Batista and Kane lock up in the middle of the ring, and Batista quickly swings around Kane for a rear waistlock but Kane hits him with an elbow to the side of the head forcing him to release. Batista is stunned by the elbow, and Kane lands another shot to him, before irish whipping him into the corner. He runs up, and smacks Batista with a thunderous clothesline, which almost sends the Animal over the top rope. Kane waits for Batista to walk out of the turnbuckle, and looks for the one-handed Side Slam, but Batista frees himself and hits Kane with a back suplex. He whips Kane off the ropes and floors him with a clothesline.
JR: Both these men, displaying their power early. Batista is just a dominating force.
Booker T: See, you can say the same for Kane, and I been in the ring with both of ‘em, two of the scariest cats I know.
Batista taunts the crowd by going crazy on the top rope and stomping his feet. He turns around with a smile on his face but all of a sudden Kane sits up and the smile fades. Quick as he can, Batista rebounds off the ropes and smacks a boot right into the face of the Big Red Machine. Surprising for Batista and certainly surprising for so early in the match, Batista climbs up to the top rope, and flies off looking for a splash on Kane, but Kane rolls out of the way, and Batista is winded. Batista rolls over onto his back as Kane now shoots off the ropes and lands a big leg drop on the face of Batista.
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Kickout by Batista.
Kane doesn’t seem fazed at all, as he now waits for Batista to get up to his feet before he scoops him up onto his shoulders looking for a Running Powerslam, but Batista slips off and runs Kane into the corner. As Kane turns around, Batista looks to pick him up for the Spinebuster, but Kane suddenly steps over Batista’s head, and lifts him up for a Powerbomb that connects! Batista is withering on the canvas as Kane makes another cover!
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Kickout by Batista.
JR: And can you imagine if Kane had beaten Batista there with a Powerbomb, a move Batista is very fluent with.
Booker T: That right there would’ve been a huge win for Kane in a huge way, and Batista would’ve been mad.
Kane flips his head back to get the hair away from the front of his mask, as Batista is lying face down on the canvas and he positions himself properly before stomping on the Animal’s neck viciously. Batista yowls out as Kane’s eyes clearly show the expression of hate and torment, two things you know he’s experienced in. Kane picks up Batista and whips him off the ropes, looking for a big boot, but Batista ducks, comes off the ropes, and Kane turns around just in time to eat a massive Spear from Batista! Batista lands an elbow drop on the throat of Kane before making a lateral press.
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Kickout by Kane.
Batista tells the referee he needs to count faster as he pulls Kane to his feet by the hair and lands shots to the forehead. Kane stumbles back into the corner as Batista lands more shots and some kicks to the abdomen. The referee pulls him off and admonishes him, but Batista tries to move in on Kane again who’s used the time, and switches it around, landing a body shot to Batista, an uppercut, and finally a side elbow to the jaw in the corner. Batista collapses in a seated heap in the corner, and Kane uses both of his gloved, large hands to choke him, but stops as the referee reaches 4.
JR: When Kane is in the ring, it’s almost as if you can feel the hate flowing, ebbing through the ring, it’s almost supernatural.
Booker T: When Kane is in the ring, awww, it’s on, like neckbone.
Batista gasps for air in the corner as Kane once again approaches, but Batista chops the monster down to one knee with a swift kick to the kneecap. Once Kane is down, Batista lands another boot, this time to the side of the head which floors Kane. Batista now smells blood in the water, and grabs Kane’s leg and drops his elbow on it before wrenching it back, trying to soften up the leg of the giant man.
Kane reaches up to try and get Batista, but Batista lands a shot to Kane’s face. Once again he tries, but Kane is knocked back onto the canvas, but then from down on the canvas, he extends his arm and hits Batista in the chin with a huge right uppercut. The Animal’s eyes suddenly glaze over and his expression dumbs down as he collapses onto his back. Kane slowly gets to his feet, nursing the tender leg, but gets on the apron and scales the top rope, waiting like a gargoyle for Batista to get to his feet, and once he does, Kane leaps off for the clothesline, but once again Batista runs forward and nails Kane with a spear, sending him flying into the turnbuckle! Kane collapses forward onto his Big Red Face.
JR: Oh my god! Did you see that spear? Kane must be in agony!
