WWE Bad Blood 2004 - Triple H vs Shawn Michaels (Hell In A Cell Match)
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00:00:00Inside ladies and gentlemen, congratulations to Chris Benoit, what a hell of a victory.
00:00:04Well ladies and gentlemen, momentarily two men will leave their locker rooms to make their way
00:00:08into the hell in the cell tonight. The question is who will be able to return to that locker room
00:00:15later tonight King? Well I can tell you one thing, neither one of these men will ever be the same.
00:00:19You see that demonic cell being lowered down now. We're just moments away from this JR.
00:00:24Two men that at one time are best friends. They've gone from being in DX to ending up in hell.
00:00:34HBK, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, one of the greatest rivalries in the history of this industry.
00:00:42The world heavyweight champion Chris Benoit with the title on the line against Shawn Michaels.
00:00:48There it is! Sweet tin music and this one should be over.
00:01:01The following is a 20-man battle royal and it is to determine the number one contender at Bad Blood.
00:01:08We're down to two. King got the low blow. He's hurt. Triple H is gonna win this damn thing after all.
00:01:17A suspense for Michaels as he holds Triple H at max for the world's heavyweight title.
00:01:25That is it! That is enough at Bad Blood.
00:01:30It will be Triple H versus Shawn Michaels. Hell in a cell!
00:01:37Two tons of unforgiving steel. The most demonic structure in the history of the WWE.
00:01:51Shawn Michaels enters my world and I have never lost a hell in a cell match
00:01:59because unlike Shawn Michaels I have no remorse. I have no conscience and I will stop
00:02:07at nothing to end Shawn Michaels career.
00:02:15Shawn Michaels and Triple H have had some classic confrontations in the past. These two men as we
00:02:21all know have been at one time closer than brothers but tonight after seven years it's come to this.
00:02:28A match that was designed for one reason and that is to be the end.
00:02:37you say to me i see the way you look at me i know what's on your mind so stand up get up back up now
00:02:45just stay away i feel the hate you push on me i see the things that you can't see i know what's on
00:02:54so
00:03:11this is one of the great rivalries it's all gonna be over the brutal finality of this
00:03:17and the confrontation only on sunday Shawn Michaels you and I go straight to hell
00:03:47so
00:03:59time to play the game
00:04:17it's all about control
00:04:25and who's gonna make it
00:04:48Triple H has never lost a one-on-one match in Hell in a Cell.
00:04:52He has beaten Cactus Jack, Kevin Nash, Chris Jericho. Triple H has beaten a brawler, a mauler
00:04:59and a technical wrestler. Three diverse different styles and the game has come out victorious
00:05:06each and every time but none of those men in all due respect are the show's stoppers.
00:05:13It's hard to beat the game at his own game and it seems that Hell in a Cell
00:05:20is Triple H's game that's why i wonder there why why on earth would Shawn Michaels ask no not ask
00:05:28demand this match here tonight for finality to end this rivalry once and for all but it's almost
00:05:39and you're right it's gonna happen it's gonna be finality but it's almost like Shawn Michaels
00:05:44has his own death wish to be in this kind of match with that man.
00:05:50The Hell in a Cell is like Satan perversely waiting on new victims.
00:06:08A phenomenal ovation for the young man with the warrior soul, Shawn Michaels.
00:06:25But can Shawn Michaels regret the places he's not been before in years
00:06:32We survived this, but now, Steve, this is survival Sunday for
00:06:38both that man, Triple H, and that man, Shawn Michaels.
00:06:42Well, Shawn Michaels better be able to survive.
00:06:46He better be able to get to that place, JR.
00:06:49But not, that man, Triple H, could and
00:06:54will try to end Shawn Michaels' career right here tonight.
00:07:01And if Triple H can't get it done,
00:07:04let's not discount the effects of the Hell in a Cell.
00:07:09The Hell in a Cell, the keeper of blood, flesh, and careers.
00:07:15There's only been ten Hell in a Cell matches in the history of this country.
00:07:20Only 13 men have been put inside this Hell in a Cell.
00:07:25And I will tell you, and I think they will tell you,
00:07:29they were never the same again.
00:07:31Shawn Michaels is looking up at this demonic cell.
00:07:37He's contemplating exactly what you're talking about, JR.
00:07:42Here it comes.
00:07:45You might as well say the steel executioner is being
00:07:50lowered around this very ring and two human beings.
00:07:55It's like a huge black cloud falling down on both of these men.
00:08:01As wicked and unforgiving as Triple H is, by his own admission,
00:08:06so is this structure.
00:08:08Nobody's getting in, and these two men aren't getting out.
00:08:14This is a one fall to a finished match.
00:08:18And to tell you I have a peaceful, easy feeling about this,
00:08:24would be total fabrication.
00:08:27I don't think either man was overly anxious to get this thing started.
00:08:35I mentioned on heat this was like restless prison,
00:08:38the house of detention and depravity.
00:08:42These are the last precious few moments that either of these men
00:08:46are ever going to be the same.
00:08:49They are ever going to be the way they are right now.
00:08:50You're right.
00:08:52They will both be changed after this match.
00:08:57This rivalry has gotten so perversely personal.
00:09:01Karl and Elbow tie up and Triple H will have a size and strength advantage.
00:09:06Michaels can counter with speed, quickness, and heart.
00:09:10Not to say the Game doesn't have heart.
00:09:12He's got plenty of it.
00:09:13And a big right hand, and another right hand by the Game.
00:09:18Michaels turning the table here.
00:09:23My pants chopped by the right hand.
00:09:24That's not what I was saying, this match starting off at great neck pace.
00:09:32But the hatred that exists between these two men, that's all you can expect.
00:09:36These guys aren't gonna be in there to wrestle each other.
00:09:39They're not actually in there to try to pin one another, JR.
00:09:41They want to end this thing once and for all.
00:09:45There's no time limit, no disqualifications.
00:09:48Hard elbow, that got Shawn right in the Adam's apple.
00:09:52As we say in Oklahoma, it's the throat in most places.
00:09:59If you see that one more time, you better yet listen to it.
00:10:02Man, that's some serious impact.
00:10:07And Michaels taking down the Game and measuring those right hands
00:10:14on Triple H who shoves Michael off of that belt position.
00:10:19That was thrown to the outside, lands on the speed rope, right back in.
00:10:23Michaels again, a lute-ass press.
00:10:26Michaels so tenacious, so driven in this rivalry to end it here tonight.
00:10:32The fans here at ringside counting off the big right hands by Shawn Michaels.
00:10:39He's got the forehead of Triple H.
00:10:43Every time that was thrown over the belt rope, out to the floor.
00:10:47The ringside area is surrounded by the hell in the cell.
00:10:51And don't think that that cell is not gonna come into play.
00:10:54Each one of these men know it's there.
00:10:55They know when they want to use it.
00:10:58They know they can't get out of that door.
00:10:59It's completely chained and padlocked.
00:11:03This is APK Champdale.
00:11:05I hear the fans here at Columbus, Ohio.
00:11:08And nobody there for a quick relation to that right hand that Michaels counters.
