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00:02You think you know me?
00:03Do you think you know me?
00:08Do you think you know me?
00:10Do you think you know me?
00:18Do you think you know me?
00:20The following contest is a steel cage match for the World Wrestling Federation
00:26Tag Team Championship. In this contest, there are two ways to achieve victory.
00:32By pinball or both men.
00:35But both men of a team must climb over the top of the cage and reach the floor.
00:42In the ring, at a combined weight of 462 pounds,
00:47the World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Champions, Christian and Edge.
00:53Unique rules in this tag team title matchup, the match can be one of the pinball,
00:58or if both team members escape over the top of the cage.
01:16What an ovation for the Hardys.
01:18The opponents and challengers, from Cambridge, North Carolina,
01:22at a combined weight of 430 pounds, Matt and Jim, the Hardy Boys.
01:29Well tonight, J.R., the embarrassment and
01:31humiliation can end for the Hardy Boys.
01:33And this match is underway quickly.
01:36Remember pinfalls, or both team members climbing over the top of the cage,
01:42both of their feet and was hit on the floor.
01:45Now look out, first cover.
01:47And that's the Christian on Jeff Hardy.
01:51Well, these Hardys Edge and Christian have had a hellacious rivalry.
01:55They have raised the bar on more than one occasion.
01:59And you can only wonder what these four will attempt to do offensively inside
02:04this unforgiving 15 foot high solid steel cage.
02:09Well, J.R. is the Hardy Boys double team.
02:11Christian Lita, the women's champion, who normally accompanies, wait a minute.
02:14On the cover, here we go.
02:16Lita normally accompanies the Hardy Boys to the ring, yet she isn't out here.
02:20Understand that she may perhaps still be suffering after her head slammed into
02:23that concrete wall on SmackDown.
02:26This is too dangerous for Lita to be around in my view.
02:30Lita needs to be taking care of her injuries.
02:32You're right, Michael.
02:33I don't know what kind of condition Lita's in.
02:35She may have a concussion.
02:36I'm not sure.
02:38And look at the Hardys double teaming Christian.
02:41And that cage, like I said, is very unforgiving.
02:44It ain't going nowhere.
02:45It's solid steel.
02:46Look out.
02:47And look at the poetry in motion by Jeff Hardy on Christian,
02:51who was all hung up with nowhere to go but down.
02:54Do you think the table, ladders, and chairs match at SummerSlam was something, J.R.,
02:58involving the Hardy Boys and Edge and Christian?
03:00What do you think these two teams are gonna do inside a steel cage?
03:02It is hard to say.
03:04It's impossible to predict.
03:05And right now, Matt and Jeff Hardy are climbing up.
03:09They both go over here for four.
03:11This match is over, and we've got new champions.
03:14You gotta give Edge and Christian credit.
03:16Wait a minute.
03:17Jeff Hardy's all alone up there.
03:21Jeff Hardy on top.
03:24No telling what he's gonna do in front of 19,000.
03:28My God.
03:29You're about to be kidding me.
03:30Not a slump time from that high up.
03:33Edge countered it.
03:34Jeff Hardy hanging on.
03:35Jeff Hardy couldn't hold on and fell face first all the way down to the floor.
03:40Jeff Hardy's out of this matchup.
03:41Jeff Hardy's out of the matchup, J.R.
03:43He's got over the top of the cage.
03:45Both feet hit the floor now.
03:47Matt Hardy has to get out of the cage.
03:48If Matt Hardy has to get out of the cage, and that would result in a Hardy's victory,
03:53or Matt could pin Edge or Christian, or vice versa, for this match to be over.
03:58And the other thing you gotta keep in mind is Jeff Hardy's not allowed back in this
04:00matchup.
04:01Jeff Hardy is out of the matchup.
04:02He's got over the top of the cage.
04:04Matt Hardy must get out of the cage now, or pick up a pinfall.
04:11Twist of fate by Matt Hardy.
04:13And going for the cover.
04:15And Matt Hardy got a near fall.
04:17Jeff Hardy on the outside.
04:19Well, perhaps this is a blessing in disguise, J.R., that Jeff Hardy's didn't go out of
04:23the cage first.
04:23It allows Edge and Christian to double-team Matt Hardy.
