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00:00Defending against the Great Khali Jaan inside that Punjabi prison.
00:05Michael, I got here early just to come and see and witness this spectacle they call the Punjabi prison.
00:12This thing is awe-inspiring.
00:16Batista called it a chamber of horrors.
00:19Steel reinforced bamboo.
00:22There's only one way out.
00:24You must escape both structures.
00:27One 16 feet high, the other 20 feet high.
00:31And at the top of those structures, razor-sharp spikes.
00:36Coming up next, the world championship on the line inside that Punjabi prison.
00:42It is the three-time world champion Batista against the former world champion The Great Khali.
00:49And for the animal Batista, he is hoping that his latest reign as champion
00:54is in a quick one inside the Punjabi prison.
01:02I've been forgiven.
01:04I was fortunate enough to overcome the former world heavyweight champion The Great Khali.
01:19He wanted Khali! He got him!
01:21Spinebuster!
01:25He did it! Batista did it!
01:28The animal is on top of the food chain again.
01:32At No Mercy, The Great Khali will exercise the rematch clause.
01:38At No Mercy, the world champion facing the challenge of his career inside a Punjabi prison.
01:47Batista versus The Great Khali inside a chamber of bones.
01:53It is an absolutely awe-inspiring structure.
01:59You can't stick two men in this.
02:03The outer structure is 20 feet tall.
02:05The inner structure is 16 feet tall.
02:08The competitor can call for a door to be opened.
02:10You have 60 seconds, then it is closed.
02:13The outer structure has no doors whatsoever.
02:16The top is completely surrounded with razor-sharp spikes.
02:20The only way to win is by escape from the Punjabi prison.
02:26Batista, you have no idea what you've gotten yourself into.
02:46Oh-oh-oh.
02:51Oh-oh-oh.
02:59Oh-oh.
03:08Oh-oh.
03:11I know it sounds like I'm facing the impossible.
03:14Cully, you have no idea what it's like being locked in a cage with an animal.
03:24I'm the man, I'm the predator.
03:27I'm the World Heavyweight Champion, and I'm the top of the food chain.
03:34There will be no escape from the torture, from the pain.
03:41It's dangerous, backing me into a corner.
03:44The Great Cully will show no fear.
03:47When you back me into a corner, I lash out.
03:49The Great Cully will have no remorse.
03:52And when I lash out, people get hurt.
03:56The Great Cully will have no mercy.
04:00Batista versus The Great Cully inside a chamber of horrors
04:05known as the Punjabi Prison.
04:08If Cully wants his heavyweight title, he's going to have to pry it out of my
04:13dead hands.
04:22The following is a Punjabi Prison match for the World Heavyweight Championship.
04:29There are no pinfalls, no submissions, no countouts, and no disqualifications.
04:35The interior structure consists of four doors, each one attended by a referee.
04:40Each door will be raised when called for by a competitor.
04:43The door will remain open for only 60 seconds.
04:47Once that 60 seconds has elapsed, the door will be shut and locked for good.
04:53The outer structure has no doors whatsoever.
04:57The only way to win the Punjabi Prison match is by escaping both structures.
05:11The challenger from India, standing over seven feet tall,
05:17weighing 420 pounds, The Great Cully.
05:22In my estimation, the odds are in favor to win back the World Championship
05:27here tonight inside the Punjabi Prison.
05:30John, you had the opportunity earlier today to actually tour this massive
05:35Michael, I came in here earlier to Chicago just for that,
05:37to watch them bring this massive thing in.
05:40Michael, 20 feet, that's the size of two basketball goals,
05:44stacked on top of each other, with this pointed, sharp bamboo on top of it.
05:50Michael, it would be tough to climb out of this thing, navigate this thing,
05:54and get out safely without having to fight any of the other competitors.
05:59I'm not sure if you can do that.
06:01Navigate this thing and get out safely without having to fight someone first.
06:06This structure is simply dangerous.
06:09As The Great Cully enter in through one of those trap doors that will be closed
06:14in this matchup, only be open when an opponent calls for it.
06:17If they don't get through that door in 60 seconds,
06:20the door will be shut and locked for the remainder of the matchup.
06:22And it's not like Cully needs home court advantage.
06:25Batista, as big as he is, and he is a monster of a man.
06:30You look at Cully, he's a giant.
