[SOUND] [NOISE] If you just join us ladies and
gentlemen, JBL, the WWE Champion,
of course, representing SmackDown made our
air tonight on a brief interview to take looked
like it though sometimes post Royal Rumble.
>> Yeah, he was talking about the fact that Batista wanted to come to
SmackDown and try his hand at JBL for the WWE Championship.
Batista would have no luck at all.
>> Randy Orton a smack on the Nature Boy and Flair walks into another one.
>> Flair must feel like shift, he have been slapped twice and down he goes.
>> [SOUND] Come on, get up.
>> Randy Orton showing no ill effect thus far that so
severe blows to his head last night at the hands of Triple H.
>> [NOISE] >> Batista here [INAUDIBLE]
downstairs the dirtiest player in the game.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Man.
>> There goes electrical shockrifying knock out chops.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Right hand and
left hand, to find their mark and Flair in a bad way there in the corner.
And Flair holds to the spike of this build up fight.
Flair hit the high elevation back body drop,
Flair up in the lights here in San Jose.
And look at the intensity on the face of Randy Orton, the 24 year old.
Who truly believes, and I admire it,
that it is his destiny to become a World Champion again, somewhere,
someplace sometimes Randy Orton believes in his heart it will happen.
But Orton wants The Game, Triple H who have taken a tag a step in the ring.
>> Last week, if you remember here on Raw,
Randy Orton defeated the Nature Boy in a one on one match.
Now, he's got his chance to do the same thing right here against Triple H,
he get it last night.
>> And last five minutes of Evolution in a single match.
Three weeks ago, he beat Triple H.
[INAUDIBLE] The lights goes the champion.
>> Orton just did the same thing to The Game that he did to The Nature Boy.
>> Great right hand knock down by Randy Orton.
And Orton, I'll tell you what, I am amazed at the recuperative powers and
resiliency of this young man.
And here comes The Showstopper, Shawn Michaels.
Michaels in that ordeal was SmackDown's Kurt angle
at the Royal Rumble busted open lacerated [INAUDIBLE].
And Flair and the cheap shot by Flair costs Flair,
and then Michael's paid the price.
>> That's right, this is- >> Big right hand.
>> Momentary distraction, it's all the Cerebral Assassin needs.
Uh-oh, look out.
>> And Michaels turning the tables on Triple H.
Straight right hands by HBK, snapping back the head of the World Champion.
What a tag team match up.
We're live in San Jose.
One, two, three, four.
>> Hard right hands.
>> Inverted atomic drop, huge crowd on hand, we thank you for
being with us as well.
And Michael's now feeling the effect, of that inverted atomic drop,
delivered with force and velocity by the ten time champ.
[NOISE] >> Look at this now.
When momentum is turned, things are not looking too good for HBK here,
it's so called creeping right now JR.
[NOISE] >> Michaels and
Triple H exchanging right hands.
But they're in a proverbial no man's land at least of it,
almost getting them on top.
>> Triple H hang on, hang on hang on at it, look out!
>> [NOISE] >> Triple H drops into the canvas and
Michaels now climbing all the way to the top.
HBK- >> [NOISE]
>> Drives the elbow Into
the controversial heart of the ten time champion.
Flair's in illegally, and knocked down.
Randy Orton now in there illegally.
>> Flair out legally.
>> Outside goes Flair, outside goes the champion and
there's the beast, will he be unleashed?
Batista.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Batista confronting the official and
The Game- >> Watch it, no.
>> And The Game.
>> Face first into those steel steps.
That should be a disqualification, look out Flair.
>> And Flair back dropped on the outside.
It is chaotic here.
>> This referee has let this match get completely out of hand.
What is up?
Yeah, Batista, you're gonna do things with your own hand, I don't blame you.
>> Batista throwing a steel chair,
Lilian Garcia our ring announcer had to scurry out of the way.
This Evolution's animal has become irate.
>> What do you expect?
[NOISE] >> Batista, 318 pounds with a weapon.
One,you, get out of here.
>> What?
>> [APPLAUSE] >> What?
He's not done anything.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> I think Referee Chad Patton has just
ejected Batista.
>> For what reason?
[NOISE] >> Hey.
[NOISE] >> Good grief.
>> You don't wanna make, Batista angry.
>> Batista absolutely irate here.
[NOISE] >> Wait a minute.
Folks, this match continues.
We'll be back in San Jose next.
>> We are back ladies and gentlemen.
We are live as hell here in San Jose, Monday Night Raw.
And what a match up, what a tag team match Ric Flair and
Triple H The World Champion against Shawn Michaels, who just got chopped and
chopped again, along with Randy Orton.
>> Look at the Nature Boy in all his glory.
No. [NOISE] Good grief.
>> HBK retaliating, >> Boy, not the Natur Boy.
>> Against the Dirtiest Player of the Game.
>> No, no.
>> Flair hit first on the canvas and that could it,
the cover, the lateral press.
>> One, two.
>> Flair just barely able to kick out.
[NOISE] Suplex outside,
back in, cover, and
a near fall again by Shawn Michaels.
>> Randy Orton.
[NOISE] >> Randy Orton and
Shawn Michaels has a team.
>> And there is another cover.
>> I mean no disrespect to Evolution talking about Michaels and
Orton as a dream team.
Yeah, they could be an extraordinary combination.
>> Man man, it's not been sitting here.
I'm sorry, damn.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> As I said, I'm
impressed with Shawn Michaels and Randy Orton, but still, my idea of a great team.
There it is right there.
>> A cheap shot on the outside.
>> That's reminiscent of the great tag team, the great Patterson and
Ray Stevens here in the Bay Area.
