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00:00For the first time in Wrestlemania history,
00:07the world title on the line were Triple Threat rules.
00:13HBK and Chris Benoit will challenge the world's heavyweight champion Triple H.
00:19Three men with one goal.
00:25This is gonna boil down to a willpower, JR.
00:27Who has the will to win?
00:29All these men are battered.
00:31They're hurt.
00:32They're bruised.
00:33Two are bloody.
00:34Triple Threat time.
00:36No.
00:37Counter.
00:38Crossface.
00:39Will Triple Threat turn out?
00:41The title's on the line.
00:42Benoit ripping it.
00:44No, no.
00:45It's over.
00:46No.
00:48Chris Benoit's 18 year odyssey has culminated by winning the world's heavyweight title at Wrestlemania 20.
00:58Wrestlemania 20 was definitely the biggest night of my career.
01:07People said it was the greatest match in Wrestlemania history.
01:13And now in Backlash, it'll become the greatest rematch of all time.
01:20Three guys believe honestly in their hearts that they're the best.
01:26Three of the greatest of all time.
01:28All.
01:29All.
01:30With something to prove.
01:32Benoit, that he is more than just a one hit wonder.
01:37Shawn Michaels, that he is still the icon.
01:41And Triple H, that that World Heavyweight Championship still belongs to me.
01:48So now it's time to separate fact from fiction.
01:54Once you step into that ring, the only person that you can rely on is yourself.
01:59Because only one of us can walk out.
02:01The World Heavyweight Championship.
02:03Shawn Michaels, Chris Benoit and Triple H in one ring at the same time.
02:08The final encounter for the World Heavyweight Championship.
02:11Three men with one gun.
02:16I'm gone.
02:18I'm all.
02:19Something to prove.
02:20Who has the will to win?
02:21For a rematch of the greatest Wrestlemania beta of all time.
02:26At Backlash, it's going to be the final encounter.
02:31Oh, time to play the game!
02:40Time to play the game!
02:44It's all about the game and how you play it.
02:59All about the gun and you can take it.
03:02All about you standing and you can play it.
03:05It's all about pain and who's gonna make it.
03:08I love the game, you don't wanna play me.
03:11You can describe this eight-time world champion in many ways.
03:18In my view, he's got the animalistic instincts of a hearty race,
03:24the technical wrestling knowledge of a jackpot,
03:28a jackpot, a jackpot, a jackpot, a jackpot, a jackpot, a jackpot,
03:33a jackpot, a jackpot, a jackpot, a jackpot, a jackpot.
03:38The technical wrestling knowledge of a jackpot,
03:41and the confidence of a nature boy, Ric Flair.
03:45And he's damn hard to beat.
03:49Now that is an understatement.
03:53Keep the game.
03:55And when it comes to the World Heavyweight Championship,
04:02this man will be absolutely ruthless.
04:07And will do whatever his body will allow him to do to leave Backlash,
04:13the ninth-time World Heavyweight Champion.
04:18The king of a thousand and a thousand of wrestlers that have preceded Triple H in this great business.
04:29Only four men have won more world titles than Triple H.
04:33If he wins tonight, he ties two of them.
04:38And you will undoubtedly tell us who those two are later on, will you?
04:43Maybe.
04:44Indeed.
04:46From San Antonio, Texas, The Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels.
05:01Well, ladies and gentlemen, Shawn Michaels can be called a lot of things.
05:08Shawn Michaels has a warrior's soul.
05:36Oh.
05:38Triple H and Michaels, there is no stronger, no more heated rivalry, in my view, in this business than Reckles in the game.
05:52But there's nothing more heated than this man's passion for the World Championship.
05:56Triple H.
05:57Uh-oh.
05:59Look at the World Championship!
06:02And making his win the ring, Edmonton, Alberta's own.
06:07Weighing in at 224 pounds, he is the World Heavyweight Champion, Trip Benoit!
06:19A standing ovation for the Heavyweight Champion of the World!
06:24From his hometown proud, here in Edmonton, Alberta!
06:28And there's Chris's kids, of course now residing down in Atlanta.
06:33But Chris grew up here in Edmonton, moved here from Montreal when he was 11 years old.
06:39Boy, what an entrance!
06:42And I can't wait for all this adulation and all of those smiles to be wiped off the face of his family when Chris
06:50Finbar loses the World Heavyweight Championship here tonight.
06:54This is what it's all about, ladies and gentlemen, to be the World Heavyweight Champion after an 18-year journey.
07:06Oh, look at this.
07:09A lot of confidence in Benoit.
07:12He's got the whole crowd advantage here.
07:15He's got it right in the face of two icons, first Michaels and now Triple H.
07:21As it will say to both men, you will not, by God, take this crowd from me here tonight.
07:29Yeah, that remains to be seen.
07:33Tell me about the odds again, Jay.
