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00:00specimens you can imagine creating in a lap so let me ask you this way even in a lot of
00:05hostile environments in your career if you're what do you do in the title tonight hostile
00:12environment for a veteran like randy orton you just roll with it you just accept hey i'm in
00:19foreign turf it's been about 15 years since randy hasn't been the most popular man in the building
00:25he shrugs it off he locks in on his opponent and he goes for that devastating rko it's what he
00:31does best and it's not often that we see gunther if ever rattled can he get rattled though because
00:38of this emotion and support from over 13 000 tonight 99.999 percent of wrestlers who've ever
00:47competed absolutely yes but gunther does not suffer from human weaknesses like emotion
00:55like the rest of us that's how he's built different we've got mexican wave going on here
00:59now and here's the deal with gunther i mean for most of his career he's been a champion when he
01:04was the nxt uk champion he held the title for 870 days when he was intercontinental champion
01:10he held the title for 666 days i asked if he could last longer as the world champ all he
01:16went for me and said yeah he expects to he demands to he would be disgusted with himself
01:22if he fails in pursuit of that the man is a preparation machine was a deep dive on how to
01:30dismantle every opponent and let's not forget this randy orton took on imperium's lovely kaiser
01:38a couple of weeks ago all that data would have been downloaded into the mind of gunther in his
01:44preparation you know there's another thing brought up on the countdown show today by our
01:48captain redmond is actually captain kelly and she said that gunther has been on these live
01:54events all week long in very physical battles with the likes of early in dragunov heading
01:58into the night randy orton has not wrestled all week long does that favor gunther or favor randy
02:03it's veteran smarts of randy orton he's been choked up in bed and early nights
02:09he's going bananas and randy orton's playing along with it and that's why he's a viper
02:14that's why he's the best psychological mind of a business
02:20you have to be right gunther's body has been battered all week by ilja dragunov and get this
02:25a real easy match against seamus two two of the most physical guys we've ever seen in wwe
02:31chopped by gunther that's done randy a bit and a chop by gunther drops the viper the man who
02:37could chop like no other the chest of randy orton already beginning to show some wealth
02:44modern games are over now and a big uppercut by gunther
02:49oh
03:12it is a celebration in germany tonight not only of course jumper defending the
03:18world title but the fact that a wwe premium lot of that is being held for the very first time in
03:24this country our first televised show last night smackdown first time in 27 years we've done tv
03:32here it has been a celebration for many days in germany it'll be a celebration tonight if
03:40gutter can retain randy fighting backed up
03:49oh man you hear that oh man i felt that a lot has been made about the mass the muscle mass
03:55that randy orton has added onto that frame in recent years he's a huge huge individual but all
04:01that extra pet meat is not going to protect randy at all against those chops and now randy has to
04:07try to catch a breather and gutter not going to waste any time and look at just using the
04:14ring post to his advantage he's got five count here you get one up on randy or you make it
04:21count immediately don't give him any breathing room so dangerous and now gutter driven into the
04:28steel steps shoulder first and it buys randy orton some time buys randy orton a lot of time
04:36by the looks of gopher rarely do you see him down for this amount of time well you know one
04:41of the interesting things too about gutter and see him favoring his shoulder now and his right arm
04:47randy orton understands that so much of gutter's game is power his chops you know he delivers with
04:53the spine buster and power bomb orton can take that out of the equation if you can take out the
04:57arm and orton continues to work on the arm now of gutter smart move you're right paul this is no
05:04accident whatsoever this is cooked up in the devious diabolical mind of randy orton
05:10and now driving gutter again shoulder first into the steps doubling down on the strategy
05:19a one-armed gopher is a much easier proposition to take down than the full form of the ring
05:26general and this is the old randy orton the randy orton that has no absence of malice
05:31i don't like the way he's looking all white
05:53too much the wwf trying to rally the champion who just rolls off the table to the floor
06:00and now orton on the attack but remember randy's got to get him in the ring randy orton has not
06:05got there as the champion's advantage well this has been a very different fight ever since the
06:10ring general connected with those ring stats and again targeting the right arm of gutter
06:16orton back into the ring and a kind of a to break the count charles robinson warning randy you got