00:11:12Or right hands of his own.
00:11:16The man cannot be counted out.
00:11:18Referee is only in there to count somebody's shoulder.
00:11:21Or to ring the bell for submission.
00:11:25Referee cannot make too many mistakes here.
00:11:28And-
00:11:28Whoa!
00:11:29Triple H may have made a calculated error there.
00:11:32Lowered his head.
00:11:32Michaels capitalized quickly with his spinning, swinging neck record.
00:11:37Covered.
00:11:39One fall to a finish.
00:11:40Again, no disqualification.
00:11:43There is no time limit.
00:11:45No count outs.
00:11:46And no stopping.
00:11:48Or blood.
00:11:48I hope I haven't jinxed these two men.
00:11:52I think-
00:11:55I think that little pinning attempt came strictly out of instinct there from Shawn Michaels.
00:12:01I don't think he would have been content to get a win over Triple H that easily to you.
00:12:06I think he wants this to be more final.
00:12:08I think Shawn Michaels wants Triple H to-
00:12:12To know once and for all that Shawn Michaels, HBK, is the better man of the two.
00:12:16That's what this is all about.
00:12:19Who is the better man?
00:12:20Right.
00:12:20We'll find that out tonight.
00:12:21Good job!
00:12:22He's already-
00:12:23Good job!
00:12:24He's already asked for it.
00:12:25He'll take it back as well.
00:12:28It's a very unforgiving steal, as you say, JR.
00:12:30No doubt about it.
00:12:32Every inch of it can cut you in some kind of way.
00:12:36Hell in a cell is where careers go to die.
00:12:39Take one, son of a bitch!
00:12:41Take one, son of a bitch!
00:12:43So unforgiving.
00:12:44Beat him!
00:12:45Beat him!
00:12:46This could-
00:12:47And it will.
00:12:48You know, it could.
00:12:49I'm trying to be-
00:12:50Oh, man!
00:12:51Blake's head almost chopped off.
00:12:54Blake's bleeding out.
00:12:56Michaels trying to open that cut up.
00:12:59Hard right hand.
00:13:00You know, I've heard legends that men have broken their hands in these matches.
00:13:08Fists are just as legal as a headlock.
00:13:12Well, and another way to get your hand broken or your fist broken is just what happened
00:13:17to Triple H earlier.
00:13:19You back somebody's head up against the middle of one of those metal posts and then swing
00:13:23and if they move out of the way, your fist is going to strike that big steel.
00:13:29Meaning Shawn Michaels had a foot right in the face.
00:13:32He's trying to regroup here.
00:13:34Oh, again!
00:13:36Triple H has lost some distance there.
00:13:41You see that Triple H is bleeding.
00:13:43That's probably what caused it right there.
00:13:47Triple H's head went right into that.
00:13:49Not severe at the moment.
00:13:53And the Game just-
00:13:55Oh, man!
00:13:57I'm afraid things are about to get a little more severe now, JR.
00:14:02This is the term unforgiving.
00:14:06The cell doesn't fear.
00:14:11Triple H's face being rearranged.
00:14:15It looks more like a hamburger than a wrestler right now.
00:14:20He's standing there by Michaels just to get the Game down.
00:14:23So Michaels can stomp Triple H square in the face.
00:14:27Speaking of Triple H's face, there it goes again.
00:14:31That demonic cell.
00:14:33You know, I've said this on more than one occasion.
00:14:35I know from experience. It does something to you, JR.
00:14:37You just can't help but have some sort of feeling when you're in a match like this
00:14:43and you suddenly see your own blood.
00:14:45Nobody ever likes to see their own blood.
00:14:47You know that, JR.
00:14:48Absolutely.
00:14:49Why would they?
00:14:51Hard knockdown by Shawn Michaels.
00:14:53He blocked the inverted atomic rock.
00:14:55Michaels walking very gingerly.
00:14:58He's a guy that was out four years with a bad back.
00:15:01Michaels' hip.
00:15:03He feels that back.
00:15:05Don't want to diagnose.
00:15:07But Michaels is not right as you can tell.
00:15:09He's walking crooked.
00:15:11And he hopes to be walking period when this match ends.
00:15:25Michaels trying to suplex Triple H.
00:15:27That is definitely a lower back.
00:15:30That back is either cramping on him.
00:15:32He's got some muscle spasms.
00:15:34Or there's some more structural damage there.
00:15:37I hope I'm wrong on the latter.
00:15:39I can say that you better hope, Shawn better hope that it's only muscle spasms.
00:15:45And that's not what the cause right there.
00:15:47That hard iron clip from Triple H.
00:15:49He's one of the most powerful men ever here in the WWE.
00:15:53And Triple H doesn't miss a trick.
00:15:55We don't call him the cerebral assassin for nothing.
00:15:58He said before this match, if he sees any spot, any point of weakness, any kind of injury,
00:16:03he's going to go right after it.
00:16:05And I think that's what we're about to see now.
00:16:07He senses it.
00:16:11Oh man.
00:16:12Triple H with every bit of strength and velocity he could muster.
00:16:17Sending Michaels for the proverbial ride with the Irish whip.
00:16:21Again.
00:16:23And man, that elbow.
00:16:25This is getting hard to watch.
00:16:27Michaels' back is definitely hurt.
00:16:29I don't know what was the first thing that happened to him,
00:16:32but you notice at first, he's walking crooked.
00:16:37Now he's in serious trouble.
00:16:39And knowing the four years of hell that Shawn Michaels went through,
00:16:45away from what he loved to do,
00:16:47all because of that bad back and the surgery,
00:16:50and then coming, pathetically enough, into hell in a cell,
00:16:55and having this happen to him is more than ironic.
00:17:01I hate to say that Shawn Michaels deserves this, JR,
00:17:05but you've got to remember, everybody out there needs to remember,
00:17:08Shawn asked for this match.
00:17:10He didn't ask for it, he demanded this match.
00:17:14He did ask, demand.
00:17:16And look at this standing suplex.
00:17:18Look at the strength of Triple H.
00:17:20That takes amazing strength.
00:17:23Blood rushing to the head of Shawn Michaels.
00:17:25It's a disorienting move, high impact, cover,
00:17:28and Michaels kicks out instinctively.
00:17:30But look at Michaels' back.
00:17:32The kick out on that move, Michaels' back is contorted,
00:17:36it's twisted, King.
00:17:37It was as if Michaels has been in a car wreck.
00:17:40And I don't know, at this point, JR,
00:17:43I don't know what he can do about it.
00:17:45I mean, you know, this is the kind of injury that is,
00:17:49I mean, it just takes, you have to recuperate.
00:17:51It takes time to get,
00:17:52and it's not like Triple H is going to let up for one second.
00:17:56And the other threatening aspect of this match,
00:18:00the referee can't stop this match.
00:18:02There's a backbreaker by The Game.
00:18:04The referee got a near fall, Michaels kicking out.
00:18:07The Game going for the win with a backbreaker,
00:18:10going for the cover there.
00:18:11But the referee is totally helpless in what he can do.
00:18:15There's no disqualification.
