[theme music playing]
[Thomas E. Dewey] We stand today
on one of the strange promontories of human history.
[Vince] The only thing worse than Stone Cold
being the World Wrestling Entertainment Champion…
[Linda] Allow Stephanie and me to introduce you to the new CEO.
[Vince] …is Stone Cold being the CEO.
[Stone Cold] "Stone Cold" Steve Austin is having a blast
running your stupid little company.
[Jesse Jackson] At a time like this,
you're forced to deal with your irreducible essence.
[Vince] Sometimes, plans go awry.
[Jesse Jackson] Forced to grapple with that which is really important to you.
[Stone Cold] Now, let's get down to business.
Ask not what your company can do for you…
[Stone Cold] The more I wanted this, Shane…
A notorious bastard employee I ever had.
Ask what you can do for your company.
[Vince] Austin, Shane and Vince McMahon understand the corporate ladder.
-I'm not a crook. -[Vince] We understand…
-I'm not a crook. -[Vince] …the ladder of success.
I burned everything I've got.
[Vince] We challenge you to a Ladder Match.
Shane and I are risking it all. We are risking it all.
It's winner take all.
[Jim] The Ladder Match for ownership of the WWE.
[Vince] It's winner take all.
-[Jesse] For our leaders… -[Vince] I hate Stone Cold.
[Jesse] …the pain is often intense.
[Stone Cold] You can go up the ladder. You can go down the ladder.
You can run around the damn ladder.
[Jesse] But you must smile through your tears.
[Stone Cold] You can rest assured both your asses,
belong to "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
[Jesse] And keep moving with the faith there is a brighter side somewhere.
[Vince] It's not gonna happen any night.
[upbeat music playing]
[announcer] And now, it's WWE King of the Ring.
[explosions]
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] 20,108 fans
have sold out the Greensboro Coliseum to see a new King of the Ring crowned,
perhaps a new WWE Champion crowned and the corporate future
of this company hangs in the balance tonight
when Stone Cold meets the McMahons in a Ladder Match, winner take all.
Hi, everybody, I'm Jim Ross alongside Jerry "The King" Lawler.
And, King, I'll tell you one thing,
a late breaking development just happened on Heat.
Shane McMahon took on Ken Shamrock.
Shawn Michaels ordered Ken Shamrock to meet Vince McMahon.
Vince stood aside and Shane took Vince's place
and we don't know the status of Shane McMahon right now.
Well, I know and I'm very worried about him.
What a brave act from Shane McMahon to stand there
and take the place of his father there against Shamrock.
And then you know what?
Shamrock got exactly what was coming to him
thanks to Steve Blackman.
Let's take a look at, on Heat just a few moments ago what happened.
Steve Blackman came to the ring with that kendo stick
-and he wore out Shamrock. -[Jerry] Yes.
[Jim] And Shamrock left here bleeding internally,
Shamrock bleeding from the mouth.
Shamrock, let's take another look here. Shamrock…
You got a hurt neck.
[Jim] …being attended to by the EMT.
Get away from me.
[Jim] And certainly, Shamrock…
Stay away from me.
[Jim] …status in the King of the Ring tonight
in addition to Shane McMahon's is also in question.
Well, you see there Shamrock is a complete idiot.
I mean, he tried to injure Shane McMahon
before the biggest match of Shane's entire life
and then he refused help from paramedics. He's a nut case.
Well, we understand Ken Shamrock back in the locker room area.
[Jerry] Oh, look.
[Jerry] Still being attended to by the EMTs.
And we'll get you updated on this situation…
-[Jerry] He won't let them help him. -[Jim] …now this late breaking news.
Let's take you to Michael Cole.
Well, folks, Ken Shamrock may not--
may be the only one that is not benched tonight
because we understand that Mr. McMahon's
plan for Sunday Night Heat may have backfired.
From what we understand after the attack by Ken Shamrock on Shane McMahon,
Shane may not be able to participate tonight
in the King of the Ring Handicap Ladder Match,
the Winner Take All Ladder Match
for control of the World Wrestling Entertainment.
We hope to get a word on this situation from Mr. McMahon in just a little bit.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jerry] Oh, my gosh.
[bell ringing]
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
the following contest scheduled for one fall
is a first round matchup in the King of the Ring tournament.
Introducing from Mobile, Alabama, weighing 232 pounds, Hardcore Holly.
[Jim] Hardcore Holly to take on X-Pac in our first quarter-final matchup
here at the King of the Ring and certainly we will keep you updated
on the status of not only Shane McMahon but Ken Shamrock as well.
[Jerry] Wait a minute. Who cares about Ken Shamrock now?
Did you hear what he said?
Shane may not be able to participate in that match.
What would Mr. McMahon do on his own? It's not fair.
[Jim] I think we know the answer to that, don't you?
[Jerry] Well, I said it's not fair.
[Jim] Hardcore Holly.
["Make Some Noise" playing]
[Jim] Tremendous ovation for X-Pac,
the courageous youngster from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
And we saw X-Pac get involved earlier tonight, King,
in an interview that you were conducting
with the Road Dogg when Hunter and Chyna came out,
got involved with the Road Dogg
and certainly Chyna got another low blow in on the Road Dogg
in that interview.
[Jerry] Well, let me just say this, X-Pac-- what? Wow.
He had no business sticking his nose in the business of Hunter and Chyna.
I mean, they had a perfectly good right to come out and answer the--
I think, outrageous things that Road Doggy Dogg was saying about her.
And then all of a sudden, along comes X-Pac.
[Jim] Our first quarter-final matchup here at the King of the Ring.
There'll be four quarter-final matchups, two semi-finals
and then of course the final to determine the King of the Ring
and certainly to be fair, could be the first Queen of the Ring…
-[Jerry] Yeah. -[Jim] …crowned here tonight
if Chyna has her way.
Hardcore Holly has made quite a name for himself in these Hardcore matchups.
And X-Pac took a hard shot down and X-Pac grabbing his neck there.
X-Pac was in Madison Square Garden last night,
a huge sellout at MSG in New York City last night.
Some say that X-Pac maybe a little bit dinged here tonight
because of some intense competition last night.
That's only speculation, however.
[Jerry] A little dinged or a little dingy?
Maybe a little bit of both, huh?
[Jim] Side headlock by Hardcore Holly.
Again, the status of Shane McMahon in the Handicap Ladder Match
winner take all of the WWE is certainly a question as we speak
in addition to Ken Shamrock
who has obviously sustained some sort of internal injuries here.
Shamrock scheduled to take on badass Billy Gunn here tonight
in a quarter-final matchup.
And another knockdown, no doubt Bob Holly going for X-Pac's head
here in the early going.
[Jerry] I'll just say this,
I think in your role as a broadcast journalist, JR,
you should go on back there and check on Shane.
I'm worried about him.
[Jerry] Well, there's no anchor tied to your behind. Why don't you go do it?
I'm a little busy here.
Nice crossbody off the second turnbuckle.
X-Pac looking to get some,
score some shots from those educated feet of his.
Powerbomb by Hardcore Holly.
Holly with a size and strength advantage over X-Pac.
It seems like we say that every time X-Pac steps in the ring with someone.
[Jerry] Yeah, X-Pac landed on his uneducated head on that one, didn't he?
[Jim] Hardcore Holly in magnificent condition.
[Jerry] I'm gonna tell you something, I love the new attitude of Hardcore Holly.
Look at that. He's not gonna take any grief from anybody.
[Jim] Yeah. But he can't let himself get out of control here
and get disqualified
-or counted out, you know. -[Jerry] He's hardcore, you know.
[Jim] Winners advance, as simple as that in this tournament by pinfall, submission,
disqualification, or count-out.
-[Jerry] King Holly has kind of a ring. -[Jim] Oh, nice move there.
Quick go-behind by X-Pac into the belly, the back suplex,
dropping Holly on his head and shoulders.
And we ain't talking about shampoo.
Holly with the reverse.
-[Jerry] Uh-oh. Oh, no. -[Jim] There's that shot
we were talking about.
[Jerry] Those stinking educated feet, I know.
[Jim] Nice spinning heel kick by X-Pac and again, those shots right to the ribs.
And that one right on the jaw.
[crowd cheering]
-Hardcore Holly knocked down. -[Jerry] No. I hate it when he does this.
-Oh. -[crowd cheering]
[Jim] A little bronco buster action by X-Pac here.
[Jerry] That's Shane's move.
[Jim] Right in here, X-Pac has regained the advantage on Hardcore Holly.
[Jerry] Oh, look at this.
[Jim] Holly just knocked down the [inaudible]. That wasn't very nice.
-[Jerry] Well, that was great… -[Jim] Wait a minute.
That's not-- Holly with the steel chair. This is not a hardcore rules match.
[Jerry] Wait a minute.
[Jim] That's not a…
[announcer] [inaudible] As a result of a disqualification, X-Pac.
[Jim] Well, X-Pac has won the match by disqualification.
Not a very bright move by Hardcore Holly but that neckbreaker
really wrenched the neck of X-Pac there.
And Holly now kicking away.
Wait a minute. Here comes the Road Dogg.
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
-[Jim] The Road Dogg… -[Jerry] Oh, that's him.
-[Jim] …returning the favor… -[bell ringing]
…that X-Pac extended Road Dogg earlier tonight on Heat.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Well, you can say that X-Pac's the winner
but he certainly doesn't look like a winner laying there all,
like a loser to me.
[Jim] X-Pac [inaudible]. But X-Pac will advance.
["Make Some Noise" playing]
The King of the Ring tournament here tonight.
X-Pac has earned the right to compete in the semi-finals,
so one of our final four contestants has been determined here.
Ironically enough, the way the brackets are laid out,
if X-Pac and Road Dogg are both successful in the quarter-finals,
they will meet each other in the semis.
[Jerry] Well, with X-Pac's arm there, see, let me just say this.
I think that the referees should give Hardcore Holly a little more leeway.
They know he's hardcore.
You got to expect this from him and so should X-Pac.
[bell rings]
[Jerry] Man.
[Jim] All right, well, you almost saw that neckbreaker,
there may be a stinger going down that left arm of X-Pac.
He's trying to seemingly get the feeling back in that left arm
and that could be a big problem in a developing story
as this night progresses here at the King of the Ring.
So, we'll take a look now at the updated bracket
here in Greensboro of the King of the Ring.
And seeing that X-Pac has advanced,
and again, as I mentioned, if the Road Dogg can defeat Chyna,
and that's a big if, it'll be X-Pac and Road Dogg in the semi-finals.
[Jerry] Oh.
[Jim] We'll just take you back now to Terry Taylor.
Yeah, I think he got Hardcore Holly with him.
Hardcore Holly, Hardcore Holly, hey, all due respect,
but you just got yourself disqualified out there
and you're no longer in the King of the Ring tournament.
-What were you thinking? -Who in the hell are you?
-I'm Terry Taylor. -Who cares?
Let me tell you something, you see it's real simple.
I'm the big shot and we play by my rules and nobody else's.
And everybody around here, they're gonna learn to live with that.
[chuckles]
Oh, yeah, and by the way, I hadn't forgotten about you, Big Show.
♪ Well, well, it's the Big Show ♪
♪ Yes, it's a big bad show tonight Y'all ♪
[Jim] A big, big ovation for the Big Show.
[announcer] This is a first round match in the King of the Ring tournament
scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first, weighing 500 pounds,
the Big Show.
[Jim] I'll tell you one thing, I've talked to a lot of my buddies this week,
many of them back in Oklahoma,
and everybody was absolutely amazed
at the overwhelming power of the Big Show, King.
We saw him last week on Raw when the Big Show turned a car over
on Hardcore Holly that barely missed Holly.
This is amazing feat of strength and power.
[Jerry] I've never seen anything like it in my life.
Let's talk about an amazing feat of strength and power, yeah.
But how dangerous was this?
Luckily, Bob Holly was missed by this car. I mean, look at that.
Could have been crushed.
[Jim] This is a very much-anticipated matchup here.
The Big Show at 500 pounds, 7'2", to take on Kane.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
["Rest In Peace" music plays]
[announcer] His opponent, weighing 326 pounds…
Kane.
[Jim] At 328 pounds,
Kane is still giving up 172 pounds
to the Big Show.
I don't think we've ever had too many matches I can recall
where Kane has gone in
with a definite disadvantage as far as size and strength are concerned.
[Jerry] Well, but we've seen these two stand toe-to-toe and eye-to-eye.
And if there's anybody in the World Wrestling Entertainment
that comes close to equaling the size of the Big Show, it is Kane.
-[explodes] -[Jerry yells]
-I hate that. -[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Kane sending a rather heated message,
and not very subliminal to the Big Show here.
Kane advanced in the first round against Test.
[Jerry] See, Big Show didn't even flinch with that explosion.
Oh, look at this.
[Jim] Big Show, 7'2", Kane about 6'10.5",
maybe 6'11", look at that.
Boy, that's some intensity when these two young studs here,
and something's got to give.
-Only winners advance here. -[bell ringing]
[Jerry] Whoa.
[Jim] Kane has great agility.
This is a quarter-final matchup in the King of the Ring tournament,
our second quarter-final matchup here tonight.
The quarter finals, semi-finals, and finals, all here tonight
live in addition to The Rock challenge.
Well, that's some manhandling there.
Not too many folks have ever manhandled Kane, King.
[Jerry] What do you expect from somebody that could push a car around?
Wow.
That was as loud as Kane's explosion.
[Jim] Again, as soon as we get word on the condition of Shane McMahon
and the condition of Ken Shamrock, we'll pass it along to you.
And the Big Show now kicking Kane right back into the corner.
[Kane grunts]
This is the first King of the Ring appearance…
for the Big Show
and certainly he is, as far as the Internet is concerned,
one of the odds on favorites.
-[Jerry] Look at this, oh. -[Jim] Kane saw that one coming,
able to move out of the way, and avoid that 500 pounds coming at him.
[Jerry] Talking about wwe.com, that Internet?
-[Jim] Yeah. -[Jerry] Oh.
[Jim] What else would I be talking about?
-Your website? -[Jerry] Yeah. [giggles]
Oh, look at that, man.
[Jim] Again, the Big Show using all that unmitigated power.
-[Jerry] Look out. -[groans]
[Jim] Had the privilege of being around the late Andre the Giant
and this kid certainly has some of those Andre tendencies
but Big Show got the cover, Kane kicks out.
I do believe that Big Show is more athletic than Andre,
to the Andre's [inaudible].
See him that much when he was in his mid 20s quite frankly.
[Jerry] If you ask me, I think that the Big Show
has more of a mean streak than Andre.
I mean, who would, look at this, whoa.
[Jim] Enzuigiri.
An Enzuigiri by Kane.
[Jerry] I mean, let me ask you this, who would try to push a car?
But that's the way, I don't know how many thousand pound on somebody?
What do you think Bob Holly was thinking when he looks up
and sees a car about to fall on him?
[Jim] Bob Holly is either the craziest man in the world or one of the bravest.
And, oh, what a shot there, both men looking for the same thing
and both Kane and the Big Show go down.
Big Show luckily landed back in the ring.
Remember, a count-out is as effective as a pinfall
in this tournament competition.
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
I don't think the Big Show wants any kind of count-out.
Look at this.
[Jim] Kane with the hangman,
that'll take some of the air out of the Big Show
and so Show would be slow down.
Well, Kane, looks like his brother, The Undertaker,
leaping off the top, the clothesline and, oh, look at that power.
Big Show and Kane going right back to the advantage here,
and Big Show has got those hands up and Kane's getting some free shots
and now, nothing but a straight away chokehold on the Big Show by Kane.
Both these men are fan favorites, to say the least.
However, there are no friends, only foes in the King of the Ring,
it seemed to me like.
[Jerry] Oh.
[Jim] Heck of a jaw-jacker.
[Jerry] I think the referee got his jacked, too.
Get, oh, man.
-[Jim] If he didn't, he did now and… -[Jerry] Oh, look at that.
[Jim] Kane with a low blow after the referee was knocked down,
I don't know if this referee will ever get up.
And wait just a minute, here comes Hardcore Holly with a steel chair.
Holly looked for the Big Show and Kane stopped that.
-[Jerry] Uh-oh. -[crowd cheering]
[Jim] And Kane now…
[Jerry] What are you doing?
[Jim] With the referee down,
oh, my, what a one-handed chokeslam on Hardcore Holly.
Great right-hand by the Big Show.
The steel chair is still lying in the ring along with the referee.
And again, the Big Show just overpowering Kane,
what's seemingly, before this match, I would have said it was impossible to do.
[crowd cheering]
Big Show looking for a clothesline and Kane now, can he…?
[Jerry] Can he, is right.
[Jim] …or will he chokeslam the Big Show here?
Kane now just choking the Big Show down.
Kane's got that death grip around the throat of the Big Show
who's down to one knee here.
[Jerry] I think Kane is content to just, to try to choke the big man out.
