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00:01It's time to play, time to play the game
00:23It's all about the game, and how you play it
00:26It's all about control, and if you can take it
00:29It's all about your debt, and if you can pay it
00:31It's all about pain, and who's gonna make it
00:34I am the game, you don't wanna play me
00:37I am the game, no way you can take me
00:40The following is a hell in the cell match
00:44And it is given for one ball
00:46Introducing Burke from Grenad, Connecticut
00:49Weighing in at 265 pounds
00:54Triple H!
00:56Triple H has never lost a one-on-one match and held a cell
00:59He has beaten Cactus Jack, Kevin Nash, Chris Jericho
01:04Triple H has beaten a trawler, a mauler, and a technical wrestler
01:09Three diverse, different styles
01:11And the game has come out victorious each and every time
01:16But none of those men, in all due respect, are the showstoppers
01:23Well, it's hard to beat the game at his own game
01:26And it seems that Hell in a Cell is Triple H's game
01:30And that's why I wondered there, why?
01:32Why on Earth would Shawn Michaels ask?
01:35No, not ask, demand this match here tonight
01:38For finality
01:39To end this rivalry once and for all
01:45But it's almost like a, maybe you're right
01:48It's gonna happen, it's gonna be finality
01:50But it's almost like Shawn Michaels has his own day with
01:54To be in this kind of match with that man
01:58The Hell in a Cell is like Satan perversely waiting on new victims
02:11And from San Antonio, Texas, The Hot Played Kid, Shawn Michaels
02:22That's a nominal ovation for the man with the warrior soul, Shawn Michaels
02:32But can Shawn Michaels regret the places he's not been before in years to survive this?
02:44This is Survival Sunday for both That Man Triple H and That Man.
02:50Shawn Michaels better be able to survive.
02:55He better be able to get to that place, JR.
02:59That Man Triple H could and will try to end Shawn Michaels' career right here tonight.
03:08And if Triple H can get it done, let's not discount the effects of The Hell in a Cell.
03:16The Hell in a Cell, the keeper of love, slash, and career.
03:23There's only been ten Hell in a Cell matches in the history of this company.
03:28Only 13 men have been put inside this Hell in a Cell.
03:33And I will tell you, and I think they will tell you, they were never the same again.
03:42Shawn Michaels is looking up at this demonic cell.
03:45He's contemplating exactly what you're talking about, JR.
03:50Here it comes.
03:52You might as well say the steel executioner is being lowered around this very ring into human beings.
04:03It's like a huge black cloud falling down on both of these men.
04:08As wicked and unforgiving as Triple H is, by his own admission, so is this structure.
04:17Nobody's getting in.
04:19These two men aren't getting out.
04:22This is a one fall to a finished match.
04:26And to tell you I have a peaceful, easy feeling about this would be total fabrication.
04:35I don't think they are.
04:37I don't think either man was overly anxious to get this thing started.
04:42I mentioned on Heat this was like a wrestler's prison, the house of detention and depravity.
04:50These are the last precious few moments that either of these men are ever gonna be.
04:56Well, the same, they are ever gonna be the way they are right now.
04:58You're right.
04:59They will both be changed after this match.
05:05This rivalry has gotten so perversely personal.
05:08Collar and elbow tie up in Triple H will have a size and strength advantage.
05:14Michaels can counter with speed, quickness, and heart.
05:18Not to say the game doesn't have heart.
05:20He's got plenty of, and a big right hand, and another right hand by the game.
05:25Michaels turning the table here.
05:30My pants chopping a right hand.
05:35This match starting off at a breakneck pace, but the hatred that exists between these two men,
05:43that's all you can expect.
05:44These guys aren't gonna be in there to wrestle each other.
05:46They're not actually in there to try to pin one another, JR.
05:50They wanna end this thing, once and for all.
05:53There's no time limit, no disqualifications.
06:14And Michaels taking down the game, and measuring those right hands on Triple H,
06:22to shove Michael off of that belt position.
06:27Michaels throwing the outside, lands on his feet, right back in.
06:31And Michaels again, with a lute-nest press,
06:34Michaels so tenacious, so driven in this rivalry to end it here tonight.
06:42The fans here in the green side,
06:45counting off those big right hands by Shawn Michaels.
06:48In the forehead of Triple H.
06:51Third time out with the corner over the top rope, out to the floor.
06:55The ringside area surrounded by the hell in a cell.
06:59And don't think that that cell is not gonna come into play.
07:02Each one of these men know it's there.
07:03They know when they wanna use it.
07:06They know they can't get out of that door.
07:08It's completely chained and padlocked.
07:13I hear the fans here.
07:15Columbus, Ohio.
07:16Nobody there for Triple H, right hand with Michaels counters for
07:20right hands of his own.
07:24And cannot be counted out.
07:26Referee is only in there to count somebody's shoulders.
07:29Or to ring the bell for submission.
07:33Referee cannot make too many mistakes here.
07:36And Triple H may have made a calculated area there.
07:40Lowered his head.
07:41Michaels capitalized quickly with his spinning, swinging neck breaker.
07:44Covered.
07:45Covered.
07:46One fall to a finish.
07:48Again, no disqualification.
07:50There is no time limit.
07:53No count outs.
07:54And no stopping for blood.
07:56I hope I haven't jinxed these two men.
07:59I think that little pinning attempt came strictly out of instinct there from Shawn Michaels.
08:09I don't think he would have been content to get a win over Blake that easily.
08:13Do you?
08:14I think he wants this to be more final.
08:16I think Shawn Michaels wants to Blake to know once and draw that Shawn Michaels, HBK,
08:23is the better man of the two.