07:35What about those odds we've been hearing about?
07:37The odds are not good for Benoit to retain.
07:39That's right.
07:40And one reason is the cause.
07:42The first man to score pinballer submission leaves as champion.
07:47Meaning that Benoit doesn't have to be involved in the decision to lose the coveted Heavyweight Championship of the World.
07:55That's right.
07:56The same odds against him at WrestleMania.
08:00And he lost the World's Heavyweight title to Chris Benoit in the Crypto prospects.
08:05The odds are definitely against the champion retaining.
08:08Well, that's okay.
08:10Hey, it's not that bad to be a one-hit wonder.
08:13I guarantee you, folks, these three will leave nothing in the locker room tonight.
08:19We're gonna get everything they've got.
08:22Look out.
08:23And Benoit throws the first blow, and it's on the game.
08:26And Shawn Michaels joining in.
08:28They're double-teaming the game.
08:29Benoit and Michaels.
08:31Benoit and Michaels, double-teaming Triple H again.
08:36Well, now they're working together.
08:38This is not right.
08:39Triple H back body drop.
08:41Isolate the game, and that'll be Michaels and Benoit.
08:45Oh, I wouldn't mind seeing that in the coastline, the game up on the top.
08:49Well, you're about to get your wish.
08:50Oh, man.
08:51I think that was a tooth flying.
08:54Michaels retaliate to the top.
08:56That's Benoit right back.
08:57Wow.
09:00This is gonna be intense.
09:02It's gonna be grueling.
09:04And the physicality.
09:06Oh, there's an example.
09:08Another example of physicality in this one tonight.
09:11These guys are literally trying to chop each other's heads off.
09:14He's an asshole.
09:16Oh!
09:17Benoit, both feet up.
09:19And the knockdown by the world's heavyweight champion.
09:24I don't know.
09:25If I'd have been Benoit, I don't think I'd have brought my family here and set him on the front row.
09:28Nice swinging neck breaker by Shawn Michaels.
09:30With the odds against me like they are against Benoit here.
09:33Back in the ring, gets a chop across that massive chest for his efforts.
09:38And a right hand to the face.
09:41And another right hand.
09:42Ron Michaels now, trying to take over on the game.
09:45It is doing so, thus far, anyway.
09:51Whoa.
09:52Michaels reverses.
09:53High knee.
09:55Pertently executed high knee by the game.
09:57Get Benoit.
09:58Get Benoit.
09:59The game guaranteed that Benoit would not lead Backlash.
10:02The world's heavyweight champion tonight.
10:04You know the odds really aren't in Triple H's favor either because without-
10:08Look at that beautiful move.
10:09And Benoit disposed of giving Michaels and Triple H one on one.
10:15And remember, Benoit can be on the outside.
10:18He doesn't be involved in the decision.
10:20If Michaels picks Triple H, Michaels is the champion.
10:23Or vice versa.
10:24Exactly.
10:25Uh-oh.
10:26Atomic drop.
10:27Knocking down the game is Shawn Michaels.
10:31The reason I say the odds are just as much or maybe even more against Triple H in this match is because,
10:36you know, we've already seen that Benoit and Shawn Michaels are gonna double team and team up with big buddies to go against Triple H.
10:44I don't think they're buddies, King.
10:46And Michaels sent early to-
10:49Whoa, look at that.
10:50And Michaels knows it, felt it, has experienced it, able to counter, says no, not this time.
10:55Look at that double team.
10:57And both Michaels and it took place double teaming Benoit, keeping the champion out of the ring, making it just one-on-one here.
11:05Look at it, Benoit.
11:08Look at it, Benoit.
11:09Oh, no, here we go.
11:10Benoit.
11:11And that release German suplex.
11:12Right on the back of Michaels.
11:13Another one.
11:14Oh, and one for the game.
11:15Look at Benoit, that waist lock.
11:19And Michaels trying to find out of it.
11:21Triple H couldn't connect with a close line.
11:24And Michaels connects to the top.
11:25Benoit on Michaels and on the game.
11:28This action is so fast and furious it's hard to tell who's doing what to who.
11:32Benoit now sets the game.
11:34For the ride.
11:35One, two, three, four.
11:36Go.
11:37Backside a grab by Benoit.
11:38But a table's turned here.
11:41Hard chop by Shawn Michaels.
11:44And another chop by Michaels.
11:46Michaels certainly has an undeniable passion that all the great ones possess.
11:53Oh, my.
11:54But no athlete I know ever had more passion than Shawn Michaels who's down the outside of
12:00the ring in a bad way.
12:02It's now down here at this point.
12:04It's Benoit.
12:05In the crossface.
12:06In the crossface.
12:07A critical crossface.
12:08My God.
12:09This is what moved here by the time of WrestleMania.
12:12Shawn Michaels on the apron.