00:18:16That steel chair is as legal as any maneuver.
00:18:20That Triple H chooses to execute.
00:18:23Yeah, I agree, JR.
00:18:24But if he uses it, Triple H, at this point in this match,
00:18:28uses that steel chair,
00:18:29that's like tantamount to cruel and unusual punishment.
00:18:34Triple H can be described as terminally dangerous.
00:18:40And Shawn Michaels could not have gotten up
00:18:43without the help of the ropes
00:18:44and being picked up by The Game.
00:18:47Somehow, the resilience of Shawn Michaels
00:18:50is absolutely extraordinary.
00:18:52But The Game does shut down
00:18:54the extraordinary will to compete of Shawn Michaels.
00:18:58And this is going to be sick.
00:19:01Michaels goes downstairs.
00:19:02Michaels, once again,
00:19:03Michaels saves himself at the last second.
00:19:05A desperation kick by Michaels.
00:19:08There's no telling where his brain has been scrambled
00:19:12with that steel chair
00:19:14if Triple H has been able to connect.
00:19:19Somehow, Michaels needs to stay on the offensive.
00:19:22Michaels needs to grab that chair himself.
00:19:24Michaels, for Triple H,
00:19:25now this is a good opportunity for Michaels
00:19:27to stay in the ring
00:19:28and try to get that back straightened out.
00:19:31Shawn threw Triple H out of the ring
00:19:33just to try to buy some time.
00:19:35I thought so, too, but now he's not.
00:19:38And Shawn Michaels' courage
00:19:40and his guts, his will to win,
00:19:43just cost him there.
00:19:46Oh, no, no, no.
00:19:48Oh, the ring post!
00:19:50The cage!
00:19:51The post!
00:19:52The cage!
00:19:54My God, this is carnage.
00:19:57What do you say, Michaels, huh?
00:20:00You want to continue the match?
00:20:03Talk to me, Shawn.
00:20:04The referee is asking Shawn Michaels
00:20:06if he wants to continue the match.
00:20:08I don't think that word's
00:20:09in his vocabulary tonight, do you?
00:20:11Absolutely not, but, you know,
00:20:13Michaels has got a young family.
00:20:15Get up, you sissy!
00:20:16He's a father.
00:20:17He's got other things
00:20:18that he has to be concerned about.
00:20:20What would happen if Shawn was incapacitated
00:20:24or in so much pain
00:20:25that he couldn't even say that he quit?
00:20:28Shut up and think
00:20:29what the end result would be.
00:20:31We know the game is going to show
00:20:33absolutely no certainty
00:20:35Triple H can be as viciously vile
00:20:38as anyone that we have ever witnessed
00:20:41in this ring.
00:20:42Get up, Shawn!
00:20:44Get up, Shawn!
00:20:46A little Triple H,
00:20:47he just glances over his shoulder
00:20:50to see what part of this cell to use next.
00:20:53As if it wasn't bad enough
00:20:55for the Game to assault
00:20:56Michaels' lower back in the ring.
00:20:59I don't think that word's
00:21:00in his vocabulary tonight, do you?
00:21:03Michaels' lower back in the ring.
00:21:05Now the Game is using this structure,
00:21:09this hell in a cell,
00:21:11almost as a tag team partner.
00:21:13Well, that's...
00:21:15Like you said, the chair,
00:21:17everything about this cell is fair game.
00:21:20It's just like a suplex.
00:21:22And I think now the time has come
00:21:24that Triple H wants to finish, Shawn.
00:21:26Steel chair placed in the center of the ring.
00:21:29And no, no!
00:21:30Oh, my God!
00:21:33Geez!
00:21:34You're terrible!
00:21:35Golly almighty!
00:21:37This has got to be it!
00:21:39And Michaels kicked out!
00:21:41I'll tell you, I...
00:21:43Why would he kick out at this point?
00:21:44I appreciate the passion.
00:21:45Right.
00:21:46I respect the man as much as anybody,
00:21:48but I'm...
00:21:50I'm almost...
00:21:51I almost, for a moment there,
00:21:52wished that Shawn Michaels had not kicked out.
00:21:55And I'm saying that, ladies and gentlemen,
00:21:57because I'm concerned about Michaels' physical welfare.
00:22:01Well, I understand that you wish
00:22:02that he had not kicked out,
00:22:04and I think that, shortly,
00:22:05Shawn may wish that he had not kicked out.
00:22:07But I can assure you,
00:22:08Triple H has some bad plans with that chair.
00:22:12Oh, my God.
00:22:13One more.
00:22:14Oh!
00:22:16A backbreaker literally may have happened.
00:22:19This has got to be...
00:22:20They don't stop!
00:22:21Shawn Michaels refusing to stay down.
00:22:23And Michaels kicking out.
00:22:25From left shoulder, right shoulder,
00:22:27kicking with his leg,
00:22:28and everything is heart and soul combustion.
00:22:31And the game has got to be getting a little frustrated,
00:22:34albeit Triple H is in the proverbial driver's seat.
00:22:39Well, I'm gonna tell you,
00:22:40I don't see frustration in Triple H's face.
00:22:43I see determination.
00:22:44I think he's thinking right now,
00:22:46Shawn, if this is the way you want it,
00:22:48then this is the way you're gonna get it.
00:22:50Oh!
00:22:55I can't describe that.
00:22:58Any better than what you saw.
00:23:00A steel chair across the spine.
00:23:02And this is it.
00:23:04Oh, snap!
00:23:05I'll tell you what, I...
00:23:07I keep...
00:23:09I got a bad feeling in my gut, King.
00:23:12I don't...
00:23:13I mean, Michaels, four years away,
00:23:15and he's looking at Shawn Michaels
00:23:16trying to use Triple H to pull himself up.
00:23:18His will to compete,
00:23:20speaking of Shawn Michaels,
00:23:22is absolutely extraordinary.
00:23:26And Michaels with everything he's got.
00:23:29Right hand shot.
00:23:31And a shot to the eye by The Game.
00:23:34Well, I just, at this point,
00:23:36after the damage that's been done...
00:23:38Not enough strength.
00:23:39No, it's not. It's reversed.
00:23:40Oh, my God!
00:23:42Triple H was hip-hopped over the top rope to the floor,
00:23:47and Michaels just crumbled.
00:23:49Michaels collapsed after reaching down to his socks
00:23:53to hip-hop The Game.
00:23:55Desperate men do desperate things,
00:23:57and that was an act of pure desperation by Shawn Michaels,
00:24:01but I think it worked.
00:24:02It did buy him some time.
00:24:03Check this out one more time.
00:24:05Abdominal stretch is what The Game was going for,
00:24:07but it was reversed, or countered,
00:24:09and then the hip tossed right out of the ring.
00:24:13Shawn Michaels using that shoulder,
00:24:15the battering ram, his left shoulder,
00:24:18and Triple H just felt one time,
00:24:21shame on you,
00:24:22second time, shame on me.
00:24:24I'm surprised that, you know,
00:24:25Triple H could have a bad back
00:24:26after being thrown out of the ring like that.
00:24:29Oh, man.
