SmackDown 7th August 2003 John Cena vs The Undertaker
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00:00So, I think you're right, Kevin.
00:10Following contest is still going for a one-fall.
00:14Making his way to the ring from West Newbury, Massachusetts,
00:18weighing in at 248 pounds, John Cena.
00:23We're going to attempt to get an update on the condition of Brock Lesnar.
00:27It's supposed to be Lesnar McMahon in a steel cage tonight
00:30with Kurt Angle as the guest referee.
00:33But Brock Lesnar, wow, that did not look good.
00:37I'm telling you.
00:38Yo, yo, yo, Undertaker, Undertaker.
00:41Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:43You beat me in vengeance.
00:45That's okay.
00:48You didn't stop me.
00:49I'm still talking smack and backing it up.
00:52I'm the White Muhammad Ali.
00:54And you're just jealous because you didn't get your hands on my python.
01:01Well, Dead Man Inc. is bankrupt just like Mike Tyson.
01:06And I'm going to make this statement.
01:10John Cena's amazing.
01:12Y'all can't see me.
01:14My flow's sicker than AIDS patients.
01:17Yeah, I broke your ribs.
01:22Now I break your reputation.
01:25I'll leave you on the wrong side of a Kobe Bryant violation.
01:30That's nice.
01:34I'm the real Mane of Venom.
01:36You just a counterfeit.
01:39I'll stick your head right up your ass.
01:41You can eat your own.
01:45John Cena doing a lot of talking.
01:47Don't go anywhere.
01:48It's John Cena versus The Undertaker.
01:51A vengeance rematch.
01:53And it's next.
01:57We are back on SmackDown.
01:58John Cena in the ring awaiting the arrival of his opponent, Big Evil.
02:04Big Evil.
02:35And this is what The Undertaker was upset about.
02:37At Vengeance, Mr. McMahon sicking that moose, that A-Train,
02:41on his own daughter Stephanie to help save him in the matchup.
02:45350 pounds of the A-Train mowing over on General Manager, man.
02:50Sight I'll never forget.
02:51Stephanie due back as General Manager next week here on SmackDown.
02:55But there's The Undertaker, who suffered those internal injuries at Vengeance.
03:00Right now, John Cena getting another shot.
03:04That's a big dog in the pinky house.
03:06I know you have a chance to try to talk to The Undertaker earlier today about his injuries.
03:10He wasn't saying she was, was he?
03:12He wasn't.
03:13Undertaker didn't want to.
03:14I don't respect what I'm talking to you about.
03:17The state of The Undertaker's midsection.
03:20He doesn't even want to tell me squat.
03:22Well, keep in mind, the ribs at Vengeance,
03:24well, they hit him exposed, turnbuckle steel.
03:27They were bounced off the steel barricade,
03:30and John Cena hit The Undertaker in the ribs with a steel chain.
03:35It was a vicious assault by Cena that night.
03:38And I have to ask you, in the respect department,
03:41was anything gained or lost between John Cena and The Undertaker at Vengeance
03:45and over the past couple of weeks?
03:47After hearing what John Cena said right before the break,
03:50and what John Cena said last week about Deadman,
03:54I don't think Cena's got any respect for The Undertaker.
03:56So it's John Cena, Undertaker.
03:58A challenge made by John Cena last week.
04:00A rematch from Vengeance.
04:01Lock up center of the ring, Undertaker.
04:03Wow, taking John Cena down quickly into a front face lock.
04:08Undertaker trying to out-wrestle right away.
04:10Out-wrestle Cena, that's not usually what Deadman does.
04:13Well, two very unorthodox styles in the ring.
04:16You got the big right and left hands of The Undertaker.
04:18You got the pounding ground of John Cena.
04:21It should be a very physical, a very vicious matchup.
04:25The Undertaker throws those soup bowls once in a while,
04:28hits some submission on you.
04:30And John Cena...
04:31Oh, what a right hand by The Undertaker.
04:35John Cena just out of the blocks.
04:37He's just been getting torn up here.
04:39John Cena should learn to keep his mouth shut.
04:41That's John Cena's M.O., bro.
04:43You hear him every week he comes out here.
04:45It gets in the people's head.
04:47It gets in the head of the competitors.
04:49Big leg drop.
