Triple H v Shawn Michaels - Hell in a Cell Match (Bad Blood 2004)
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00:00:00Inside, ladies and gentlemen, congratulations to Chris Benoit, what a hell of a victory.
00:00:04Well, ladies and gentlemen, momentarily, two men will leave their locker rooms to make their way into the hell in the cell tonight.
00:00:11The question is, who will be able to return to that locker room later tonight, King?
00:00:16Well, I can tell you one thing, neither one of these men will ever be the same.
00:00:20You see that demonic cell being lowered down now. We're just moments away from this, JR.
00:00:25Two men that at one time were best friends. They've gone from being in DX to ending up in hell.
00:00:34HBK, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, The Game, one of the greatest rivalries in the history of this industry.
00:00:42The World Heavyweight Champion, Chris Benoit, putting the title on the line against Shawn Michaels.
00:00:48There it is!
00:00:49Yes, sweet tin music, and this one's gonna be over!
00:00:52Here we go!
00:00:53Wait a damn minute! Triple H!
00:00:55I can't believe this! Triple H has just ruined Shawn Michaels' chance to become World's Champion!
00:01:02The following is a 20-man battle royale, and it is to determine the number one contender at Bad Blood.
00:01:09We're down to two! King got the low blow, he's hurt. Triple H is gonna win this damn thing after all!
00:01:16Wait a minute! What is that?
00:01:18A suspended Shawn Michaels has helped Triple H advance to the World's Heavyweight Title!
00:01:26That is it! That is enough at Bad Blood!
00:01:30NYU Triple H vs. Shawn Michaels!
00:01:35Hell in a Cell!
00:01:39Sweet was the blood.
00:01:43Two tons of unforgiving steel.
00:01:46The most demonic structure in the history of the WWE.
00:01:51Shawn Michaels enters my world, and I have never lost a Hell in a Cell match.
00:01:58Because unlike Shawn Michaels, I have no remorse.
00:02:04I have no conscience, and I will stop at nothing to end Shawn Michaels' career.
00:02:15Shawn Michaels and Triple H have had some classic confrontations in the past.
00:02:20These two men, as we all know, have been at one time closer than brothers.
00:02:25But tonight, after seven years, it's come to this.
00:02:28A match that was designed for one reason, and that is to be the end.
00:02:35I hear the words you say to me, I see the way you look at me.
00:02:41I know what's on your mind, so stand up, get up, back up, now just stay away.
00:02:47I feel the hate you push on me, I see the things that you can't see.
00:02:52I know what's on your mind, so stand up, get up, back up.
00:02:57You had your chance to break me down, but there's nothing at all.
00:03:06So just stay away from me.
00:03:09HBK and Triple H, this is one of the great rivalries.
00:03:13It's all gonna be over.
00:03:15The brutal finality of this ended confrontation.
00:03:20Only on Sunday, Shawn Michaels, you and I may go straight to hell.
00:03:26You had your chance to break me down, but there's nothing at all.
00:03:34So just stay away from me.
00:03:40Now just stay away from me.
00:03:46Just stay away.
00:03:54Time to play.
00:03:59Time to play the game.
00:04:03Ha ha ha ha.
00:04:15It's all about the game, and how you play it.
00:04:18It's all about control, and if you can take it.
00:04:21It's all about your debt, and if you can pay it.
00:04:24It's all about me, and who's gonna make it.
00:04:27I am the game, you don't wanna play me.
00:04:30I am the game.
00:04:33The following is a hell in a cell match, and it is scheduled for
00:04:37one fall, introducing first, from Grannon, Connecticut,
00:04:42weighing in at 265 pounds, Triple H!
00:04:49Triple H has given up a one on one match in hell and jail.
00:04:52Triple H has beaten a brawler, a mauler, and a technical wrestler.
00:05:01Three diverse different styles, and
00:05:04the game has come out victorious each and every time.
00:05:09But none of those men, in all due respect, are the show's champion.
00:05:13Well, it's hard to beat the game at his own game.
00:05:18And it seems that hell in a cell is Triple H's game.
00:05:22That's why I wondered there, why on earth would Shawn Michaels ask,
00:05:27no, not ask, demand this match here tonight?
00:05:30For finality, to end this rivalry once and for all.
00:05:37But it's almost like a, you're right, it's gonna happen.
00:05:41It's gonna be finality, but it's almost like Shawn Michaels has his own
00:05:45death wish to be in this kind of match with that man.
00:05:48The hell in a cell is like Satan perversely waiting on new victims.
00:05:56And from San Antonio, Texas,
00:06:01the Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels.
00:06:07A phenomenal ovation for
00:06:11the young man with the warrior soul,
00:06:17Shawn Michaels.
00:06:20But can Shawn Michaels regret the places he's not been before in years to survive
00:06:27this, because, King, this is Survival Sunday for
00:06:32both that man, Triple H, and that man, Shawn Michaels.
00:06:38Well, Shawn Michaels better be able to survive.
00:06:42He better be able to get to that place, JR, where Triple H is going to be.
00:06:47He better be able to get to that place, JR, where not that man, Triple H,
00:06:54could and will try to end Shawn Michaels' career right here tonight.
00:07:01And if Triple H can get it done,
00:07:04let's not discount the effects of the hell in a cell.
00:07:09The hell in a cell, the keeper of blood, flesh, and careers.
00:07:15There's only been ten hell in a cell matches in the history of this company.
00:07:20Only 13 men have ventured inside this hell in a cell.
00:07:25And I would tell you, and I think they would tell you,
00:07:29they were never the same again.
00:07:31Shawn Michaels is looking up at this demonic cell.
00:07:37He's contemplating exactly what you're talking about, JR.
00:07:42Here it comes.
00:07:45You might as well say the steel executioner is being
00:07:50lowered around this very ring and two human beings.
00:07:55It's like a huge black cloud falling down on both of these men.
00:08:01As wicked and unforgiving as Triple H is, by his own admission,
00:08:06so is this structure.
00:08:08Nobody's getting in.
00:08:10These two men aren't getting out.
00:08:13This is a one fall to a finished match.
00:08:17And to tell you I have a peaceful, easy feeling about this,
00:08:22would be total fabrication.
00:08:25JR, I don't think either man is overly anxious to get this thing started.
00:08:32I mentioned on heat, this was like a restless prison.
00:08:36Like a restless prison, the house of detention and depravity.
00:08:42These are the last precious few moments that either of these men are ever gonna be.
00:08:48Well, the same, they are ever gonna be the way they are right now.
00:08:51You're right.
00:08:52They will both be changed after this match.
00:08:57This rivalry has gotten so perversely personal.
00:09:01Harnell Botaev and Triple H will have a size and strength advantage.
