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00:00Or not to be
00:02Beware
00:30I'm sorry
00:54But we've already seen the intercontinental champion in action
01:00I've been very cautious and I've been very leery if I were him of everybody I've bumped heads with
01:07Last week in the spectrals arena, it was Chris Jericho in disguise that assaulted Rey Mysterio
01:16I may have underestimated Mysterio's
01:20Meanness
01:22I think that Jericho's got an advantage a deciding advantage with no holds barred
01:28But I don't think it is strongly
01:31Right now as I did earlier tonight before we saw Mysterio come off the stage onto the country on the gym
01:40Rey Mysterio clearly right now
01:44Has a huge task in front of him tonight as he goes one-on-one champion versus champion in our main event against edge
01:52You think you know me
01:58Is
02:16Obviously ladies and gentlemen both men are defending their championships this sunday in new orleans at extreme rules
02:24This special attraction match features the world's champion edge and the intercontinental champion Rey Mysterio
02:31It will be one call
02:33And you have to ask yourself this time next week. Will both of these men still be wearing gold?
02:40I'll tell you
02:42If I were a gambling man, I haven't been known to play a hand or two of cards
02:47I'd take me over on that one. I don't think both these men are going to survive
02:51Extreme rules at least one of them. I think we're gonna see
02:55championships destroyed
02:57And perhaps careers destroyed on sunday in the environment that these men all the men are going to be competing in
03:05at extreme rules
03:06It's the one time a year that the wwe goes extreme this sunday night
03:12extreme rules
03:15Edge has promised the extermination of jeff hardy as we know it
03:19But
03:20Jericho has guaranteed a win over rey mysterio
03:24And to take rey mysterio's mask
03:27Which may be you know, quite frankly
03:30You dig down and raise heart
03:32His heart and soul how he was raised even more important than the intercontinental title
03:36And certainly at least as much rey mysterio told us that the mask was part of his soul
03:42It represents everything that he is
03:44Yes
03:48Don't mean to be but the mask is so important race heritage. Here we go with this one-ball matchup
03:54Certainly momentum a very important
03:57Factor in both the mindset. I would think of these two athletes
04:01Bring him out of the corner, you know, chris
04:03Rey mysterio rather doesn't have to look too far past chris jericho to find a reflection in edge both jericho and edger and prudent
04:12rude disrespectful and
04:14i'm sure that
04:15Rey mysterio wants to appease the wwe universe by shutting up edge here tonight
04:23So we're fighting back certainly with edge and that jericho claimed to be the face of friday night smackdown
04:30I would argue that rey mysterio could campaign for that same
04:41Back into the baseball slide
04:44Now mysterio avoided disaster going out of the ring is astonishing
05:03And again mysterio flying high can mr 619 beat the world heavyweight champion we'll find out next
05:11Oh
05:14We're back on friday night smackdown you're watching for the first time ever as rey mysterio goes for the cover champion versus champion
05:20rey mysterio versus edge
05:24The action in the commercial break has been at a frenetic pace led by rey mysterio's
05:31physical hysteria
05:41No matter how many times i've seen rey mysterio in action, it seems like
05:45Mysterio has something else up his sleeve that we haven't seen before mysterio always stupefies the wwe universe
05:53Mysterio is an overachiever. He has a great heart a great will to succeed
05:58And for every kid that says someone's told them they're too little to play in the little league team
06:02We'll let you back nine. You can play right field
06:06Oh
06:08Rey mysterio will give those youngsters hope that there may be no hope for mysterio now
06:14It's mysterio out of the lineup. No a two count for edge
06:18and the self-assured
06:20Self-proclaimed rated r superstar is now in complete control
06:27Mysterio is a kid that starts off in the team as the smallest man in the lineup puts his way to the top
06:33And becomes a star that's what rey mysterio's does he had his first match to earn money in this genre at age
06:45That's two years
06:49Chris jericho has promised to expose rey mysterio for the fraud that he is
06:54Mysterio is no fraud
06:57That's a jericho's mind game. That's jericho's propaganda
07:01And that hard iris whip was no mind game. It was very physical by the world's champion
07:07Come on and edge you mentioned the word physical trying to turn this more into a
07:12street fight
07:14What edge is trying to use his his size advantage his strength advantage on these smaller men
07:21I talked to rey mysterio last week in la and asked him if it ever been in a match with someone
07:26Smaller than him in his entire career and he quickly answered. No never
07:31No, I didn't seem to bother
07:36Edge on the other hand never seems to be outsmarted always one step ahead of the competition. He's cold
07:43He's calculating
07:44And he happens to be the world heavyweight champion
07:50He's equipment and resourcefulness use those terms all day but responding right
07:57Right into the head scissor a tilted world around the world into the head scissor
08:03And in many ways, this is going to be the the same type of assault that jeff hardy hopes to apply always moving
08:11Mysterio hooks the leg to the two counts a hard-hitting kick right to the temple
08:17Scrambling the brains of the world's champion one has to assume
08:22You mentioned rey mysterio. He's beating the odds
08:25Won that intercontinental championship at the 25th anniversary of wrestlemania beating jbl and jb off to the match quit
08:33We've never seen jbl in a wwe ring since rey mysterio won that intercontinental title
08:47And what action here on friday night smackdown a great main event we're glad you're with us here on my network tv
08:55And it's mysterious
08:59And how about this back and forth tit for tat edge seems to be comfortable wrestling any type of style
09:09But that is the preferred method
09:12A little wheelbarrow to the face which champion will prevail. We'll find out as friday night smackdown rolls on
09:23We're back on friday night smackdown as edge continues to chomp away at rey mysterio in this champion versus champion match
09:33It has been back and forth during the commercial break
09:36We've got several near flaws. Finally edge gets the advantage. He thinks he's got mysterio down for the three count hooks both legs
09:45And still can't keep mysterio down
09:48First time ever on friday night smackdown the world's heavyweight champion and the intercontinental champion
09:54one on one
09:56And in 48 hours both these men's respective championships will be on the line at extreme rules
10:02Edge faces off against jeff hardy in a ladder match and it's rey mysterio versus chris. Jericho. No holds
10:10Right on the patella three strikes by mysterio
10:18Mysterio countered it and edge gets a face full of canvas, but can mr. 619 take advantage?