04:26It turns into a handicap match inside the cage.
04:29But I don't know for sure that that's the real, I think Jeff can come back in.
04:34At least that's my understanding, and we agree to disagree there.
04:38But if Jeff can come back in, getting back in may not be easy.
04:41No, I bet he was out of the cage, not out of the matchup.
04:45And Christian's gonna be out of social skills and commission for a moment or two.
04:50And there's his brother Edge kind of pulling into the roll up now.
04:54Matt Hardy to roll up.
04:55And another near fall.
05:0019,315 fans sold out this arena in two hours.
05:04And they are, as we all are, just wondering what these four daredevils,
05:10these risk takers, will do inside this steel structure.
05:14And you think that all these people came here to wish Stephanie McMahon
05:16Helmsley a happy birthday here tonight?
05:18Look out.
05:20I don't think so.
05:21And now, wait a minute.
05:22Matt Hardy going up.
05:24Matt Hardy going up.
05:25Matt Hardy going up.
05:26We have new tag team champions.
05:27Absolutely.
05:28Matt Hardy's gonna go to the top and touch the floor.
05:31Edge and Christian frantically on the top rope.
05:35And they have now secured.
05:37My God.
05:38You got it, kid me?
05:39No!
05:40A suplex off the top of the cage.
05:42For the love of God, this kick could be broken in half.
05:46All three of these men could be broken in half.
05:48Can you believe that?
05:5015 feet from the top of the steel cage, the superplex and all three men down in
05:54the middle of the ring.
05:55Jeff Hardy looks on with concern outside the steel cage.
06:00And there's a cover.
06:03And Matt Hardy, maybe by instinct, maybe just because that's all he had left.
06:08Did get a shoulder up.
06:10Well, these Hardy boys, tremendous amount of guts, JR.
06:14Door of the cage floor has been locked.
06:17So Jeff Hardy.
06:20Jeff Hardy on the outside, he gotta figure a way to get back in this cage.
06:22And there's only one way.
06:24Jeff Hardy's trying to get back in.
06:26And let's take another look at this superplex from the top of the steel cage.
06:30What impact.
06:31The most impactful suplex maybe we've ever seen is right off the top of the cage.
06:37And now, Matt Hardy face first into the steel.
06:41Jeff Hardy's trying to get back into that cage, JR.
06:43And each time he's thwarted by Edge and Chris to the Tag Team Champions.
06:47You know, there ain't too damn many orangutans in Oklahoma.
06:50That's what you have to be to get back in that cage on the outside by Jeff Hardy.
06:55He's kinda out there waiting.
06:56Well, you know, the referee does have a key to the door.
06:58He can unlock it and let Jeff Hardy back in, but I don't think he's gonna do that.
07:02Jeff Hardy, Jeff Hardy is trying to climb up.
07:04And Christian, they're meeting Jeff.
07:07Well, he is part of it.
07:09He just fell 15 feet to the floor.
07:14Edge and Christian, the Tag Team Champions, realizing their strength in numbers,
07:18continue to double team on Matt Hardy.
07:21They have the advantage as long as Jeff Hardy can't get back in this ring.
07:24Edge and Christian are the Tag Team Champions of the World Wrestling Federation.
07:28Jeff Gold is on the line in this tag team matchup inside this steel cage.
07:33You can't get back to the key.
07:34You can't get back to the key.
07:35You can't get back to the key.
07:35And Jeff is looking.
07:36I just heard Jeff say something about a key.
07:38Yeah.
07:39He wants the key the referee has to the door.
07:41Well, Jeff Hardy has that key.
07:43He just got the key, just got the key to the padlock that has locked this door.
07:49And Jeff Hardy has got to get back, and he is.
07:52And he's got more than a key with him.
07:54He just took the steel chair in the ring.
07:56Jeff Hardy didn't get back.
08:00Christian, and that steel chair was brought into play momentarily.
08:06The cage door shut on Jeff's face, and now Christian on the outside.
08:11The cage door was obviously supposed to be locked during the course of this match.
08:17Well, Christian's out of the cage, but keep in mind, JR,
08:19he didn't go over the top of the cage, he went through the door.
08:22Wait a minute, Christian's got a chair, damn it.
