thursday night.
[Orlando] That's your friend. [inaudible].
[audience chattering]
[Michael] Yeah, let's go classy, Orlando, talking trash to a ten-year-old girl.
That's great.
Oh, look at that, kick to the head of Heidenreich by Orlando Jordan.
[Tazz] Well, she's rooting on, she's rooting on Heidenreich
and Orlando is trying to defend his championship here.
[Michael] Oh, caught in the air, Heidenreich by doing here.
Look at this, shoulders down and Orlando Jordan went his shoulder out.
[Tazz] He said before, I'll say it again, you know what, when Orlando,
you know, he's quite possibly the best athlete on SmackDown.
So, Heidenreich gotta be careful here, gotta hold this.
[Michael] Orlando Jordan's trained by the great Rocky Johnson
as he sends Heidenreich through the ropes and down to the floor below and now--
[Heidenreich] Get up the floor, Orlando, get back in the ring.
-You call that your friend? -[referee] Get off the floor.
[referee] Hey, hey…
-[grunts] -[Michael] Poor Orlando.
Heidenreich with a right hand. That will affect… He'll do it again.
Orlando back into the ring. Heidenreich back in control.
[referee] Four, stay in the ring.
[Michael] United States Championship is on the line.
Orlando Jordan won the title back in early March.
Won the title with a victory back in early March,
the United States Championship.
John Cena, the champion at the time,
and JBL stuck it to John Cena just weeks before WrestleMania.
[Tazz] Watch this, look at this. Look at Orlando Jordan.
[Michael] Heidenreich landed high and tight,
and you saw his neck snap back.
[Tazz] And what, Heidenreich's fall looked like an accordion right there.
[screaming]
Man, I thought he damn near broke his neck. Look at this.
[Michael] And again into the cover hook of the leg,
and Heidenreich has to use all the energy he can just to kick out.
-[groans] -[Tazz] That's smart, go after the neck.
[groaning]
Bottle capped that head off if you're Orlando Jordan, that's smart,
you just dump this dude, you just dump Heidenreich on his head
with that back suplex.
Go after it.
[chanting] Buckwheat sucks.
[Michael] The great fans get it, saying Buckwheat sucks, not whole meat.
-[Tazz] Buckwheat sucks. -[Michael laughs]
[chanting] Buckwheat sucks.
[Tazz] Again, working on that neck, and Heidenreich's trying it, that's smart.
Face his opponent now, turn it to a side headlock by Orlando Jordan.
[groaning]
[Michael] Again, a knee to the midsection,
drops the big man, Heidenreich, to the mat again.
Orlando has been relentless since the get go of this matchup.
[Tazz] Orlando wants to be in great condition.
There's no stopping it in that man's body.
[groaning]
Kick to the side of the head. Orlando Jordan…
[groaning]
[Tazz] Uh-oh. Wait a minute. What's this?
[Michael] Look at that, Heidenreich doing that walk again.
[groans]
[Tazz] It's like he's kinda feeding off the crowd here a little bit.
[Michael] A little bit, you think, here comes the challenger.
[Tazz] With a follow up the right hand or left hand here.
[Michael] Orlando on the turnbuckle and now the body shots
close to the head by Heidenreich.
[audience chattering]
Oh, what a clothesline.
[Tazz] Leaving the clock to Orlando. Alex likes it.
And now again, Heidenreich is just going right after Orlando here.
-[Michael] Watch out. -[Tazz] Whoa!
[Michael] My, God, that body drop launching Orlando halfway across the ring.
[Tazz] Look at that big boot by Heidenreich.
[Michael] Boot to the face, cover again. The title is up for grabs here and…
-He kicked out? -[Tazz] He definitely kicked out.
Come on.
[Michael] Orlando Jordan surviving an another near fall.
[Tazz] Heidenreich's friend is rooting on Orlando.
I'm sorry, no, Heidenreich.
[Michael] Kick to the face by Jordan, now, to the mid-section.
Going for the swing and the challenger connecting.
Remember the fall on the neck earlier on, on that suplex,
-Orlando taking advantage. -[Tazz] That's right, good point.
Now with the leg, shoulders down, there's two,
and Heidenreich just barely got the shoulder up again.
And Alex hoping Heidenreich to hang in this.
[Tazz] Again, look at this, going again for the back of the neck
and upper spine area of Heidenreich is Orlando.
Come on, man
[audience cheering]
That's what I'm taking about.
[indistinct chatter]
-[Tazz] Orlando who's… -[Michael] He got caught.
-One, two. -[Tazz] Shoulders down and a kick out.
Orlando is a hotdog and out here, you got to be careful.
[Michael] Orlando should stop trash talking
and he keep his mind on the matchup.
That time he did. Heidenreich bounced off in the middle of the rope.
[Tazz] Hey, drop toe into that middle rope.
[Michel] A DDT planted Heidenreich into the cover.
-That might be it. -[Tazz] Shoulders are down and he got it.
-That's it. -[Tazz] On the DDT.
[Michael] Orlando Jordan retains the title.
[Greg] Here's your winner and still United States Champion,
Orlando Jordan.
[Tazz] Physical matchup.
No doubt, Orlando successfully defending against the very capable Heidenreich.
[hip-hop song playing]
[Tazz] Heidenreich might been hurt at that DDT there.
[Michael] Very much so,
and Orlando Jordan, the US Champion retains the goal.
Heidenreich got caught, he was rolling the matchup and got caught at that DDT.
[Tazz] Oh, wait.
His friend Alex now is in there trying to help him out.
[inaudible].
[audience chattering]
Come on, Heidenreich.
[Michael] Alex, she's cheering him up.
[Tazz] She's trying to get him to get up and do that the deal in a high,
the walk, the march.
This little girl is great. She's got a lotta spunk.
[audience chanting] Heidenreich!
[Michael] The Heidenreich chants.
[audience chanting] Heidenreich!
[Tazz] He's doing it.
[audience cheering]
["Dangerous Politics" Heidenreich theme song playing]
[Michael] [Michael laughs] That's great.
Heidenreich found himself a friend here tonight in Minnesota.
Actually, I believe he found himself a lotta friends.
[Tazz] He got friends everywhere.
[audience cheering]
She's a little sweetheart and I'll tell you what.
Heidenreich lost the math, but, hey, he got a friend.
[audience cheering]
Joining me right now is one of the men competing in the "I quit" match
for the WWE Championship, the challenger, John Bradshaw Layfield.
[audience cheering]
JBL, it's obvious that after tonight,
the lives of both you and John Cena will never be the same again.
Never been in a fight, have you, son? Never?
Because if you had, you would not ask such a stupid question.
Lives do not change in a fight…
lives are broken in a fight.
When one man has to say, "I quit"…
he's no longer a man.
I've been kicking ass my entire life. Welcome to my home.
While John Cena was sitting in the stance just a few years ago
rooting for whoever was fighting against me.
I was winning championships.
Now, he says he wants to stay with the people
who brought him to the dance,
good, they can stay with him, they can suffer with him,
they can agonize with him and they could "Quit" with him…
because just like Babe Ruth.
I'm gonna call my shot.
I'm gonna make you bleed, John.
I wanna bust you wide open.
That coming down your face will not be sweat, it's gonna be blood,
it's gonna get in your eyes, and in your mouth,
you're not gonna be able to see.
You better go back to your rap career, you better go to your movie career.
He'll run for governor of Minnesota, these idiots will elect anybody.
[audience cheering]
But you're gonna learn, son, you're not my league,
and you don't belong in the wrestling with me
'cause the last thing you will see through the blood in your eyes
is my boot kicking off your face,
the last thing you will say is what you've said your entire life,
"I quit".
And you will realize, son…
that I am who I say that I am.
I am a wrestling…
[audience chanting] God.
God.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] Well, we will indeed see tonight
if this wrestling God is mortal or immortal.
Who will utter the words "I Quit?"
Welcome back to the Target Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for Judgment Day.
We are live and coming up next is Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio.
[Tazz] Two men that were like brothers, again beyond the friendship
and Guerrero destroyed that bond, that trust and that brotherhood.
And tonight, we're gonna see Mysterio and Guerrero go.
Former best friends Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero
were as close as family.
[upbeat music playing]
[Rey] You know who my partner is?
It's my boy.
[speaking Spanish]
-Eddie Guerrero. -[audience cheering]
[Michael] That would call Mysterio and Guerrero a dream team.
[Tazz] These guys are like brothers, they're super tight, super close.
[Eddie] He's my blood, is it?
