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00:00I think you know me.
00:02This should be an amazing offensive display.
00:07I expect we're going to see more high risks than perhaps any of us have ever seen.
00:13The following contest is the triangle feather match for the World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championship.
00:21Introducing first, and a combined weight of 462 pounds, Christian O'Shea!
00:31Folks, earlier tonight on Heat, live on the USA Network,
00:35the Hardys were having an interview with Kevin Kelly,
00:38thinking about this matchup when they were interrupted by Edge and Christian.
00:43And then we saw this.
00:45Yeah, we saw the Hardys interrupt Edge and Christian's little interview there.
00:50We got an early preview of what this match is going to be about, JR.
00:55He attended WrestleMania VI in Toronto when he was in junior high.
01:00He was at a ringside.
01:02Now he's competing for the tag team title.
01:10From Pembroke, North Carolina, and a combined weight of 429 pounds, Matt and Jim, the Hardys!
01:18As we heard, not unlike Mick Foley, that's bad luck.
01:23You're not kidding.
01:24And then he always said that going under a ladder was bad luck.
01:27I guess the Hardys are as fearless as they say they are, not superstitious whatsoever.
01:47Well, you heard these guys, JR.
01:49And in a combined weight of 556 pounds,
01:53the World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Champion,
01:57Divas, The Bentleys!
02:01They are the tag team champion, those damn Dudleys.
02:04This match ends when someone climbs a ladder and
02:08takes the tag title belts in their possession.
02:12The Dudleys relinquished the belts early today to WWE officials,
02:16and the tag title belts can be hung approximately 20 feet above the ring.
02:22Look at this.
02:23It's starting.
02:24Edge of the cushion now.
02:26Getting grabbed back in the business of the Hardys.
02:28Matt and Jeff Hardy now.
02:30Ladders are illegal, everything legal here.
02:32The match only can end when one team has secured the tag title belts,
02:38which are hung high above the ring.
02:41You're right, JR.
02:43Expect some high risk maneuvers like we've never seen before.
02:47These six men all making their WrestleMania debuts.
02:50These six men wanting to make their mark in sports entertainment.
02:54This is the platform to get it done.
02:57Some are successful.
02:58Some are not.
03:03Look out.
03:08Ivan Dudley and Edge in the ring.
03:10Remember, there'll be no tagging here.
03:12This is a very untraditional matchup.
03:15Even though it is for the tag team titles,
03:18there will be no tagging in this matchup.
03:21And this is almost like that hardcore Battle Royal.
03:24I mean, there's so much action going on,
03:26it's hard to concentrate on any two men at once.
03:31Bomberang.
03:34Exposing the chest of Jeff Hardy.
03:37You may not be able to see it all, but you can sure hear it all.
03:40Look at this.
03:41Corkscrew moonsault.
03:43Beautiful move.
03:44Nice springboard action there by Jeff Hardy.
03:49Look out.
03:50Tremendous elevation.
03:54And, well, no.
03:56It's an atomic drop.
03:58Who's the man?
04:02Well, I'll tell you what.
04:03Whether we like or do not like these damn Dudleys,
04:05they are an extraordinary combination.
04:08You got that right.
04:09They may have fallen out of the family tree,
04:11but they're certainly a force to be reckoned with.
04:14Christian going to the top.
04:17Christian is gonna go to the top.
04:18No.
04:19It's Matt Hardy.
04:23How many ladders we got out here?
04:24Oh, there's ladders all over the place here.
04:27There'll be no shortage of ladders, I don't think.
04:31I think I counted a beggar's dozen
04:33in various places around the ring.
04:36But somebody, who's gonna go to the top?
04:38Who's gonna get the title belts,
04:40the championship belts,
04:42that are suspended above the ring?
04:44That's what it's all about here.
04:50Jeff!
04:51A Dudley face first into the top turnbuckle.
04:53Matt calling out for his brother, Jeff.
04:55Yeah.
04:56What could these Hardys have in mind?
04:58Everybody...
04:59Don't you know all three of these teams
05:01have some sort of strategy?
05:03Oh, man!
05:05Matt Hardy throwing the ladder
05:06right in the face of Bubba Dudley.
05:08Here comes Jeff.
05:09Oh!
05:10Jeff Hardy again driving that steel ladder
05:12into the face of Bubba Dudley,
05:14and Christian just got it in the face
05:16from D-Von Dudley.
05:17Here we go.
05:18Oh!
05:20Ladders.
05:21Starting to get nasty now, JR.
05:22Ladders can be used as a weapon legally.
05:26You gotta use the ladder to get to the place you wanna be,
05:30and that's the tag team thing.
