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00:00The following contest is a ladder match and it is going to enter Continental Championship.
00:25Introducing the challenger from Battle Creek, Michigan, weighing in at 235 pounds, Rob Van Dam!
00:34Rob Van Dam getting screwed out of the Intercontinental title last week.
00:38Christian getting himself intentionally disqualified.
00:41But tonight, it's a ladder match.
00:43No count outs, no disqualification, no submissions and no pinfalls, King.
00:48Only one way to become Intercontinental Champion.
00:51You gotta climb that ladder and snatch that title!
00:54Did you hear the commentary from Al Snow and Coach on those highlights?
00:58Al Snow, uh, he's got a ladder.
01:01Duh!
01:02You know, if Snoop Kennedy were a sport, they'd be world champions, wouldn't they?
01:06And from Toronto, Canada, weighing in at 224 pounds, he is the Intercontinental Champion, Christian!
01:15Well, the big question, King, is that when we get to the Mohegan Sun, this Monday night,
01:21will Christian be wearing the Intercontinental title?
01:24Or will it be Rob Van Dam marching into Mohegan Sun on Raw as the new Intercontinental Champion?
01:33Well, Christian not wearing the title right now.
01:35That title is suspended, as you say.
01:37They are high above the ring.
01:39Way, man, that thing is way up there, isn't it?
01:41You gotta use the ladder any way you can.
01:43Climb it.
01:44Retrieve and possess the Intercontinental title.
01:49And you're the man.
01:50You're the Intercontinental Champion.
01:52And I've often said that Van Dam is the most amazing WWE athlete
01:57to never be world's heavyweight champion.
02:00But the Intercontinental title, so prestigious, on the line, so high up.
02:05Look at that.
02:06What is that about?
02:07It's gotta be at least 15 feet.
02:09And you've always said, oh, that Rob Van Dam has some talented feet.
02:13Well, you're gonna have to use those talented feet to climb that ladder tonight.
02:16It's gonna take a 15 or 20-foot ladder to get there.
02:18And Christian knows he's gotta wear Van Dam down.
02:21That's the game plan here.
02:22Incapacitate your opponent.
02:25Retrieve the ladder.
02:26Van Dam, look at this.
02:27Oh, got it.
02:28That knee kick right into the solar plexus of the reigning Intercontinental Champion.
02:32Oh, man.
02:33But there's no championship advantage here.
02:35If the right one don't get you, the left one will, won't it?
02:37Oh, that's a damn truth.
02:39Van Dam looking for a ladder to use.
02:42There's another ladder.
02:43How many ladders we got out there?
02:44There's several.
02:45Ladders everywhere.
02:46And Christian seeing Van Dam looking for this early opportunity
02:49to make sure that Van Dam can't build any momentum.
02:52And remember, there's no disqualifications and no count-outs.
02:56There are no pinfalls and no submissions.
02:58This was very simple, very straightforward.
03:01Just climb the ladder of success.
03:03And you'll be successful if you climb that ladder and snatch that Intercontinental title.
03:07Oh, look at this.
03:08I love it.
03:09He peaks and goes crazy when he mocks.
03:11Try Van Dam like that.
03:14Christian's going to bring that ladder in the ring.
03:15And Van Dam.
03:16Oh, side.
03:17Oh, that hurts.
03:18And that.
03:19That'll leave a mark on him.
03:20Ladder right back in the face of the Intercontinental Champion.
03:23Now what?
03:24And Van Dam.
03:25Oh, what is he crazy?
03:26Oh, thank God.
03:27Van Dam on somersault plunges.
03:31Well done, Van Dam, thank you.
03:32Come on, look at this.
03:33Oh, man.
03:34Van Dam is absolutely fearless.
03:37Has no fear.
03:38No.
03:39He doesn't care about his own welfare.
03:41How do you get up from that?
03:42How do you recover from landing on that ladder?
03:44Or hit the floor?