[Greg] Here are your winners
and the new WWE Tag Team Champions.
[Michael] What a celebration for the good friends,
Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero.
[triumphant music playing]
[Eddie] Rey, you are my family.
I love you, man.
[dramatic music playing]
The way I see it, Eddie's keeping his friends close…
and his enemies even closer.
[Eddie] Look, I know where you're going,
you're trying to stir it up between me and Rey.
Don't go there, I say.
Rey, he's like familia, man, he's like a brother, I say.
[Michael] It's a two-on-one assault.
This Mercury and Nitro just beat the living hell outta Rey Mysterio
and where the hell is Eddie Guerrero?
I promise you, I was having car troubles.
[dramatic music playing]
-Mysterio is gonna do it, springboard… -[Tazz] He's got him, there's one, two.
Wait a minute, Eddie's blowing his stick.
[Rey] Eddie, you caused me my shot to become WWE Champion.
[Eddie] Why? Because I was so focused on myself and I was being selfish
and I just wanna extend my hand to you as a man…
and say, "I'm sorry, please forgive me."
[dramatic music playing]
[Rey] I know that sometimes you're not a 100 percent up here.
You're a 100 percent in your heart,
that's what counts for me right now and forever.
[Eddie] Yeah, man.
-[Rey] Let's go out and take care of MNMs. -[Eddie] Let's go get them, man.
[dramatic music continues]
[Michael] Guerrero and Mysterio had differences
seems like that's all good now.
[Michael] Make the tag, Rey.
Mysterio trying to make it to his partner.
-[Tazz] Come on, Eddie, take it. -[Michael] Eddie, reach out, come on.
[Tazz] What's wrong with him? What is with Eddie?
[Michael] Eddie Guerrero watch his partner,
his friend get destroyed
and Eddie didn't let a damn finger to help.
[eerie music playing]
[Rey] What happened to brotherhood, I say?
What happened to you are my familia?
You don't wanna talk?
Then maybe you'll fight.
[Chavo] Rey Mysterio slapped you across the face?
He disrespected you in front of millions of people…
and you didn't do anything about it.
[Michael] It's a damn three-on-one mugging of Rey Mysterio.
It's Eddie Guerrero. Eddie Guerrero taking on MNM.
[melancholy music playing]
[Eddie] I don't give up like a big brother.
Rey, you are my family.
-[Rey] Why, Eddie, why? -[Eddie] You wanted a fight?
I'll give you a fight.
Do you think that makes me happy?
You promised to make your return on Judgment Day.
[gloomy music playing]
I advise against it.
Think of your family,
Aalyah and Dominik, your son and your daughter.
Don't make me hurt them, Rey.
Don't make me take away their papa.
[tense music playing]
Why? Why did you make me do this?
Remember, I have your blood on my hands.
At Judgment Day, if you come back…
I'll have your life.
[echoing]
[audience cheering]
["Can You Feel the Heat" music playing]
[bell ringing]
[Greg] The following contest is schedule for one fall.
Making his way to the ring, from El Paso, Texas,
weighing in at 228 pounds, Eddie Guerrero.
[Michael] I can honestly say, Tazz, I don't know this man anymore.
You've known Eddie a lot longer than I have.
[Tazz] I've known Eddie over ten years.
[Michael] I don't know what's happening.
[Tazz] And I have no clue. He's got the soul of a killer, Cole.
[Michael] I've been thinking about this a lot over the past couple of weeks.
And I think a lotta dismay stem all the way back to WrestleMania
when Rey Mysterio defeated Eddie Guerrero
yet again Eddie just can't get a victory over Rey Mysterio.
And perhaps that has something to do, maybe a minor thing to do
with this whole change in attitude of this man.
[Tazz] How do you get into this mans mind? How do… You can't?
He's just not thinking rationally.
I mean, the saying that Rey Mysterio is thinking of family,
"Don't make me hurt them."
Talking about Rey's children, "Don't make me take your papa away."
How do you say that to someone that you, like a brother for you?
[Michael] "Rey, I have your blood on my hands.
At Judgment Day, I will have your life."
[Tazz] Strong words, man.
[Michael] We haven't seen Rey Mysterio…
Since that suplex to the steel steps.
[Tazz] It's been several weeks and…
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] You could just feel it. You know what I mean? Like the tension?
["Who's That Jumping Out The Sky" music playing]
♪ Who's that jumpin' out the sky? R-E-Y! ♪
[Greg] And from San Diego, California, weighing in at 170 pounds,
Rey Mysterio--
[Michael] Rey Mysterio has been medically cleared for this matchup.
But you see the tape on the ribs of Rey Mysterio.
A result of the injury,
the suplex of the steel steps by Eddie weeks ago
and I can still hear that sickening thud.
[Tazz] I know. I can hear it too.
Like I was saying before Rey come out, I can feel it.
You can feel the tension here, the tension between these two men.
And like I said early on, it's like a brotherhood
and you could feel the heat between them, the tension between them.
And anger that… And you wanna talk about Latino Heat.
I'll tell you, we'll we got some of that tonight, Cole.
[Michael] I'll tell you, Rey Mysterio,
I like the way that he's approaching the start of the matchup.
He could have come running down the aisleway, rush into the ring,
start to beat the hell outta Eddie, but Rey is taking his time.
He realizes he has this match. He realizes he'll get Eddie in the ring.
[Tazz] I take the opponent, I take that Eddie Guerrero of.
I think that's why Eddie stepped outta the ring?
I think Eddie expected that.
[Michael] Rey has not taken his eyes off Eddie Guerrero.
[audience chanting] Eddie!
Now Rey Mysterio…
[audience chanting] Eddie!
…saying a prayer in the corner as Eddie enters into the ring.
-[Tazz] Watch out. Watch out. Come on. -[Michael] And Rey is smart.
Rey knew you cannot turn your back on a man like Eddie Guerrero.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] Oh, and a right hand by Rey. And Rey's not backing down.
And here comes Mysterio and this fight is on.
-[Tazz] Oh, my God. Look at Mysterio. -[Michael] Can you blame it?
And now look at Eddie, a knee to the ribs, a kick to the face.
[Tazz] Right outta the box. It's dancing. It's ugly, man. It's a fight.
[Michael] And Rey Mysterio with a big chop.
And I cannot believe how the relationship between these two men
has deteriorated over just a matter of weeks.
[Tazz] See, how quick Guerrero put his hands up and blocked that kick
because he knew Rey was trying to mount some offense.
We just started this match 20 seconds ago.
[Michael] Mysterio went across the rope, shoulder knock down on Eddie.
Here is Mysterio over the top and a kick to the ribs of Eddie.
[speaking Spanish]
[Tazz] They're talking in Spanish.
I don't know what they're saying, but it's anger and this is tense.
One, two, three.
[Michael] Rey Mysterio with a right and left.
You know, for Rey Mysterio, Tazz, it's not just the physical injuries.
It's the fact that emotionally Rey was hurt by Eddie.
-What about Eddie Guerrero? -[Tazz] Whoa, whoa, whoa!
[Michael] Rey stalking Eddie Guerrero.
And Eddie play possum and Mysterio commenced first into the steel steps.
[audience chattering]
[Tazz] And Eddie is hurting and don't want Rey to know it.
I think Mysterio hit those steps hard.
[Michael] Eddie Guerrero,
in control of Rey Mysterio in this matchup.
Off the steel steps is Mysterio.
Eddie Guerrero punishing Mysterio in the early going.
[Tazz] In the past few weeks…
[Michael] Look at how Eddie uses Rey to throw him back in the ring
to break the count.
[Tazz] That's a good point. I've never seen that done before. Oh, my God.
[Michael] Shoulder first into the post.
And you got to question, Tazz, if Mysterio is close to a hundred percent?
[Tazz] I don't know if he'll get Eddie breaking the count.
I don't know. I don't know. I mean… I don't know.
I mean, he's madly clear Mysterio is,
but we don't know his condition if he is clear.
And now by that first hit, Eddie was pulling Rey.
[Michael] Oh, look at this. Look out. Look out now. Whoa, whoa!
[Michael] Rey Mysterio. Those ribs just slammed into the announce table.
It's a spinebuster right on top of the announce table.
-And Eddie Guerrero… -[referee] Six.
Oh, he knew that those tape ribs were bull's-eye.
And the veteran Eddie Guerrero had been shooting arrows
at that bull's-eye since the start of this matchup.
-Let's go. -Shut up.
[Tazz] Tell you what, man, I heard that thud.
