[SOUND] >> Well John,
if there is one thing we've learned back to your point of earlier,
about Batista in recent weeks and in recent months.
It's the fact that Batista seemed to be made stronger with all these different
types of matches he's had to go through.
Including the Punjabi Prison and Hell in a Cell,
with those grueling battles with The Undertaker.
The Animal knocking Kane over the top rope.
>> Batista has been hardened by fire, Michael, but
you doesn't know how much that's taken a toll on the champ.
And how much is this Last Man Standing gonna take out of the champ two
nights away from Armageddon.
>> It's gonna take a lot out, Michael, I can tell you that right now.
>> I mean what a shocker set up by returning general manager
Vickie Guerrero,.
And Batista though.
>> This is an opportunity for the warrior they were talking about Batista,
to show that he truly is!
>> What a power slam.
>> Back up.
>> Batista calling for the count.
Remember, Kane must make it to his feet.
>> Three!
>> Before a count of ten.
>> The only way you can win.
Pinfall submissions don't matter.
>> And in a count of five, Kane back to his feet and the count is waved off.
And Batista wisely right back on the attack.
>> This is a chance for the champion to shine.
Look at world champion.
You can't gripe, you can't complain.
You gotta go out there and you gotta win matches.
You're in the main event at Armageddon.
This right here to win.
And Kane has been in Last Man Standing matches before, been successful at it.
Taking it to Batista tonight.
And what does Kane have, what motive does he have in this match-up?
Side-slam!
Well, it's simple.
Kane knocks off the champion here tonight, he puts himself in line for
a title opportunity.
>> That's why the champion needs to make sure he doesn't get knocked off.
When I was world champion, I did and I fought every match that's conceivable.
I fought it every single night.
I never complained one time.
>> Kane top rope, measuring Batista.
Batista rolled out of the way, and
Batista realizing Kane was gonna drop the clothesline.
>> Great counter by Batista.
>> Hey, John, how much did Batista, how much more intense did he become after
those five matches against The Undertaker over the past year?
>> It's actually inmmeasurable.
Batista as a world champion the first time is nothing compared to the world champ
that we have right now.
Batista has become one of the greatest world champions we have had.
>> He is truly the animal.
That's not a nickname anymore, that's who Batista is.
That's what he embodies [INAUDIBLE] spine buster on Kane.
>> Batista has gotten better with every single match.
>> Waiting for the Batista bomb.
And Kane, great counter by the former World Champion himself,
the former WWE Champion Kane.
>> And Kane measuring Batista,
looking to drive Batista through the mat with a chokeslam.
[NOISE] >> Count, referee, count!
>> One! >> Referee Jimmy Korderas moving Kane
away- >> Two!
>> To begin the count.
>> It's a slow count.
Count at the same speed he did for Kane earlier.
You count when a guy hits the mat, Michael.
A count of five, the champs gotta make it to his feet before ten or
this match up belongs to Kane.
A count of seven, Batista having the wind knocked out of him, but back to his feet.
>> Kane has beat hundreds of superstars with that choke slam.
The difference is you've got to keep him down for a ten count.
What do you think Vickie Guerrero, our returning general manager and
Edge are thinking watching this matchup in Vicki's office?
[NOISE] >> From the top rope.
>> I think that just rattled Edge.
Anybody with the power to carry Kane like that in the middle of the ring has
got to be a [INAUDIBLE] trepidation.
>> Four.
>> A count of four and look at what Batista's doing here.
As Referee Jimmy Korderas is counting to five now,
Batista using the count to regain his composure to catch his breath.
A count of six now, Kane's in trouble.
>> Kane better get up.
>> A count of eight, Kane back to his feet.
And I think Batista knew Kane was gonna beat the count because The Animal went to
the top rope but Kane caught him [INAUDIBLE]
>> What a right hand.
It was great strategy by Batista to try to take advantage of Kane getting back
to his feet but the veteran Kane capitalized.
>> This is what Friday Night SmackDown is all about.
>> The only place you can see it Michael, right here.
>> Batista in trouble.
>> Here we go.
>> Kane, Batista, top rope.
Superplex.
Grappling both men.
>> That is a long way down.
>> Both men are down, watch the right by Kane.
>> That is impressive.
A count of three, both men.
Batista and Kane are down.
One man's gotta make it to his feet before a count of ten to win this matchup.
Kane's gonna use the ropes to leverage.
They're on a count of seven.
>> Eight!
>> A count of eight.
Kane's up.
>> Nine!
>> Bautista, nine, gets back to his feet.
Which one of these huge men will be able to keep the other down for a count of ten?
We may find out when we return!
>> [APPLAUSE] >> We are back on Friday Night SmackDown,
Batista, Kane, Last Man Standing.
And the rules of the match are simple, if you're down like Batista is now and
you can't reach a count of ten, you lose, simple.
>> Doesn't matter whether you're in the ring or you're out of the ring, pinfall,
submissions don't count.
Count of three for referee Jimmy Korderas.
The World Champion two nights away from his
defensive his title is being taken through a war with Kane.
And that was odd strategy by Kane, Batista had not made it to his feet yet.
Kane kicked his head off, stopping the count, because Kane believed Batista
wasn't gonna- >> No it would not.
It was smart.
But he understood Batista's gonna beat the ten count so
why let it get the extra three seconds to rest?