That cheap shot on the outside there sure was a great dream team smells,
no doubt about it.
And now Triple H smells blood, he knows Michaels [INAUDIBLE] and
the Aren Anderson spine buster with authority.
>> Triple H grabbing the knee.
>> The cover, the cover and a near fall.
Our business is rich with heritage.
My God, you should know that.
[INAUDIBLE] in a minute.
Come on.
>> Tag made, Rick Flair in.
Triple H the World's Champion, must step out.
>> Right to the rib, zeroed in like you said.
>> Triple H opened up that rib cage and Flair took advantage.
The wicked motion there, and Flair with the rights and the lefts.
>> This is vintage Ric Flair, there he is.
>> Putting another top, knocking down Shawn Michaels.
>> That's the Naich we know and love.
>> HBK, HBK, HBK.
>> Let's check this out one more time.
[INAUDIBLE]
When to do it.
>> Michaels back is killing him, there's no doubt about that.
>> Remember, Shawn Michaels pulled double duty 24 hours ago,
losing a controversial match to Edge, we told you how.
Edge used the rope to beat Michaels.
Bottom line, Edge won the match at the rumble.
And then Michaels competed in a rumble, he got busted up by SmackDown's Kurt Angle.
>> Again that brief history,
Shawn Michaels has a rich history of back problems.
That's what the Evolution is exploiting right now.
If Randy Orton were in the ring, they'd be hitting him in the head.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> The Cerebral Assassin, Triple H,
the ten time world champion, punishing Shawn Michaels with the abdominal stretch.
>> Come on Shawn.
>> One of the most time tested maneuvers in all of this business,
the abdominal stretch.
>> HBK, HBK, HBK, HBK, HBK >> And
the HBK chant trying to will, verbally will Shawn Michaels back in to withstand.
>> Look out.
>> And Michaels with a desperation hip lock, and
Michaels needs to make the tag here and now.
>> Triple H senses he'd feel the same way.
Tag made, and Flair gets his body between Michaels and Michaels' corner.
And another shot by The Nature Boy, and retaliation by Michaels.
>> In this tag team match, and we got it for live right here on Monday Night Raw.
The flagship broadcast of the WWE, reverse elbow by Flair and down goes Michaels.
>> [NOISE] >> And
you see this match we still got that cage match to go here tonight.
Look out Nature Boy.
>> The Nature Boy tried it again.
>> Shawn Michaels try to throw Ric Flair all the way to Japan.
>> What a body slam off that top turnbuckle.
the tide may have turned with that one maneuver if Michaels can't
make the tag to Randy Orton.
>> Two.
>> And Orton he's tapping like a bear.
>> [NOISE] >> There is the tap.
>> Triple H got the tag, Flair made the tag to The Game,
Michaels cannot make the tag.
>> He did, he did.
>> Michaels tags in Randy Orton, Orton and The Game were the legal men.
One hand to Flair and to the champion.
>> This is bad for Evolution.
Randy Orton fresh as a daisy out there.
>> And no Batista, he's been ejected by the referee earlier in the match.
Another back body drop on The Nature Boy.
The bricker from Charlotte up in the lights.
And the power slam, Randy on the power slam, on the champion.
>> Man.
>> Snapping inverted back breaker by Randy Orton and another right hand on The Game.
Randy Orton is the number one contender for the World Title until last night.
>> Get in there referee.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Referee is trying to explain.
>> Here comes The Nature Boy to save the day.
>> Now, Flair saw what the referee was, that wasn't an accident.
>> What do you mean it wasn't accidental?
>> Well, the referee is trying to, is it like Flair is blind?
>> No, Flair is just,
He was trying to do anything that- >> RKO, RKO on Flair.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Flair got RKOed.
>> No good deed kept going, Flair come in to save The Game and look what he get.
>> Look at the carnage here, Orton down, the World's Champion is down.
>> Hey, hey, hey, look Orton, >> You may land on the back of
his head, look at his eyes.
>> No, we saw that same expression last night.
>> I tell us Krispy Kreme eyes glazed over.
Here's your chance Game, you got to use this.
>> Triple H to survey the territory here.
And Orton is, look at Orton, look at the resistance arms, legs here.
[NOISE] Orton back on last night it was a Pedigree that did it and
now Michaels- >> No.
>> Sweet Chin Music in the champion.
Michaels somehow, some way with the Sweet Chin Music.
>> That wasn't fair.
>> Wait a minute.
>> Edge try to Spear Michaels but he got the champion,
Michaels knocking Edge out of the ring.
Edge came to Spear Shawn Michaels, Michaels side stepped Edge and
Edge almost broke the World Champion in half with that spear.
>> I can't believe my eyes.
Speaking of eyes, look at Randy Orton I think he
realizes that- >> Orton's got that far away look again in
his eye, Orton trying to focus here.
Can Orton get the pin, Orton got the arm over, the referee is moving,
there's the count, on two, and will it be?
Yes, it is.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Orton beats The Game in this tag team
match.
>> Here are your winners Randy Orton and the Heartbreak Kid,
Shawn Michaels >> The dream team are now a dream team,
Michaels and Orton are the winners here with
a little help inadvertently from of all people Edge.
>> You're right, of all people,
I mean Edge came out here without a doubt to spear HBK.
But he wound up doing it to champ.
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>> And Shawn Michaels showing obvious concern for Randy Orton.
Orton trying to focus, trying to regain some sense of normalcy.
>> It took every ounce of strength, and as you said he is focused,
he just crawled and he gets one arm on top of The Game and that was enough.
>> A lot of guts and a lot of heart by that man Randy Orton.
Great combination Orton and Shawn Michaels, huge victory for them.
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