03:45You get up because you got a lot of guts.
03:47And the world will become Intercontinental Champion.
03:50I don't know if you do get over it.
03:52But you can get up.
03:53And Van Dam will bring that thumb to the eye.
03:56Thumb to the eye.
03:57And Van Dam, Graham, Cheston.
04:00Face first into the steel steps.
04:02We already saw with Shawn Michaels what those steps can do to your face.
04:05Indeed, yes.
04:06World's strongest man, Mark Henry, won that $100,000 bounty on Bill Goldberg.
04:11The Triple H has placed on Goldberg's ball training.
04:15Yes, now sometimes I wonder.
04:17I think that my strategy would be to try to get the ladder in the ring as quickly as possible.
04:22And every chance you have your opponent in the least fit in capacity trying to climb that ladder.
04:27And don't waste any time.
04:28No, no time.
04:29This match has no time limit.
04:30We have taken our last commercial break.
04:32We'll be here for the duration here, ladies and gentlemen.
04:39Christian's got some evil plan on his mind.
04:42You think?
04:43You think so?
04:44And Van Dam puts on the brakes.
04:46They both put on the brakes.
04:47And Christian now front face locking Van Dam.
04:50Oh, my God.
04:51You've got to be kidding me.
04:54Oh, no!
04:55Christian going abdomen first right on that ladder.
04:59The Christian set up.
05:00Oh, my God.
05:01Van Dam.
05:02Where's Van Dam thinking here?
05:03No, don't do it!
05:04Van Dam, the ultimate risk taker.
05:09Van Dam driving the leg right across the prone body of the reigning, for now, Intercontinental Champion.
05:18That's a typical RBD move.
05:20It hurts Rob Van Dam as much as it does Christian.
05:23It's car crash after car crash here.
05:26What's this again?
05:27Just check out what it does to RBD.
05:31Van Dam may have torqued his own hamstring in the process, but he has a high threshold of pain.
05:38As we said, nose, no beard.
05:41I don't have a high threshold of pain.
05:42I don't either.
05:44I cry when I brush my teeth.
05:46Van Dam tosses the Intercontinental Champion back in at two ladders in the ring.
05:53And the Intercontinental title hanging high above the ring.
05:55With the ladder in the middle, trying to climb it.
05:56Come on!
05:58Van Dam may want to punish Christian some more.
06:00Van Dam holding that lower back and rightfully so.
06:03I don't have a hard kick.
06:04That was like a right hand.
06:06Reverse of the Irish.
06:08Van Dam!
06:09You saw the velocity of that.
06:11He got punished.
06:12Man, what impact that was from Christian sending Van Dam for the ride, face first.
06:17Now, there'll be no covers here.
06:19Well, Rob, watch Rob.
06:20He sets this ladder up himself in the corner.
06:22Going to use it on Christian.
06:23And it's a reversal.
06:25And then there's what you get.
06:27Christian now repositioning the ladder.
06:32With some reverse thought in mind, no doubt, to the crippled Van Dam.
06:37So Christian can set the ladder up and climb it and retrieve his title.
06:42My God, oh Lord.
06:43Look at this.
06:44Look at this.
06:45Oh!
06:46Van!
06:47Van Dam just ate that ladder.
06:49Right in his face.
06:50You're talking about chipped teeth.
06:53Well, I talked to Christian earlier.
06:56We're going to see that again.
06:57Listen to this.
06:58Listen.
06:59Oh!
07:02One more time.
07:03Wow.
07:05That'll send you to the dentist.
07:07Your nose, your teeth, your face.
07:09Right after that steel ladder.
07:11Christian told me earlier that his strategy was he didn't want to be caught at the top rung of that ladder
07:17reaching for that title and have Rob Van Dam be able to dump him all the way out to the floor.
07:21He wanted to incapacitate him first.
07:23They think it worked.
07:24Here we go.
07:25One more step.
07:26You got it, buddy.
07:27He's almost there.
