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00:03I'm going to get your final thoughts when you head to the ring to face John Cena.
00:06Final thoughts?
00:08I'm going to go out there and I'm going to do what I should have done two years ago.
00:20Ladies and gentlemen, up next, it is the most anticipated rematch in recent memory.
00:25Triple H versus Cena for the WWE title.
00:30Ladies and gentlemen, it is a match for the ages.
00:37The truly great thing about WWE is once in every great while, it provides moments.
00:47Moments that every single one of you know exactly where you were and what you were doing.
00:55This is the greatest tribute any champion could ever have.
01:01We have a champion history made in person's football.
01:07He got it with a tear in my eye.
01:15The title is left to the dark side.
01:19The boyhood dream has come true for Shawn Michaels.
01:28Frog splash!
01:30Frog splash!
01:31And he's over at home!
01:33It's champion!
01:37Altair champion!
01:39Stone Cold!
01:40Stone Cold!
01:42Stone Cold!
01:43That night of champions, they will receive that moment that transcends time.
01:48These two men will indeed create a moment in time for the richest prize in the WWE.
02:01It's never been personal.
02:03Between you and me, what it comes down to is being the best.
02:07And right now, we're looking at the best.
02:13Yeah, but if memory serves me correct, the one match that we've had.
02:17And I will!
02:19STFU!
02:20This will be the match!
02:22It's all on the line!
02:24See the game!
02:25Oh, look at this!
02:26It's the game!
02:26It's the game!
02:28It's the game!
02:28See the game!
02:29I don't believe it!
02:30You beat me, and I've never gotten over it.
02:33You know why?
02:34Because I know you're not as good as me.
02:38You'll never be as good as me.
02:42Triple H, Cena, are you ready?
02:44If you want some, are you ready to fight?
02:46Come get some.
02:48Until you take this from me, you may have that.
02:51But until you beat me, you are nothing.
02:55You're nothing.
02:56Oh, my God.
02:57Night of champions.
02:58It's going to be a moment.
03:07This contest is scheduled for one fall, and it is for the WWE Championship!
03:15Oh, yeah.
03:54I'm gonna tell you something, if you don't have goosebumps right now, there's something wrong with you.
04:00If you're not excited about this, ladies and gentlemen, go home.
04:03It is a big fight atmosphere here in front of the sellout crowd in Dallas, Texas.
04:08The WWE Championship is on the line.
04:11And here is the number one contender for that title, the three-time champion, John Cena.
04:19And Caden Simple, a win tied, and the WWE title will stay on Monday Night Raw.
04:26A loss for John Cena, Triple H takes the gold to SmackDown.
04:39I don't think I've ever seen John Cena more puzzled than he is at this moment.
04:44For the first time since WrestleMania 22 over two years ago,
04:49John Cena will go one-on-one with the game, Triple H.
04:54The WWE title on the line at Night of Champions.
04:59Well, you mentioned John Cena wanting to bring the WWE Championship to Raw.
05:08Our fans voted earlier, they were wrong about Batista.
05:12But maybe they'll be right about John Cena.
05:32Detective Omega Watson she's
05:34thenUnaccrested on the lady.
05:39Oh, okay.
05:41Let's go.
05:41Here we go baby Nikki.
05:42Oh, you might want to call her a cerebral assassin for nothing.
05:46The game is making Cena wait.
06:14It's all about the game.
06:16And are you playing?
06:17It's all about control.
06:18But if you can take it, it's all about you.
06:21Yeah, and if you can play it, it's all about control.
06:23The wait is over, Michael.
06:25They're gonna get it on.
06:27You know what I mean?
06:28I am control.
06:30Triple H should be the poster boy for Night of Champions.
06:35He is perhaps the greatest, the most prolific champion in WWE history.
06:41A 12-time world champion.
06:44A grand slam winner.
06:46He's won all the titles in WWE.
06:50He's won King of the Ring.
06:51He's won the Royal Rumble.
06:55He is indeed the game.
