[2001-02-05-WWF-Raw] Chris Jericho vs Matt Hardy

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JR announces that there are almost 25,000 fans here in the Georgia Dome.  Oh what would they do get crowds like that again.  Jeff Hardy is banged up after taking that Bubba bomb from the stage through the tables on Smackdown so Matt is getting an I-C title shot.  Remember when you had to earn title shots?  Jesus, Lawler is talking about Lita’s underwear.  Prior to the match commencing Dean Malenko comes out to watch from the top of the entrance way, ‘The King’ referring to him as Lita’s boyfriend.  Matt escapes the hammerlock, using his momentum to send Jericho through the ropes to the floor in the process.  Y2J drags him out and after a couple of hard chops, suplexes him on the mats.  Flying back elbow off the top.  Lawler is now talking about having an “explosion” when he looks at Lita; it is both embarrassing and uncomfortable listening to this old man talk about young women in this way.  Matt blocks the superplex and hits a front suplex.  Middle rope legdrop.  Jericho crotches Matt upstairs and hangs him upside down in the Tree of Woe, kicking away at his mid-section.  As Teddy Long steps in to untangle him, Lita comes off the top with a leaping rana to Y2J.  The Twist of Fate is blocked and Jericho dumps Matt over the top rope to the outside.  Malenko, who has been edging closer to the ring, nails Matt from behind who collides into Lita.  He throws Hardy back into the ring, bulldog, Lionsault, Jericho retains.  Post-match Matt goes after Malenko, which brings out Perry Saturn.  Jericho evens the fight and as it looks like he’s run the pair off, he’s jumped from behind by Eddy Guerrero who’s come through the crowd.  The Radicalz, still called that, lay Y2J out and place the title belt over his face, Eddy landing a frog splash onto it.