[NOISE] We're not waiting.
>> We're not waiting at all.
Batista, toe to toe with Finlay, Cena toe to toe with King Booker.
Remember, Battle of the Champions, the Champions match up at Cyber Sunday, JBL.
King Booker actually pinned John Cena, again, in controversial fashion.
>> You can call it controversial, you can also call it effective.
>> And King Booker in the face of a long-time rivalry, Batista.
>> [NOISE] >> Gonna be interesting to see who starts
this match-up for either team.
>> King Booker walked into that Champion of Champions match on somebody
else's show, somebody else's pay per view and
brought back the Champion of Champions title.
>> The current WWE Champion, John Cena,
former World Champion King Booker going to start things off in this matchup.
>> Look at the King.
Listen to the Smackdown fans chanting for Cena.
Power and elbow tie up and King Booker backed to the corner.
>> And a switch by King Booker.
History made tonight, JBL, first time ever,
two world champions have teamed together.
Look to his right hand.
>> [APPLAUSE] by John Cena.
What do you expect out of this match up first Cena-Batista team?
>> I expect Cena-Batista try to do what they do best.
Look, Cena has proven himself to be a phenomenal champion.
The match he had with Edge and some [INAUDIBLE] was one of the best I've ever
seen, but it uses power as does Batista.
>> [INAUDIBLE] take down again, [INAUDIBLE] arm bar by John Cena.
>> They have to stay with their strengths, they being Cena and Battista.
King Booker and family need to do what they do best and
that is find a way to win.
>> And a tag made to Batisat, Batista in the ring against the man he took
the World Championship from, that could survive [CROSSTALK] King Booker.
>> A motion intention is palpable in Richmond, Virginia.
[NOISE] >> Batista-
>> But not yet.
>> But King Booker tagged out and brought in Finlay.
>> Mind games.
>> [NOISE] >> Finlay and Batista,
a long history, as well.
Finlay has used that shillelagh on Batista on a number of occasions,
including just a couple of weeks ago on that triceps muscle.
>> [NOISE] >> Finlay, the rough, tough Irishman.
[NOISE] >> And Batista using that left arm,
holding on in this matchup.
>> I wondered if Batista had the heart and the intensity to come back.
And Batista has actually ameliorated his game since he's returned.
>> A big knee by Finlay to Batista.
>> The fighting Irishman caught in mid air.
And that's the power knee Batista uses.
>> [NOISE] >> What a slap by Batista.
>> I like it.
>> I do too.
>> Psychological warfare by Batista, taking Finley off.
Take him out of his game.
>> Well that was unique.
>> [NOISE] >> Look at this,
Finley [INAUDIBLE] the top rope and back to kness.
>> The spine cracking on the knees of the world champion
>> [NOISE]
>> Batista and finally in his eyes.
>> Ever since he got the championship back,
Batista has gotten better and better.
>> Finlay in trouble and slammed to the mat, quickly into the cover,
hook of the leg, shoulders down, King Booker breaks up the three count.
>> [NOISE] >> [INAUDIBLE]
King Booker back to work on >> What do you mean breaks up
the three count?
You have no idea if that's gonna be a three count or not.
>> That's the strength of Batista here.
>> [NOISE] >> I believe
Finlay made the town when he did it.
>> Here comes the former world champion you.
>> [NOISE] >> The Batista chance for
the SmackDown fans here deck.
>> Such a long story, history with these two men.
>> Really began at Summer Slam earlier this year, taking for
months until Survival Series.
>> [INAUDIBLE] as King Booker brings it to Batista,
the chops to the champion in the right hands.
>> Flyers and come.
>> Across the ring.
>> Terror by Batista into the clothesline.
Booker hooked in the leg.
>> There's two, and a kick out by King Booker.
>> King Booker never really getting that rematch that he deserves and
was contractually obligated to get from Batista.
>> Well we've got a triple threat now.
John Cena kicked to the midsection, WWE Champion into the ring.
John Cena that pound and grab attack, but that's typical Booker,
thumb to the eye to gain the upper hand.
>> You do what you have to do, Michael.
It's that simple.
>> And Booker with the kick to the jaw.
>> Quickly crawls toward Cena, rolls him into cover, hooks the lay.
There's two, and Cena kicks out at two and a half.
Queen Sharmell with that, almost defiant look on her face.
>> [NOISE] >> What the King and
family have to do is isolate one of these champions.
>> [NOISE].
King Booker went into the corner.
John Cena got to his feet.
The WWE Champion has got the fire up.
>> King Booker placed in the center of the ring.
>> [NOISE] >> CENA has got his intensity.
>> [INAUDIBLE] Cena know best.
[INAUDIBLE] >> And King Booker in a world of trouble.
>> See how Cena makes sure Finlay doesn't enter the ring.
>> [NOISE] >> Get out, get out.
>> [NOISE] >> Well Batista,
has had enough, taking it to Finlay, shoulders to the gut.
>> I told you it's four combustable elements,
all hell is bound to break lose Michael.
>> Look at this, Queen Sharmell just gave King Booker to the scepter,
the scepter right to the throat.
Referee didn't catch it, trying to get Batista out of the ring,
had his back turned, rightfully so.