06:32Batista's giving up a half a foot, 150 pounds,
06:36and stepping into this giant's lair to defend his championship.
06:41And Cully looks comfortable, John.
06:43And the reason why is this structure, what was actually made,
06:46constructed in the Punjab prisons where Great Cully was born,
06:50where he grew up, where he made a name for himself,
06:52where he learned to be as savage as he has been.
06:56There's a reason they've only done this match once here in the WWE.
07:00CULLY, PUNJAB
07:30WWE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION
07:34And from Washington, D.C., weighing 290 pounds,
07:38he is the current World Heavyweight Champion, Batista!
07:47Batista's been champion before, he's been in wars before,
07:50but I am sure he knows it right now.
07:52We're looking at a guy, Batista, who is walking into hell.
07:57WWE.com posed the question this week, John.
08:00Is Batista intimidated by the Punjabi prison?
08:04Your thoughts.
08:05Batista certainly looks intimidated.
08:07How could you not be?
08:09You're looking at this 20-foot structure.
08:11Batista's never been in this.
08:12Batista may not have even seen this.
08:14I come early to watch this thing put up because I've been interested by it.
08:18I didn't see Batista.
08:20This may be the first time Batista has seen this thing up close.
08:24But Batista did tell Cully,
08:27you don't know what it's like to be locked inside a cage with an animal.
08:31And now the outside structure, the 20-foot high structure,
08:35that weighs over one ton, over 2,000 pounds,
08:40being locked around the ring.
08:43You can't prepare for something like this.
08:47A combined one mile of reinforced steel bamboo
08:53is what makes the structure as the animal heads into the ring.
08:57And great Cully goes right to work on the world champion.
09:01And the animal has been caged.
09:03And John, let's talk about this now.
09:05Let's talk about strategy for both of these individuals,
09:08first starting with Cully in this matchup.
09:10Cully has got to make sure Batista does not get comfortable.
09:13Look, this is his home.
09:15This is what he chose.
09:16This is what you want.
09:17You want to fight a guy for a world championship in your match.
09:21And Cully caught up early on.
09:24Cully has caught up early on.
09:25And Batista, the animal smells blood unloading on the 7'3".
09:30Batista should call for a door.
09:32He should call for a door and get out.
09:34You can open a door and you've got 60 seconds.
09:37Well, Batista may have been looking to inflict more punishment and pain
09:40on Cully, John.
09:41Wear him down.
09:42Make getting out of the door easier.
09:43And he just ran into that huge shot by Cully.
09:47That's also Batista getting used to the door.
09:49You see the first thing Cully does is open the door.
09:52Now Cully has a minute, a minute to get through that door.
09:55You see the clock has started.
09:56If one of these individuals doesn't make it through that door in a minute,
09:59it will be locked shut for the remainder of the match.
10:02The only thing I can compare this to, Michael,
10:04is the first time you're ever in a cage match, which is nothing like this.
10:08And you are nervous.
10:09You don't know what to do.
10:10And you finally grow accustomed to it.
10:12Batista has got to have that learning curve go straight up.
10:16This is no ordinary cage match.
10:18This is steel-reinforced bamboo.
10:21Cully trying to use his power and strength.
10:23But The Animal realizing he can't allow Cully to make it
10:27outside of the first structure.
10:29Because then Batista would be locked in, and Cully would have the advantage.
10:3320 seconds left before that door shuts for good.
10:36And remember, John, you have to escape both structures,
10:39both structures to win the championship.
10:42Michael, I've seen this structure, and you're looking at it right here.
10:45I'm not sure if I was in this match by myself I could win it.
10:48How in the world are you going to navigate this 20-foot outside structure
10:52with these pointy, sharp-edged barbed-wire bamboo sticks on it?
10:56And the door, you see referee Mickey Henson going to padlock it shut,
11:00will not open for the remainder of the matchup.
11:02Only three other doors remain as the World Heavyweight Championship
11:06is on the line inside the Punjabi prison.
11:09And Michael, that inside structure is 16 feet.
11:13But once you add the fact that it's sitting on top of the ring,
11:16it's 20 feet to the ground.
11:20And Cully, the 420-pounder, with great strategy,
11:25trying to wear down the champion.
11:27And you mentioned what Batista has to do earlier, John.
11:30Batista also has to avoid that devastating vice grip.