08:24That's what this is all about.
08:26Who is the better man?
08:28Right.
08:28Find that out tonight.
08:30Good job.
08:36Very unforgiving steel as you say, JR.
08:38No doubt about it.
08:40Every inch of it can cut you in some kind of way.
08:43Hell in a Cell is where careers go to die.
08:51So unforgiving.
08:54This could, and it will, you know, it could.
08:57I'm trying to be.
09:01Man, Blake's head almost chopped off.
09:03Blake's is bleeding out.
09:05I'm trying to open that cut up, but hard right hand.
09:09You know, I've heard legends that men have broken their hands in these matches.
09:17Fists are just as legal as a headlock.
09:21Well, and another way to get your hand broken or your fist broken is just what
09:25happened to Triple H earlier.
09:28You back somebody's head up against the middle of one of those middle posts, and
09:31then swing, and if they move out of the way, your fist is gonna strike nothing but steel.
09:36Boom!
09:38Shawn Michaels that foot right to the face.
09:41He's trying to regroup here.
09:43Again.
09:44Triple H has caught some distance there.
09:49You see the Triple H is bleeding, that's probably what caused it right there.
09:54Triple H's head run right into that.
09:57Not severe at the moment.
10:00And the game.
10:03Man.
10:04I'm afraid things are about to get a little worse than her now, JR.
10:09This is the term unforgiving.
10:14The cell doesn't care.
10:19Triple H's face being rearranged, it looks more like hamburger than a wrestler right now.
10:28He's standing there by Michaels, just to get the game down.
10:31So Michaels can stomp Triple H square in the face.
10:35And speaking of Triple H's face, there it goes again.
10:38Under that demonic cell, and I've said this on more than one occasion, I know from experience,
10:44it does something to you, JR.
10:45You just can't help but have some sort of a feeling when you're in a match like this,
10:50and you suddenly see your own blood.
10:53Nobody ever likes to see your own blood, you know that, JR.
10:56Absolutely.
10:57Why would they?
10:59Hard knock down by Shawn Michaels, he blocked the inverted atomic rock.
11:03Michaels walking very gingerly.
11:06He's a guy that was out four years with a bad back.
11:10Michaels hip, here's his hip, he gives his little back.
11:13Don't wanna diagnose, but Michaels is not right, as you can tell.
11:17He's walking crooked, and he hopes to be walking, period, when this match ends.
11:31I think John is hurt here.
11:33Michaels trying to suplex Triple H, and that is definitely the lower back.
11:38That back is either cramping on him, he's got some muscle spasms,
11:41or there's some more structural damage there.
11:44I hope I'm wrong on the ladder.
11:46I can say that you better hope, Shawn better hope that it's only muscle spasms,
11:52and that's not with the balls right there, that hard iron slip.
11:55But Triple H is one of the most powerful men ever here in the WWE, and Triple H
12:01doesn't miss a trick.
12:03We don't call him the cerebral assassin for nothing.
12:05And he said before this match, if he sees any spot, any point of weakness,
12:10any kind of injury, he's gonna go right after it.
12:12And I think that's what we're about to see now.
12:15He senses it.
12:18Man, Triple H with every bit of strength and velocity he could muster,
12:24sending Michaels for the proverbial ride with the Irish whip.
12:29Again.
12:31And man, that elbow, this is getting hard to watch.
12:36Michaels' back is definitely hurt.
12:37I don't know what was the first thing that happened to him, but you can tell,
12:41you noticed at first, he's walking crooked.
12:45Now he's in serious trouble.
12:47And knowing the four years of hell that Shawn Michaels went through,
12:53away from what he loved to do, all because of that bad back and the surgery.
12:58And then coming, prophetically enough, into hell in the cell, and
13:03having this happen to him, is more than ironic.
13:09I hate to say that Shawn Michaels deserves this, JR, but you gotta remember,
13:15everybody out there needs to remember, Shawn asked for this match.
13:18Well, he did that.
13:19No, he didn't ask for it, he demanded this match.
13:22He did ask the man, and look at the standing suplex, look at the strength of Triple H.
13:28That takes amazing strength, with the blood rushing to the head of Shawn Michaels.
13:32It's a disorienting move, high impact, cover, and Michaels kicks out instinctively.
13:37But look at Michaels' back.
13:39The kick out on that move, Michaels' back is contorted, it's twisted, King.
13:45It was as if Michaels had been in a car wreck.
13:48And I don't know, at this point, JR, I don't know what he can do about it.
13:53I mean, you know, this is the kind of injury that is, I mean, it just takes,
13:58you have to recuperate, it takes time to get, and it's not like Triple H
14:02is gonna let up for one second.
14:04And the other threatening aspect of this match, the referee can't stop this match.
14:10There's a backbreaker by the game.
14:12This referee got a near fall, Michaels kicking out.
14:15The game going for the win with a backbreaker going for the cover there.
14:19But the referee is totally helpless in what he can do.
14:23There's no disqualification.
14:25That steel chair is as legal as any maneuver that Triple H chooses to execute.
14:31Yeah, I agree, JR, but if he uses a Triple H at this point in this match,
14:36uses that steel chair, it's like ten amount to cruel and unusual punishment.
14:44Triple H can be described as terminally dangerous.
14:48And Shawn Michaels could not have gotten up without the help of the ropes and
14:53being picked up by the game and over again.
14:56And Michaels somehow.
14:57The resilience of Shawn Michaels is absolutely extraordinary.
15:01But the game just shut down the extraordinary will to compete of Shawn Michaels.