00:24:31Walked into that one.
00:24:32The Game, as a wrestler,
00:24:35holding right hands and more right hands,
00:24:38The Game has thrown everything he can at Michaels
00:24:41and has not kept Michaels down for three.
00:24:44It's got to be frustrating.
00:24:45Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:24:46Here it is. This is it.
00:24:47Yeah.
00:24:48Pedigree time.
00:24:49Oh!
00:24:50The blow is legal.
00:24:52The steel chair is legal.
00:24:53As we pointed out,
00:24:55and so is that low blow
00:24:57that went downtown.
00:24:59I was just about to say, JR,
00:25:01that I still,
00:25:02you talk about The Game being frustrated,
00:25:04I still don't see it,
00:25:05or I didn't see it up until this point,
00:25:07in The Game's face.
00:25:09I think he's so focused.
00:25:11I don't think The Game is in any hurry
00:25:13tonight to end this.
00:25:14I think he's just determined to get it done.
00:25:16And Michaels going right back to that
00:25:20vulnerable area
00:25:22to say the least.
00:25:23Now on three occasions.
00:25:25Only so much you can say.
00:25:26And a right hand throw.
00:25:27That's knocked down,
00:25:28but how much pain is Triple H in
00:25:30after those three low blows?
00:25:35Oh!
00:25:36Irish whip.
00:25:37Michaels following The Game now
00:25:39in big time trouble.
00:25:40Shawn Michaels,
00:25:42he may be, as Jackson Brown says,
00:25:44running on empty,
00:25:45but Michaels with a cover
00:25:47and a kick out by The Game.
00:25:48Michaels did not have the strength
00:25:50on that exchange
00:25:51to hook a leg
00:25:52and cinch up The Game.
00:25:59Triple H knocked to the outside,
00:26:01that knee to his lower back.
00:26:03Michaels trying to fight
00:26:05for verbally fire with fire here.
00:26:07Triple H face first
00:26:09into the hell in a cell,
00:26:11in the cell on Sharon Joyce.
00:26:14Well, I think this is a smart move
00:26:16by HBK.
00:26:17He needs to,
00:26:18he now needs to use that
00:26:20that cell as a tag team partner.
00:26:23Goes one on one.
00:26:25Well, Shawn hadn't been faring too well.
00:26:30Bad ride.
00:26:31Worst landing.
00:26:33Unenviable destination.
00:26:39Look at that again.
00:26:40Once again, listen to this.
00:26:43That's a human being's body
00:26:47being thrown into
00:26:49an inanimate object.
00:26:50This steel steps,
00:26:52I guess the steps of the cousin
00:26:54of the hell in a cell.
00:26:55They're all in it together.
00:26:57Anything that's inside that demonic cell
00:26:59is what you say, buried in.
00:27:06With a handful of hair.
00:27:08Uh-oh, oh my God.
00:27:09Now this could work.
00:27:10You gotta be kidding me.
00:27:11This could do it.
00:27:12You gotta be kidding me.
00:27:13This could be a difference maker.
00:27:14Kyle Brymer on the steel steps.
00:27:17Oh my God, Michaels.
00:27:18Deep into God almighty.
00:27:20Michaels elevated.
00:27:21Off those steps,
00:27:22right into the floor.
00:27:27That was probably as big a difference maker
00:27:30as that Kyle Brymer would have been.
00:27:32On the step being thrown off,
00:27:33back dropped off those steps.
00:27:35Michaels may not be able to recover from this.
00:27:38Yeah, check this out from a better angle here.
00:27:42You heard the splat
00:27:44of a man's spine
00:27:46on the floor.
00:27:47Oh, look out.
00:27:48And now what?
00:27:50I guess it's...
00:27:51Your guess is as good as mine.
00:27:52Whatever's under the ring can be utilized.
00:27:57Under the ring, over the ring,
00:27:59around the ring.
00:28:01The old chair.
00:28:03Don't tell me what's under it.
00:28:08And a slap shot by The Game
00:28:10right on the spine of Shawn Michaels.
00:28:13And Michaels has gotta be
00:28:15from head to toe
00:28:16in as much excruciating pain
00:28:19as a human being
00:28:21should ever have to experience.
00:28:23And now what?
00:28:24He's going through this
00:28:25this twisted mind of Triple H.
00:28:29He's capable of any
00:28:30any kind of dastardly dealt with.
00:28:34My God, those steel steps.
00:28:37Let's toss the steps in the ring.
00:28:39Like they were nothing.
00:28:40Mike Chioda trying to reason with The Game.
00:28:42That's...
00:28:43Chioda wasn't gonna save his breath.
00:28:45Triple H with the steps.
00:28:47Going for Michaels.
00:28:48And Michaels!
00:28:51Got one shot
00:28:52into the solar plexus
00:28:54on Triple H.
00:28:56And another hard one.
00:29:01Trying...
00:29:02Trying for him by Shawn Michaels.
00:29:05The guy with the referee
00:29:06had tried to get those steel steps
00:29:07out of the ring.
00:29:08Somebody could just
00:29:09inadvertently fall on
00:29:10or against those things
00:29:11and that would...
00:29:12And Michaels!
00:29:13How in the hell does he do it?
00:29:15Michaels just nipped up.
00:29:17And he's back down.
00:29:19Back down just as fast.
00:29:20That back has to be killing him.
00:29:24Michaels trying to stand.
00:29:26Moshing The Game to
00:29:27come get me.
00:29:29Come get me.
00:29:30Here I am.
00:29:31I got something for you.
00:29:33It could have been...
00:29:34Oh!
00:29:35Michaels looking for sweet tin music.
00:29:37Oh my God!
00:29:39You gotta be kidding me!
00:29:41Michaels' skull
00:29:42just bounced off those
00:29:44green steps.
00:29:45And the only music
00:29:46I think we're gonna hear
00:29:47is the fat lady singing.
00:29:50It's over, JR.
00:29:53Michaels hit...
00:29:54Oh my God!
00:29:56Oh my God!
00:29:58Michaels has been
00:29:59deeply lacerated.
00:30:02And the blood running
00:30:03through his eyes.
00:30:04Through his lips
00:30:05and mouth.
00:30:07I think his entire face
00:30:08was smashed.
00:30:09That blood's coming out
00:30:10of his mouth.
00:30:11Out of his nose.
00:30:12Come on, Triple H!
00:30:13That was a knock.
00:30:14I know it's hell in a cell.
00:30:16But Michaels is a human being.
00:30:18I told you.
00:30:19Just look at the look
00:30:20on the face of Triple H.
00:30:21It's not frustration.
00:30:22It's determination, JR.
00:30:24Nothing is gonna stop that man
00:30:26from destroying
00:30:27Shawn Michaels here tonight.
00:30:28Just don't do it.
00:30:29Reach in your heart.
00:30:30Don't do it!
00:30:31Oh my God!
00:30:32He did it.
00:30:33Triple H did it.
00:30:34Shawn Michaels' blood
00:30:36is all over those steel steps.
00:30:38He asked Triple H
00:30:39to reach in his heart
00:30:40and find some little
00:30:42part of
00:30:44compassion for Shawn Michaels.