11:34If Cully can lock that in, Cully's going to be able to take his time
11:37getting out of this pressure.
11:39Cully locks that in.
11:41He's defeated Batista before, whether you found a fat lady
11:44and told her to sing because it's ballgame, it's over.
11:48No one has gotten out of that vice grip.
11:50And Batista, the world champion.
11:53Batista trying to battle out Ranjan, the boot again.
11:56Earlier tonight, Cully was in deep meditation.
12:00His translator, Ranjan Singh, saying he was praying to the most evil of Hindu
12:04gods for guidance and support.
12:06It seems to be working in the early going.
12:11Watch this boot, right to the skull.
12:15And Batista just hasn't been able, John, to get
12:18anything going in the early going.
12:19That is like getting hit with a cinder block, Michael.
12:23But Batista rolled out of the way.
12:25Perhaps this is the opening for the animal.
12:29What a way to have to defend a world championship.
12:32Oh, a spear!
12:34And Cully is down!
12:37The giant is down, fell by the spear.
12:40Can Batista escape the inner structure?
12:42He's calling for it.
12:43Batista's calling for it.
12:45And the door is open.
12:46The second door has been opened.
12:47The Batista's chance.
12:48The first one open and no avail.
12:50Can Batista take advantage?
12:51Cully.
12:52Cully trying to keep the champion inside the inner structure.
12:59Remember, you've got to escape both cages.
13:02Batista trying to get out of this first bamboo structure.
13:05And Cully, the number one contender.
13:10What a way to have to defend a world championship.
13:15You work all your life for a world championship,
13:17and you get stuck in something like a Punjabi prison
13:19to defend it.
13:20This is Cully's backyard.
13:23He feels comfortable in this structure.
13:24Look how close Batista is.
13:27Yeah, but this 7 foot 3, 420 pound former champion
13:31is being just overpowered.
13:33And look at the position Batista's in.
13:36Lift it up and just be forced into that net.
13:38Got eight seconds to get out.
13:40Batista or Cully have got to get out through that door
13:43before it's locked for the remainder of the match.
13:46Neither one will do it.
13:47The door will be locked shut.
13:49We are down to two.
13:50Two doors remain to be opened.
13:54Cully was pushing Batista almost through the cage.
13:57Bobby, there's only two doors left.
13:59If they don't get out of one of these two doors,
14:01they have got to climb this structure to get out.
14:04The first structure, the interior structure.
14:06What?
14:07It's still 20 feet from the top and to the floor.
14:10Completely legal.
14:11There are no disqualifications.
14:13Cully using that rope.
14:15Just look at him.
14:17Cully trying to wear Batista down.
14:19If Batista passes out,
14:21Cully can waltz out of this structure.
14:26Choking the life out of Batista.
14:28You talk about a brutal matchup, Michael.
14:31Only on SmackDown.
14:33But only at No Mercy.
14:36Great Cully.
14:39And now- There is no mercy.
14:41Here we go.
14:42And that is a-
14:44That is a thick leather strap.
14:46A thick leather strap which is supposed to be used
14:49to aid the competitors to climb out if they want to.
14:57Cully using that leather strap as a weapon.
15:03And Cully calling for the third door to open.
15:06Cully wearing the champion out.
15:09And will the third door be the proverbial charm
15:12for the number one contender?
15:14Can Cully escape into the outer structure?
15:17And Batista's not gonna make it easy.
15:19Remember what the champion said, John.
15:21You're gonna have to pry that title out of his dead hands.
15:24I think that-
15:25Wow!
15:26That is huge!
15:27What a spine buster!
15:28From out of nowhere, the champion exploding!
15:31But Batista taking that beating from that strap.
15:33Not sure he can make it to the door.
15:35He's got 36 seconds to do it.
15:37Batista just deadlifted a 420 pounder
15:41and spine busted him.
15:42The power of Batista is incredible.
15:45But did that spine buster take everything out of Batista?
15:47Can Batista make it out of this structure?
15:50Make it out of the Punjabi prison?
15:51If Batista can make it out this door,
15:53it closes behind him.
15:54Batista just has to climb the outer structure.
15:56He's the world champion.
15:5815 seconds.
15:59Down to 13 seconds.
16:00Cully hanging on to the animal.
16:0210 seconds.
16:03Can one of these men squirm their way
16:06from this Punjabi prison?
