Ring the bell.
[SOUND] >> Pin fall, submission, disqualification,
count out, this is a pure battle of speed and skill versus strength.
Here we go.
>> Batista will win the strength battle, I can assure you that.
>> Rey Mysterio said you don't have to be big to be a champion, you need heart.
[FOREIGN] I have heart.
>> [INAUDIBLE] >> Rey Mysterio shown his heart time and
time again, how about when he won the 2006 Royal Rumble blasting a record 62 minutes
as the second entrant.
>> [NOISE] >> Mysterio was going to win his first
World Heavyweight Championship.
>> [NOISE] >> Listen to this crowd come alive for
Rey Mysterio.
So many small children in the crowd wearing the Rey Mysterio mask
>> [NOISE]
>> Mysterio proving that quickness
advantage until he walked right into that booth, Batista now, perhaps setting up for
a Batista Bomb.
>> And did now man.
>> [NOISE] >> Mat,
This is a different game from the past two of Batista squared up.
A Chairs match against The Undertaker on Sunday before that it was a Street Fight
against Rey Mysterio.
>> [NOISE] >> Remember, Batista and
Mysterio were best friends they would spend Christmas together.
How ironic and symbolic that next week Christmas night
Batista could very well- >> The sitting senton
from Rey Mysterio and that has Batista's attention.
>> Become the World Heavyweight Champion.
>> [NOISE] >> Batista four times
the World Heavyweight Champion and one time WWE Champion as well,
says it's what drives him, it's all he wants.
He doesn't need the fans, he doesn't need anyone, it's about him and the goal.
Batista has just annihilated Rey Mysterio on countless occasions.
I don't know why Rey just doesn't quit.
>> [NOISE] >> Didn't you just say Rey Mysterio
has heart, passion?
>> No, Rey Mysterio said that Rey Mysterio has heart.
>> [NOISE] >> And Mysterio.
>> Well, Batista Is to seems to have caught Rey Mysterio.
>> Explosive power on display here from The Animal.
>> Now everything changes, can Rey Mysterio make it back or
will Batista become the number one contender?
We'll find out when SmackDown continues next.
>> [NOISE] >> Welcome back to Friday Night SmackDown,
here's what's on the line.
The winner of this match between Batista and
Rey Mysterio will face off against The Undertaker next Friday night,
Christmas night for the World Heavyweight Championship.
>> Holy night there will be no rest for
the weary >> Whomever wins this consigned against
the World Heavyweight Champion, The Undertaker.
>> [NOISE] >> The crowd
chanting [FOREIGN] which means yes, you can, yes, we can.
>> [NOISE] >> Not if that keeps up.
>> While we were away in the commercial break,
Batista has been focusing the attack on the midriff between the neck and
waist, basically the torso of Rey Mysterio.
>> [NOISE] >> Rey Mysterio perhaps the most
beloved superstar, the world over, none more so
than his Latino fan base, which is in full voice here in Loretto, Texas.
>> [NOISE] >> Just five miles from the Mexico border,
Rey Mysterio grew up wrestling at a church and T Awana as a young teenager.
>> Right now Rey's gonna need to pray because The Animal is stalking
Rey Mysterio.
>> [NOISE] >> Earlier Mysterio said listen,
you don't have to be six foot five and jacked with muscles to be a champion,
you've gotta have heart.
>> Christmas is the time of miracles and right now it looks like Rey Mysterio will
need a miracle to defeat the altered beast Batista.
>> [NOISE] >> Batista said that Ray Mysterio is
always needed him to watch Mysterio's back.
That's the only reason that they were friends,
Batista felt that Rey needed him for protection.
>> [NOISE] >> The best way to get back at Batista
is for Rey Mysterio to deny Batista, the World Heavyweight Championship.
>> [NOISE] >> Rey Mysterio
almost got his head kicked off by Batista.
Is Batista the number one contender?
No.
>> Just stay down Rey, I mean just watched this impact here, watch Batista.
>> [NOISE] >> Look if you doubted Mysterio's
toughness, you can't anymore after that boot.
>> I don't think anyone ever doubts Rey Mysterio's tenacity.
>> But what you have to do is use logic here.
I mean look at Batista and look at Rey Mysterio.
>> Rey Mysterio is known as the giant killer.
Can he do it again here against a man that out weighs him by nearly 200 pounds.
>> [NOISE]
>> Hey, let's go, get him off the ropes.
I'm telling you, get him off.
>> Unlike their match last week, it was a Street Fight,
anything went during that match.
This is a regular one-on-one contest.
You can win by pin fall, submission, disqualification, or count out.
>> I will tell you from experience being in the ring,
having the fans start to get behind your opponent can be so unnerving because
Rey Mysterio is the type of competitor who can thrive off of the adrenaline.
>> See you.
thanks for coming, good night.
>> Batista again with a cute shot to Mysterio,
but Mysterio once again coming back for more.
>> [NOISE] >> One more time.
>> First the boot, and
now this clothesline How much more can the master the 619 absorb?
>> [NOISE] >> Even a parochial Body Slam takes so
much out of Rey Mysterio.
>> [NOISE] >> Batista felted Mysterio has
embarrassed him before.
So Rey, you'll never gonna embarrass me again, you'll never come between me and
the World Heavyweight Championship.
>> [NOISE] >> Notice how Batista takes his
time after each strike, after each slam,
Batista lets Mysterio feel the pain before going in for the attack, it's mental.