07:28Oh, that could have been a disaster.
07:31Van Dam turned the ladder over and then catches Christian right in the face with that roundhouse kick.
07:37And Van Dam somehow, someway is still able to think here.
07:42After taking all that punishment.
07:44Christian, oh, no, no, you can't do this.
07:46Oh, my God.
07:48No, you've got to be kidding me.
07:50Van Dam.
07:51Look at him press Christian.
07:52Van Dam took great strength.
07:54Military pressing.
07:55No!
07:57Oh, my God.
07:59These men are just maiming each other.
08:02These two athletes may never be the same.
08:05And it's all about becoming the Intercontinental Champion.
08:09This is Rob Van Dam.
08:10I bet when he was a kid, he had one of those shoots and ladders games.
08:14He knows everything to do with a ladder.
08:17Huge crowd tonight here in Chicago.
08:19What's this?
08:20No!
08:21Oh, my God, Van Dam.
08:23Just taking a chance.
08:24RBD's got a chance here now.
08:26He's got the golden opportunity to win this match and become Intercontinental Champion.
08:31You're too far away.
08:32Get in the center.
08:33Van Dam.
08:35He's climbing.
08:36Here he goes.
08:37Van Dam's going to become an Intercontinental Champion.
08:39Christian's out on the floor.
08:40Van Dam.
08:41Christian Dink's up there.
08:42One step away.
08:43Oh, he got Christian.
08:44And Christian now.
08:45Hit Van Dam on that injured lower back.
08:48That injured lower back.
08:50And Christian now.
08:51What's he doing?
08:52He's going to try to climb right over him, I think.
08:53Wait, no.
08:54Wait, wait.
08:55Oh, my God.
08:56Reverse facelift.
08:57No!
08:59Had to be a 10-foot drop.
09:04Oh, this is from our Wile E. Coyote camera.
09:07Look at this.
09:09Oh, my gosh!
09:11Good God, the impact.
09:15The price that these men are paying to be the Intercontinental Champion.
09:19I think 10-foot drop was a conservative estimate on that day.
09:22All those guys fell a long way.
09:26And now what?
09:28The Intercontinental title still hangs in the balance high above the ring.
09:33What more can these two men do to each other?
09:35How much more punishment can their bodies take?
09:40Something's going on in that devious mind of Christian's right now.
09:44He's thinking of something bad to do to Rob Van Dam.
09:46I can assure you of that.
09:48And everything, every move, every maneuver is about becoming the Intercontinental Champion for Van Dam
09:55for retaining the title for Christian.
09:57Uh-oh.
09:58And Van Dam.
10:02The monkey flip!
10:04And the lower back smashing into the ladder of Christian.
10:07Again, no pinfalls or submissions here.
10:09Oh, no.
10:10And a Rolling Thunder!
10:15Oh, mighty Rolling Thunder on a pro man lying on a ladder.
10:20Look at this. Watch this.
10:21Monkey flip.
10:23More Christian's back and legs right into that and then
10:26followed that up with this Rolling Thunder.
10:29Look at that impact.
10:31Cramping Christian's neck.
10:32Driving the air out of his body.
10:35And I said it earlier.
10:36These two men may never, ever be the same after tonight.
10:41Look at the price they're paying.
10:42I think Rob Van Dam is confused right now.
10:45You've got to get that ladder to the center of the ring if you want to reach that championship.
10:50Van Dam trying to incapacitate Christian.
10:52He wants Christian to be a stain in the map.
10:55And Van Dam now.
10:56No, wait a minute.
10:59You don't think he's going to try this, do you?
11:01Not from the top of that 15-foot ladder.
11:03Oh!
11:05Well, we may never know.
11:10And Van Dam face first into the canvas with another crash.
11:16Man, we have seen some wild ladder matches here on Raw.
11:19But on this night here in Chicago, this is as physical as we can in recent memory.
11:25These two guys are coming for this one.
11:27Look at that.