15:07And this is gonna be second.
15:10Michaels goes downstairs.
15:11Michaels, once again, Michaels saves himself at the last second.
15:14Just a desperation kick by Michaels.
15:17There's no telling where his brains have been scrambled with that steel chair.
15:23If Triple H has been able to connect.
15:30Somehow Michaels needs to stay on the offense.
15:32And Michaels needs to grab that chair himself.
15:36Michaels is a good opportunity for Michaels to stay in the ring and
15:38try to get that back straightened out.
15:42Or when Shawn threw Triple H out of the ring just to try to buy some time.
15:46I thought so too, but probably not.
15:49And Shawn Michaels' courage in his guts, his will to win just cost him there.
15:56No, no, no, no.
15:59The ring post, the cage, the post, the cage.
16:05My God, this is carnage.
16:09What do you say, Michaels, huh?
16:11You wanna continue the match?
16:14Talk to me, Shawn.
16:15Referee is asking Shawn Michaels if he wants to quit.
16:19I don't think that word's in his vocabulary tonight, do you?
16:22Absolutely not, but Michaels has got a young family.
16:26He's a father, he's got other things that he has to be concerned about.
16:31What would happen if Shawn was incapacitated or in so
16:35much pain that he couldn't even say that he quit?
16:39Shut up and think what the end result would be.
16:42We know the game is gonna show absolutely no surcease on Michaels.
16:48Triple H can be as viciously vile as anyone that we have ever witnessed in this ring.
17:00Triple H, he's just slanted over shoulder to see what part of this cell to use next.
17:07As if it wasn't bad enough for the game to assault Michaels lower back in the ring.
17:12Now the game is using this structure, this hell in a cell almost as a tag team partner.
17:21Well, that's, like you said, the chair, everything about this cell is fair game.
17:28It's just like the suplex.
17:30And I think now the time has come that Triple H wants to finish, Shawn.
17:34Steele chair placed in the center of the ring.
17:37And no, no!
17:39My God!
17:42Golly almighty!
17:45This has gotta be it.
17:47And Michaels kicked out.
17:48And I'll tell you, I appreciate the passion.
17:53Right. I respect the man as much as anybody.
17:56But I'm, I'm almost, I almost for a moment there wish that Shawn Michaels had not kicked out.
18:02And I'm saying that, ladies and gentlemen, because I'm concerned about Michaels physical welfare.
18:08Well, I understand that you wish that he had not kicked out.
18:12And I think that shortly Shawn may wish that he had not kicked out.
18:14But I can assure you, Triple H has some bad plans with that chair.
18:20One more.
18:23The backbreaker literally may have happened.
18:27This has gotta be, they don't stop!
18:28Shawn Michaels refusing to stay down.
18:31And Michaels kicking out.
18:32Left shoulder, right shoulder, kicking with his legs, and everything is heart and
18:37soul to muster.
18:39And the game has gotta be getting a little frustrated, albeit.
18:43Triple H is in the proverbial driver's seat.
18:47Well, I'm gonna tell you, I don't see frustration in Triple H's face.
18:51I see determination.
18:52I think he's thinking right now, Shawn, if this is the way you want it,
18:57then this is the way you're gonna get it.
19:03You can't describe that any better than what you saw.
19:07A steel chair across the spine, and this is it.
19:11Now, I'll tell you what, I keep, I got a bad feeling in my gut, King.
19:19I don't, I mean, Michaels, four years away, and he's looking at Shawn Michaels,
19:23trying to use Triple H to pull himself up.
19:26His will to compete, speaking of Shawn Michaels, is absolutely extraordinary.
19:34And Michaels with everything he's got, with a right-hand shot, and a shot to the eye by the game.
19:42Well, I just, at this point, after the damage that's been done.
19:46No, it's not.
19:47It's reversed.
19:48Yeah!
19:49Oh, my God!
19:49Good grief!
19:51Triple H was hip-flopped over the top rope to the floor, and Michaels just crumbled.
19:57Michaels collapsed after reaching down to his socks to hip-flop the game.
20:03Desperate men do desperate things, and that was an act of pure desperation by Shawn Michaels, but I think it
20:09worked.
20:10It did buy him some time.
20:11Check this out one more time.
20:13Abdominal stretch is what the game was going for, but it was reversed, or countered, and then the hip toss
20:19right out of the ring.
20:21Shawn Michaels using that shoulder, the battering ram, his left shoulder, and Triple H just, one time, shame on you.
20:30Second time, shame on me.
20:32I'm surprised Triple H could have a bad back after being thrown out of the ring like that.
20:39Walked into that one.
20:41As a wrestler, right hands, and more right hands.
20:46The game has thrown everything he can at Michaels, and has not kept Michaels down for three.
20:52It's gotta be frustrating.
20:53Wait, wait, wait, wait.
20:54Here it is.
20:55This is it.
20:56Pedigree time.
20:57Low blow is legal.
21:00The steel chair is legal as we pointed out, and so is that low blow that went downtown.
21:07I was just about to say, JR, that I still, you talk about the game being frustrated, I still don't
21:13see it.
21:13Or I didn't see it up until this point, in the game's face.
21:17I think he's so focused.
21:18I don't think the game is in any hurry tonight to end this.
21:22I think he's just determined to get it done.
21:24And Michaels going right back to that vulnerable area, to say the least.
21:31Now on three occasions.
21:33Only so much you can stand.
21:34And a right hand throw, let's knock down.
21:36But how much pain is Triple H in after those three low blows?
21:41.
21:44Irish with Michaels following in the game now.