00:09:06Michaels can counter with speed, quickness, and heart.
00:09:10Not to say the Game doesn't have heart.
00:09:12He's got plenty of, and a big right hand, and another right hand by the Game.
00:09:18Michaels turning the table here.
00:09:19My bad, chop and a right hand.
00:09:25I was gonna say this match started off at great neck pace,
00:09:32but the hatred that exists between these two men, that's all you can expect.
00:09:36These guys aren't gonna be in there to wrestle each other.
00:09:39They're not actually in there to try to pin one another, JR.
00:09:41They want to end this thing once and for all.
00:09:45There's no time limit, no disqualifications.
00:09:48Hard elbow that got Shawn right in the, may have got him right in the Adam's apple.
00:09:52As we say at Oklahoma, it's a throat in most places.
00:09:59If you see that one more time, you better yet listen to it.
00:10:04Man, that's some serious impact.
00:10:07And Michaels, taking down the Game, and
00:10:11measuring those right hands on Triple H, who shoves Michael off of that belt position.
00:10:17Michaels throwing the outside hands of his people right back in.
00:10:22Michaels again, a lute-ness press.
00:10:26Michaels so tenacious, so driven in this rivalry to end it here tonight.
00:10:32The fans here at ringside counting off the big right hands by Shawn Michaels.
00:10:39He's got the forehead of Triple H.
00:10:43Third time out, he's been thrown over the top rope, out to the floor.
00:10:46This ringside area is surrounded by the hell in a cell.
00:10:50And don't think that that cell is not gonna come into play.
00:10:54Each one of these men know it's there.
00:10:55They know when they wanna use it.
00:10:58They know they can't get out of that door.
00:11:00It's completely chained and padlocked.
00:11:02I hear the fans here in Columbus, Ohio.
00:11:08Nobody there for Triple H with that right hand that Michaels counters for
00:11:12right hands of his own.
00:11:13He cannot be countered out.
00:11:18Referee is only in there to count somebody's shoulders, or
00:11:21to ring the bell for submission.
00:11:25Referee cannot make too many mistakes here.
00:11:28And Triple H may have made a calculated error there.
00:11:32Lowered his head.
00:11:33Michaels capitalized quickly with his spinning, swinging neck record.
00:11:37Cover.
00:11:39One fall to a finish.
00:11:40Again, no disqualification.
00:11:43There is no time limit, no count outs, and no stopping for
00:11:48blood, I hope I haven't jinxed these two men.
00:11:52I think that little pinning attempt came
00:11:55strictly out of instinct there from Shawn Michaels.
00:12:00I don't think he would have been content to get a win over Triple H that easily.
00:12:05Do you?
00:12:06I think he wants this to be more final.
00:12:08I think Shawn Michaels wants Triple H to know once and
00:12:13for all that Shawn Michaels, HBK, is the better man of the two.
00:12:16That's what this is all about.
00:12:19Who is the better man?
00:12:20We'll find that out tonight.
00:12:22It's already cleaned, it's already isolated.
00:12:25It looks like it's back to backers as well.
00:12:26It's a very unforgiving steal, as you say, JR.
00:12:31No doubt about it.
00:12:32Every inch of it can cut you in some kind of way.
00:12:36Hell in a cell is where careers go to die.
00:12:39No one forgiving.
00:12:44You can't beat us, you can't beat us.
00:12:47That's good.
00:12:48And it, well, you know, could.
00:12:50I'm trying to be, man, Blake's head almost chopped off.
00:12:55Blake's is bleeding now.
00:12:56Michaels trying to open that cut up, but hard right hand.
00:13:01You know, I've heard legends that men have broken their hands in these matches.
00:13:07Just, this is as legal as a headlock.
00:13:13Well, and another way to get your hand broken or
00:13:15your fist broken is just what happened to Triple H earlier.
00:13:20You back somebody's head up against the middle of one of those metal posts and
00:13:23then swing and they move out of the way.
00:13:25Your fist is gonna strike back with steel.
00:13:27Triple H is beating Shawn Michaels, that foot right in the face.
00:13:33He's trying to regroup here, but Triple H's, again.
00:13:36Triple H has lost some distance there.
00:13:38You see that Triple H is bleeding, that's probably what caused it right there.
00:13:45Triple H's head went right into that.
00:13:49Not severe at the moment.
00:13:51And the game.
00:13:53Man.
00:13:55I'm afraid things are about to get a little more severe now, JR.
00:13:59This is the term unforgiving.
00:14:05The cell doesn't care.
00:14:09Triple H's face being rearranged.
00:14:15It looks more like hamburger than a wrestler right now.
00:14:20Stunned there by Michaels just to get the game down.
00:14:23So Michaels can stomp Triple H square in the face.
00:14:27And speaking of Triple H's face, there it goes again for that demonic cell.
00:14:33And I've said this on more than one occasion, I know from experience.
00:14:36It does something to you, JR.
00:14:38You just can't help but have some sort of feeling when you're in a match like this,
00:14:43and you suddenly see your own blood.
00:14:45Nobody ever likes to see their own blood, you know that, right JR?
00:14:48Absolutely.
00:14:49Why would they?
00:14:51Hard knockdown by Shawn Michaels, he's walked the inverted atomic rock.
00:14:55Michaels walking very gingerly.
00:14:58He's a guy that was out four years with a bad back.
00:15:02Michaels' hips, sure his hips, maybe his lower back.
00:15:05Don't want to diagnose that Michaels is not right.
00:15:08As you can tell, he's walking crooked.
00:15:10And he hopes to be walking period when this match ends.
00:15:15Michael's trying to suplex Triple H.
00:15:28And that is definitely the lower back.
00:15:30That back is either cramping on him, he's got some muscle spasms.
00:15:34Or there's some more structural damage there.
00:15:37I hope I'm wrong on the latter.
00:15:39I can say that you better hope,
00:15:41Shawn better hope that it's only muscle spasms or cramps.
00:15:45And that's not enough for Paul's right there, that hard Irish slip from Triple H.
00:15:48He's one of the most powerful men ever here in the WWE.
00:15:53And Triple H doesn't miss a trick.
00:15:55We don't call him the cerebral assassin for nothing.
00:15:57And he said before this match, if he sees any spot, any point of weakness,
00:16:02any kind of injury, he's going to go right after it.
00:16:05And I think that's what we're about to see now.
00:16:06He senses it.
00:16:08Man, Triple H with every bit of strength and velocity he could muster.
00:16:17Sending Michaels for the proverbial ride with the Irish whip.
00:16:21Again, and man, that elbow, this is getting hard to watch.
00:16:28Michael's back is definitely hurt.
00:16:29I don't know what was the first thing that happened to him.
00:16:32But you can tell, you noticed at first, he's walking crooked.
