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00:00Uh, industry here. I mean, this guy is something special.
00:03And tonight, Mick Foley's gonna try to put an end to Randy Orton.
00:05That's sad.
00:06Randy Orton is a very arrogant and conceited young man.
00:09See? Listen to you.
00:10But very talented.
00:11It is slobber-knocker time for young Master Orton.
00:15Oh.
00:17Reality check, Mick.
00:20I'm the Intercontinental Champion.
00:23I'm only 23 years old.
00:27Mick, I haven't even reached my prime yet.
00:32And look at you.
00:33You're fat, disgusting.
00:38You're all broken down.
00:39You're a glory hound.
00:42And you're blinded, Mick, by your own ego
00:46as to the fact that your time is over.
00:53If I have to beat it into your skull, Mick Foley,
00:57then the year 2000, sure, you might have been the hardcore legend.
01:02But right now, you're just Randy Orton's bitch.
01:10Randy Orton, you want to beat me so bad,
01:12then we do it on my terms.
01:14One-on-one.
01:15Evolution ban from ringside.
01:17Intercontinental title up for grabs.
01:19No rules.
01:20No holds barred.
01:21Anything goes.
01:22Will you become the hardcore legend in Backlash,
01:25or will you always be a sniveling, no guts, little wimp?
01:30Yes or no, Randy?
01:31What's it going to be?
01:35Yes.
01:44I've always found the world of hardcore
01:47really had nothing to do with chairs.
01:50It had nothing to really do with tables,
01:53garbage cans, cookie sheets.
01:55The word hardcore signified that I loved the fans
01:59enough to put my body through unimaginable pain.
02:06Before I had the chance to take part in some barbaric matches,
02:10deep down in my heart, I rested with the comfort
02:13that I was doing it for love.
02:17And I swore I'd never go back.
02:19But in trying to recapture the passion that I thought I lacked
02:22at WrestleMania, I went back and I looked at the tapes.
02:29But it wasn't the barbed wire.
02:31It wasn't the tacks that caught my eye.
02:34It was my eyes.
02:38And it was there that said, deep down,
02:41maybe there was a little part of me
02:43that didn't mind inflicting that type of damage.
02:47Deep down, I heard the screams, the suffering, the agony.
02:50Maybe deep down, I even loved it.
02:59Randy Orton, these were honorable men.
03:01They never spit in my face.
03:04They never took cheap shots, triple team efforts
03:07to send me to the hospital.
03:09But the fact is, when I had the chance,
03:12I wrapped the arm in barbed wire and I tore them apart.
03:17So if I were you, I'd be asking myself a simple question,
03:21and that question would be,
03:23then what the hell is this man going to do to me at Backlash,
03:26knowing full well he hates my guts?
03:29The answer, Randy Orton, is simple.
03:31I'm gonna tear you apart.
03:33I'm gonna take Barbie.
03:35And I'm gonna...
03:37I'm gonna teach you what it means to be hardcore.
03:43I'm gonna tear...
03:45I'm gonna go hard.
03:47And I'm going to...
03:50love it.
04:05There he is.
04:07There's the man.
04:09Take a good look at his face.
04:12You may never see it in this condition again.
04:15It makes you happy, doesn't it?
04:17It does not.
04:18Let's look at that. Look at that sight.
04:20The following is a no-holds-barred,
04:23all-town-anywhere match,
04:25and it is for the Intercontinental Championship.
04:29Introducing first, from St. Louis, Missouri,
04:32weighing in at 255 pounds,
04:34he is the Intercontinental Champion,
04:37Randy Orton!
04:40Randy Orton is making his Backlash debut
04:43in what I am sure will be a night
04:45that Randy Orton will never forget
04:47as long as he is in this business,
04:50perhaps as long as this young man lives,
04:53because I think that Randy Orton
04:55may be in store for a press-rock-quality beating
04:59here tonight at Backlash.
05:01He is a handsome young man, JR.
05:04He is model material.
05:06It would certainly be a shame
05:07to have some face like that just sticking.
05:10Randy Orton, the Intercontinental Champion,
05:13with gold on the line.
05:15You got to wonder at what fiscal price
05:17Orton is willing to pay
05:19to retain his championship here tonight.
05:27You got to remember
05:28what happened at WrestleMania, JR.