21:47In big time trouble.
21:49Shawn Michaels, he may be as Jackson Brown says, running on empty.
21:53But Michaels with a cover and a kick out by the game.
21:57Michaels did not have the strength on that exchange to hook the leg and cinch up the game.
22:03Triple H knocked to the outside, that knee to his lower back.
22:11Michaels trying to fight for verbally fire with fire here.
22:15And Triple H faced first into the Hell in a Cell.
22:19And the Cell, I'm sure, enjoys it.
22:22Well, I think this is a smart move by HBK.
22:25He needs to, he now needs to use that Cell as a tag team partner.
22:31Because one on one, Shawn hadn't been faring too well.
22:37Man, bad ride.
22:39First landing.
22:41Unendable destination.
22:47Look at that again.
22:48Once again, listen to this impact.
22:52That's a human being's body being thrown into an inanimate object.
22:58This steel steps, I guess the steps are the cousin of the Hell in a Cell.
23:03They're all in it together.
23:05Anything that's inside that demonic cell is, as you say, buried in it.
23:14With a handful of hair.
23:16Uh-oh, my God.
23:17Now this could work.
23:18You gotta be kidding me.
23:19This could do it.
23:20You gotta be kissing.
23:21This could be a difference maker.
23:22Kyle Robber on the steel steps.
23:25My God, Michaels, deep into God Almighty.
23:28Michaels elevated off those steps, right onto the floor.
23:34That was probably as big a difference maker as that Pile Driver would have been.
23:40On the steps, being thrown off, back dropped off those steps.
23:43Michaels may not be able to recover from this.
23:46Yeah, check this out from a better angle here.
23:49You heard the splat of a man's spine on the floor.
23:55Oh, look out.
23:56And now what?
23:58And I guess it's- Your guess is as good as mine.
24:00Whatever's under the ring can be utilized.
24:05Under the ring, over the ring, around the ring.
24:09Field chair.
24:11Don't tell me what's under it, Henry.
24:17Slap shot by the game, right on the spine of Shawn Michaels.
24:20And Michaels has gotta be from head to toe in as much excruciating pain as a human being should ever
24:30have to experience.
24:31Now what is going through this twisted mind of Triple H.
24:36He's capable of any kind of dastardly being- Look at this.
24:41He's great.
24:42My God, those steel steps.
24:44They tossed the steps in the ring.
24:47Like they were nothing.
24:48Mike Gilda trying to reason with the game.
24:50That's him.
24:50Gilda gonna save his breath.
24:53Triple H on the steps.
24:55Gonna grab him to Michaels.
24:56And Michaels.
24:58About one shot.
25:00With a solar plexus on Triple H.
25:03And another hard one.
25:05Triple H.
25:09Trying, trying for him by Shawn Michaels.
25:12If I were the referee, I'd try to get those steel steps out of the ring.
25:16And somebody could just inadvertently fall on or against those things, and that would end.
25:20And Michaels, how in the hell does he do it?
25:23Michaels just nipped up.
25:25Yeah, but he's back down.
25:27Back down just as fast.
25:28That back has to be killing him.
25:32Michaels trying to stand.
25:34Most in the game, come get me.
25:37Come get me.
25:38Here I am.
25:39I got something for you.
25:41It could have been.
25:42Michaels looking for sweet chin music.
25:45My God.
25:46You better be kidding me.
25:50Michaels just bounced off those green steps.
25:53And the only music I think we're gonna hear is the fat lady singing.
25:58It's over, JR.
26:01Michaels hit.
26:02My God.
26:03I told you.
26:04My God.
26:06Michaels has been deeply lacerated.
26:10And the blood running through his eyes, through his lips and mouth.
26:14I think his entire face was smashed.
26:16That blood coming out of his mouth.
26:18Yeah, come on.
26:18Out of his nose.
26:19Come on, Triple H.
26:20Enough is enough.
26:22I know it's hell in a cell, but Michaels is a human being.
26:25I told you, just look at the look on the face of Triple H.
26:28It's not frustration.
26:30It's determination, JR.
26:32Nothing is gonna stop that man from destroying Shawn Michaels here tonight.
26:36Don't do it.
26:36Just don't do it.
26:37Reaching your heart.
26:38My God, he did it.
26:39Yeah.
26:40Triple H did it.
26:42And Shawn Michaels blood is all over those steel steps.
26:45He asked Triple H to reach in his heart and find some little part of compassion for
26:53Shawn Michaels.
26:54The only thing I can say is that mercifully, you've gotta believe that this is over.
27:00There's a cover.
27:02My God, Shawn.
27:07Listen to this, I'm scared from the steps.
27:11Man.
27:14See Shawn Michaels head bounce off those steel steps.
27:17That was absolutely.
27:21I just think that right now, King Shawn Michaels has gotta be just instinctively kicking out.
27:27He can't be, he's not able, can't be mentally able to put thoughts together in any kind of,
27:33any kind of succession or any kind of logical order.
27:37It's all on guts and instinct.
27:41He is in, Shawn is in serious trouble.
27:47Can Shawn Michaels survive this damning career altering ride through this steel and
27:54case hell in a cell?
27:56Shawn, huh?
27:56You want hell?
27:57I got it.
28:00Man.
28:01Man, you can feel the hatred between these two men.
28:05You can feel the angst between these two men.
28:08Shawn.
28:09Who at one time, as you said, were closer than brothers.
28:13We all remember their DX days.
28:17And it has come to this.
28:19Get up, get up.
28:20It has come to this where someone's career could very likely be ended here.
28:27Triple H asking, they're telling Shawn.