And it is a real free-for-all environment here,
the referee has been knocked down, and has stayed down…
-[Jerry] He's out. -[Jim] …and I'm surprised
we haven't had any medical, remember, the EMTs are too busy with Shamrock.
I think this referee needs some help.
[crowd chanting]
[Jerry] Listen to these people.
[Jim] Crowd starting to get behind the Big Show here in Greensboro.
[Jerry] Who is just about out, if you ask me. I think you got him, Kane.
[Jim] Kane may have choked the Big Show out,
and the referee hasn't seen a darn thing.
[Jerry] Get up, ref.
[Jim] Big Show is, he's breathing awful heavy.
He's gasping for air to try to suck what oxygen he can
into that huge body of his.
I don't care how big and how strong you are, you got to have oxygen.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] He's out.
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Kane maintaining that chokehold, and that's all that it is.
And the crowd here doesn't like it a darn bit.
[Jerry] Well, there's no referee to count to five and make him break.
[Jim] Kane is taking what the situation has dictated, look out here.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Kane, look out.
[Jim] The Big Show with that gigantic tree-like arm,
able to free himself up, but the Big Show is in a bad way.
Oh, my God, I've never seen a chair shot like that in my life.
That steel chair has been dented.
Kane choking the Big Show out,
and then that chair shot from hell,
that's got to be all, no human being can get up from that.
-[crowd cheering] -[bell ringing]
-Kane has upset the Big Show. -[announcer] Here is your winner, Kane.
-["Rest In Peace" music playing] -[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Kane with the choke-out
and one of the most aggressive chair shots
that we've ever witnessed.
And the combination of that and the referee being down,
and Kane has advanced now
in the King of the Ring tournament to the semi-finals.
[Jerry] I think Kane is coming to his senses.
He realizes how great it would be to be the king.
He pulled out all the stops.
[Jim] Big Show barely moving here now, starting to come around.
Let's take another look at that, ladies and gentlemen,
and show you how this thing went down.
[Jerry] Boom, wow.
[Jim] Unbelievable velocity, just listen to this.
[thuds]
[Jim] Have you ever heard anything quite like that?
Well, folks, Michael Cole is standing by
with another injury update in Mr. McMahon's office.
Vince, we understand that Shane McMahon may be hurt.
Can he compete tonight in the Ladder Match?
It's not a question of may, I'll never forgive Ken Shamrock, ever.
He's hurt, he's hurt and he can't compete.
-[Shane] I can do it, Dad. -He needs to go to the hospital.
-He needs X-ray, no. -[Shane] I can, I can do it.
-I can… -You're not gonna wrestle tonight.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
This man needs medical attention and that's all there is to it.
I don't know what I'm gonna do. Now, get out of my sight, go, move.
Give me the damn EMTs.
I said bring them.
[Jim] Remember, those EMTs are busy with Shamrock.
[Jerry] Well, they need to leave Shamrock and go help Shane.
[upbeat music playing]
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Here's the King's favorite entrance song.
[Jerry] Oh, you're [inaudible], man, aren't you?
[bell ringing]
[announcer] This is a quarter-final match in the King of the Ring tournament
scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first, weighing 268 pounds,
Mr. Ass.
[Jim] Well, Mr. Ass, wearing the WWE Tag Team title belt
and that came in a very unique situation, Six-Man Tag Team matchup,
and it all started with X-Pac,
made a very unique challenge
to the Acolytes that Mr. Ass responded to.
You put the belts up right now, guys. Come on.
You're damn right we accept you, Punk.
[crowd cheering]
[tapping]
[bell ringing]
[Jim] Shamrock may be out here to get his hand raised on a forfeit,
I'm not sure.
[Mr. Ass] Now, Kenny, I know you want all these people
to believe that you're actually hurt.
But we both know the truth.
You're running scared.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] Scared of Mr. Ass.
[Jim] Yeah, right.
Shamrock's not afraid of anybody.
So, let's settle this.
Grow some balls,
and come out here man to man and we'll do this now.
Or just show these people that you're not as dumb as a box of rocks
and forfeit the match.
Either way,
Mr. Ass is going over
the world's most dangerous horse's ass.
-[Jerry laughs] -[crowd cheering]
-[Jim] You found that humorous. -[Jerry] Yeah.
[Jim] Uh-oh, look at this.
-Mister Shamrock-- -[screams]
[Jim] Oh, my God, Shamrock attacking the EMTs.
And whether he is in good enough shape to compete or not,
I think he's coming our way.
[Jerry] Oh, no.
-[Jim] I think Ken Shamrock is… -[Jerry] He's not coming out here.
He's not that stupid.
He is dumb as a box of rock,
but he's not stupid enough to come out here in his condition and face…
he is.
[Jim] Well, Shamrock may be a sandwich short of a picnic,
but Shamrock is coming out here to fight.
[upbeat music playing]
Shamrock has some internal injuries, thanks to Steve Blackman.
[announcer] His opponent, from San Diego, California,
weighing 235 pounds, [inaudible],
Ken Shamrock.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] What kind of shape is this guy in, JR?
[Jim] Shamrock has had internal injuries once before
that put him on the shelf for quite some time,
and that referee, Teddy Long,
who's been around the game a long time…
[Jerry] I don't think the referee's gonna let this match happen.
[Jim] I don't think the referee should let his match happen.
[Jerry] Look, look at his mouth now.
-[referee indistinct chatter] -[crowd chatter]
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Jim] And right to that…
-[bell ringing] -…that injured area, the abdomen,
that's the area that Steve Blackman attacked
with those kendo sticks.
[Jerry] I heard the bell. This match has started, JR.
That's good. I think it should happen.
[Jim] The match is underway, yes, it is officially now.
And Mr. Ass, not wasting any time working on any other body part
but the torso of Ken Shamrock.
And really, we do not know the, obviously, the exact extent of Shamrock's injuries.
He refused to go get medical attention other than the EMTs in the back.
-[Jerry] Whoa. -[Jim] And what a shot there.
Beautiful martial arts kick by Ken Shamrock that found its mark
and Shamrock has got to be just hurting like hell,
but he's gonna give it all he's got and, uh-oh.
[Jerry] Oh, here we go. Oh.
[Jim] That is not gonna do an internally injury any favors.
[Jerry laughs] He just got all Mr. Ass hand right there.
Be careful, Mr. Ass, don't take this idiot for granted.
I think Shamrock comes from a long line of,
his family must have been postal workers. He could snap at any minute.
Get him down and keep him down.
[Jim] Mr. Ass, focusing on the ribs and the abdomen. There's a cover.
And Shamrock, oh, Shamrock--
-[Jerry] Here. Look out. -[Jim] Shamrock going for that ankle lock.
[Jerry] Get away, get away.
[Jim] Shamrock trying to go for the ankle lock
and Billy Gunn able to counter out of it
by hammering those ribs and that chest again.
[Jerry] What do you think is injured inside there, JR?
-What else in there, spleens and… -[Jim] Yeah, there are a lots of spleens.
Everybody's got three or four of them, several livers, and a couple of kidneys.
[Jerry] I hope they're all hurt.
[crowd cheering]
He had no regard for the welfare of Shane McMahon, did he?
[Jim] Oh, why should he for goodness sakes?
-[Jerry] Come on. -[Jim] Shamrock has been used and abused
by the McMahons. He was manipulated and made him look like a fool.
And, boy, I'll tell you what, you could tell that…
[Jerry] You're trying to tell me that the McMahons made a fool
-out of Shamrock? -[Jim] Exactly.
[Jerry] No, I think God beat him to that. [laughs]
[crowd chatter]
Put the pressure on him, Mr. Ass.
[crowd chatter]
[Jim] Mr. Ass, one thing about him, look at Shamrock.
-Shamrock got that ankle lock again. -[Jerry] He's out of the ring, ref.
-He slapped him. -[Jim] That's a very astute analogy, King.
They are outside the ring and certainly Mr. Ass,
not wasting any time working on any other body part.
It shows you what kind of mentality Mr. Ass has.
[Jerry] Speaking of mentality, I just always think back
to the famous words of Mr. McMahon when he told me personally
that Shamrock was not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
-And he proves it over and over. -[Jim] How did you hear that?
-With your lips attached to… -[Jerry] Hey, hey, hey, hey.
[Jim] You must have great hearing.
Shamrock again being slammed here. I don't know.
The referee's got to be very, very cautious
in allowing this match to go on in my view.
[Jerry] What can he do now?
You don't want him to just stop the match now do you? Oh.
[Jim] Mr. Ass looking to put Shamrock away with the big splash off the top.
But the only thing Mr. Ass splashed was himself on the canvas.
[Jerry] He can give himself some internal injuries. Be careful.
Watch it. Oh.
[Jim] Shamrock using his body like a battering ram.
But Shamrock can barely, he can hardly stand up straight.
Writhing in pain is Ken Shamrock.
[Jerry] Watch it.
[Jim] Oh, Shamrock looking for the hurricanrana.
And Mr. Gunn…
[bell ringing]
Referee said Shamrock can't continue. Good call, I think.
-[announcer] Ladies and gentleman… -[Jerry] I agree. I agree.
[announcer] …the referee has stopped this contest
and awards the decision to Mr. Ass.
[Jim] Look at Shamrock, he's bleeding more and more
and it may not be a popular call but it's the right call.
[upbeat music playing]
Shamrock is losing blood as we speak.
[Jerry] Oh, I'm glad I brought that barf bag from the airport.
[Jim] Shamrock is hurt very badly. And there'll be other nights,
there'll be other kings in the ring for Shamrock.
This match is over.
And whether Shamrock likes it or not, Teddy Long made the right call.
Shamrock is losing more blood and that's the…
[Jerry] Look, he won't let anybody help him.
[Jim] Well, the bottom line is
you got to look out for the safety and welfare of these athletes.
[screams]
-[Jerry] Oh, look at this idiot. -[Jim] Look out.
-[Jerry] Watch. -[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Shamrock just tossed Teddy Long outside.
Shamrock is, he is in a terrible state here physically and mentally.
[Jerry] How would you like to be the emergency room attendant
that has to try to help him tonight?
[Jim] Well, it would be Mr. Ass and Kane in one semi-final.
We'll find out who X-Pac will meet.
Chyna, how does it feel to be the first woman
to enter the King of the Ring tournament?
Well, you know, when I was a little girl, I only wanted to be a princess.
But now, I'm all grown up. And tonight, I'm gonna be a queen.
Road Dogg, you got big brass balls, to step in the ring with me.
Triple H, you have issued a challenge for the WWE Championship.
So any thoughts tonight on The Rock-Undertaker match
for the WWE title we'll see a little later on?
Yeah. I've got thoughts.
Know this, nobody tells Triple H what to do
and nobody, nobody is gonna give me orders to carry out.
I march to the beat of one drummer and that's me.
["Oh, You Didn't Know" playing]
[Road Dogg] Oh, you didn't know?
[shrieks]
♪ Your ass better call somebody ♪
[crowd cheering]
It's Dogg time.
North Cackalacky. It's that D-O-double G up in this match.
["Oh, You Didn't Know" continues playing]
[crowd cheering]
Cut my music.
[music fades]
Welcome to "the Dogg house"…
[crowd cheering]
…were you know I always kick that
shiznit, doggy style.
[crowd jeering]
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages,
D-Generation X proudly brings to you I'm T-R-U-E,
I'm that D-O-double G, the "Road Dogg" Jesse James.
[crowd jeering]
And if you ain't down with that, I've got two words for you.
[crowd chants] Suck it!
[Jerry] Did he say D-Generation X?
-[Jim] DX it is. -[Jerry] Oh, please.
["Make Some Noise" playing]
[Jim] In the form of the Road Dogg and X-Pac.
-Not many of them left. -[Jerry] You're right.
[Jim] Two former DX members about to make their way out here now
because you know Triple H is gonna be with Chyna.
That certainly gives Chyna the unfair advantage but what else is new?
Chyna has used Triple H virtually this whole competition.
Will we have our first ever Queen of the Ring?
Chyna was the first female to enter the Royal Rumble,
the first female to qualify
for the quarterfinals of the King of the Ring.
[Jim] And earlier tonight ladies and gentlemen on Heat,
King was conducting an interview with the Road Dogg
and we saw Hunter and Chyna come back out, King.
Whoa.
-[Jerry] Yeah. And look at that. -[Jim] Road Dogg…
[Jerry] Road Dogg was gonna go ahead and punch Chyna
and thank goodness Hunter was there to stop him.
[Jim] And a low blow got the Road Dogg down.
[Jerry] Where was the low blow? I think I missed it.
[Jim] Well, you usually do.
Well, there was lot of action going on in there, you know.
-[Jerry] [inaudible]. -[Jim] Restore order.
Again, a two-on-one attack.
We expect to see more of that in this matchup.
[Jerry] Well, you think, you think X-Pac's gonna come out here
and try to help Road Dogg or something?
[Jim] No, Einstein.
I really believe that Triple H is gonna get involved in this matchup.
-[Jerry] Oh, come on. -[Jim] Probably sooner than later.
Well, this should be most interesting. I can tell you that.
[Jerry] I've been waiting on this for a long time. Let's see it happen.
[Jim] Collar and elbow tie up and the Road Dogg forcing Chyna,
-the jacked up Jezebel. -[Jerry] Look at this.
[Jim] Back into the corner and she reverses it. Uh-oh.
[referee] Come on. Let her up.
[Jim] Chyna's over 200 pounds. She's over six feet tall and strong.
[Jerry] What do you think is going on in the mind of Road Dogg right now?
He knows he'd love to punch her lights out.
But he's wondering two things.
Should he really hit a woman?
And if he doesn't, she's gonna turn around and knock his lights out. [laughs]
[Jim] This is our last quarterfinal matchup.
Three of the final four slots have been determined.
[Jerry] Look at this.
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Nice handlock by Road Dogg. And a good counter by Chyna.
-[Jim] You got to give the… -[Jerry] She is a wrestler.
[Jim] …the, she-devil her due.
[Jerry] What?
[Jim] Reverse elbow pop, [inaudible] in the temple.
What do you say?
[Jerry laughs] I think right now Road Dogg is realizing
he's underestimated the ability of Chyna.
[Jim] Road Dogg trying to focus on Chyna but with Triple H circling the ring
like a hungry shark…
[Jerry] Oh, wait. Now you're trying to give Road Dogg some sort of excuse,
-like Triple H is a distraction. -[Jim] Why does he have to be here?
-[Jerry] Who? -[Jim] Triple H…
[Jerry] Well, are you kidding? This is the biggest match of Chyna's life.
Certainly he wants to be right on hand to see this.
[crowd clamoring and screaming]
[Jim] Side headlock by the Road Dogg, squeezed her a little bit.
[Jerry] Oh, look at this.
If she powers out of this, I'm gonna love it.
She's gonna do it.
[Jim] Chyna using some strength and leverage here.
And the Road Dogg countered right back into control.
And Chyna going for the elbow again…
-[Jerry] Whoa. -[Jim] Oh. Look out.
[Jerry] Oh, man.
[Jim] Nice forearm shot that knocked the Road Dogg down.
[Jerry giggles]
-Triple H, taunting the Road Dogg. -[Jerry] Talking a little trash.
That's fair.
[Jim] Oh, yeah, it's real fair and sportsman like.
It certainly doesn't give Chyna an advantage, does it?
[crowd jeering]
[Jerry] I'm not even gonna ignore that.
[Jim] Road Dogg's gotta be thinking here. All right.
Tried to be a, somewhat of a southern gentleman.
[Jerry] Do you think that's what he's thinking?
[Jim] He's thinking that? Now, I don't think.
[crowd chatter]
[Jerry] You don't think he's thinking that?
[Jerry] Right now he's thinking, "I'm being out wrestled by a girl."
[laughs]
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[Jim] A forearm shot there right to the ribs.
-Road Dogg looking to give… -[Jerry] Oh, man. Oh, man.
[Jim] Road Dogg did not find his mark but Chyna found hers.
[Jerry] Chyna.
Are you impressed, JR? Go ahead and say it. Admit it.
-[Jim] Quite honestly I am. -[Jerry] Yes. Oh, yes.
[Jim] Whether I like her or I don't like her, she's a [inaudible].
[Jerry] Oh, look. He's trying to say that don't hurt.
-[Jerry] That hurts. -[Jim] An amazing athlete.
[Jerry] That hurts. [laughs]
[Jim] Remember, she's over 200 pounds.
[Jerry] I know it. You're trying to tell me? Look at her.
[Jim] We don't call her the ninth wonder of the world
because it's a good marketing slogan.
[Jerry] Oof.
[Jerry] I think these people here are a little shocked too.
[Jim] One thing about this, Chyna has made very few mistakes.
Those forearm shots are stiff and sudden.
Kicks to midsection.