He was right out here in front of us.
Right on that table. Oh, he's gonna do it again, Cole.
-[Michael] Not again. -[Tazz] He's gonna do it again.
-[Michael] Come on, Eddie. -[Tazz] He's gonna drop
on this table again. Eddie, stop that.
-[Michael] Oh, my God. -[Tazz] Enough.
Hey, look at that.
Get him in the ring, I said. I'm tired.
[Michael] And Eddie was breaking out into a sick smile.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. What the hell is… Eddie…
And referee Brian Hebner.
Right now get him in the ring.
[Tazz] I know you could boo the referee any way you want.
I'd give the referee credit, Bryan had a great job here.
Absolutely, because Mysterio is about to get hurt out here.
[Michael] Eddie, it's a wrestling match. It's not a massacre.
[Referee] Two…
-[audience cheering] -[Michael] Get back to the hole--
[Tazz] Did you hear how hard his body hit the steel table?
[Michael] That's what I'm talking about, the physical scars of Mysterio…
We are talking about the emotional scars before.
What about when Eddie took Mysterio…
And you hear the Eddie sucks chants?
[audience chanting] Eddie sucks.
[referee] Two, three, four. [Michael] What about last week
when Eddie brought Mysterio's ripped mask to the ring?
The identity, he stole to Rey.
He threw it on the mat and then he stepped on it with his boots.
[Tazz] For a couple of weeks on SmackDown,
Eddie Guerrero's has been carrying around that mask of Rey Mysterio.
And putting of people and glued them up, as is Eddie beating up Rey now.
[Michael] Look at Rey. Rey's trying to push Guerrero away to survive here.
[Tazz] He's trying to defend himself, Cole, but he can't, he's hurting Rey.
[Michael] Did you expect this outta Eddie? Did you expect this anger?
What we're seeing outta Eddie here in this part of the matchup?
[Tazz] Of course I did. What did you expect, I expected that.
[Michael] Here's the cover. Shoulder's down and Mysterio kicks out.
[Tazz] Come on, the way Guerrero has been countered himself
the past few weeks. What would you expect from Eddie?
[Michael] I know Eddie wants to win the match.
He hasn't been able to beat Rey Mysterio. He wants to win this matchup.
[Tazz] Why? He's trying to prove something to himself.
[speaking Spanish]
[Tazz] I guess you could see a point, maybe.
Still talking trash, though.
He's hurt though. Mysterio is hurt.
He's coming out here. He's still hurt for a few weeks.
[inaudible] two spinebusters and now this.
[Michael] Oh, again. Into those injured ribs.
Here's the cover, shoulders down and a kick out.
[Tazz] He drove over, now hooked that side headlock.
-[Tazz stutters] -Five, four…
[Michael] And again a cover.
And again a kick out as Eddie drives his forearm into the face.
[Tazz] That back suplex Guerrero gave to Rey Mysterio,
he drove this man to that mat.
[Tazz] Believe me, I've done some suplex in my day
and that Guerrero just drove him.
And more damage to the back now with this abdominal stretch…
-[groans] -[grunting]
…which works to hit your ribcage and your back.
[Michael] Now, Rey Mysterio knew
what he was getting into coming into this match tonight, Tazz
but you think Rey knew that he was getting into this?
-How physical it just had been? -[Tazz] I think Rey Mysterio knew that.
Rey Mysterio, I mean, he knows Eddie Guerrero more than anybody.
And he's not stupid.
Rey Mysterio is a very accomplished, you know, athlete in this industry.
And another thing about the emotion that we're talking about
all the emotion Rey has been going through the recent weeks.
How about the fact emotionally that Rey even had to come in to this matchup?
Do you think a month ago, in Rey Mysterio's wildest dreams
that he would be in a match, a brutal match
against the man who is close to him as family?
[Tazz] No, I don't think Rey thought that, no.
[Michael] So, I mean, you being an ex-grappler in the ring,
how'd you prepare for this… That's Rey tries to come out and come back?
Uh-oh.
Mysterio, face first, what a counter!
-Did you hear that? -[audience cheering]
[Tazz] Inverted powerbomb, face first and ribs first.
The cover, hook to the leg and perhaps on instinct alone.
What was your question to me?
[Michael] Again, the question was, you've obviously wrestled for years.
If you're gonna a matchup against the guy
who used to be your friend and partner now you're matched against
and how do you prepare for that as we watch this?
[Tazz] Oh, watch this, watch this. Look at this. Bam. Face and ribs first.
I'll tell you how I'll prepare. I forget about it, I go for the jugular.
I go for the jugular because there's no more friendship.
I go for the kill.
As is Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio if he was able to get some he'd go for…
[Michael] Did you see what Eddie just did?
He ripped the protective bandages off the ribs of Rey Mysterio.
As Rey Mysterio tries to battle back here.
Eddie doing all he can to knock Rey down and he does.
[Tazz] This time Rey tries to get some offense going.
Eddie Guerrero is able to shut him down.
[Michael] Now look at Eddie, that cocky confident
Roberto Duran-like dancing in the ring by Latino Heat, Eddie Guerrero.
[groaning]
And now that single leg Boston crab continues the pressure.
[Tazz] Uh-oh. I can't imagine that, but, hey, you'll never know.
Eddie Guerrero might end up like, Roberto Duran had say, "No mas."
And say, "I quit".
If Rey with the hooks up… Something's coming up--
[Michael] That's gonna happen a little bit later tonight.
[Tazz] The "I quit" match, correct.
And that single leg Boston crab with the knee in the back
affecting the ribs and stuff right there of Rey Mysterio.
[Michael] It's been well-documented the heart, the soul, the resilience,
the comeback ability that Rey Mysterio has.
But you got to believe even as Rey battles outta this,
but how much more can he take?
[Tazz] I think Rey can take a lot. He is tough, no doubt, triple tough.
[Michael] But, look, he can't even make it to his feet, Tazz.
[Tazz] I don't think he's done yet. I just don't.
[Michael] It's a… Oh. And that maybe what Mysterio needed.
[Tazz] Like I said, he's not done yet. Never count Mysterio out.
[Michael] Rey Mysterio needs this
to try to regain composure, to try to catch his breath,
to try to shake out, get some blood flowing to those injuries
as we take another look at the desperation enzuigiri.
[Tazz] Oh, man, major league impact down and both athletes are down in the middle.
Eddie might be out cold, man.
-[Michael] Brian Hebner now counting. -Eight.
Rey Mysterio using the ropes. Can he get to his feet?
At a count of nine, Mysterio's up. Mysterio is up.
[Tazz] Eddie, now he's hurt.
[Michael] Eddie Guerrero.
[Tazz] That one enzuigiri might have just leveled the playing field here.
[Michael] Remember, Eddie's had problems with concussions in the past.
[Tazz] It could be a potential concussion here. He might have one.
[Michael] Former WWE Champion, Eddie Guerrero.
Rey Mysterio back to his feet.
[Tazz] Watch out, watch out, watch out. Rey Mysterio leapfrog.
-Yes. -[Michael] Sets Eddie Guerrero flying.
Eddie, look at, may have hurt the knee that caught up in the bottom rope.
[Tazz] Sometimes your leg could hit that rope and jar your knee.
-Watch out. Look at this! -[Tazz] Mysterio lands up on the apron.
-[Michael] Oh, man. -[Tazz] That is balance.
-[Tazz] Oh, my, springboard. -[Michael] Look at that headbutt.
[Tazz] Rey is gonna do it.
[Michael] And Eddie kicked out.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] See how high Mysterio went in that spring…
I'm sitting right here looking at it. I couldn't believe it.
[Michael] And how high did this crowd get
when they believed that Rey Mysterio was gonna win this matchup.
[audience chattering]
-[Tazz] It was a manic explosion. -[Michael] He still might win this match.
Eddie back to his feet. A right hand by Latino Heat.
[Tazz] Got to go punch for punch maybe here.
[Michael] Guerrero with a blow to the back of the head.
Mysterio with the right hand of his own, trying desperately to find his legs.
-Mysterio with sea legs. Well… -[Tazz] Here we go. Look at this.
[Michael] Eddie, a kick to the knee,
a dropkick, I believe it to the quad of Mysterio.
[Tazz] Yeah, take that man's legs out, take the base out.
Now, look at this, hooked the both legs. Oh, my God, right here.
Boston crab, extremely painful.
One of the most painful submission holds you can be caught in.
This will snap your back in a heartbeat, and rip a rib out too man.