06:57And I want to play.
07:12Wow.
07:13Well, seldom, Michael, do you ever see two huge fan favorites, two WWE superstars so idolized.
07:21Go at it.
07:22And these two, John Cena, Triple H, maybe the two most, the two biggest fan favorites ever.
07:30Okay, this night has been etched in the mind of Triple H for nearly two and a half years.
07:36It has been eating at him.
07:38Triple H obsessed over the fact that he has never beaten John Cena.
07:44That he tapped out to John Cena, back in WrestleMania 22.
07:49And in his own words, he admits he's never gotten over it.
07:54."
07:54Go get to him."
08:06Wow, what a side, what a night.
08:09They are jam-packed to the Raptors over 16,000 here in Dallas to see this historic main event
08:17between two great champions, Triple H and John Cena.
08:26Introducing first, the challenger from West Newberry, Massachusetts,
08:31weighing in at 240 pounds, John Cena!
08:44And from Greenwich, Connecticut, weighing in at 255 pounds,
08:50he is the WWE Champion, Triple H!
09:11Senior referee Mike Chioda will officiate this matchup. Matches like this do not happen often.
09:17So ladies and gentlemen, sit back and enjoy what should be a classic.
09:23Classic is right. What a night, what a night of champions!
09:27Three titles have changed hands tonight. Will that title, the WWE Championship,
09:33the greatest of them all change hands in this one.
09:41Huge matchup, quite frankly, Michael, I'm gonna be pulling for John Cena to bring that title
09:47back to Monday Night Raw.
09:49Do you realize, if not we won't have a championship on Raw?
09:53Edge and Shore, the world title stayed on SmackDown moments ago.
09:56John Cena hopes to bring it home, the WWE title, home to Monday Night.
09:59Right now, when this matchup is underway.
10:04Triple H, the new property of SmackDown.
10:07From the draft last week.
10:11Both men feeling each other out here in the early going.
10:14Again, the first time they've met one-on-one in over two years.
10:18For John Cena, the quest to regain the goal began when he eliminated Triple H
10:22back in the Royal Rumble in January.
10:26Cena's return from that pec injury.
10:28And remember, King Cena never lost the WWE title.
10:32He had to relinquish it because of the torn pictorial muscle.
10:36And when I look at Cena, the bulging muscle, then look at the physique on Triple H.
10:42And when you think about strength, it's hard to figure which one of these guys is gonna have the advantage.
10:46When it comes to strength and power in this match.
10:49John Cena beat, I should say beat Jeff Fardy to get to this matchup tonight.
10:54To become the number one contender.
11:03The smile breaking out of the face of the game in the early going of the matchup.
11:09And there's the power you were talking about from the champion.
11:11And that smile you were talking about, I think, has a...
11:15Triple H would love to give...
11:16Oh, John Cena, a little wrestling lesson along the way.
11:21Triple H, the cerebral assassin.
11:25There's the exclamation point.
11:27Well, the mind games, the psychological warfare from the veteran.
11:31The very shrewd and wise Triple H, trying to set the tone in the early going.
11:36Yeah, but you know, some may disagree.
11:38I don't know if that was a wise thing to do.
11:41One thing that Triple H, I think, does not want to do is get John Cena angry.
11:52And I think a little bit, and now just a little bit disappointed in himself so far.
11:58Slapping his head, saying, come on, get with it.
12:04Here, now here, here we're talking about strength and power.
12:07That headlock clamped on by the game, and now Cena powered out of it and reversed it.
12:10Yeah, the tenacious Cena into a headlock of his own.
12:16Oh, man.
12:20That's the ground, Michael.
12:22We haven't seen the pound yet, but that's the ground.
12:25That headlock is clamped on John Cena, clamped on Triple H by Cena like a vice.
12:32He's referring to Cena's pounded ground attack.
12:36Very aggressive Cena.
12:40A little in your face from the former champion.
12:48So both champions trying to stake their ground here, King.
12:52Well, you go to the well once too often.