00:30:46The only thing I can say
00:30:47is that mercifully
00:30:48you've gotta believe
00:30:50that this is over.
00:30:52There's a cover.
00:30:55My God, Shawn!
00:31:00Listen to this.
00:31:01The steps.
00:31:06See Shawn Michaels' head
00:31:07bounce off those steel steps.
00:31:10That was absolutely
00:31:11absolutely.
00:31:14I just think that right now
00:31:15King Shawn Michaels
00:31:16has gotta be just
00:31:17instinctively
00:31:18kicking out.
00:31:20He can't be
00:31:21he's not able
00:31:22can't be mentally able
00:31:23to put thoughts together
00:31:24any kind of
00:31:25any kind of succession
00:31:26or any kind of
00:31:27logical order.
00:31:29It's all on guts
00:31:30and instinct.
00:31:36Shawn is in serious trouble.
00:31:39Can Shawn Michaels
00:31:40survive this
00:31:41damning career
00:31:42altering ride
00:31:44through this
00:31:45steel encased
00:31:46hell in a cell?
00:31:47Shawn, huh?
00:31:48You want hell?
00:31:49I got it.
00:31:54You can feel
00:31:55the hatred between
00:31:56these two men.
00:31:57You can feel the angst
00:31:58between these two men.
00:32:01Who at one time
00:32:02as you said
00:32:03were closer than brothers.
00:32:04We all remember
00:32:05their DX days.
00:32:06And it has come to this.
00:32:09It has come to this
00:32:10where someone's career
00:32:12could very likely
00:32:14be ended here.
00:32:17Triple H asking
00:32:18telling Shawn
00:32:19asking you want hell?
00:32:22Michael's face
00:32:23and head like a
00:32:24battering ram
00:32:25and again
00:32:26Triple H could give
00:32:27a damn
00:32:28and the cage
00:32:30the cell
00:32:31cares less.
00:32:33Shawn Michaels
00:32:34goes for the
00:32:35You know, JR, I thought I'd never say this in a Hell in a Cell match, but I honestly
00:32:42think that the referee should, well, the referee should think about stopping this match.
00:32:51I can't disagree with that.
00:32:52I will not disagree with that.
00:32:53I don't know about him, but that's a human, that's epidermis being left on that cage.
00:33:01And Michaels is going to be scarred and marked for life after this.
00:33:08Once again, this is the match that Shawn Michaels wanted.
00:33:14Why?
00:33:15I don't know, but this is what he wanted.
00:33:17Triple H, indeed, calculatingly cruel.
00:33:21He is the pontiff of pain, a man that likes to hurt people, especially someone that he
00:33:29was so close to.
00:33:31Triple H has never had an ally like Shawn Michaels was in Triple H's career.
00:33:36Never.
00:33:37And he never will again, in my view.
00:33:39Well, Yarn Anderson's Spinebuster just shook Michaels' liver, and I hope to God no.
00:33:47You said Triple H never had an ally like Shawn Michaels.
00:33:50He's obviously never had an opponent like him either, but all while they were friends,
00:33:54all while they were allies in DX, there was always that question, JR.
00:33:58Which one of these men were the better of the two?
00:34:01It was always there.
00:34:03It was always in the back of each one of their minds.
00:34:05And that's what this is all about tonight.
00:34:07That's where we are.
00:34:09That's why these two men are in hell together.
00:34:11Michaels' lower back, killing it.
00:34:13He's losing a lot of blood, but by God, Shawn Michaels is not going to quit.
00:34:18Michaels continues to fight with everything he's got, with every bit of his heart and soul,
00:34:23but the game just seems to be too much here tonight.
00:34:26The sleeper applied by Triple H.
00:34:32And this is such a strategically sound, perfect maneuver for this point in time in the match.
00:34:40And it might be a fitting end to this Hell in a Cell.
00:34:43Shawn Michaels left unconscious in a pool of his own blood.
00:34:48And that's what the game, you've got to believe.
00:34:50You've got to know, we're not alone.
00:34:52You've got to know, we're not alone.
00:34:54And Michaels trying to get in a dribbling rush here.
00:34:56Look at this crowd behind him.
00:34:58And they are.
00:35:00And the game went face first into the top turnbuckle.
00:35:04At least, at least Michaels now has bought himself a little bit of time.
00:35:14Game got addled there.
00:35:16He's trying to shake it loose.
00:35:18I agree.
00:35:19Michaels is in La La Land right now, but he's going to have to refocus.
00:35:23There he goes.
00:35:25This guy, Triple H, the game.
00:35:27Oh, there we go.
00:35:28Pedigree time.
00:35:29No, countered.
00:35:31Michaels countered a pedigree into the DDT.
00:35:33Oh, man.
00:35:34That could do it.
00:35:36Michaels countered a pedigree, which I guarantee you it would have been over,
00:35:41into the DDT.
00:35:44And Triple H's head that time was the one that was doing the bouncing.
00:35:52He's only breathing.
00:35:55Thank God for that.
00:35:57But he's not moving.
00:35:58It's Shawn Michaels.
00:36:00Triple H.
00:36:03Still some life left in the game.
00:36:06Beginning to stir.
00:36:08He's surveying the action, but there's no count outs.
00:36:14There's no telling how much blood Shawn Michaels has lost here.
00:36:18Michaels reaching.
00:36:20And Michaels now has the weapon that Triple H brought into this ring.
00:36:26That steel chair.
00:36:28I'm afraid Triple H may.
00:36:32May.
00:36:33I was about to say he may regret bringing that chair in.
00:36:35And right at this moment, I'm sure the game regrets
00:36:37bringing that chair in the ring.
00:36:38That was a deadly chair shot that you see the results.
00:36:43Oh, boy.
00:36:44That's how deadly it was.
00:36:46Now the game's been opened up badly.
00:36:51This is the supreme gut check for both men bleeding.
00:36:55Listen.
00:37:00Yeah, look, Shawn still has that chair, JR.
00:37:02There's no blocking that.
00:37:05Oh, not again.
00:37:11You can only imagine what that does to a human being's brain.
00:37:18I mean, he can't be the same.
00:37:20There's a cover.
00:37:21And Michaels.
00:37:22Oh, the head's coming down.
00:37:23And this time it was a game.
00:37:26What's scary about those chair shots is, you know, naturally,
00:37:30from that impact, your skin is lacerated.
00:37:32You start to bleed on the outside.
00:37:34And naturally, your brain is bruised.
00:37:36You start to bleed on the inside as well.
00:37:38That's what's so dangerous.
00:37:42Face busted by the game.
00:37:44And Michaels, the impact taking him all the way outside.
00:37:47Look at Michaels.
00:37:48As soon as he hit the floor, he's looking under that ring.
00:37:51Is there something?
00:37:52Oh, yes, there is something.
00:37:53You've got to be kidding me.
00:37:54You have got to be kidding me.
00:37:57I told you there was no telling what was under there.
00:37:59There's actually a wicked little smile on the face of HBK.