05:30Uh-oh.
05:34Listen to this.
05:35The sound of a car wreck.
05:37And introducing the challenger
05:40from Long Island, New York,
05:42Mick Foley!
05:44And Mick Foley is in Cactus Jack attire.
05:48That's scary.
05:50He is carrying Barbie.
05:52I never thought Cactus Jack would play with Barbie,
05:55but Barbie is a baseball bat
05:58that's got barbed wire around it.
06:01Oh, and Orton is...
06:04Orton's barbed wire unraveled.
06:06And Orton's barbed wire came unraveled.
06:08And here we go.
06:09We just started already?
06:10This is not right.
06:12Oh, yeah.
06:13I'm a captain.
06:14You want to call him Mick Foley
06:16or Cactus Jack?
06:17Look out!
06:18We may be calling him
06:19the next Intercontinental Champion.
06:21My God.
06:22He's getting creepy sick.
06:23He's demented.
06:25Baseball bat inclined by barbed wire.
06:27Now down goes the cameraman.
06:29Oh, don't even look at him.
06:30Oh, gosh, a front toehold by Orton.
06:32Oh, thank goodness.
06:33And Foley's face bounces right off the steel steps.
06:36Oh!
06:37Oh, now who's got Barbie?
06:39I can see Orton playing with Barbie,
06:41but...
06:42And now Foley and Orton
06:44fighting over this barbed wire here.
06:46Watch your hands.
06:47Be careful with your hands.
06:49The test of will is right.
06:51Oh!
06:52Almost in the face of Randy Orton,
06:54that barbed wire.
06:55Oh, Lord.
06:56Sting it.
06:57Sting it in that busted grill of Foley's.
07:01Look at these fans go.
07:03Oh, no.
07:04Our first-ever hardcore champion,
07:06Mick Foley, with a right hand on the...
07:08Oh!
07:09Oh!
07:10Oh, baby!
07:11That'll kill some brain cells, I'll tell you.
07:13But there will be left up there to begin with.
07:15Foley couldn't get his hands up to protect himself.
07:18Taking two shots to the head.
07:20Got a third one, and Foley is in trouble.
07:22Big-time trouble.
07:23And remember, there's no disqualifications.
07:25There are no count-outs.
07:27Balls count anywhere.
07:29One more time.
07:30Oh!
07:31Got a put-up out of desperation
07:34right in the face of the Intercontinental Champion.
07:36Oh, no.
07:37And now he's out.
07:38Oh!
07:39Randy Orton likes the feel of a trash can
07:41wrapped around his skull.
07:45This is gonna be ugly.
07:46This is gonna be like a horror movie.
07:48It's gonna be worse than Freddy vs. Jason.
07:51Look at that, Randy.
07:53This cactus-jack manifestation that Foley can conjure up
07:56is a sick and sadistic individual
07:59with no conscience.
08:01He knows that.
08:02You talk about sick and sadistic,
08:04that's what that barbed-wire-covered bat is.
08:06That put a kick right to the face.
08:09Those leopard-skin boots.
08:11This vintage cactus-jack now
08:13took him away at the Intercontinental Championship.
08:15Jack-Jack!
08:17Foley, over today, weighting at 272,
08:20his lowest weight since 1989.
08:23Oh, downstairs again.
08:25Foley's about to get a running knee lift.
08:28He's wrestling to that million-dollar knee lift.
08:31Foley almost beheading the champion.
08:33And a leap frog!
08:35Right on the face, the cover!
08:37The champion in trouble!
08:38Oh, Foley!
08:39Foley got him near a fall.
08:41You got nothing better to do than before the match
08:43to go around and ask Big Foley how much he weighs?
08:45Why don't you ask him what he's planning on doing
08:47to poor Randy Orton in this match?
08:49Jack-Jack!
08:51As a matter of fact, I did.
08:54And we're seeing it.
08:55Jack-Jack!
08:56He wants to torture Randy.
08:57He wants to disfigure Randy.
08:59We're seeing exactly what we thought
09:01we were going to see coming in.
09:03And it is so dang, as they say,
09:06you haven't seen nothing yet.
09:12Here's a disfigured face for you.
09:14It's disfigured from being in matches like this.