12:56Well, not exactly a cross chop, but the message sent by John Cena.
13:03Whoa.
13:05He's gonna come right down.
13:06The brawl begins.
13:07John Cena hammering away on the WWE Champion.
13:11The brawling game may indeed favor Cena.
13:14One, two, three.
13:17One, two, three.
13:19One, two, three.
13:20One, two, three.
13:20Oh, man.
13:21Fisherman Cena quickly to the cover.
13:23Hooks the leg.
13:24Title on the line.
13:25First cover of the matchup and a kick out at two by Triple H.
13:30I don't know, you said the brawling game may have, Cena may have the advantage.
13:34I don't know.
13:35I mean, both of these guys are so equally matched.
13:38I've seen Triple H in some fabulous brawls, and he can go with the best of them.
13:44Look at this.
13:45Killer knocked down by Cena.
13:47Cena trying to build the momentum.
13:48Nobody home, and there's the cerebral assassin.
13:53Yep.
13:54It looks like he sucked John Cena right in there, and outsmarted him, outmoved him,
13:59and the way you see the results.
14:02One, two, three.
14:03This matchup for the WWE title is simply about being the best, period.
14:10That's why we still saw Cena, ooh, slapping his forehead earlier.
14:14It's like keep your eye on the ball.
14:16You know, Cena, he'll make some mistakes, but he's so tenacious.
14:19It's like he overcomes him.
14:21He'll keep coming at you.
14:24Triple H makes very few mistakes.
14:30One, two.
14:31Driving the knee to the spine of Cena.
14:35Looking to wear down the number one contender.
14:42Knee to the back, and it looks like Hunter is up.
14:44They're targeting the small, the back, and the early going.
14:47You're right, that's not gonna help.
14:49It's not gonna help that back of John Cena after two knees driven in there,
14:53and then to be dropped across the knee of the game.
14:59That's gonna have an effect as well.
15:02WWE Champion Triple H yet to go for a pinfall in the matchup.
15:08Punishing Cena.
15:11You know, Michael, the game Triple H is calculating.
15:16I mean, look at this strategy right now.
15:20I mean, he is zeroing in on the small of the back of John Cena, and he'll stay there.
15:26Triple H has something to prove in his mind tonight.
15:28He's gotta prove a point.
15:29Wow.
15:32Obsessed over the fact that he's never beaten Cena, that he lost to John Cena at WrestleMania.
15:37Triple H would like an emphatic victory here tonight.
15:49I don't know.
15:51You're right.
15:52Triple H would love an emphatic victory.
15:54But these two superstars are, to me, in my opinion, are so well and evenly matched.
15:59I don't see how either of them can get an emphatic victory.
16:01Quickly, for the cover.
16:03Hook of both legs.
16:04They have him here.
16:04First one to the back.
16:05And a kick out by Cena.
16:08A near fall for the WWE Champion Triple H.
16:12Each one of these guys so far, at least to me, it appears that each one are trying to prove
16:17or show their dominance over the other.
16:23Each one trying to sustain the upper hand.
16:31Hands to place a little bit of bombs to the head of Cena, and Cena retaliating.
16:36Really been a stalemate this fall.
16:43He ran into those big boots.
16:47Look at this shot.
16:48Cena counter.
16:51Uh-oh.
16:52Triple H.
16:53Cena saw it coming.
16:54He's losing.
16:56And now Cena looks to build momentum.
16:59He gets that near 250-pound frame roll, and it's hard to stop.
17:04Boom.
17:16Oh, here we go.
17:19This could be the beginning of the anoint.
17:22Triple H taking advantage of Cena, taking too much time, and John Cena with a quick right hand of his
17:27own.
17:27Cena relishing the upper hand for way too long there.
17:32Oh, high knee.
17:35Vintage Triple H.
17:41Yep.
17:43Reverse.
17:44Oh.
17:46Face crusher by Triple H.
17:49As each man tries to gain control in the matchup, gain the upper hand, can't they haven't been able to.