[Jerry] And I'm just looking at Chyna
and I'm seeing that she is gaining, and as every second that this match goes by.
She's getting more and more self-confidence.
She's realizing that she can do this. She can be the Queen of the Ring.
[Jim] We don't see Chyna smile that often.
-[Jerry] She's loving it. -[Jim] She's smiling big time here.
Now, it looks like she's posing for high school pictures.
[Jerry laughs]
[Jerry] Oh, yes.
She's expanding her repertoire now.
[Jim] Irish whip and a high five.
Chyna with a high five with Triple H there on the outside.
[Jerry] Don't let him breathe, Chyna. Stay on him.
-[groans] -[Jerry] Ooh.
[Jim] Road Dogg, again, you got to believe, ladies and gentlemen,
Road Dogg's going through a mixed bag of emotions here fighting,
competing against a woman.
-Notice I didn't say lady. -[Jerry] Oh, man.
-[Jim] Look at those shots. -[Jerry] Listen.
[Jim] Chyna did some training
in the WWE Hall of Famer Killer Kowalski's camp…
a few years back and the only girl in the school.
And she was training with men, so this is nothing really new for her
but it's new ground for the Road Dogg.
[Jerry] What do you think Road Dogg's mama is thinking? Look out.
[Jim] Road Dogg sending Chyna to the corner.
[Jerry] You brute.
-[Jim] You can. You brute. -[Jerry] Right.
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] [inaudible].
And the Road Dogg now outside the ring.
-[Jerry] Uh-oh. Look at this. -[Jim] Here comes Helmsley from behind.
[Jerry] Yeah. They're not supposed to be outside the ring.
Put them back in the ring there, Hunter.
[Jim] Helmsley is not supposed to be here at all.
And look out. Oh, Road Dogg.
Shoved face first into the ring post, solid steel ring post.
And now Helmsley, Triple H,
those are cheap shots and that's uncalled for.
That's why Helmsley shouldn't be out here.
[Jerry] He's just trying to get him back in the ring.
He just missed there with that throw.
-[Jim] Oh, what, are you kidding me? -[Jerry] There you go.
Now, you got him right there.
-Throw him right back in the ring. -[Jim] Yeah.
-[Jerry] Oh, missed again. -[Jim] Face first on the steel steps.
[Jerry] Hunter seems a little off tonight. There we go.
[Jim] Have you ever told the truth?
And you wanna be Mayor of Memphis?
-Good God. -[Jerry] What? Give me a break.
-[Jim] Road Dogg getting double teamed. -[Jerry] I got all the qualifications.
[Jim] Why don't you go up-- yeah.
[Jerry] Oh, yes.
[Jim] Chyna again now with a big advantage, thanks to Triple H.
[Triple H] Come on. Come on. Let him up.
-[Jerry] Look at this. -[Jim] Another shot by Chyna.
[Jerry] What do you think Road Dogg's mother is thinking right now?
"My son's getting beat up by a woman."
[Jim] I know for a fact Road Dogg's whole family
-is very uncomfortable with this. -[Jerry laughing]
He's raised to not strike a woman.
[Jerry] They're not as uncomfortable as he is right now.
[Jim] Or a lady I guess I should say. But that's not the case here.
Elbow to the solar plexus by Chyna. She's on top.
-And a cover and a near-fall. -[Jerry] You better watch it.
You may be next on Chyna's hit list.
[Jim] I don't know how you figured that.
[Jerry] Well, the uncomplimentary way you've talked about her during this match.
[Jim] And a sharp kick now to the ribs.
And Road Dogg, really, you got to feel for the Road Dogg
from an emotional standpoint, what's he supposed to do here?
Just fight her like she was a man.
[Jerry] I think that's what he's doing.
He's coming out of the short end of the stick.
[Jim] What would you do, King? You've been wrestling maybe 30 to 40 years.
What would you do if you wrestle a woman?
[Jerry] You know what I'd do, I'd knock her right under my ass.
That's what I'd do.
Unfortunately, Road Dogg can't do it.
[crowd cheering]
-[Jim] Road Dogg going downstairs. -[Jerry] Cheap shot. Cheap shot.
[Jim] Those washboard abs got challenged.
-[Jerry] Look at this. -[Jim] A DDT.
-[crowd chatter] -[Triple H] Cover him.
[Jerry] Man, oh, man.
[Jim] Chyna with a DDT right on the Road Dogg.
And Road Dogg got a shoulder up at the very last moment.
[Jerry] I think that was a three count.
[Jerry] Was this the same referee that got knocked senseless a while ago?
[Jim] No, it wasn't.
[Jerry] No, no. It's Earl Hebner.
[Jim] Road Dogg getting kicked now from behind.
You got Hunter on the outside to contend with.
-[Jerry] Look at this. -[Jim] Unbelievable strength.
She's an absolutely, an amazing athlete.
She is no doubt the first lady of Sports Entertainment.
[Jerry] You're getting worried now, aren't you?
After I mentioned, you might be next on the hit list,
well, you're really sucking up now.
-[Jim] I don't want her to whip my ass. -[Jerry] Right.
[Jim] Are you crazy?
[Jerry] Look. [laughs]
-[Jim] Chyna mocking the Road Dogg… -[Jerry] Oh, my God.
-This is… -[Jim] In this [inaudible] matchup.
-[Jerry] This is my favorite. -[Jim] And a cover.
Third near-fall created by Chyna
in the last few moments against the Road Dogg.
He's either got to make a decision to fight a woman
or just go down and have a, be the first guy to get beaten by a woman
-in the King of the Ring. -[Jerry] Oh, boy.
Won't that be very good, uh-oh.
[crowd cheering]
Look at this. Oh, sleeper hold. [laughs]
-This will be the ultimate humiliation. -[Jim] Chyna with a sleeper.
[Jerry] And lord knows what she'll do to him after she puts him to sleep.
[crowd jeering]
[Jerry] The Road Dogg should've never took, I think he would,
he should've never took this match but I believe he was double Dog dared.
Now look at him.
[Jim] Road Dogg down to a knee
as Chyna restricts the flow of blood to the brain
which obviously will cause
and it is causing a degree of unconsciousness here
for the Road Dogg.
-He's just about… -[Jerry] He's turning purple.
-[Jim] Nighty night time for Dogg. -[crowd cheering]
[Jim] This 20,000 plus trying to get the Road Dogg back in the game here.
And the Road Dogg, it's almost he's reluctant to strike Chyna.
-[Jerry] Hit him. -[Jim] Chyna with a high shot
that may have gotten Road Dogg in the eye. I'm not sure.
[Jerry] Oh.
[crowd chatter]
[Jerry] Uh-oh.
[Jim] And now the Road Dogg with a sleeper on Chyna.
I wonder what he would do to her when he puts her to sleep.
-[Jerry] An illegal hold. -[Jim] How do you figure that?
[Jerry] Chokehold. Choke, he's choking her.
[Triple H] Bridge on him.
[Jim] Best referee in the business is taking a look at them.
He says it's not a chokehold. That's good enough for me.
[Triple H] Drag him down.
-[Jim] Road Dogg now… -[Jerry] Get your foot to the rope, Chyna.
[Jim] This is about the best way that I can think of off the top of my head
for the Road Dogg to get this thing over once and for all.
[Jim] I wonder if Chyna talks in her sleep. I bet she snores.
One…
[Jerry] I wouldn't know who to ask.
But I guarantee you one thing, I'll tell her you said that.
-[Jim] I'm sure you will. -Two…
[crowd chatter]
-[Jerry] Hey, ref. -[Jim] Oh, look at, look at Helmsley.
-[Jerry] Foot on the rope. -[Jim] Triple H put her foot on the ropes.
And again, Triple H saving Chyna from defeat with the feet.
[Jerry] Uh-oh. Now, who's the instigator there?
-Who started that? And look at this. -[Jim] And a roll up.
-It could be all. -[Jerry] Got him.
-Oh. -[Jim] Another near-fall.
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] I guarantee you, if this was a point system
and it's not, look, Hunter got something on his hand here.
[Jerry] What is that?
[Jim] Hunter with a chain or something on his hand.
-That's a chain. -[Jerry] You think?
[Jim] The referee is down as you saw.
Triple H putting Chyna on top of the Road Dogg
after Triple H just KO'ed the Road Dogg with that chain.
-[Jerry] Get over there, ref. -[Jim] Can you believe?
This is highway robbery.
-[Jerry] Why is that? -[Jim] And Road Dogg got a shoulder up.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] What?
How did he do that?
[Jim] This crowd is not gonna see Chyna win this match and, hey, wait.
-Wait a minute. There's… -[Jerry] What is…
-[Jim] …Commissioner Shawn Michaels. -[Jerry] Wait a minute.
What's this idiot doing here?
He's caused enough trouble for one night.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Hunter. Hunter.
[Jim] The commissioner is standing right behind Helmsley.
-Oh, yeah. -[Jerry] No.
[Jim] The Road Dogg has had enough.
-He tried to do it the right way. -[Jerry] Now he's hitting her.
-[Jim] Now he's gonna do it Doggy style. -[Jerry] Doggy style?
Oh, no. He is gonna…
[Jim] The Road Dogg opening up offensively here on Chyna.
-[Jerry] No. -[Jim] Does she like it Doggy style?
-Helmsley up on the apron. -[Jerry] Look at this.
[Jim] And Shawn Michaels,
the commissioner pulling Helmsley right off the apron.
[Jerry] Don't hit the commissioner, Hunter. You'll be out of here forever.
[inaudible].
[Jim] These two men, Helmsley and Michaels, were once buddies.
They worked on the [inaudible] together.
And Michaels, I think, is throwing Helmsley out of ringside.
[Jerry] He can't throw him out of here, can he?
[Jim] Oh. Look out. Chyna back up now.
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Jim] Oh. You can see what's coming here.
-[Jerry] Yeah, baby. -[Jim] You can see it coming.
[Jerry] Give it to him.
[Jim] And she, oh, that shot as she hurt her arm.
-[Jerry giggles] Huh? -[Jim] What the hell is that about?
The low blow, Chyna hurt her arm.
-And the, oh, the Road Dogg… -[Jerry] What?
[Jim] He's got a protected metal cup.
-[Jerry] You got to be kidding me. -[Jim] The Road Dogg was wearing a cup.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] What's he doing?
-[Jim] Uh-oh. Pumphandle slam. -[Jerry] No.
[Jim] That would be all.
-[Jerry] You can't do that to a lady. No. -[Jim] The leg is hooked.
-[Jerry] Stop. -[crowd] Three.
-[bell ringing] -[crowd cheering]
[announcer] Here is your winner, "Road Dogg" Jesse James.
[Jim] We could all say we saw Chyna getting Doggy-styled in Greensboro.
[Jerry] Foreign object. He cheated.
[Jim] That's a protective cup.
Haven't you ever worn one? Well, maybe a, nevermind.
[Jerry] Look at, look. No.
[Jim] The Road Dogg leaving Chyna a little souvenir.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] No.
[Jim] DX is alive and well, tonight in North Carolina.
And now the final four has been set.
Four men in the semifinals.
-[Jerry] Yeah. -[Jim] Well, I'll tell you what…
[Jerry] Mr. Ass is gonna face Kane but look at this,
the Road Dogg is now gonna have to take on X-Pac.
[Jim] Michael Cole, take it away.
Rock, tonight, will the people's champ again become WWE Champ?
[crowd cheering]
Undertaker, you think you impress The Rock by lighting a Brahma Bull on fire?
Well, The Rock says, Einstein, that the Brahma Bull has been on fire
ever since he's come into this son of a bitch.
So The Rock says you also think that you impress The Rock
and the millions and the millions of The Rock's fans by talking in tongue?
Well, here, The Rock's gonna talk in a little tongue for you
and it goes like this, "Ooh-la-la. Sa-bee-dah,"
The Rock kicking your candy ass,
all over God's green Earth
if you smell…
[twitters]
…what The Rock…
is cooking?
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Well, ladies and gentlemen,
we have a very unique situation coming up here now.
A Tag Team matchup featuring the Brood against the Hardy Boyz.
And if you watched Heat earlier tonight on the USA Network
we saw these same two teams go at it.
But, King, the Acolytes came to the ring
and just raised all kinds of hell as we'll take a look here.
And the-- look, he's coming, there's a reason behind that.
And the Brood makes their way to the ring. Here is what happened earlier tonight.
The Brood and the Hardy Boyz. Here came the Acolytes.
The Acolytes assaulting these two teams.
[bell ringing]
And, of course, then Bradshaw challenging Mr. Ass,
to meet him one-on-one tomorrow night for the…
[Jerry] Man.
[Jim] …WWE Tag Team title, oh, my,
title belt that Billy Gunn is in possession of.
[Jerry] What a lot of carnage the Acolytes left.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jim] So, what we have is that Shawn Michaels, the commissioner,
has ordered this match one more time, no interference.
And what we understand,
the team that wins this match will be considered
the number one tag team challengers here in the WWE.
[Jerry] And that means they get to face the Acolytes? Ha.
I don't think I'd be trying too hard in this match.
[upbeat music playing]
Let me tell you something about Shawn Michaels.
-He is a big disturber. -[bell ringing]
[Jim] Here we go.
[Jerry] Wow.
[Jim] All these are four great young athletes right here.
Michael Hayes, a veteran, former Freebird on the outside
as is Gangrel of the Brood.
He's another great one. So it is Matt Hardy and Christian.
-[Jerry] Whoa. -[Jim] And this is a tremendous offense.
Arm drag takedown, nicely done.
[Jerry] Huge opportunity for these Hardy Boyz.
[Jim] And the Brood for that matter.
[Jerry] Well, I'm telling you, the Hardy Boyz, though,
I mean, for them to be even considered as the top tag team in the WWE is one thing
but if they win this match,
they will officially be the Number One Contenders here in the WWE,
unbelievable.
[Jim] We are live tonight in three continents, ladies and gentlemen.
Throughout North America, in Europe, South Africa,
and one of the King's favorite places, Aruba.
[Jerry] Oh, Aruba. Spent a month there one week.
[Jim] Look out here.
Death Valley driver? No. A gutbuster.
[Jerry] Is Aruba a continent?
[Jim] No. I said three continents. I mean those and Aruba.
[Jerry] You're up on your geography. Look at this. Ooh.
[Jim] Great double team there by Edge and by Christian.
[Jerry] This Edge, always got a smile on his face.
Who likes whipping people's rear end?
[Matt Hardy] Come on, Jeff.
[Jim] High stakes match up of these two, these two teams,
these four young kids here.
-[Jerry] Wow. -[Jim] Nice headscissors [inaudible]
by Jeff Hardy on Edge.
These two teams, all these guys in their early to mid 20s
and with the opportunity to be the Number One Tag Team Contenders.
And Edge just really opening up here on Jeff Hardy.
-[Jerry] I like it. -[Jim] Hardy Boyz
from here in North Carolina down near Fayetteville.
-[Jim] Oh, God almighty. -[Jerry laughs]
[Jim] What a whiplash effect
as Jeff Hardy's head just splat on that canvas.
And to his credit, Jeff Hardy got his feet up
and now tags his brother, Matt Hardy.
-It was Matt Hardy and Edge… -[referee] Hey. One in, one only.
One, two…
[Jim] Very unique,
oftentimes high risk offense by both these teams.
[Jerry] You know, one of the things I've always said about the Hardy Boyz,
they can take one unbelievable, I mean, they just take a whipping.
-Let's face it. But… -[Jim] They're very resilient.
[Jerry] They're very resilient, but now with Michael Hayes in their corner,
I think he's added that offensive spark to them.
Now that they are offensive, is that correct?
[Jim] Michael Hayes truly believes that he could lead this team,
this young team to the WWE Tag Team titles.
Michael Hayes, the inspirational leader of The Fabulous Freebirds,
an outstanding trio back in the days.
[Jerry] Speaking of inspirational leaders, is there any update on Shane McMahon?
[Jim] [inaudible] going on here.
We have yet to be informed of anything from the Shane McMahon camp
regarding his status. Oh, look out here.
And his availability in the 2-on-1 Handicap match.
-[Jerry] Look at this. -[Jim] The McMahons against Stone Cold.
[Jerry] Yeah. Shirts and skins.
[Jeff] Finish him, Matt. Finish him. You got him.
Finish him.
[Jim] One of your favorite coed games, isn't it, softball?
-[Jerry] Oh, yeah. -[Jim] Oh, my…
Almost a reverse DDT like maneuver,
high impact on the back of the head of Matt Hardy.
And Christian tags in Edge.
[Jerry] Look at this, I mean, I'm telling you…
[Jim] Oh, my. Edge turning Jeff Hardy inside out with that clothesline.
[Jerry] Michael Hayes is getting quite a workout at ringside.
He's having to tell these guys every move to make. Ooh.
-[Jim] Michael Hayes is [inaudible]. -[Jerry] Look at this.