[Michael] Can Rey Mysterio tap out? And you can't blame Mysterio if he does.
[Tazz] A modified version of that Boston crab.
Eddie's not stepping totally through.
[Tazz] He's driving his knee to the spine of Rey Mysterio.
[Michael] Eddie used to call this the lasso,
as he's got it locked in now in the feet.
Now, in this Boston crab.
-Now, that's a traditional… -[Tazz] Mysterio might tap out, Cole.
[Michael] But you could blame him?
He's running his ribs a bit through in recent weeks.
[Tazz] Or it might do some more damage to the back here and the ribs.
-[Michael] Come on, Rey. -[Tazz] Rey dragging.
Dragging ever so slightly Guerrero for the ropes.
[Michael] And Eddie's sitting almost sprawled over STF.
-[groans] -[Michael] Wow.
[Tazz] I'll tell you something right now, my man.
This right here will get you to tap out.
On STF, step over toe hold, cross face.
One of the most painful, painful holds you can be caught in.
Come on. [inaudible].
[Michael] Wow.
[Tazz] Now, once you get a… Can he get to that rope? He's close to it.
-Come on, Rey. -[Michael] Rey got it.
A bigger tip away. And Mysterio got it.
Eddie must break the hold before five.
-Come on… -[Tazz] What condition Rey had hold?
I mean, come on. He's been stretched apart here
from the two Boston crabs and this STF.
[Michael] And again, his body is not healed from that suplex
to the steel steps weeks ago.
[Tazz] True. Eddie might be getting frustrated as cannot pull any of…
Rey Mysterio away.
-Oh, my God. -[Michael] Well, Eddie is frustrated.
He can't beat Rey. That's been well-documented.
And it's all because of the heart of Rey. That's what it's about.
That's how Mysterio is surviving. Now what?
[Tazz] Shaved him about three weeks ago right here, Cole.
[audience chattering and cheering]
-[Michael] And look at that sick smile. -[Tazz] Referee, Brian Hebner knows it.
Two, three…
[Tazz] Got to get him back in the ring, Got to get them both back in the ring.
[Michael] Referee doing what he can to do his job here.
But Eddie's not listening. And look at him
And now to add insult to injury, Eddie's gonna roll into ring.
Just to break up the count, to break up the count.
[Tazz] Drag this out a little bit more, so he can stalk Rey. Now look at that.
-[Michael] A kick to the side of the head. -[Tazz] These men used to be brothers.
-[Michael] Oh, my God No. -[Tazz] Rey Mysterio knows it.
[Michael] He realizes it. Eddie just clawed away.
Out of desperation, as Eddie with knees to the back and ribs.
[Tazz] Look at Guerrero that a vicious, like a jackal. You know what I mean?
[Michael] Just like… He set period.
Not this. Oh, my God. Somebody has got to stop this.
[audience cheering]
This cannot happen again. He's gonna break Mysterio's hand--
-Don't do it, Eddie. -[Tazz] Don't do it, Eddie.
-[Michael] Mysterio counted. -[Tazz] He hooked that leg.
-[Michael] Mysterio countered [inaudible]. -[Tazz] Rey Mysterio.
[Michael] Oh, backing Eddie with the steel post,
again in the steel post.
Come on, Rey.
Mysterio driving Eddie a third time with the steel post.
[Tazz] Rey Mysterio just saved himself to that pole outta desperation.
Four.
[Tazz] Not only saved himself in this match, but now to save his career.
Who knows what damage would have been done if Eddie had bad intentions in his mind.
[Michael] 619 around the post, to the back of the head.
-[Tazz] Where the hell did that come from? -[Michael] It's the heart of Mysterio.
It's the never-say-die attitude.
[referee] Two!
-[Tazz] How did he do that? Take a look. -[referee] Three.
Check this out. Look at Rey. Phenomenal. Bam!
[audience cheering]
[Michael] But perhaps it's all that Rey had left.
[Tazz] It might have been enough. I mean, Eddie's hurt.
[Michael] Eddie Guerrero,
Mysterio with that attitude of throwing it back to the head.
Eddie back into the ring. Rey hoping to take advantage here.
But he can't pull himself into the ring.
[Tazz] Rey's even tougher than I thought he was, Cole.
Usually, you see Rey Mysterio and his style is not like this.
You don't get into fights usually. He's a finesse guy.
But I'll tell you, I give the man credit. He's tough as hell, man.
[Michael] He has no choice. This is a fight.
Rey knew it coming in and Eddie with a right hand.
[groans]
[Michael] I love the way he described Guerrero earlier.
Like a jackal. That's what he's been like.
[audience chattering]
[Tazz] Latino Heat now.
[audience booing]
[Tazz] People aren't reacting like they usually do.
-[Michael] Of course not. -[Tazz] Oh, my God.
[Michael] And a blow to the back of the head.
[Tazz] And Mysterio exploding.
Here comes Mysterio with the clotheslines. How quick and impactful is Mysterio?
[Tazz] Reversal. Rey off the ropes, ducks underneath the right hand.
-[Michael] Springboard crossbody. -[Tazz] He's got him. He's got him.
[Michael] Eddie Guerrero kicked out.
[Tazz] That was close. And that's a spinning kick to the jaw.
-[Michael] Wow. -[Tazz] But Rey's got to try.
Try to pull it out here and try to finish him off.
[Michael] Rey's doing all he can and Rey's beginning to feel it.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] Rey Mysterio, top rope. Springboard seated senton.
Rey's gonna win the matchup. Rey's got him and Eddie at two and a half.
That may have been the last cry.
[Tazz] Did you expect any like… I expected this match to go like this.
I'll tell you what. I'm not disappointed. What a match.
I'll tell you, I find it myself. I wanna see Rey pull this bad boy out.
[Michael] Of course you do. Eddie Guerrero deserves it.
Eddie Guerrero deserves to be defeated here tonight.
-[referee] Come on, let's go. -Rey with right to the left hands.
Come on, hey.
[audience] One, two, three. Four, five, six, seven, eight.
-[Michael] Wow. -One, two.
-Three -[Tazz] Rey Mysterio. I tell you what.
Rey Mysterio punches faster than the audience can count.
You've never seen Rey… [chuckles] He never does that.
This type of fighting style. But he's got to.
[Michael] Eddie rimmed him into the corner. Here comes Mysterio.
Oh, a kid overzealous and shoulder to steel.
[Tazz] Crashed and burned right there, Cole.
[Michael] There was absolutely no gifts in that steel post
if you take Rey Mysterio. Look at this. Coming right into your living room. Bam.
[Tazz] Man, the savage right there. That's that better.
That's that Eddie Guerrero. Very savvy. Very crafty.
Sucking Rey right in there.
They know each other so well.
[Michael] This has been some Judgment Day from Minneapolis.
Eddie Guerrero suddenly in control again of Rey Mysterio.
[Tazz] Oh, this is dangerous, Cole. Look, this is dangerous.
[Michael] Very dangerous. Eddie Guerrero connects here.
He may break Mysterio's ribs in half.
[Tazz] It could be top rope right here. He might.
What's he gonna do? He might… Superplex.
Superplex from the top rope.
Rey Mysterio's ribs.
They may be in about a thousand pieces.
-Eddie's feeling the effect. -[Michael] Here we go.
-Into the cover. Shoulders down. -[Tazz] Get him.
[Michael] Oh, my. Mysterio kicked out. Mysterio kicked out.
Here's the cover again. And again, Mysterio kicked out.
Another cover by Eddie. There's a two count.
Did he get it? Two count again. Rey Mysterio kicked out again.
[Tazz] Eddie Guerrero, frustration. Big frustration.
You must [inaudible].
[Tazz] Eddie can't put Rey Mysterio out. He's frustrated, Cole.
[Michael] And that perhaps is what this has been all about.
Dating back before WrestleMania, into WrestleMania.
And now here tonight, Eddie can't beat Rey.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] I think Eddie's trying to get his head. What is he doing?
He's trying to get head together or something.
[Michael] His head hasn't been together in the weeks.
[Tazz] He looks pretty focused though. Mysterio will be careful.
[Michael] He's measuring this man, Mysterio, now.
Guerrero doing a bit of dancing, a kick to the mid-section.
Uh-oh, look out.
[Tazz] For this three amigos called. Eddie Guerrero…
[Michael] Triple suplex coming up. A count at two. I should say two suplexes.
[Tazz] Pinpointing that back again of Rey Mysterio.
-[Michael] Rey landing on the shoulder. -[Tazz] A good counter, though.