17:54Back and forth, back and forth.
17:56Oh, watch this.
17:57Game stalking.
17:58Hey, he's going for it.
17:59Pedagree time.
18:01No.
18:01Cena saw it coming.
18:04Down back by John Cena.
18:06Score first goes Triple H.
18:08Can Cena capitalize?
18:18Well, looks like Cena going to the top.
18:21We don't see this too often from John Cena.
18:26Oh, what a lay drop to the back of the net.
18:29This could be it.
18:30Can John Cena take advantage?
18:33And Cena's feeling it.
18:36Adrenaline pumping.
18:39Oh, look out here.
18:41Look like he may have been going for the submission hold at STFU.
18:45The same submission, he beat Triple H with at WrestleMania 22.
18:52You gotta know that that's the foremost thing in the mind of the game.
18:55Not to succumb to that move again.
19:03Cena, you're giving the game too much time.
19:11Here it is, vintage John Cena.
19:13I think you're right, King.
19:14I think Cena's trying to establish dominance.
19:16You can't see me.
19:18Five-knuckle shuffle.
19:19No!
19:20And it caught Cena again.
19:22Another knee lift to the jaw.
19:25Man, I question, does Cena realize he's forgetting who he's in the ring with?
19:31It's Triple H!
19:33WWE Champion!
19:35Can't grandstand on the game.
19:37Well, the grandstanding, as you called it, has allowed Triple H to seize control.
19:42And the Cerebral Assassin, you can see the gears turning in his mind as he stalks and measures the number
19:48one contender.
19:49Triple H wants to hit that pedigree.
19:52You can taste it.
19:53Yeah, Cena may be tasting it.
19:55No, 8, Cena!
19:56Look out!
19:58Triple H!
19:59Oh, oh, oh!
20:00Oh, no!
20:01Get up!
20:03Come on, Triple H!
20:04Get up!
20:05Get up!
20:05Oh, no.
20:06Check his knee.
20:08Triple H!
20:08Come on!
20:09Triple H!
20:11Triple H went right for the knee when he flew over the top rope.
20:15And remember, King, the history of leg problems with Triple H.
20:19Torn quads on two separate occasions.
20:22The first thing that flashes into your mind when Triple H went to the legs and see how fast he
20:27fell.
20:29And the power of John Cena, he just literally whipped Triple H over that top rope.
20:34One, two, three!
20:35The game landed awkwardly out there.
20:38Remember?
20:41You can see that again from an angle.
20:43Watch, watch as he lands.
20:45Oh, man!
20:47I don't know if that knee was hyperextended.
20:49Triple H, the champion, back in the ring, broke the count, but John Cena.
20:53Oh, look at the line in there!
20:54Yeah.
20:57He may not like the response, but John Cena doing what he has to do, King, to try to win
21:01the WWE title.
21:02Let's take advantage of an injury.
21:05Well, we saw it earlier on.
21:07Triple H, whoa!
21:08Triple H went after the smallest Cena's back, but at least he did it in the ring.
21:13It's Cena taking a page out of Triple H's playbook.
21:16Right out of the playbook of the cerebral assassin.
21:19Yeah, looks like John Cena now sees a bullseye on the leg.
21:23Triple H!
21:24And now it's Cena who's clever and calculating, wearing the champion down.
21:33Well, nothing, I don't know if you think about it, nothing illegal so far from either man.
21:39No, not at all.
21:41It's been a great matchup.
21:42See how I'm telling you this enough.
21:43No!
21:44No!
21:52Cena beating the referee's count.
21:53Back in the ring and now, John Cena trying to drag the champ back toward the middle of the ring.
21:58And he wants to hook that STFU on Triple H so bad.
22:03No better knowing exactly where he was in the ring as Cena goes right back for the injured knee.
22:09Come on, John.
22:11I'm rooting for you.
22:12Bring that title back to Raw.
22:15Every time Cena goes to the STFU, Triple H tries to battle out, but this time he may not be
22:19able to.
