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00:00TRIED TO PLAY THE GAME
00:30I'm the game you don't wanna play me
00:33I'm the game you know you can't take me
00:36I'm the game you know you can't take me
00:39I'm the TRIED you know you can't take me
00:41So let me run like it's nothing it's something fun
00:46I'm the game and I've made the ruse
00:49I'll be here and die like a fool
00:52I wonder what my next dream will be
00:54Come on my son, no, I don't trust me
00:57I'm the game that I want to play
00:59I'm the game that I want to play
01:27I'm the game that I want to play
01:36I'm the game that I want to play
01:37I'm the game that I want to play
01:38I'm the game that I want to play
01:39I'm the game that I want to play
01:40I'm the game that I want to play
01:41I'm the game that I want to play
01:42I'm the game that I want to play
01:43I'm the game that I want to play
01:44I'm the game that I want to play
01:45I'm the game that I want to play
01:46I'm the game that I want to play
01:47I'm the game that I want to play
01:48I'm the game that I want to play
01:49I'm the game that I want to play
01:50I'm the game that I want to play
01:51I'm the game that I want to play
01:52I'm the game that I want to play
01:53I'm the game that I want to play
01:54I'm the game that I want to play
01:55It's only ready to run like a filthy bitch from a smoking gun
01:59I'm the game and I'll be through the rules
02:02Coming over here and die like a fool
02:04It is all my moves, you're the beat
02:07Come on, suck it, let it sound to me
02:09I'm the game and don't you play
02:12I'm the game that I want to play
02:25I'm the game that I want to play
02:55I'm the game that I want to play
03:25There's only one superstar great enough to have the world famous fan Motorhead
03:44Play your entrance music as you come to the ring for the world championship match
03:48And that's the game
03:49Wow, that was unbelievable
03:50Quite the entrance for the 10-time world champion
03:54Quite the entrance? Are you kidding me?
04:18The following contest scheduled for one fall is for the world heavyweight championship
04:33Approaching the ring is the challenger from Washington, D.C.
04:38Weighing 318 pounds
04:41Batista
04:44The number one contender for the world heavyweight title
04:48Hailing from our nation's capital
04:51And there's one thing I think we can both agree on
04:54Batista has roared into WrestleMania 21
04:58With a great deal of momentum
05:01Well, I guess you're right
05:06But if you ask me, the intimidation factor started early on
05:10Batista had to stand back there and wait and watch
05:14As Motorhead played the entrance theme music
05:19For Triple H
05:20That huge ovation
05:22As Triple H came to the ring
05:23I think Batista gotta be
05:25I don't know, I'm telling you
05:27He's gotta have butterflies in the stomach the size of eagles, JR
05:32Well, the game is a great strategist
05:35There is no doubt about that
05:36Oh, yes
05:36The cerebral assassin
05:38Didn't get the name by accident
05:39He knows how to play mind games
05:41With the best of them
05:42But as far as his in-ring strategy is concerned
05:46There's no world champion in recent memory
05:50That I can recall that is better
05:52Inside the ropes than the game
05:55The question is
05:56Can the power of a 6'5", 317-pound Batista
06:03Can that power overcome that man's intensity
06:07And will to retain the title
06:08Boy, you see the intensity in the eyes of the champion
06:11And his old expression that's been around wrestling for a long, long time
06:17It goes like this
06:19Triple H obviously taught Batista everything he knows
06:22But he didn't teach Batista everything Triple H knows
06:25And that's, I think, going to be the deciding factor in this
06:28Yes, Batista's strong
06:29He is an animal
06:30But the game is the game
06:33Mike Gilda is going to sign this all-important contest
06:36For the world's heavyweight title again
06:38Batista
06:39Will he achieve his destiny here tonight?
06:43Or will the impressive title reign of the 10-time champion
06:48Continue here at WrestleMania 21?