12:14Benoit saw him.
12:15Want to dispose of Michaels quickly.
12:18Well, he knew that Michaels was gonna come in and disconnect that crossface.
12:22Michaels is not gonna let Benoit get a victory over anybody.
12:26Michaels back ramming into that security wall.
12:29The game holding that arm and Benoit thinking about it.
12:34Going right back down to Michaels.
12:36One more time trying to incapacitate Shawn Michaels as the world's champion.
12:41Michaels with a history of lower back problems.
12:44Well, that's gotta be the strategy of all three men in this title match.
12:48Benoit taking a chance King.
12:49High risk.
12:50Sometimes a butt's in the backside.
12:52He gave Triple H a little too much time to recuperate.
12:55Triple H.
12:56That went up that second rope and pin him off.
13:00Right and back with those.
13:02Wow.
13:03Sharp, tight floor.
13:04Nice headbutts.
13:05Look at those headbutts by Triple H.
13:06Triple H haven't seen a headbutt in a long time.
13:09But this is for all the Marvel.
13:11World's heavyweight title on the line here.
13:13You're gonna see all the stops pulled out tonight.
13:15Look at those headbutts.
13:16Triple H using his head.
13:17Wow.
13:18Has a battering ram on Chris Benoit.
13:20Triple H, they taunted a pain here.
13:23This crowd chanting, let's go Benoit.
13:28There he goes.
13:29There he goes.
13:30Benoit dropped completely out of sight.
13:34And Michaels has got Triple H.
13:36Triple H.
13:37And an electric chair move.
13:40Michaels taking Triple H down in the electric chair.
13:43We call Triple H, he taunted the pain.
13:45But look at this.
13:46Yeah, this crowd was chanting, let's go Benoit.
13:48He went.
13:49Straight to the floor, right in the face.
13:51Benoit took for a $2 stake, we said.
13:53But man, he may be out of arm over.
13:55Could be.
13:56One minute.
13:58Mike Gilda got a long two count, to say the least.
14:02John Michaels, no doubt.
14:05Talked to him earlier today.
14:07He has an overwhelming will to once again be the heavyweight champion of the world.
14:12I'll tell you something, I love these triple threat matches.
14:15You don't even have to beat the champion to become champion.
14:18It's a great, it's a great concept.
14:22Big, big trouble here.
14:28Shawn Michaels is always one second away from kicking your head off with sweet can
14:33music.
14:34And again, face buster, big time face buster by Triple H.
14:38The game scored with the face buster.
14:41You know it would suit these two, Triple H and Shawn Michaels if it would just
14:44fall down in between them two.
14:46That's how much they dislike each other.
14:48That's not gonna happen.
14:50What a number tenist.
14:51What I've done with my kidlock hip-buck.
14:54Carter at the top turnbuckle.
14:59This could do it.
15:00Chris Benoit and Michaels.
15:01Triple H, it's over.
15:03Triple H stopped it.
15:04It's not over.
15:05And it would have been over in my view.
15:07If Triple H had to interrupt for that count.
15:09But that's what triple threat matches are all about.
15:12Yes it is.
15:13And that's gonna boil down to be the difference between Triple H and Chris Benoit,
15:17in my opinion.
15:18The game is just so much smarter.
15:20That's why they call him the Cerebral Assassin, JR.
15:23Right hand by Benoit again.
15:26Man.
15:28And Triple H fights right back with the need for the solar plexus.
15:32Another forearm by Benoit.
15:34Well you can get excited about Benoit all you want to.
15:39And I'm not taking anything away from his athletic ability, but he's a one hit wonder, JR.
15:44What happened at WrestleMania will never happen twice.
15:47Well, you know, you might be right.
15:49And that's why we're having this match.
15:51That's right about Hurricane Irma, wasn't it?
15:52Well, that was big.
15:53And the Irish hit by.
15:55The ball!
15:57Boy, Benoit dropped down, Michaels leaped over.
16:01And the referee was right in harm's way.
16:04Now what?
16:05Now what is right?
16:06And I don't like this at all.
16:08Why not?
16:09One of the things interesting.
16:10Touches.
16:11Oh, referee takes a big shot from HBK.
16:15If we walk right in the line of fire.
16:18And now we got no official.
16:20Michaels knocked to the outside by Benoit.
16:23Triple H back in the ring.
16:25And Triple H now.
16:26Look at Benoit.
16:27Ever the altitude is low.
16:29Triple H's looking for the 28.
16:31Benoit trying to fight.
16:32What's he gonna do here?
16:33Benoit trying to fight.
16:34I have those legs of Triple H that could have been the Sharpshooter.
16:41Of course it's the Sharpshooter.
16:43What do you think he's going for?
16:45Well, there it is.
16:47Wait a minute.
16:48There it is.
16:49He turned it.
16:50No!