00:38:03The man that introduced ladders to the WWE,
00:38:07Shawn Michaels, is putting a ladder.
00:38:10And these fans here in Columbus, Ohio, have come to their feet here.
00:38:15JR, you asked earlier, you queried,
00:38:18could Shawn Michaels reach down and get to the depth of where he's been before?
00:38:22I think he's answering your question right now, isn't he?
00:38:25Absolutely.
00:38:26Michaels won the first ever Hell in a Cell.
00:38:28Oh, my God.
00:38:29Look out.
00:38:31Right into the bloody face of the Cerebral Assassin.
00:38:36Back of the ladder.
00:38:38Oh, the ribs.
00:38:40Into the abdomen.
00:38:45Everything legal in this environment.
00:38:48As sad as it is to say, there can be no disqualifications.
00:38:53Check out this ladder to the face of the game.
00:38:57Shawn broke it into the rib cage.
00:38:59And now look.
00:39:00It's Triple H.
00:39:02Triple H backing off.
00:39:03Triple H is not.
00:39:04Wait a minute.
00:39:05He's not saying he's had enough, is he?
00:39:06He's negotiating.
00:39:07And the Michaels are right hands.
00:39:08Triple H trying to get back as far as the corner.
00:39:10And he's cornered all right.
00:39:12And Michaels now taking advantage.
00:39:13Michaels said he tripled that right hand like he may have broken it.
00:39:18Oh, no.
00:39:19Look out.
00:39:20Oh.
00:39:22This ladder conveniently placed in the far corner.
00:39:30Get up.
00:39:31Get up.
00:39:33Just get up.
00:39:35My God.
00:39:36Oh, my God.
00:39:37That's the second time.
00:39:39Triple H has had a ladder used on him now four times.
00:39:44And I don't think Shawn is through yet.
00:39:47He came here to settle this thing tonight.
00:39:49He asked for this hell in a cell.
00:39:51He demanded this match no matter what it takes.
00:39:54Michaels is going to finish the job here.
00:39:57What do you say, Triple H?
00:39:58You want to get up?
00:39:59The referee asking Triple H if he wants to call it quits.
00:40:02Look at the blood just pouring from his head.
00:40:04Look at that, JR.
00:40:05What do you say, huh?
00:40:08And I think he heard the Triple H certainly telling the referee
00:40:12emphatically no in so many words.
00:40:16There is going to be no quitting by Triple H or Shawn Michaels.
00:40:21In my estimation.
00:40:22God, what an impact.
00:40:24The ladder, the top rope, the floor, surrounded by steel,
00:40:27a bloody man on the floor.
00:40:29And now what is Shawn Michaels thinking?
00:40:31I don't know, but I said it earlier about Shawn Michaels.
00:40:33I think he would have been good if this match could have ended.
00:40:37But now I'm beginning to think that Triple H ought to maybe think
00:40:41about living to fight another day.
00:40:45Barely, barely moving.
00:40:48And not that Shawn Michaels is moving that quickly either.
00:40:52Look at this, and listen again.
00:40:54Triple H needs to realize that there would be no disgrace
00:40:57if he just stopped and did it right now.
00:41:00I agree with that, King.
00:41:01It wouldn't be.
00:41:02It wouldn't be.
00:41:03It wouldn't make him a lesser man.
00:41:07Almost like, I hate to use this term for Michaels,
00:41:09but it's almost like Michaels is possessed.
00:41:12Oh, he has that killer instinct, all right.
00:41:14He wants to finish this.
00:41:17But there's never any doubt in the future.
00:41:26One thing about it, tonight we're going to find out
00:41:29who is the better man, who is the best of all time.
00:41:37Well, right now it just doesn't look like Triple H does it?
00:41:40I'm in shock.
00:41:41I'm almost speechless at this, the beating that both of these men
00:41:45have administered to each other.
00:41:47Just, they've both lost a great deal of blood.
00:41:51Their bodies have got to be ravaged with pain.
00:41:55I still can't get over that, just that wicked little smile
00:41:59we saw earlier on the face of Shawn Michaels
00:42:01when he first found that ladder.
00:42:03And that ladder has certainly been a difference maker.
00:42:08Michaels setting the ladder up.
00:42:10Or who knows, wait a minute, the Game,
00:42:12the Game looking for the pedigree.
00:42:14He's not been able to hit that pedigree,
00:42:16but Shawn Michaels hit that.
00:42:18Oh, the Game catapulted face first right into that ladder.
00:42:24And the Game living his own blood all over the canvas.
00:42:29Everywhere he falls, there's a puddle of blood left.
00:42:35Shawn Michaels now just hoping to fall across.
00:42:37Michaels does, the arm over.
00:42:39He got the cover to get three.
00:42:40No.
00:42:42I don't even know how Triple H is capable
00:42:44of hearing the referee's counter.
00:42:46He probably just feels it out of instinct.
00:42:49But the thing about it is that Michaels has,
00:42:51his strength is so lessened, he's lost so much blood,
00:42:55he's not able to hook up these pretty combinations.
00:42:59Both of these men, their strength has to be waning.
00:43:01Somebody's got to hit the home run here.
00:43:04But does either one of these men have enough strength
00:43:07to put it out of the park anymore?
00:43:09That's the question.
00:43:10That remains to be answered.
00:43:11Oh, look at that.
00:43:12Oh, man, that could have been the end all right there.
00:43:15Michaels went right to that back.
00:43:17He went for the elbow, landed on his back.
00:43:20And Shawn Michaels took the ultimate supreme high-risk chance
00:43:25in this environment, in his condition,
00:43:28with his back as it is, for naught.
00:43:31But when you take the big chance,
00:43:33you pay the big price sometimes,
00:43:34and that's looked like what happened.
00:43:37Triple H can just get one hand across.
00:43:40Shawn, he did it.
00:43:41Covers, a cover, and Michaels, Shawn Michaels,
00:43:45somehow, some way, is able to get that shoulder up.
00:43:49And again, Triple H so weak, just like Michaels,
00:43:53he got an arm over Michaels.
00:43:55That's all Triple H could do.
00:43:57Well, some way, JR, I have a feeling
00:43:59that that's the way this match is going to end.
00:44:01These men are going to beat each other to bloody pulps
00:44:04with absolutely nothing left of either of them,
00:44:07and somebody's going to just either fall across the other
00:44:09or be able to drape one arm across.
00:44:13These men have went well past 30 minutes.
00:44:15This has got to be the longest Hell in a Cell match in history.
00:44:19I mean, they're humans.
00:44:20How much can their anatomies take?
00:44:23I understand the will to win, but Triple H taking those right hands.
00:44:27Michaels landing those straight, sickening right hands.
00:44:31Look at how big Michaels' right hand is.
00:44:33His right hand looks like it's swollen to twice its size.
00:44:37It could be broken.
00:44:39Imagine just getting the holy hell beat out of you
00:44:42for over 30 minutes straight.
00:44:44Michaels' ring finger, his little finger, both crooked.
00:44:47It looks like his knuckles are swollen to twice their size.
00:44:51The cover by Michaels, and Triple H gets a shoulder up.
