WWE WrestleMania 21 - Batista vs Triple H (World Heavyweight Championship)
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00:00Triple H, and we'd like to take you back.
00:04They've been together two years.
00:06Let's take you back and show you the implosion of Evolution.
00:14Ever since I joined Evolution, RAW has been about one man.
00:20Triple H, this is Evolution.
00:23My thought, my heart, my sweat, my blood made this what it is today.
00:29It didn't bother me. I never minded, but things change.
00:32I put this group together for a reason.
00:35Triple H does not give a damn about you.
00:38I think Triple H is gonna help Batista there.
00:41All he cares about is that world title.
00:44Triple H has made you special.
00:47When he's ready to step down, you'll be the man.
00:50When Randy Orton won the World Heavyweight Championship at SummerSlam last year,
00:55it was all about Triple H.
00:57Orton made a choice to take my World Heavyweight Championship
01:03when I won Royal Rumble.
01:06Batista will be in the main event at WrestleMania 21.
01:11It was still all about Triple H.
01:15I gave you guidance, I gave you direction,
01:18and I made you the animal that I see standing in this ring today.
01:24I had to make a decision.
01:25Go to SmackDown or leave Raw all to Triple H?
01:30Sometimes Dave is not smart enough to know what's good for him.
01:34Batista needs to do what's right for Evolution.
01:37And what's right for Batista is for him to go to SmackDown.
01:42Hunter, I've known what I was gonna do for a long time.
01:48I'm staying right here on Raw.
01:50At WrestleMania, I'm taking the World Championship from you.
02:01You see, Batista, you were like a brother to me.
02:05And when you turned on me, I was very angry.
02:10That mean streak of Triple H,
02:12one of the most cold and calculating competitors
02:16I've ever seen in my entire career.
02:19It's all about the game and how you play it.
02:23What a game God played.
02:27When you have an animal and you raise it
02:30and it turns around and it bites the hand,
02:34and it turns around and it bites the hand that feeds it,
02:40then it's time to make a difficult decision.
02:43Batista, I will not hesitate.
02:46I'm bigger.
02:47There will be no remorse.
02:49I'm better.
02:50No regrets.
02:51At WrestleMania 21.
02:52At WrestleMania 21.
02:54I will beat you.
02:55Your ass is mine.
02:57I officially become the man.
02:59I will put the animal down.
03:03Batista will come for the World Title
03:06against The Game at WrestleMania 21.
03:22Trying to play the game.
03:33Trying to play the game.
03:36Don't wanna play the game.
03:39I'm the toy that you know you can't take it.
03:42Starting with the game I act like it's nothing next.
03:45So I been trying to make it.
03:48Do the pain I have been getting taken.
03:50But you know how I can take it.
03:52I'm the play that you know you can't take it.
03:55I'm the game you don't want to play me.
03:57I've been trying to make you know you can't take me.
04:00They ran like it's nothing, it's something fun
04:04I'm the game and I'll make the rules
04:07I'll be here and die like a fool
04:09But I know what my next move will be
04:12Come on, Mr. Lloyd, don't you ask me
04:15I'm the game and I'll turn the page
04:17I'm the game and I want to play
04:30...
04:50Come on, Mr. Lloyd, don't you ask me
04:53I'm the game and I'll turn the page
04:55I'm the game and I want to play
04:57I'm the game and I want to play
04:59Let me get it, I know you can't take it
05:01I'm the game, you don't wanna play me
05:04I'm the truth, you don't wanna see me
05:06Let me get it, you know you can't take me
05:09Let's turn, I know you can't take me
05:12Shoulder ready to rock
05:14Like a dirty bitch with a smoking gun
05:17I'm the game and I'll make the rules
05:19I'll be over here and die like a fool
05:22But I know what my next move will be
05:25Come on, Mr. Lloyd, don't you ask me
05:27I'm the game, I know you can't take me
05:30I'm the game and I want to play
05:32...
06:01Come on, Mr. Lloyd, don't you ask me
06:03I'm the game and I want to play
06:05I'm the game and I want to play
06:07I'm the game and I want to play
06:09I'm the game and I want to play
06:11I'm the game and I want to play
06:13I'm the game and I want to play
06:15I'm the game and I want to play
06:17I'm the game and I want to play
06:19I'm the game and I want to play
06:21I'm the game and I want to play
06:23I'm the game and I want to play
06:25I'm the game and I want to play
06:27I'm the game and I want to play
06:30I tell you something, J-O, I got shoe bumps!