16:51Sharpshooter.
16:52The Sharpshooter.
16:53The Sharpshooter.
16:54The Sharpshooter is here in Edmonton.
16:57No!
16:59The cross base.
17:01Benoit looking for the Sharpshooter.
17:04On the way to the cross base on Shawn Michaels.
17:07He's got it locked in.
17:08But there's no referee.
17:10Michaels being tortured.
17:12But he's not tapping.
17:14The pit bull like Benoit ripping at Shawn Michaels.
17:17But there's no referee in sight.
17:20And I think Benoit just now realizes that.
17:22You know, if the general manager is on top of this game,
17:25we might have another referee out here.
17:28Well, at least he came out here and stopped the whole building from getting
17:33set on fire earlier.
17:34I'm sure he's watching this somewhere.
17:36Well, we got an old referee and the world's titles at stake.
17:40Good grief.
17:43Uh-oh.
17:44And now, double leg take down.
17:46Wait a minute.
17:47Wait a minute.
17:48Wait a minute here.
17:49Look at this.
17:50Hold the phone.
17:51Look at this, Sharpshooter.
17:52Shawn Michaels using the Sharpshooter.
17:55Hear it back, Sharpshooter.
17:56How fitting is this?
17:58Oh, my God.
17:59There's Earl Hebner.
18:00Oh, my God.
18:01Do you know what this, do you know what this means?
18:04Earl Hebner asking Benoit if he wants to give up.
18:07Does this move all over again or what?
18:10Look.
18:11Tap out.
18:12Ring the bell.
18:13Ring the bell.
18:14Ring the bell.
18:15Benoit fighting.
18:16Tucking his guts out.
18:18Ring it.
18:19With everything he's got.
18:20Ring it, Earl.
18:21You've done it before, do it.
18:22Ring it.
18:23Michael's sitting back with a Sharpshooter.
18:26Benoit being tortured.
18:27Listen to these fans.
18:28And Triple H coming to.
18:30Michael, let go of the hole to defend himself against the game.
18:35Come on, what?
18:36This crowd here in Canada, I think they just collectively wet themselves.
18:40Look at this.
18:41They're in shock.
18:43Shawn Michaels, again with an overwhelming will to win.
18:49Here we go.
18:50Here we go.
18:51Here we go.
18:52And pinball barely able to kick out.
18:54Michael's a count away from becoming the world's champion again.
18:58U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S.
19:02U.S., U.S., U.S. U.S., U.S., U.S.
19:04absolument Films.
19:05He'll have not endeared himself to these Laird.
19:06Or is the chance for Shawn Michaels?
19:08I'm hearing that coming Sam here almost.
19:11Give it up.
19:12Give it up.
19:13I think Shawn Michaels is taking this personally.
19:18Tom talking aètres .
19:21Let me tell you people, let me tell you people something,
19:23you make Shawn Michaels angry, and he gonna take it out on your hometown hero right there,
19:28you're about to see it.
19:29You're about to see it.
19:31All the way to the crossface.
19:34They're on counter, crossface time.
19:37The crossface is going to tear that arm out of the socket.
19:41No, no, no, no.
19:45Triple H, God Almighty, Triple H, what a collision.
19:49Michaels was about to tap out.
19:52Yeah, I had to believe Michaels was about to tap out when Triple H interrupted
19:57the whole proceedings.
19:59Thank goodness for Triple H.
20:02Man, the cerebral assassin.
20:04He's the smartest man in that ring, I can assure you of that.
20:10I think Triple H needs this title to professionally survive in his own mind.
20:17Look at this fight.
20:19This is a fight for hometown crowd trying to get behind Benoit,
20:23but they just got silence from a Triple H DDT.
20:26Come on, hometown crowd, let's hear you chant now.
20:29Come on, I don't hear you.
20:30I don't hear anybody saying anything.
20:32The cover by the game.
20:34The cover, will it be?
20:35Got it.
20:36No, Michael.
20:37Benoit.
20:38Rocker's length motionless, Benoit able to kick out.
20:41Come on, JR, let's see if we can get this crowd chanting.
20:43Let's go, Benoit.
20:44Look, it's dead silence.
20:47They know he's a one-hit wonder.
20:49Triple H has silenced this crowd.
20:51They've seen Benoit choke before many times.
20:54Wow.
20:55Hard shot.
20:58Man, what intensity here.
21:00Another shot of Benoit's wife sitting here inside.
21:03I'm sure she's seen him choke many times.
21:04Triple H, Triple H being chanted, you tapped out just like he did at WrestleMania.
21:15At the hands of Benoit and the Crossface.
21:19Triple H may never live that down.
21:21Triple H is doing some tapping right now, but he was tapping on the head of Benoit.
21:27Listen man.
21:28Benoit, man, he's a rabid Wolverine.
21:31He's like a four-wheel drive truck with a heart.
