Jeff Hardy Wins Via DQ Against Punk at The Bash

WWE The Bash PPV Results - 6/28/09
Location: Sacramento, California
Commentators: Michael Cole & Jerry "The King" Lawler, Jim Ross & Todd Grisham and Josh Mathews & Matt Striker
Report by: Adam Martin of WrestleView.com

WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match
CM Punk (c) vs. Jeff Hardy

They did ring introductions for the challenger Jeff Hardy and champion CM Punk.

The bell rings and here we go. Fans are really behind Jeff Hardy in Sacramento, while CM Punk continues to get mixed reactions. Lock up and Punk pushes Hardy to the corner. Hardy with a side headlock on Punk. Punk with a quick shoulder block takedown on Hardy and Hardy backs off regaining his composure. Punk takes the back of Hardy, Hardy takes the back of Punk and Punk counters taking the back of Hardy again. Hardy counters and gets in a side headlock takedown on Punk. Punk tries to break it up sending Hardy into the ropes, but Hardy slows himself down falling to his knees keeping the headlock applied. Punk then counters with a side headlock takedown of his own. Punk with a shoulder block on Hardy, lifts Hardy to his shoulders, but Punk slides off into a roll up resulting in a two count. Punk then charges and Hardy sends him over the top rope to the outside. Hardy with a springboard cross body over the top rope onto Punk. Hardy sends Punk back first into the guard railing, backs up, runs, jumps off the steel steps, but misses a side kick on Punk and crashes into the guard railing. Punk slides back in the ring as the referee starts the count. The referee gets to 9 and Hardy jumps back in. Punk had yelled at the referee earlier that he didn't want to win via countout. Punk with a knee to the back of Hardy's head and then some stiff kicks to the back.

Punk then applies a figure four headlock on Hardy on the mat. Punk drops a few elbows over the head of Hardy keeping the figure four locked in. Punk then breaks it up and hits a backbreaker on Hardy. Punk hooks the leg and Hardy kicks out after two. Punk then goes back to the figure four headlock on Hardy. Hardy pushes his body around and puts his foot on the bottom rope to break up the submission by Punk. Punk with a big scoop slam on Hardy near the corner. Punk jumps up on the corner, attempts a leg drop and Hardy moves out of the way. Punk misses a corner charge on Hardy and Hardy connects with the Whisper in the Wind. Hardy hooks the leg and Punk kicks out after two. Hardy with two clotheslines to Punk followed by a neckbreaker takedown. Hardy with an atomic drop, leg drop to the groin and dropkick to the face on Punk that results in a two count after a pinfall attempt. Hardy with a facebuster suplex on Punk. Hardy slides out to the ring apron and starts climbing up the top turnbuckle. Punk rolls out, Hardy jumps down to the ring apron and jumps off taking out Punk. Hardy with a dropkick to the back of Punk sending Punk to the corner. Punk counters a dropkick to the chest and hits Hardy with a HUGE kick to the head. Punk hits his high knee and bulldog combo that results in a two count. Punk with kicks to the body of Hardy, but Hardy hits a Twist of Fate out of no where.

Hardy then goes up top, jumps and Punk sits up dodging the Swanton Bomb attempt. Punk signals for the Go To Sleep. Punk lifts Hardy up, but Hardy counters into an inside cradle for a two count. Punk with a stiff kick to the back of Hardy, lifts him to his shoulders, Hardy counters off and hits another Twist of Fate. Hardy is near the corner, goes back up top, jumps and connects with the Swanton Bomb. Hardy crawls over, hooks the leg and the refereee counts the full three. However, the referee sees that Punk's leg was under the bottom rope and reverses the decision making the match continue. Hardy argues with the referee and can't believe it. Hardy grabs Punk, attempts a Twist of Fate, Punk counters out and attempts a GTS. Hardy rakes the eyes of Punk and Punk falls down immediately favoring his eye. The referee keeps Hardy away from Punk as Punk tries to recover in the corner. Punk then kicks the referee in the back. The referee falls and then calls for the bell.

Winner via DQ: Jeff Hardy
Winner & STILL WWE World Heavyweight Champion: CM Punk

After the match, Jeff Hardy looks at CM Punk in disbelief. Punk continues to favor his eye as he crawls over and his handed the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Punk grabs his belt and starts to leave when Hardy catches up with him. Hardy argues with Punk and Punk tries to explain himself when Hardy goes crazy hitting him with punches. Hardy grabs Punk, tosses him back in the ring, mounts him and hits some big right hands. Hardy continues the assault on Punk until WWE referees hit the ring to break it up. Hardy is pulled back, but then explodes and tackles Punk one more time. Punk is able to get away and rolls out of the ring. A WWE referee helps Punk to the back who grabs his World Title on the ramp and heads to the back. We then see highlights of the match leading to the finish including Hardy's post-match attack on Punk. Back live, we see a shot of a frustrated Jeff Hardy in the ring.

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