Booker T: That one looked like it hurt, JR, I could hear it from here.
Batista makes a cover on Kane.
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Batista slams his hand on the mat in frustration as Kane kicks out again. He rubs his face, pondering his next move as Kane recovers, slowly rising to his feet. Batista waits like a lion for Kane to get to his feet, and charges once again roaring and hitting Kane with a chop block to the knee which seems to almost crumble the monster who falls to the canvas. Batista slides out of the ring, and hooks Kane’s knee onto the bottom rope, tugging and pulling at it with all he’s got, and breaks it once the referee reaches 4. Batista slides back in the ring, but then suddenly rolls back out as he pulls Kane leg first, fitting the ringpost inbetween his two giant legs. He pulls the injured spot of Kane and slams it right into the steel ringpost multiple times!
Batista smiles and pauses from the relentless attack, and suddenly Kane musters strength in his leg to push the Animal back into the barricade, hurting Batista’ lower back. Eventually, he rolls back into the ring, as Kane has got to his feet. They begin to trade shots over and over, and Kane gets the advantage, knocking Batista into the ropes, and irish whipping him off them, and lifts his good leg to smack Batista in the face with a big boot, but he relies too heavily on the injured leg, and Kane also falls down nursing his knee.
JR: Kane, the knee obviously bothering him, that knee has really been targeted to perfection by Batista.
Booker T: That’s why he’s the Animal, JR, he ain’t just brutal and dominatin’, he’s also a very precise predator when he needs to be!
Kane is unable to capitalise on Batista being down thanks to the leg. Kane crawls over the ropes and uses them to get up to his feet, as Batista gets up and tries again to rush The Big Red Machine, but Kane’s ready this time and once again hits him with a big uppercut that stuns him. Kane uses all he can muster to get a running start and leap through the air, hitting Batista with a flying clothesline! Kane makes the cover!
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Another kickout by the Animal.
Kane is now sitting and shaking his head thinking. He eventually flips his hair back away from his mask again and sits up, all the adrenaline he has going helping him to ignore his injured leg. He signals for the chokeslam, his hand raised and open to grab Batista’s throat, and as Batista gets up, he does, but Batista kicks him in the knee again, and Kane falls to one knee and the Animal hits a snap DDT! Batista sits up smiling and crawls over to Kane for a cover, but suddenly his gloved hand grabs Batista by the larynx, and he lifts him into the air!
Booker T: Ohhhh my goodness!
JR: Yes, Kane, do it! The Big Red Machine….THE BIG RED MACHINE! YES!
JR yells in excitement as Kane throws almost 300 pounds down to hell with the Chokeslam with one hand. But before Kane can make a cover, he falls to one side due to all the weight he’s just lifted. Eventually, Kane crawls over and makes a cover.
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Th- Batista kicks out!
The crowd actually pop for Batista as Kane looks down at The Animal, in even more rage than perhaps he ever has. Kane grabs him by the scalp and pulls him up to his feet, seemingly his anger allowing him to ignore his leg, as picks Batista up for the tombstone, but before he can fully get him in position, Batista wriggles off of Kane, and shoves him away so that he rebounds off the ropes, and Batista does the unthinkable by lifting up over 300 pounds of Hellfire and Brimstone, and slamming it to the mat with a Spinebuster!
JR: Oh my gawd! BAH GAWD! Spinebuster! Spinebuster by Batista!
Booker T doesn’t even have time to speak as Batista crawls over to make a cover.
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Th- Kane kicks out!
Batista sits up with a shocked expression on his face, and holds his head in his hands thinking about what he has to do now. He realizes what he must do as he climbs the turnbuckle for the second time in this match, and dives off looking for an elbow drop to the black and corrupted heart of The Monster, but Kane sits up just in the nick of time, and Batista lands right on his arm! Batista holds his elbow in pain as Kane probably smiles under the mask, and grabs Batista by the throat pulling him to his feet, looking for the Chokeslam again, but Batista clubs his arm away, kicks him in the gut, which may or may not have been downstairs, and hooks him up, and the fuse is lit, using all of his strength, Batista plants Kane with the Batista Bomb! He covers!
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Here is your winner at 15:32, The Animal, BATISTA!