21:34He just never stops.
21:35My God.
21:36And over the top with Triple H.
21:39The great velocity.
21:41The power of Benoit.
21:42The leverage.
21:43Benoit now trying to hook up for those down-at-the-back simplexes.
21:47But Michaels countered into the clothesline.
21:49Knocking down the champion.
21:51There's a cover.
21:52Michaels.
21:53Michaels again.
21:54One second away with Shawn Michaels from becoming the world's heavyweight champion.
21:58You know Shawn can take these things they are.
22:00But listen to this crowd.
22:01There's a real uneasiness when you get the combination of Shawn Michaels,
22:05that referee Earl Hector in the ring with their hometown boy, Big Wah.
22:10Wow.
22:11Benoit has been a great success story.
22:13Leaving Edmonton with $20 in his pocket to travel down the counter to train,
22:17and Stuart Stunson, he comes back to his hometown as the heavyweight champion.
22:22All right, now.
22:23Now Benoit's in trouble.
22:25Triple H is in trouble.
22:26And the one man in the ring is Shawn Michaels.
22:31Triple H didn't have it so easy when he was growing up either, you know.
22:34He got picked up in his private academy by a chauffeur.
22:38They had to endure the rigors of Kona training, all kinds of stuff.
22:43Look at this crowd, they need to shut up.
22:44They've done it now, they've made Shawn Michaels angry.
22:50He is gonna take it out on Benoit.
22:53Look out, look out.
22:54My God.
22:55Michaels missed Benoit in Triple H.
22:58He went right over their heads to Michaels, and Michaels has crashed and burned.
23:04He's gotta have broken eyes.
23:05My God Almighty.
23:10Michaels looking for everything in one move.
23:13If Michaels had hit that crossbody, this match could well be over.
23:17I think it is over for Shawn Michaels.
23:20Benoit looking at Michaels, sort of perhaps some empathy.
23:23I don't know, but Triple H capitalizing on it.
23:26Well, let's see this one more time.
23:29Shawn Michaels going for both the game and Benoit.
23:32Like he said, he definitely crashed and burned.
23:35My God.
23:36Michaels is effectively taking himself perhaps out of this matchup.
23:40Triple H has just found himself right behind the wheel of a world championship vehicle.
23:53We got a referee being carried out here on the side.
23:55We got Shawn Michaels probably needs to be carried out.
23:58Triple H's hard right hand.
24:00Piston-like right hand from the biggest, strongest man in this match.
24:05You gotta love this, JR.
24:06I like it.
24:07I wonder, how's the hometown crowd like this?
24:09Get away.
24:10Get off.
24:11Try to stop this beating.
24:12Come on.
24:13Come on.
24:14Again, those, that take right fist beating the holy hell out of Shawn Michaels.
24:19We need medical help out here.
24:22We need, Michaels needs somebody to help him.
24:25Shawn Michaels is not moving.
24:27That's the first sign that there's something wrong.
24:29Well, I don't think he's gonna get any help from the two-tier in the ring right now,
24:33do you?
24:34And Benoit got no help from that steel ring pulse.
24:38God, what a-
24:39Boy, things are pierced.
24:40Things are just playing right into the hands of Triple H right now.
24:44He's definitely, the game is definitely in the driver's seat.
24:46No doubt about that.
24:47Shawn Michaels has effectively been eliminated, and now it boiled down to just what the game
24:51wants.
24:52One on one.
24:53My God.
24:54He said the game was an eight-time champion.
24:57He wins an ideal.
24:58And that's right, and it can't be a more deserving champion than Triple H.
25:02You know that's true, JR.
25:04He's gonna join some elite company tonight.
25:06Verne Gagne and the Rock at nine world titles.
25:10Verne Gagne?
25:11You don't know who Verne Gagne, you'd wrestle for it.
25:16Yeah, I'd like to get him.
25:17Okay.
25:18Look at this guy.
25:19That shoulder just got snapped and cracked on that ring pulse.
25:24And Michaels has not moved.
25:25My God.
25:26I would love her.
25:27I'm concerned for Shawn Michaels.
25:30I'm concerned for Chris Benoit as a matter of fact.
25:33How about being concerned for Triple A?
25:35He's not hurting.
25:36He's the man who's trying to win this championship.
25:38He's the future of the business.
25:40Just a concern for the best man in the ring.
25:43A very vocal crowd.
25:48The hometown of Chris Benoit.
25:52Nothing wrong with that, right hand by the game.
25:55They got a lot of class, but it's all low.
25:58And the game is just, he has opened up.
26:01He has got so much control on here.
26:03And a camel clutch.
26:04Yes.
26:05I like this, they are.
26:07Shades of the Iron Sheikahs.
26:09And a nice close up on the face.
26:11The pain wrecked face.
26:12The toothless face of Chris Benoit.
