16 top WWE Raw and Smackdown Superstars competed against each other to earn the ultimate prize in Wrestling Gaming, The THQ Superstar Challenge Championship. 

Shelton Benjamin 2 time defending champion defeated Kane to retain his crown.

Kane started the night off right by using his character to pick up a virtual Big Show and chokeslam him down to the mat.

"The only time I get that high is in an airplane, brotha." Show told me after his match. 

"I filed a protest. The controller was a little small, I have a thumb injury…no, I'm lying, I got beat. It's a little creepy because some of the movements looked just like me. It's weird to see yourself in a video game, and I started to take it a little personal. I was like 'C'mon you big bastard, get up, get up!' It's all how fast you hit the buttons, and I don't do anything in a hurry. I don't fight in a hurry, I don't make love in a hurry, so maybe video games just ain't for me."

The video game competition eventually came down to the two best gamers in the room, Shelton Benjamin and Kane. Kane gave Shelton a scare for a while, but Benjamin came through in the end to capture his third consecutive title.

"When I'm home, all I do is sit on my bed and play video games," the Intercontinental champ said after his match. 

"I'm only home three days a week, and I don't want to go anywhere, I don't want to go to the club, I don't want to go partying, but I can play video games all night long. I love the Tekken series, I love any kind of fighting games, that's what I am, a fighter. I like games that reflect what I do."

Kane looked like he wanted to Tombstone somebody after the match. 

"It was close. That's the closest game he's ever had in the Tournament," The Big Red Machine said before telling us how much he loves to play on Xbox Live. 

"I don't let people know who I am…I'm not that good. I wish I was. I played the other night against a guy I know, I was doing horrible, and this guy was giving me grief over it. This other guy was like, 'Hey watch what you're saying, that's Kane.' I don't think they quite knew what he was talking about."

(Credit: http://sports.ign.com/)

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