[Michael] And Rey on his feet. He caught Eddie.
He caught him in a flying body scissors
and Eddie is hung up where Rey wants him.
But can Rey capitalize?
I don't know if Rey can.
-Rey has knocked him off. -[Tazz] What the hell is this?
[Michael] Eddie's nephew, Chavo. What the hell is he doing out here?
[audience chattering]
[Michael] And now where's Eddie going? What is he doing? Not the chair.
Come on, Eddie.
[Tazz] And, Eddie, put the damn chair down.
-You don't need that. -[audience cheering]
[Michael] What the hell is he doing?
[Tazz] Get Chavo… Damn right, what is he doing here?
[Michael] Chavo is still distracting the referee.
Rey Mysterio back to his feet. Drop toehold.
[audience cheering]
-There goes Chavo. -[Tazz] Oh, face first.
Uh-oh, Latino Heat is in trouble. Bam!
[Michael] Now connecting. Come on, Rey.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] But Eddie is a long way across that rope
and Rey Mysterio, his ribs and back has been worked on.
He's hurt, Cole.
[Michael] Referee, Brian Hebner sending Chavo back to the locker room.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] Springboard, look at this. Oh, my God, the skull.
[bell ringing]
The referee caught Eddie. Eddie has been disqualified.
[Michael] Wow.
[audience cheering]
Wow.
[audience cheering]
[Greg] The winner of this match due to the result of a disqualification,
Rey Mysterio.
[Michael] And look at Eddie's face,
he got some sick pleasure outta doing that shock to Rey's skull.
Rey maybe out cold.
[Tazz] And cracking that with that steel chair
and he was going for something off that springboard.
[Michael] Eddie Guerrero could not put Rey Mysterio away and he knew it,
that's why Eddie Guerrero had to hit Rey with that damn chair.
[Tazz] Hey, I agree with you. You're dead on point there, Cole.
That is what this has been about since the get-go.
[audience chattering]
[Michael] Those cold eyes of Guerrero.
[Tazz] And I'll tell you what, Rey Mysterio is so close, Cole.
[Michael] So close. He had the match won. Rey Mysterio holding his elbow.
-[Tazz] Come on now. -[Michael] No. No, no. No!
Oh, God, stop it.
[audience chattering]
Stop him. God, no.
Somebody, please, somebody come out here.
[audience chattering]
And look at the smile on Eddie's face.
-[Tazz] What the… Why? -[Michael] Because he can't beat the man.
That's what it's about that, Tazz.
It's because he can't beat Rey Mysterio.
[referee] Stop.
[inaudible].
[Michael] What the hell is wrong with Eddie?
I don't really know what's happening with this guy, man.
[audience chattering]
[Michael] Rey Mysterio is in need of serious medical attention.
[Tazz] Maybe Guerrero needs a medical attention.
I don't understand this.
[audience clamoring]
[Michael] You said before Eddie's…
it's like he get some sick pleasure outta this.
[Audience chanting] Eddie!
-[Tazz] Jesus. -[Michael] No.
[Tazz] He's hurt, man. That was like his elbow.
He's really been beaten up bad, he's hurt bad.
[Michael] Rey has been beaten up physically.
He's been destroyed emotionally.
This is how the matchup been.
-[Tazz] It was a great matchup, unless… -[Michael] Let's just listen to this.
[thuds]
-[bell ringing] -[Michael] Eddie Guerrero took that chair
like a baseball bat.
-He swung it at the head. -[Tazz] This is after the matchup.
[audience chattering]
[groans]
[Michael] The chair is bent.
Look at the smile, look at the smile, guys.
[Tazz] Look at his smile. He's happy as a pig.
And you know what, I tell you, I don't know what else [inaudible].
[audience cheering]
And the people here only a few…
I'll get only a few of that respect for him, too, because he deserves it.
[Michael] Rey Mysterio with a hell of a battle tonight.
And I'll tell you,
the physical scars are there
and despite this assault by Eddie tonight,
you got to believe that in his mind, emotionally,
Rey Mysterio is more destroyed than he ever will be physically.
I mean, emotionally, he has been beaten up by a man that he considered his brother.
A man he loves.
A man who he spent so much time with and he's left with this.
The relationship is left like this.
I just can't get over the fact that…
What are you gonna say, I mean…
I'm telling you. I don't understand what's going in Eddie Guerrero's head.
I don't understand… Okay. They had a great match.
Eddie didn't win. I get that, I mean, you lose matches. That happens.
He beat the living daylights outta this man that was like his brother.
He knows this guy's family.
They know each other's families, their kids, I don't know what to say.
I can tell you this, ladies and gentlemen.
If you thought that match was brutal,
well, I can almost say, you haven't seen anything yet,
because coming up next, the WWE Championship's on the line.
JBL and John Cena in an "I quit" match. The rules are simple.
If your opponent says, "I quit," you become the WWE Champion.
[upbeat music playing]
[Tazz] And the champion is really…
-[Jim] He is now popping it up. -[Jerry] Here it is. Watch out.
[Jim] Coming from hell. Cena docked underneath it.
-Here he comes. It's not a… -[Jerry] No way, he got him, no.
-[Jim] Hook to the leg. -[Jerry] One, two…
[Jim] John Cena is the champion.
[Michael] The time is indeed now
for the new WWE Champion, John Cena.
♪ We gonna drop this on 'em right here ♪
♪ Y'all ain't ready for this Y'all ain't ready for none of this! ♪
♪ Your boy's a bad man And we invading the streets ♪
♪ Make unclever rappers scurred They be dropping the heat ♪
♪ Shocked the world Now I'm standing alone ♪
♪ I flip fools like them clamshell… ♪
[Michael] The new WWE Champion, doing things his way.
♪ We be taking it back ♪
[Michael] He's got a movie on the way.
A new CD and he's shooting a music video and, of course, he's on top of the world.
The champ is here!
[JBL] You're not a bad man, John.
You're a bad champion.
I carry this around for you, my fans.
What happened at WrestleMania would have broke a normal person
because most of you, when knocked down, you don't get up swinging.
You're crawling to a fetal position and quit.
You quit at your dreams.
[dramatic music playing]
[Cena] JBL, here's a little bit of truth to you, I mean, you're not a quitter.
-No, you're right. I am not a quitter. -And neither am I.
And that's why at Judgment Day, we settle it,
in a match with no submissions, no count outs,
no disqualifications, no pinfalls.
I'm talking about an "I quit" match.
[audience cheering]
To say the words, "I quit," means another man owns your soul.
[groans]
-I quit. -Say it, say it.
-I quit. -Say it.
I quit.
[John] You fight for this championship because of your legacy.
I fight for every person out there that brought me to the decks.
[JBL] I have sweat gallons and I have bled buckets.
And through it all the words, "I quit," never crossed my mind.
I am gonna beat the hell outta you for everything that I stand for.
Judgment Day, I will not be trying to pin you.
I will be kicking your ass.
[Cena] That Judgment Day,
the last two words to come outta your pathetic mouth will be…
"I quit".
[bell ringing]
["Longhorn" playing]
[Michael] Two different worlds, two different lifestyles,
two different philosophies
and two humiliating words,
"I quit".
["Longhorn" playing continuous]
[Michael] Here's the number one contender for the WWE Championship.
He won a Fatal Four-Way Elimination matchup,
then the championship series to get this opportunity here tonight.
[Tazz] Well, he deserves the opportunity, Cole. Come on.
We'll… Former WWE Champion,
who got that toothy grin which will leave his face sooner.
But there's no telling, he's rich. He's got it all.
He's got the world in his hands.
[bell ringing]
[Greg] The following "I quit" match is for the WWE Championship.
Making his way to the ring, the challenger from New York City,
weighing in at 297 pounds,
JBL.
[Michael] The championship that JBL is carrying is the original WWE title
with John Cena's name on it.
Remember, Cena has a new Spinner Championship,
but JBL said that he carries that title for his fans,
saying that they want him to represent SmackDown as its champion.
JBL held the title for nearly ten months
before losing to John Cena at WrestleMania.
He's been in the last flag match, a bullrope match, a cage match,
but nothing like this an "I quit" match.
[Tazz] I'm feeling it.
["Longhorn" continues playing]
-[Michael] A confident challenger. -[Tazz] He looks ready, man.
[man] JBL, I love you…
[Michael] Referee, Nick Patrick, nothing but a traffic cop,
so to speak in this matchup.
There are no rules.
[Tazz] But the referee is holding that microphone in his hand.