06:38Time to play the game
06:41We are voting
06:43there's only one superstar great enough at the world famous fan motorhead play
07:02your entrance music as you come to the rink for the world championship match
07:05and that's the game wow that was unbelievable
07:08right there entrance for the 10th time world champion
07:38the following contest scheduled for one fall it's for the world heavyweight championship
07:50approaching the ring is the challenger from washington dc weighing 318 pounds
08:02the number one contender for the world's heavyweight title
08:06hailing from our nation's capital and there's one thing i think we can both agree on batista
08:13has poured into wrestlemania 21 with a great deal of momentum
08:21well i guess you're right but if you ask me the intimidation factor started early on
08:27batista had to stand back there and wait and watch as motorhead played the entrance theme music
08:37for triple h a huge ovation as triple h came to the ring i think batista gotta be i don't know
08:43i'm telling you he's gotta have butterflies in his stomach the size of eagles jr
08:49well the game is a great strategist there is no doubt about that oh yes he's a regal assassin
08:55didn't get the name by accident he knows how to play mind games with the best of them but as far
09:00as his in-ring strategy is concerned there's no world's champion in recent memory that i can recall
09:09that is better inside the ropes than the game the question is can the power of a 6 foot 5 317 pound
09:19batista can that power overcome that man's intensity and will to retain the time and you
09:26see the intensity in the eyes of the champion and there's old old expression that's been around
09:32wrestling for a long long time it goes like this that triple h obviously taught batista everything
09:39he knows but he didn't teach batista everything triple h knows and that's i think going to be
09:44the deciding factor in this yes batista's strong he is an animal but the game is the game
09:57will he achieve his destiny here tonight or will the the impressive title reign
10:04of the 10-time champion continue here at wrestlemania 21 and as we mentioned earlier
10:11the dirtiest player in the game a 16-time world champion rip flair is at ringside
10:19there he is there's nature
10:41here we go one call to finish for the world heavyweight championship
10:55batista the number one contender who won the 2005 royal rumble who soon thereafter after a
11:02two-year tenure in evolution uh left camp rather abruptly and rather physically
11:09where you talk about physically i don't i don't recall i don't think triple h has never faced a
11:14man more muscular more powerful than batista but triple h is no slouch himself look at this
11:21call an elbow tie at batista 6 5 3 17 the champion 6 4 260 pounds and the game trying to get
11:29underneath and utilize the leverage force the animal back into the ropes batista maintaining
11:34control now stepping to the center of the ring and a collar and elbow tie up mono a mono here
11:41in the early goal strengthen the power of both that's that's what they're doing right now
11:46they're just testing it's like two poles in there testing each other
11:53triple h a magnificent performer in exploiting the mistakes of his adversaries and batista's
12:00lack of experience could be a an issue as this match progresses or it could be in the back
12:07that the challenger has such overwhelming strength as we just saw there that not even a great great
12:15tactician can overcome well i don't know jr yes batista's powerful he's massive he has
12:24unbelievable strength but i don't know if that strength is going to overwhelm
12:28exactly he may have an edging strength but i don't think it's going to be overwhelming
12:37have the momentum off the ropes like running into a brick wall and
12:41batista likes what he saw there the champion on his back
12:47that was a little scary with your triple h that was a little uh overwhelming you're coming off
12:51full speed off that off of those ropes and then hit a brick wall and get knocked on your back
12:57that's a little scary looking researching this match and trying to do our homework if you look
13:02at the people that the game has defeated various sizes various styles the greats of the game like
13:09the mcfoley the rock shot there by batista and now the game running through batista with that
13:17shoulder block now the game like what he's
13:24going downstairs early going and batista powering out of the battery oh my gosh and batista
13:34almost a modified power slam getting the game up holding them here let me think about a heartbeat
13:42and then slamming the champion that's not a sight you want to be looking up at
13:48when you're laying flat on your back like
13:51there's a patented move by the game straight right hand i'll tell you i don't know that
13:55that's the path you want to travel if you're the champion against a man like batista
14:00irish whip from the game counters with that reverse elbow
14:11the game muscling the champion back you'll see a lot of power moves from batista he is
14:17certainly a a strength and brute force wrestler at this juncture in his career power moves being
14:23there's a lot of power behind those big right hands oh my gosh my back body drop
14:30be as high as i've ever seen triple h launched into the air in the background big time elevation
14:34let's not forget that again batista six feet five taking the champion up in the lights there
14:42but this is so much effective driving the piece to the challenger right through the rope to the