00:16:36And now he's in serious trouble.
00:16:40And knowing the four years of hell that Shawn Michaels went through,
00:16:45away from what he loved to do, all because of that bad back and the surgery.
00:16:50And then coming, prophetically enough, into hell in a cell and
00:16:55having this happen to him is more than ironic.
00:17:00Well, I hate to say that Shawn Michaels deserves this, JR.
00:17:05But you gotta remember, everybody out there needs to remember,
00:17:08Shawn asked for this match.
00:17:10You did that.
00:17:11No, he didn't ask for it.
00:17:12He demanded this match.
00:17:14He did ask, demand.
00:17:16And look at this standing suplex, look at the strength of Triple H.
00:17:20That takes amazing strength, with the blood rushing to the head of Shawn Michaels.
00:17:25It's a disorienting move, high impact, cover.
00:17:28And Michaels kicks out instinctively.
00:17:30But look at Michaels' back.
00:17:32The kick out on that move, Michaels' back is contorted, it's twisted, King.
00:17:37It was as if Michaels has been in a car wreck.
00:17:40I don't know, at this point, JR, I don't know what he can do about it.
00:17:45I mean, this is the kind of injury that it's, I mean,
00:17:50it just takes, you have to recuperate.
00:17:51It takes time to get, and it's not like Triple H is gonna let up for one second.
00:17:56And the other threatening aspect of this match,
00:18:00the referee can't stop this match.
00:18:03There's a backbreaker by the game.
00:18:04There's a referee got a near fall, Michaels kicking out.
00:18:07The game going for the win with a backbreaker, going for the cover there.
00:18:11But the referee is totally helpless in what he can do.
00:18:15There's no disqualification.
00:18:17That steel chair is as legal as any maneuver that Triple H chooses to execute.
00:18:24Yeah, I agree, JR, but if he uses it, Triple H, at this point in this match,
00:18:29uses that steel chair, that's like tantamount to cruel and unusual punishment.
00:18:34Triple H can be described as terminally dangerous.
00:18:41And Shawn Michaels could not have gotten up without the help of the ropes and
00:18:45being picked up by the game and over the game somehow.
00:18:50The resilience of Shawn Michaels is absolutely extraordinary.
00:18:54But the game just shuts down the extraordinary will to compete of Shawn
00:18:58Michaels, and this is gonna be sick.
00:19:01Michaels goes downstairs.
00:19:04Michaels, once again, Michaels saves himself at the last second.
00:19:07Just a desperation kick by Michaels.
00:19:10There's no telling where his brain has been scrambled with that steel chair.
00:19:15If Triple H- Michaels with another knockdown.
00:19:18If Triple H had been able to connect.
00:19:22Somehow, Michaels needs to stay on the offense.
00:19:24And Michaels needs to grab that chair himself.
00:19:26Michaels, going Triple H out.
00:19:28This is a good opportunity for Michaels to stay in the ring and
00:19:31try to get that back straightened out.
00:19:34Or maybe Shawn threw Triple H out of the ring just to try to buy some time.
00:19:38I don't, I thought so too, but probably not.
00:19:41And Shawn Michaels' courage and his guts, his will to win, just cost him there.
00:19:47No, no, no.
00:19:50The post to the ring post.
00:19:53A cage, a post to the cage.
00:19:56My God, this is carnage.
00:19:58What do you say, Michaels?
00:20:02You wanna continue the match?
00:20:05Talk to me, Shawn.
00:20:07Referee is asking Shawn Michaels if he wants to quit.
00:20:10I don't think that word's in his vocabulary tonight, do you?
00:20:14Absolutely not, but Michaels has got a young family.
00:20:18He's a father.
00:20:20He's got other things that he has to be concerned about.
00:20:23What would happen if Shawn was incapacitated or
00:20:27in so much pain that he couldn't even say that he quit?
00:20:29I'm starting to think what the end result would be.
00:20:35We know the game is gonna show absolutely no surcease on Michaels.
00:20:40Triple H can be as viciously vile as anyone that we have ever witnessed in this ring.
00:20:47A little Triple H, he just glances over his shoulder to see what part of this cell to use next.
00:20:59As if it wasn't bad enough for the game to assault Michaels' lower back in the ring.
00:21:05Now the game is using this structure,
00:21:09this hell in a cell, almost as a tag team partner.
00:21:13No, that's, like you said, the chair, everything about this cell is fair game.
00:21:20It's just like a suplex.
00:21:22And I think now the time has come that Triple H wants to finish Shawn.
00:21:26Steel chair placed in the center of the ring, and no, no, my God.
00:21:33Geez, golly almighty, this has got to be it, and Michaels kicked out.
00:21:41And I'll tell you, I appreciate the passion.
00:21:45I respect the man as much as anybody, but I'm almost, I almost, for
00:21:50a moment there, wished that Shawn Michaels had not kicked out.
00:21:55And I'm saying that, ladies and gentlemen,
00:21:57because I'm concerned about Michaels' physical welfare.
00:22:01Well, I understand that you wish that he had not kicked out, and
00:22:04I think that shortly, Shawn may wish that he had not kicked out.
00:22:07I can assure you, Triple H has some bad plans with that chair.
00:22:11Backbreaker literally may have happened.
00:22:19This has got to be, they don't stop, John Michaels, refusing to stay down.
00:22:23And Michaels kicking out from left shoulder, right shoulder,
00:22:27kicking with his legs, and everything is heart, soul, and muscle.
00:22:32And the game has got to be getting a little frustrated,
00:22:35albeit Triple H is in the proverbial driver's seat.
00:22:39Well, I'm gonna tell you, I don't see frustration in Triple H's face.
00:22:43I see determination.
00:22:45I think he's thinking right now, Shawn, if this is the way you want it,
00:22:48then this is the way you're gonna get it.
00:22:51I can't describe that any better than what you saw.
00:23:00A steel chair across the spine, and this is it.
00:23:03I'll tell you what, I keep, I got a bad feeling in my gut, King.
00:23:11I don't, I mean, Michaels, four years away, and he's looking at Shawn Michaels,
00:23:16trying to use Triple H to pull himself up.
00:23:18His will to compete, speaking of Shawn Michaels, is absolutely extraordinary.
00:23:25And Michaels with everything he's got, a right hand shot.
00:23:30And a shot to the eye by The Game.
00:23:33Well, I just, at this point, after the damage that's been done-
00:23:37Domino's wrench.
00:23:39No, it's not, it's reversed.
00:23:40And- My God, good grief.
00:23:42Triple H was hip-flopped over the top rope to the floor, and Michaels just crumbled.
00:23:49Michaels collapsed after reaching down to his socks.
00:23:54Well, desperate- To hip-flop The Game.