[Jim] Referee's back is turned
and Michael Hayes got a good cheap shot in.
-Pinning situation here. -[referee] Two.
[Jim] And Christian saved Edge from the three there it would seem.
[Jerry] I think Hayes thinks he is a six-man now.
He's up on the corner.
Look at this.
[Jim] Hayes in the ring, but not for long, thanks to Edge.
[Jerry] Did the ref even see that?
[Jim] Referee Tim White having a hard time keeping control here.
[Jerry] Oh, my God. Oh, my God. What a spear.
The, damnedest spear you've ever seen.
That's got to be all. And…
Oh, man. Matt Hardy saved his brother Jeff.
What a move.
[Jim] Watch Christian here. He's going upstairs.
A big plancha over the top.
Gangrel just rammed Michael Hayes into the ring post.
[Jerry] Gangrel and Michael Hayes going at, look, wait.
What's Gangrel got here?
[Jim] Gangrel's got that chalice.
-[Jerry] Ooh. -[Jim] He missed.
Gangrel missed Jeff Hardy and caught Edge right in the eyes.
And what a neckbreaker.
-What a neckbreaker by Jeff Hardy. -[referee] Two, three.
-[bell ringing] -[Jim] And the Hardy Boyz…
-Have won this matchup. -[announcer] Here are your winners,
the Hardy Boyz.
[Jim] And the Hardy Boyz are now the Number One Contenders
for the WWE Tag Team titles.
[Jerry] Wow.
[Jim] Gangrel was looking to give his partners
a little bit of an assist there.
And a miscalculation to say the least…
as Edge was sprayed right in the eye.
[Jerry] Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
[Jim] Let's look at this, ladies, what a spear.
[Jim] You'll never see anything, anymore devastating,
or more scintillating than this spear.
[Jerry] Well, let's see it then.
Spare me and show me the spear.
-[thuds] -[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Amazing contact. Amazing impact.
And right here, the turning point in the matchup.
It looked like Gangrel was trying to help his partner.
[Jerry] And Edge can't hold his man.
Can I see the spear again?
[Jim] There you go, Mayor.
[Jerry] Ooh.
[Jim] Unbelievable.
Absolutely unbelievable.
[announcer] Well, ladies and gentlemen,
Michael Cole is gonna talk to the WWE Champion.
I have one question for you.
Tonight, you put your WWE title on the line against The Rock.
Can you withstand the charge of the Brahma Bull?
Can I withstand the charge of the Brahma Bull?
What question is that? I got a question for you.
What happens when you rip the balls, off of a bull?
-[crowd cheering] -[Jim] Whoa.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jerry] Well, that would make him a steer.
["No Chance in Hell" playing]
♪ No chance of that's what you got ♪
-[Jim] What's going on here now? -[Jerry] I don't get.
[Jim] Here comes your buddy, Mr. McMahon.
[Jerry] He's got that walk going, JR.
[Jim] It's gonna be an interesting situation here tonight
as Shane McMahon cannot compete
in the Handicap Ladder Match with his daddy
against "Stone Cold" Steve Austin for all the marbles…
[Jerry] Look at that.
[Jim] For control of this very company.
[Jerry] Sometimes, when the spotlight hits Vince McMahon's head right on,
I swear I could see a halo over his head.
-[Jim] King, you're delusional. -[Jerry] No. I mean, this is…
-[Jim] Are you that desperate for a raise? -[Jerry] Come on, look at--
[Jim] Is he gonna contribute to your campaign?
Well, unfortunately…
[crowd jeering]
[Jerry] Please this is serious now.
[Jim] And so are these fans, all 20,108 of them.
You are a very rude audience.
-[crowd jeering] -[Jerry] Very rude.
[Jim] And Vince is from North Carolina.
[Jerry] They should be down on their knees, these southern idiots.
I believe in the law of the jungle, survival of the fittest.
But unfortunately,
due to Commissioner Michaels' ruling earlier on,
he placed my son Shane in harm's way.
More specifically, he placed Shane in Ken Shamrock's way.
And unfortunately,
Shane will not be able to compete here tonight.
-[Jerry] Oh, no. -[crowd cheering]
[Jim] I think daddy dearest put Shane in harm's way.
[Jerry] This is a disaster.
Therefore, I regret to inform you that the Handicap match,
Winner Take All Ladder Match with Shane and Vince McMahon
against "Stone Cold" Steve Austin will not take place here tonight.
-[Jim] Oh, come on. -[Jerry] Travesty.
-[Jim] That's not right. -[Jerry] This is awful.
-[Jim] Do it by yourself, Vince. -[Jerry] What?
[Jim] Why not?
Now, hold on one second there, McMahon.
[crowd cheering]
-[Jim] Wait a minute. -[Jerry] Not him again. Please.
[Shawn] Wait just one second.
It seems to me since I'm the sheriff around these parts,
I'll be the one that decides which matches will or will not take place.
And you're gonna have to wake up a lot earlier in the morning
to weasel out of this match, especially when old HBK is on the beat.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] God. He's making me start to lose my smile.
You misunderstood.
In your own words earlier tonight, Mr. Commissioner,
you said "Suitable replacement".
Oh, no.
I can tell you this, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin is hiding behind you
and I'm not gonna let that happen, okay?
Because in this ring tonight,
it will be Stone Cold versus Vince McMahon
and a suitable replacement.
[crowd chatter]
So, what are you saying?
What I'm saying is after this is all over,
that Vince McMahon will be the show's stopper.
Vince McMahon will be the main event.
Vince McMahon will be the 100% owner
of the World Wrestling Entertainment.
-Now, hit my music. -[Jerry] Yes.
♪ No chance of that's what you got ♪
Boy, he did it.
You've got to admit, JR, that was a brilliant move.
He outsmarted the commish. [laughs]
[Jim] And you got to wonder just exactly whom Mr. McMahon will anoint
as the suitable replacement for Shane tonight
in that Ladder Match against the Rattlesnake.
Don't worry. I'm sure it will be somebody suitable
if you know Vince McMahon. I mean, how smart is Mr. McMahon? Huh?
-Come on. Tell me. Come on. -Well, he is a brilliant man.
-Brilliant. -But he is also evil.
He has also manipulated his own family.
He also utilized his own daughter
and treated his own daughter like a work mule.
Oh, please. Come on.
He's one of the most benevolent men in the country.
I wouldn't be surprised
if right now they're starting McMahon methodist churches everywhere.
Is this thing full of Chapstick, for God's sakes?
-Oh. Give me a break. -You have the biggest corp,
-corporate busts that's ever been around. -This is great.
-A suitable opponent. -What's wrong with you?
-A suitable… -Well, let's take a look ladies
and, something else that means a little, has a little common sense here,
we're not making any, and that is the final four.
Mr. Ass will meet Kane. The Road Dogg will take on X-Pac.
The two members of DX will meet each other. You should like that, King.
[Jerry] I love that because like you said, there's just a little bit of DX left
and there won't be anything after this match.
[bell ringing]
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, this is a semifinal match
in the King of the Ring tournament scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first, Mr. Ass.
[Jim] Well, Mr. Ass met Ken Shamrock earlier tonight
and as we have been updating you on Ken Shamrock now
from what we understand is receiving more extensive medical attention
thanks to that kendo stick attack early tonight on Heat by Steve Blackman.
Yeah, you got to wonder who's-- who Blackman is working for.
[Jim] I don't think Blackman's smart enough to figure it out
and motivate himself to do something like that.
-[Jerry] He's the lethal weapon. Come on. -[Jim] Perhaps a lethal brain.
[Jerry] I don't know what Doctor Black or Shamrock went to last time
he had those internal injuries but the [inaudible] got him well.
I hope this one doesn't.
["Rest In Peace" music playing]
Uh-oh.
[Jerry] No.
[Jim] He'll walk through hellfire and brimstone
- to become the King of the Ring. -[announcer] His opponent…
Kane.
[Jim] Kane and Mr. Ass, the winner goes to the finals.
Kane and the Big Show earlier tonight,
and thanks to the referee getting knocked down,
Kane using a straight away chokehold to choke the Big Show down.
And then Hardcore Holly gets involved, brings the steel chair to the fray
and Kane ends up using it with a knockout blow
right to the face of the Big Show.
-That's how Kane got here. -[Jerry] Yeah. I didn't exactly get that.
I mean, Hardcore Holly was here to do the dirty work for Kane.
He refused that, but then Kane used the chair himself on the Big Show.
Oh, please. I hate this.
-No. -[crowd cheering]
[Jim] That hairpiece you are wearing flammable?
[Jerry] [inaudible]. It's got to be worth 10 cents.
[Jim] Is the hairpiece flammable? All right.
All right, here we go.
[Jerry] I wanna know who the suitable replacement is.
[Jim] I'm sure everybody does.
And I'm sure nobody would like to know the suitable replacement
any more than the Rattlesnake.
[bell ringing]
Dave Long says, ring it and here we go.
Semifinal action, King of the Ring tournament.
[Jerry] I'd volunteer for that job myself
but what would you do without me down here?
[Jim] Oh, I don't know.
-Probably just barely get by. -[Jerry] Right.
[Jim] Stinging right hand by Mr. Ass, Billy Gunn.
And I don't know if this is the best path of offense against Kane.
[Jerry] No, I don't think so.
-[Jim] I think we just answered that… -[Jerry] Ooh.
[Jim] …that question.
-[Jerry] Wow. -[Jim] What an uppercut and another one.
[Jim] Kane, the brother of the WWE Champion, The Undertaker.
They are certainly not on speaking terms to say the very, very least.
But there are many of the Kane's mannerisms
that certainly remind me of the Phenom, The Undertaker.
And that was a hard knockdown by Kane, 6'10", 6'10.5",
somewhere in that neighborhood, 328 pounds I think he weighed in at today.
Billy Gunn's no small man himself, he's 6'5", about 270…
[Jerry] Were you there at the weigh-in?
-[referee] …corner man. Back him out. -[Jim] Well, yeah. Where were you at?
-The mall? -[referee] Come on, Kane. Come on.
[Jim] Stomped by Kane right on the chest of Mr. Ass,
and Mr. Ass is doing a smart thing.
We're going to get an unofficial timeout here.
I would prefer if those two big guys…
-[Jerry] Watch your back. -[Jim] …stay far away from us.
[Jerry] Watch your backside there, Mr. Ass.
[referee] Come on, Kane. Get him back inside.
-[Jim] Kane stalking… -[Jerry] No.
[Jim] …Mr. Ass here. Another uppercut. Man, what a knockdown.
What a knockdown by Kane.
Uh-oh. Watch it.
King Kane doesn't sound too bad. A nice little ring to it.
[Jerry] I don't know about that.
You know, X-Pac is sort of, oh, look at this.
[referee] Kane, no.
[Jim] Look out here.
-[referee] Kane… -[Jerry] Watch it.
[Jim] Oh. Look, a great athletic move by Billy Gunn right up in Kane's face,
dropkicking the stairs right back in Kane's mouth.
I don't know how much protection that mask gave Kane there.
-Man, Kane went down like a ton of bricks. -[referee] Come on. Get off. Come on.
[Jerry] So what more damage is he gonna do to that disfigured face?
[referee] Three, four…
[Jim] And now, Billy Gunn taking advantage of the situation.
Great athletic move.
It is often said that Billy Gunn may be the most athletic competitor
here in the WWE.
Dropping moves like that would make it hard to argue.
[Jerry] Ooh, wow.
[man] Baseball face.
[Jim] Tell you what. Let's take another look at this dropkick.
And look at the vertical leaping ability.
[Jerry] Oh, wow. Wait.
-[Jim] Did you hear that? -[Jerry] Yes, I did.
[Jim] The face of Kane smacking that ring post. Look at this elevation.
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Kane, again, almost seven feet tall.
And Billy Gunn is right in Kane's face here.
Great move.
[Jerry] And then those steps were right in Kane's face.
[Jim] Like him or not,
that was a magnificently athletic move by Billy Gunn,
who is hammering away at Kane.
And I don't think you'd beat Kane by brawling.
He may not be the most polished catch-as-catch-can competitor,
Kane I'm referring to.
I think that's what you got to do to get him off his feet
and the gates of that tower.
[Jerry] You know, you mentioned the name, King Kane.
[Jim] Yes.
[Jerry] Well, I mean, if he were to go and win,
you know, it takes a King to know a King.
I could probably give him a few pointers unlike that idiot X-Pac
and make a, I mean, just make something unbelievable out of Kane.
-[Jim] Well, I guess that's the… -[Jerry] A couple of Kings.
-A pair of Kings. -[Jim] A pair of Kings.
[Jerry] Something to draw [inaudible].
-[Jim] Yeah. -That was a choke. Get off the man.
You're ready to [inaudible], man's throat, all right?
[Jim] There's a joke in the deck somewhere there
but I just can't quite figure it out as usual.
Uh-oh. Look at this.
But again, he's choking, I think he was choking Kane there.
At least that's what, from my vantage point.
They started out with some sort of chancery.
[Jerry] Now, on the other hand, Billy Gunn would make quite a King himself.
[inaudible] the ropes.
[Jim] Do you have any legal rights to that name King?
You're the kind of guy that sues somebody over something like that?
-[Jerry] I guess I would. -[Jim] Yes, you would, wouldn't you?
Billy Gunn has got Kane grounded.
That's a pretty good place for the Big Red Machine
so you don't want him to go airborne and get vertical anymore than you have to.
Kick to the solar plexus and another one.
Billy Gunn now has turned the corner here offensively.
-[Jerry] Yeah, let's see it. -[Jim] Here's the famouser.
-Uh-oh. Oh, my… -[Jerry] Ooh.
[Jim] Kane up on that vertical base caught Billy Gunn in midair
and drilled him.
Knocked down, the clothesline.
And Billy Gunn now is bouncing around
like the basketballs we've seen in this arena.
-[Jerry] Look out. -[Jim] Ooh.
Kane, the kick right to the chest.
And Billy Gunn's, he's got to create some distance here and…
-[Jerry] Whoa, look at that drop, ah! -[Jim] …Kane with a dropkick.
What a magnificent move. Kane, the Big Red Machine went airborne.
-[Jerry] What about elevation? -[Jim] Oh, wait a minute.
-[Jerry] What's happening here? -[Jim] Well, here comes the--
well, Billy Gunn's got a steel chair.
I see the Big Show coming this way.
The Big Show who was eliminated earlier by Kane…
[referee] Get inside Kane. Come on.
-Stupid son of a bitch. -[Jim] Uh-oh.
-[Jim] Kane just… -[Jerry] Look at that.
-Oh. -[Jim] …knocked off.
The Big Show just nailed Kane with that chair.
The referee was down.
Billy Gunn's got the legs hooked. He may have the tights.
And Billy Gunn with an inadvertent assist
-from the Big Show wins it. -[announcer] Here is your winner, Mr. Ass.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jim] Billy Gunn got a very inadvertent assist because it was obvious…
it was obvious to me that the Big Show was looking to come get some of Kane.
-[Jerry] You think? -[Jim] And the Big Show succeeded. Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
-Kane is… well, ladies and gentlemen… -[Jerry] Glad he's going that way.
[Jim] …Kevin Kelly is standing by
with one of only two remaining members of DX.
Getting set now for the second semifinal in the King of the Ring tournament,
down to the final four.
Second semifinal will feature a battle of two very good friends.
And X-Pac, I got to know, you gonna have any mixed feelings
as you step in there against your very good friend, the Road Dogg?
I think that's a dumb question, Kevin.
Obviously there's mixed feelings when you go in there with a friend.
Road Dogg, Brian, James, Jesse James,
Ben, you're one of my best friends
but, you know, tonight this is an opportunity for both of us
to reach that next level.
And I hate to sound really stupid and corny, but may the best man win.
[Kevin] Best of luck.
[Jim] You know how that sounded to me?
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Let me guess. Stupid and corny.
-[Jim] There you go. Attaboy [inaudible]. -[Jerry] Stupid and corny.
["Make Some Noise" playing]
-[Jim] Well, this is a semifinal matchup. -[bell ringing]
[announcer] This is a semifinal match in the King of the Ring tournament
scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first, X-Pac.
[Jim] X-Pac will meet the Road Dogg.
The winner of this match will face Billy Gunn…
1999 King of the Ring,
the last King of the Ring of this millennium
to be crowned here tonight in Greensboro.
X-Pac shooing the pyrotechnics folks away.
He doesn't want the pyro. He wants to get ready to go here.
Well, we heard how X-Pac feels about wrestling the Road Dogg.
Now, let's see how the Road Dogg thinks of this one with X-Pac.
X-Pac's in the ring
and Road Dogg, I know it is going to be the battle of two friends
but there really is so much riding on this one.
Yeah, friends, he is my best friend.
This may be the hardest match I ever, I ever have in my whole career.
But I'll tell you this much, we are professional wrestlers
and the King of the Ring is a billet
that I can tell you I damn sure wanna hold.