He's gonna hear someone say I quit.
[Michael] That microphone will be utilized when one man screams, "I quit,"
and the other wins.
["The Time Is Now" playing]
-[horn honks] -[smoke explodes]
-[Michael] What the hell is this? -[Tazz] What is this?
[Greg] And from West Newbury, Massachusetts, weighing in at 248 pounds,
is the WWE Champion,
John Cena.
[Michael] Check out, come on. He's mixing in the time travel.
[Tazz] John Cena, what an entrance, for the WWE Champion.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] I've never seen him like this.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] But, Tazz, what you're seeing now is what this match is all about.
Look at the disgust on the face of JBL.
[Tazz] It's two different worlds, it's two different philosophies,
JBL believes John Cena disrespects the title
and everything in this great sports entertainment
that has gone over the years.
-[fireworks explodes] -[Michael] Oh, wow.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] He was… The champion's definitely here.
Holding up that spinner belt worth 14-karat gold.
And platinum, round diamond in it.
[Tazz] That man, JBL had said he has out of…
[Michael] Oh, wow, get off that limo. You don't step on them.
He's walking on the limo.
[Tazz] Oh, my God. Look, what he just did.
[Michael] He broke the longhorn.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] John Cena, he don't give a, he don't care.
[Michael] John Cena getting on the stage his way.
[Tazz] He don't give a rap dance about anybody.
[Michael] John Cena is on top of the world.
But tonight, if he ever slips two words, "I quit,"
that world is gonna come crashing down around him.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] Just walked above JBL's limo. I still can't believe he did that.
[Tazz laughs]
[Michael] JBL is hot, red hot metal flavor.
["The Time Is Now" continues playing]
[Michael] JBL is not taking his eyes off the man's face.
♪ …By the way that he thinks ♪
♪ Not clothing lines, ice links Leather and minks ♪
♪ I spent 20 plus years Seeking knowledge of self ♪
-Here's the Spinner Championship. -[music fades off]
[audience cheering]
[audience chanting] Cena!
[Tazz] Well, here we go. [chuckles]
[Michael] JBL, the former WWE Champion, the longest reign in ten years,
ended at WrestleMania when John Cena won the title.
[Tazz] Oh, you see how important that role
and the referee has that microphone in hand.
That tells you if he lose the match, he loses it.
[Michael] And now JBL forcing the traditional WWE title
to be held above the ring by referee, Nick Patrick.
And needless to say, I believe if JBL wins this matchup,
he'll be carrying the traditional title and the Spinner Championship around.
[bell ringing]
[Tazz] If JBL does win this match and win the championship,
it's his prerogative, I guess.
[Michael] For the first time in six years,
the WWE Championship will be decided in an "I quit" match.
[Tazz] That was a brutal affair between Mankind and The Rock.
Tonight, it is JBL and John Cena.
No rules, no pinfalls, no submissions,
you utter, "I quit," you lose. It's simple.
[Michael] And there's a right hand and John Cena battles back.
[Tazz] Well, let's see both men are kinda crossed.
They don't wanna go in too early,
I mean, you know, you wanna try and get him from jumpstart
like I said earlier, outta a box, you know.
But you don't wanna make a fatal mistake early on in this matchup.
[Michael] John, JBL said earlier tonight that you are no longer a man
-when you say, "I quit". -[audience chanting] Cena.
Lives will be broken in this fight tonight.
Change forever.
[Tazz] Oh, JBL knows what's at stake here and that's…
Cena. Wow, what a shoulder block there, momentum.
[Michael] And there's a nice take down there by John Cena.
So, Tazz, strategy now for this matchup,
we talked about the keys to victory earlier,
what's the strategy in an "I quit" match.
[Tazz] I would dig stuff, beat stuff full and fist, throwing hands.
I'm a little surprised, but not a bad way,
that Cena, he only gets what I thought he would do
and he's taking the man down with a headlock,
a takedown is one, but not with a headlock.
I'm impressed. That's smart. Do something different.
[Michael] Again, at some point, you've got to wear your opponent down.
What this match is about, is about wearing your opponent down.
It's all it is. No matter how you do it, you got to wear him down
so he doesn't have anything left then he has to say, "I quit".
[Tazz] Cole, you can get a submission on a guy and you could get him to quit.
what do you think a tap out victory is, it… The answer is that.
-But now, the guy has to utter, "I quit". -[Tazz] Absolutely.
[Michael] The guy is upholding the top, John Cena.
Oh, nice one. We got a takedown.
[Tazz] Only there's a big difference in saying "I quit," and tapping out.
When you say, "I quit," you're saying those words.
It's so humiliating. I've never been in one of these matches.
And so to speak, I'm suspended now and I'm glad about that.
[Michael] Now, did you see JBL went to the bottom rope?
JBL went to the bottom rope to get a break.
But remember, there are no breaks in this matchup 'cause there are no rules.
Cena could have kept that hold on JBL for five minutes if he wanted to.
[audience chattering]
[Tazz] Referee is still holding that microphone.
He's got to keep hands on that.
[Michael] That's really the referee's only job in this match.
The referee doesn't have another job in this match,
but to make sure the mic's down to their feet
that's been attached to the microphone to JBL.
I think it'll take a lot more than that for JBL to say, "I quit".
[Tazz] Now, we've seen John Cena's vicious root.
He's got one, that's for sure.
Oh, my God. This stuff… I tell you what. This JBL, he's a fighter.
He's the toughest now, that's well done.
[Michael] I was just gonna ask you, Tazz. D'you think this type of matchup
benefits the brawler JBL more than does the champion?
[Tazz] Absolutely, I do.
And, you know, John Cena takes his pride as a ground and pound guy
but JBL… He's the consonant [inaudible] brawler.
What the DDT… There is no cover.
-[Michael] I got confused myself. -[Tazz] I did too.
There's no cover in this matchup.
John… Now, JBL hammering away with the right hand to John Cena.
[Michael] If you say, "I quit," like JBL said earlier,
you had given your soul to somebody else.
And this is something you'll never leave down,
a year from now, five years from now, ten years from now,
you will be remembered as, "I quit".
Remember, Roberto was here at ringside, what did people remember about him?
Not that he's a champion, but he's a "No Mas."
[Tazz] And we could say that for at least on SmackDown, Cole,
I mean, you know, I don't see JBL quit. He's not a quitter.
-I don't see John Cena quit. -[Michael] I agree with you,
I'm both fans. Big back body drop.
[audience cheering]
John Cena with a clothesline. The ex-champion outta the ring.
[Tazz] Well, John Cena running right through JBL with that clothesline.
But now, here comes Cena, he's coming right out after him.
[Michael] Is there a pace in this matchup you need to keep?
[Tazz] I think so. I think there's a pace. You don't wanna punch yourself out.
You don't wanna reserve too much out there, are you?
[audience chattering]
[Michael] John Cena on the attack. Outside the ring now.
There are no count outs in this matchup.
[Tazz] Notice that both men are doing it… Persistent, they're staying on each other.
You don't give the other guy a chance to breath.
No wasted movement or motion.
[Michael] John Cena bouncing JBL twice off the steel steps.
Now what?
Reversal, John Cena, in to the barricade,
shoulder first and then out into the crowd.
[Tazz] And I tell you what, JBL in hot pursuit right after him.
What the hell, they're right out here?
[Tazz] In the…
-[Michael] Where you guys are going? -[Tazz] I don't know.
[Michael] They're on the floor with authorities over here.
Oh, my.
-[Tazz] DDT on the floor by John Cena. -[Michael] Skull first go Cena.
[Tazz] You heard that thump.
[Michael] JBL hurt himself too in that concrete I believe.
[audience chattering]
Well, this match is about brutality, defiance.
[Tazz] Well, as of now Cena's bruising out on his head there.
-[Michael] See, this is where… -[Tazz] Let's see what we missed there.
Hold on. Let's take a look at this.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] And here comes Cena tries to battle back here.
[Tazz] This will be…
No, it's a never-say-never. That was a neckbreaker.
-[Michael] That was even worse. -[Tazz] I'm telling you.
[Michael] John Cena tossed back, and now, Tazz, this is where JBL is scary
because he gets on top of the matchup here.
-[Tazz] Watch out. He's right out here. -[Michael] Again, this is all legal.
[Tazz] Well, JBL is a bull. I'm turning up right now.
I'd give him that. I know that.
[audience chattering]
[Michael] The monitors have come out of the Spanish announce table.