00:23:55Desperate men do desperate things, and that was an act of pure desperation,
00:24:00but, by Shawn Michaels, but I think it worked.
00:24:02It did buy him some time.
00:24:03Check this out one more time.
00:24:05Abdominal stretch is what The Game was going for, but it was reversed,
00:24:08or it was countered, and then the hip, hip toss right out of the ring.
00:24:14Shawn Michaels using that shoulder, the battering ram, his left shoulder,
00:24:18and Triple H just, well, one time, shame on you.
00:24:22Second time, shame on me.
00:24:24I'm surprised that Triple H could have a bad back after being thrown out of the ring like that.
00:24:31Walked into that one.
00:24:33The Game, as a wrestler, with both of his right hands, and more right hands,
00:24:38The Game has done everything he can at Michaels, and has not kept Michaels down for three.
00:24:44It's got to be frustrating.
00:24:45Wait, wait, wait, wait, here it is.
00:24:47This is it.
00:24:48Competitory time, and the low blow is legal.
00:24:52The steel chair is legal, as we pointed out, and so is that low blow.
00:24:57That went downtown.
00:25:00I was just about to say, JR, that I still, you talk about The Game being frustrated.
00:25:04I still don't see it, or I didn't see it up until this point, in The Game's face.
00:25:09I think he's so focused.
00:25:11I don't think The Game is in any hurry tonight to end this.
00:25:14I think he's just determined to get it done.
00:25:16And Michaels going right back to that vulnerable area,
00:25:22to say the least, now on three occasions.
00:25:25There's only so much he can take.
00:25:27And a right hand, throws a nice knockdown, but
00:25:29how much pain is Triple H in after those three low blows?
00:25:32Come on, break it.
00:25:33Come on.
00:25:37Irish whip, Michaels following The Game now, in big time trouble.
00:25:41Shawn Michaels, he may be, as Jackson Brown says, running on empty.
00:25:46Michaels with a cover, and a kick out by The Game.
00:25:49Michaels did not have the strength on that exchange to hook a leg and
00:25:53cinch up The Game.
00:25:54He's finally able to lay across Triple H, and knee to the back.
00:25:58Triple H knocked to the outside, that knee to his lower back.
00:26:04Michaels trying to fight for verbally fire with fire here.
00:26:07And Triple H face first into the hell in a cell, and the cell arm sure enjoys it.
00:26:14Well, I think this is a smart move by HBK.
00:26:17He needs to, he now needs to use that cell as a tag team partner.
00:26:23Because one on one, well, Shawn hasn't been faring too well.
00:26:28Man, bad ride, worse landing, unenviable destination.
00:26:35Look at that again, once again, listen to this.
00:26:42That's a human being's body being thrown into an inanimate object.
00:26:50This steel steps, I guess, the steps of the cousin of the hell in a cell.
00:26:55They're all in it together.
00:26:57Anything that's inside that demonic cell is, as you say, buried in it.
00:27:01A handful of hair, and, my God, you gotta be kidding me.
00:27:11This could do it.
00:27:12You gotta be kidding me.
00:27:13This could be a difference maker.
00:27:14Kyle Driver on the steel steps.
00:27:17God almighty, Michaels elevated off those steps, right onto the floor.
00:27:24So that was probably as big a difference maker as that Kyle Driver
00:27:29would have been on the steps being thrown off, back dropped off those steps.
00:27:35Michaels may not be able to recover from this.
00:27:38Yeah, check this out from a better angle here.
00:27:42You heard the splat of a man's spine on the floor.
00:27:47Look out.
00:27:48And now what?
00:27:50I guess it's- Your guess is as good as mine.
00:27:52Whatever's under the ring can be utilized.
00:27:57Under the ring, over the ring, around the ring.
00:28:01Wheelchair.
00:28:02I'll tell you what's under it, man.
00:28:04And a slap shot by the game right on the spine of Shawn Michaels.
00:28:13And Michaels has got to be from head to toe in as much excruciating pain
00:28:19as a human being should ever have to experience.
00:28:23Now what is going through this twisted mind of Triple H.
00:28:29He's capable of any kind of desperately-
00:28:32God, those steel steps, they've tossed the steps in the ring.
00:28:39Like they were nothing.
00:28:40Mike Gilder trying to reason with the game.
00:28:42That's- Gilder hasn't saved his bread.
00:28:44Triple H on the steps.
00:28:47On driving to Michaels.
00:28:49And Michaels.
00:28:49About one shot to the solar plexus on Triple H.
00:28:55And another hard one.
00:28:57Triple H.
00:28:58Triple H.
00:28:59Triple H.
00:29:00Triple H.
00:29:01Trying.
00:29:02Trying for him by Shawn Michaels.
00:29:05The guy with the referee had tried to get those steel steps out of the ring.
00:29:08Somebody could just inadvertently fall on or against those things and that would end-
00:29:12Michaels.
00:29:13How in the hell does he do it?
00:29:15Michaels just nipped up.
00:29:18Yeah, but he's back down.
00:29:19Back down just as fast.
00:29:20That back has to be killing him.
00:29:25Michaels trying to stand.
00:29:26Most in the game to come get me.
00:29:29Come get me.
00:29:30Here I am.
00:29:31I got something for you.
00:29:33It could have been.
00:29:35Michaels looking for sweet tin music.
00:29:36My God, you've got to be kidding me.
00:29:41Michael Snow just bounced off those green steps.
00:29:45And the only music I think we're going to hear is the fat lady singing.
00:29:50It's over, JR.
00:29:53Michaels hit- My God.
00:29:57Michaels has been deeply lacerated.
00:30:00And the blood running through his eyes, through his lips, and mouth.
00:30:06I think his entire face was smashed.
00:30:09That blood's coming out of his mouth.
00:30:10Come on.
00:30:11Out of his nose.
00:30:12Come on, Triple H.
00:30:13Enough is enough.
00:30:14I know it's hell in a cell, but Michaels is a human being.
00:30:17I told you, just look at the look on the face of Triple H.
00:30:21It's not frustration.
00:30:22It's determination, JR.
00:30:24Nothing is going to stop that man from destroying Shawn Michaels here tonight.
00:30:28Just don't do it.
00:30:29Reach in your heart.
00:30:30Don't do it.
00:30:31My God, he did it.
00:30:32Yeah.
00:30:33Triple H did it.
00:30:34Shawn Michaels' blood is all over those steel steps.
00:30:37You ask Triple H to reach in his heart and find some little part of compassion
00:30:45for Shawn Michaels?
00:30:46The only thing I can say is, unmercifully, you've got to believe that this is over.
00:30:51There's a coming.
00:30:53I got him.
00:30:54I got him.
00:30:55I got him.
00:30:56Oh, my God, Shawn.