06:51And as we mentioned earlier
06:53The dirtiest player in the game
06:56A 16-time world champion
06:59Ric Flair is at ringside
07:01There he is
07:03There's nature
07:03Look at this
07:05And he hasn't started
07:16And Bill Southen, here we go
07:33One call to a finish
07:34For the world's heavyweight championship
07:36Batista, the number one contender
07:40Who won the 2005 Royal Rumble
07:43Who soon thereafter
07:44After a two-year tenure
07:46In Evolution
07:47Left camp rather abruptly
07:49And rather physically
07:51And you talk about physically
07:54I don't
07:54I don't recall
07:55I don't think Triple H has never faced a man
07:58More muscular, more powerful
07:59Than Batista
08:00But Triple H is no slouch himself
08:02Look at this
08:03Toe to toe
08:03Call and elbow tie-in
08:05Batista
08:056'5", 3'17
08:07The champion
08:086'4", 260 pounds
08:10And the game
08:11Trying to get underneath
08:12And utilize the leverage
08:13To force the animal
08:15Back into the ropes
08:15Batista
08:16Maintaining control now
08:18Stepping to the center of the ring
08:20And a call and elbow tie-in
08:21Mono a mono here
08:23In the equipping ball
08:24Strengthen the power
08:27That's what they're doing right now
08:29They're just testing
08:30It's like two bulls in there
08:31They're just testing each other
08:36To place a
08:37Magnificent performer
08:39In exploiting the mistakes
08:41Of his adversaries
08:42And Batista's lack of experience
08:45Could be an issue
08:46As this match progresses
08:49Or it could be in the fact
08:50That the challenger
08:52Has such overwhelming strength
08:54As we just saw there
08:56That not even a great ring tactician
08:59Can overcome it
09:00Well
09:02I don't know J.R.
09:03I guess
09:03Batista's powerful
09:05He's massive
09:06He has
09:06Unbelievable strength
09:08But I don't know
09:09If that strength
09:09Is going to overwhelm
09:10Triple H
09:11He may have an edge in strength
09:13But I don't think
09:14It's going to be overwhelming
09:15Oh
09:19Triple H
09:20Had the momentum
09:21Off the ropes
09:22Like running into a brick wall
09:24And Batista likes
09:25What he saw there
09:26The champion on his back
09:28That was a little scary
09:31With your Triple H
09:32That was a little overwhelming
09:34You're coming off
09:34Full speed
09:35Off of those ropes
09:36And then
09:37Hit a brick wall
09:39And get knocked on your back
09:40That's a little scary
09:40You know King researching this match
09:43And trying to do our homework
09:45You look at the people
09:45That the game has defeated
09:47Various sizes
09:49Various styles
09:50The greats of the game
09:52Like a Mick Foley
09:53Rock
09:54Shot there by Batista
09:56There you go
09:57And now the game
09:58Running through Batista
09:59With that shoulder block
10:01And now the game likes
10:02Batista
10:03And
10:05Gang going downstairs
10:08Pedigree
10:09Early going
10:10And Batista
10:12Powering out of the pedigree
10:14And Batista
10:16Almost a modified power slam
10:19Getting the game up
10:21Holding in there
10:22Doesn't even think about
10:23A heartbeat or two
10:24And then slamming
10:26The champion
10:27That's not a sight
10:29You want to be looking up at
10:30When you're laying flat
10:32On your back
10:32Like Triple H
10:33Look at this
10:34There's a patented
10:35Move by the game
10:36Straight right hand
10:37I'll tell you
10:37I don't know
10:38That's the path
10:39You want to travel
10:40If you're the champion
10:41Against a man like
10:42Batista
10:42The game
10:45Counters
10:46With that reverse elbow
10:47Uh-oh
10:48Look at this
10:49Come on off that throat
10:50Batista
10:51With that
10:52Hand on the throat
10:54Of the game
10:54Muscling the champion
10:56Back in the front