00:44:55But, King, I'll tell you, the guts of both these men,
00:44:58whether you like both of them or you don't,
00:45:00it really doesn't matter.
00:45:02You've got to admire the courage in what these two men are putting
00:45:05their bodies through just to prove who is the better man.
00:45:09And I'm beginning to wonder, JR,
00:45:11is either one of these men going to lose this match?
00:45:14They're both so determined.
00:45:16It's like they're so determined not necessarily to win,
00:45:20but they're so determined not to lose.
00:45:22Well, somebody's going to win tonight,
00:45:24and somebody's going to lose tonight.
00:45:26Triple H going downstairs, and-
00:45:29Man, that was a forbidding shot right to the shoulder,
00:45:34into the steel ring post.
00:45:37And that ring post, very unyielding.
00:45:41I think, knowing both of these men the way I do, JR,
00:45:45I think the will not to lose is stronger than the will to win.
00:45:50Neither one of these men-
00:45:54It's all about competition,
00:45:56and this is a raw pay-per-view.
00:45:58And that's what it's about is competition,
00:46:01intense physicality.
00:46:04And you won't see this anywhere else.
00:46:06And look at this now, the game bringing in a table.
00:46:13Both of these men have to look at this match.
00:46:15It's probably the biggest in their careers.
00:46:18It's the end-all match,
00:46:19and neither one of these guys can afford to lose this.
00:46:22And to show you the perverse personal issue,
00:46:27you're probably right.
00:46:28The biggest match in both their careers,
00:46:30and it's not for the world title.
00:46:32That's what it means to both men.
00:46:34Shawn Michaels hasn't moved.
00:46:37He's been lying over that middle rope,
00:46:40that second turnbuckle.
00:46:45Somewhere, somehow, he must have lost a little more strength.
00:46:52A little more offense.
00:46:54This is so intense.
00:46:56The physicality is completely indescribable.
00:47:00As Michaels scores again,
00:47:02with what we think is a broken right hand.
00:47:05Where's he getting it from?
00:47:07Triple H knocked down to his knees,
00:47:09and Michaels, Triple H can't even get his hands up
00:47:12to protect himself.
00:47:14Michaels, three shots.
00:47:17And that's to the skull of a man that's been
00:47:20in the head with a steel chair in this match
00:47:23as aggressively, as stiffly as anything I've seen in years.
00:47:28Don't forget that ladder.
00:47:32Triple H out on it.
00:47:33Look at Michaels, that's a free shot.
00:47:35Right in the head.
00:47:36In the game.
00:47:38Helplessly lying on that table.
00:47:41Michaels.
00:47:43Well, Triple H earlier brought a steel chair in the ring,
00:47:46and it came back to haunt him.
00:47:47Do you think this table that Triple H brought in
00:47:49is gonna come back to haunt him as well?
00:47:50God, oh, my God.
00:47:52Shawn Michaels climbing as high as he can go.
00:47:55One, two, go.
00:47:56And throw the elbow.
00:47:59Michaels with the elbow.
00:48:01Up the ladder, through the heart,
00:48:04through the table, to the camps.
00:48:10A crowd chanting for HBK.
00:48:16They may have done it.
00:48:17They may have done it.
00:48:18We may have reached that point where
00:48:20which one of these men is gonna have the final strength
00:48:23to cover the other.
00:48:24Look at this.
00:48:26Oh, that's a crash.
00:48:29A lot of pumping and cracking.
00:48:30It may not just be the table.
00:48:32There's a cover by Michaels.
00:48:33He got the other.
00:48:34He's got the other.
00:48:35He's got the other.
00:48:37I cannot believe this, JR.
00:48:38I am absolutely astonished of the toughness,
00:48:42intensity of both these men.
00:48:44Michaels trying to get body on body here.
00:48:46And he finally does.
00:48:47And Triple H able to power out of it
00:48:50with that uncanny upper body strength of his.
00:48:54What it is, Shawn, just like you said earlier,
00:48:56he doesn't have the power, the strength left
00:48:59to be able to hook Triple H's leg.
00:49:01All he can do is just basically lay his body weight
00:49:03across Triple H.
00:49:08This is one night that we will never forget.
00:49:12On June the 13th, 2004,
00:49:15you can tell him, folks, he has saw the best.
00:49:18And Michaels now tuning up the band.
00:49:20Don't tell me.
00:49:21It only takes one shot for Sweet Tin Music.
00:49:24Michaels has only gone for it once in this entire match.
00:49:28If he hits it, it's over.
00:49:32The Game with a low blow.
00:49:36The Game dodged the right foot of Michaels,
00:49:41able to go downstairs.
00:49:43Shawn completely exposed in a low blow of the worst kind.
00:49:48And look at this.
00:49:49Triple H hit the pedigree.
00:49:52But can he cover Michaels?
00:49:54If Triple H can make the cover, it's got to be over.
00:50:02Man, this is carnage.
00:50:05This is legal human torture.
00:50:09And finally, JR, like you said earlier,
00:50:12this match may mercifully be over.
00:50:15The arm over the Game.
00:50:17Will it be?
00:50:18No, it's not.
00:50:19My God, how much is it going to take
00:50:22for one of these two phenomenal athletes to win this match?
00:50:27I can't believe it.
00:50:29They just refuse.
00:50:33They refuse to lose.
00:50:36It's amazing.
00:50:38As far as careers are concerned,
00:50:41this match will have deadly consequences.
00:50:47Michaels is using Triple H to stand.
00:50:50And Triple H is using Michaels to stand up.
00:50:53And then they both pushed each other to the wall.
00:50:57He got it.
00:50:58Michaels got it.
00:51:01The sweet tune music.
00:51:05And Michaels collapsed after connecting with sweet tune music.
00:51:10Michaels can somehow just muster the strength now
00:51:13to roll his body towards Triple H.
00:51:15I never thought he had this in him.
00:51:17But look.
00:51:18Whoa.
00:51:19God, what impact.
00:51:20God, what impact.
00:51:22Michaels won the very first Hell in a Cell seven years ago.
00:51:28It looks like he has a chance here.
00:51:30If he can make the cover to win this one.
00:51:33That's right.
00:51:34Triple H has never lost one, I'm afraid, until now.
00:51:38Shawn Michaels moving, inching closer to the game.
00:51:43I think he's got it, JR.
00:51:46Yeah, it's going to be it if he can just get that arm across.
00:51:49Michaels got the arm over.
00:51:50Here it is.
00:51:51It's going to be.
00:51:52No.
00:51:53My God.
00:51:54My God, how much more can these two men take?
00:51:58How much more can they give?
00:52:00That's the question.
00:52:01What more can these two men do to each other?
00:52:05I just, I don't know what we're going to prove here.
00:52:07I shudder to think of an answer to that question.
00:52:10What more can these two men do to each other?
00:52:17Somehow, JR, I'm sure they'll think of something.
00:52:21Michaels, such a far away look in his eye.
00:52:24The expression on Michaels' face.
00:52:26His face tells this story.
00:52:29He's got to be thinking, what does it take?