00:30:59Listen to this.
00:31:00Hear the steps.
00:31:03Oh, man.
00:31:06See Shawn Michaels' head bounce off those steel steps?
00:31:10Absolutely.
00:31:14I just think that right now, King Shawn Michaels has got to be just
00:31:17instinctively kicking out.
00:31:21He's not able, can't be mentally able, to put thoughts together,
00:31:24any kind of succession or any kind of logical order.
00:31:29It's all on guts and instinct.
00:31:31Oh!
00:31:34He is in serious trouble.
00:31:39Can Shawn Michaels survive this damning career-altering ride
00:31:44through this steel-encased hell in a cell?
00:31:47Shawn, huh?
00:31:48You want hell?
00:31:49You want hell?
00:31:50I got it for you.
00:31:54You can feel the hatred between these two men.
00:31:57You can feel the angst between these two men, who at one time, as you say,
00:32:03were closer than brothers.
00:32:05We all remember their DX days.
00:32:10And it has come to this.
00:32:13It has come to this, where someone's career could very likely be ended here.
00:32:20Triple H asking, telling Shawn, asking, you want hell?
00:32:24Michael's face and head like a battering ram.
00:32:29And again, Triple H could give a damn.
00:32:32And the cage, the cell, cares less.
00:32:38You know, JR, I thought I'd never say this
00:32:41in a hell in a cell match, but I honestly think that the referee should
00:32:46think about stopping this match.
00:32:51I can't disagree with that.
00:32:52I will not disagree with that.
00:32:53Michael's face.
00:32:54Talk about a hamburger.
00:32:56That's a human, that's epidermis being left on that cage.
00:33:03And Michael is going to be scarred and marked for life after this.
00:33:10Once again, this is the match that Shawn Michaels wanted.
00:33:14Why?
00:33:15I don't know, but this is what he wanted.
00:33:17Triple H, indeed, calculatingly cruel.
00:33:21He is the pontiff of pain, a man that likes to hurt people,
00:33:26especially someone that he was so close to.
00:33:31Triple H has never had an ally like Shawn Michaels was
00:33:35in Triple H's career, never.
00:33:37And he never will again, it might be.
00:33:39Well, Yarn Anderson's spine buster just shook Michael's liver,
00:33:45and I hope it's not enough.
00:33:47You said Triple H never had an ally like Shawn Michaels.
00:33:50He's obviously never had an opponent like him either,
00:33:53but all while they were friends, all while they were allies in DX,
00:33:56there was always that question, JR,
00:33:59which one of these men were the better of the two?
00:34:02It was always there.
00:34:04It was always in the back of each one of their minds,
00:34:06and that's what this is all about tonight.
00:34:08That's where we are.
00:34:10That's why these two men are in hell together.
00:34:12Michaels' lower back, killing it.
00:34:14He's losing a lot of blood.
00:34:16But by God, Shawn Michaels is not going to quit.
00:34:19Michaels continues to fight with everything he's got,
00:34:22with every bit of his heart and soul,
00:34:24but the game just seems to be too much here tonight.
00:34:28The sleeper applied by Triple H.
00:34:32What do you say, Shawn?
00:34:34And this is such a strategically sound, perfect maneuver
00:34:40for this point in time in the match.
00:34:42And it might be a fitting end to this hell in a cell.
00:34:45Shawn Michaels left unconscious in a pool of his own blood.
00:34:50And that's what the game, you've got to believe.
00:34:52You've got to know we're not alone,
00:34:54and Michael's got to get in a drilling rush here.
00:34:56Look at this crowd behind him, and they are.
00:34:59And the game went face first into the top turnbuckle.
00:35:03At least, at least Michaels now has bought himself
00:35:07a little bit of time.
00:35:13Game got addled there.
00:35:15He's trying to shake it loose.
00:35:17I agree.
00:35:18He's in la-la land right now, but he's going to have to refocus.
00:35:22There he goes.
00:35:24This guy, Triple H, the game.
00:35:26Oh, here we go.
00:35:27Pedigree time.
00:35:28No, countered.
00:35:30Michaels countered a pedigree into the DDT.
00:35:33Oh, man.
00:35:34That could do it.
00:35:36Michaels countered a pedigree, which I guarantee you
00:35:39it would have been over, into the DDT.
00:35:44And Triple H's head that time was the one
00:35:46that was doing the bouncing.
00:35:51Michaels, he's only breathing.
00:35:55Thank God for that.
00:35:57But he's not moving.
00:35:58It's Shawn Michaels.
00:36:00Triple H.
00:36:03Still some life left in the game.
00:36:06Beginning to stir.
00:36:08Mercury surveying the action, but there's no count outs.
00:36:14There's no telling how much blood Shawn Michaels has lost here.
00:36:19Michaels reaching, and Michaels now has the weapon
00:36:23that Triple H brought into this ring, that steel chair.
00:36:28I'm afraid Triple H may regret bringing that chair in.
00:36:35And right at this moment, I'm sure the game regrets
00:36:37bringing that chair in the ring.
00:36:39That was a deadly chair shot that you see the results.
00:36:43Oh, boy.
00:36:44That's how deadly it was.
00:36:47The game's been opened up badly.
00:36:51This is the supreme gut check for both men bleeding.
00:36:56Listen.
00:37:00Now, look, Shawn still has that chair, JR.
00:37:02There was no blocking that.
00:37:04Oh, naughty again.
00:37:10You can only imagine what that does to a human being's brain.
00:37:17I mean, you can't be the same.
00:37:20There's a cover, and Michaels got all of them.
00:37:22Hands coming down, and this time it was a game.
00:37:25What's scary about those chair shots is, you know,
00:37:29naturally from that impact, your skin is lacerated.
00:37:32You start to bleed on the outside, but unfortunately,
00:37:34your brain is bruised.
00:37:36You start to bleed on the inside as well.
00:37:38That's what's so dangerous.
00:37:41Face buster by the game, and Michaels.
00:37:45The impact taking him all the way outside.
00:37:47Look at Michaels.
00:37:48As soon as he hit the floor, he's looking under that ring.
00:37:50Is there something?
00:37:51Oh, yes, there is something.
00:37:52You've got to be kidding me.
00:37:54You have got to be kidding me.
00:37:56I told you there was no telling what was under there.
00:37:58There's actually a wicked little smile on the face of HBK.
00:38:02The man that introduced ladders to the WWE, Shawn Michaels,
00:38:07is putting a ladder, and these fans here in Columbus, Ohio,
00:38:12have come to their feet here.
00:38:15JR, you asked earlier, you queried,
00:38:18could Shawn Michaels reach down and get to the depth
00:38:20of where he's been before?
00:38:22I think he's answering your question right now, isn't he?
00:38:25Absolutely.