10:25And what a counter by mysterio and it's just too bad for ray that he's not able to capitalize and cover edge
10:34Jr. Has there ever been a superstar that's taken more accumulative shots over his career
10:39But continued to bounce back time after time like rey mysterio
10:44Before I ask that question. Look at this
10:47Greg puts his own body at risk
10:49I'll answer your question. No
10:51Because no one in mysterio's size has ever succeeded on the level that mysterio is competing
10:58Mysterio a former world heavyweight champion
11:01And now he's in a prime position perhaps to knock off the current world heavyweight champion
11:07Ray mysterio is quite simply a phenom
11:10No doubt about it. He's phenomenal a mass
11:13phenomenon
11:14And just per commodity world's champion from the top turnbuckle all the way to the floor
11:22And now mysterio getting some speed
11:25And diving face first right under the radar superstar. I think the key term was
11:31Mysterio gained speed
11:33He found another gear and was willing again to take a tremendous risk and potentially sacrifice
11:41himself
11:44No one perhaps provides the heart-stopping action that ray mysterio does each and every week here on friday nights
11:52Six he's been got a 10 count to return to the ring
11:57Seven maybe eight
11:59Officially eight
12:02Now mysterio springboard leg drop is this the win for mysterio another near fall
12:11And you saw the referee counting there don't forget that ray mysterio's match at extreme rules against chris jericho
12:16There are no countouts. No holds bars. Anything goes
12:22Mysterio hooks the leg
12:24These men are giving it everything they've got here tonight
12:27Holding nothing back two days before extreme rules when both their championships will be at stake
12:35I'm, sure chris jericho and jeff hardy watching this match with great interest
12:39You see just how much?
12:41energy
12:42These two superstars will exert
12:45Look out here. Oh a ddt another counter a phenomenal counter to the ddt
12:56And mysterio's counter tonight had been scintillated
13:00Ray mysterio has hit edge with both barrels so far
13:03But the rated-r superstar to his credit has continued to kick out
13:15We're just going to take another chance that we've seen was it one too many
13:35How is ray mysterio going to get out of this predicament
13:45Oh
14:02I didn't think mysterio was going to be able to get over there, but somehow mysterio willed his way
14:08Question is how much damage has been done to the legs of ray mysterio such an important asset in his offensive arsenal
14:16Mysterio all about altitude all about elevation
14:20Mysterio loves to fly
14:24Our wwe universe loves to watch it fly heads up six one nine not yet
14:33These two men
14:37Winning tonight holding nothing back six one nine
14:48Right under the spine and mysterio able to get a schoolboy roll up in one two. Oh, that was close
14:54Mysterio's got a star 69 and called back
14:58These men leaving nothing
15:00Nothing, but all out here in this canvas. Where else you're gonna see a main event like this from anybody
15:07on any brain
15:10The biggest little man in wwe history ray mysterio the intercontinental champion giving
15:17The world heavyweight champion all he can handle
15:20Oh look out the phones ringing
15:24Six one nine mysterio perhaps seconds away from beating edge. No
15:38Resiliency
16:00That's how important it was
16:07To reach that to win this match
16:10Say what you will about edge, but there's a reason the rated-r superstar is a nine-time world champion
16:16Yes, able to withstand six one nine. This is the key right here
16:21avoiding the
16:31Ray mysterio seemingly did everything right but in the end
16:38He has seen this type of behavior before and it's not surprising a ladder is here
16:47In proximity of the ring the ring was surrounded by ladders earlier tonight in the cutting edge
16:53What's going to happen to ray here?
16:56Well, I suggest it won't be good
17:00Hey, jim hardy
17:02Is
17:17After taking a a huge fall earlier tonight on the cutting edge is back with a vengeance
17:23Jeff hardy had to be assisted out of here
17:26As a man who came on the air tonight. Thanks to edge and look at hardy back
17:31Full of passion
17:40A 15-foot high leg drop connects the world's heavyweight champion
17:51Extreme rules is the one night of the year when the wwe goes
17:57100 extreme from start to finish. It'll be casualties chaos collision careers being threatened and
18:05Championships on the line and the biggest risk ever wall could make history. We'll find out sunday night