04:51Undertaker gonna put John Cena away early.
04:54There's two and Cena got the shoulder up.
04:59That's a big time leg drop.
05:01Undertaker's feeling very confident right now.
05:04Got Cena right where he wants him.
05:06Undertaker with a shot to the head of John Cena.
05:08Again, we're still trying to get updates,
05:11get reports on the condition of Brock Lesnar.
05:13We've been told that apparently Brock Lesnar's
05:16still unconscious in the back.
05:18We're gonna keep you updated throughout this matchup
05:21after what appeared to be some sort of ambush on Lesnar
05:24just a few moments ago.
05:26Undertaker drilling that elbow into the back of the neck
05:29of John Cena, now into the squarely into the temple.
05:33Those big time elbows.
05:35Oh, and again.
05:36Undertaker's damn near seven foot tall.
05:38A lot of height for that elbow to drop down on a man's body.
05:42Undertaker has been in control of this match from the get-go.
05:46Really showing no signs here of any of his injuries from vengeance.
05:50Well, it's been about a week, two weeks now, just about.
05:53I mean, so it's been a while here.
05:55So Undertaker's probably healed up, I would assume.
05:57Here comes Cena now.
05:58Off the rake of the eyes, John Cena trying to turn the tables.
06:01Now with the right hand to The Undertaker.
06:03The pounding ground attack begins for John Cena.
06:05Yeah, you gotta be careful.
06:06You don't wanna throw hands, exchange punches with Big Evil.
06:10But Cena's gotta do something
06:12to get on the upper hand here of The Undertaker.
06:15I always come out here and say what I want about John Cena.
06:17The bottom line is he's a hell of an athlete.
06:19Yes, he is.
06:21But he just walked into a clothesline that only Big Evil can deliver.
06:26He'd be a hell of an athlete with a really sore neck.
06:30A pretty big clothesline there.
06:37John Cena.
06:38Oh, shoulder first.
06:39Well, yeah, hammerlock and just driving that AC joint,
06:42that shoulder right to that top turnbuckle.
06:44It's been the strategy of The Undertaker
06:46to work on that shoulder at John Cena.
06:48And a pretty good job of it too, Undertaker is.
06:51Oh, and again a straight shot to the shoulder.
06:54Undertaker trash-talking with Cena out there.
06:58The Undertaker just looked at Brian Hepburn,
07:00the referee just, he got out of dodge.
07:02You blame him?
07:03Right out of British Columbia.
07:05John Cena trying to battle his way out of the corner,
07:07but Undertaker has been relentless in this assault here.
07:10Right there, Undertaker pulling Cena's body into his own,
07:13driving his bicep and shoulder into John Cena's shoulder.
07:17That hurts like hell, man.
07:19The Undertaker knows how to use his height to his advantage.
07:22He's twisting that arm, twisting the shoulder.
07:25Oh, shot underneath the arm, but again into that shoulder area.
07:33I'll tell you what, Cole,
07:34we're even old school here in British Columbia, Canada.
07:41Feeling it.
07:42Oh, and a shot to the knee.
07:44John Cena taking the knee out of The Undertaker.
07:47What a great move by John Cena.
07:49Not one move.
07:50Uppercuts left and right to that knee,
07:52now the back elbows right to the face.
07:54John Cena's got that relentless pitbull-like style,
07:57that American strong style.
07:59He just beats on you.
08:00But is he a one-armed fighter now in this matchup?
08:02I'm sure he is.
08:03You can see right there, Cena's feeling it,
08:05trying to get the blood back in that arm.
08:07Elbow to The Undertaker.
08:08John Cena trying to gain control,
08:10trying to build momentum in this matchup
08:12against The Veteran, against The Undertaker.
08:15And an elbow!
08:16Wow!
08:17You can see the difference between the mustard behind that elbow
08:20of Undertaker compared to Cena,
08:22because Cena's been getting the tongue whooped out of that arm.
08:25And again, Undertaker right to work on the left arm of John Cena.
08:29Hey, and I'll tell you what,
08:30that's what you do.
08:31You get a limb of a guy and you stay on it.
08:34Undertaker's got 13 years experience.
08:36This isn't his first barbecue, my friend.
08:41Undertaker just taking his time.
08:44With that big meat hook controlling the hand and arm of Cena.