00:38:26Michaels blowing the first ever head of the-
00:38:28Oh, my God, look out!
00:38:29The ladder's a-battering around,
00:38:31right into the bloody face of the Cerebral Assassin.
00:38:36Back of the ladder.
00:38:37Oh, the ribs!
00:38:39Into the abdomen.
00:38:41Oh!
00:38:44Everything legal in this environment.
00:38:47As sad as it is to say,
00:38:49there can be no disqualifications.
00:38:52Check out this ladder to the face of the game.
00:38:55And then after that,
00:38:57Shawn drove it into the rib cage.
00:38:59Now look.
00:39:00It's Triple H.
00:39:02Triple H backing off.
00:39:03Triple H said, wait a minute.
00:39:04He's not saying he's had enough, is he?
00:39:05He wants to go skiing.
00:39:06And the Michaels on the right hand.
00:39:08Triple H trying to-
00:39:09He backed as far as a corner.
00:39:10And he's cornered all right.
00:39:11And Michaels now taking advantage.
00:39:13Michaels took a left right hand like he may have broken it.
00:39:17Oh, no.
00:39:18Look out!
00:39:19Oh!
00:39:21The ladder conveniently placed in the far corner.
00:39:29Look at-
00:39:30Michaels, get up.
00:39:31Get up.
00:39:32Sitting under-
00:39:33Triple H, just get up.
00:39:34Oh, my God.
00:39:35And-
00:39:36Oh!
00:39:37That's the second time.
00:39:38Triple H has had a ladder used on him now four times.
00:39:44And I don't think Shawn-
00:39:45I don't think Shawn is through yet.
00:39:47He came here to settle this thing tonight.
00:39:49He asked for this hell in a cell.
00:39:51He demanded this match no matter what it takes.
00:39:54Michaels is going to finish the job here.
00:39:57What do you say, Triple H?
00:39:58Huh?
00:39:59The referee asking Triple H if he wants to call it quits.
00:40:02Look at the blood just pouring from his head.
00:40:04Look at that, JR.
00:40:05What do you say?
00:40:06Huh?
00:40:08And I think he heard Triple H certainly telling the referee emphatically no
00:40:13in so many words.
00:40:16There is going to be no quitting by Triple H or Shawn Michaels,
00:40:21in my estimation.
00:40:22And what an impact.
00:40:24The ladder, the top rope, the floor, surrounded by steel,
00:40:27a bloody man on the floor.
00:40:29And now what is Shawn Michaels thinking?
00:40:31I don't know, but I said it earlier about Shawn Michaels.
00:40:33I think he would have been good if this match could have ended.
00:40:37But now I'm beginning to think that Triple H ought to maybe think about
00:40:41living to fight another day.
00:40:45Barely, barely moving.
00:40:48And not that Shawn Michaels is moving that quickly either.
00:40:51Look at this and listen again.
00:40:54Triple H needs to realize that there would be no disgrace
00:40:57if he just stopped this thing right now.
00:41:00I agree with that, King.
00:41:01It wouldn't be.
00:41:02It certainly wouldn't if he was a lesser man.
00:41:05Almost like, I hate to use this term for Michaels,
00:41:08but it's almost like Michaels is possessed.
00:41:11He has that killer instinct, all right.
00:41:13He wants to finish this.
00:41:16So that there's never any doubt in the future.
00:41:26Don't think about it.
00:41:27Tonight, we're going to find out who is the better man.
00:41:31Who is the best of all time.
00:41:35Right now, it just doesn't look like Triple H does it?
00:41:39I'm in shock.
00:41:41I'm almost speechless at this.
00:41:43The beating that both of these men have administered to each other.
00:41:48They've both lost a great deal of blood.
00:41:51Their bodies have got to be ravaged with pain.
00:41:55I still can't get over that.
00:41:57That just, that wicked little smile we saw earlier
00:42:00on the face of Shawn Michaels when he first found that ladder.
00:42:03And that ladder has certainly been a difference maker.
00:42:08Michaels setting the ladder up.
00:42:10Or who knows.
00:42:11Wait a minute, the Game.
00:42:12The Game looking for the pedigree.
00:42:14He's not been able to hit that pedigree,
00:42:16but Shawn Michaels hit that pedigree.
00:42:19The Game catapulted face first right into that ladder.
00:42:24And the Game living his own blood all over the canvas.
00:42:29Everywhere he falls, there's a puddle of blood left.
00:42:34Shawn Michaels now just hoping to fall across.
00:42:37Michaels does.
00:42:38The arm over.
00:42:39He's got the cover to get three.
00:42:40No.
00:42:41I don't even know how Triple H is capable of hearing the referee's counter.
00:42:45He probably just feels it out of instinct.
00:42:48But the thing about it is that Michaels has,
00:42:50his strength is so lessened.
00:42:52He's lost so much blood.
00:42:54He's not able to hook up these pretty combinations.
00:42:58Both of these men, their strength has to be waning.
00:43:01Somebody's got to hit the home run here.
00:43:04But does either one of these men have enough strength
00:43:07to put it out of the park anymore?
00:43:08Well, that's the question.
00:43:10That remains to be answered.
00:43:11Oh, look at that.
00:43:12Oh, man, that could have been the end all right there.
00:43:15Michaels went right to that back.
00:43:17He went for the elbow, landed on his back.
00:43:20And Shawn Michaels took the ultimate supreme high-risk chance
00:43:25in this environment, in his condition,
00:43:28with his back as it is, for naught.
00:43:31But when you take the big chance, you pay the big price sometimes.
00:43:34And that's what looked like what happened.
00:43:36Now, if Triple H can just, he can get one hand across.
00:43:39Shawn, he did it.
00:43:40The covers, the cover.
00:43:42And Michaels, Shawn Michaels, somehow, some way,
00:43:46is able to get that shoulder up.
00:43:48And again, Triple H so weak, just like Michaels.
00:43:53He got an arm over Michaels.
00:43:54That's all Triple H could do.
00:43:56Well, some ways they are.
00:43:57I have a feeling that that's the way this match is going to end.
00:44:00These men are going to beat each other to bloody pulps
00:44:03until there's absolutely nothing left of either of them.
00:44:06And somebody's going to just either fall across the other one
00:44:09or be able to drape one arm across.
00:44:12These men have went well past 30 minutes.
00:44:14This has got to be the longest Hell in a Cell match in history.
00:44:18I mean, they're humans.
00:44:19How much can their anatomies take?
00:44:22I understand a will to win, but Triple H taking those right hands.
00:44:26Look at those right hands.
00:44:27Michaels landing those straight, sickening right hands.
00:44:31Look at how big Michaels' right hand is.
00:44:33His right hand looks like it's swollen to twice its size.