10:56You'll see a lot of power moves
10:58From Batista
10:59He is assuming
11:01A strength
11:02And brute force
11:03Wrestler
11:04At this juncture
11:04In his career
11:05Power moves
11:06Being
11:06There's a lot of power
11:07Behind those big right hands
11:08Oh my gosh
11:10Look out
11:10My back body drop
11:12You need to be as high
11:13As I've ever seen Triple H
11:14Launched into the air
11:15In the background
11:16Big time elevation
11:17Let's not forget that
11:18Again Batista
11:19Six feet five
11:21Taking the champion
11:23Up in the lights there
11:24Batista so much
11:26Effective
11:27Oh big knee
11:28High knee
11:29That Harley race knee
11:29Driving Batista
11:31The challenger
11:32Right through the rope
11:33To the floor
11:34Well that's a big time move
11:36On the part of Triple H
11:37The one thing that the game
11:38Can't let happen here
11:39He can't let this momentum
11:40Swing all the way
11:42To Batista
11:43He's got to keep this thing
11:45On an even keel
11:46Look at this
11:48Look at Nate
11:48Look at Nate
11:49We're trying to sneak up
11:51On Batista
11:52Come on
11:52Ram
11:52Put it
11:54Oh Brad
11:55Well he's going to help Batista
11:56Back in the ring
11:57Batista
11:57Look behind
11:58Look behind
11:59And Batista
12:00The game
12:02There you go
12:02The cerebral assassin
12:04Taking advantage of Batista's
12:07Being distracted by Ric Flair
12:09And the game came out of the ring
12:11Certainly made hay
12:12While the sun was shining
12:14And took the challenger
12:15Right to the steel step
12:17And Nate
12:18So valuable at rings
12:19I didn't even have to lay a finger
12:20On Batista
12:21There's presence
12:23Balls of distraction
12:24Look at this
12:26And the hard elbow
12:28Right off that second turnbuckle
12:30And
12:30That's a difference maker
12:32Batista teetering on that second rope
12:34For a couple of moments there
12:36And a hard shot
12:37With a flat of the boot
12:39Right to the sternum
12:41Of Batista
12:42And now a blatant choke
12:44And the referee got to a four count
12:47You got a brick on
12:48And he can disqualify him
12:50Five
12:50And again the game
12:52Trying to rob this
12:53This big machine
12:55This 317 pound machine
12:57Of this oxygen
12:58Keep this clean
12:59And now Flair
13:04Come on
13:06What in my ass
13:08That was the challenger
13:10It's a spark coat there
13:12We're not talking about a haberdashery
13:14That was an unfair advantage
13:16And now Flair acting like nothing happened
13:18What do you think he did with his coat
13:20He got hot
13:21Did you say haberdashery?
13:22Look at that
13:23Talking about coats
13:25And again
13:26The lower back
13:27Batista's lower back
13:29And now
13:34The game
13:35Turning it around
13:36And taking Batista's
13:38Lower back
13:39And kidneys
13:39Right to the edge
13:40Of the ring
13:41Well Darrell
13:42Let me ask you
13:43When you see Batista
13:44Absorbing this punishment
13:45Don't you
13:46Don't you have to think
13:47He brought this all on himself
13:49Do you know what could
13:50Be happening
13:51Right now
13:52What a
13:52The elbow right to the
13:54To the
13:55Deliver again
13:56Batista could have already gone to SmackDown
14:00It could have been Batista beating JBL instead of John Cena tonight
14:04And Triple H would be the world champion
14:07And Batista would be the WWE champion right now
14:09That's a weird way of looking at it
14:11Maybe you've got your point of view in a game
14:14He certainly has his
14:15And that's working on that lower back
14:16Of the number one contender
14:18The man that won the Royal Rumble
14:20That gave him a right to meet
14:21Whatever attempt he chose to
14:23Here he chose that
14:25Extremely promising
14:30And Batista's lower back
14:32We said earlier