16:10Batista struggling.
16:11Alas!
16:13Alas!
16:14Did he grasp?
16:14We're down to one door, Michael.
16:17One door.
16:19That's it.
16:21Batista, with that leather strap in hand,
16:25perhaps gonna return the favor.
16:28A little reciprocity.
16:31Batista has-
16:32Here we go.
16:33That is an awe-inspiring look at this Punjabi prison.
16:39Batista unloads leather strap to skin.
16:45Tearing at the flesh of Cully.
16:48This is what it means to be world champion.
16:50And Batista, the animals, is he gonna-
16:55Thinks the door takes too long.
16:57He's going over the top.
16:58He's gotta be kidding me.
17:00The animal's gonna try to escape this inner structure.
17:03You've gotta escape both structures to win the title.
17:05Batista trying to get out of the first one.
17:12Batista trying to retain the world championship
17:14here at No Mercy.
17:15Cully trying to win the world title back,
17:18which Batista took from him
17:20in a triple threat match last month.
17:23And every time Batista builds momentum in offense, John,
17:26this huge man-
17:28No!
17:29You've gotta be kidding me.
17:30There's no way.
17:32There's no way.
17:33Cully's desperately trying to hang on.
17:35Batista looking to deliver an ultimate powerbomb.
17:40But not able to, as Cully counters.
17:43Batista going for the Batista Bomb
17:45that had won him three world championships.
17:50But again, every time Batista musters to offense,
17:53Cully in his huge, his huge frame, his huge body.
17:57Yeah, but you see that thickening thud
18:00that of Cully hitting Batista with that massive hand.
18:04It's like a catcher's man.
18:05It's like a cinder block pounding on Batista's head.
18:08Cully- Look at Batista.
18:09Look at Batista.
18:11Cully- Doesn't know where he is.
18:12Well, Cully just stalking the animal.
18:15The animal now the hunted.
18:16And Cully-
18:17He's got the vice grip.
18:18The vice grip. He's got it.
18:19No one's ever got out.
18:21The vice grip is, the vice grip locked in.
18:24Locked in inside the Punjabi prison.
18:27The match is done, Michael.
18:28The vice grip that has taken down the lives
18:31of Ric Flair and Kane and Rey Mysterio and Jeff Hardy.
18:35It's taken down everybody.
18:37It's been put on.
18:38It's taken down Batista.
18:44Cully with those massive hands wrapped around the skull.
18:48No one has ever gotten out of this vice grip.
18:50Cully is going to do this as long as he wants.
18:52And Cully calls for that fourth and final door to be open.
18:58He's got a minute to escape.
18:58We're going to have-
19:00Legal!
19:01Illegal!
19:02Low blow!
19:05But how much damage has been done to Batista?
19:08Desperation.
19:09A last ditch effort perhaps for the champion.
19:13Can he claw his way to the door?
19:15They've got-
19:1636 seconds to escape.
19:1736 seconds for Magalore.
19:19They are stuck in this cage.
19:21Stuck.
19:21Then there's only one way out.
19:23Over the top.
19:2526 seconds.
19:27Batista crawling.
19:29Batista nearly there.
19:31That vice grip took its toll on Batista.
19:33Look at him.
19:34Cully!
19:34He has not recovered.
19:36No, no!
19:39Cully using that steel-reinforced bamboo as a weapon.
19:43Driving it into the spine.
19:51And the final door.
19:55Closed.
19:57Locked.
19:59It's showtime.
20:04Look, Cully doesn't even like it.
20:10Well, they're the rules and no disqualification.
20:14And Cully looked a bit disappointed
20:17that that door was locked and shut.
20:20He should, Michael.
20:21The only way out is to climb over the top.
20:24It's 16 feet from the ring floor to the top.
20:27It's a 20 foot drop from the top to the floor.
20:31Don't forget, John.
20:32If you get out of that first structure,
20:33you still got to go up over the outside structure.
20:36With the razor sharp bamboo on top.
20:38Cully, Cully trying to climb the cage.
20:41It is Batista trying to keep the great Cully.
20:45This is something out of Jurassic Park.
20:48And the world champion desperately trying
20:51to hold on to his title.
20:55And he may have, he may have there,
20:58taking the big man off his feet.
21:00And now it's Batista's turn to try to escape.