09:18This is not what Randy Orton needs this early in his career.
09:22Orton really, I'm thinking, wanted to get this over early.
09:25As early as possible to avoid the contact.
09:31Captain Jack!
09:32Get down from there, you broken-down old dog!
09:34Orton on the floor.
09:36Orton trying to hurry away,
09:38and you can't blame him for that.
09:41Come on, Randy.
09:42You've got to put this dog to sleep.
09:44I couldn't hear the audacity of Orton calling
09:46Foley a toothless old dog earlier tonight.
09:50Look at the smile on his face.
09:52He's lost so many teeth, it looks like a tongue's in jail.
09:54Oh, here we go!
09:57Oh, my God.
09:58Whoa!
09:59Mick Foley just got suplexed.
10:02That was head ricocheting off this steel rampway.
10:05Cover.
10:06Ball's counted anywhere.
10:07Get your count on the hairball.
10:11Man, referees here don't want to count the pinfall.
10:13That's it.
10:14Ball's counted anywhere.
10:15Can't be disqualified.
10:17It's not a man who can get counted out.
10:19The backslide by the champion,
10:21Kenny Redickerman,
10:22and Foley able to roll off and kick out at two.
10:26Come on, Randy.
10:27Save your face.
10:28I've got to save face literally.
10:35Yeah, can you feel it, JR?
10:37You can feel it.
10:38Cover now.
10:39Cover here.
10:40Two.
10:41Sidney thought of that man's call.
10:43This is a win.
10:45Wow.
10:46It vibrates right through our bodies,
10:48through the body of everybody in this arena here in Edmonton.
10:52Got worn by Randy Orton.
10:56Foley, Cactus Jack,
10:57we're going to file him as he may be concussed here.
11:00It wouldn't be the first time.
11:01And again, the challenger,
11:04his head bouncing off the steps.
11:06JR, when are you going to get off Randy Orton's bandwagon?
11:09You've got to hand it to this kid.
11:10He is a true legend killer.
11:12Just look back at all the legends he's done in.
11:16Orton's got Barbie.
11:18Orton's got that baseball.
11:22Foley's trying to keep that barbed wire out of his face.
11:25Foley's sacrificing his hands in favor of his face.
11:31Orton trying to pull that barbed wire right across the face
11:34in the eyes of Cactus Jack.
11:37Pull, Randy, pull.
11:41No disqualification.
11:42Low blow is legal.
11:43Oh, yeah, you have to throw that in there as quick as possible.
11:45Low blow.
11:46Everything that Cactus Jack wants to do in this match is legal.
11:49And everything Orton wants to do is legal, right?
11:51All Orton wants to do is just win.
11:53Oh, no.
11:54Sacco.
11:55Not that stinking, nasty, filthy, rotten, disgusting Sacco.
12:00You know where that Sacco's been?
12:01I just saw it.
12:03And the immeasurable claw may be forthcoming if that is...
12:07Oh, no.
12:09Wait a minute.
12:10Cactus is a little psychotic here.
12:12No, he's trying to make a decision.
12:14Sacco or Barbie.
12:16His two favorite playthings.
12:20Is he going to let the crowd make the decision?
12:23They don't know what they want for lunch.
12:25I think it's going to be Barbie King.
12:27Oh, no.
12:28Yeah, whatever will do the most damage.
12:30Orton finally gets back up.
12:32No, Randy.
12:33Oh, no.
12:34The barbed wire bat right in the face of the Intercontinental Champion.
12:39Right into that handsome.
12:41That handsome GQ cover face.
12:45Oh, no.
12:46Oh, no.
12:47This is awful.
12:48He's been disfigured.
12:49The current is flowing on the face of the Intercontinental Champion again.
12:55Cactus Jack driving that baseball bat.
12:57They are.
12:58Wrapped the barbed wire up again in the skull and face of this kid.
13:01This is a travesty.
13:02There goes his modeling career.
13:04He could have been on the cover of every magazine.
13:06Oh, my God.
13:08He could be on the cover of Disfigurement Weekly.
13:11Cactus Jack has his way.
13:13Yeah, look at the blood flowing on the Intercontinental Champion.
13:16Oh, this is horrible.
13:17Randy Orton going to wind up, God forbid, looking like Mick Foley.
13:24Come on, Randy.