26:15Benoit's so tough.
26:19Because you can count the times that Benoit's tapped out or
26:22said I quit on one hand in his 18 year career.
26:25You know what, I don't know why I dislike Benoit.
26:27I just do.
26:30Look at the game though.
26:31The game.
26:33My God.
26:34You gotta love the game.
26:35Come on.
26:36The pressure.
26:37What?
26:38You gotta love Chris Benoit.
26:40Don't you give a damn about a guy that all he's ever wanted to do was be a wrestler.
26:44He watched Stampede Wrestling right here in Edmonton as a little boy.
26:47He got 20 bucks in his pocket to go to screen.
26:50Not knowing if he's gonna make it or not.
26:52Wrestle all over the world.
26:54To make it 18 years to get to WrestleMania.
26:57And at WrestleMania finally came, he became the world's champion.
27:01And you're asking me, do I gotta love him?
27:03I didn't ask you to love him.
27:04No.
27:05I ask you to respect him.
27:06All I'm telling you is that lightning is not gonna strike twice here tonight.
27:11And Benoit fights back with everything he's got.
27:14If everything Benoit has isn't gonna be enough tonight.
27:17Pounding game.
27:18Pounding.
27:19Captain sits into that loser's head.
27:22How do you call the world's champion to lose?
27:24He's a choker.
27:25He's a one-hit wonder.
27:27He's a great athlete.
27:29He's just not an icon like the game.
27:32Or even like Shawn Michaels, for that matter.
27:35And again, the game.
27:36Snake high.
27:37No.
27:38Triple H, his face bounced off the top turnbuckle.
27:41What great velocity that time.
27:42No.
27:43And Benoit at least bought himself a little time.
27:46But Shawn Michaels is still on the outside.
27:49Is still motion.
27:51Is there any medical help for Shawn Michaels?
27:53Is he just out of this match?
27:55Well, I never have a heart attack out here.
27:58You just dim your dime.
28:00And a little face buster.
28:02Don't count on mouth to mouth from me.
28:04The game got a face buster in again, this time on Benoit.
28:07Yes.
28:08No.
28:09The tournament, the waist lock locked in tight.
28:13Now I remember why I don't like Benoit this.
28:15Benoit so podacious.
28:17Could the end now be near for Triple H?
28:21On the rocks.
28:23Benoit released that one.
28:25And Benoit now isn't as much as covering the game.
28:29The third time, put him in the charm.
28:33And Benoit feels it.
28:34He sees it.
28:35Benoit is home.
28:36And he wants to retain his title.
28:38He's sensing the victory.
28:40He thinks he's got that lightning in a bottle.
28:43Benoit climbing to the top.
28:45Another high risk move.
28:47Benoit trying to get his balance.
28:50And boom.
28:51My God, nothing there.
28:53First, Michaels burns and crashes.
28:56And now Benoit does the same.
28:58Benoit the showboat.
28:59That's what happens to showboats.
29:02They come crashing back down to earth.
29:04Benoit looking to deliver that headbutt off the top.
29:07My God, ladies and gentlemen.
29:09This is great.
29:10HBK is the showstopper.
29:12And Benoit the showboat.
29:14And his showboat just sunk.
29:16Come on game.
29:17Yes.
29:18Triple H downstairs, looking for the pedigree.
29:20Here we go, baby.
29:21Looking for the pedigree in a total.
29:23This showtime.
29:24We're gonna have a new world champion.
29:26The pedigree.
29:27Benoit just got drilled.
29:29He just got drilled.
29:30But let's not forget that Triple H has just suffered through three German suplexes.
29:35And the crowd is in stunned silence, JR.
29:38Come on, let's hear that chant.
29:42Let's go, Benoit.
29:43The cover.
29:44Triple H's got the cover.
29:45Michael's out of nowhere.
29:48Where'd he come from?
29:49Michael's out of nowhere when it was damn sure obvious to me that Triple H had this match won.
29:56Look at Benoit.
29:57Benoit, you can thank not your lucky stars, but you can thank Shawn Michaels that you're not back in one hit wonder again.
30:04I can't believe this.
30:05Where did Michaels come from?
30:07Three hearts, three souls, three minds, all focused on one goal.
30:11To become the heavyweight champion of the world.
30:14Michaels and Triple H are back up.
30:16They'd like to settle between these two.
30:18These two rivals would love for it just to be them.
30:21And Michaels gets knocked down and gets his stuff right back up.
30:25How is Shawn Michaels back on his feet after flying through that table?
30:28And look at this.
30:29Michaels has got a warrior's soul.
30:31And again a knockdown.
30:32But Michaels will not stay down.
30:34Triple H hitting Michaels as hard and as often as he can.
30:39That'll stop the show.
30:41Downstairs.
30:42These two men are fueled by personal hatred.