28:29Come on.
28:30Asking, you want hell?
28:31Shawn, look up.
28:34Michael's face and head like a battering ram.
28:37And again, Triple H could give a damn.
28:40And the cage, the cell, cares less.
28:45You know, JR, I thought I'd never say this in a hell in a cell match, but I honestly think
28:51that the referee should, well, the referee should think about stopping this match.
28:58I can't disagree with that.
28:59I will not disagree with that.
29:01Michael, no, no.
29:02What about him there?
29:04That's a human, that's epidermis being left on that cage.
29:10And Michael is gonna be scarred and marked for life after this.
29:17Once again, this is the match that Shawn Michael wanted.
29:22Why, I don't know, but this is what he wanted.
29:25Triple H, indeed, calculatingly cruel.
29:29Triple H is the Pontiff of Pain.
29:31A man that likes to hurt people.
29:34Especially someone that he was so close to.
29:39Triple H has never had an ally like Shawn Michaels was in Triple H's career.
29:45Never.
29:45And he never will again in my view.
29:49Yarn Anderson's spinebuster just shook Michael's liver, and I hope he's gotten off.
29:55You said Triple H never had an ally like Shawn Michaels.
29:58He's obviously never had an opponent like him either.
30:01But all while they were friends, all while they were allies in DX,
30:04there was always that question, JR.
30:07Which one of these men were the better of the two?
30:10It was always there.
30:12It was always in the back of each one of their minds.
30:14And that's what this is all about tonight.
30:17That's where we are.
30:18That's why these two men are in hell together.
30:20Michaels lower back, killing it.
30:22He's losing a lot of blood.
30:24But by God, Shawn Michaels is not gonna quit.
30:27Michaels continues to fight with everything he's got.
30:30With every bit of his heart and soul.
30:32But the game just seems to be too much here tonight.
30:36The sleeper applied by Triple H.
30:42And this is such a strategically sound, perfect maneuver for this point in time in the match.
30:50And it might be a fitting end to this Hell in a Cell.
30:53Shawn Michaels left unconscious in a pool of his own blood.
30:58And that's what the game, you gotta believe.
31:00You gotta know, weren't all along.
31:01And Michaels trying to get an adrenaline rush here.
31:04Look at this crowd behind him.
31:05And they are.
31:07And the game.
31:08Man.
31:09With face first into the top turnbuckle.
31:11At least, at least Michaels now has brought himself a little bit of time.
31:22Game got addled there.
31:24Trying to shake it loose.
31:25I agree.
31:26He's in La La Land right now, but he's gonna have to refocus.
31:30There he goes.
31:32This guy.
31:33Triple H, the game.
31:34Oh, here we go.
31:35Pedigree time.
31:36No, countered.
31:38Michaels countered.
31:39Pedigree into the DDT.
31:40Oh, man.
31:42That could do it.
31:43Michaels countered to Pedigree, which I guarantee you it would have been over.
31:49Into the DDT.
31:51And Triple H's head that time was the one that was doing the bouncing.
31:59Michaels, he's only breathing.
32:02Thank God for that.
32:04But he's not moving.
32:06It's Shawn Michaels.
32:08Triple H.
32:10There's still some life left in the game.
32:13Oh, it's beginning to stir.
32:15Referee surveying the action, but there's no count outs.
32:21All right.
32:22There's no telling how much blood Shawn Michaels has lost here.
32:26Well, Michaels reaching.
32:27And Michaels now has the weapon that Triple H brought into this ring.
32:33That steel chair.
32:36Triple H may.
32:39May.
32:40May.
32:40I was about to say he may regret bringing that chair in.
32:43And right at this moment, I'm sure the game regrets bringing that chair in the ring.
32:46That was a deadly chair shot that you see the results.
32:52That's how deadly it was.
32:54The game's been opened up badly.
32:59This is the supreme gut check for both men bleeding.
33:03Listen.
33:08Look, Shawn still has that chair there.
33:10There was no blocking that.
33:12Oh, Maddie again.
33:18You can only imagine what that does to it in the game's brain.
33:25I mean, you can't be the same.
33:27There's a cover.
33:29And Michaels got all the hands on the down.
33:31And this time it was a game.
33:33What's scary about those chair shots is naturally from that impact,
33:38your skin is lacerated.
33:40You start to bleed on the outside.
33:41But unfortunately, your brain is bruised.
33:44You start to bleed on the inside as well.
33:45That's what's so dangerous.
33:49Face buster by the game.
33:51And Michaels, the impact taking him all the way outside.
33:55Look at Michaels.
33:55As soon as he hit the floor, he's looking under that ring.
33:59Is there something?
33:59Yes, there is something.
34:00You've got to be kidding me.
34:02You have got to be kidding me.
34:04I told you there was no telling what was under there.
34:07And actually a wicked little smile on the face of HBK.
34:10The man that introduced ladders to the WWE, Shawn Michaels,
34:16is putting a ladder.
34:17And these fans here in Columbus, Ohio have come to their feet here.
34:23And JR, you asked earlier, you queried, could Shawn Michaels reach down and
34:28get to the depth of where he's been before?
34:30I think he's answering your question right now, isn't he?
34:33Absolutely.
34:34Michaels blowing the first ever hell in the side.
34:36Look out, look out.
34:37The ladder's a battering round.
34:39Right into the bloody face of the cerebral assassin.
34:42Come on.
34:42Come on.
34:43Come on.
34:45Come on.
34:46Come on.
34:47Come on.
34:48Come on.
34:48Come on.
34:49Come on.
34:50Come on.