13:26Orton feet back on the post.
13:27Straight right hand.
13:29Can the referee do something about this?
13:32The referee is allowing the graffiti.
13:36Oh, bang, bang.
13:38Bang, bang, indeed.
13:43Cactus Jack ramming his knees right in the face of the bloody Intercontinental Champion.
13:50No, wait a minute.
13:52That's enough.
13:55Take that bat.
13:56That barbed wire covered bat.
13:57You said he was sadistic, JR, but I didn't know Cactus Jack was this bad.
14:01Sick and sadistic with no conscience.
14:06Oh.
14:07Again.
14:10Come on, referee.
14:11What's torture?
14:13What pain and torture.
14:16Ripping the flesh out of his face.
14:17It happens between Paul and Randy Orton.
14:20And Orton with a look of pure fear right here.
14:23Oh, God.
14:27Randy wouldn't see himself in the mirror right now.
14:29He'd go into shock.
14:35The end is near.
14:36The end has got to be near for the Intercontinental Champion.
14:39That's enough with that bat.
14:43No, no.
14:44Oh, my God.
14:45No, no, no.
14:47Oh, no.
14:51I don't think we can describe what we just saw.
14:55He's not only sick, he's perverted.
14:59He's trying to disfigure Randy Orton downstairs.
15:03This is terrible.
15:05Man, that-
15:08This crowd is cheering for him.
15:10Yeah, listen to this sick, sadistic crowd.
15:13They're actually cheering something like that.
15:17Now, what's the thing?
15:18What's going through that-
15:20I thought I'd say Cactus Jack-
15:21That warped mind.
15:22Cactus Jack do a lot of things, but-
15:24Oh, look, that poor little Randy's barbed wire.
15:26Now what?
15:27Now what?
15:32Is that-
15:33That's a gasoline can.
15:35Wait a minute.
15:36That is gasoline can.
15:37I'll tell you what.
15:38I-I-I-I-
15:39All right, referee, you got to step in now.
15:43There's none of-
15:44This is-
15:46Wait a minute.
15:47He's got gasoline.
15:48He's got a lighter, too.
15:49This is a little too far, I think.
15:53Somebody should stop this.
15:54Somebody should stop this.
15:56And that's a knock.
15:57No holds barred, Miami.
15:58Foley!
16:00Foley!
16:04Cactus Jack, whatever the hell you call yourself,
16:07you go ahead, you like that.
16:11And not only will you lose this match,
16:13but the fire marshal will shut this show down.
16:17Every one of these 15,000 people will go home,
16:21and millions of people around the world
16:23will not see the end of Backlash.
16:25So what you going to do?
16:27He's right.
16:32No, you can't.
16:33Mick, don't do it.
16:34You've stopped the show.
16:35Listen to reason here.
16:36Listen to reason, Mick.
16:40Thank goodness.
16:42Thank goodness.
16:43But the smell of that gasoline
16:45is reeking throughout this arena.
16:51I can't believe that finally Cactus Jack,
16:54Mick Foley, whatever, did the right thing for once.
16:56Oh!
16:57Oh, no.
17:01This has got to be over.
17:03And wait, Cactus Jack not even going for the cover.
17:06This is obvious here what's on the mind
17:09of this incarnation of Mick Foley.
17:12Yeah, look, he doesn't want to win the match, JR.
17:14He's not going for any cover.
17:15Oh, my God.
17:16All he wants to do is just-
17:18What in the hell is that?
17:20He may even disfigure and even dismember Randy Orton.
17:24Oh, my, what is that?
17:28It's a heck of a lot of barbed wire, I'll tell you.
17:31Can you imagine if Randy Orton's beautiful body
17:33ever hit that?
17:36Yeah.
17:40Randy, get out of there.
17:42Randy's not even seeing that contraption.
17:45Randy, you've got to save your career, save your body.
17:48Just go ahead and give up the title.
17:49You've got to get-
17:50Oh!
17:51Orton almost blinded by his own blood here.
17:54And hard right hands by Cactus Jack.
17:56No, no, no, no!
17:57And barbed wire lying in the ring.
17:59Oh!
18:00Oh!
18:02What about that?
18:03Foley got blinded.
18:04Oh!
18:05Oh, my God!