30:46Michaels a flying floor, knocking down the game.
30:51Benoit's motionless now.
30:53My gosh.
30:55Look at this carnage.
30:57In the ring, they are the ball down.
31:02What's gonna happen here?
31:04Whoa, major answer.
31:06Michaels somehow nips up.
31:08This crowd doesn't like it.
31:10They're pro Benoit.
31:11We know that.
31:12This is Benoit's hometown.
31:14Michaels.
31:15Michaels, that back has got to be killing him after going through that table.
31:19These Canadians ought to be kissing Shawn Michaels' butt.
31:24If it weren't for Shawn Michaels to be the new champion right this minute.
31:29Shawn Michaels now will take a chance.
31:31It's all or nothing for Michaels here.
31:34Michaels got it.
31:35He got it.
31:36Michaels got the elbow off the top.
31:38And that should do it.
31:39That should do it.
31:40I told you Shawn Michaels could be the wild card.
31:42Shawn Michaels could steal this thing.
31:46Michaels got the elbow.
31:48But he's hurting so badly that he can't get to the cover.
31:51He can barely stand.
31:52Michaels trying to pull himself up.
31:54I think Shawn Michaels is, his brain is scrambling.
31:58He's running on pure instincts.
31:59He's having to look around.
32:00I don't even know if he knows exactly where he is or what's going on.
32:04Michaels has got one thing left.
32:06Uh-oh.
32:07And there it is.
32:08The maestro of Sweet Ten Music.
32:11Is tenor of the man.
32:13This crowd may not like it.
32:14Because they know how addictive it is.
32:16It takes one second.
32:18And Michaels could end this match.
32:20And they know if Shawn Michaels gets that sweet chin music on Triple H.
32:25Chris Benoit can kiss the title goodbye.
32:28Wait a minute.
32:29Benoit's up too.
32:30Benoit moving around with Michaels.
32:32He wants Triple H.
32:33Look at Triple H.
32:34He can't.
32:35And when he.
32:36Michaels got Benoit.
32:37Oh man.
32:39My God.
32:42No.
32:43A low blow.
32:46There's nothing the referee can do about it.
32:48Wow.
32:49Boy Michaels almost took Benoit's head off.
32:52A low blow on Shawn Michaels.
32:53Hey, hey, hey, hey.
32:54It's over.
32:55Everybody's gonna win this one.
32:56Get it.
32:57Check this out one more time.
33:00Sweet chin music on the hometown hero.
33:05Michaels undeniable passion.
33:07Kept him in this match.
33:09After that low blow.
33:10And I hate to say it, but Chris Benoit, you might wanna count him out of this equation.
33:15He's got that right.
33:18Once again though, if it weren't for Shawn Michaels.
33:21No, no.
33:22With everything perhaps he had left elevating the game over the top.
33:28God, what a match.
33:31This is unbelievable.
33:33Come on.
33:34I don't know who.
33:35Come on, game.
33:36Yeah, that's what.
33:37The game.
33:38It is.
33:39It's a sledgehammer.
33:40Yes, it is.
33:41The sledgehammer.
33:42I couldn't see it in the first go-round, but that was a-
33:44Man's best friend.
33:45Clear luck with the sledgehammer.
33:46Or at least the game's best friend.
33:47And is this how the game's gonna become the world's champion?
33:50Michaels is trying to go pull him off and get him a pinning for Dickerman after the sweet chin music, but the game has got a sledgehammer in his hand.
34:07Don't tell anybody.
34:08For the love of God, Shawn Michaels hit on the spine with a sledgehammer.
34:15What are you doing?
34:16Look at the ref, where did that come from?
34:19It doesn't matter where it came from, Home Depot.
34:23Shawn Michaels just got hit on the spine with a sledgehammer.
34:27They have Home Depot in Canada?
34:29And nothing this referee, Earl Hedmer, can do about it, or any of us can do about it.
34:34Well, there's the difference maker, come on.
34:36The ruthless, cerebral assassin.
34:41Well, you gotta admire a man like that.
34:43They will do absolutely anything to win this world championship.
34:46Come on, here we go again.
34:47Here we go again.
34:48Whoa, whoa, whoa.
34:49Benoit, no minute.
34:50Benoit pulling two places out of the ring.
34:54Come on, ref, get in there.
34:56Oh.
34:57Benoit's face, eat some more steel.
34:59Never mind, ref.
35:00God almighty, Benoit's taking a pounding.
35:02He has taken one hell of a beating.
35:04But quite frankly, who hasn't in this ring?
35:07Let's see how much more it can take.
35:09The thing about Benoit, I think he's got too much confidence in his own ability.
35:14He likes moving the furniture around.
35:17I don't know why.
35:19Rearranging things.
35:24Here's the game, you know.
35:26You're not questioning the cerebral assassin, are you?