05:32Tag team titles.
05:33D-Von Dudley slammed.
05:35Spine first on the ladder.
05:37And Jeff holding D-Von.
05:40Keep your eye out.
05:41What's Matt gonna do?
05:42Look out!
05:43Whoa!
05:44Matt Hardy driving the elbow
05:45right to the sternum of D-Von Dudley,
05:48who was lying on that steel ladder.
05:52I didn't see what happened to Edge,
05:54but it looks like he's out of it.
05:55Edge got nailed to the ladder just moments ago.
05:57Nice DDT.
06:00Jeff Hardy with a DDT,
06:01taking down Bubba Ray Dudley.
06:03These two Dudleys have done some of the most dastardly acts
06:06that we have ever encountered
06:07here in the World Wrestling Federation.
06:10Oh, look out.
06:12Bubba's on the leg on the ladder.
06:15Oh!
06:16450 splash by Jeff Hardy that did not,
06:21did not, I repeat, compute.
06:24That's it for him.
06:27Christian has dropped the bottom out on Matt Hardy.
06:31Watch this.
06:32Bad time for a bomb.
06:34Oh, man!
06:36How do you survive something like that, Dar?
06:38That 450, I don't know that you do.
06:40Oh, wait.
06:41You may survive that, but you don't this!
06:44Good Lord.
06:45These guys are all crazy.
06:47Christian stomping the ladder to the face of Matt Hardy.
06:51Christian now fighting off D-Von Dudley.
06:54As Edge starts to climb to the top.
06:59How is Bubba Ray getting up from that?
07:01Oh, look out, Edge.
07:03Edge!
07:04Oh!
07:05Right on the ladder.
07:06Ladder to ladder.
07:07Right on the prone anatomy of Matt Hardy.
07:14D-Von scooping up and taking down Edge.
07:19Edge is not having any flashbacks of his first WrestleMania.
07:22Look out, Edge.
07:23Look at this ride.
07:24Oh!
07:27Man, you thought this is some unbelievable innovation
07:31with these three ladders now in the ring.
07:34And look at the carnage.
07:35Look at these athletes.
07:39I mean, everybody is.
07:41Everybody but Bubba Dudley is down.
07:46Oh, no.
07:47Look at this.
07:48Bubba doing.
07:49Bubba going to wear the ladder.
07:51Nobody's home.
07:52Oh!
07:53Hey, wait a minute.
07:56Oh!
07:57That's the old three stooge trick, I think.
08:01And it worked.
08:05Bubba Dudley asserting himself now.
08:08Oh, look.
08:09Double dropkick.
08:12Bubba a little too much celebration there, King.
08:14Got a double dropkick for his delay, for his hesitation.
08:21I think he who hesitates in this match could be lost forever.
08:24What has Edge got in mind here?
08:29I hate to even predict what Edge and Christian may do here to D-Von.
08:34Oh!
08:35D-Von faced first.
08:37There's your answer.
08:40Check out Bubba.
08:44Oh, a head.
08:46A aching head.
08:49And now the Edge and Christian.
08:51Good time now to go up to the top.
08:54Wait a minute.
08:55Hey, you got to have that ladder in the middle.
08:57What's Christian doing?
08:59Christian going to the top.
09:02Oh, boy.
09:03Uh-oh.
09:04Look out.
09:05No!
09:06Crossbody from the top of the ladder to the floor.
09:10Christian putting his own body on the line.
09:13And Bubba Ray and Matt Hardy are down from that death-defying leap.
09:21Jeff Hardy's heading up.
09:23Uh-oh.
09:24Look at Edge.
09:25Jeff Hardy heading up.
09:26Look at Christian.
09:27Look at Edge.
09:28Oh, Christian disappeared.
09:29Hardy right off the ladder.
09:30It was Edge.
09:31It was Edge.
09:32You're right.
09:33He got Jeff Hardy.
09:39And that's worth another look there.
09:42Look at this move.
09:43Edge with a spear.
09:45Perfect form.
09:47Tremendous risk.
09:49That may have been enough to win it for Edge and Christian right here.
09:52Could that have been the winning offensive move?
09:55Get up there.
09:56You're in your perfect teeth.
09:58You can do it right here.
10:01Matt Hardy.
10:02Oh, this doesn't look good.
10:04Not for Edge at least.
10:08It's floated up.
10:09Look at the pluria there.
10:11Hey, hey, look at this.
10:12We got that weird camera again.
10:14Oh, man.
10:15Camera up on the ceiling here looking down.
10:17I love that camera.
10:18It's like a Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote cartoon.