So, I hope X-Pac likes to laced 'em up tight.
I said X-Pac and I meant X-Pac.
Now, if you don't mind, Kevin.
["You didn't know" playing]
♪ Oh, you didn't know? ♪
♪ Your ass better call somebody ♪
♪ North Cackalacky You're about to see it ♪
♪ You might not believe it ♪
Cut the music. Let's boogie.
[Jim] Both men departing from their normal pre-match ceremony if you will…
-[Jerry] Whoa. -[Jim] …X-Pac and the Road Dogg.
[Jerry] I like to refer to them as corny and stupid. [laughs]
Which one's corny? Which one's stupid? I got a prediction.
After this match is over, there will be only one member of DX.
And then will it be officially over, JR?
Will you admit then there is officially no more D-Generation X?
[Jim] Why do think that there will be only one member?
[Jerry] Because whoever loses this match is gonna hate the other one.
-He's gonna detest the other one. -[Jim] That's not necessarily true.
-[Jerry] Oh, come on. -[Jim] That's your view.
It's not necessarily true.
[Jerry] To get knocked out of the King of the Ring
by your so called friend?
-Look at this. -[Jim] Look out here.
Good belly-to-back suplex by X-Pac on the Road Dogg.
[Jerry] Do friends let friends drop them on their head like that?
[Jim] I'm a little concerned about the nice snapmare takeover by X-Pac.
X-Pac holding that neck during interview, if you noticed that.
He wouldn't complain about it. A cover and a near-fall there.
[Jerry] Do you know who's got to be really excited and happy right now?
-[Jim] Who's that, King? -[Jerry] Mr. Ass.
He can beat both these guys at the same time.
-No. -[Jim] Well, that's an arguable point.
Ooh.
[Jim] Reverse chinlock by X-Pac, holding down the Road Dogg here.
The winner will face badass Billy Gunn for the 1999 King of the Ring title.
Still to come, The Rock's challenge to The Undertaker for the WWE title,
not to mention, the Rattlesnake meeting Vince McMahon and a suitable replacement,
and we don't know who that's gonna be yet
in the winner take all Ladder Match here tonight.
[Jerry] What do you think? Give me a prediction. Educated feet.
[Jim] Nice hard right-hand by Bullet Bob Armstrong's baby boy there.
Knee right to the collar bone and a nearfall.
[Jerry] Bob Armstrong's baby boy? Wow.
[Jim] Bob's a friend of mine.
[crowd chatter]
[Jerry] Let me tell you something.
The Road Dogg shouldn't even be in this match.
You got to admit this, JR. Chyna beat him from pillar to post.
He had to use a foreign object to beat her.
[Jim] How do you figure that?
That cup? That's part of equipment if you prefer it.
[Jerry] Oh, please.
-[Jim] He didn't hit her with it. -[Jerry] Foreign to me.
[referee] Let him go. Come on, one…
[Jim] I'm sure it is. Don't think of it.
[Jerry] Now watch this.
Whoa.
[Jim] Nice spinning heel kick by X-Pac,
caught the Road Dogg coming off the ropes.
There's a lateral press.
Road Dogg [inaudible], whoa, that's a long kick-out.
[crowd chatter]
About two and three quarters there for X-Pac. X-Pac again.
I would think he's had some sort of stinger or something in that,
-in that left arm, be that as it may. -[Jerry] Uh-oh.
-He's gonna do Shane's move again? -[Jim] Oh!
Obviously, the Road Dogg could feel and sense what was coming,
avoided the contact and, unfortunately, for X-Pac, X-Pac didn't.
[Jerry] I bet X-Pac wishes he was wearing a cup.
[crowd chatter]
[Jim] Road Dogg allowing X-Pac to get up. That could come back to haunt him there.
Pumphandle slam, oh, it's gonna be countered.
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Jim] And…
[Jerry] Oh, wow.
[Jim] X-factor, the X-factor out of nowhere.
-[tapping] -…two, three…
-[Jim] And that's it. -[bell rings]
["Make Some Noise" playing]
-[announcer] Here is your winner… -[Jerry] I'm in shock.
[announcer] …X-Pac.
[Jim] X-Pac with a huge victory over his friend, the Road Dogg.
So, it'll be X-Pac and badass Billy Gunn
in the finals of the King of the Ring here tonight.
X-Pac again, holding that, the left side of his neck.
And there's-- I don't wanna speculate and be alarmist
of how badly X-Pac may be injured, but there is something wrong there.
[Jerry] I'd like to be the first to officially announce
the dissolvement of D-Generation X.
[Jim] How do you know that…
[Jerry] Because I'm watching these friends go at it.
[Jim] Watch this. There's some sportsmanship for you.
That's a good lesson for all the kids at home,
win with grace, you lose in grace.
[Jerry] Corny and stupid, there they are.
Oh, this is revolting.
["Make Some Noise" continues playing]
Of course, we are down to two, X-Pac and Billy Gunn.
One of those two men will be the 1999 King of the Ring.
And who would be the WWE Champion?
Let's take a look at the controversial road
that led to Greensboro before The Rock would challenge the Phenom for the gold.
[upbeat music playing]
[narrator] The Undertaker's wanton aggression
has awakened the fury within the Brahma Bull.
-[bell rings] -[Jim] A Tombstone on a chair.
[Jerry] Oh, man.
[Jim] The Rock just got drilled on the steel chair.
[The Rock] Undertaker, if you really want to impress The Rock,
then you will come to King of the Ring,
and you will put the WWE title on the line,
and go one on one with the great one.
You want a shot at The Undertaker at the King of the Ring for the WWE title?
No problem, just this little hitch.
[Jim] So, it's The Rock and The Undertaker in a non-title matchup.
[Paul] We have a stipulation for you this evening.
Well, the stipulation is, Rock, is me.
[Jim] So, it's a triple threat match here tonight.
The people's champion, he must win this match tonight
to earn a WWE title match at the King of the Ring
versus The Undertaker.
[Jerry] You and all of these people were hoping for a crack
in the foundation of the Corporate Ministry.
You were hoping for it, but just like Mr. McMahon said…
That's not gonna happen tonight. That's not gonna happen any night.
[Jim] Chyna thought that was…
[Jerry] Wait, Chyna, that was The Undertaker.
[Jim] Chyna inadvertently tripped The Undertaker.
-[Jerry] Whoa. -[Jim] Whoa.
And the champion didn't like it a bit.
[Jerry] What are you doing?
[Jim] Triple H, Triple H came to Chyna's aid.
-[Jerry] No. -[Jim] Rock bottom, The Rock bottom.
-[Jerry] No, wait… -[Jim] Can he?.
-[Jim] Yes. The Rock wins. -[Jerry] What?
[Jim] The Rock wins.
The Rock's on his way to the King of the Ring.
The WWE title will be on the line.
[Jerry] What's happening to the Corporate Ministry? Oh, no.
[Jim] The Corporate Ministry is disintegrating.
It could be a bad omen, the Corporate Ministry is disintegrating.
Disintegrating. Disintegrating.
[Vince] That's not gonna happen any night.
[crowd cheering]
♪ Do you smell what The Rock is cooking? ♪
["Electrifying" playing]
[bell rings]
[announcer] The following contest scheduled for one fall
is for the World Wrestling Entertainment Championship.
Introducing first the challenger from Miami, Florida,
weighing 275 pounds, The Rock.
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] We are awaiting the arrival of the challenger for the WWE title.
Twenty seven years of age, a multiple-time WWE Champion already.
[crowd cheering]
Many consider him to be the most exciting and electrifying athlete
in Sports Entertainment today,
the first third generation athlete in the history of this company.
[Jerry] You think he's got a chance tonight, don't you?
-[Jim] You're damn right. -[Jerry] Well, let me just say this.
-[Jim] No. -[Jerry] Not tonight, not any night, JR.
[Jim] Do you get paid a royalty every time you say that?
No. I think McMahon does.
[Jerry] Not tonight, not any night.
[Jim] I'm in this facility with a great deal of heritage
here in the Greensboro Coliseum.
The Briscoes, the Steamboats, the Youngbloods, the Blairs,
Chief Wahoo McDaniel, the Andersons,
and so many more competed in this very facility.
[crowd cheering]
But I don't think any of them ever drew 20,108 as the WWE has tonight.
["Rest In Peace" music playing]
[crowd cheering]
[announcer] His opponent to be accompanied to the ring by Paul Bearer,
from the Corporate Ministry, weighing 328 pounds,
the World Wrestling Entertainment Champion, The Undertaker.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Come on, Undertaker. You got a job to do.
Do you remember what he says he's gonna do?
Cut the, you know, off the Brahma Bull there,
what did you say will make him a steer?
[Jim] Testicles.
-[Jerry] What? What? -[Jim] What were you talking about?
-[Jerry] You cannot say that on… -[Jim] What did I say?
-[Jerry] Man. -[Jim] That ain't gonna happen.
[Jim] The Rock is ready. He's, mentally, physically ready to go,
focused on this, but he must beat, certainly the personification of evil.
One of the masterminds behind the Corporate Ministry,
The Undertaker.
[Jerry] Look at that look, JR.
[Jim] Of course, Mr. McMahon's trying to make us all believe that all is well
between Triple H and The Undertaker.
I don't believe, quite frankly, that to be true.
Triple H has challenged the winner of this match for a WWE title shot.
When and were, to be determined,
but Triple H has made it known he is ready.
[Jerry] Mr. McMahon has patched up all the differences
in the Corporate Ministry.
["Rest In Peace" music continues playing]
-[Jim] Oh, that's… -[Jerry] Mr. McMahon was in trouble,
he turned to this man right here, The Undertaker.
Of course, he had to use his family, But that's all right.
-It's business. -[Jim] Oh, yeah, it's business.
-He traumatized his own daughter. -[Jerry] See, you don't…
-you don't understand business. -[Jim] I don't.
[Jerry] I mean, like, in other words, like when, Vince and Linda,
-to you, that's a marriage, right? -[Jim] Yes.
[Jerry] No, come on. To me, that's a merger.
See, that's business.
[music fades off]
[crowd chanting]
[Jim] This crowd here, already letting us know their allegiance in this matchup.
The last time The Undertaker was here on pay-per-view,
he was in an infernal match and was the solid fan favorite.
My, how times have changed.
Mike Chioda, the assigned official in this matchup.
[Jerry] Did it just get cooler in here?
[Jim] It is a little air-ish.
[Jerry] A little what?
-[Jim] Oh, Undertaker and… -[Jerry] Whoa.
[Jim] What the, hell? What the hell was that?
The Undertaker just-- he just cheap shotted the referee.
[Jerry] What was that about?
[Jim] The Undertaker sending The Rock for the ride
and The Rock counters The Undertaker, walking in with the elbow.
[Jerry] There's no ref. The Undertaker bashed the referee.
[Jim] Look out, look out, look out.
-[Jerry] Whoa. -[Jim] Rock bottom.
That's a Rock bottom early.
-[Jim] One, two, three. -[Jerry] No, no, you're not the referee.
[Jim] This match should be over.
[Jerry] There's a referee.
[Jim] Oh, this'll do it. Come on.
That rotten, holy son of a, that Paul Bearer.
This should be over.
We have a new champion in record time.
[Jerry] We have referees laying everywhere.
I didn't know Paul bearer had it in him.
What a shot, what a right hand.
[Jim] I don't, The Undertaker is the most vile human being
I've ever seen in the history of,
-oh, my God, what a chokeslam. -[Jerry] Here we go.
-[Jerry] Yes. -[Jim] The Rock was in the rafters.
[Jerry] Get in there, ref. Count him out.
-[tapping] -[crowd chatter]
[Jim] Chioda counting now
-and Rock kicked out. -[Jerry] What?
[Jim] The Rock kicked out of The Undertaker's chokeslam.
[Jerry] What's wrong with you, ref? Are you delirious?
[Jim] How many athletes can say they've done that?
Hard right hands by the Phenom,
-the WWE title on the line. -[crowd cheering]
This match is underway, the richest prize, the most influential prize
in our business, on the line here.
And The Rock retaliates with a high impact clothesline of his own.
[Jerry] Boy, The Rock wants it, he wants to be the WWE Champion.
-[Jim] Hard right hand… -[Jerry] Uh-oh, oh.
[Jim] …from the Miami of Florida graduate.
[Jerry] Laying the smack down on The Undertaker, I can't believe it.
Look out.
[Jim] The Undertaker, The Rock's got a King sized bed
in the SmackDown Hotel for the Phenom
and perhaps will be the EX-WWE Champion in just a few moments.
[crowd chatter]
Rock and The Undertaker now.
Now, this is not a No-Disqualification matchup.
[Jerry] Where are they going?
[Jim] But the referee, apparently, gonna let it roll here
because the referee is out there with the two athletes,
instead of being back in the ring utilizing his ten-count,
which just suits me just fine.
[Jerry] I think this is also a no knockdown the referee match, isn't it?
But that happens.
[Jim] They're out there on concrete.
[Jerry] I think the referee even knew who hit him.
[Jim] [inaudible].
The Rock may have got The Undertaker with a low blow,
but The Undertaker retaliates with a clothesline.
[Jerry] On the concrete floor.
[Jim] Look at the height here, power of The Undertaker.
That is some unbelievable velocity created by The Undertaker, King.
[Jerry] How high?
Look at the heights that he gets on The Rock.
[Jim] That is some serious hang time.
[Jerry] Yes. The Rock just went to the bottom floor
on the SmackDown Hotel.
[Jim] And now I see the referee there,
the referee's gonna let this thing go, again.
We are going to suit our fans.
Wherever you are, we do thank you so much for being with us tonight
here at the King of the Ring, wherever you may be.
[Jerry] Aruba. We are in Aruba, right?
[Jim] Yeah.
The Rock now, building that momentum, The Rock.
Only 27 years of age,
he is extremely resilient, is this young stud.
Another right hand, The Undertaker reeling here.
[Jerry] Where's Paul Bearer?
[Jim] Is there a buffet opening somewhere?
I think he's a guest speaker.
And I mean, The Rock's body just took into that steel barricade.
-[Jerry chuckles] -[referee] …three. Stop.
[Jim] This might as well be a No Holds Barred matchup.
[Jerry] I like it, Hardcore almost.
That's the way the millions and millions of The Rock's fans wants it, JR.
They're not gonna get it tonight, not any night.
[Jim] Undertaker measuring The Rock with a thunderous right hand,
The Rock almost in a helpless state, his hands down to his side.
[Jerry] Maybe the ref should stop it.
[Jerry] Stop it, ref, before he gets hit again.
[Jim] They're back in our-- coming back our way, I think.
And The Rock now, the right hand, The Undertaker reeling,
he's reeling back toward the ring.
The Rock, reverse facelock.
Uh-oh. He's gonna suplex The Undertaker, was blocked.
-[Jerry] Oh, man. -[Jim] Oh, man.
Right on the concrete.
[Jerry] Better call room service, Rock. [laughs]
[Jim] That power and leverage by The Undertaker,
reversing that suplex on the challenger for the WWE title.
[Jerry] There's Paul. Do something.
[Jim] But The Undertaker's doing a pretty good job himself here.
[Jerry] A cheap shot here and there won't hurt anything.
[head bangs]
[Jim] The Rock tasting some steel steps there,
nothing to compare with that good Carolina barbecue.
[Jerry] Apparently, that referee don't know his role,
stay away from The Undertaker.
[Jim] The Rock tossed back in the ring now.
As this WWE title match returns to its stage,
this squared circle.
And another shot by The Undertaker, who is in complete control, seemingly,
right now in this title matchup.
[Jerry] Right. And I guarantee you.
The Undertaker is remembering all of those big words from The Rock.
Remember when The Rock stood there and talked to him.
-[Jim] The cover. Look out. -[Jerry] This should be it.
[Jerry] And The Rock, kicking out.
[Jerry] Remember when The Rock said, "Hey, Undertaker, let your big 33-pound head
roll down your back and go right up your--" remember that?
-[Jim] Yeah, You mean that roody-poo thing?
[Jerry] Yeah. Where you're at now, Rock?
Talking about The Undertaker, you better keep your words soft and sweet
because you might have to eat them.
[Jim] Undertaker checking The Rock's hold card here.
[Jerry] Whoa.
[Jim] He really jerked that arm around the socket, is The Undertaker.
And The Rock, you could tell, his expression pretty well
tells the story here of how he's feeling.
[Jerry] Here we go again.
[Jim] And if The Rock doesn't come up with some offense soon, this is gonna be over.
Undertaker backing, he may be going upstairs here.
[Jerry] Yeah? Come on upstairs, coming back downstairs.
You got to face it, JR. The Undertaker is kicking The Rock's roody-poo, oh.
Uh-oh.
[Jim] The Rock jerking The Undertaker right off the rope
and The Undertaker landed somewhat gingerly there, straddling the ropes.
