After The Match: Stone Cold Beer Bash
Swagger carries Cole out like a baby. Austin’s music hits and he calls for the beers. Austin gives a beer to Lawler. He gives him another. Austin has two beers as well. They crash all four of them together and start drinking. Booker T wants in on it. He comes in from commentary and is asking to join the party. Booker asking if the fans wanna see the spinarooni lol. He does a big one. Austin smiles. Booker’s music hits. He calls for a bunch more beers. Everyone’s drinking now. Austin stuns Booker while he’s drinking. Booker’s music stops and Austin’s comes back on. Lawler is shown applauding. Austin calls for more beers. The Raw GM sound hits and Josh Matthews gets on the mic. Austin’s music stops. Austin looks perplexed. Matthews says via the GM that Austin abused his authority by getting involved in the match. Therefore, Lawler is disqualified and the winner of the match is Michael Cole. Lawler goes to complain. Matthews tells him again that he lost. Lawler throws Matthews in the ring. Austin stuns him. Austin’s music returns and more beers are consumed.
No Holds Barred:
-The Undertaker vs. Triple H
And it’s time for the big one! No Holds Barred match between The Undertaker and Triple H, with ‘Taker’s streak on the line. The video package is airing now to hype it up one final time. They both had AWESOME entrances. Triple H came out first to “For Whom The Bell Tolls” by Metallica. He was dressed up like a king. The lights go out, his regular theme music comes on and he’s in his ring attire doing his usual entrance. Undertaker came out to some cool special effects and tons of fireballs behind him. The bell rings and they immediately go at it. Taker knocks HHH out of the ring. He clears off the Spanish announce table. HHH spears Taker through Michael Cole’s glass structure. That looked bad ass, too. Taker re-enters the ring and hits a huge flying clothesline coming off the ropes. Taker grabs HHH’s arm and goes to work on it. Taker goes up for Old School. HHH throws him off the ropes before he can do anything. HHH clotheslines Taker over the top rope and onto the floor. He goes out after him. HHH whips Taker into the barricade hard. Real hard. HHH clears off the english announce table now as Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler scurry away. HHH puts Taker on the table. HHH goes for the Pedigree. Taker breaks free and tries chokeslamming HHH. HHH avoids it but Taker back body drops HHH off the table and onto the floor. He hit hard too when he came down. They show a slow motion replay and it looked bad ass. Taker does his running dive over the top rope onto HHH on the floor. It looked cool. “Holy shit” chant breaks out from the crowd as both men are down on the outside. Taker gets up first. He grabs the bottom set of the ringside steps. Taker rams HHH’s head into them. They get on the steps, with the cleared off Spanish announce table behind them. Taker runs at HHH and HHH catches him coming in on the steps, and sidewalk slams him through the announce table, all in one motion. Looked awesome. Taker hits a chokeslam on HHH for a nearfall. He attempts The Last Ride but HHH reverses into a Pedigree. Taker escapes that, only to be spinebustered by “The Game.” HHH attempts a pin, but only gets two. HHH grabs a steel chair and throws it into the ring. He runs at Taker with it but Taker hits him with a big boot in the face. Taker now picks up the chair. Taker blasts HHH with it across the back – real hard. Crowd even responded with sympothy after that one. Taker goes for another one but HHH hits the Pedigree out of nowhere. He tries a pin immediately but Taker kicks out at 2 1/2. Crowd was hot for that nearfall. Taker hits HHH with the Last Ride for a nearfall. HHH kicks out at two and Taker is pissed. Taker hits the Tombstone. He crosses HHH’s arms and pins him, but HHH kicks out at two. Crowd thought that was the finish. Big time. Taker looks quite frustrated. Taker grabs the chair again. He puts it in the middle of the ring. HHH reverses and hits a DDT on Taker, face-first onto the steel chair. They get up and HHH hits another Pedigree. This time he pins him but Taker kicks out. Crowd was hot for that one too. HHH hits a third Pedigree in a row. He pins him again, and again Taker kicks out at 2 1/2. HHH can’t believe it. HHH blasts Taker with the chair across the back. And again. HHH screams “stay down!” at Taker and then repeatedly beats him with the chair. He hits him about 10 times. Crowd is boo’ing HHH now. HHH sees Taker crawling to get up again and looks at him in disbelief. He again screams “stay down” to him. Taker finally gets to his feet and HHH blasts him with a violent chair shot across the head. Taker is down again. Taker is fighting to get up. HHH looks at him in disbelief and again yells “stay down.” Now he says “just die. Stay down. What’s wrong with you?” He gets in his face to say it agani and Taker grabs him by the throat. HHH shakes his head while being choked and simply pushes his hand off. Taker stumbles into the ropes. He puts his hands up like “c’mon mother f’er!” HHH does the throat slit sign. He picks Taker up for a Tombstone. He Tombstones him in the center of the ring. He holds his hands across his chest and pins him. 1-2……kick out. Crowd 100% bought that as the finish. HHH backs up in shock on the ring mat. This match is still going, baby! And it’s quickly turning into a classic. HHH goes to the floor and grabs a sledgehammer. He brings it into the ring. Taker is struggling on the ropes to get to his feet. HHH drags him by the foot to the center of the ring. Out of nowhere, Taker pulls him into the Hell’s Gate submission hold. HHH is fighting like crazy to get out. He fades away and goes limp. Now he’s got some life again and is fighting to get out. We see a close-up of his hand grabbing the sledgehammer. He holds it high while still locked in the hold. It simply falls out of his hand and he goes limp again. A few more seconds go by and HHH slowly taps out. Taker = 19-0.
Winner: The Undertaker
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