10:24Matt Hardy trying to climb the ladder.
10:26But you saw the results of that attempt.
10:29Christian sliding back in the ring.
10:30He's got an eye on that ladder as well.
10:32Now D-Von, D-Von Dudley, Bubba Ray's half-brother,
10:36one half of the tag team champions,
10:38looking to go upstairs to the next floor.
10:41There.
10:42Simple but effective.
10:46Here comes Bubba Ray.
10:48There's Christian now.
10:49Both all these ladders setting up, dueling ladders in the center of the ring.
10:54Each team has their own ladder.
10:55Hello.
10:58That shot pretty well told the story.
11:02Three ladders.
11:04What's up with this?
11:06Now look at the belts.
11:07Christian's almost there.
11:08Christian close to those tag title belts that belong to the Dudleys.
11:12Look out behind you.
11:13It's Bubba Ray.
11:14Oh, no.
11:16Oh, no.
11:173D.
11:183D's on top.
11:20A modified version of 3D for the top of the ladder.
11:26That did it.
11:27That's got to be it right there.
11:28They're done for.
11:31That's got to be it.
11:33Well, at least Bubba hurt himself, King.
11:38Well, I started to say how could Christian get up from that,
11:40but I guess he didn't.
11:42He was dragged up.
11:43Watch this again.
11:46Oh.
11:47Give me the crazy camera angle.
11:48Look.
11:49Look at this, JR.
11:50That's a suicide cam.
11:51Watch him get a little.
11:52Woo-hoo.
11:53My God.
11:54Man.
11:55Man.
11:57Man, Jeff Hardy on ladders.
12:00What are they going to do?
12:03What the?
12:04Oh.
12:06In the mouthpiece of Bubba Ray Dudley.
12:09That's definitely it for Bubba Ray.
12:15Jeff Hardy thrown right on his back, right on the concrete.
12:19Well, a lot of blank expressions on the faces of these young men.
12:22I can't believe that Christian's back on his feet.
12:24We are putting their bodies, their careers on the line in this
12:27extremely, extremely dangerous triangle ladder match.
12:33A first for WrestleMania.
12:36I'm begging somebody to put the ladder underneath the belt.
12:41I think everybody's trying to notch their gun here.
12:44Oh, no.
12:45You're not kidding.
12:46They're not going to double suplex.
12:47D-Von.
12:48Oh, my God.
12:49He did.
12:50D-Von Dudley, double suplex from the top of the ladders.
12:54Oh.
12:57And Bubba Ray just got ran through the steel steps.
13:00That's a great opportunity for the Hardys.
13:02Get up there, Matt.
13:04Oh, wait.
13:05Did I pick Matt?
13:06I picked Dudley.
13:07Somebody get Matt.
13:14Get up, D-Von.
13:16D-Von Dudley trying to scramble up, but I got to say right now,
13:19the advantage obviously, or seems to be anyway,
13:21squared in the corner of the Hardys.
13:26Hardys setting up the ladders now side by side.
13:28Get up there.
13:29Edge and Christian also climbing the ladder.
13:36How high will they go?
13:38We got Edge and Matt on one side and Jeff and Tristan on the other.
13:41No surprise, the tag team title belts.
13:45Uh-oh.
13:46Oh, look out.
13:49Another high.
13:50Neck breaker off the ladder.
13:52Face buster on the other side.
13:55Edge, Christian, Matt and Jeff Hardy down.
13:58What an opportunity for Bubba and D-Von Dudley.
14:04What is Bubba Ray going to do?
14:05Just climb the ladder.
14:07Climb the ladder.
14:10Bubba Dudley trying to position the ladder right under his
14:13and D-Von's tag title belts.
14:17Look at this, JR.
14:19Face buster on one side.
14:21The neck breaker on the other.
14:23Crazy camera move.
14:24Man.
14:26That's a suicide can, King.
14:28That's what it looks like when you're on top of that ladder,
14:30and that is scary.
14:33Listen to the crowd.
14:35These people want tables.
14:36These ladders aren't enough.
14:37They want tables?
14:41Look at this.
14:43Oh, no.
14:44Dudley, Edge and Christian going to go up the ladder.
14:47Everybody's trying to climb the ladder now.
14:49Everybody trying to get within arm's reach of the tag team title belts.
14:52You got all six of them up there.
14:55The tag team championship.
14:57On the ladder.
14:58Oh, my God.
14:59Oh, for God's sakes.
15:01The win.
15:02Jeez.
15:04The Hardys went right over the ladder, over the top of the concrete.
15:08Oh.
15:10Oh, man.