[Tazz] Yeah, hey, amigo, you might wanna get outta there.
[audience chattering]
[Michael] JBL back in Cena.
Say, "I quit".
Or your ass is mine.
[Michael] Oh, there's your answer. He's not quitting.
[Tazz] No, he's definitely not quitting. Cena's not quitting.
[Michael] Now, Cena can use this time to catch his breath again.
[audience chanting] Cena.
And now John Cena back on the attack, throwing punches to the back of JBL.
[Tazz] What was it? Well, look at this. Oh, my God. Look at this. Look at this.
Awesome move here.
[audience chanting] Cena.
[Michael] JBL back up to his feet, reversal. Cena, man, God.
Shoulder first into those steel steps.
[Tazz] Cena, now, I tell you what, he hit that thing hard.
JBL driving John Cena.
[audience chattering]
[Michael] Uh-oh. Oh, no, we saw this Wednesday night.
[Tazz] Yeah, we saw that. He took the belt off the [inaudible] people…
Oh, my God. The shades have…
[Michael] This is how JBL and Scotty 2 Hotty, [inaudible]
Thursday Night on SmackDown with that leather belt.
[Tazz] It's legal though, Cole. Oh, wait a minute.
-[Michael] And so as this. -[Tazz] Oh, man.
[screaming and gasping]
Ask him.
[referee] John Cena, come on, you wanna stop?
[chocking]
-[Tazz] The referee's asking. -[referee] Come on, Cena, you wanna stop?
[chocking]
-Come on, Cena, you wanna give it up? -I said ask him.
-Come on, Cena. -I said ask him.
-[grunts] -[Michael] Oh, wow.
JBL skull bouncing off the steel post and his shoulder hit it as well.
[Tazz] Talk about innovative right there. Cena thinking on his feet.
[Michael] Innovative? I think desperate.
-[Tazz chuckles] Well, you maybe right. -[grunts]
[Michael] And JBL again on the attack Cena.
He needs to get in and go in here the last couple of minutes.
[Tazz] Oh, he got outta that… JBL looks right over here upfront.
-[Michael] Oh, great. Not this. Come on. -[Tazz] Oh, my God, it's all legal, Cole.
-[Michael] JBL upon the announce table. -Ask him.
[Tazz] I just heard JBL like to ask him.
[JBL] Your rap career, your movie career, your whole career.
You stupid son of a bitch.
Give up right now or you go through it.
Ask him.
[audience clamoring]
-[Tazz] Oh, my God. -[Michael] Oh, my God. Come on.
Kiss my ass.
[Michael] What the hell? Oh, my God! Oh, my God almighty!
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] Big back body drop through the table.
[Michael] Did you see JBL's spine catch the edge of that announce table.
[Tazz] I heard it, I saw it.
[audience chanting]
-Oh, my God. -[Michael] Now, watch this.
Watch the reply and watch where JBL's shoulder blade area.
-[Tazz] We got two angles of this here. -[Michael] The spine. Watch where he hits.
On the edge of that table.
He hit with such force and pumped that board in the air.
[Tazz] Hold on. Let's see here. Watch his lower back. Right there.
Oh, man, the middle of his back. Look at this right here.
[Michael] Oh, man, a monitor off the skull.
A monitor off the skull of Bradshaw by John Cena.
[audience cheering]
John Cena, he is feeding off this crowd.
[Tazz] The champion's got the challenger right where he wants. Heads up [inaudible]
Oh, my God.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] JBL went sailing over here at the, [inaudible] of John Cena.
Watch out. Oh, my God, oh, my God.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] Look at that chair how dented up and that Cena's skull denting it.
[audience clamoring]
[Tazz] Well, we knew how physical this would be.
We knew how violent and vicious it would be.
[groans]
[audience shouting]
[Tazz] Oh, my God.
[Tazz] And now, JBL trying get up. John Cena is trying to get up.
That's it. Oh, my God, his head is split open.
John Cena's head split open.
[audience chattering]
It split up with that chair, that chair hit Cena.
Cena might be thinking… Oh, my God. Cole, look how much blood is coming out.
Oh. Oh, no, no, no, no, JBL. No, no, don't do this.
[Michael] Oh, boy, oh, boy.
[Tazz] No, don't, no, Bradshaw, put it down.
-[Michael] Steel step's on the skull. -[Tazz] Oh, my God, oh, my God.
[Michael] The bruises are beginning to show on that man.
[JBL] [inaudible] I said quit.
[inaudible] Cena, get outta here. Get outta here.
[groans]
Quit. Quit.
-[Michael] JBL mocking John Cena there. -[Tazz] Oh, my God. With the micro…
[Michael] The microphone [inaudible] off the skull
since it split wide open.
[Tazz] The champion is bleeding. He's losing a lotta blood, Cole.
-Let's look at this. Watch this chair. -[Michael] Listen to this.
[Tazz] Oh, God.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] Look at this. Oh! Steel steps.
John Cena was punched struck in the ring.
John Cena does not know where he's at and JBL is abusing the champion.
JBL said he was at a crusade to rid this world of John Cena.
-[Tazz] Look at this. -[Michael] He may be on his way.
[audience chanting] Cena!
[Tazz] Look, the people are cheering for Cena, but JBL just turned up a notch.
-Oh, my God. -[Michael] A clothesline from hell.
God, what a shot.
-[Tazz] Cena's choking on his own blood. -[Michael] And another one.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] Now, the big exclamation point, perhaps for JBL.
[Tazz] Cena can't even get to his own feet.
JBL trying to pull him up.
[Michael] And a smile on the face of JBL.
[Tazz] He's on the cusp to become a champion.
He's gonna become the champion.
[Michael] Oh, a third one almost took the head off the shoulders.
[Tazz] Oh, my God. Look at that.
[Michael] I've never seen John Cena in trouble
like he is right now in this matchup.
[Tazz] But, Cole, he's losing up ton of blood right now.
-[Michael] And now it's John Cena's chain. -[Tazz] Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
[Tazz] It's all legal, too. Look at this. Oh, my God.
-[Michael] And JBL is… -[Tazz] Hold on. Wait, wait.
John Cena, come on, you quit?
-[audience chattering] -[chocking]
[Michael] Now, we've seen the champion, Tazz.
[Tazz] Hold on. They're asking him.
-Come on, Cena. -[chocking]
-Quit, quit, quit. -Come on, Cena.
Quit.
-Take the easy way out. -Come on, Cena…
Quit. Quit.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] For the love of God, Cena just quit, man.
[Michael] His great fans don't want Cena to quit.
[Tazz] Come on, there's always tomorrow. You get a rematch or something.
[Michael] But this is what the title means to John Cena.
-[Tazz] Look at this… -[Michael] A low blow. A low blow by JBL.
[Tazz] That's all legal again.
Quit. I told you would bleed. I don't lie.
Now, quit.
[audience chattering]
[Tazz] Oh, man.
Quit.
-[Michael] Oh. -[Tazz] Oh, man.
-[Michael] Maybe you're right. -I said quit.
Look at me. I told you this would happen.
[Michael] I mean, at some point…
Give me my championship back. Now, quit. You punk ass bitch.
[Tazz] Oh, man.
That just stirred something in John Cena and here comes the champion.
Here comes Cena.
[Tazz] I don't know what he has left, with a headbutt. A clothesline.
[Michael] And John Cena has exploded.
[Tazz] I tell you what, watch out here, Bradshaw.
[audience cheering]
It's gonna be adrenaline, Cole. Look at this.
[Michael] There's that side slam.
A spinning side slam and the champion is losing a ton of blood.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] Oh, here we go, five knuckle shuffle.
[Michael] The champion has suddenly come alive.
[audience cheering]
[audience chattering]
-[Michael] Oh, my. -[Tazz] Oh, it's FU time.
-[Michael] Oh, my. -[Tazz] It's FU time.
[Tazz] Look at the smile on his face.
[Michael] FU, that was the move that won Cena the title at WrestleMania.
But tonight there are no pinfalls.
[Tazz] I don't know if he's gonna win him this match though, Cole.
[Michael] That move will make him win when he's got to say, "I quit".
-And look at JBL wisely, wisely… -[Tazz] Uh-oh. He's leaving.
-[Michael] Where the hell is he going? -[Tazz] But wait a minute now. Wait.
-You can't do that. -[Michael] Oh, of course you can't.
There's no count out. You can't just leave.
There are no rules. I guess he can do whatever he wants to.
[Tazz] Wait a minute. He can't leave. Well, Cena is gonna stop him.