14:33Batista's a power wrestler
14:34He's effective when he's vertical
14:36And right now the game is
14:38Nodding up that lower back
14:40Working on that
14:41Come on
14:42One
14:43Muscles that Batista's got
14:45He's a back
14:45You can show a movie on
14:46Front face lock now
14:49By the champion
14:49Oh boy here we go
14:51Again the lower back
14:53Has been damaged
14:54Look at this
14:55And a great suplex
14:57Great leverage
14:58By the champion
14:59The champion floats over
15:00With a hook to the leg
15:01And Batista
15:02Knocked with the most
15:04Aggressive kick out
15:05Thanks to that lower back
15:07Being damaged
15:08By the game
15:09Boy when you think back
15:11The guidance
15:12Triple H gave to Batista
15:14The direction
15:15He took a guy named Dave Batista
15:17And made him into the animal
15:19Now unfortunately
15:21He's gonna have to destroy that animal
15:23Well there's two sides of that story
15:27Backbreaker
15:29Triple H with a backbreaker
15:30Batista also on many occasions
15:32Allowed Triple H to retain
15:35His world title
15:36If you recall that
15:37Or do you have selective memory
15:38Look at Nate
15:40Look out
15:41Come on
15:41Look out Nate
15:42Look out Nate
15:42He's choking
15:44What the hell ref
15:45My God
15:46We're again choking Batista
15:49Boy Nate is invaluable at ringside
15:51I'll tell you
15:53This is
15:54I mean we didn't need to see
15:55A handicap match
15:56This world title match
15:57Isn't built two on one
15:59And a straight right hand
16:00By the challenger
16:01Batista trying to
16:02Power his way
16:03To play his way
16:05Back in
16:06But again the game
16:07Using leverage
16:08In his ring savvy
16:10Hanging Batista
16:11Right by the neck
16:12On the top rope
16:13Come on
16:14The player factor
16:16Has been an issue
16:17We have seen it twice
16:19And the game
16:21Dictating
16:21A deliberate pace
16:23He is
16:25Not making any mistakes
16:27Batista's
16:27Back has been
16:29The object
16:29Of the aggression
16:31You know what
16:32Don't
16:32Open your eyes
16:34You hear that
16:35Get me wrong
16:36Get him out of the corner
16:37Come on
16:38Get him out of the corner
16:39Come on
16:40He doesn't get the pleasure
16:41Out of doing this
16:42Because you heard him say himself
16:43He loved Batista
16:44Like it was his own brother
16:48And then Batista turned on him
16:50Oh Batista
16:53The game walked into a big right hand
16:55That time
16:56And now the game
16:57Retallied
16:58Batista again
16:59Fighting back
17:00The game
17:01And on that Batista
17:03He's got to use a lot of strength and energy
17:16That's three kickouts
17:17Three near falls
17:18By the world's champion
17:20And now look at this
17:21The game again
17:22Continue to maintain the pressure
17:24Batista's got to use a lot of strength and energy
17:28That's three kickouts
17:29Three near falls
17:30By the world's champion
17:32Man
17:33Don't get frustrated Triple H
17:37Stay focused
17:38I think that Triple H probably thought he may have been able to put Batista away with that move
17:45But watch this
17:46That record by the game
17:49Batista down
17:50The cover
17:51And a two count
17:52Batista rolling the right shoulder off the canvas
17:56Unable to kick out
17:58But he did roll the right shoulder off the canvas
18:01Boy and Nate is beside himself over here
18:03He's reading the right act to the referee
18:05Thinks that referee's giving a little slow count here
18:08And but the game still remains cold and calculating
18:12In control
18:14But a right hand
18:15A right hand to the midsection
18:17And another
18:18Batista's offense
18:20And virtually his only offense thus far
18:23Has been that big right hand
18:25And the game
18:25Pedigree time
