Here's Maven, already in the ring with a microphone to talk some trash before getting destroyed by Batista. "Now I went ahead and I left the translator in the back, because what I came out here to say is pretty simple. Anybody can get it. Anybody. Right now, the entire world knows the outcome of the Royal Rumble. And there's only one question -one question on everyone's mind. Why wasn't Maven in the Royal Rumble? Because what I know - what Eric Bischoff knows - what the entire world knows! - is that if I was in the Royal Rumble, I would have won. I would have won the Rumble. Not Batista. I would have taken that big shaved gorilla and I would've thrown that ape over the top. I would have..."

And he's cut off by Batista's music. Uh oh.

Match #2: Maven vs Batista

Batista, too, is enormously over. He does Austin-like posing on the four turnbuckles. Maven attacks while Batista is posing before the bell, but he runs the ropes right into the big spinebuster. Batista goes for the DAVEBOMB and hits it already! One - two - three.

Winner: Batista via pinfall (:32)

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