00:44:37It could be broken.
00:44:39Imagine just getting the holy hell beat out of you
00:44:42for over 30 minutes straight.
00:44:44Michaels' ring finger, his little finger, both crooked.
00:44:47It looks like his knuckles are swollen to twice their size.
00:44:51The cover by Michaels.
00:44:52And Triple H gets a shoulder up, and King, I'll tell you,
00:44:56the guts of both these men,
00:44:58whether you like both of them or you don't,
00:45:00it really doesn't matter.
00:45:01You've got to admire the courage
00:45:03in what these two men are putting their bodies through
00:45:05just to prove who is the better man.
00:45:09And I'm beginning to wonder, JR,
00:45:10is either one of these men going to lose this match?
00:45:14They're both so determined.
00:45:16It's like they're so determined not necessarily to win,
00:45:19but they're so determined not to lose.
00:45:21Well, somebody's going to win tonight.
00:45:23And somebody's going to lose tonight.
00:45:25Triple H going downstairs.
00:45:27And oh, that was shoulder.
00:45:30Man, that was a forbidding shot right to the shoulder,
00:45:34into the steel ring post.
00:45:37And that ring post, very unyielding.
00:45:41I think, knowing both of these men the way I do, JR,
00:45:44I think the will not to lose is stronger than the will to win.
00:45:50Neither one of these men.
00:45:54It's all about competition.
00:45:56And this is a raw pay-per-view.
00:45:58And that's what it's about is competition.
00:46:01Intense physicality.
00:46:04And you won't see this anywhere else.
00:46:06And look at this now.
00:46:08The Game bringing in a table.
00:46:13Well, both of these men have to look at this match.
00:46:16It's probably the biggest in their careers.
00:46:18It's the end-all match.
00:46:19And neither one of these guys can afford to lose this.
00:46:22And to show you the perverse personal issue,
00:46:27you're probably right.
00:46:29The biggest match in both their careers,
00:46:31and it's not for the world title.
00:46:33That's what it means to both men.
00:46:35Shawn Michaels hasn't moved.
00:46:37He's been lying over that middle rope,
00:46:41that second turnbuckle.
00:46:44Somewhere, somehow, he must have.
00:46:48Just a little more strength.
00:46:50A little more offense.
00:46:53This is so intense.
00:46:55The physicality is completely indescribable.
00:46:59As Michaels scores again with what we think is a broken right hand.
00:47:04Where is he getting it from?
00:47:06Triple H knocked down to his knees.
00:47:08And Michaels, Triple H can't even get his hands up to protect himself.
00:47:13Michaels, three shots.
00:47:15And that's to the skull of a man
00:47:18that's been hitting the head with a steel chair in this match
00:47:21as aggressively, as stiffly as anything I've seen in years.
00:47:27Don't forget that ladder.
00:47:31Triple H out on it.
00:47:33Look at Michaels.
00:47:34That's a free shot right in the head.
00:47:36And the Game helplessly lying on that table.
00:47:41Michaels.
00:47:43Well, Triple H earlier brought a steel chair in the ring
00:47:46and it came back to haunt him.
00:47:47Do you think this table that Triple H brought in
00:47:49is gonna come back to haunt him as well?
00:47:51God, oh my God.
00:47:52Shawn Michaels climbing as high as he can go.
00:47:57And from the elbow.
00:47:59Michaels with the elbow.
00:48:01Up the ladder.
00:48:03Through the heart.
00:48:04Through the table.
00:48:05To the pins.
00:48:10A crowd chanting for HBK.
00:48:16It may have done it.
00:48:17We may have reached that point where
00:48:19which one of these men is gonna have the final strength
00:48:23to cover the other.
00:48:24Look at this.
00:48:28A lot of popping and cracking.
00:48:30It may not just be the table.
00:48:31There's a cover on Michaels.
00:48:33He's got the other.
00:48:34He's got the other.
00:48:37I cannot believe this, JR.
00:48:38I am absolutely astonished
00:48:41of the toughness, intensity of both these men.
00:48:44Michaels trying to get body on body here.
00:48:47And he finally does.
00:48:48And Triple H able to power out
00:48:50with that uncanny upper body strength of his.
00:48:54What it is, Shawn just, like you said earlier,
00:48:57he doesn't have the power, the strength left
00:48:59to be able to hook Triple H's leg.
00:49:01All he can do is just basically lay his body weight
00:49:03across Triple H.
00:49:08This is one night that we will never forget.
00:49:12On June the 13th, 2004,
00:49:15you can tell him, folks, he has saw the best.
00:49:18And Michaels now tuning up the band.
00:49:20Don't tell me.
00:49:21It only takes one shot for Sweet Chin Music.
00:49:24Michaels has only gone for it once in this entire match.
00:49:28If he hits it, it's over.
00:49:32The Game with a low blow.
00:49:36The Game dodged the right foot of Michaels.
00:49:40Able to go downstairs.
00:49:43Shawn completely exposed in a low blow of the worst kind.
00:49:47And look at this.
00:49:48Triple H hit the pedigree.
00:49:51But can he cover Michaels?
00:49:53If Triple H can make the cover, it's gotta be over.
00:50:01Man, this is carnage.
00:50:06This is legal human torture.
00:50:10And finally, J.R., like you said earlier,
00:50:12this match may mercifully be over.
00:50:16The arm over the Game.
00:50:18Will it be?
00:50:19No, it's not!
00:50:20My God, how much is it gonna take
00:50:23for one of these two phenomenal athletes
00:50:26to win this match?
00:50:28I can't believe it.
00:50:30They just refuse.
00:50:33They refuse to lose.
00:50:36It's amazing.
00:50:39As far as careers are concerned,
00:50:41this match will have deadly consequences.
00:50:45And look at-
00:50:47Michaels is using Triple H to stand.
00:50:50And Triple H is using Michaels to stand up.
00:50:53These men have both pushed each other to the wall.
00:50:57He got it!
00:50:59Michaels got it!
00:51:01The sweet tune music!
00:51:05And Michaels collapsed
00:51:07after connecting with sweet tune music.
00:51:10Michaels can somehow just muster the strength now
00:51:13to roll his body towards Triple H.
00:51:15I never thought he had this in him, but look.
00:51:18Whoa!
00:51:19God, what impact.
00:51:20God, what impact.
00:51:22Michaels won the very first Hell in a Cell
00:51:26seven years ago.
00:51:28It looks like he has a chance here.
00:51:30If he can make the cover to win this one.
00:51:33That's right.
00:51:34Triple H has never lost one, I'm afraid, until now.
00:51:38Shawn Michaels moving, inching closer to the game.
00:51:43I think he's got it, JR.
00:51:46That's gonna be it if he can just get that arm across.