08:48No hurry for The Undertaker here,
08:50methodically picking apart John Cena,
08:52making John Cena feel every blow.
08:55Look at this, look at this.
08:57Wow!
08:58The ball of John Cena's weight
08:59right on the joint of that shoulder and elbow.
09:02That'll rip it out of socket.
09:04I'll tell you what,
09:06John Cena might have to tap out right here
09:08and he's not even a submission hold on him.
09:11John Cena might not be able to finish this match.
09:13Undertaker wants to beat respect into John Cena here tonight.
09:17And he's taking his time doing it.
09:19Look at this height.
09:21Oh my God!
09:24Whoa!
09:26And you believe it.
09:28Undertaker's like that teacher at school that you used to hate
09:31who just continually drilled lesson after lesson
09:34into your head.
09:35That's what Undertaker's doing here.
09:36I hated every single one of my teachers,
09:38but maybe not more than Undertaker hates Cena.
09:42John Cena trying to get out of the ring,
09:44trying to buy some time.
09:45Undertaker not allowing it to happen.
09:48A right back to work on the shoulder.
09:51This has been a foolproof game plan here.
09:55And right here, another old school
09:58big forearm shot coming right here.
10:01Here are the Undertaker.
10:02Airball across the shoulder.
10:05Cena's been floored.
10:07It's a matter of time for the Undertaker.
10:11Cena's in trouble.
10:14Undertaker cover.
10:15Shoulders down.
10:16John Cena still got some fight in him.
10:19Gets the shoulder up.
10:20But notice, even though Cena got the shoulder up on the cover,
10:23Undertaker went right back to work on the left arm.
10:25He got that arm bar applied right there
10:27while Cena's on his back.
10:28And notice the knee in the back of the head.
10:30Probably another one.
10:31Bam, right there.
10:32Knee in the back of the head
10:33while you have a limb,
10:34while you have a submission applied.
10:36That's vicious strategy by Deadman.
10:41I can't remember the last time I've seen John Cena
10:43in this much pain and this much agony in the ring.
10:46I can't.
10:47That vengeance the last time he faced the Undertaker.
10:50Straight right hand.
10:52Right between the eyes.
10:56John Cena knocked right out of the ring.
10:59John Cena is just hurting right now.
11:01Undertaker looks like he's actually enjoying this.
11:04Undertaker is in complete control.
11:07No reason to rush.
11:08You got Cena right where you want him.
11:12Take your time with it.
11:17Using that barricade.
11:19Just throwing Cena's arm right over that bad boy.
11:22Again, as Undertaker continues the assault on John Cena,
11:25we're trying to still get word on an apparent ambush
11:28of Brock Lesnar in the back moments ago.
11:30Brock Lesnar still unconscious.
11:34People back there trying to find out exactly what happened.
11:43Oh!
11:44The Undertaker obviously will not forget vengeance
11:48here tonight.
11:52He won the match last time.
11:55Yeah, but John Cena continues to disrespect him.
11:57I get it.
11:58Undertaker breaking the count right here.
12:01Undertaker just wants to continue to punish this kid, John Cena.
12:05John Cena is gonna need the Canadian National Guard
12:08if they have one in this country.
12:10I don't really know.
12:11They have Mounties.
12:12They Mount what?
12:13They have Mounties.
12:15They were a tag team here.
12:16I remember those guys.
12:17And a Mountie!
12:18I remember them.
12:19And Undertaker backing John Cena into the corner.
12:21John Cena.
12:22John Cena.
12:23Look at this.
12:24Up on the shoulders of The Undertaker.
12:26And what does Big Evil have in mind here?
12:29Big Evil is picking his spot.
12:32And John Cena is sitting on that top turnbuckle.
12:36And he is in trouble.
12:37Who the hell knows what that man's got in mind.
12:39What an uppercut by The Undertaker.
12:42Undertaker going up to the second rope.
12:44Undertaker don't do this much.
12:46John Cena is in trouble.
12:48That's a super punch, ladies and gentlemen.
12:50Super punch.
12:51Top rope.
12:52Undertaker going to the top rope.
12:54That's a seven foot man up there.
12:58John Cena.
12:59A super punch delivered and...
13:01Wait a minute.
13:05I think Undertaker may have tweaked, may have re-injured those...