[Jerry] What's he doing?
[Jim] And now The Rock back in the… The Rock's got a bottle of water.
[Jerry] For what? Is he thirsty?
[Jim] He ain't gonna hurt anybody with that.
-[Jerry] Hey. -[Jim] A wakeup call for The Undertaker.
We saw The Rock do that at Wrestlemania against "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
You know, The Rock, what he'll do when he gets himself back in the game,
this, he's so young, he's in great condition.
[Jerry] Yeah.
[Jim] And now, The Rock knocking the champion of the WWE
over the security railing,
the barricade here, out there in no man's land.
[Jerry] No man's land? North Carolina, isn't it?
-[Jim] Figure of speech. -[Jerry] Oh.
[Jim] It's hard to keep an eye here on The Undertaker and The Rock.
[Jerry] Hey. You can't go in there, Rock.
That's a private sector just for the cameras.
[Jim] Knocked down by The Rock and The Undertaker now is being punished.
[Jerry] If you mess up one of those cameras, you're gonna pay.
[Jim] And that may have been a cold beverage
in the face of The Undertaker.
And this one has gotten very personal.
Yes, it's for the WWE title, but it's for much more,
as far as these two men are concerned.
[Jerry] Can't exactly tell what's happening.
[Jim] Undertaker knocked The Rock down, I can tell you that.
And then… they were up there in the…
I'm trying to say the cheap seats, but there's no such thing.
[crowd chatter]
[Jerry] Oh.
[Jim] Elbow, reverse elbow caught The Rock right in the face.
[Jerry] Do you smell that, Rock…
because The Undertaker is cooking for you.
[Jim] Well, The Rock is, uh-oh.
The Rock, what I was trying to say, has been in a bad way here.
He blocked the right hand
and got a couple of rights of his own in there,
until he tosses The Undertaker back inside here.
[Jerry] Oh, no, oh.
[Jim] The Rock introducing The Undertaker now to the steel steps.
Move.
-[Jim] Oh, look out here. -[Jerry] Oh, this is not good.
[Jim] This is not good at all.
[Jerry] What are you running for, JR? Are you scared?
[Jim] You're damn right I'm scared. You're not gonna help me.
[Jerry] Oh, you got that right.
[Jim] Right out here by us and the referee's letting this thing go.
The Rock's got a steel chair.
-Look out. -[Jerry] Oh. Whoa.
-[Jim] And The Undertaker used the bell… -[Jerry] Did you see that?
[Jim] …to block the chair, and the chair bounced right back,
-and hit The Rock in the face. -[Jerry] Wow.
[Jim] The Undertaker's trying to pull himself up here.
The WWE champion seemed to be now
has gotten back on a small advantage here…
-[Jerry] Small advantage? -[Jim] …in this title matchup.
-[Jim] Let's take another look at that. -[Jerry] Yeah.
You tell me if you think this is a small advantage.
[crowd chanting for Rock]
-[Jerry] Watch yourself. Oh. -[Jim] Look out here.
The Rock right here, best seat in the house here ringside.
Sometimes you get a little, a little too close.
[Jerry] Get out of here before I have to throw you out.
-[Jim] The Undertaker, elbow… -[Jerry] I'm here for you, JR.
-[Jim] Yeah. Thank you, Tiger. -[Jerry] You're welcome.
[referee] One, two, three…
[Jim] Chokehold and The Undertaker could give a damn less
about getting disqualified here. You take… Hey, look out.
That stinking, that stinking shoe from that rotund…
-buffet-busting bully. -[laughs manically]
[Jerry] What?
[Jim] Paul Bearer is a hideous human being.
[Jerry] Oh, come on.
Nutritional overachiever, I'll give you that,
but not a buffet buster.
[Jim] Good Lord.
The Undertaker is enough for any human being,
plus us having to deal with Paul Bearer's antics here on the outside.
And now both men back in the ring.
The WWE title is at stake here at the 1999 King of the Ring.
[Jerry] Good shots. [chuckles] That ref, now he knows his role.
[Jim] The Undertaker has a very intimidating presence to say the least.
And The Rock will fight you back, The Rock fighting back,
right hands by the people's champion.
[crowd cheering]
-[Jim] Oh, my God. -[Jerry] Oh, man.
[Jim] What a DDT by The Undertaker!
He has never delivered a more scintillating DDT
than we've just witnessed.
What a maneuver by The Undertaker.
[Jerry] Rock, you might want to leave a wakeup call at the old SmackDown Hotel.
[laughs]
[Jim] And there's a cover. That's, is, oh, no.
[Jerry] What?
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Oh, somehow, someway The Rock reached down
and kicked out before the three.
Man, we thought we overused, the term resilient,
probably to some folks, ad nauseum here, but that's all that was.
That was guts and resiliency by The Rock. He just would not stay down.
That's what this WWE Championship means to The Rock,
is what it means every single human being in this company, in this business.
Undertaker trying to ground the youngster.
And The Rock back up to a vertical base,
right hands to the midsection, one upstairs.
The pace quickens and, oh, but not for long.
[Jerry] Haste makes waste.
[Jim] The Rock's running lights got dimmed across there.
And a cover, but The Rock got that left shoulder off the canvas.
The Undertaker had the right shoulder blocked pretty well with his legs,
but The Rock got the left shoulder off the canvas before the three.
[crowd chatter]
It's obvious that The Rock so athletic, is the quicker of the two,
but this is real good sound strategy, very elementary,
but laudable strategy by The Undertaker, to ground the faster guy,
looks like athlete trying to take The Undertaker off his feet
when they compete with him.
[Jerry] What's this, "Let's go, Rocky," chant?
[audience] Let's go, Rocky!
[Jim] What about it that you don't understand?
I will help you out with it.
-[Jerry] Where do they want him to go? -[Jim] It's almost over, King.
[Jerry] They want him to go out, completely out?
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Undertaker wrenching, torquing that neck
and Rock fought his way back up with a-- in an improvement burst there.
And The Rock now, fighting back with the right hands,
but again, just as soon The Rock gets back on the attack,
The Undertaker cuts him off.
[Jim] The Rock missed that clothesline, waist lock…
and The Rock trying to fight out of, Undertaker using that bulk,
that size advantage here.
-[Jim] Oh, look out. -[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Jim] The Samoan drop changed the [inaudible]. Oh, yeah. No.
-Oh, man. -[Jerry] Whose shoulders were down?
[Jim] Undertaker's shoulders are down
and we were less than a second away from a new WWE Champion being crowned.
[crowd chatter]
That son of a gun with a photo finish.
Oh.
Undertaker must be thinking, "What do I have to do
to keep this young buck down?"
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Jim] Double clothesline.
The midair collision, The Undertaker and The Rock down.
[Jerry] Come on, Paul Bearer, now is the time to earn your keep.
[Jim] Paul Bearer is trying to motivate his charge The Undertaker.
Paul Bearer is no Mike Krzyzewski.
[Jerry] Who?
[Jim] He's a little bit more like Rick Majerus.
[Jerry] Who?
[Jim] You ever read anything about the comics?
-[Jerry] What? -[crowd chatter]
Come on, Paul. Yes.
-[Jim] Undertaker sitting up. -[Jerry] Yes.
[Jim] The Rock rolling over on his stomach now.
The Rock now, trying to get to those ropes to help pull himself up.
[Jim] That's what The Undertaker has done.
[Jim] Rock finally back up to his feet, meets The Undertaker,
coming in with the right hand, another right hand by The Rock,
reeling The Undertaker's head, snapping him back.
The Rock beating The Undertaker down in the corner.
[crowd cheering]
The youth and the condition of The Rock, coming to the forefront here.
[Jerry] Oh, The Undertaker, the veteran, with the right-hand shot,
caught The Rock coming in.
Rock got a little distracted by the official that time.
That was a mistake.
-[Jerry] Oh, baby. -[Jim] Uh-oh.
[Jerry] Tombstone.
[Jim] Yes, and The Rock countered the Tombstone.
And there's the DDT by The Rock.
[crowd cheering]
The Rock countered the Tombstone with a DDT.
Anybody's ballgame.
There's a cover, there's two, a three, no.
[Jerry] No.
[Jim] A long two, by golly.
[Jerry] I don't think that was an official cover anyway.
Paul, do something.
[Jim] Well, that unofficial cover almost won Rock the WWE title.
Let's say that.
-[Jim] And oh, look out. -[Jerry] Look out.
[Jim] Chioda couldn't find anywhere to go. He was trapped in the corner.
Second time he's been knocked down in this matchup.
[Jerry] I think The Rock did that on purpose.
That looked like a clothesline, oh no.
-[crowd cheering] -Not the, not…
-[Jim] The People's Elbow. -[Jerry] The most electrifying, no.
[Jim] The Rock with the People's Elbow.
[Jerry] Get out of the way, please.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jim] Who's your daddy, Undertaker?
The leg is hooked.
One, two, got to be the third time tonight that The Rock has The Undertaker beaten,
-but the referee is down again. -[Jerry] Right.
And the, well, The Rock knocked him down, what's he complaining about?
[Jim] Oh, there's a low blow.
That shot downstairs, wait, Paul Bearer has got something in…
-[Jerry] Finally. -[Jim] Do you smell that?
What is that?
Paul Bearer is pouring something on that cloth.
-I'm not a doctor, but it's, that's… -[Jerry] Sure, it is.
[Jim] That smells like ethyl.
-[Jerry] Oh. -[crowd cheering]
[Jim] The Rock knocking The Undertaker down.
[Jerry] Get the rag on him.
[crowd chatter]
-[Jim] The Undertaker… -[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Jim] …fell on the rag and now The Rock's got it.
And The Rock is applying that ethyl-filled rag to the champion.
[Jerry] Referee.
[Jim] The referee is down, Paul Bearer is in shock,
-and The Undertaker is going unconscious. -[Jerry] No, don't breathe in.
-Don't breathe, Undertaker. -[Jim] Oh, wait a minute.
Wait a minute, here comes Triple H. What a no good lousy son of a bitch.
[Jerry] What?
[crowd chatter]
[Jim] Come on. Here's the Pedigree.
The Rock had the match won and, now, both The Rock and The Undertaker are down.
[Jerry] I told you, JR, not tonight, not any night.
Mr. McMahon's got everything well in hand.
[Jim] Helmsley is a poor excuse for a human being.
-[Jerry] He's a Corporate Ministry member. -[crowd cheering]
We got a count on.
[Jim] This crowd chanting The Rock back up.
The Undertaker is down. Paul Bearer is pleading.
He's begging The Undertaker to sit up.
[Jerry] That ethyl soaked rag is still too close to his face. Get up.
[Jim] A count out is to the champion's advantage.
[Jerry] Yeah, count out, count quicker.
[Jim] Title can't change hands on a count out or disqualification.
[Jerry] We are at 8.
Well, The Rock's not up, count him out.
[Jim] The Undertaker,
oh, he got his hand on The Rock and The Rock kicked…
-[crowd cheering] -The Rock got a shoulder up.
My God, I thought it was over. I thought it was over.
[Jerry] Triple H, standby.
[Jim] The Undertaker, look at his eyes.
-[Jerry] Yeah, they're glassy. -[Jim] Oh, look out here.
-[crowd cheering] -He's got The Rock in a Tombstone.
[Jerry] Yahoo.
[Jim] The Rock, reeling from Helmsley's Pedigree,
-just got the Tombstone piledriver. -[banging floor]
-[Jerry] Got him. -[bell ringing]
-[crowd chatter] -[upbeat music playing]
-[Jerry] Not tonight, not any night, JR. -[announcer] The winner of this bout
and still the World Wrestling Entertainment Champion,
The Undertaker.
[Jim] The Rock had the title won three different times in this matchup.
And if it hadn't been for Triple H,
we'd have a new WWE Champion right here at the King of the Ring.
[Jerry] But the truth is, The Rock got his roody-poo candy ass,
whooped right here by The Undertaker.
You can check into the SmackDown Hotel now, Rock.
[Jim] The Rock showed a lot of guts, but so did The Undertaker.
Bottom line here is that The Rock could not overcome Paul Bearer's interference,
the ferocity of Undertaker, and the Pedigree by Triple H,
who had no business even being out here.
But what does it mean now?
Triple H says he wants to challenge the winner of this matchup.
Will Triple H still go through with that?
[Jerry] Look, I'm telling you,
Vince McMahon has got all of the dissension patched up.
-[Jim] Here's a look, right here. -[Jerry] Look, Look at this.
[Jim] This is it what cost The Rock the WWE title, Helmsley's interference.
And then we see the Tombstone.
The Rock could not overcome the Pedigree, King.
Yeah, this, well, The Rock is up there.
I just, Hunter was in wrestling tights.
Could Triple H be Mr. McMahon's suitable replacement?
What do you think, King?
Could Triple H be the suitable replacement for Mr. McMahon here tonight?
Well, after what I just saw, I think he'd certainly be suitable.
-[Jerry] Don't you? -[Jim] Yeah.
[indistinct shouting]
Hey, you can't do this.
-Come on. -He's my tag team partner.
He's my tag team partner.
-Hold on. -He's my tag team partner.
He's my tag team partner.
[bleep]. You think I didn't know that? Good luck.
[Jim] Uh-oh. Mr. McMahon has been checkmated here.
[Jerry] What's happened?
Look, he's on the phone.
[Vince] Get your ass back now.
I don't, turn around. Turn around.
I need you, now.
Come on.
All right. Good.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jim] Who could Vince McMahon be talking to in that cell phone?
[Jerry] He told somebody to turn around.
[Jim] Well, we know it's not gonna be Triple H now, thanks to Shawn Michaels.
Triple H will be leaving the building, I would think.
Looks like that's where he was headed, the exit is back that way.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, we are ready now for the final matchup
in the 1999 King of the Ring tournament.
Final King of the Ring,
of this millennium, could be crowned here.
There are so many great athletes
that have been previous King of the Ring winners.
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, this is the final match
in the King of the ring tournament, scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first, X-Pac.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jim] All right. Well, X-Pac is ready.
You got to wonder if Mr. Ass, is ready.
We'll find out here from Michael Cole.
Mr. Ass, tonight it's X-Pac versus you to determine the King of the Ring.
Hey, you know what? I'm in such a good mood,
you know what, X-Pac I'll let you in on my strategy.
Yup, I'm going right for that scrawny neck of yours.
Cripple, maim you, it doesn't matter to me because I got one
thing on my mind and that is to be 1999 King of the Ring.
And when I do, I'll have four simple words for you,
kiss my royal, ass.
[crowd cheering]
[upbeat music playing]
[announcer] His opponent, Mr. Ass.
[Jim] Bad Ass, Billy Gunn on his way to the ring.
He's still wearing that, one of the WWE tag team title belt.
[Jerry] Well, he won it, didn't he?
[Jim] I don't, in a six-man match? I don't think so.
[Jerry] Wait a minute.
We'll worry about that later.
[Jim] Yeah, we'll find out tomorrow night on Raw about that.
-[Jerry] Oh, look at this. -[Jim] Here we go and…
[bell ringing]
And Billy Gunn, he will do exactly what he says.
And that is, assault and select that neck,
that injured neck of X-Pac to focus on.
[groans]
X-Pac I, the word we got, he would not even talk about his neck injury
back in the locker room area.
He does not want it to be an excuse, win, lose or draw in this matchup.
I guarantee you. I'd never count this kid out.
Look at that athletic ability. Hang time of Mr. Ass, Billy Gunn.
[Jerry] You mean you wouldn't like to be the referee and count that kid out,
have the pleasure of crowning Mr. Ass, as new King of the Ring?
Oh, man.
[Jim] Well, not particularly. That's Tim White's job here tonight.
[Jerry] Look at this. Oh.
[Jim] And X-Pac able to move out of the way.
Well, it's gonna take, it's gonna take a home run kick
and maybe a little bit of a miracle, maybe some luck for X-Pac
to win this matchup in the condition he's in. Look out.
Over the top.
[Jerry] Home run kick? What's a home run kick, JR?
[Jim] What a plancha there.
And now X-Pac, he'll take every chance in the book
and to heck with his own physical welfare.
Knife-edge chops catching Billy Gunn here and tossing Mr. Ass, back in the ring.
[Jerry] What do you think these guys got in them?
What do you think they got left?
They both had two matches, do you think they were on like 40, 50%…
-[Jim] The crossbody. -[Jerry] …or maybe X-Pac…
[Jim] Leg hooked, but Billy Gunn too strong, able to kick out there.
[Jerry] X-Pac two matches already and plus the big injury,
it might be about 30% of full strength, right?
[Jim] Well, maybe physically he maybe somewhere there about.
-I don't know. I just speculate. -[Jerry] Neck, neck, neck.
[Jim] And a bulldog right on the neck. [laughs]
It could be all here, the leg is hooked, Billy Gunn with a,
somewhat of a nonchalant cover, in my view.