18:06Body slam on a bed of barbed wire!
18:10Cactus Jack body slammed on a bed of barbed wire!
18:14Oh, my God!
18:19And finally put a smile back on the face of Randy Orton.
18:22And Orton quickly going for the cover.
18:24The saw them!
18:25And Cactus Jack kicks out.
18:28It's going to take more, Randy.
18:29It's going to take more.
18:30I hope Randy doesn't get a glimpse of his own bloody mangled face.
18:34Orton said he was going to show us a side of himself
18:36that we've never seen before.
18:38That's starting to manifest himself here.
18:41Be careful with that thing.
18:46Now what's he going to do?
18:48A load of barbed wire.
18:49Oh, no.
18:50What?
18:51Trying to get it out of the ring.
18:52I don't think so.
18:53At least he's sane.
18:54I don't think Orton's trying to get it out of the ring.
18:56He's positioning that barbed wire in the corner.
18:59Well, who brought it in the ring?
19:02Uh-oh.
19:03Cactus Jack, his arms are bleeding.
19:05His back is bleeding.
19:06His neck is bleeding.
19:09Cactus Jack sitting down in that thing,
19:11trying to hold himself in the corner.
19:14Throw him.
19:16Oh, no!
19:18No!
19:20Orton reverses Cactus.
19:22The Cactus's flesh is hanging from the barbed wire.
19:26Man, he went in there face first.
19:30And this is not for the weak at heart, I'll tell you that.
19:34This is face and the arm.
19:40Look at you now, Cactus Jack.
19:42This was your sick idea.
19:44You reap what you sow.
19:46No holds barred.
19:48Both men knew the consequences coming in,
19:51but I never in my wildest dreams
19:53believed it would get this extreme.
19:56Orton! Orton! Orton!
19:59Orton! Orton! Orton!
20:02Orton brought this out to the ring.
20:04What is that?
20:06Maybe something.
20:07Who knows at this stage of the game?
20:14What is it?
20:16What is it?
20:22Oh, my God.
20:24I mean, look.
20:25There's thumbtacks.
20:26Thumbtacks!
20:27There's thousands of thumbtacks.
20:30Oh, my God.
20:31Thousands of thumbtacks have just been torn in the ring.
20:35Well, first the barbed wire,
20:37and now those damn thumbtacks.
20:40What do you mean, those damn thumbtacks?
20:42This is...
20:44This is what...
20:45Well, Cactus Jack has bragged about
20:47being thrown into thumbtacks before.
20:49What if he's ever been RKO'd into them?
20:54Here it comes!
20:56Oh, my...
20:57Oh, my God!
20:59Oh, my God!
21:01Oh, my God!
21:03The thumbtacks in the back of the champion!
21:06He looks like a human pinpuncher!
21:08Oh, my God!
21:10Randy!
21:11How much pain can this kid be in right now?
21:15Look at his arm! Look at his back!
21:18Oh, no!
21:19Oh, my God!
21:20The cover!
21:21We got a new champion!
21:25How did he kick out of that?
21:28That's a great question.
21:29I'll tell you what, Randy Orton,
21:31I didn't think he'd kick out.
21:32I didn't think he was tough enough to kick out, but he is.
21:36We're gonna need a surgeon.
21:37We're gonna...
21:38Randy Orton, I feel so sorry for him.
21:41Look at his face.
21:42Look at his back.
21:43God, those thumbtacks.
21:44They're all in a ring.
21:45They're in this kid's...
21:46His arms, his back.
21:47Look at this.
21:49Get him out!
21:50Somebody help him!
21:51And his fingers!
21:52Somebody help!
21:54Oh, my God!
21:57Get away!
21:58Look out, Randy!
22:00This is enough!
22:01This is just brutal, JR!
22:04Well, I can't disagree with that.
22:06Look at this.
22:09Stop!
22:10Thank God.
22:11I hope it's over.
22:12Thank goodness.
22:14Let's try to get a camera back there.
22:18I think we've seen enough.
22:19I just witnessed the passion of Randy Orton.
22:22It was awful.
22:24Wait a minute.
22:25Oh, no! They're bringing him back!
22:26It's not over!
22:28It's not over!
22:29He is my folly!
22:31Look at him!
22:33Oh, my God!