18:28The game turning
18:29Pedigree
18:30And Batista able to backdrop his way out of no doubt pure disaster
18:38Well Batista knows that he can't let Triple H hit that pedigree no matter what
18:42And here we go
18:43Face buster
18:44Face buster by the game
18:46And now the game going for another cover
18:48For the count
18:49And this
18:49This time Batista
18:51Whoa
18:51Had a little adrenaline rush there
18:53Powered out pretty definitively
18:55I'm not so sure that Triple H can lock in
18:59As well as he would like
19:00That pedigree
19:01With the size of Batista's back and shoulders
19:04Come on
19:06He'll get him
19:07And the game going to take a chance here
19:10The game
19:11This is uncharacteristic for him
19:12He's on the top
19:14Waiting for Batista to get to his feet
19:16I don't know if this is a good idea or not
19:18But the game seldom has bad ideas
19:20The cerebral assassins
19:22Got Sanger on his
19:23Batista
19:27Almost like he knew what play was coming
19:30These men have been together
19:32Day and night
19:33Literally for a couple of years
19:35As members of Evolution
19:37And Batista now
19:38With the clothesline
19:39Has powered his way back in this match
19:42Look at this
19:43Off the top rope
19:45Bam right into that
19:46Huge
19:47And the game
19:50Frantically able to get a shoulder up
19:54But Batista dancing with what brung him
19:56And that's that power
19:57Look at the size of this man
19:59His arms
20:00His shoulders
20:00His face
20:03Got a foot in it
20:04Big foot by the champion
20:06And Triple H as we said
20:086'4", 260
20:09Is no small man
20:11He is a powerhouse
20:12He combines power and his
20:15Technical ability
20:16As well as anybody
20:17I can remember in decades
20:19But again Batista
20:21Came in this match with momentum
20:23As he lost it
20:25That ball's even strength
20:27Look at this
20:27He's anchoring himself in that corner
20:29And turn
20:30Oh, hey
20:31That is some power, folks
20:33That is strength and power
20:35By Batista
20:37Triple H
20:38Basically right through the turnbuckle
20:40And outside
20:41On the floor
20:43Referee Mike Fiona
20:46Trying to
20:47One more time
20:49To see your power
20:50On the front of Batista
20:51Look at it
20:51Watch yourself
20:54Watching right there
20:55Right in front of us
20:56And man
20:57Has
20:58I've seen head-on
21:00Collisions
21:00Have made less noise
21:01Than that
21:02Oh, Batista
21:03Shoulder first
21:04Arm first
21:05Into those steel steps
21:06Oh, come on now
21:07Well
21:08Triple H
21:10Moving those stairs
21:12Around
21:13And
21:13Whatever it's gonna do
21:15I had no idea
21:16It can't be good
21:17He's made that tough decision
21:19He said
21:19He's gonna have to put the animal down
21:22Triple H rolls back in the ring
21:23Stops the referee
21:24Mike Fiona's 10 count
21:25But the world's heavyweight champion
21:27Now gonna try to finish off Batista
21:28My God
21:29What is
21:30Oh, no, no, no
21:33Come on
21:33He wants the pedigree
21:34No, no, no
21:35Come on
21:37He'll break his neck
21:40Triple H is looking for the pedigree
21:42He's got him
21:43Wait a minute
21:44What are you doing here, Batista?
21:49Batista
21:50The animal trying to lock in the game
21:52No
21:53No
21:54Wait
21:55No
21:56Look out
21:57The power
21:58Triple H catapulted to the ring post
22:01The game catapulted face first into the ring post
22:05And the world champion has been busted wide open at the hands of the animal
22:12I have never seen power in my life
22:16The game catapulted from that position
22:20We need a ringside doctor
22:22He's lacerated badly
22:24Man, that could be the turning point in this match
22:27This is no doctor, we need a doctor
22:29Will it be the turning point in this match?
