411’s Bad Blood Coverage .::. Chris Benoit Vs. Kane

-Benoit/Kane video package.

Chris Benoit vs. Kane
World Heavyweight Title

Kane uses his power, and Benoit uses his quickness to make the opening minutes fairly even. Benoit tries to go for a Sharpshooter, but Kane powers out. Same goes with all of Benoit’s submission attempts in the early going. Despite all the failed submission attempts, the match remains pretty back and forth. Kane hits the snake eyes and follows it up with a clothesline, but falls to the mat afterwards and both men are down. Kane is the first up and begins to hammer Benoit’s neck from the outside of the ring with some elbows across the throat. Kane is now clearly in control as he works his foot over the head and shoulders of Benoit, who is draped on the bottom rope. Kane remains in control until Benoit hits a chop block out of nowhere, and follows it up with three more to finally ground the Big Red Machine after a solid 7 or 8 minutes of Kane domination. Benoit again goes for the sharpshotter, but this time Kane grabs him by the throat, breaking the hold, before Benoit kicks out of the choke. Kane slams Benoit into the turnbuckle, goes for the boot, but gets tangled in the top rope, allowing Benoit to hit another chop block and ground the big man once again. Finally on the third try Benoit locks in the sharpshooter as Kane climbs for, and eventually makes it to the ropes, causing Benoit to break the hold, but the damage has been done as Kane has been grounded. Benoit goes to work on the back of Kane with some punches and follows it up with the triple german suplex. Benoit looks around and signals for the flying headbutt. As he climbs the ropes Kane sits up, causing Benoit back into the ring for some more work, and another set of german suplexes. Now the total has reached 6 as Benoit again signals for the end. Flying headbutt connects as Kane is out, but the headbutt seems to take quite a bit out of Benoit as well, as they’re both down for a double count. Kane sits upthe same time as Benoit reaches his feet, but Benoit immediately goes for the crossface, but Kane shoves him off. Benoit runs right into a Kane chokeslam! Kane covers, but Benoit kicks out at two! Kane is shocked and begins chase of the referee. Kane signals for the end once again, this time going for the tombstone, but Benoit shoves out, but runs right into a huge boot by Kane. Kane now climbs to the top rope and goes for a flying clothesline, but Benoit catches him and locks in the Crossface! Kane is trapped in the middle of the ring as he tries to push towards the ropes, and now Kane stands up with the hold locked in! Benoit tries to apply the hold with the other arm, but Kane slips and Benoit rolls him up for the cover and gets a three count! Kane is stunned as Benoit retains. Very slow start but a fantastic finish!

Winner: Chris Benoit