411’s Live WWE Night of Champions Coverage: Edge vs. Batista

We get a kick ass video package for the Edge/Batista feud. On the text vote, 31% of fans think that Batista will be the only man to bring gold back to Raw.

World Heavyweight Championship Match: Edge vs. Batista

Collar and elbow tie-up and Batista shoves Edge down to the mat. Edge backs off and gets up and they circle. Lock up into a headlock for Edge but he goes down from a shoulder block and scurries to the corner so the referee tells Batista to back off. Edge up and they circle and lock up again. Batista overpowers Edge and sends him to the outside. Edge runs around the ring and gets caught coming back in, kicks Batista away and misses a baseball slide to the outside. Batista slams him into the guardrail and rolls him back in. Batista gets a 2 count off of a back elbow. Edge gets sent sternum-first into the turnbuckle and that gets a 2 count. Snapmare now by Batista and he hits a running kick to the face of Edge. Batista hooks Edge up and hits a JACKHAMMER for 2. Edge stops short on the ropes and gets clotheslined to the floor. Batista rolls him back in and gets kicked on the apron, and Edge tosses Batista into the ringpost! Turning point in the match-up~! Edge’s baseball slide sends Batista very theatrically over the ECW announce table and Batista has paper sticking to his back, bah gawd! Batista rolls back in to break the count but Edge meets him with boots. Edge chokes him over the middle rope now and hits that body block across the rope that we saw on Friday’s SmackDown. Edge to the floor now and delivers rights. On the apron now and he drops an elbow across the throat. Batista catches Edge with a shoulder thrust from the apron, back in and he fights back with rights, but Edge catches him with a drop toehold to slow the Animal down, and he follows up with a swinging neckbreaker for 2. Edge throws on a chinlock now as the fans try and fail to get behind Batista. Batista gets to his feet and drives Edge into the turnbuckle. Batista charges but Edge hits another drop toehold to send The Animal face-first into the middle turnbuckle. Edge picks him up and drills him with a forearm, then bounces his head off of the top turnbuckle. Big right now by Edge, one from Batista. Neckbreaker by Edge now, and that gets 2. And back to the chinlock we go. Batista again works his way up, tires a powerslam, Edge counters, tires for the Edge-O-Matic, that’s countered into a snapmare, but now Edge leaps over a charge and gets a sunset flip for 2, and follows up with a clothesline. Edge snaps Batista’s neck over the top rope now, but runs right into a clothesline. Both men beat the referee’s ten count, and Batista drives Edge into the corner and hits shoulder thrusts. To the opposite corner and he hits a clothesline. Edge avoids a charge but gets caught with a spinning side slam for 2. Batista gets telegraphed but hits a SPEAR! That gets 2. Batista Bomb countered, but Batista hits a powerslam! THUMBS DOWN! Edge counters the Bomb into an Impaler DDT! That gets a long 2 count. Edge sets up for a Spear but runs into a big boot! Batista to the top rope now and dives into a DROPKICK IN MID-AIR! Both men take their time getting up, and here come Hawkins, Ryder and Vickie. Spear try, leap frog by Batista, SPINEBUSTER! Vickie grabs the referee to stop the count. Batista sends Edge into the ring post. The referee counts Edge out, but Edge pulls him to the floor and drops the ref with a right. Vickie calls for a new referee, and it’s Chavo Guerrero! Batista grabs Vickie! He pulls her into the ring and La Familia warn him off, but don’t actually do anything. Batista tosses her out onto La Familia! Edge drills Batista with the title! Chavo in and counts 3!

Winner: Edge @ 16:50