34:52Everything legal in this environment.
34:55As sad as it is to say, there can be no disqualification.
35:00Check out this ladder to the face of the game.
35:03And then after that, Shawn growing it into the rib cage.
35:07And now what?
35:08It's Triple H.
35:10Back it off.
35:11Wait a minute.
35:12He's not saying he's had enough, is he?
35:13It's negotiating.
35:14And the Michaels on the right hands.
35:16Triple H had it.
35:17He backed as far as a corner.
35:18And he was cornered all right.
35:19And Michaels now taking advantage.
35:21Michaels trickled that right hand like he may have broken it.
35:26No.
35:27Look out.
35:27No.
35:29The ladder conveniently placed in the far corner.
35:36Look at Michaels, get up.
35:39Get up.
35:41Just get up.
35:42My God.
35:43No!
35:45The second time.
35:46Triple H has had a ladder used on him now four times.
35:52And I don't think Shawn is through yet.
35:55He came here to settle this thing tonight.
35:57He asked for this hell in a cell.
35:59He demanded this match no matter what it takes.
36:02Michaels is gonna finish the job here.
36:07The referee asking Triple H if he wants to call it quits.
36:10Look at the blood just was pouring from his head.
36:13Look at that, JR.
36:13What do you say?
36:16And I think he heard the Triple H certainly telling the referee emphatically no in so
36:21many words.
36:24There's gonna be, there's gonna be no acquitting by Triple H or Shawn Michaels in my estimation.
36:30God, what that's impact.
36:32The ladder, the top throat, the floor, surrounded by steel, a bloody man on the floor.
36:37And now what is Shawn Michaels thinking?
36:39I don't know, but I said it earlier about Shawn Michaels.
36:41I think he would have been good if this match could have ended.
36:45But now I'm beginning to think that Triple H ought to maybe think about living to fight another day.
36:53Barely, barely moving.
36:56And not that Shawn Michaels is moving that quickly either.
36:59Look at this and listen again.
37:02Triple H needs to realize that there wouldn't be no disgrace if he just stopped this.
37:08I agree with that, King.
37:09It wouldn't be.
37:10It wouldn't be.
37:11It wouldn't make you know the lesser man.
37:14Almost like, I hate to use this term of Michaels, but it's almost like Michaels is possessed.
37:19Well, he has that killer instinct, all right?
37:21He wants to finish this so that there's never any doubt in the future.
37:34One thing about it, tonight we're gonna find out who is the better man,
37:39who is the best of all time.
37:45Well, right now it just doesn't look like Triple H, does it?
37:48I'm in shock, I'm almost speechless at this, the beating that both of these men
37:53have administered to each other.
37:56They both lost a great deal of blood.
37:59Their bodies have gotta be ravaged with pain.
38:03I still can't get over that wicked little smile we saw earlier on the face of
38:09Shawn Michaels when he first found that ladder.
38:11And that ladder has certainly been a difference maker.
38:16Michael setting the ladder up.
38:17Or who knows?
38:19The game, the game looking for the pedigree.
38:22He's not been able to hit that pedigree.
38:24Look out here.
38:24And Shawn Michaels hit that.
38:27The game catapulted face first right into that ladder.
38:32And the game leaving his own blood all over the canvas.
38:37Everywhere he falls, there's a puddle of blood left.
38:43Shawn Michaels now just hoping to fall across.
38:45Michaels does.
38:46The arm over.
38:47He got the cover to get three.
38:48No!
38:49I don't even know how Triple H is capable of hearing the referee's counter.
38:53He probably just feels it out of instinct.
38:56But the thing about it is that Michaels has, his strength is so lessened.
39:01He's lost so much blood.
39:03He's not able to hook up these pretty combinations.
39:06Both of these men, their strength has to be waning.
39:09Somebody's gotta hit the home run here.
39:12But does either one of these men have enough strength to put it out of the park anymore?
39:16Well, that's the question.
39:17That remains to the answer.
39:19Whoa, look at that!
39:20Oh, man, that could've been the end all right there.
39:23Michaels went right to that back.
39:25He went for the elbow, landed on his back.
39:28And Shawn Michaels took the ultimate supreme high risk chance in this environment,
39:34in his condition, with his back as it is, for naught.
39:39But when you take the big chance, you pay the big price sometimes.
39:42And that's what looks like what happened.
39:44Now Triple H can just, he can get one hand across.
39:48Shawn, he did it!
39:48That covers!
39:49The cover!
39:50And Michaels, Shawn Michaels, somehow, some way, is able to get that shoulder up.
39:56And again, Triple H so weak, just like Michaels.
40:01You got an arm over it, Michaels.
40:03That's all Triple H could do.
40:04Well, some way, JR, I have a feeling that that's the way this match is gonna end.
40:08These men are gonna beat each other to bloody pumps until there's absolutely nothing left of either of them.
40:15And somebody's gonna just either fall across the other, or be able to drape one arm across.
40:20These men have went well past 30 minutes.
40:23This has gotta be the longest Hell in a Cell match in history.
40:26I mean, they're humans.
40:28How much can their anatomies take?
40:30I understand will to win, but Triple H taking those right hands.
40:35Michaels landing those straight, sickening right hands with, look at how big Michaels' right hand is.
40:41His right hand looks like it's swollen to twice its size.
40:45It could be broken.
40:47Can you imagine just getting the holy hell beat out of you for over 30 minutes straight?
40:52Michaels' ring finger, his little finger, both crooked.
40:55It looked like his knuckles are swollen to twice their size.
40:59The cover by Michaels, and Triple H gets a shoulder up with King, I'll tell you.