15:14Christian and Jeff over the top of the concrete.
15:17And look who this leaves.
15:19It leaves the Dudleys in the ring.
15:22Man and Edge.
15:23They straddle the top rope.
15:25I told you.
15:26The Dudleys, my pick.
15:29There it is.
15:30Climb.
15:31Bubba Dudley with a far away look in his eye.
15:34Does he realize his adversaries are hurt and on the outside of the ring?
15:40Get up there, D-Von.
15:45I don't know.
15:46We may have seen the last one.
15:48What are they doing?
15:49Christian crawling back in the ring.
15:50Edge is trying to gut check for Edge to crawl back in the ring, but he's doing it.
15:55Oh.
15:56The Dudley just sandwiched Christian between the two steel ladders.
16:01The last of Christian in this match.
16:06What are they doing?
16:07Reversal.
16:08A three.
16:113-D on Edge.
16:153-D on Edge.
16:18And Bubba's got that euphoric look in his eye.
16:21He hadn't even put anybody through a table, but he knows they're in command.
16:25Oh, wait a minute.
16:27He has it.
16:29Bubba Dudley and D-Von.
16:33Wait a minute, guys.
16:34This is a ladder match, not a-
16:36What are you doing over here?
16:40Bubba Dudley just stuck the table right up in front of us.
16:43D-Von's got a table on the other side.
16:45I noticed you didn't call him the damn Dudley.
16:47Hey, look at this.
16:53This is an unbelievable.
16:54This is absolutely unbelievable.
16:57Uh-oh.
17:00What are they gonna try to do here?
17:01Tables and ladders and broken bodies along the way.
17:06All for the tag team titles, which are hanging 20 feet above the ring.
17:12I think all Bubba Ray has got to do right now is climb the ladder.
17:17I'm begging you.
17:21A hushed silence on this crowd.
17:23Much like The King and myself.
17:25What are these men going to do to their bodies next?
17:28Uh-oh.
17:29What the hell are they?
17:30Oh, my God.
17:31What?
17:32You've got to be kidding me.
17:35I thought we had seen it all.
17:37What do they got?
17:38They are-
17:39King, this is career ending.
17:42Well, you go up there and end it.
17:44I think I'll pass.
17:45Yeah, me too.
17:46What the-
17:50The Dudleys, I guess they're just making themselves a little platform
17:54to be able to get those belts and retain their tag titles.
17:56Wait a minute.
17:57There's Matt and Jeff Hardy are back up.
17:59Matt and Jeff are back in the ring.
18:02Somehow the Hardys have survived.
18:07Dudleys hammering away on Matt and Jeff.
18:12That table balanced on the top of two ladders.
18:17Now what?
18:21These guys got some sadistic minds, JR.
18:23That's what I like about them.
18:24These damn Dudleys are sick puppies.
18:28They are sick human beings.
18:30Are Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley the tag team champions?
18:34We got three tables, three ladders in the ring.
18:42Jeff Hardy-
18:43Matt Hardy just ripped face first into the steel steps.
18:46Another table.
18:54Bubba Dudley set up a table out here at ringside.
18:57Look at this impact here, King and Matt Hardy going right into the steps.
19:04Got his shoulder in front of his head, but not by much.
19:09Oh, Lord.
19:11Not the Spanish announce table.
19:14I think Carlos and Hugo better-
19:16You better move, gentlemen.
19:19Bubba Dudley, what you gonna do?
19:21Bubba Dudley's got Matt Hardy.
19:24D-Von has got Jeff Hardy in the ring.
19:27Dueling tables.
19:29Double carding.
19:30D-Von to the table.
19:32Oh, no.
19:35God almighty.
19:37Have mercy on this kid's soul.
19:39He was just powerbombed right through the table.
19:42Bubba Dudley with that euphoric look on his face
19:46just drove another human being right through the table.
19:49It's all over now, JR.
19:53D-Von Dudley is down.
19:55He may never get back up.
19:58We still got three table or three ladders, I should say,
20:02and two tables in the ring.
20:06Matt Hardy's moving around.
20:09D-Von.
20:11Jeff Hardy looking there.
20:13Look at this, King.
20:14Powerbomb.
20:15Matt Hardy right through that table onto the floor.
20:19Can you just even imagine, remotely imagine
20:23what these men are doing to their enemy?
20:25Look at Jeff Hardy.
20:27He came off the rail high risk and ate some ladder.
20:32Who got him?
20:34Jeff Hardy ate some ladder there.
20:39Couldn't even see who got him.
20:41Who hit him with the ladder?
20:43Bubba Ray.
20:45Bubba Ray Dudley.
