[2001-01-18-WWF-Smackdown] Chris Jericho vs Perry Saturn (Ladder)

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Jericho is carrying a ladder out with him and Michael Cole wonders what he’s going to be doing with that tonight. Jerry Lawler calls him “a nut” and doubts he even knows himself.  Y2J sets the ladder up in the middle of the ring and climbs up it.  He tells Chris Benoit that he’s not going to do some twenty minute opening speech where he shows a bunch of wacky pictures, the Royal Rumble is this Sunday and the name calling is over.  The only thing is he doesn’t want to wait until this Sunday, he wants him in a ladder match right now!  It’s not the ‘Canadian Crippler’ who answers, rather his Radical brethren Perry Saturn, accompanied by Terri Runnels who ‘the King’ starts perving over.  Saturn says that there is nothing more that Chris Benoit would like than to beat Chris Jericho up, like he always does, but after the cowardly attack on Monday night when Y2J hit him in the head with the ladder, he’s been under doctor’s care since.  While he’s sure that come Sunday ‘the Crippler’ will get the job done, he’ll be more than happy to step in for him and do it right now.  Jericho tells “Jupiter” to “shut the hell up” and as his ego is clearly more inflated than Terri’s chest, which leads Lawler talking about her breasts, to “step into the office”.  Saturn makes his way around ringside and into the ring where the two exchange blows.  A flying forearm sends Saturn out onto the apron where he’s then nailed with a springboard dropkick.  Out rushes Benoit, but Jericho sees him coming and lays him out.  As he stomps him down, Saturn from behind with a release overhead belly to belly.  Benoit grabs Y2J’s ladder and rams it into his head, payback for Monday, before putting his arm in between the ladder and repeatedly slamming it down onto his shoulder.  Finally he locks in the ‘Crippler crossface’, Jericho tapping wildly as Benoit has to be pulled off him by a bunch of referees.  The damage is done  though and ‘the Crippler’ takes a significant advantage into the PPV.