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WWF No Mercy 2000
Here is Tim Whitehead's original report on the show:
WWF's No Mercy (10/22 from the Pepsi Arena in Albany, NY) was a basic thumb's up PPV, mainly due to solid key matches. Much of the lower card action was lackluster and had little heat, but as is often the case with the WWF, the top guys carried the show. There were also enough twists and turns
in the ongoing soap operas to spark fan interest, and the WWF World Title change capped off a strong, though not spectacular, show. Commentary from Jim Ross & Jerry Lawler was good.
THE DUDLEYS won an "invitational" table elimination match over TOO COOL & LOW DOWN & RIGHT TO CENSOR & TAZZ and RAVEN in 14:36. Edge & Christian were supposed to be in this match but claimed to be suffering from food poisoning (i.e., they were wrestling later as Los Conquistadors). This was fought under rules where two teams chosen by draw started off, then a new team entered when one was eliminated. The only way to win was to put an opposing team member through a table. Most of the match had no heat since the fans only wanted to see the Dudleys. Too Cool started off against Low Down. They brawled to no heat. Low Down were eliminated at 3:52 when Scotty Too Hotty put Chaz through a table and at the same moment D-Lo Brown accidentally put himself through a table while trying to splash Grandmaster Sexay. Tazz & Raven came in. Scotty did his worm spot under a table. Grandmaster accidentally broke a table on a moonsault spot. This "didn't count" as being eliminated, but it did prompt a "you f****ed up" chant. Tazz & Raven eliminated Too Cool at 7:41 by double suplexing Scotty through a table. The Dudleys arrived and got a pop. There was a lot of sloppy brawling, with Buh Buh Ray legdropping Tazz through a table at 10:31 for an elimination. Finally, Goodfather & Bull Buchanan came in representing RTC. Buh Buh put Bull through a table but the ref had been bumped and didn't see it. Goodfather hit Buh Buh with a hard chairshot and he fell onto the broken table. The ref revived and thought Buh Buh had been put through the table and gave RTC the win, but a second ref ran in and told the match ref what happened and the match was restarted. The Dudleys then 3D'ed Goodfather through a table for the win at 14:36. A mostly lackluster opener that ran too long.
Up next was supposed to be a Test & Albert & Trish Stratus vs. Acolytes & Lita match, but Bradshaw has broken ribs so they made it into an angle. Trish teased that her boobs might be exposed during the match. Anyway, Lita came to the ring and was waiting for the Acolytes, but Test & Albert attacked them backstage and left them laying after dropping some metal trunks on them. They then came to the ring and grabbed Lita, with Trish slapping her until the Hardy Boyz made the save.
Edge & Christian did an interview and claimed to be fully recovered from their illness. They said they didn't have food poisoning as previously believed but only a brief virus of some sort. They had thought their illness was caused by eating some tainted nuts, and did a bunch of double entendres using the word "nuts". Their recovery from illness was truly miraculous.
CHRIS JERICHO defeated X-PAC in 10:37 in a cage match. Jericho called the cage a "Y2Jail". When X-Pac arrived, Jericho hit him with a baseball slide through the door and they brawled outside the cage. X-Pac slammed the door on Jericho's head as they went inside. Jericho came back and dominated until X-Pac got his knees up on a lionsault attempt. X-Pac tried to climb out a couple of times but got dragged back in. X-Pac laid in some kicks and did the bronco. He then went for a pin but remembered that pinfalls don't count. X-Pac tried to leave again but Jericho powerbombed him from the top ropes. Jericho went up but got crotched on the cage top. X-Pac tried to crawl out the door. Jericho caught him in time but X-Pac was able to grab a chair which he used on Jericho. Instead of again going out the door, X-Pac climbed the cage. This didn't make sense but the commentators covered for it by claiming that X-Pac was incoherent due to the heat of battle. Jericho caught him and put the Walls hold on him on the cage top before X-Pac shoved Jericho off for a good bump to the mat below. X-Pac started down the outside of the cage but Jericho caused him to fall on the open door and crotch himself. Jericho then went through the door for the win. A good match but it lacked crowd heat.
The mandatory segment from WWF New York featured Steve Blackman showing off moves with his martial arts sticks.
Rikishi complained to Mick Foley that Steve Austin had not yet arrived (JR & Lawler had dwelled on this throughout the show). Foley said that if Austin no-showed, Rikishi would win by forfeit, but also warned him that Austin may be closer than he thinks.
VAL VENIS & STEVEN RICHARDS beat MR. ASS & CHYNA in 7:15. This match was a substitute for Ass vs. Eddie Guerrero, due to Guerrero's legit injury. Pretty much a standard brawl with no heat. Chyna hit her handspring elbow. The RTC team kept working on Ass' bad shoulder. Chyna had Val set up for a Pedigree, but with the ref distracted by Ass and Richards brawling on the floor. Guerrero limped in and walloped Chyna with the flower bouquet with a lead pipe hidden within. The ref returned to action as Val pinned Chyna.