-[Jerry] Well, he thought he had him. -Not really cinching up on that,
Yeah, a little bit over confident perhaps.
And when, King, you know as well as I do, against a great athlete like X-Pac,
if you get over confident, you can certainly lose.
[Jerry] Yeah, but I know as well as you do or probably better than you do
because, of course, you've probably never been in the ring…
-[Jim] No. -[Jerry] …but when,
if I was in the ring with somebody like X-Pac,
who has a neck that looked like a stack dimes to begin with,
plus he has a neck injury, you got to focus on it.
You got to take him out quick too.
[Jim] A lot of strength here,
that's one of those military press gorilla slams
there by badass, Billy Gunn.
Take a look at this.
[Jerry] This is how you concentrate on the neck.
[Jim] Yeah, that'll do it to you and this, so will this front facelock.
Billy Gunn's got his hands locked underneath X-Pac
and torquing on that neck.
[Jerry] Well, there's two schools of thought.
I said you take him out quick.
If you can go ahead and get something devastating on that neck,
where you can keep him down, or you can go like, obviously,
Mr. Ass, is gonna do, you can grind them down.
-[Jerry]You can wear him down. -You shut up.
You can just keep working on that injured area,
in this case the neck, until, you know, we could see X-Pac just give up.
[Jim] Well, I wouldn't be surprised to see that, but it possibly could happen.
[Jerry] Yeah. You know Mr. Ass, does have like a,
you know just like a perfectly formed ass, isn't it?
[Jim] You seemed to be fixated on it.
I knew you would come to some sort of analogy.
-[Jerry] Well, I mean, just, you know… -[Jim] Oh, look out here.
[Jerry] Bingo.
[Jim] Oh, that's a powerslam, out of this world powerslam
by badass, Billy Gunn.
It just almost took X-Pac out of his boots.
And look out, there's the famouser right on that neck again.
And this, X-Pac is in a helpless state here, with that neck as it is.
[Jim] We got a new King of the ring right?
[Jerry] No, we don't.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jerry] We don't.
-[Jim] You talk about, hey, now he's… -[bleep].
[bleep].
Billy Gunn having some rather colorful words with the referee.
X-Pac not no lazy boy.
[Jerry] There's the x-factor.
[crowd cheering]
-[Jim] The what? -[Jerry] The x-factor.
[Jim] Oh, okay.
[Jerry] Billy Gunn, with that lounging cover,
he was sitting at home in a Lazy Boy with a clicker in his hand.
-There's a cover. Get it, one, three. -No, two.
Man, Tim white said it was a two,
a good, strong two-count by X-Pac on Mr. Ass.
[groans]
With those kicks, oh, now X-Pac,
Billy Gunn, and knocked him right down on his prized possession.
[Jerry] Wait a second, he's gonna stomp a butthole in him.
[crowd cheering]
How many times is he gonna use Shane's move?
[Jerry] Bronco buster by X-Pac.
[Jim] Hurting or not, he's building some momentum in this final
for the 1999 King of the Ring.
[Jerry] Look at that neck breaker there. [laughs]
[Jim] Well, that was a huge move, a move that Billy Gunn had to have
at that moment and he did it, he hit that move, the neck breaker.
-[Jim] There's a cover. -[referee] One, two, no.
[Jim] And X-Pac got a shoulder up.
[Jerry] Come on. Grind him down, Mr. Ass.
[crowd chattering]
He's a little bit shaky there.
-[Jim] Billy Gunn… -[Jerry] Oh, no. Oh, no.
[Jim] X-Pac drop kicking Billy Gunn right down on the, on that turnbuckle.
Who are you [bleep]?
Uh-oh.
X-Pac trying to get all he can, as fast as he can,
but Billy Gunn too big and too strong at this point in time in this matchup.
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Jim] Got the famouser,
the famouser right off the second rope.
-[Jerry] That did it. -[Jim] It's got to be all.
-One, two, three. [banging] -[Jerry] Yeah.
-[Jerry] And it is. -[bell ringing]
[Jim] We've got a new King of the Ring and it's Billy Gunn.
[announcer] The winner of this bout and the 1999 King of the Ring,
Mr. Ass.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jim] Mr. Ass, showed a mean streak. He showed he didn't care about X-Pac.
He didn't care about anything but himself.
[upbeat music playing]
The 1999 King of the Ring is badass, Billy Gunn.
[Jerry] I know you hate to say it, don't you, JR?
And take a look at the move that made Mr. Ass, famous.
-[crowd cheering] -Oh, no wait.
[inaudible] quick because we're gonna get to see the, there's the one that did it.
[Jim] Famouser right off the second turnbuckle.
[Jerry] Oh, he teased everybody.
[Jim] He didn't tease me. I didn't wanna see it.
Of course, you can speak for yourself.
So, there you see the new King of the Ring.
[crowd cheering]
And here we go.
[Jim] Who will be the suitable replacement, King?
It looked like it was gonna be Triple H for Vince.
In any event, to understand why this Ladder Match is taking place,
we got to go all the way back, ladies and gentlemen,
to March at Wrestlemania.
-[commentator 1] What happened? -[crowd] Two, three.
-[crowd cheering] -[commentator 1] Austin wins.
Austin wins. Austin wins.
It is Vince McMahon's saddest day.
[narrator] A diabolical plot was put into action
after Stone Cold recaptured the WWE title,
a plot that preyed on the innocence of a young girl
and cast father against son.
-[commentator 1] What? -[commentator 2] Good God.
[commentator 1] The boy just slapped his own father.
[Shane] You're not my father anymore.
[narrator] A plot of betrayal.
I care about Stephanie.
I care about her safety…
-Of course. -…and her welfare.
[narrator] A plot of deception.
Vince McMahon needs Stone Cold Steve Austin.
[narrator] A plot whose premise was power.
[man 24] I present the higher power.
-[commentator 1] What? -[commentator 2] Who is it?
[Vince] The greater power is cold and calculated.
It's me, Austin.
-[man 25] Oh, son of a… -[Vince] It was me all along, Austin.
You all bought it, even my family, even my immediate family bought it.
[commentator 1] Mr. McMahon is frantic. His daughter Stephanie is missing.
[commentator 2] She's obviously been abducted by some members of the ministry.
[Stephanie] I don't feel safe at home.
The only place I really feel safe is when I'm with, when I'm with my dad.
Every damn one of you were made fools of.
[Stephanie] I am trying to separate from my dad.
Where to, Stephanie?
[Stephanie] Dad.
[commentator 1] Stephanie McMahon has been abducted by The Undertaker.
[Stephanie] I was taken against my will and dressed in a black gown
for an unholy wedding.
[man 26] You may now kiss your bride.
How in the hell, can you put your lovely daughter to such an ordeal?
[Vince] Stone Cold Steve Austin made me fool you.
[Stephanie] To suddenly feel like
you don't know your own flesh and blood anymore,
it's pretty confusing.
There is no price I will not pay.
[Stephanie] Dad, Shane, how could you be so cruel to me?
[Vince] It's just business.
Rattlesnake is up.
[commentator 1] Wait a minute, hey.
-[bell ringing] -What was that?
We've got a new WWE champion, the Rattlesnake has been screwed.
Love doesn't have anything to do with it. It's just business.
Well Vince, let's talk business.
I stepped down as the CEO of this company,
not before I handpicked my own successor.
It's gonna be a little less formal and more casual at the office.
How about jeans?
How about a little profanity in the office? Well…
Austin 3:16 says bull [beep].
Jack [beep]. Son of [beep]. You little [beep].
I just whooped your ass.
[Linda] Drinking on the job, yes.
[commentator 1] A cold beverage for the Rattlesnake.
[Linda] Allow Stephanie and me to introduce you to the new CEO.
[upbeat music playing]
[commentator 1] Oh, hell, yeah. Rattlesnakes don't make good CEOs.
Mr. McMahon's face…
At our next pay-per-view event, which is King of the Ring,
there will be me in one corner, Vince it will be you
and that little, son of yours in the other corner.
[commentator 1] I know the only things worse than Stone Cold
being the World Wrestling Entertainment champion,
is Stone Cold being the CEO,
the chief executive officer of our company.
[commentator 1] Looks like coffee breaks are being replaced by happy hour.
That's what I wanna do right now
is have a gold old fashioned beer drinking contest.
And so I want you to use your resources,
go get old Stone Cold a couple of cold beers.
Want to change Shane Mac's salary. Just scratch that off.
That is now the beer budget.
I'll have another cold beer.
You're fired from looking stupid, now get your ass out the door.
Stone Cold, you have disgraced the World Wrestling Entertainment.
I got a little something for you.
-[commentator 1] What is this? -[commentator 2] That's cow manure.
[commentator 1] The CC Brothers are bringing in cow manure.
[commentator 1] Mr. McMahon's office will never be the same.
That's gonna stink the heck out of it.
[commentator 2] Can you imagine the flies?
But here it is, Austin, we take the CEO title of yours.
You hang it above the ring and the only way to reach up
and grab it all, Austin, is by climbing a ladder.
[Vince] Tonight, we're gonna have a match to decide the final stipulation
in the Ladder Match at King of the Ring.
[commentator 1] Boss man has got the nightstick and then there's stunner,
-Austin with a stunner. -[crowd cheering]
-[commentator 1] No. -[commentator 2] Wait a minute.
[commentator 1] The Rattlesnake has won it.
There will be no corporate interference.
[Steve] When I get you in that ring at King of the Ring,
both your asses, belong to "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
[Vince] Shane and I are risking it all.
We are risking it all. It's winner take all.
[commentator 1] The Ladder Match for ownership of the WWE.
[Vince] It's winner take all.
The ownership of the WWE.
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Well, ladies and gentlemen, here we are.
Yes, indeed, the ownership for the WWE on the line
hanging high above the ring is that briefcase
with all the goods in it, King, all the property paperwork
that will allow the winner of this Ladder Match
to control the World Wrestling Entertainment…
[Jerry] And cash.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jim] Four generations of McMahon
has been the leaders of this industry.
Since Vince's grandfather, Jess McMahon back in the 30s and 40s,
Vince's father, Vince McMahon.
And now Vince and of course Shane, four generations
that have really been pioneers within the sports-entertainment genre.
[Jerry] And he said that he's gonna, he's gonna fight tonight,
he's fighting for his business, he's fighting for his life.
[Jim] McMahon has never had a more desperate, a more serious night
not from the federal government, not from a lawyer,
not from anybody, more than he has tonight
because McMahon's company is on the line here.
[Jerry] When you said the word resilient, Mr. McMahon is so resilient.
And when you back him into a corner, he's dangerous, JR,
he's even, he's more dangerous than a Rattlesnake.
[Jim] But who is going to be the suitable replacement
now that daddy's boy Shane can't go tonight.
[Jerry] Oh, daddy's boy. Quit that.
[crowd chattering]
Now, allow me to introduce to you…
not again.
[crowd chattering]
[Jim] They're so rude here.
They're so honest here in North Carolina.
Where's your Southern hospitality?
-[Jerry] Right. -[crowd cheering]
For a fellow North Carolinian.
Allow me to introduce to you the man who will be my tag team partner,
allow me to introduce you to the lethal weapon, Steve Blackman.
[Jim] What?
[upbeat music playing]
Steve Blackman? We finally know who the suitable replacement's gonna be.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jim] Blackman's no more than a hired hitman.
[Jerry] No. He's a suitable replacement.
Now, we now know why he has been going after Shamrock.
[Jim] Blackman's suitable, all right.
He's a very, very dangerous human being.
[upbeat music playing]
And this is a huge opportunity for Steve Blackman.
But this is…
[Jim] Now, this is a real, tough throw to hold for the Rattlesnake.
[upbeat music playing]
McMahon is trying to explain to Blackman the principles of this matchup.
-[crowd chattering] -Pretty easy to understand.
[Jerry] Climb that ladder, get that briefcase
and have complete control of the World Wrestling Entertainment.
-Yeah, boy. -[Jim] What's this?
Oh, easy, easy, easy.
Well, we got one over HBK.
What a fool and the master play back and forth, back,
just give it up one time, Posse.
Beautiful work.
We're live.
-We're live. -Yeah, of course we're live.
No, no, we're live.
What the…
[Jim] I think… Wait a minute. There's nothing wrong with Shane.
There's nothing wrong with Shane at all and daddy dear is just,
he just got, he just got off.
-[crowd chattering] -Wait a, wait…
There's nothing wrong at all with Shane.
Or at least if there was, he's okay now.
Come on, boys. [inaudible]
Shane and Posse were trying to run.
[Jerry] Shane is on his way to the hospital.
He needs to go for medical treatment, he's got a bad neck.
[Jim] He may need some psychiatric care.
You got to stay.
[Jim] He visibly looks to be okay to me.
Come on, you [inaudible].
[Jim] Shawn Michael's the commissioner here, has been a very active sheriff.
[Jerry] Who's responsible for that damn, GTV?
[upbeat music playing]
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Oh, no, not again, JR.
-[Jim] Are you losing your smile again? -[Jerry] Yes.
[Jerry] I'm not the only one.
[Jim] Shawn Michaels the commissioner of the WWE bringing the boy wonder.
Well, it looks to me like the boy wonder here
is more than capable of competing tonight.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] GTV.
Mr. Blackman, your presence is requested backstage,
so get your G.I. Joe looking ass to step in.
[Jerry] What?
[crowd chattering]
[Jim] Blackman has got no alternative.
Unless, of course, Vince,
you'd like me to disqualify you right here,
right now, right now in here with company owner Austin?
[Jerry] Don't do that.
[crowd chattering]
[Jim] Oh, gosh. The only thing worse than Austin
being champion is Austin being the CEO.
And you ain't too high on his list by the way.
-[Jerry] Huh? -[Jim] I had dinner with him last week.
[Jerry] You corporate butt kisser.
-[Jim] Oh, hell yeah. -[Jerry] I knew it.
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Well, now we're down to the McMahon boys…
good old, Vince and Shane.
My boy blue just won the pony.
This is…
[Jim] And the McMahon's future.
[Jerry] You got to, you got to do it. Somehow, you guys got to do it.
[crowd chattering]
-[upbeat music playing] -[crowd cheering]
[Jim] The most Phenomenal roar
I've never heard in the Greensboro Coliseum
is for the Rattlesnake.
[upbeat music playing]
Good God almighty, they're on their feet,
20,108.
-[crowd chattering] -And you're, right, it's personal.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jerry] Oh, my God.
Can you imagine if this guy has complete control of the WWE tomorrow?
[Jim] I guarantee you.
Michael Jordan wouldn't get a bigger pop than Stone Cold has
here in Greensboro, North Carolina here tonight.
[Jerry] You know, there's no telling what we'd see on Raw tomorrow night
if this idiot can control.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jim] I know one guy we might not see, King, but you'll be all right.
-[Jim] It will be Merriman. -[Jerry] Hey, you know…
[Jim] All right. Here we go the Rattlesnake
and the Ladder Match.
[Jim] The only, there's no disqualifications
in the Ladder Match.
However, thanks to Austin beating the boss man last Monday on Raw,
there can't be no corporate interference in this match
or the McMahon's will be disqualified and Austin will win the match.
[crowd cheering]
Pinfalls do not count, there are no disqualifications.
[Jerry] Just go get the ladder, get the briefcase and get out of here.
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Austin knocking down both McMahons.
You never turn your back on the Rattlesnake.
[Jerry] Like bowling pin.
Oh.
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] The Rattlesnake striking the McMahons.
[Jerry] He got Vince.
Vince taken into the security railing there, those barricades.
Austin's been waiting on this and there's a knockdown.
[crowd chattering]
[Jim] In any, in my opinion,
any one-on-one situation Steve Austin is gonna dominate.
[Jerry] Shane, where are you?
-[Jim] And make, oh, a slam. -[Jerry] Oh, man.
[crowd cheering]
[Jerry] Shane, where are you?
[Jim] But by two-on-one, you just never know.
Mr. McMahon in great shape, he's 53 years old.
And he has trained hard for this.
-[crowd cheering] -Shane McMahon that 6:32.
-Austin shirt on him. -[Jerry] Look at Shane, good move.
-[crowd cheering] -[Jim] [inaudible] that press.
Piston like right hands by the Rattlesnake.
Oh, hell, yes.
[crowd cheering]
Austin is in firm control.
[Jerry] Vince, do something.
[Jim] The present and perhaps, future CEO of this company
is stomping a hole in McMahon's corporate ass,
and fixing to walk it dry.
[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Jim] Austin, look out here, McMahon helpless on the apron.
[Jerry] Look out, Vince. Oh!
[Jim] That elbow of Austin found it's mark.
[Jerry] You know, Mr. McMahon had a neck injury in the past too.
[Jim] He had neck surgery.
[Jerry] You should always have mercy on somebody that has a back neck.
Shane, do something. Oh.