22:34Let him go!
22:39Mick Foley catches Jack!
22:42Just sent Randy Orton for a death ride!
22:46Oh, no!
22:48Oh, it's over.
22:50Oh, sick and twisted.
22:53This one is getting way, way out of hand.
22:57Way out of hand.
23:00My God, the referee is calling to stop this thing.
23:03The EMT is coming out.
23:05The brainer is coming out.
23:06He's been pierced and punctured.
23:10Good God almighty.
23:11Is he alive?
23:12Look at this!
23:13Oh, my God!
23:16He's a real man!
23:17And with those thumbtacks!
23:19That's enough.
23:20That's enough.
23:22Orton learned to be a legend killer.
23:27Look how sadistic this man is.
23:29This man does not belong in our profession, James.
23:32This man does not belong in our profession, JR.
23:35He does not belong in our business.
23:37He is sick, twisted, warped.
23:41There's not words to describe him.
23:43Look at poor Randy Orton.
23:45I'm not going to condone all the actions we've seen by Captain Jack.
23:49But you got to admit, to a certain degree, he was provoked.
23:53Oh, yeah, provoked my ass.
23:54Look at him.
23:55He is proud of what he's done.
23:57Oh, look at him.
23:58Look!
23:59Look at him!
24:00He's sick!
24:01He's striking the referee, JR!
24:03I don't condone that at all, either.
24:06Oh, no!
24:07Oh, my God!
24:08For the love of God, the elbow off the stage!
24:11Deep into the heart of the Intercontinental Champion!
24:15We are witnessing a human demolition derby!
24:23I can't believe it!
24:24Look at this again!
24:25Look at this idiot!
24:26Idiot!
24:29He'll sacrifice himself to put an end to poor Randy Orton.
24:34Falls count anywhere.
24:35It could end right here.
24:37What do you mean, fall?
24:38This thing's got to be, this is over.
24:40Just give up, Randy.
24:41Don't go any further.
24:43Orton's still got a back full of thumbtacks.
24:45The cover!
24:46The cover!
24:47And three!
24:48No!
24:49My God, Orton got a shoulder rub, and I don't know how he did it.
24:52What?
24:53Randy!
24:55He's like, this is superhuman, JR.
24:57He's smoking the blood.
25:00You've got it up, Randy.
25:03The Cactus Jacks say it was three, but indeed it was not three.
25:09The Cactus Jack has got to be wondering now, what is it going to take?
25:15What more could you possibly dream up in that twisted Orton mind of yours?
25:19After throwing Orton off the stage, just prior to that, thumbtacks.
25:23I shouldn't say that, Ira.
25:24I know this idiot's got something else on his mind.
25:28Look at those thumbtacks still stuck in the back of Randy Orton.
25:32His arms, in fact, his hands.
25:34I think he made a very accurate assessment.
25:36Cactus Jack has got to be thinking, what do I have to do to beat Randy Orton here tonight?
25:42He's still got a back full of thumbtacks.
25:44I feel so sorry for Randy.
25:46When the light hits him just right, I swear I think I see a halo over his head.
25:51His beautiful body has been disfigured and his face maimed.
25:59All because of Foley or Cactus Jack or whatever you want to call that warped individual.
26:05Intercontinental Champion Orton can barely-
26:06No, no, not again, please.
26:08Oh, come on, don't do it.
26:10Pin him outside, Cactus.
26:11Referee, you've got to somehow step in here.
26:16The threat of gasoline, the use of barbed wire.
26:19Now, thumbtacks, what in God's name can be next?
26:23He wants to put him in the thumbtacks again.
26:26A double RDDT.
26:28A double RDDT on the champion.
26:30The cover.
26:37Foley is absolutely, without a doubt, frustrated.
26:40Frustrated, he's got to be in shock if he can be in shock.
26:43JR, can you believe the endurance of this Randy Orton?
26:47No, I can't.
26:48Can you believe what he's withstood, what he's endured?
26:51We're seeing, as he said, a different side of Randy Orton here tonight.
26:56Oh, look at that sick Mick Foley.
26:57There's no quit in him either.
27:01Foley's breathing, he's fighting.
27:04We all know that.
27:08Somebody get those thumbtacks.
27:09Oh, what was that?
27:12Was that Barbie?