22:22Cena's gotta turn Triple H over on his belly.
22:27And again realizing that.
22:28Ooh!
22:29But Cena, relentless.
22:31He's got a death grip on the leg of Triple H.
22:35Cena determined.
22:36Oh, here we go!
22:37And there it is!
22:38No, no, no!
22:39Can he get it locked in?
22:39He's gotta get it locked in!
22:43And Triple H battling and fighting for everything he's worth.
22:49And Cena forced to break the STFU as Triple H made it to the bottom rope.
22:54Well, you have to know, you have to know in your heart that the one thing that the game has
22:59thought about in this match that he was not gonna tap out again.
23:03He's gonna try to, he's gotta have devised any number way to count on that STFU.
23:09Look at that!
23:09Went for the FU.
23:10Triple H countered!
23:12Pedigree!
23:13Pedigree!
23:14Triple H got Cena!
23:16He's laying right on that bad knee again.
23:18But can he take advantage?
23:19Crawls toward the cover.
23:21Hooks the leg.
23:22Title on the wall!
23:23And Cena kicks out at 2 and a half!
23:25Uh-oh!
23:28Perhaps that slight hesitation because of the injury to the knee may have cost the game.
23:34I'll tell you that injury to the knee may cost the game this match because that may have been all
23:38he had.
23:41A look of anguish in the eyes of the game, the WWE Champion.
23:48Get up Cena!
23:49Get up Cena!
23:49Come on!
23:50That Pedigree had its effect on Cena!
23:52He's roughly up to a count of five!
23:58Title will not switch hands if there is a draw here.
24:06You have to know that if Triple H's leg hadn't given out after that Pedigree, it would have been a
24:12successful title defense by the game.
24:14Both men back to their feet.
24:15Both men gaze.
24:16John Cena looks to take advantage.
24:18Yeah!
24:19That's it!
24:20FU connects!
24:21Come on Cena!
24:22Can Cena take advantage and become a four-time champion?
24:25Here we go!
24:26Hooks the leg!
24:27There's one!
24:28Two!
24:29Did he get it?
24:29No!
24:30Two and a half!
24:31Hit it!
24:31Triple H kicked out!
24:33That wasn't a three count!
24:36Oh!
24:41Oh, how close was that?
24:50I don't think that Cena didn't have the velocity that he would normally have on that FU because of his
24:55-
24:56that repeated abuse that his back had taken from Triple H earlier.
25:02Cena's stirring referee Mike Chiodas at a count of five.
25:08The game- the game not- not moving much.
25:11There he goes.
25:15Hooks eight.
25:18Cena hoping to build momentum as he gets back to his feet first.
25:21Oh!
25:22Oh!
25:26What a-
25:26Hard right!
25:27I think he may have knocked the tooth out.
25:29Oof!
25:29Wow!
25:31Triple H answered with a hard right of his own!
25:34Oof!
25:39Oof!
25:39Oof!
25:41Oof!
25:41Oof!
25:41And these guys are just falling off and throwing bombs now, Michael!
25:45Oof!
25:47Oof!
25:48Oof!
25:49Oof!
25:50Oof!
26:03This is amazing.
26:07It's like, it's like they're,
26:10almost it's like they're knocking scents into each other,
26:12giving each other more adrenaline and power.
26:15Triple H, Mr. Wally with a run.
26:27Both men leaving it all on the line for the WWE Championship.
26:41This is the third time the charm.
26:43You can't see me.
26:47Five knuckle shuffle, he is.
26:52I think psychologically at least for
26:55himself John Cena had to connect with that.
27:01And it's Cena the contender now stalking the champion.
27:05I'm feeling Michael, I'm feeling the beginning of the end, and it goes.
27:08Back to the FU, Triple H trying to hang on.
27:10His championship reign, maybe just hanging out of the top rope.
27:17Triple H with a counter.
27:18Hey.
27:18Cena with a counter.
27:20This is it.
27:21STFU in.