14:51floor well that's a big time move on the part of triple h the one thing that the game can't
14:55let happen here he can't let this momentum swing all the way to batista he's got to keep this thing
15:02on an even keel oh look at this look at nate look at nate they're trying to sneak up on batista
15:09oh
15:19there you go the cerebral assassin taking advantage of batista's being distracted by
15:25rick flair and the game came out of the ring certainly made hay while the sun was shining
15:31and took the challenger right to the steel step nate's so valuable it brings that didn't even
15:37have to lay a finger on batista players presence caused a distraction between this
15:44and the hard elbow right off that second turnbuckle and that's a difference maker batista
15:49teetering on that second rope for a couple of moments there and a hard shot with a flat of the
15:55boot right to the sternum of batista and now a blatant choke the referee got to a four count
16:05you got a break on four you can disqualify them five and again the game trying to rob this
16:10this big machine this 317 pound machine of this oxygen
16:20and now come on what my ass
16:29we're not talking about a haberdashery that was an unfair advantage
16:34and now flair acting like nothing happened what do you think he did with his coat he got hot
16:38say haberdashery again the lower back batista's lower back
16:50and now the game turning it around and taking batista's lower back and kidneys right to the
16:57edge of the the ring well darren let me ask you that when you see batista absorbing this punishment
17:02don't you don't you have to think he brought this all on himself
17:07do you know what could be happening right now what the elbow right to the to the
17:13liver again but he's like batista could have already gone to smackdown
17:18it could have been batista beating jbl instead of john cena tonight and triple h would be the
17:23world champion and batista could be the wwe champion right now that's a weird way of looking
17:28at it maybe you got your point of view in a game he certainly has his and that's working on that
17:33lower back by the number one contender a man that won the royal rumble
17:37i gave him a right to meet whatever champion he chose to here
17:46extremely promising and batista's lower back we said earlier he's a power wrestler he's effective
17:52when he's vertical come on right now the game is nodding up that lower back working on that
17:59space come on one muscles that he's got he's back you can show a movie on
18:05front facelock now by the champion oh boy here we go again the lower back has been
18:11damaged look at the strength of triple h and a great suplex great leverage by the champion
18:16the champion floats over the leg and batista knocked with the most aggressive kick out
18:23thanks to that lower back being damaged by the game
18:27boy when you think back on the guidance triple h gave to batista the direction
18:33he took a guy named dave batista and made him into the animal
18:37now unfortunately he's going to have to destroy that animal
18:43well there's two sides of that story
18:45backbreaker the backbreaker batista also on many occasions allowed triple h to retain
18:52his world title if you recall that or he has selective memory
19:00he's choking what the hell ralph my god we're again choking batista when nature's invaluable
19:08at ringside well i'll tell you this is i mean we didn't need to see a handicap match
19:13this world title match isn't built two on one and a straight right hand by the challenger
19:18batista trying to power his way to play his way back in but again the game using leverage
19:26in his ring savvy hanging batista right by the neck on the top rope come on the player factor
19:33has been an issue we have seen it twice and the game dictating a deliberate pace
19:41he is not making any mistakes but this is back has been the the object of the aggression
19:58out of doing this because you heard him say himself he loved but he's like it was his own
20:04like it was his own brother and then batista turned on him
20:09oh the game walked into a big right hand that time
20:16batista again fighting back
20:21and that's what we're seeing here the challenger with right hands trying to dominate physically
20:27oh
20:43use a lot of strength and energy that's three kickouts three near falls by the world's champion
20:49oh get frustrated triple h stay focused i think that i think that triple h probably
20:59thought he may have been able to put batista away with that move but
21:03oh what's this neck breaker by the game batista down the cover in a two count
21:10batista rolling the right shoulder off the canvas unable to kick out but he did roll the right
21:17shoulder off the canvas boy in nature's beside himself over here he's reading the
21:21right act to the referee thinks that referee's giving a little slow count here and but the
21:26game still remains cold and calculating in control but a right hand a right hand to the midsection
21:35and another batista's offense and virtually his only offense thus far has been that big right hand
21:42here we go pedigree baby pedigree time the game
21:49and batista able to back drop his way out of no doubt pure disaster well batista knows that he
21:57can't let triple h hit that pedigree no matter what and here we go face buster face buster by
22:02the game and now the game going for another cover this time batista had a little adrenaline rush
22:10powered out pretty definitively i'm not so sure that triple h can lock in as well as he would like