06:22to get gunther in the ring randy does not need the warning this guy's a veteran he knew exactly
06:28where the count was at he knew the time he had he executed perfectly okay can't play with a mouse
06:35now and gutter now for the fourth time jumper is hurting and i and i'm right here looking at him
06:42you should see the bruise i'm looking right over gutter now ways you should see the bruise that
06:47has developed on the right shoulder of gunther it is a major bruise a major contusion now that
06:53is broken out of the shoulder of gunther because of the attacks by orton yeah well that's surface
06:57level i'm more concerned about what's going on deep in the joint of that shoulder what's going
07:02on with the tricep the ligaments the tendons that's the real worry forget the bruising
07:08and the thing is i'm not sure if we've ever seen gunther
07:12oh
07:28it's been such great strategy by randy orton to really take down the world champion
07:42and again screaming in pain cover by orton and a kick out by gunther at one again wait i'm trying
07:48to think back over the last couple of years to whenever ever seen gunther in a situation like
07:53this when he's been physically beat up by his opponent there have been close calls for gunther
07:58chad gable took him to a limit a couple of times of course sammy zane with a big win at wrestlemania
08:03but i'm not sure if i've ever seen gunther in this type of pain in this type of trouble like
08:10he is right now with orton i mean it's rare but the truth is whenever gunther has been in this
08:15predicament he's almost always found a way out davis has beaten and battered the ring general
08:21and again right back to the injured arm cover by orton looking for a 15 world championship reign
08:29no matter how battered the ring general is he tends to find a way back i will not write anybody
08:37off at this point although things are looking good for the boy but randy orton also looking
08:42down at gunther and he's got to be getting respect gunther continues to kick out there's
08:46so much fight left in this stand he's got the toughest man that you've ever seen it's no shock
08:52it's no surprise to randy orton what a great deep dive on gunther's entire career and of course
08:58knows all about the physicality of the austrian for the final of the controversial king of the
09:04yeah that king of the ring tournament which gunther wanted to wage point in controversial
09:09fashion earned gunther an opportunity at the world title at summer slam it was capitalized
09:14on to win the gold and now randy orton the fall away slam speaking of jbl as we did earlier tonight
09:20and again landing on the arm that a shoulder of gunther to the neck of randy orton in the process
09:27of executing that fall away slam again into the cover for the world championship and gunther again
09:34you've got to remember there's a lot of miles on the clock of randy orton we've seen this guy for
09:38years and years fighting the best putting his body on the line ending up in hospital
09:43ending up with surgery what was referenced at least to an issue with the neck briefly
09:53missed a year and a half his career told me he never thought he was going to make it back
09:56he had to have some experimental type of surgery in order to just get back into the ring and be
10:01in this condition tonight we all heard that in the locker room we heard the scuttlebutt randy
10:05ain't coming back randy's gone well thank goodness that did not turn out to be the case
10:10and gunther hung on he delivers one of his first offensive blows in a while and then a
10:16clothesline to orton as well but every time he delivers one with that bad right arm doesn't
10:21have quite enough behind it but again see just not quite enough power that gunther's used to
10:26when he delivers that clothesline want to be clear that is a devastating line that randy is
10:31eating it's just not a hundred percent of what gunther can usually give you
10:37and you're right randy's staying on his feet oh gunther that runs into orton again
10:43randy with a clothesline and now goes to champion now that's 100 percent of the viper
10:48so
11:10both men are down or gunther world heavyweight title on the line
11:15i mean if you're a betting man at this point you put all your money on randy orton
11:23who has had the momentum ever since that connection with the steel steps
11:28don't go walking like a very different man orton's looking for that draping ddt and
11:35gunther used his left arm that time to deliver a chop
11:40and hyper extending the spine around the orton over those ropes may have been a desperate move
11:48for gunther just trying to get out of harm's way but it's hurt the viper and now gunther realizes
11:53he's got to pull off the stops here he's got to change his offense up a little bit
11:56and again took too much time with that bad arm trying to make it to the top rope
12:00oh my goodness and a headbutt well orton smells blood here he knows he's got the
12:11jab locked he knows he's got him hurt and he knows he needs to go in for the kill
12:19orton first on the second rope there as well up to the top now high above the ring dangerous
12:27superplex from orton and that is a dangerous move again we go back to the back surgery that