>> [NOISE] >> Think about what I'm doing to you,
think about if you wanna continue, just stay down Rey.
>> Mysterio may have no choice as to whether stay down or not.
>> This is not gonna be good right now.
>> Mysterio digging deep, finding a second wind, gonna meet Batista on the top rope.
>> Mysterio senses the urgency, the animosity, the tension built.
>> [NOISE] >> Rey just clutching his knee,
Batista very smart to hold on to the ropes to prevent Rey Mysterio from taking
Batista over.
>> Batista grabbing the top rope.
>> Big time drop kick.
>> That drop kick caught Batista underneath the chin.
Batisa is dazed, this is the opportunity Rey Mysterio needs.
>> [NOISE] >> Rey Mysterio may have
taken way too much punishment in this match, Todd.
>> Well, normally we'd seen Mysterio perhaps capitalizing on this opportunity
created by that drop kick.
But so much damage has been done by The Animal.
>> [NOISE] >> It's a big fight feel here tonight in
Texas.
>> [NOISE] >> Bot of these athletes well aware of
what's on the line.
The number one contendership for the World Heavyweight Championship.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Body scissors into the Bulldog,
>> And now Mysterio going for
his first cover of the day.
>> [NOISE] >> Look at the look in Batista's eyes,
Batista is dazed.
>> Batista just I think is shocked more than anything,
wasn't I dominating this match just a few seconds ago?
>> Every time to teach to tries to get through his feet Rey Mysterio very wisely
it's keeping The Animal down.
>> [NOISE] >> Mysterio loves to get out altitude,
loves to elevate, he's made a career out of it.
>> One, two.
>> Rey Mysterio, no.
>> [NOISE] >> these men have
met in the Street Fight, they met at Survivor Series,
the match that Batista dominated Mysterio that the referee had to stop it.
But tonight Mysterio bringing his A game and
Batista cannot believe what Rey is doing.
>> [NOISE] >> Yeah.
>> [NOISE] >> DDT,
nothing seems to be working now for The Animal.
>> One, two.
>> Two count, no.
>> [NOISE] >> Just that close to Rey Mysterio
challenging for his second ever World Heavyweight Championship
>> And Rey Mysterio is effective offense
has consisted of dazing and disorienting his larger opponent.
>> [NOISE] >> Look at this picture,
two former best friends back to back, backs to the wall.
It's all about becoming the number one contender.
>> [NOISE] >> Batista has slowed down.
>> And this crowd is yelling yes we can, yes we can in Spanish.
>> Here we go.
>> 619.
>> Down goes Batista, but can Rey Mysterio capitalize?
>> Rey Mysterio perhaps just three seconds, whoa.
>> Batista just got the knees and
the points of his feet up into the abdomen >> One, two.
>> And now it's Mysterio in big trouble.
Back and forth we go.
And gone are the taunts from Batista, the stare down, the arrogance.
Batista right now is desperate to get the three count
>> Todd, Batista may have made the classic
mistake tonight.
Batista may have underestimated his opponent.
>> Batista now does not wanna be disqualified.
Whoever wins this match goes to Christmas night to face The Undertaker.
>> One, two.
>> Here it is.
>> [NOISE] >> What
does Batista have to do to vanquish Rey Mysterio?
>> Whoever wins this match in any manner, disqualification, count out,
submission, pin fall,
they advance, it doesn't have to be pretty, you just have to get the job done.
Mysterio slipping away.
>> Side Slam.
>> Beautiful Boss Man slam, and
now Batista is on his way to the- >> No,
Rey Mysterio grabbed the bottom rope.
>> Two, he's got the rope.
>> Are you kidding me?
>> That's the presence of mind of Rey Mysterio.
>> Two.
>> That may have been the only way out for
Mysterio >> Let's not deny it Ray Mysterio former
World Heavyweight Champion but here comes a Batista Bomb much different than
the Power Bomb, could Batista delivers it.
>> And Rey Mysterio knew the end was perhaps near.
Now Batista- >> Whoa, whoa.
>> He's got to be careful here.
>> That's right, Batista could be disqualified.
>> I will disqualify you right now.
>> They were legal against The Undertaker on Sunday, but not here tonight.
>> Spear.
>> A 300 pound spear and Batista is, no.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Are you serious?
>> [NOISE] >> This is either good or
bad because yes, Rey Mysterio keeps coming, but
the frustration of The Animal continues to build.
>> Batista has done everything except perhaps hit the Batista Bomb.
>> Whoa.
>> And now a roll up from Mysterio.
>> One, two, three.
>> He's done it.
[SOUND] >> He's done it, Rey Mysterio has done it.
>> Here is your winner, and
the number one contender, Rey Mysterio.
>> A shocker ladies and gentlemen, a shocker.
>> It'll be Christmas night,
one week away in two hours extravaganza on Friday Night SmackDown.
Rey Mysterio versus The Undertaker for the world's Heavyweight Championship.
And Batista can't believe it but Batista better.
>> Well, Rey Mysterio has the chance to add the merriest Christmas of his life
next week, December 25th, Christmas night.
Batista's hopes have gone up in flames and
Rey Mysterio is on his way to the World's Heavyweight Championship.
>> It'll be Rey Mysterio versus The Undertaker for
the World Heavyweight title next Friday night.