35:28I'm just asking the question, King.
35:30I guess that's why.
35:31That's why, right there.
35:32Where's your answer?
35:33Everything I say, I'm not questioning somebody.
35:35I didn't know what he was doing.
35:37I know now.
35:38To inflict more pain.
35:40Asking you shall receive an answer from Triple H.
35:44Triple H standing atop the stairs as if he's the king of the mountain.
35:49And he will be if he wins the world title here tonight at Backlash.
35:53My God, you gotta be kidding me.
35:55Now this is sick and inhuman punishment here.
35:59But it could be very interesting.
36:0225, 25, 25 does.
36:05Wait a minute.
36:07Wait a minute.
36:08What the hell is this?
36:09What is this?
36:10What is this?
36:11Triple H, Triple H.
36:13He knocked him into the ground.
36:15His face ricocheted off the ring post like a basketball.
36:20And Triple H right over the security wall on the concrete in the first row of ringside.
36:26Now we really do need medical attention out here.
36:28Take your headset off there and go back there and get somebody.
36:31The DMTs are still with Foley and Orton is all I can think.
36:36Forget Foley.
36:37Get DMTs out here.
36:38Triple H is hurt.
36:39Benoit backed up somehow, some way.
36:41Benoit backed up the game on the outside.
36:44Shawn Michaels is tuning up the band.
36:46Oh no.
36:47Benoit's already suffered.
36:48Switching music once.
36:49It could be over here.
36:50It will be over here.
36:51I had a funny feeling.
36:53I had a funny feeling about Michaels.
36:55Benoit is blocked.
36:56Back heel trip.
36:57Back heel trip.
36:58Back heel trip.
36:59My God.
37:00My God.
37:01Benoit fighting.
37:02My God.
37:03Benoit fighting.
37:04Charmshooter.
37:05My God.
37:06Charmshooter.
37:07My God.
37:08God damn it.
37:09Benoit the Charmshooter on Michaels.
37:10Fight it Shawn.
37:11Michaels is fighting.
37:12Michaels is fighting.
37:13Don't stop this show.
37:14Come on, fight it.
37:16Michaels is fighting for this warrior's soul.
37:19But Benoit is trying to step back.
37:22Pull.
37:23There's Charms here.
37:25Get to those ropes if you can.
37:27Michaels in excruciating pain.
37:29He just inches away.
37:30Come on, Shawn.
37:31Just reach out.
37:32You can just reach out and grab him.
37:34Michaels is inches.
37:35No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
37:37And Benoit walks in the center of the ring.
37:39Benoit trying to step back.
37:42Shawn Michaels is screaming in pain.
37:45Don't give up Shawn.
37:46Fight it.
37:47Michaels is fighting.
37:50But Benoit's got the Charmshooter.
37:52Locked in.
37:53Set in.
37:54Punishing.
37:55The game is up.
37:56The game is up.
37:57Get in.
37:58Get in.
37:59Stop this.
38:00Michaels is hurting.
38:01Is he gonna tap?
38:02Is Michaels gonna tap?
38:04Come on, Gabe.
38:05Get in there.
38:06Yes.
38:07Yes.
38:08Yes.
38:09No.
38:10Michaels taps up.
38:12Benoit wins.
38:13Here's your winner.
38:14And still, the World Heavyweight Champion, Chris Benoit.
38:23Who says he can't come home again?
38:27And who says that Chris Benoit is a one hit wonder?
38:32What an ovation here in Edmonton.
38:37SpinWalk's family at ringside.
38:42We have just witnessed a war.
38:47Man.
38:48I'll tell you what.
38:51You know what, Darren?
38:53I mean, I hate to say this, I hate to even think this, but is Benoit for real?
38:59Is that what this means?
39:00You're damn right, Chris Benoit is for real.
39:04Chris Benoit is the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the world.
39:09And he's letting Triple H, and he's letting Shawn Michaels know.
39:16There is but one world champion.
39:20There is only one world champion.
39:23And his name is Chris Benoit.
39:25I'll be damned.
39:29Chris Benoit is for real.
39:32I'm in shock.
39:34We said earlier, three hearts, three souls, three minds.
39:38All focused on one goal to become the world champion tonight.
39:42The man that walked in against all the odds, showed his toughness, his tenacity,
39:47his will to win this Chris Benoit night.
40:01This is what it would have been like if Edmonton had won the Stanley Cup, isn't it?
40:07The resident Wolverine has come back to his hometown and has successfully retained the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
40:22This has been one hell of a night, hasn't it, JR?
40:25Benoit will be celebrating at his home in Atlanta soon, but tonight he was back in Edmonton.
40:32He's a heavyweight champion of the world.
40:37Benoit has beaten two icons.
40:39Benoit isn't for real.
40:41Benoit is not a one-hit blocker.
40:44Benoit is the man.
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