[Jim] Shane just did something all right.
He got hung around the top rope
and bounced back like a little rich rubber ball.
[Jerry] Oh, this is terrible, JR.
[crowd chattering]
[Jim] Oh, Shane face first into the turnbuckle.
Oh, the young boy wonder is in a bad, bad way here.
Austin having his way with the heir apparent, perhaps or maybe not
-[Jerry] Oh, no. -…of the throne.
[Jerry] No. No. You are talking about the family jewels there.
[Jim] Oh, there may not be any McMahon grandchildren.
[crowd cheering]
Well, there's no way to…
[Jerry] I guess there's always Stephanie.
[Jim] Oh, you probably wanna change her name
after being abused of, in that situation.
[Jerry] Oh, come on, give me a break.
You've been up the Titan Towers the last week with Stone Cold as the CEO,
it's just horrible.
-It's like hell with fluorescent lighting. -[Jim] It ain't horrible.
[Jim] I kind of like it.
[Jerry] The secretary answered the phone, "Who the hell is it?"
Oh, did you see that, did you see that, JR?
[Jim] Vince was running from Austin
-and Shane cut Austin right in the corner. -[Jerry] Get him, get him. You too.
[Jim] And now McMahon's like two rich dogs.
[Jerry] Two McMahons could beat one Austin any day of the week, we've heard that.
-[Jerry] Now we're seeing it. -[Jim] Yeah, we've heard it.
[Jim] I will believe it when I see it.
[Jerry] Well, open your eyes and take a look at that.
Get the ladder, Vince, get the ladder, get the briefcase.
-[Jim] Shane is choking… -[Jerry] Get the company.
…Stone Cold after the double team giving Vince the opportunity
-to get that ladder [inaudible]. -[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Jerry] Oh, my goodness.
[Jim] Shane ran right in those steel steps.
[Jerry] Shane, you okay?
[Jim] Vince is not exactly Tim the Toolman Taylor here.
[Jim] I don't think he knew how to pull that ladder up.
-[Jerry] Look out, Vince. -[crowd chattering]
[Jim] The man usually hires people to carry things like that for him.
-[crowd chattering] -And Austin stomping away.
Lots of board meetings between those two.
[Jerry] Oh, this is bad, this is bad.
-[crowd chattering] -[Jerry] Where's he taking him?
Hey, next time you wave at him, use all your fingers.
Vince, come on. Shane, where are you?
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Jim] He just rammed into that,
[Jim] let's see exactly what that is. A screen of some sort.
[crowd chattering]
-[Jim] Here comes Shane. -[Jerry] Yes.
[Jim] And Shane with a shot on Austin. That got Austin's attention.
[Jim] That's about all it did.
-Look at Shane. -[Jerry] No, that's the wrong ladder.
[Jim] Boy wonder is, he's trying to get away from Austin.
-You can't blame him for that. -[Jerry] There's ladders everywhere.
Look at all those ladders.
Be careful, Shane.
[Jim] Vince is down hurting.
Shane, and Shane just…
[Jerry] Oh, no.
[Jim] not a very friendly gesture to the Rattlesnake.
[Jerry] Don't get out there, Shane.
[Jim] And the Rattlesnake is going up
-to get him a little of the war. -[Jerry] Get out there, Shane, go down.
Hurry up. Shane, get away. Oh, no.
[Jim] Austin with a right hand.
-[Jim] Well this is… -[Jerry] Shane…
[Jim] And Shane just got knocked off the ladders
all the way down to the concrete floor.
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] The new CEO of the WWE is in firm control now
in this Ladder Match.
Here's Shane after falling from the ladders to the concrete floor.
[Jerry] What's left of Shane.
-[Jerry] Oh, oh. -[Jim] Look at Shane taking a ride.
[Jim] Vince trying to get a cheap shot in, but Austin cut him off.
So, look at the McMahons.
The McMahons are literally getting the bejesus talked out of him.
-[Jerry] Oh, Vince. -[Jim] Just right to a ladder.
It's very dangerous, very dangerous.
[Jerry] You loving this, aren't you, JR?
[Jerry] You're liking this almost as much as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin is.
-[Jim] Oh, look. -[Jerry] Oh.
[Jim] McMahon rammed into a ladder again.
You got to remember, King, Vince fired me twice
and Austin [inaudible].
[crowd cheering]
-[Jim] Oh, he's loving this. -[Jerry] Oh, my gosh, guys.
[Jim] The ladders are up and they're getting knocked down.
[Jerry] [inaudible] that hole…
That whole thing's kind of teetering.
The ladders setup that entrance area.
[Jerry] Get out of there, guys.
Austin using that ladder now to ram right into Vince and Shane.
Oh, there's a run on aluminum ladders here in Greensboro.
[Jerry] JR, you think we'd maybe, we should stop this?
[Jerry] This is very dangerous.
[Jim] Why don't you go down there and tap Austin
in the shoulder, and suggest that to him.
Put a memo for him.
[Jerry] Why don't you, you had dinner with him.
[Jim] Because I don't want it to be stopped.
[Jerry] No, no.
[Jim] Again, Austin running Shane McMahon
right through another aluminum ladder there.
Austin, what's he got now? Is that a chain?
-[Jerry] No. -[Jim] Oh, look out.
[Jerry] No.
[Jim] Austin pulled the ladders down on the McMahons.
The McMahons are lying under all those ladders.
[Jerry] We got to stop it now.
[Jim] Vince and Shane.
Looked like they've been in an earthquake.
[Jerry] Are they all right?
[Jim] Austin's got to pull that rubble off the McMahons
and Stone Cold just take the ladder, bring it up here and get his briefcase.
[Jim] And this piece of business will be over.
[Jerry] Look at Shane.
He is somehow crawling out of there.
[Jim] And Vince is up too.
And McMahons' company hangs on the balance.
[Jerry] Oh, look at this.
[Jim] Oh, Vince.
Austin's got that ladder in the ring now.
-[Jerry] Shane, get up here. -[Jim] On the right side of your screen.
We're live on the right side.
-[Jim] Shane is in. -[Jerry] Shane, look out.
[Jim] And Shane is over the top.
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] The end is near for the McMahons. I hope they got their resumes ready.
[Jerry] Hit him, Shane, he's got the ladder. Look out, Vince.
[Jim] Austin knocking down Vince McMahon with that ladder.
[Jerry] Oh, no, Shane. Oh.
[Jim] Shane McMahon…
[Jerry] Shane, Shane, get out of here, Shane.
[Jim] Man alive. You talk about a collision.
-[Jim] He is right down here, Steve. -[Jerry] Oh, look at you.
[Jim] He's right here.
[crowd chattering]
I can't do my job.
It's unsafe working conditions here with him over here and him.
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Jim] Oh, a right hand there by Austin.
[Jim] Vince is down in the ring.
Oh, no, not the Spanish announce table.
Those poor son of a guns. Our amigos are in trouble.
[Jerry] Hey…
Austin is setting that ladder up.
I don't like the looks of this at all for Shane McMahon.
[Jerry] What's he gonna do?
[Jim] I think he's already been neutered tonight.
[Jerry] The briefcase is in the ring.
Shane, I'd move out of there if I were you.
-Shane, Shane, who is your daddy? -[Jerry] Shane.
[thuds]
[Jim] Austin came over with that elbow.
He also rammed his hip right on the corner of that monitor.
[Jerry] Look out, I think Austin hurt himself.
There is no doubt about it that Austin hurt himself there
going through that table and then hit that monitor with his hip.
But the real crushing blow is to Shane McMahon.
Man we've had action all over this damn place.
[Jerry] Shane, are you all right?
Where is Vince going?
[Jim] McMahon got the ladder,
I don't think, I don't think Vince knows where he is.
[Jerry] Oh.
Vince must think he is back in the ring.
-[Jerry] Look out. -[Jim] Oh, look out here. Good God.
[Jim] Son of a bitch.
[crowd chattering]
[Jim] Austin hit this damn table.
It didn't budge an inch.
And Austin slapped his body right off that concrete floor.
Right here, right here.
Here's a look at Shane getting it first.
And then Stone Cold,
[thuds]
Stone Cold is down here on the concrete floor.
[crowd cheering]
Our table didn't give a bit. Keith got some, his microphone is out.
We'll get on another headset here.
[Jim] McMahon now putting that ladder back in the ring.
Austin is…
[Jerry] Can you hear me?
-[Jim] Yeah. -[Jerry] Vince, go Vince, go Vince, go.
-[Jim] Austin's body just… -[Jerry] Get your company back, Vince.
[Jim] Got a splat, Austin is bleeding from his back.
[Jerry] Good.
Get the company, climb the ladder,
-[Jerry] the ladder of success. -[Jim] Vince got the ladder.
-[Jim] He's got the ladder. -[Jerry] Thank God.
[Jerry] Come on rung by rung, Vince. Get up there.
[Jim] I'm not so sure Stone Cold can get back in it here.
-[Jerry] Hold him down. -[Jim] McMahon is going up the ladder.
-[Jerry] Shut up. -[Jim] McMahon is going up the ladder.
[Jerry] Stone Cold ain't throwing stuff at Vince.
[Jim] McMahon climbing to the top.
[Jerry] Grab it, grab it, grab it, you're there.
[Jerry] He's got it.
[Jim] Austin's got one leg, he may have a …
[Jerry] Get it, Vince, go up one more step.
[Jim] Austin already hurt his leg there.
-[Jerry] Shane. -[Jim] McMahon is up.
[Jerry] He's got the ladder.
-[Jerry] Oh, no. -[Jim] A low blow by Austin.
[Jim] Austin with a low blow. And now Austin is going upstairs.
[Jerry] This whole match has been one big low blow.
-[Jerry] Oh, Vince. Vince. -[Jim] McMahon is in jeopardy up there.
[Jerry] Very much jeopardy.
[Jim] Tethering on that ladder high above the ring.
Austin ramming McMahon's face and head right into those, that ladder.
-[Jim] Oh, my God. -[Jerry] Oh, my gosh.
-[Jim] What is this? -[Jerry] No.
[Jim] Look out. Almost a suplex off the ladder.
-[Jerry] Almost. He's 53 years old. -[Jim] Yeah.
[Jim] Oh, Shane is in and Austin almost took Shane's head off.
[Jerry] Oh, Shane.
[Jim] Austin now stomping Shane McMahon.
-[Jerry] Go help Vince, JR. -[Jim] Stay out of the way.
[Jerry] Vince is hurt bad.
[Jim] You're damn right he's hurt bad. Well, Austin taking the ladder now.
-[Jim] He's gonna use the ladder-- -[Jerry] Shane, oh.
[Jim] Austin trying to get even for all the months and months
of hell the McMahons have caused the Rattlesnake.
Austin ramming that ladder into the abdomen of Shane McMahon.
-[Jerry] Vince… -[Jim] Vince is getting up.
[Jerry] We need you.
If we ever need you make some kind of recovery we need it now. Oh.
[Jim] And the McMahons had a meeting of the minds
and it wasn't at the water cooler.
-[Jerry] Oh. -[Jim] Another knockdown by Austin.
I don't know how Austin is even walking after hitting this concrete over here.
[Jerry] You got to be kidding me. You don't know how Austin's walking.
And what about Vince and Shane?
[Jim] I wasn't too worried about them quite frankly.
Austin setting that ladder up. What's the Rattlesnake gonna do now?
[Jerry] What's in that evil mind. He is.
[Jim] One way to get him out of the corner.
And now Austin with Vince McMahon down, oh, look out.
-[Jim] You see it coming, catapult. -[Jerry] Oh, my gosh. No.
Oh, my gosh, no, ooh.
[Jim] Shane McMahon face first into the ladder…
and Shane maybe tethering in consciousness here.
[Jerry] Shane…
[Jim] Oh, I'll tell you what.
Oh, that's one way of putting the ladder down and Shane too.
-[Jerry] And [inaudible]. -[Jim] This crowd…
[Jerry] That Rattlesnake.
[Jim] Austin's got this crowd in the palm of his hand.
-[Jerry] They are all sadistic. -[Jim] The McMahons' on the canvass.
[Jerry] The Rattlesnake is sadistic and so is this crowd.
[Jim] There is not the one, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
-[Jerry] Thank God. -[Jim] And he doesn't give a damn.
Look at Shane McMahon tapping out.
[Jerry] That don't work, Shane, you got to get the briefcase.
[Jim] Probably a good thing Shane's wearing dark pants
-because he was tapping out. -[Jerry] Poor Vince.
McMahon propped up in the corner.
And I mean literally propped up in the corner by Austin.
And Austin stomps McMahon down.
[Jerry] How long is Austin's gonna beat on him?
[Jim] The Rattlesnake has been relentless here.
[Jerry] Oh, no, here we go. Goodbye company.
[Jim] The ownership in this company hangs in the balance.
Austin grabs that briefcase and brings it down.
[Jerry] Where am I gonna be tomorrow night?
[Jim] The McMahons will be out of work.
[Jerry] Yes.
[Jim] And Vince turning the ladder over on Austin.
Get the ladder.
[Jim] Vince and Shane now, somehow, somewhere are back up to their feet.
-[Jim] The ladder maybe broken. -[Jerry] That ain't gonna work.
[Jim] Vince is gonna try to boost Shane up.
-[Jerry] That ain't gonna work. -[Jim] And Shane…
[Jerry] The ladder.
[Jim] Oh, Shane is trying to get his daddy over here. What's are they gonna…
[Jerry] Oh, look at it. You got to, you got to give him an A for ingenuinity.
They're trying everything pulling out all the stops.
[Jim] Their company is at risk here. The company is at stake.
[Jerry] They're doing everything in their power.
[Jim] The McMahons could be unemployed in less than 24 hours.
[Jerry] Now jump, Vince, just jump.
[Jim] Austin's up. The Rattlesnake is up.
He's coiled, Austin is coiled and ready to strike.
[Jerry] No, no. Oh
[Jim] A right hand knocked both McMahons down.
[crowd cheering]
[Jim] Well, Austin was [inaudible].
-[Jim] Oh, look. -[Jerry] Oh, look.
[crowd cheering]
-[Jerry] No. -[Jim] And another stunner.
[crowd cheering]
-[Jerry] We're out of work. -[Jim] This one is in the book.
[Jim] Well…
This one looks to be academic.
[Jim] Austin climbing up.
Hey, wait a minute.
-The briefcase went up. -[Jerry] What?
[Jim] The briefcase is, what the hell is that?
Somebody is screwing around with that briefcase.
[Jerry] It's back down. There it is.
[Jim] It's back down now, but…
[Jerry] It's a figment of your imagination.
[Jim] Somebody was screwing with that briefcase.
-[Jerry] It's down. -[Jim] Who's got control of those…
-[inaudible]. -It's the [inaudible].
-[Jerry] It was the [inaudible]. -[Jim] Camera [inaudible]. My butt.
[crowd chattering]
-[inaudible]. -No.
[Jerry] I don't know who's been controlling that…
-[Jerry] It had been Finkel. -[Jim] I don't know who's doing that…
[Jim] Vince is back in the ring now.
-Vince is up. -[Jerry] Go, Vince.
[Jim] It looks like the briefcase had been lowered a little bit more
for Vince's convenience.
[Jerry] Grab it, get your company, you got it, baby.
-[Jerry] You got it now. -[Jim] Vince McMahon trying to save
-[Jim] his company back. -[Jerry] He's got it, he's got it.
[Jerry] Pull it off. Pull it, no.
[Jim] Austin fighting McMahon off that ladder.
Something's got to give here.
[Jerry] Do you think the WWE will slip through Vince's hand?
[Jim] Shane is getting back up.
The company will belong to Austin momentarily.
Vince McMahon has hit Austin with all his…
and Shane sacrificed his own father and the Rattlesnake
by turning the ladder over.
[Jerry] He had to do it.
[Jim] Austin may have straddled himself on that bottom rung.
McMahon and Austin are down.
Shane is going up the ladder. Somebody is lowering the briefcase.
[Jerry] No, it's not.
-[Jim] And Shane… -[Jerry] He got it, he got it.
[Jim] McMahons have won the Ladder Match.
-[bell rings] -The McMahons have won the Ladder Match.
[upbeat music playing]
[announcer] Here are your winners, Shane McMahon and Mr. McMahon.
Get out of there, Dad. Come on.
[Jim] Somehow, someway,
the McMahons with Shane sacrificing his own father
and the Rattlesnake,
Shane McMahon retrieved the briefcase.
The McMahons are back in the driver seat
and Stone Cold's life is prepared to be a living hell.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jim] Austin had the match won.
Somebody was screwing with that briefcase taking the cable up and down.
I'd love to know who that is.
[Jerry] Boy, let's talk about the resiliency of the McMahons.
I guarantee you one thing
there will be hell to pay tomorrow night on Raw.
[Jim] Oh man, the Rattlesnake is pissed.
[Jim] Oh, look out.
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