22:17that pedigree with the size of batista's back and shoulders come on he'll get him and the
22:25game gonna take a chance here the game this is uncharacteristic for him he's on the top
22:32waiting for batista to get to his feet i don't know if this is a good idea or not
22:36but the game seldom has bad ideas the cerebral assassin's got something on his mind
22:45almost like he knew what play was coming these men have been together day and night literally for
22:51a couple of years as members of evolution and batista now in the clothesline has powered his
22:58way back in this match
23:19face got a foot in it big foot by the champion and triple h as we said 64 260
23:27it's no small man he has a powerhouse he combines power and his technical ability
23:33as well as anybody i can remember in decades but again batista came in this match with momentum
23:41as he lost it that's all strength look at this he's anchoring himself
23:49that is some power folks that is strength in power by batista triple h basically right
23:56through the turnbuckle and outside on the floor referee mike fiona trying to
24:05one more time to see your power
24:16i've seen head-on collisions that made less noise than that
24:19batista shoulder first arm first into those steel steps oh come on now well
24:28moving those stairs around and whatever he's going to do i had no idea it can't be good
24:34well he's made that tough decision he said he's going to have to put the animal down
24:39tribulation rolls back in the ring stops referee mike gill his 10 count
24:43but the world's heavyweight champion now going to try to finish off batista my god what is
24:49oh no no no come on he wants the pedigree
24:53not bad come on the break his neck
25:04now wait a minute what are you doing here
25:06batista
25:19the game catapulted face first into the ring
25:24and the world champion has been busted wide open at the hands of the animal
25:29i have never seen power in my life the game catapulted from that position
25:46will it be the turning point in this match the game is losing blood every time his heart beats
25:52and a shot to the steel steps from batista
25:58is hungry he is thirsty for the world's heavyweight championship and it is now within his grasp
26:09check this out one more time
26:16amazing strength and triple h literally out on his feet he was down on his knees he can't stand
26:23has gone to hell the championship may be going with it and leaving
26:29this is bad nate's this is bad nate's do something
26:32batista back in control and he can almost feel this momentum begin to change again
26:39no reference don't do that don't let him do that
26:42so
26:55there's nothing prettier about it
27:03oh
27:26there's nowhere for the champion to go big time impact a lot of power a lot of strength
27:33hard iron switch and batista unless he makes a mistake here in the driver's seat
27:43from placing down down on a knee jerked up by the hair by batista and the game now trying to hold on
27:51but another right hand from this powerhouse batista who came here with one thing on his mind
27:59and only one to win the most coveted title in this business the world heavyweight championship
28:10we have seen batista knock people out with that clothesline on more than one occasion
28:17oh
28:38my gosh i was afraid that was it a severe near fall to say the least
28:46unrivaled near fall long to count the game is hurting there's no doubt about it right here with
28:54us now at least he has the presence of mind to get out of the ring
29:03they're trying to a cheap shot of batista and paid for it
29:13grab the chair the game was gonna crack batista's skull with that that steel chair
29:19the referee may be hurt what's he doing
29:27trying to beg his way off of
29:31of batista over here looking for something
29:33we're trying to cheap shot with that belt we've got a referee down out here
29:47in the ring
30:07are you going to tell me
30:17all the power batista's showing not only physical strength but mental strength and
30:24the determination the desire to be the man in the wwe to be the world champion
30:48where where
30:53a huge low blow undetected by the official as batista was about to deliver what we would assume
31:01a batista bomb but it didn't happen but the cerebral assassin the consummate ring general
31:09with a low blow undetected by the referee i'm telling you here it comes it all comes down to
31:18this pedigree and the way it should be and the hands are locked right with the
31:26gang trying to get him out batista's blocking just pure power and strength get him up
31:32look at the batista separating the game's hands what that is raw and holistic power
31:41my god i've never seen the pedigree
31:46high impact a modified slam and now the moment swings again back to the number one
31:53oh
32:10batista
32:23batista
32:39before over 20,000 fans and a worldwide audience the beast has been unleashed
32:48batista is the new heavyweight champion of the world
32:57god what a match i'm stunned i'm in shock i can't do it i can't believe this has happened
33:04batista withstood every assault that came his way
33:09batista came into this match the number one contender with the dream of becoming the world's
33:16heavyweight champion and the batista bomb has made that dream a reality
33:24a reality
33:44it's a bloody mess at the hands of batista not even the dirtiest player in the game
33:51and arguably the greatest world champion of this generation could withstand that thing
33:59from washington d.c
34:02the 317 pounder
34:21has been unleashed