41:04The guts of both these men, whether you like both of them or you don't, it really doesn't matter.
41:10You gotta admire the courage and what these two men are putting their bodies through just to prove who is
41:16the better man.
41:17And I'm beginning to wonder, JR, is either one of these men gonna lose this match?
41:22They're both so determined.
41:24It's like they're so determined, not necessarily to win, but they're so determined not to lose.
41:30Well, somebody's gonna win tonight.
41:31And somebody's gonna lose tonight.
41:34Everybody's going downstairs.
41:38Man, that was a fitting shot right to the shoulder into the steel ring post.
41:45And that ring post very unyielding.
41:49I think knowing both of these men the way I do, JR, I think the will not to lose is
41:56stronger than the will to win.
41:58Neither one of these men.
42:02It's all about competition.
42:04And this is a raw pay-per-view.
42:06And that's what it's about is competition.
42:10Intense physicality.
42:11And you won't see this anywhere else.
42:14And look at this now, the game bringing in a table.
42:21Both of these men have to look at this match as probably the biggest in their careers.
42:26It's the end all match, and neither one of these guys can afford to lose this.
42:30And to show you the perverse personal issue, you're probably right.
42:36The biggest match in both their careers, and it's not for the world title.
42:41That's what it means to both men.
42:42Shawn Michaels hasn't moved.
42:44He's been lying over that middle rope, that second turnbuckle.
42:53Somewhere, somehow, he muscles.
42:56Just a little more strength.
42:59A little more offense.
43:02This is so intense.
43:03The physicality is completely indescribable as Michael scores again with what we think is a broken right hand.
43:13Where is he getting it from?
43:14Kurt Lace knocked down to his knees.
43:17And Michael, Kurt Lace can't even get his hands up to protect himself.
43:21Michael, three shots.
43:24And that's to the skull of a man that's been hit in the head with a steel chair in this
43:29match.
43:30As aggressively, as stiffly as anything I've seen in years.
43:35Don't forget that ladder.
43:40Triple H out on it.
43:41Look at Michael.
43:41That's a free shot.
43:42Right in the head.
43:44And the game.
43:46Helplessly lying on that table.
43:48Michaels.
43:50Well, Triple H earlier brought a steel chair in the ring and it came back to haunt him.
43:55Do you think this table that Triple H brought in is gonna come back to haunt him as well?
43:58God, my God.
44:00Shawn Michaels climbing as high as he can go.
44:03And throw the elbow.
44:07Michaels with the elbow.
44:09Off and off the ladder.
44:11Through the heart.
44:12Through the table.
44:13To the canvas.
44:18A proud tuning for HBK.
44:24We may have done it.
44:25We may have reached that point where which one of these men is gonna have the final strength to cover
44:32the other.
44:32Look at this.
44:36A lot of pumping and cracking.
44:38It may not have just been the table.
44:40There he is.
44:41He got the other.
44:44I cannot believe this JR.
44:46I am absolutely astonished of the toughness and intensity of both these men.
44:52Michaels trying to get body on body here.
44:54And he finally does.
44:56And Triple H able to power out over that uncanny upper body strength of his.
45:02And what it is, Shawn just like you said earlier, he doesn't have the power,
45:06the strength left to be able to hook Triple H's leg.
45:09All he can do is just basically lay his body weight across Triple H.
45:16This is one night that we will never forget.
45:20On June the 13th, 2004.
45:24You can tell him, folks, he has saw the best.
45:26And Michaels now tuning up the band.
45:29Don't tell me.
45:29It only takes one shot for sweet ten music.
45:33Michaels has only gone for it once in this entire match.
45:36If he hits it, it's over.
45:41The game with a low blow.
45:45The game dodged the right foot of Michaels.
45:49Able to go downstairs.
45:51John completely exposed in a low blow of the worst kind.
45:56Look at this.
45:57The pedigree.
45:58Triple H hit the pedigree.
46:00But can he cover Michaels?
46:02If Triple H can make the cover, it's gotta be over.
46:10Man, this is carnage.
46:14This is legal human torture.
46:18And finally, JR, like you said earlier, this match may mercifully be over.
46:24The honor motorbike of the game, will it be?
46:27No, it's not!
46:28My God, how much is it gonna take for one of these two phenomenal athletes to win this match?
46:36I can't believe it.
46:38They just refuse, they refuse to lose.
46:44It's amazing.
46:47As far as careers are concerned, this match will have deadly consequences.
46:54And look at, Michaels is using Triple H to stand, and Triple H is using Michaels to stand up.
47:00These men have both pushed each other to the wall.
47:05He got it!
47:07Michaels got it!
47:09The Sweet Tin Music!
47:12And Michaels collapsed after connecting with Sweet Tin Music.
47:18Michaels can somehow just muster the strength now to roll his body towards Triple H.
47:23I never thought he had this in him, but look.
47:26Whoa!
47:27What impact!
47:28What impact!
47:29What impact!
47:30Michaels won the very first Hell in a Cell seven years ago.
47:36It looks like he has a chance here if he can make the cover to win this one.
47:41That's right, Triple H has never lost one, and I'm afraid until now.
47:46Shawn Michaels moving, inching closer to the game.
47:51I think he's got it, JR.
47:54That's gonna be it if he can just get that arm across.
47:57Michaels got the arm over.
47:58Here it is.
47:59It's gonna be.
48:01My God!
48:03My God!
48:03How much more can these two men take?
48:08How much more can they give?
48:09That's the question.
48:11What more can these two men do to each other?
48:14I don't know what we're gonna prove here.