12:32in the neck issues that randy orton's had high risk maneuver for the challenger here
12:37well randy's been pulling off that move his entire career with what his dad the cowboy
12:43bob orton used to do and randy is devastating with it although in that moment randy may well
12:50have been his own worst enemy cover kick out by gunther and you see the cover it was one arm
12:55gingerly draped over gunther there was no leverage in the pain whatsoever
13:03it is a record-setting crowd tonight 13,149 at the uber arena in berlin germany
13:14gunther the champion orton the challenger in what has been one of the most physical
13:20match-ups you'll witness don't ask the real one disdain for those who don't meet his high
13:26standards in that ring that disdain not apparent tonight against randy
13:41it's here that
13:43oh
13:45third jumper in the process but certainly orton is aware there's still a fight in the champ
13:52now with a patented uppercut and got them in the chop
13:58one from randy tonight against randy after a couple of the matter's sake
14:07oh
14:15third jumper in the process but certainly orton is aware there's still a fight in the champ
14:22now with a patented uppercut and got them in the chop
14:26oh
14:41right there see he's fighting through the pain barrier because the gold
14:45is on the line unless a man would have tapped out if the gold wasn't present
14:50oh
14:55now gunther trying to build some momentum and fight back in this
14:59could gunther be the better oh randy a referee sold off oh randy i mean arguably a disqualification
15:08right there joel randy went old school there well referee charles robinson letting a lot go in this
15:15matchup we saw that earlier when randy was bouncing gunther off the announce table for a
15:20while this is for the world title charles robinson has refereed many world championship matches in
15:26his career he knows what to let go and now we're on the second rope with gunther and right there
15:33is
15:47it's all about that world heavyweight championship
15:54so randy's hearing those voices but it ain't in his head for once this entire audience
16:01thinks they know what is coming next i think randy may be going to that special place
16:18bearing down the world title waiting for gutter to make it back to his feet
16:23randy orton the viper waiting to strike
16:27into possession the sound you never want to hear when you're in a ring with randy
16:38i don't think gunther knows where he's at and that's the problem
16:42randy orton measuring his opponent look at the rko gunther
16:47when we got that suplex and randy landed high on that spine the neck that's given him issues
16:54earlier in this matchup put the brunt of that landing and you have to believe wade gunther
16:59being as smart as the end is a technician in the ring he well well aware of the the
17:04surgically repaired back and neck of randy orton and you had to wonder when he was going to turn
17:08the attack to that part of the body of course this game is about weak spots and let's not forget
17:12randy's a family man he's got five kids wants to be able to play with him throw a ball with them
17:19gunther knows about that he's now messing with the mind of or two and there it is that
17:24tory graves likes to call it the t-rex drop kick
17:27from gunther taking orton down but now gunther heading up to the top rope
17:31a unique way to hawk a leg thanks to the increase of the right arm of gunther but once again
17:47gunther stringing together high impact moves like this splash immediately after the drop kick
17:55as part of why gunther has seen so much success in that ring in wwe changing the game before
18:05this is what you do to yourself to battle for a world championship wade you've had that opportunity
18:12in your career you leave everything out there because it may never come to you again that's
18:17it you always think as a competitor there's going to be more sometimes it just ain't the case and
18:22who knows how much longer randy orton's career is going to last if he's going to break any records
18:27he needs victory here cannot give up and now gunther feeling the momentum from his capacity
18:35crowd randy orton lifted up by gunther orton able to and again the arm gave out the arm gave out
18:42at gunther was not able to deliver the powerbomb it's a signature maneuver from gunther whose mind
18:49is now whirring through what else have i done now with his uh his good arm the left arm of gunther
18:57that has not been damaged in this matchup a close line delivered to orton and gunther's been great
19:03being able to change his offense on the fly and again he's going to try maybe for a powerbomb here
19:08wade maybe changing up the technique and again just can't get brandy up with that bad arm well
19:15that's 275 pounds 290, 290 my bad of brandy orton that is a heavy body with two good hands
19:24with one ruined arm perhaps no chance hey gunther does he have anything left can he dig down deep
19:31does he have enough adrenaline to get brandy orton up because that powerbomb would be devastating to
19:37the back of orton and it's a rare procedural tactical mistake from the ring general three
19:43attempts three failures for gunther he has to move on he's being stubborn