11:28And now right back in the face of the champion.
11:30Listen to this crowd.
11:31Every person in here is on their feet.
11:34This great crowd in Chicago on their feet into this match.
11:39Here's another look.
11:40That's some high impact.
11:43We ain't got time to look at it right now.
11:45We've got to stay with this action.
11:46We've got to stay right here.
11:47My God.
11:48Wait a minute, Christian.
11:49Christian's laying across one ladder.
11:52Oh!
11:54Broken rib.
11:55Can you say broken ribs, JR?
11:57God almighty.
11:59That's got to break something.
12:00Van Dam in the broken ribs.
12:02His sternum.
12:03He may have internal injuries.
12:05I don't know, but Van Dam is hurt, and he's hurt badly.
12:10This is the opportunity.
12:12The very moment that Christian has needed.
12:23Van Dam may have internal injuries.
12:25How could he not after that?
12:26Christian using that leg as a weapon.
12:29As a weapon as it is legal in this match.
12:32And Van Dam virtually motionless on the outside.
12:36And it may be over here now.
12:38Oh, yeah.
12:39Christian's setting that ladder underneath the Intercontinental Championship belt.
12:44Come on.
12:45Make sure it's steady.
12:46You can do it.
12:47The peeps are standing on their feet all in all the continents.
12:50Christian's body's got to be wracked with pain.
12:52All around the world, the peeps are up.
12:55Reach out.
12:57Where did Van Dam come from?
12:59Christian getting Van Dam down.
13:01Get Van Dam right in the mouth.
13:03Christian now trying to get closer.
13:05He wants to get closer to retaining.
13:07He's got it. He's got it.
13:08He's touching his nose.
13:09Van Dam.
13:10Oh, my God.
13:11Van Dam just kicked the ladder over Christian.
13:14Van Dam came out of nowhere.
13:18Van Dam kicks the ladder out from under in front of Rose Watkins
13:21and falls on the ladder.
13:23And now it's Van Dam's opportunity.
13:26Oh!
13:28This is sick.
13:30This is a sick match
13:33for the Intercontinental Championship.
13:35Both of these guys trying to pull that ladder into position for themselves.
13:38I don't know how they're both conscious
13:40of what they're putting themselves through here.
13:42But it's only fitting that it comes down to this.
13:45Both men climbing the ladder at the same time.
13:48The champion and the challenger with one thing on their mind.
13:51And that's the Intercontinental title.
13:53It hangs in the balance.
13:55High above the rim.
13:56And they're both in a precarious position here.
13:58The ladder is teetering.
13:59Oh!
14:01Oh, Christian.
14:02Christian hangs up and Van Dam landed on the other ladder.
14:08Van Dam landed on the other ladder.
14:13Van Dam, what's he doing here?
14:14No, no, don't go any higher.
14:16You can't do this.
14:18What the hell is Van Dam thinking?
14:25Van Dam on top of the ladder.
14:29Don't do it!
14:30No!
14:31Oh, the five star on top of the ladder.
14:37For the love of God, these two men
14:41are killing their careers.
14:43They're killing each other.
14:45I've never seen anything like this and now still.
14:48Van Dam gets to his feet.
14:50How does he do it?
14:51Van Dam with the guts of a champion.
14:54The will of a champion.
14:56Why will he be the champion?
14:57Watch this first.
14:58Watch this replay.
14:59Have you ever in your life seen such a five star frog splash?
15:04Van Dam.
15:05Excuse Christian.
15:06The ladder's over Christian.
15:08Van Dam's trying to climb the ladder.
15:11Van Dam's on the top.
15:13Can he do it?
15:14Can he do it?
15:15He does it!
15:16He does it!
15:17Yes!
15:18Van Dam!
15:19Van Dam!
15:20And the new Intercontinental Champion,
15:23Rob Van Dam!
15:26Rob Van Dam has done it!
15:29Van Dam is the Intercontinental Champion!
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