13:10The rib area.
13:11Oh yeah, he did.
13:12That Cena busted up in vengeance.
13:14That move backfired on Undertaker.
13:16That's superplex.
13:17Undertaker's feeling his ribs.
13:20Momentum is switching in this match.
13:24In a matter of seconds, the momentum in this matchup has changed drastically.
13:29John Cena is taking it to The Undertaker.
13:31Undertaker was in total control.
13:33Went for a superplex on the top rope and re-injured that midsection.
13:38Those ribs that John Cena busted up in vengeance.
13:41And boy is Cena targeting those ribs.
13:45All during the break, called John Cena a relentless attack on the midsection of Big Evil.
13:52And Taz, we're getting an update now from the locker room area.
13:56Apparently, the trainers, the EMTs, the doctors have been able to bring Brock Lesnar around.
14:03He's regained consciousness.
14:05Oh, wow!
14:06But from what we understand, Brock Lesnar is extremely angry.
14:09I mean, you have to believe Brock Lesnar's got some sort of concussion, don't you?
14:13I probably can only assume that, Cole.
14:15Who the hell knows?
14:17Brock Lesnar's got to be hurting.
14:18And I'm not surprised that he's not.
14:20I'm not shocked that he's P.O.
14:22That's for sure.
14:24John Cena.
14:25Let's get back to this.
14:26He's in a zone here, isn't he?
14:27The ribs of The Undertaker.
14:28Here's the cover.
14:29Shoulders down.
14:30And Undertaker, perhaps just on instinct, gets the shoulder up.
14:34But this is the thing about John Cena, Taz.
14:36When he realizes that he has his opponent wounded, he wastes very little time, very little motion
14:42trying to put him away.
14:44John Cena just opening up the body of The Undertaker, spreading those long arms out
14:49and punching The Deadman right straight in those ribs.
14:55Oh, and a blow to the back of the head of The Undertaker.
14:58This has been a battle, man.
15:00This match has been a battle.
15:02Undertaker controlled this entire matchup.
15:05Uh-oh.
15:06John Cena back into the steel post.
15:09Undertaker's got some room left.
15:12Yeah, I don't know about that, but Undertaker ramped Cena's body into that pole, no doubt.
15:17But then just dropped from pain in those ribs and exhaustion.
15:21When you can't breathe and your ribs are hurting, you can't breathe.
15:24And that just freaks your brain out, man.
15:27You don't realize where you're at.
15:30It's hard to function in there.
15:32I was so amazed that The Undertaker didn't show any trace of an injury throughout this whole matchup
15:37until he delivered a superplex from the top rope.
15:40And when he hit the mat, he turned around in pain.
15:43How many times do you want to say that?
15:44Here, shoulders down, cover, and John Cena just gets the shoulder up.
15:49So he hit the superplex and he hurt his ribs, right?
15:51Right.
15:52Just want to make sure.
15:54Resetting for viewers who may just be joining us.
15:56I hear you, I hear you.
15:57Right now, Undertaker's on top and sending in John Cena.
16:00Uh-oh, John Cena caught The Undertaker.
16:02Good facelock.
16:03Good facelock has an arm trap, too, and Cena's beating on the back.
16:06Your ribcage goes just about around your body, so it's got to be affecting those ribs and those knees, too.
16:11And John Cena with those high knees, off the ropes now.
16:15Wow!
16:16Here we go, hook of the leg, off the throwback.
16:18Undertaker just kicked out before the count of three.
16:22I don't know if Cena got all of that throwback.
16:24I don't know if Undertaker was positioned where Cena needed to nail that move the way John usually does.
16:30Undertaker is hurting big time.
16:34John Cena went for a right hand.
16:36Undertaker blocked it.
16:37But every time Undertaker throws a right, you got to believe it's written in the inside zone.
16:43Both men going punch for punch.
16:45It has been a courageous effort through the second half of this match for The Undertaker.
16:49Here comes Big E below.
16:50Building momentum.
16:51John Cena shot to the midsection again.
16:54Here's the reversal.
16:55Cena off the ropes.
16:56And walked into the boot of The Undertaker.
16:59And Undertaker drops the elbow.
17:01Wasting no time.
17:02Cover.
17:03Shoulders down.