00:51:49Michaels got the arm.
00:51:50Oh, here it is.
00:51:51It's gonna be-
00:51:52Oh!
00:51:54My God!
00:51:55My God, how much more can these two men take?
00:52:00How much more can they give?
00:52:01That's the question.
00:52:02What more can these two men do to each other?
00:52:06I just-
00:52:07I don't know what we're gonna prove here.
00:52:08I shudder to think of an answer to that question.
00:52:12What more can these two men do to each other?
00:52:19Somehow, JR, I'm sure they'll think of something.
00:52:24Michaels, such a faraway look in his eye.
00:52:27The expression on Michaels' face.
00:52:29His face tells this story.
00:52:33He's gotta be thinking, what does it take?
00:52:36I've given everything I have.
00:52:38Triple H going downstairs.
00:52:40Somehow, someway going downstairs,
00:52:43and now the game trying to go back
00:52:45to what brought him to the dance, the pedigree.
00:52:48Here's the second pedigree.
00:52:51But Triple H collapses and falls to his back.
00:52:57And Michaels, luckily for him, falls on his stomach.
00:53:00Right, after delivering the pedigree,
00:53:04right now, unfortunately,
00:53:05the game is in the most precarious position.
00:53:08These men are gonna need to be stitched.
00:53:11You've gotta believe there could be hospital time.
00:53:1545 minutes, these men have been beating each other senses.
00:53:20That in itself is perverse.
00:53:2345 minutes inside Hell in a Cell breaks all records.
00:53:28But at what price, at what price,
00:53:32two magnificent competitors, like them or not,
00:53:38are putting themselves through this hell
00:53:43that they can never, in my view,
00:53:45ever, ever recover from.
00:53:48Look at the carnage, ladders, smashed tables,
00:53:53dented chairs, and two broken bodies.
00:53:58This has been a sinister, sinister, ill-fated match.
00:54:05And the referee can't do a damn thing but hope and pray.
00:54:13That one of these two men will be able to beat the other.
00:54:18And we're gonna stay here as long as it takes.
00:54:25These fans just showing their respect to these two,
00:54:28as you say, great athletes, for just surviving,
00:54:33being alive at this point.
00:54:35Michaels trying to get up,
00:54:36Triple H turning at least to his side here.
00:54:40Lost so much blood.
00:54:42There's no telling what kind of structural damage
00:54:44these two men have.
00:54:46They have given us their heart and their soul
00:54:49in this demonic structure tonight,
00:54:52and it is not over yet.
00:54:54They've given us their heart and soul,
00:54:56and they've given their bodies to this cell.
00:54:59Oh, my God, the third pedigree.
00:55:01Three.
00:55:04Another pedigree, but this time, Michaels,
00:55:08for him, unfortunately, landing on his back.
00:55:11Michaels is not moving.
00:55:13The Game trying, trying to get an arm over.
00:55:17Will he be able to?
00:55:19He's just shifting his weight right now.
00:55:22He's gotta somehow fall on Shawn.
00:55:26There, he's done it.
00:55:27Michaels down.
00:55:28The count.
00:55:29The three.
00:55:30It's over.
00:55:33My God, it is perfectly over.
00:55:37Triple H!
00:55:42What?
00:55:45Unbelievable.
00:55:48Unbelievable.
00:55:5047 minutes and 26 seconds.
00:55:57A pure hell incarnate.
00:56:02You're right, it's an amazing, amazing match.
00:56:06Look at this.
00:56:08We talk about career threatening.
00:56:11We talk about soul searching.
00:56:14The supreme professional gut check,
00:56:18and we have seen it in spades here tonight.
00:56:24If they can get this thing unpadlocked,
00:56:26I think both of these men need some medical help.
00:56:30We said earlier tonight that the hell to sell
00:56:35is where careers go to die.
00:56:40I hope that I am wrong on that analogy.
00:56:45You can't say anything more than that.
00:56:50That picture is worth more than a thousand words.
00:56:56These two men both completely gave their all here tonight.
00:57:01Triple H has won this hell to sell match.
00:57:05Triple H is still undefeated in hell to sell matches.
00:57:12It's not medical help that's coming to the ring,
00:57:15but it is three concerned individuals.
00:57:17Evolution coming down to, I hope, only three Triple H.
00:57:24Their leader, the leader of Evolution,
00:57:27stepped up to the plate tonight, big time.
00:57:35I came in a flare, the indignity of Ric Flair
00:57:38getting in Shawn Michaels' face.
00:57:40Hey, this is Shawn Michaels.
00:57:43Shawn Michaels left his heart and his soul
00:57:47in this ring tonight, but so did the game.
00:57:50I will give the devil his due.
00:57:53Well, we still haven't seen both of these men
00:57:56that may have to be physically carried out of this ring.
00:58:01Both of them.
00:58:06As a small kid, when I first became a wrestling fan,
00:58:10I was often, almost on a weekly basis,
00:58:13astonished and amazed at the athleticism,
00:58:17the toughness, and the courage
00:58:19of the men I saw on my television.
00:58:22But I can tell you here tonight, ladies and gentlemen,
00:58:25being here live and in person,
00:58:27this is one man that if I lived to be 100,
00:58:31I will never forget.
00:58:41Triple H has been moving, yes.
00:58:44He has been battered, yes.
00:58:47But was he beaten? No.
00:58:50I don't even know if Triple H realizes he's won.
00:59:02Unbelievable.
00:59:04Shawn Michaels competed in the first Hell in a Cell
00:59:08seven years ago.
00:59:10Little did he know that his career could very well end up
00:59:16inside Hell in a Cell seven years later.
00:59:20Because I am, as sure as I'm an Oklahoma Sooner,
00:59:25I am so worried about that man's back.
00:59:29He could have a broken hand from using that fist.
00:59:32He lost a ton of blood.
00:59:38Well, the longest running, most storied rivalry
00:59:43in WWE history has ended.
00:59:49And certainly not the way Shawn Michaels would have wanted it.
00:59:55But he's certainly got nothing to be ashamed of.
00:59:57Absolutely not.
00:59:59The soul of a warrior gave us everything he had.
01:00:03Three pedigrees.
01:00:06And this crowd is, not one person has left.
01:00:11They are hushed.
01:00:13Shawn's eyes are open.
01:00:15The crowd is absolutely as we are stunned.
01:00:24And appreciative, as they should be.
01:00:28As the world has to be.
01:00:31With the athletic display that these two men just gave for us.
01:00:37What an amazing accomplishment that he is going to be able to,
01:00:40it looks like, leave the ring under his own power.
01:00:44The brutal finality of the Shawn Michaels XXX rivalry
01:00:49has ended inside Hell in a Cell.
01:00:53What an amazing effort on an unforgettable night.