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Triple H World Title-Last Man Standing: Triple H vs. Shawn Michaels: Ahh, the reason behind the short and iffish quality matches tonight is finally revealed. I'm telling you, this is SummerSlam 2002 all over again where they steal the show and HHH can hold onto the belt for another 10 months. Lock up to start and they go to the STRIKING GAME back and forth. The finally go to wrestling as they have a sort of reversal sequence but it's back to striking and Michaels gets planted with the face...uh...plant. Hard Irish whip into the corner by the Game followed by a backbreaker as Michaels' back is suddenly out of the blue brought up as a liability. Michaels flips out of a slam attempt and gets a dragon screw leg whip into the figure four. Well, I guess the point is if the legs are hurt you can't stand but the leg hasn't been work on up until this point. Triple H won't even tap here even though it won't count. Michaels with a dropkick to the knee. Michaels charges but HHH low bridges the ropes to send Michaels to the outside. HHH begins to do some redecorating with the announce table and introduces Michaels into the steps. Now HBK is set up on the SmackDown! announce table. Michaels counters a suplex attempt and slugs away, knocking HHH onto the floor and Michaels follows suit with a double axe handle. Back in, HHH counters another top rope move with a Pedigree attempt but Michaels back drops him out of the ring. Michaels shoulder fakes a diving move and goes for a springboard crossbody but HHH moves out of the way and Michaels CRASHES INTO THE SPANISH ANNOUNCE TABLE!!! That looked sick. Michaels is bleeding now for some odd reason as he's up at 7. Back in, HHH pounds on HBK some more causing a couple of false counts as Michaels SHOWS HIS RESILIANCY!!! HHH ends a burst of Michaels offense with a spinebuster. HHH goes into roid frustration and goes for a chair which gets smacked on the spine of Michaels. This is almost the EXACT same match layout and commentary by King and JR from SummerSlam 2002. HHH looks to Pedigree Michaels on the chair but HBK counters with a double leg takedown and catapults him into the corner. Michaels goes for the chair now and KOs HHH right in his hand...er, head. Now HHH is busted open and the slugging starts up again leading to a Michaels forearm. And Michaels nips up! Totally didn't see that one coming. Right hands and an atomic drop and another right to knock down the Game. Off the top, Michaels delivers the elbow and he starts tuning up the band. HHH counters by dropping to his knees and going low on Michaels. K, that wasn't exactly the most flattering description of what happened. Michaels with a sleeper to lull me, er, HHH out and the ref starts the count. 9 count only as HHH answers Michaels' punches with shoving. I don't think this feud needs any more room for gay jokes. DDT on Shawn for an 8 count and the STRIKING GAME continues. Michaels does the Flair Flip in the corner off a whip. Michaels counters a super back drop by turning in mid-air into a crossbody. Double 9 count and a Pedigree connects. Michaels is back up at 9 making him even more superhuman than Jeff Hardy, RVD, Booker T, Kane, Chris Jericho, and Kevin Nash combined! I mean, a normal man would've been down until the end of the PPV!!! Michaels connects with Sweet Chin Music but both men can't answer the count of 10 and we've got ourselves a draw which REALLY pisses the crowd off. All of that hype, all of the insistance on keeping these guys on top, and all the short matches on this card for THAT? Don't tell me get another 3 months of this. I suppose the big question of how they would top their Raw match a few weeks ago got answered here; they didn't. ***