19:51now randy orton trying to power his way out of this has gunther up on his shoulders
20:00gunther lands on his feet now the power of gunther goes ready up for the powerbomb
20:06gunther into the cover
20:11well i can sit here and write off the ring general don't say you're making mistakes he
20:16made me eat my words my bad gunther knows best this man knows what he's capable of more than
20:22anyone else but was that a last-ditch effort for gunther did he put everything into that
20:28powerbomb that orton was able to kick out of it was a kick out from orton but orton has barely
20:34moved since he is right for the pigeons now cold and even if orton does survive in this match
20:41but now for how much longer gunther believes he's closing in on a victory
20:51and it's soul destroying for orton you think you've damaged that arm enough that he cannot
20:55pull off the powerbomb he proved you wrong he's not as hurt as you thought he was and gunther
21:00again with orton up just not able to pull it off again radio
21:08out of nowhere cover for the championship
21:14millisecond away from number 15 for orton
21:19and when gunther went for an extra powerbomb
21:28out of nowhere
21:37brandy orton talking to himself
21:39he can't believe gunther kicked out of the rko
21:43brandy cannot believe it he was able to hit it gunther was able to kick out and now orton's got
21:49to figure out what do i do now this matchup balanced on a knife edge now orton is hurting
21:57in a big way gunther perhaps even more so our german friends better move out of the way because
22:03our german friends better move out of the way because
22:05brandy orton gonna do everything he can to win a 15th world championship
22:19both men have been physically destroyed devastated
22:24and even without the pain factor which is obvious just the sheer exhaustion
22:33of carrying these massive frames around for the past what 20-25 minutes
22:42you gotta wonder what uh randy has in mind here gunther is really hurt he still hasn't recovered
22:48from the rko randy orton now would steal steps now we know randy can't use them as a weapon
22:54because he'd be disqualified and gutter would keep the title so you have to wonder what orton's
22:58thinking about doing here well those are damn heavy steel steps orton expelling a lot of energy
23:05just moving them around i don't know how much energy orson has to waste at this point in a
23:10matchup we better turn around because gutter just has fallen out of the ring and it's right back at
23:15fighting randy orton again and now gutter bouncing randy orton off our announce table
23:20and now gutter trying to take control
23:25and right to the midsection by orton and randy orton again and now randy orton
23:30with gutter up and down out of the steps gunther tried his best to block that pickup from randy
23:37knowing full well the spine of randy is hurt but randy just deadly muscled him up
23:46no jib whatsoever in steel
23:50is
24:02randy trying to figure out what do i do now i drop this guy in a step to his spine
24:08he's still crawling around
24:20oh
24:31if orton has anything to do with it it's going to get a lot lot worse for gunther or gutter
24:38trying to get away from orton rolled under the bottom rope and what that tip was
24:42of course charles robinson stopped the count wade so gutter inadvertently may have may have
24:48hurt himself there he could have picked up a count out win and kept the title but
24:52i think just to get out of harm's way he rolled back into the ring and it forced charles to break
24:56the count which is the problem at this point in a matchup you don't have all the mental faculties
25:01right now you're not thinking clearly you've been pushed in the face 300 times by randy orton
25:07you
25:17outside the ring again randy orton what is he planning to do
25:20kicking out of gunther thousands of weight off our announce table
25:25gunther in trouble as randy breaks the count he doesn't want to win this by count he can't he
25:31doesn't win the title he's got to pin or submit gunther and now right back to work that seat that
25:36is not the bad arm now he has the bad arm the right arm bounces gunther off the steps
25:43and again randy orton has taken the fight to gunther here well randy orton has turned barbaric
25:51and sadistic yes this this has just turned in to an absolute this is all out of sight by randy
26:06and now randy orton using the steps to his advantage lifting gunther up to the top of the step
26:19and driving
26:22now randy's got to get him back in the ring randy you got to get him in the ring
26:29you got to get him in the right randy to win the damn title
26:32randy get him in the ring to win the title come on
26:36gunther is a big good man
26:46and randy orton knows he played the beef here this arena is packed full of partisan
26:56comes the fans but even they are showing respect to the viper randy orton as gunther's chances
27:04of successfully defending the title perhaps slide away and again yeah i really got to give
27:10the official credit in this match-up wade because uh charles robinson understanding
27:16that this crowd is here capacity crowd record crowd he's letting these two fight letting these
