WWE SummerSlam Results — PAGE FIVE
Los Angeles, California
August 23, 2009
Report By: Matt Boone for WrestleZone.com
TLC Match:
World Title
-Jeff Hardy (c) vs. CM Punk
Punk with the early advantage. The two fight to the floor early. Punk blasts Hardy with a chair shot. Punk sets up a ladder in the center of the ring and starts his climb. Hardy hits the ring and knocks Punk off the ladder and bullies him into the corner. Hardy tries to climb and Punk kicks the ladder out from underneath him. Hardy whips Punk into a ladder hard. Another ladder is set up. "We want tables" chant from the crowd. Hardy grabs a steel chair and unfolds it. He runs and jumps off it, but Punk catches him and slams him through the set-up chair. Ouch. Punk throws Hardy to the floor. Punk with a nice suicide dive through the ropes, onto Hardy on the floor. Both guys take sickening chair shots. Hardy sets up Punk on a table on the floor and climbs to the top rope. He comes flying off the top rope and Punk moves, causing Hardy to crash through the table. Punk barely moved just in time as replays show. Punk sets up a taller ladder in the ring now. Punk starts his climb on the big ladder. Hardy stops him half way up and climbs up behind him. Hardy gets his hands on the title but Punk, still on the ladder, gets Hardy on his shoulders. Hardy slides across Punk’s body and powerbombs Punk on the way down. Huge spot. Didn’t look too comfortable. Hardy slowly gets back up and climbs the ladder. Hardy again with his hand on the title but Punk pushes the giant ladder over. Hardy flies off the ladder and crashes awkwardly into the corner. Punk with Hardy on the top rope and he superplexes him onto a ladder that is laid across the ring mat. Ouch again. Hardy hits the Twist Of Fate on Punk in the middle of the ring. Hardy climbs to the top for a Swanton Bomb, but Punk gets his knees up. Hardy back suplexes Punk out of the ring, from inside the ring, through a table on the floor. Jesus. Hardy sets a ladder up in the ring and starts his climb. Punk comes off the top rope and spears Hardy off the ladder. Both guys are on the floor now. Punk grabs a steel chair, unfolds it and puts it around Hardy’s neck. He slams the chair into the ring post. Hardy fighting back now and he’s got a chair. He repeatedly bashes Punk with the chair. Hardy clearing off the spanish announce table. Hardy sets up maybe the biggest ladder I’ve ever seen on the floor. He’s got Punk across the Spanish announce table. Hardy takes his shirt off and climbs up the enormous ladder. Wow, he’s way up there. He gets to the very tip-top and does a Swanton off the ladder through Punk and the table. We immediately get a thousand replays of that. Wait until you see this clip. Hardy is insane. EMTs are out with stretchers. As he’s being strapped into the stretcher, Hardy frees himself and is crawling towards the ring. Inside the ring, Punk is setting up a ladder. Punk begins his climb and Hardy is climbing up the other side. Punk has his hands on the title. Hardy and Punk exchanging punches on top of the ladder now. Punk knocks Hardy off the ladder and Hardy lands really hard. Punk pulls down the title and wins the match to become the new World Heavyweight champion.
Winner and NEW World Heavyweight champion: CM Punk
After The Match: The Undertaker Returns!
CM Punk is standing over Jeff Hardy posing with the title. The gong hits. The lights go out. The gong hits again, the lights come back on. When the lights come on, it’s The Undertaker laying there and Jeff Hardy is gone. That was some Criss Angel shit. Undertaker gets up, chokeslams CM Punk and his music hits again as the lights go dark.
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