20:47Right in front of us now, Christian is beginning to maneuver around.
20:51How? I don't know.
20:52Matt Hardy is still down.
20:54Wait a minute. What now?
20:56What the hell are they doing?
20:57That's exposed floor.
20:58There's no mats out there.
21:00Where'd that ladder come from, JR?
21:02There's ladders all over the place.
21:06There's nothing.
21:08The jack and chips are in the ring.
21:10What could Bubba Dudley be thinking?
21:12That ladder out there, there's no padding out there,
21:15nothing to protect these men out there in the entranceway.
21:18Another table.
21:21Look at that furniture finish again.
21:24Bubba Ray has got more wood.
21:28And he's setting it up.
21:32Oh, man.
21:34Bubba, right out there in the entranceway,
21:39the ladder is there in position and so is the table.
21:43But who's gonna be the next victim?
21:45Looks like it's, unfortunately,
21:47the closest one in hand happened to be Jeff Hardy.
21:51Jeff Hardy unable to defend himself at this point in time
21:54in this first ever Triangle Ladder match.
21:57The Dudleys are tag team champions.
22:01Oh, look out.
22:02Christian just rung the bell of Bubba Dudley.
22:06Not once but twice.
22:11Man, Hardy driving.
22:13Got driven to the railing and now Jeff Hardy
22:17peeling off his shirt.
22:19What's he gonna do?
22:21Don't tell me he's gonna be as crazy as those damn Dudleys.
22:23Oh, come on.
22:25Don't.
22:26Jeff Hardy's been busted up inside.
22:29You gotta believe.
22:31Oh, for God's sake, don't do it, Jeff.
22:34Don't take this chance.
22:36Don't take this chance.
22:39Not this.
22:40No, he won't do this.
22:44Swung time bomb.
22:46Top of the ladder, to the floor, to the table.
22:49Good night, Bubba Ray Dudley.
22:51Good night, Jeff Hardy.
22:54They're both gone.
22:57Bubba Dudley has been put out of commission here
23:00by the damnedest, hardest move
23:02any of us have ever seen.
23:08This is amazing.
23:10This is absolutely an amazing match.
23:13Look at this again.
23:14How many feet in the air did he-
23:16Oh!
23:20That is-
23:21Look at this shot.
23:27That was absolutely scary.
23:30Live action here, ladies and gentlemen, at WrestleMania.
23:33Who's left?
23:34Is there anybody left?
23:38D-Von barely.
23:40D-Von Dudley just took down Christian.
23:43Edge is still on the outside.
23:46Jeff Hardy, Bubba Dudley lying in the aisle way.
23:51Matt Hardy back in the ring now, somehow, someway.
23:57So a representative of each team now in the ring.
24:00There's the twist of fate.
24:02Well, what haven't these guys done in this match, JR?
24:05Can you think of anything?
24:07I really can't, King.
24:08What else could these men come up with?
24:12Well, Christian and Matt Hardy have the same idea.
24:17Climb the ladder.
24:18End this thing.
24:19Get rid of that table.
24:23They're both close.
24:24I shudder to think what could happen here.
24:27There's the belt.
24:28There's the Tag Team Championship belts.
24:31The table's not gonna hold them, is it?
24:33The tag titles are hanging.
24:37And the same as the careers of these young men.
24:40Look at Edge.
24:41Hanging in the balance.
24:42Look at Edge.
24:43Christian, Matt Hardy.
24:44It's all-
24:45No!
24:46Edge pushed Matt right through the table for the love of God.
24:49Edge and Christian are on top.
24:51Edge and Christian.
24:53Edge and Christian.
24:54Edge and Christian have won it.
24:57I knew it.
24:59And new World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Champions, Christian and Edge.
25:06And what do you think about these young stars in the WWF
25:10who took every chance imaginable,
25:12who put their bodies and souls on the line,
25:15their careers at stake,
25:17and it's Edge and Christian prevailing.
25:23Edge and Christian are the new WWF Tag Team Champions.
25:29Check it out.
25:30Here's the way that the match was decided.
25:33Oh!
25:35Matt had those title belts in his hand,
25:37and look at this from high above.
25:39The last second, he was shoved off.
25:41Edge is away from getting possession of the Tag Team titles.
25:46He was shoved off by Edge,
25:48along Edge and Christian,
25:50to take possession of the WWF Tag Team titles.
25:55From a 13-year-old at WrestleMania VI,
25:58Edge has come to Anaheim, California,
26:01with his brother Christian,
26:02and they lead as the WWF Tag Team Champions.
26:07Unbelievable.
26:09They were my picks all along, JR.