17:04And he got it.
17:05Cena just gets the shoulder up.
17:07Just like vengeance, this matchup has been a battle from start to almost finish.
17:15John Cena could get a win in this match.
17:17If he could survive, if he survived vengeance with Undertaker.
17:20If Cena could get a win, that'd be a big time feather in Cena's throwback cap, as he would say.
17:27Cena whipped into the ropes.
17:29Undertaker lifts Cena up to his shoulder.
17:32Snake eyes.
17:34And look at Undertaker.
17:36Missed with the boot.
17:38And a spine buster.
17:39Cover.
17:40Undertaker stacked up here.
17:42Just got the shoulder up.
17:44That was a close one.
17:46You have to ask, is John Cena perhaps the frustration beginning to build as the right hands just slugging away at The Undertaker?
17:55John Cena right now was in front.
17:57Undertaker was into God now.
17:58Undertaker swishing with those body scissors.
18:00And there goes the big soup bones of the dead man.
18:02But how much does The Undertaker have behind those soup bones?
18:05Ain't a lot of pepper behind those punches, that's for sure.
18:07Because Undertaker's middle of his body is torn up.
18:10Undertaker back to his feet.
18:12John Cena using the ropes to get back to his feet.
18:16It's tough to get rid of a rib injury, Cole.
18:17It takes a long time to heal up from rib injury.
18:20Oh my God.
18:21What a clothesline.
18:22That's like walking into a brick wall.
18:24Holy telephone pole, that hurt.
18:27And Undertaker hoping desperately here to end this thing.
18:32Undertaker just trying to get his wind.
18:35And Undertaker going for the last ride.
18:37But can he get Cena up?
18:38But can he do it?
18:39Exactly good point.
18:42Undertaker.
18:43Getting that last breath.
18:44He's got him.
18:45He's got him, Cole.
18:46Can he get John Cena up?
18:47He did it.
18:48Didn't have enough.
18:49Undertaker didn't have enough.
18:51John Cena.
18:53Shot back into the referee.
18:55Brian Hefner's knocked down.
18:58Undertaker.
19:00Dangerous match for the ref.
19:01That's a throw.
19:02Someone's going for a big ride.
19:04The Chokeslam.
19:06Undertaker.
19:07Gonna finish off John Cena.
19:09But the ref has been knocked down.
19:10Wait a minute.
19:12It's the damn A-Train.
19:14What the hell?
19:15What is he doing out here?
19:17Flashbacks with vengeance.
19:18With Stephanie versus Stable.
19:20The 350 pounder beating the hell out of the Undertaker.
19:25And a backbreaker.
19:26Knocks A-Train for a loop.
19:28Here comes the dead man in his yawn.
19:30And here comes the A-Train with a pump kick.
19:35Man, the A-Train got all of that kick.
19:39And a backbreaker.
19:40Right on those ribs.
19:41Can't have a 350 pound train.
19:44Cena's on top.
19:45John Cena's gonna get the win.
19:48If Hefner can wake up.
19:50Leg is hooked.
19:51Referee Brian Hefner is in tune.
19:53There's one.
19:54Come on, Tanker.
19:55Kick out.
19:56No way.
19:57And Undertaker got the shoulder up.
19:59A-Train can't believe it.
20:04Big time.
20:05Big time intestinal fortitude.
20:07But he's bleeding again.
20:08Undertaker's bleeding again.
20:09Remember the internal injuries.
20:10Taz from vengeance.
20:12You can see the eyes of the Undertaker.
20:13Doesn't look too...
20:14Oh boy.
20:16He's spitting up a lot of blood, man.
20:18Perhaps that backbreaker by A-Train was the last straw.
20:24Who knows what kind of injuries the Undertaker's suffering again here.
20:28Undertaker is in a world of hurt.
20:29But Undertaker trying to maybe go for the tombstone?
20:32No.
20:33John Cena, look out.
20:35F-U.
20:36Undertaker up on John Cena's shoulders.
20:38The F-U's delivered.
20:39Hooks the leg.
20:42It's over.
20:43John Cena has defeated the Undertaker.
20:46John Cena the Undertaker.
20:48What the hell is wrong with the A-Train?
20:50John Cena.
20:52John Cena did it.
20:53And got a humongous win on the Big E.