You get him down.
You keep him down.
You beat him until you know for sure that there's no chance he's gonna get up.
>> There was a point I was gonna make before you interrupted me,
but nonetheless.
>> Well, then make the point, idiot.
>> Kane bounced off that barricade and the world champion driving Kane.
Spine first killer into the steel.
>> You gotta love these matches.
There's a winner.
There's a loser.
>> Did you hear that?
We've seen Batista bombs, choke slams, super plexs, but
you don't get a three count Michael.
You gotta beat a guy until he can physically not get up!
>> Count of five,
Kane's gotta beat the count of ten after being driven into a steel post.
>> Six!
>> You heard that guttural groan from Kane.
And Batista throwing Kane up drilling him kidney first in the barricade.
[SOUND] And Batista is getting the hell beat out of him.
Two nights away from having to defend his title at Armageddon.
And let's not forget, John, at Armageddon,
Kane is gonna match up with CM Punk in Tag Match against Big Daddy V and Mark Henry.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> [INAUDIBLE] reaches a count of four,
with the world champion down and out.
>> This could end up in the parking lot, Michael.
There are no rules, except you beat a guy until they can't answer a ten count.
>> And Batista's to his feet at a count of five, and Kane right back on the attack.
Right hand after right hand.
And Edge has gotta be licking his chops in general manager Vickie Guerrero's office,
watching the world champion being dismantled by The Big Red Machine,
who's got a steel chair, and this is legal.
>> It's legal, it's all legal.
>> Batista Spear, what a Spear.
[NOISE] >> What a thunderous spear!
>> That could be it.
>> Two!
>> Both men are down.
>> Three!
>> Bautista's struggling to make it to his feet.
>> Four!
>> Edge has gotta be sitting back there thinking,
what in the hell do I have to do to beat Batista?
>> Kane is thinking the same thing as well.
We are at a count of six, Batista back to his feet but Kane is still on the floor.
>> Get up Kane.
>> Count of eight.
>> Get up Kane.
>> Nine.
>> Count of nine, Kane, can he make it?
And does way before the count of ten,
what a Last Man Standing match at SmackDown.
Batista, animal extincts are coming out.
Going upstairs, downstairs, Batista all over it.
That's what makes him a world champion.
>> Well, Batista realizes he's fighting for survival,
but the animal may have been slayed by Kane.
>> Batista's grasping at the elbow.
>> Two, three.
>> As he thundered into those steel steps.
And the man who loves to inflict punishment, the man who loves to inflict
pain, the Big Red Machine is watching the world champion be counted out.
At a count of seven now by the referee.
Batista at eight.
Kane destroying the table.
Batista back to his feet.
[NOISE] >> Get away from me, Kane.
>> Bobby Roode here.
>> [SOUND] >> The skull of the champion.
>> That's it.
It's all legal, Michael.
>> [NOISE] >> Two.
>> Kane launched Batista like a lawn dart into those stairs.
Batista's not getting up.
Caught him in the head with that monitor, Batista is out.
>> Five, Six.
>> At a count of six now.
>> Seven.
>> You hear Kane screaming: stay down.
>> Eight.
>> Stay down.
>> Batista back to his feet.
>> He's back up, the warrior.
We still got us a fight.
And Kane knocks him down again.
Frustration building, The Big Red Machine literally-
>> Easy, easy big man.
[NOISE] >> Two.
[NOISE] >> What the hell is he doing?
>> Three.
>> What evil thoughts are going through this man's mind?
>> Four.
>> Kane with those steel steps.
Look at this.
What's he doing?
>> My God, this is gonna be good.
>> At a count of six, Batista again, trying to drag himself back to his feet.
>> Batista has no idea what he's getting up to.
>> Kane measuring his man, stalking Batista.
Stalking Batista.
Batista in trouble.
Kane looking to put the champion away.
>> No, here we go.
>> Look at the look in the eyes of the champion.
>> Enjoy the ride.
The landing hurts.
But there's the fight.
Here is the fight of Batista, the Animal, battling back.
Kane in trouble.
[NOISE] >> Kane's back and
his spine literally collapsing.
>> Hit on the edge of that table.
>> [INAUDIBLE] a spear.
What the hell is that?
>> What the hell, where the hell did he come from?
[SOUND] >> It's legal too, Michael.
>> And now Kane's down.
>> Kane's not moving, Kane caught his back out of the edge of the table.
Batista's down.
The referee at the count of four, Edge looking to screw the champion.
[NOISE] >> Somebody get up.
>> A count of six in Last Man Standing.
>> Somebody's gotta get up.
>> Who's gonna make it to a count of ten?
Batista's rumbling.
Batista's back to his feet.
Edge goes flying, it's over.
[SOUND] The champion, the champion has survived.
Somehow, Batista has survived.
[MUSIC]
>> Batista.
[MUSIC]
>> The vindictive.
Former champion Edge with a thunderous chair off the spine of Batista.
>> Edge just picked the bone dry.
[NOISE] >> And
that smile symbolizing John perhaps what Edge set out to do here tonight.
To weaken one of his opponents, the world champion heading to Armageddon again.
And maybe he can accomplish that.
>> Batista's been to hell and back, Michael.
I don't see any way in hell that in 48 hours, Batista can be ready for
a world championship match.
We're gonna find out all over again what the Animal's made of, Michael.