27:22Yes, he got it.
27:23He's tapped in.
27:23He's tapping.
27:24Is he tapping?
27:25No, he's not tapping.
27:26Triple H is trying to make it to the bottom rope.
27:29Oh, but look at the strength and the power that Cena's exerting.
27:34He's gonna have to tap.
27:45This is what Triple H tapped to two years ago at WrestleMania.
27:49This had to be the game's biggest fear coming into this match.
27:54And now he's real.
27:55Look at the way the game's leg is contorted.
27:59This has gotta be excruciating pain.
28:01Fingertip away.
28:04Whoa.
28:05For a moment.
28:06No help from the ropes.
28:07Back to the center of the ring.
28:09Look at the game trying to block.
28:13Triple H blocking and trying to counter.
28:15Triple H trying to counter.
28:21John Cena.
28:23John Cena now locked in.
28:25Will Cena tap?
28:28Will John Cena tap?
28:35I can't believe this turn of events.
28:38Now Cena the one in excruciating pain.
28:41I don't see any way out.
28:43There may be no way out.
28:45Cena fading.
28:48Triple H the game with a cross face locked in.
28:56Cena's fading.
28:57The number one contender's fading.
28:59I don't think I've ever seen anyone block that STFU submission like the game did.
29:05But now, look at the strength.
29:07Oh my God.
29:08Look at this.
29:08The strength and the power.
29:10The grit.
29:11The determination.
29:13Of John Cena.
29:15He lifted Triple H up into an FU position.
29:18Oh.
29:21Oh, this is amazing.
29:23Pedigree.
29:25Pedigree.
29:25He faced first.
29:26Triple H the cover.
29:28Hooks the lead.
29:30Oh my God.
29:34It's over.
29:35Here is your winner and still, the WWE Champion, Triple H.
29:46It was a moment of twists and turns, of ups and downs.
29:51But finally, the WWE Champion was able to capitalize with a pedigree and retain the title.
30:00What a match.
30:03I don't know if I've ever enjoyed a match of two great fan favorites as much as that one.
30:12And retribution for the game.
30:15Triple H doing what he said he should have done two years ago.
30:20Triple H eating the score with John Cena retaining the WWE Championship.
30:30Indeed a moment here at Night of Champions in Dallas, Texas.
30:35The dejection and the disappointment on the face of John Cena.
30:39But this is.
30:42You know, I'm looking, I'm wondering if, I'm wondering if Cena might have,
30:45some of the torn pectoral muscle there.
30:48You know, that's the same way he carried his arm when he had that last pectoral injury.
30:54Triple H retains the WWE Championship.
30:57Triple H is bringing that title to Friday Night SmackDown.
31:01Triple H.
31:04Well, each one of these great superstars has a victory over the other now.
31:11A classic, classic battle.
31:15For WWE Supremacy.
31:19I'm worried about Cena's back then.
31:22Could not look good.
31:34It was the same with Cena.
31:47He couldn't get into the cover in time.
31:49To take advantage of the FU.
31:51And then the STFU.
31:52The same move that Triple H checked out to in WrestleMania.
31:56But watch this counter by Triple H.
31:59By John Cena.
32:00He blocked Cena from being able to hook his head.
32:02And then turns.
32:03Look at, look at this.
32:05Amazing.
32:06Pulled Cena's right arm right into that.
32:09Crossface.
32:10And on top of that amazing, look at this.
32:13The amazing strength and power of John Cena.
32:16And possibly with a torn pectoral muscle at this time.
32:21But still able to get the game up.
32:26And those three elbows to Cena's jaw.
32:29And then the pedigree.
32:36Triple H retaining the WWE Championship in a great battle at Knight of Champions.
32:43I gotta tell you, I don't wanna be crashed, but these two men literally beat the hell out of each
32:47other.
32:48Thank you for joining us from Dallas, Texas.
32:52Good night, everybody.
32:53What a night.
33:00Morning.
33:01Morning.
33:02Morning.
33:04Morning.
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