21:03When a 400 pound plus man that isn't used to being
21:06knocked off his feet falls like that, Michael, it hurts him.
21:09But Cully is done.
21:11He is hurt.
21:13To use the old cliche, the bigger they are,
21:14the harder they fall.
21:16And Batista trying to climb as well.
21:18And Cully, the number one contender.
21:21Trying to hold the animal in his cage.
21:25Batista.
21:27No!
21:27Man!
21:31A drop of over 10 feet.
21:34Wow.
21:35Batista halfway up.
21:38And Cully, the number one contender,
21:40looking to escape the interior of the cage.
21:43The number one contender looking to escape
21:45the interior structure.
21:46He's almost there.
21:48Cully is almost there.
21:49Batista motionless in the center of the ring.
21:52Looks like something Michael Stephen King would make up.
21:56This huge mountain of a dinosaur climbing out of his cage.
22:01Unbelievable what we are witnessing.
22:03A giant climbing over the top of this 16 foot high
22:09steel reinforced bamboo structure.
22:12Batista took a 10 foot fall.
22:15And Cully, and Batista still not up.
22:19And what Cully has to do now
22:20is get down from this inner structure.
22:23And then begin the climb.
22:24Look how far Cully is climbing for a little perspective.
22:29Look at this.
22:30But John, once he-
22:31Cully still 10 feet above the ground.
22:35What would happen if Cully fell?
22:36Could you imagine that?
22:38Could you imagine Cully?
22:39But as he does climb down the cage to the floor below,
22:43Cully now has to scale the outside structure.
22:46Cully now must scale the 20 foot high structure
22:50with the razor sharp bamboo spikes at the top.
22:55World championship on the line.
22:56If anybody can do it, it's his match.
22:59It's his home.
23:00It's Punjabi.
23:01Batista.
23:02We're looking at a new world champion, Cully.
23:06Batista still gotta get out of the inside structure.
23:08All Cully has gotta do is get over the top.
23:11Batista's at the top of the inner structure.
23:13The champion has scaled the inner structure.
23:16Cully at the top of the outer structure.
23:20Cully literally-
23:21What is Batista doing?
23:22Look at this.
23:23Oh my!
23:24Batista launching himself from one option to the other.
23:29Desperately trying to hold this title.
23:31Batista climbing to the top.
23:33Cully's over.
23:34Cully on his way down.
23:36Who's gonna drop?
23:37Batista on his way down as well.
23:39Batista.
23:40Batista's gonna win it.
23:41Let go of Batista.
23:43He does.
23:43Batista wins the race.
23:45Batista retains the title.
23:48And the new world champion, Batista.
23:53I have never seen anything like that.
23:56The world champion jumped from one structure to another
23:59and then beat Cully in the race down the outer structure.
24:04What a spectacle we just witnessed, Michael.
24:06That's what a world championship is all about.
24:14Today, Batista earned that world championship.
24:19Congratulations, Dave.
24:22Enjoy the victory.
24:25What a win for the world heavyweight champion, Batista.
24:31All four doors closed on the inner structure.
24:34Gotta climb out.
24:35Batista had no chance.
24:37Takes that Spider-Man leap to the outer cage.
24:40Climbs down and beats the not so nimble giant.
24:44John, for years, many critics of Batista
24:47have said that Cully is just power.
24:49But what Batista proved tonight is he's more than power.
24:52He's got heart.
24:53He's got guts.
24:54He's got soul.
24:55He's got agility.
24:56To be able to do what Batista did tonight is unfathomable.
25:00Batista retains the world title.
25:03Yeah, but what Batista did tonight was say to hell with it.
25:06Sometimes you gotta wrestle
25:08like you're in someone else's body.
25:10And that's what Batista did.
25:12You can call it athletic.
25:14I call it hearts.
25:15I call it guts.
25:16That's what Batista did.
25:18We need to win a championship tonight.
25:20That's what Batista did.
25:21And the final moments of the matchup.
25:23Batista winning the race.
25:25Batista wanted it more.
25:27Caution to the wind.
25:29Batista retaining the world title.
25:32Batista survives his Punjabi nightmare.
25:35Batista conquers the Punjabi prison's chamber of horrors.
25:40The animal deserved it.
25:42The animal earned it.
25:43He deserves a smile, Michael.
25:46We got us a hell of a champion on SmackDown.
25:49Great job, Batista.