[Michael] JBL perhaps has had enough and the champion in pursuit.
[grunts]
-[Michael] Oh, no. God! Whoa! -[Tazz] Off the limo.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] Well, now John Cena is gonna try and get him. Oh, oh.
Oh, my God. Look at this. Look at this.
-[Tazz] Onto the hood of the car. -[Michael] Oh, God.
This match is exactly how…
No way. No way.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] That's exactly how it was advertised.
[Tazz] How much blood did he lose? Now, what the hell are they gonna do?
What Cena's gonna do now to him?
[Michael] Oh, thumb to the eye by JBL. Oh, my God. Now…
No, no, no. Swinging neckbreaker on the hood of the limousine?
-And just when Cena had everything going. -[Tazz] Look at the hood.
Look at the hood of the limo, man. Look how dented up. I'm sorry, go ahead.
[Michael] No. I'm just saying that Cena finally had everything going his way.
JBL with that swinging neckbreaker stopped the momentum.
[Tazz] That'll be the difference maker, for sure, shutting down Cena
and John Cena is bleeding like a stuffed pig here. He's hurt bad.
I don't think it's… I think his vision's impaired, Cena.
JBL said that blood was gonna get in his eyes and JBL didn't disappointed.
[Michael] What does that do to you as a competitor
when the blood is in your eyes
and you're choking on it and you can't breathe.
[Tazz] Oh, that blood gets in your eyes, it burns like hell. I'm telling you.
-[Michael] Does it play in your mind… -[Tazz] Oh, what the hell is that?
That's it. What was that?
[Tazz] He pulled the plug off that monitor there.
[Michael] Now, he's using that cord as a weapon, completely legal.
-[audience chattering] -Cena, you wanna quit?
Come on, Cena. You wanna quit?
-Come on, Cena, you wanna quit? -Ask him.
[audiences chanting] Cena!
-No! -[Tazz] Whoa.
[Michael] Well, John Cena, I thought was losing his strength but…
-[Tazz] Oh, my God. -[Michael] Right through the TV set.
-[Tazz] Are you kidding me or what? -[Michael] Right through that TV set.
Head first goes Bradshaw.
[Tazz] I don't… I can't believe that.
[Michael] We've talked about the comeback ability of John Cena before.
I've never seen anything like this though.
[audience shouting]
[Tazz] JBL went… Now, he's bleeding. He went face first to that damn TV.
[Michael] What do you expect? That was glass. He went through the glass.
[audience chattering]
[Tazz] Hold on. Look at this.
[audience cheering]
-[Michael] God! -[Tazz] Let's take another look.
Let's see the glass flying… Hardly do you see the glass… Oh!
[Michael] Man!
And then suddenly John Cena is beginning to build momentum again.
[Tazz] Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. Oh!
[Michael] Through the window of the limo.
[audience cheering]
-[Tazz] Wow. -[Michael] JBL is being abused.
For once Cena. He's getting a second wind here.
Uh-oh.
-[Tazz] Now, what? -[Michael] I have no clue.
-JBL is trying to crawl away. -[Tazz] He's damn right, I would too.
[Michael] JBL crawling away. John Cena…
Oh, and again a thumb to the eye, again a thumb to the eye.
[Tazz] Uh-oh. Oh, no.
[Michael] Oh, my God. What the hell is his?
Cena blocked it.
[grunts]
Suplex. Suplex.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] On that roof.
On the roof of that limousine. Cena blocked JBL's throw and vertical suplex.
Oh, man, what a match?
[Michael] We said before the match started
we didn't believe either one of these men would quit.
And they haven't yet and where the hell is JBL going?
[Tazz] He opened the door to the limo. I don't know what he's doing.
[Michael] JBL trying to crawl into the limousine.
[Tazz] He's not gonna get away that way.
[audience cheering]
[grunts]
[Michael] Oh! Almost knocked the door off the hinges?
-[Tazz] Yeah, the hinge on that door… -You ain't nothing.
[Michael] Where does this kid getting it from?
[Tazz] I have no idea.
He's feeding off the crowd is all I could get.
[Michael] Again, again… Oh, that's… Oh! Oh! And again…
off the door.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] [inaudible]. Oh, my God. Look at this.
[Michael] Oh, John Cena determined to knock the door off the limo
and he did… Oh, my…
[Tazz] Oh, no. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Look at this, Cole.
[Michael] John Cena with a door in hand.
[Tazz] That lim… Forget about that limo. That thing is done.
[Michael] John Cena now in pursuit on the champion.
[Tazz] JBL just trying to get out of harms way here.
[Michael] He was trying to crawl up on that flat bed
and Cena loading into the arena.
The good thing chaos got outta the way from these turntables.
[audience cheering]
They're up on top of that truck. Look at this.
-Oh, my God! -[Tazz] Oh, my.
[thuds]
Went face first into that like a…
Like one of those big old CO2 tank right into that thing.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] Now, look at Cena.
[audience cheering]
John Cena.
Still losing a ton of blood though, both these men.
-[Tazz] In control. -[Michael] Uh-oh.
Face first. Face first.
Both men down.
[audience chattering]
[Tazz] I could tell you this, Cole.
This Minneapolis audience of the SmackDown fans here, I mean…
Quit. Quit.
Just say quit.
[Michael] God. Look at this.
Look at that vicious and violent attack.
[audience chanting] Cena.
Quit!
[audience chanting] Cena.
[Michael] Cena's not quitting yet.
[thuds]
Whoa. That's all that DJ equipment.
[Tazz] They're saying that the fans have never seen a match like this but now.
-What next? What… -[Michael] JBL just picking his weapons.
-And choking John Cena. -[Tazz] With that cord that…
Oh, my God. He's just losing a ton of blood.
[Michael] Look at this. Cena don't know where he's at right now.
[Tazz] There's a lotta blood, man.
[Michael] Blood pouring profusely out of the open wound.
[Tazz] That's a major wound.
Now, what's Bradshaw doing?
-[Michael] Where's he going? -[Tazz] I don't know.
That SmackDown fans are rooting for Cena but look at this.
-[Michael] JBL on top of that speaker. -[Tazz] Oh, no, no, no.
-[Michael] Choking Cena. -[Tazz] Wait a minute.
-[audience chanting] -Quit! Quit!
-Oh! -[Michael] A blow right at the skull!
Again.
[Tazz] JBL loses his grip on Cena. A third one.
-[Michael] Oh, my God! -Through the table.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] God!
[Michael] How brutal has this match been?
[Tazz] Words can't describe it and I mean that.
Words cannot describe the brutality here.
I mean, Cena right now should more or less probably say, "I quit".
He should see the blood is pouring on the head.
Cena may just… He's gonna need to transfuse it.
[audience cheering]
[Michael] JBL desperately trying to get away from John Cena,
doesn't know where he's at. I mean, you said earlier…
[Tazz] You see what he just did with that stack, that exhaust?
You know, a smokestack, he ripped it off the truck.
-[audience cheering] -[John screams]
[Tazz] Whoa, that's a smokestack, that's a weapon. Oh, my God, Cole.
-Uh-oh. -Come on, let's go get it.
You want a fight? I got a fight.
[Tazz] Oh, man, Cole. He's almost getting…
Stop, I quit, I quit.
-[audience cheering] -I quit.
-[Tazz] What? -[Michael] Oh, my God.
[Tazz] What? Did he just say… -[bell ringing]
[audience cheering]
["The Time Is Now" playing]
The winner of this match
and still WWE Champion,
John Cena.
[Michael] John Cena retains the title. JBL said, "I quit".
[Tazz] I can't… I don't really…
Wow.
[Michael] In JBL's words, he just gave his soul to John Cena.
[Tazz] Well…
-Oh, no. Oh, my god. No. Come on. -[Michael] For good measure… John Cena.
[audience cheering]
["The Time Is Now" playing]
[Tazz] Wow. Oh, my God, Cole.
[Michael] We learned tonight
that the wrestling God, JBL is indeed mortal
and we learned a lot about the guts of the WWE Champion.
[audience cheering]
[Tazz] My God. What a champion.
If there's ever any doubt in anybody's mind about Cena,
I'll tell you what, you better ditch it and forget it. This guy is for real.
Oh, my God.
[Michael] Both championships in hand.
Unbeat, unbattered…
[fireworks exploding]
…an incredible run continues for John Cena.
The time is now for the WWE Champion. Goodnight from Minneapolis.
Subtitle translation by: Venkat pion. Goodnight from Minneapolis.