22:31The game is losing blood
22:33Every time his heart beats
22:34And a shot to the steel steps
22:36From Batista
22:37The 317 pounder is hungry
22:41He is thirsty for the world's heavyweight championship
22:46And it is now within his grasp
22:51Check this out one more time
22:53This is what opened up the game's head
22:59Amazing strength
23:00And Triple H's literally out on his feet
23:02He was down on his knees
23:03He can't stand
23:04His equilibrium has gone to hell
23:06This championship may be going with it
23:09And leaving Batista
23:11This is bad Nate
23:12This is bad Nate
23:13This is bad Nate
23:14Do something
23:15Batista
23:16Back in control
23:18And he can almost feel this momentum
23:20Begin to change again
23:22No ref ref
23:23Don't do that
23:24Don't let him do that
23:25Clugging shot
23:26You can't reach out
23:27Another clugging shot
23:29You may have to go in there and sacrifice yourself
23:32Batista
23:34Henry
23:35High Impact
23:36Henry
23:37The world champion
23:38There's nothing prettier
23:40Finesse about it
23:41Look out
23:43Oh
23:44A wild
23:45Nasty shot
23:46Back to the head
23:48The animalistic instinct of that man
23:52Batista
23:53Oh, look at the blood
23:55Just pouring out of the head
23:56Of the game
23:57And folks, you're seeing it
23:58Right here live
23:59You're seeing the animal
24:00You're biting the head
24:01That fed it
24:02Come on
24:03He's taking his head
24:05Apparently the champion's brain
24:07No doubt about it
24:08A hard pose line
24:09There's nowhere for the champion to go
24:11Big time impact
24:12A lot of power
24:14A lot of strength
24:15Hard out of the switch
24:17And Batista
24:19Unless he makes a mistake here
24:21Seems to be
24:22In the driver's seat
24:24From Layton down
24:25Down on a knee
24:26Jerked up by the hair
24:27By Batista
24:28And the game
24:29Now trying to hold on
24:30As best he can
24:31But another right hand
24:32From this powerhouse
24:33Batista
24:34Who came here with one thing on his mind
24:37And only one
24:38To win the most coveted title
24:39In this business
24:40The world's heavyweight championship
24:41No, no, no
24:42Oh hurry
24:43We have seen Batista
24:44Knock people out
24:45With that close line
24:46On more than one occasion
24:48He's a bad, bad scene
24:49No, no
24:52No, no
24:53No, no
25:07No cars
25:08boom you talk about a shot a physical shot and now batista
25:17the game with a power slam gotta be over oh my gosh i was afraid that was it
25:24a severe near fall to say the least
25:30unrivaled near fall long two count the game is hurting there's no doubt about it right
25:37here with us now at least he has the prince of mind to get out of the ring look at this
25:44player just got a cheap shot of batista and paid for it
25:56grab the chair the game was gonna crack batista's skull with that that steel chair the referee may be hurt
26:07his knee what's he doing trying to beg his way off of the of batista over here looking for something
26:16the referee's hurt the world championship belt we're trying to cheap shot with that belt we've got a
26:27referee down out here now kill getting back in the ring the other may have hurt his knee there
26:36get out of here
26:45world heavyweight title belt the flare brother ring are you going to tell me this is how
26:52triple h is going to retain his time
26:54batista's showing not only physical strength but mental strength and the determination the desire
27:09to be the man in the wwe to be the world's champion how did batista get hit
27:15a huge low blow undetected by the official as batista was about to deliver what we would assume a batista
27:23bomb but it didn't happen but the cerebral assassin the consulate ring general with a low
27:53wall undetected by the referee i'm telling you here it comes it all comes down to this
28:02pedigree and the way it should be and the hands are locked
28:09getting trying to get him up batista's blocking just pure power and strength get him up
28:14and the batista separating the game's hands what that is raw and holistic power
28:22oh my god my god i've never seen the pedigree broken like that high impact a modified slam
28:32batista
28:41and the other one swings again back to the number one
28:45batista feels it he senses it
28:47oh my god
28:48the thumbs down by batista
28:51batista now taking on the champion
28:56batista
29:04batista
29:08has won the world title
29:10the winner of the world
29:23the winner of this
29:25and new world heavyweight champion
29:29batista is the new heavyweight champion of the world
29:35the world
29:40god what a match
29:41oh it's i'm stunned
29:43the shock is hit
29:46i can't believe this has happened
29:47batista withstood every assault that came his way
29:54batista came into this match the number one contender with the dream of becoming the world's heavyweight champion
30:03and the batista bomb has made that dream
30:07a reality
30:24that's such an injury
30:28bloody miss at the hands of batista
30:31batista not even the dirtiest player in the game
30:34and arguably the greatest world's champion of this generation could withstand that man
30:42from washington d.c
30:45the 317 pounder
30:56the celebration begins
30:59that man
31:00will be theri
31:11as
31:25the
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