08:25I mean, there's a chair in the ring, and now Christian's got another weapon,
08:28but Jeff Hardy down, and it's in Matt Hardy's face.
08:34Well, look out.
08:35Matt Hardy's been busted open, JR.
08:37Matt Hardy has been busted open.
08:40Come on, Matt!
08:40Come on, Matt!
08:41Perhaps when he was shoved into that steel cage head first by the tag team champions.
08:46Well, I can't say as it surprised me, but, and now look.
08:49Christian is locking the cage door back with Matt in the ring with the tag team champions,
08:57and Jeff again, locked down the outside, and Matt Hardy has been busted open at the hands
09:02of Edge and Christian in this tag team championship match.
09:06Well, you may not agree with the tactics of the tag team champions.
09:08And I ain't gonna look for the key.
09:10No, no, Ed's just putting the key in his drawers, and look at the double team.
09:15Is that poetry in motion they just used?
09:17Face first, that's what I know.
09:19It's on Matt Hardy's face, just slammed right into the steel cage again.
09:23Come on, Hardy!
09:24Come on!
09:25And now it looks like Edge and Christian just wanna punish, have some fun with
09:28Matt Hardy in a sick sort of way.
09:30These handsome young features of Matt Hardy may never be the same after Unforgiven.
09:36Well, Edge and Christian will stop at nothing to keep the tag team titles, JR.
09:39We've seen that in the past.
09:40They've used chairs, they set up that ambush on SmackDown.
09:43And they've been successful.
09:44But they can't be disqualified here.
09:46And now we've got two.
09:48Buffy, hell no.
09:50We've seen this, and this is sick.
09:52There's no reason for this.
09:54Both chairs, and we know what's coming here.
09:57They call this the concerto.
10:00And Matt Hardy barely awarded the concerto and delivered a double clothesline.
10:07There will go the tag champions.
10:09What a counter by Matt Hardy, JR.
10:11Somehow this kid's got something left.
10:13And again, the Hardy's trying to erase embarrassment, humiliation at the hands of Edge and Christian.
10:20But the main thing, you can get over embarrassment, you can get over humiliation.
10:24You wanna be the tag champions.
10:27Boy, I tell you what, if those tag champions had connected with us with a concerto,
10:32this one obviously would have been long since over.
10:35Look out, Matt Hardy, if he can get out of the cage and touch the floor,
10:38the Hardy boys will win the tag team titles.
10:39Matt Hardy trying to climb out.
10:42He's up, bloody, battered, hammered, he's up.
10:46We're gonna have new champions here.
10:48Matt Hardy trying to climb out and join his brother Jeff.
10:53That's Christian.
10:54Christian's over the top.
10:57What's Jeff doing?
10:58Just got a ladder.
11:00Jeff Hardy with a ladder.
11:01He just threw the ladder right up with Christian.
11:04But Christian, he's out of the cage, JR.
11:07That means the next man out will win the match for his team unless a pinfall happens inside the ring.
11:14By tossing that ladder at Christian to help his brother, Jeff Hardy just knocked Christian out of the cage.
11:21Tell you what, Jeff found a way to get back in there.
11:24Just got that ladder, it'll help Jeff get back in easier if he chooses to take that route.
11:30Jeff Hardy struggling trying to get to the top of the ladder.
11:33Edge and Matt both out in the middle of the ring.
11:37What a matchup this has been for the Tag Team Championship.
11:42Edge is beginning to stir with his, and his brother Christian tag titles on the line.
11:48Edge can't get to Jeff Hardy.
11:50Edge's brother Christian is helpless on the outside.
11:55And Edge and Christian don't like it when the odds are even.
11:59Well, hey, look at the frustration setting in for Edge.
12:01Jeff Hardy's on the top of the cage.
12:03Edge trying to keep him getting back in the cage.
12:06Jeff Hardy teetering dangerously.
12:09Wait a minute.
12:09Look out.
12:10Suplex by Matt Hardy on Edge.
12:13My God, number two.
12:15What the hell is Jeff doing?
12:1615 feet in the air.
12:18At least 15 feet in the air.
12:21This kid is a dare to.
12:24What's he gonna do?
12:26He's not gonna do this.
12:27What the hell is Jeff Hardy going to do?
12:31He's looking for the, look out.
