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I've watched the tape again, and here's how it should go:
1) Benoit won the battle royal. I like to tape these things using the fastest taping speed on the VCR so there are more frames to look at when I need to go frame by frame. Needless to say, I did so, and it was almost too close to call, but looking again, somewhere inbetween frames their feet both touched, but in the closest frame to the event, you can see that Edge's knees are bent in reflex of them touching the ground while Benoit's are relatively straight out and only his toes are touching the ground. Benoit wins.
2) Edge had Benoit pinned for at least a two count already before the ref started counting. It took the ref some time to slide his hand under Benoit's shoulders to see if he was indeed pinned, which was quite noticable that he was when watching the tape. The ref decided that both of Benoit's shoulders were down after a moment and began counting the pin. On the third count, Edge began to tap once the ref's hand was about half ways down.
3: Eugene is the current World Heavyweight Champion, however, because nobody has beaten him for the world title. Why? Just ask Randy Orton, Raw's interim general manager. When he came out to discuss the matches of the night's show, he mentioned that La Resistance would be fighting Eugene and Regal for the "WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP". So Eugene got the pin and the championship. He just didn't pick it up right away.
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