27:21two beat the hell out of one another in what has been a great main event for the world heavyweight
27:25championship and now trying to drag gunther back into the ring the final of the king of the ring
27:33tournament was controversial nobody wants that today especially not randy we want a conclusive
27:39victory one way or the other and you're right credit to the referee on that and now randy back
27:46into the ring measuring gunther the world champion
27:54randy taking his time this is old school orton here
28:05randy ronnie to psychologically batter his opponent now in position to put the champ away
28:13oh
28:19hard landing on the spine of the viper who perhaps took a little too long getting the
28:25ring general back in there and i've got the sleeper sleeper locked in sleeper locked into
28:30randy randy orton's trouble center of the ring with the sleeper in there's a panic in the eyes
28:36how quickly the tables are turned randy went for the rko gunther shoved him away saw his opening
28:44pounced on orton who was feeling the back pain and now the sleeper's in the sleeper is locked
28:50in and orton has to hold that right arm of gunther isn't tight enough to lock it in the
28:56injury issue on that right arm is it loosened up again trying to do what he can to break the
29:02sleeper gunther's got it locked in and now orton swings him away but gunther keeps hanging on well
29:09was that the last roll of the dice for randy orton his face is turning up a feet red here
29:16those eyes are starting to look like black pits and you notice he's put the arm even deeper
29:22underneath the chin you make a mistake don't felt well capitalized randy back to his feet
29:28last gasp effort perhaps for the number one contender for the world title that right arm
29:33of gunther is weak randy's manipulating it and he's trying to force a break here finally gets out
29:40of the sleeper and you notice he's put the arm even deeper underneath the chin you make a mistake
29:49comfort well capitalized randy back to his feet last gasp effort perhaps for the number one
29:55contender for the world title that right arm of gunther is weak
29:59randy's manipulating it and he's trying to force a break here finally gets out of the sleeper
30:06look like he's going for oh and a chop right to the back of the neck and again into the sleeper
30:10by gunther perhaps locked even locked on even tighter this second time around was that randy
30:18last gasp desperately trying to fill those lungs with oxygen
30:24and capable of blocking those shots to the temple though and the sleeper again and randy orton
30:31home from the mouth gunther locked in randy trying to to escape one more time one more
30:38maximum effort with gunther up on his back randy orton trying to somehow force a break here
30:45but orton's mind must be spinning and he does and he finally does finally blood and oxygen
30:56got there with a sleeper and again and now he's got his legs wrapped around the waist
31:00randy's got nowhere to go but you don't recover from a sleeper in a matter of seconds it takes
31:06minutes and gunther look at the well-placed elbows to the throat the neck and again back
31:11into the sleeper he's got randy wrapped up like a constrictor around the the neck and the head and
31:17the waist of randy orton orton may be fading here randy orton may be fading we might see
31:23the unthinkable oh might be about the top out
31:39here is your winner
31:45the world heavyweight champion
31:56well unlike king of the ring this was a decisive win for the world heavyweight champion gunther
32:04tonight one of the biggest of his entire career that man is simply not human
32:16written off several times in that matchup overwhelming display of offense from the
32:23viper randy orton one of the greatest this industry has ever seen rarely will you see a matchup
32:30as physical as we just witnessed gunther proving to the world that he is one of the greats
32:38as he went gunther went for one powerbomb too many immediately regretted it rko
32:46randy pounced randy almost got the victory but it wasn't enough
32:51and right here we believe that randy orton may be closing in on a 15th world championship
33:07sliding the body of the ring general back in there it's like a little too long amazing powers
33:13of recovery from gunther and that has got the locked in the sleeper randy tried his best to
33:19get the hell out of that but all over orton like a rat squeezing the light out of the viper
33:27slowly but surely until he faded to nothingness gunther is a terminator he weathered the emotion
33:38of an unbelievable week in europe on his return to his adopted hometown of berlin germany family
33:46friends in attendance over 13 000 strong wishing him to keep the world heavyweight title and in
33:54the end gunther defeats one of the all-time greats in randy orton to solidify himself
34:00on the top of the mountain in wwe as the world heavyweight champion
34:18and much like rick flair much like triple h
34:23to randy orton in the past much like randy orton does to gunther tonight
34:32gunther is the future
34:40gunther is the world heavyweight champion
34:45it is time now for the best in berlin post show
34:53here is jackie redmond
34:59cole thank you so much you said it and