00:52:32I've given everything I have.
00:52:34Triple H going downstairs.
00:52:36Somehow, some way going downstairs.
00:52:39And now the game, trying to go back to what brought him to the dance.
00:52:43The pedigree.
00:52:44Here's the second pedigree.
00:52:46But Triple H collapses and falls to his back.
00:52:52And Michaels, luckily for him, falls on his stomach.
00:52:55Right.
00:52:56After delivering the pedigree, right now, unfortunately,
00:53:00the game is in the most precarious position.
00:53:02These men are going to need to be stitched.
00:53:05There's not a way there could be hospital time.
00:53:0845 minutes these men have been beating each other's senses.
00:53:11That, in itself, is perverse.
00:53:1445 minutes inside Hell in a Cell breaks all records.
00:53:20But at what price?
00:53:22At what price?
00:53:24Two magnificent competitors.
00:53:27Lockham or Michaels?
00:53:29Lockham or Michaels?
00:53:31Lockham or Michaels?
00:53:33Lockham or Michaels?
00:53:35Two magnificent competitors.
00:53:38Lockham or not,
00:53:41are putting themselves through this hell that they can never,
00:53:45in my view, ever, ever recover from.
00:53:50Look at the carnage.
00:53:51Ladders.
00:53:53Smashed tables.
00:53:55Tinted chairs.
00:53:57And two broken bodies.
00:54:00This has been a sinister, sinister,
00:54:04ill-fated match.
00:54:07And the referee can't do a damn thing
00:54:10but hope and pray
00:54:13that one of these two men
00:54:16will be able to beat the other.
00:54:18And we're going to stay here as long as it takes.
00:54:25These fans just showing their respect to these two,
00:54:28as you say, great athletes,
00:54:30for just surviving.
00:54:33Being alive at this point.
00:54:35Michaels trying to get up.
00:54:37Turning at least to his side here.
00:54:41Lost so much blood.
00:54:43There's no telling what kind of structural damage
00:54:45these two men have.
00:54:47They have given us their heart and their soul
00:54:50in this demonic structure tonight,
00:54:52and it is not over yet.
00:54:55They've given us their heart and soul,
00:54:57and they've given their bodies to this cell.
00:55:01Category three.
00:55:04Another category,
00:55:06but this time, Michaels,
00:55:08for him, unfortunately,
00:55:10landing on his back.
00:55:12Michaels is not moving.
00:55:14The Game trying, trying
00:55:16to get an arm over.
00:55:18Will he be able to?
00:55:20He's just shifting his weight right now.
00:55:23He's got to somehow
00:55:25fall on Shawn.
00:55:27There, he's done it.
00:55:28Down, the count,
00:55:30the three, it's over.
00:55:33My God, it is perfectly over.
00:55:37Triple
00:55:39eight.
00:55:42What?
00:55:45Unbelievable.
00:55:48Unbelievable.
00:55:5047 minutes
00:55:52and 26 seconds.
00:55:56A pure hell incarnate.
00:56:01You're right, it's
00:56:03an amazing, amazing match.
00:56:08We talk about career threatening.
00:56:11We talk about soul searching.
00:56:14The supreme professional gut check.
00:56:18And we have seen it
00:56:20in spades here tonight.
00:56:24If they could get this thing unpadlocked,
00:56:26I think both of these men
00:56:28need some medical help.
00:56:35We said earlier tonight
00:56:37that the Hell in a Cell
00:56:39is where careers go to die.
00:56:42I hope that I am wrong
00:56:44on that analogy.
00:56:50You can't say anything more
00:56:52than that picture is worth
00:56:54more than a thousand words.
00:56:56These two men
00:56:58both completely gave their all
00:57:00here tonight.
00:57:02Triple H has won this
00:57:04Hell in a Cell match.
00:57:06Triple H is still undefeated
00:57:08in Hell in a Cell matches.
00:57:12He's got some medical help
00:57:14that's coming to the ring.
00:57:16But it is three concerned individuals.
00:57:18Evolution coming down to,
00:57:20I hope, only retrieve
00:57:22Triple H.
00:57:24Their leader,
00:57:26the leader of Evolution,
00:57:28stepped up to the plate
00:57:30tonight, big time.
00:57:35I came with a flare.
00:57:37The indignity of Ric Flair
00:57:39getting in Shawn Michaels' face.
00:57:41A defense from Shawn Michaels.
00:57:43Shawn Michaels left
00:57:45his heart and his soul
00:57:47in this ring tonight.
00:57:49But so did the game.
00:57:51I will give the devil his due.
00:57:53Well, we still haven't seen
00:57:55both of these men
00:57:57that may have to be
00:57:59physically carried out of this ring.
00:58:01Both of them.
00:58:06As a small kid,
00:58:08when I first became a wrestling fan,
00:58:10I was often,
00:58:12almost on a weekly basis,
00:58:14astonished and amazed
00:58:16at the athleticism,
00:58:18and the courage
00:58:20of the men I saw on my television.
00:58:22But I can tell you here tonight,
00:58:24ladies and gentlemen,
00:58:26being here live and in person,
00:58:28this is for me.
00:58:30That if I live to be 100,
00:58:32I will never forget.
00:58:42The plate has been moved again.
00:58:44He has been battered again.
00:58:46But was he beaten?
00:58:48No.
00:58:50I don't even know if
00:58:52I don't know if Triple H realizes
00:58:54he's won.
00:59:02Unbelievable.
00:59:04Shawn Michaels competed
00:59:06in the first Hell in a Cell
00:59:08seven years ago.
00:59:10Little did he know
00:59:12that his career
00:59:14could very well end up
00:59:16inside Hell in a Cell
00:59:18seven years later.
00:59:20Because I am
00:59:22as sure
00:59:24as I'm an Oklahoma Sooner,
00:59:26I am so worried about that
00:59:28man's back.
00:59:30He could have a broken hand
00:59:32from using that fist.
00:59:34He lost a ton of blood.
00:59:38Well, the
00:59:40longest running,
00:59:42most storied rivalry
00:59:44in WWE history
00:59:46has ended.
00:59:50And certainly not the way
00:59:52Shawn Michaels would have wanted it.
00:59:56But he's certainly got nothing to be ashamed of.
00:59:58Absolutely not.
01:00:00The soul of a warrior gave us
01:00:02everything he had.
01:00:04Three pedigrees.
01:00:06And this crowd is
01:00:08not one person has left.
01:00:10They are hushed.
01:00:12Shawn's eyes are open.
01:00:14The crowd is absolutely
01:00:16as we are stunned.
01:00:24And appreciative.
01:00:26As they should be.
01:00:28As the world has to be.
01:00:30With the athletic display
01:00:32that these two men
01:00:34just gave for us.
01:00:36It's an amazing accomplishment
01:00:38that he is going to be able to
01:00:40it looks like leave the ring
01:00:42under his own power.
01:00:44The brutal finality
01:00:46of the Shawn Michaels XXX
01:00:48rivalry has ended
01:00:50inside hell in a cell.
01:00:52What an amazing
01:00:54effort on an
01:00:56unimaginable night.