12:33A quick screw move, Tom, from over 15 feet.
12:37Jeff Hardy calls that whisper in the wind, and he was in the wind for a long time.
12:42Taking out Edge.
12:43My God, the head time was scary.
12:46Over 15 feet in the air.
12:49Look at that corkscrew.
12:51Look at this.
12:53Ungodly.
12:55Jeff taking down his own brother.
12:59Just when you beat Jeff Hardy.
13:02What do you mean?
13:03Lita's here.
13:05Lita's got a low blow on Christian.
13:09Lita now Christian with a low blow.
13:12And Lita.
13:13And Lita.
13:14Hurricane Rana on the ladder by Lita on Christian.
13:18Can you believe Lita with a hurricane right off the top of the ladder?
13:21Christian is hurt bad.
13:23And put it on Bob Battered and bring his body on the line for the Hardys.
13:28Let's take another look, JR, at Lita.
13:32This is unreal.
13:34Unreal.
13:35A hurricane right off from the top of the ladder for Lita and Christian.
13:39Unbelievable.
13:40And Lita has hurt herself in turn to help Matt and Jeff Hardy.
13:45Edge has got that steel chair.
13:47He can use it as a weapon.
13:49And right in the face, right in the face of Jeff Hardy.
13:52Well, they can call themselves the Chairman of the World Wrestling Federation,
13:55Edge and Christian.
13:56And now Edge is just struggling, desperation for survival.
14:00If Edge can get out of the cage, Christian's already out over the top.
14:03If Edge gets out, they retain the tag team titles.
14:05That's the bottom line.
14:07That's where we are at this point in time in this championship matchup.
14:13Edge trying to get up over the top of the steel cage.
14:16Look at the Hardy boys.
14:17Edge is almost out.
14:19And the Hardys, they gotta hurry to catch up with Edge.
14:25They brought those steel chairs with them for some damn reason.
14:28Look out.
14:29If Matt can get down or Edge can get down, what can they do up here, JR?
14:34This is career threatening right here.
14:36Look how high these men are up.
14:38That steel cage at least 15 feet high.
14:41Well, the Hardys, Hardys, those right hands just, Edge is almost out of it.
14:47He's trying to get out of the cage.
14:48My God.
14:49The concerto.
14:50The concerto to Edge.
14:52And Edge fell backwards right in the ring from the concerto.
14:58The Hardys, they've got it.
15:00If they drop down, we've got new champions.
15:03The Hardys are coming down.
15:06And the Hardys have done it.
15:08The Hardys have done it.
15:09Jeff and Matt Hardy have done it.
15:11And the new Broward Rippling Federation and
15:15Queen's champions, the Hardy Boys.
15:19The Hardy Boys with payback for embarrassment and humiliation, JR.
15:24From rural North Carolina, Matt and Jeff Hardy have once again climbed the top
15:30of the WWF Tag Team Mountain.
15:34The Hardy Boys have done it.
15:36Jeff and Matt Hardy have done it.
15:38They're the Tag Team Champions.
15:43What a matchup.
15:45The Hardy Boys winning this steel cage match with the Tag Team titles on the line.
15:49Finally, someone has taken the measure of Edge and Christian.
15:53The rules are structured that Edge and Christian could take a cheap way out.
15:58They have to stay and fight like men, and the Hardys prevail.
16:02And you gotta hand it to Lita for putting her own body on the line to help her
16:08friends manage that party.
16:09Well, the Hardys damn well deserve it.
16:11And check out Lita, Christian on the ladder.
16:14It was a Hurricanrana by Lita from the top of that ladder.
16:17Evening this matchup up, and how deserving, how fitting would this matchup
16:22prevent, JR, with a penchanto, the favorite maneuver for Edge and Christian.
16:28One more time.
16:31The sounds, the sights of this tag team matchup inside a steel cage.
16:37We will not soon forget Matt and Jeff Hardy.
16:43I'll tell you, JR, as you said, from rural North Carolina, living their dream.
16:48Matt and Jeff Hardy damn well deserve to be Tag Team Champions after everything
16:52Edge and Christian have put them through in recent weeks.
16:55Well, certainly the Tag Team Champions had a great effort, but
16:59they'll have to fight another day.
17:00We are proud of the Hardys.