But King Booker used the scepter to the throat of Cena.
>> That is what Booker and Finlay had to do.
They've got to find a way to isolate one of these guys, get them down, and
beat them up.
And King Booker measuring John Cena.
>> John Cena back to his feet, kicked to the jaw.
Here is the cover, shoulders down, hooks the leg.
Again somehow, the resilient Champion kicks out.
[SOUND].
Watch this, directly in the throat.
[NOISE] [SOUND] [INAUDIBLE] >> Finlay, and
you talked about this just a few moments ago, JBL, how Finlay and
King Booker need to isolate one member of the other team.
They may be doing that to Cena, right here.
>> And look at this, not letting him breathe,
that's what Finlay is doing to Cena right now.
You got to stay on hime, you got to get on him, and you can't let him up.
>> [NOISE] >> [INAUDIBLE] John Cena back to
the match up.
John Cena back to a vertical base.
>> [NOISE] >> Trying to create separation,
and he does.
Cena off the ropes, rolls into a clothesline by Finlay.
>> [NOISE] >> Look at this, rolls him off,
hitting heavy with a small package- >> [CROSSTALK] kick-out,
John Cena stole one there.
[NOISE] >> And
there's a cheap shot by Finlay, knocking Batista off the apron.
>> Wait a minute, hey.
>> [NOISE] >> There's a leprichaun.
>> In the ring, what the- >> He just kicked himself in the head.
>> The leprichaun's fate, he kicked himself in the face.
Maybe he was drinking.
>> [INAUDIBLE] in that ring.
>> He just kicked himself in the head.
>> Well he was trying to kick Cena, I think, and well he missed,
he kicked himself in the head.
>> Take another look.
>> Right in the head, he kicked himself.
Well we do know it keeps [INAUDIBLE] one night.
>> [NOISE] >> Come on.
>> [NOISE] >> It's hat leprichauns do all the time,
they kick themselves in head.
>> How do you know?
>> Now you're an expert on leprichauns, you're an expert on everything else in
the world, I guess you might as well be an expert on leprichauns.
>> Well there's a whole [INAUDIBLE] of them in Lord of the Ring,
[INAUDIBLE] some time.
They drink beer.
They've got a little litter box over there.
They complicate.
There's a whole bunch of them, a whole troop.
>> How do you know?
>> I'm friendly.
>> John Cena, vertical base, trying to get out of this major predicament.
>> [NOISE] >> The strength and
power of the WWE Champion and there's the knee to
the midsection by the resilient Booker who will do anything it takes to win.
>> That's called a champion.
That's called a competitor.
>> John Cena planting King Booker with a DDT and
this may be the opening that John Cena needs.
Brings Sharmell begging for King Booker to get to the corner.
And Batista literally acting like an animal, pacing.
Wants to get into the match up.
>> [NOISE] >> King Booker's gotta
find a way to come out the ring.
The last thing you want to do is let your opponent get between you and
the tag guy he's wanting to tag.
>> John Cena trying to make it to the corner, trying to make it to Batista.
Cena is crawling.
John Cena leaps, makes the tag and here comes The Animal.
Bullseye by Batista.
Right, here's the Finlay.
The World Champion with a running power slam.
A spirit of Team Booker.
Spirit of Finlay.
>> A king in the ring and now Finlay are in trouble.
>> King Booker fired up with a clothes line.
>> And Batista tossing Finlay into the King.
>> When Batista gets on a roll like this, he's a good finisher.
You've got to find a way to stop it.
We may just have Finley right to the jaw.
>> Booker, he just kicked Finlay.
Batista ducked out of the way.
[INAUDIBLE] Slaming King Booker shoulder first.
>> Reminiscent of a king of a ball's man.
>> Finley launched right into Batista of the clothesline.
Here comes John Cena taking [INAUDIBLE] to Finlay.
[INAUDIBLE] Cena in pursuit of Finlay and
there's a clothes line by Finlay to Cena.
>> [NOISE] >> We
got- >> My.
>> There's the leprechaun.
>> Batista, boot to the face of King Booker.
Look at that.
Steel chair to the back of the leg, the hamstring, of Batista.
Chair on Finlay.
Batista retaliated.
>> And look at this. King Booker went across the ring
[INAUDIBLE] one on one battle.
>> Batista [INAUDIBLE] King Booker with a spine buster.
>> It's become a replay of Survivor Series.
You've got Cena and Finlay out of the picture.
Batista with the Booker up,
Batista bomb.
Batista and Cena victorious.
>> [MUSIC]
>> Here are your winners, the WWE Champion, John Cena And
the World Heavyweight Champion, Batista.
>> Cena and Batista with a treat for all these Smackdown fans.
The champions standing tall tonight.
>> There, you have history, folks.
Two world all champions together for the first time and
victorious in their first ever partnership.
>> What a night, what an unpredictable event here on Armageddon.
[MUSIC]
>> This is Armageddon, Michael, and it's damn sure was for some people.
What a show.
What a show that SmackDown just put on tonight.
You wonder why we're the premiere brand, watch this show again.
Two world champions closing up one Hell of a pay-per-view.
>> John Cena and Batista, for the first time ever two,
World Champions teaming together, and victorious here tonight at Armageddon.