27:13Yes, Barbie.
27:15Barbie came home.
27:16Foley got hit with that barbed wire bat.
27:20I hope it ripped his nose off.
27:22Oh, wait, it may have ripped his eye out.
27:24Foley's bleeding above the eye.
27:26And that one went downstairs.
27:29Across the back.
27:30Waiting in those kidneys with that barbed wire bat.
27:34Those barbs sinking deep into the flesh.
27:37Cactus putting on that, putting on the sock.
27:40Does nothing hurt this Cactus yet?
27:43Amanda McCall.
27:45Amanda McCall.
27:46The Intercontinental Champion.
27:48Oh, no.
27:50That nasty, stinking claw.
27:52That sock.
27:54And the champion is fading away now.
27:56Maybe this is what it's going to finally take.
27:59Keep fighting, Randy.
28:00You've fought so valiantly up to this point.
28:02Please keep fighting.
28:05Don't give up.
28:06Oh, look at that fighter.
28:07What a heart of a champion.
28:10There's an uppercut for you.
28:11An uppercut is absolutely legal.
28:13Yes, you said it was legal, and you're right for a change.
28:16Come on, Randy.
28:18What a physically grueling, intense match.
28:21We are witnessing live here at Backstage.
28:24And Amanda McCall again.
28:28Don't give up, Randy.
28:29Cactus with Amanda McCall.
28:32KO out of nowhere.
28:34That's it. That's got to be it.
28:37Somehow, someway, a bloody Intercontinental Champion, Orton.
28:41It's the RKO.
28:42And it's over.
28:44Yes!
28:45Cactus kicks out.
28:47The referee just canned one of those thumbtacks into his hand.
28:50I can't believe that Cactus kicked out of the RKO.
28:54I can't believe this entire match.
28:56This is not even a match.
28:57It's a war.
28:59I don't know what you would call this.
29:01It's a slaughter.
29:05Oh!
29:07RKO on the mat.
29:09He did it!
29:10RKO on the baseball bat.
29:12That did it. It's over.
29:14You dance with who brung you.
29:16Here is your winner, Randy Orton.
29:20The Legend Killer Liz.
29:24Oh, this was unbelievable.
29:27Well, we said before that we started,
29:29it would be a slogan offer.
29:31And this is the damnedest slogan offer I've ever seen.
29:35A bloody Intercontinental Champion
29:37took everything that Cactus jacked.
29:40Look at this now.
29:42With two RKO's,
29:44for a second,
29:46on that barbed wire bat.
29:48That's right.
29:50There's Flair and Batista down there.
29:52I don't think this is so much a congratulations.
29:54This is just for,
29:56to pick up the pieces, so to speak.
29:59Oh, I've driven by some car wrecks.
30:03Less damage than the others.
30:05Oh, my goodness.
30:07Oh, my God. Look at Foley.
30:09He brought Barbie to the dance.
30:11And she was his downfall.
30:14Randy Orton is still the Intercontinental Champion.
30:18He will never forget this day.
30:20No doubt about that.
30:22When you ask Randy Orton what he did
30:24on Sunday, April 18, 2004,
30:26he's going to tell you,
30:28I beat Cactus Jack.
30:30And Cactus Jack won the match.
30:32Well, we've got to get some EMT.
30:34Is there a plastic surgeon in the house?
30:37Well, Randy Orton had a box with him.
30:39And in that box, he brought out thumbtacks.
30:42Thousands of them.
30:44And he tore many of them.
30:46Randy went for that RKO,
30:48and instead,
30:50he fell back first,
30:52arm, leg, back,
30:54right into those thumbtacks.
30:59And then,
31:01after Cactus Jack had come
31:03to the table on the stage,
31:04it was the elbows of the heart of the champion.
31:06And then, this is how it ended.
31:09Holy space.
31:11Cactus Jack's face.
31:13RKO.
31:15With a baseball bat.
31:17With a barbed wire arm.
31:19What a war.
31:21Randy, go and get emergency treatment.
31:23Get your face sewn up.
31:25It's too valuable.
31:27These two men,
31:29no doubt, will ever be the same.
31:31We saw a different side
31:32of Randy Orton.
31:34A side, perhaps,
31:36of Thanks to Pound.
31:38Wow.