48:17I shudder to think of an answer to that question.
48:20What more can these two men do to each other?
48:27Somehow, JR, I'm sure they'll think of something.
48:32Michael's such a far away look in his eye.
48:35The expression of Michael's face.
48:37His face tells this story.
48:41He's gotta be thinking.
48:42What does it take?
48:44I've given everything I have.
48:46Triple H going downstairs.
48:48Somehow, some way going downstairs.
48:51And now the game trying to go back to what brought him to the dance.
48:55The pedigree.
48:56Here's the second pedigree.
48:59But Triple H collapses and falls to his back.
49:05And Michael's, luckily for him, falls on his stomach.
49:08Right, after delivering the pedigree, right now, unfortunately,
49:13the game is in the most precarious position.
49:16These men are gonna need to be stitched.
49:18You've gotta believe there could be hospital time.
49:2545 minutes these men have been beating each other's senses.
49:29That in itself is perverse.
49:3145 minutes inside Hell in a Cell breaks all records.
49:36But at what price, at what price, two magnificent competitors,
49:45like them or not, are putting themselves through this Hell
49:51that they can never, in my view, ever, ever recover from.
49:56Look at the carnage, ladders, smashed tables,
50:02dented chairs, and two broken bodies.
50:07This has been a sinister, sinister, ill-fated match.
50:14And the referee can't do a damn thing but hope and pray that one of these
50:23two men will be able to beat the other.
50:26And we're gonna stay here as long as it takes.
50:33These fans just showing their respect to these two, as you say,
50:37great athletes, for just surviving, being alive at this point.
50:43Michael's trying to get up,
50:45turning at least to his side here.
50:48Lost so much blood.
50:50There's no telling what kind of structural damage these two men had.
50:54They have given us their heart and their soul in this demonic structure tonight.
51:00And it is not over yet.
51:02They've given us their heart and soul and they've given their bodies to this cell.
51:07Oh, my God, the third pedigree, three.
51:12Another pedigree, but this time, Michael's, for him, unfortunately,
51:18landing on his back.
51:20Michael's is not moving.
51:22The game, trying, trying to get an arm over.
51:25Will he be able to?
51:27He's just shifting his weight right now.
51:30He's gotta somehow fall on Shawn.
51:34There, he's done it.
51:35Michael's down, the count of three, it's over.
51:41My God, it is perfectly over.
51:46Triple H.
51:53Unbelievable.
51:56Unbelievable.
51:5847 minutes and 26 seconds.
52:04A pure hell incarnate.
52:09You're right.
52:11Amazing, amazing match.
52:16We talked about career threatening.
52:19We talked about cold searching.
52:22The supreme professional gut check.
52:26And we have seen it in spades here tonight.
52:32They can get this thing on padlocked.
52:34I think both of these men need some medical help.
52:43We said early tonight that the Hell of Cell is where careers go to die.
52:50I hope that I am wrong on that analogy.
52:58You can't say anything more than that picture is worth more than a thousand words.
53:04These two men both completely gave their all here tonight.
53:09Triple H has won this Hell of Cell match.
53:13Triple H is still undefeated in Hell of Cell matches.
53:20It's not medical help that's coming to the ring, but it is three concerned individuals.
53:26Evolution coming down to, I hope, only three, Triple H.
53:32The leader, the leader of evolution, stepped up to the plate tonight, big time.
53:41Time to play the game.
53:43I can't let it flare.
53:45The indignity of Ric Flair getting in John Michael's face.
53:48A defensive John Michael.
53:51John Michael left his heart and his soul in this ring tonight, but so did the game.
53:58I will give the devil his due.
54:01Well, we still haven't seen, both of these men may have to be physically carried out of this ring.
54:09Both of them.
54:14As a small kid, when I first became a wrestling fan, I was often, almost on a weekly basis, astonished
54:22and amazed at the athleticism, the toughness, and the courage of the men I saw.
54:29But I can tell you here tonight, ladies and gentlemen, being here live and in person, this is one man
54:36that if I live to be 100, I will never forget.
54:40And if you can't take it, it's all about your sanity, it's all about pain.
54:44And who's going to make it?
54:46I am the game, you don't want to break me down.
54:48Triple H has, has been moved against.
54:52He has been battered, yes.
54:53No way you can't pay me down.
54:54But was he beaten me?
54:56No.
54:57I don't, you know, I don't even know if, I don't know if Triple H realizes he's won.
55:09Unbelievable.
55:12Shawn Michaels competed in the first Hell in a Cell seven years ago.
55:18Little did he know that his career could very well end up inside Hell in a Cell seven years later.
55:28Because I am, as sure as I'm an Oklahoma Sooner, I am so worried about that man's back.
55:37He could have a broken hand from his, using that fist.
55:40He lost a ton of blood.
55:46Well, the longest running, most storied rivalry in WWE history has ended.
55:57And certainly not the way Shawn Michaels would have wanted it.
56:03But he's certainly got nothing to be ashamed of.
56:05Absolutely not.
56:07The soul of a warrior gave us everything he had.
56:11Three pedigrees.
56:14And this crowd is, not one person has left.
56:18They are hushed.
56:21Shawn's eyes are open.
56:22The crowd is absolutely as we are stunned.
56:31And appreciative.
56:33As they should be.
56:35As the world has to be.
56:38With the athletic display that these two men just gave for us.
56:44It's an amazing accomplishment that he is gonna be able to, it looks like, leave the ring under his own
56:50power.
56:50We must...
56:50... and we invite you to live.
56:51Um ...
56:52It's amazing, I gotta say!