Stephanie wanted to accompany Hunter Hearst Helmsley for his match against Chris Benoit. HHH said no as always. Steph still gave him a videotape she had made. It was of Benoit applying the crossface in assorted matches, and she told HHH he could learn a few things watching it.
They aired a good recap of the Austin - Rikishi angle.
STEVE AUSTIN vs. RIKISHI went to a no-contest in 10:04 in a No Holds Barred match. Rikishi came out and said Austin was a coward since he still wasn't there. Foley was about to award Rikishi the match via forfeit when Austin's shattered glass entrance music began playing and he drove into the arena in truck Rikishi had battered on Smackdown. Austin emerged from the truck and immediately went after Rikishi. Austin rammed Rikishi into the truck, threw him over the announcers' desk, and choked him with a cable. They brawled through the crowd. Rikishi threw a drink in Austin's face. Lawler said it better not be beer because that's like spinach to Popeye. Austin whipped the hell out of Rikishi with a belt. The match had decent heat but not as much as you might expect. Rikishi made a brief comeback but Austin got a chair and hit Rikishi with a series of sick chairshots which left him juicing a gusher. He also swung twice at Rikishi with a sledgehammer but hit the truck instead. Rikishi was nearly out of it from the chairshots. Austin threw him in back of the truck and drove him out to the parking lot. He dragged Rikishi from the truck and slammed him against a brick wall and pounded him into near unconsciousness. He then positioned the truck and was going to squash him against the wall with it as JR freaked out that Austin was going too far. A police car drove in front of Austin's truck to stop him from committing vehicular homicide and Austin rammed the car twice before a bunch of cops dragged him from the truck and arrested him. The cop driving the squad car was "injured" and was hauled off in an ambulance. Austin's truck was towed off, presumably as evidence. The brawl was good, and was kept relatively short since it was Austin's first match back, but the ending was a little on the bizarre side.
STEVEN WILLIAM REGAL defeated MIDEON in 6:09 to retain the European Title. No heat at all. The storyline was that, at Regal's request, Foley had forced Mideon to wear clothes during the match. But Mideon gradually disrobed down to his fake nude tights. It was pretty bad. Regal kept acting disgusted and backed off from applying a submission hold since he didn't want to touch Mideon. Regal finally won with his neckbreaker type move.
They re-aired Kurt Angle's "interview" with Rock from Heat. It was pretty funny. Angle had taken some clips from an old Rock interview and spliced them in to make it look like Rock was responding to his (Angle's) questions. It made it appear that Rock was afraid of Angle and that he admitted to being behind Rikishi's car assault on Austin last year.
LOS CONQUISTADORS (Edge & Christian) defeated THE HARDY BOYZ to capture the WWF World Tag Titles in 10:50. The match was disappointing since we've come to expect so much from these teams. With no spectacular moves, the crowd was dead. I guess the idea was that the mask gimmick would draw heat, but it didn't. Of course, we can't expect these guys to kill themselves on every PPV or their careers will be over very soon. It was funny in spots as the Conquistadors did some fake Lucha Libre mannerisms. Lawler kept talking about how sacred the masks are in Mexico. He should have told Eric Bischoff. Mostly it was standard tag wrestling with only a couple of planchas and one swanton. The end saw Matt unmask one Conquistador to reveal a second mask underneath. He was then nailed by the other Conquistador with a tomokaze type move for the pin.
HUNTER HEARST HELMSLEY defeated CHRIS BENOIT in 18:41. Before the match, HHH was shown watching Stephanie's tape and he acted like he got some good ideas from it. The crowd treated HHH as a total babyface. They started off brawling. HHH destroyed Benoit for about five minutes, working over his knee. Both bumped out and Benoit posted HHH, taking command for several minutes. Benoit worked over HHH's bad left arm, scoring some two counts. Benoit hit his diving headbutt on HHH's arm. Crowd heat was modest at first but began to pick up. HHH made a big comeback and scored several near falls. Benoit hit the German suplexes and hooked the crossface but HHH escaped with a Samoan drop, an idea he presumably got watching Steph's tape. Stephanie then arrived uninvited. She slapped Benoit. HHH went for the Pedigree but Benoit blocked it. HHH then blocked a crossface. Steph distracted the ref and HHH took the opening to do a low blow and hit the Pedigree for the win. Good match! Of course, Stephanie proved her value here as a ringside tactician.
Edge & Christian congratulated Los Conquistadors on their tag title win (it was two other guys under the masks). They gave each Conquistador a Corona. Los Conquistadors will defend the tag belts against Edge & Christian on the 10/23 RAW (ahem).
KURT ANGLE defeated ROCK to capture the WWF World Title in 21:40. Before the match it was announced that Foley had made this a no-DQ match, with JR & Lawler wondering why he would do that. Stephanie immediately distracted Rock and Angle attacked. They went to the floor and Angle used a chair. They brawled up the aisle where Rock threw Angle through some barriers. They fought back to the ring, where Stephanie continued to interfere. Rock hit Angle in the knee with a chair and hooked the sharpshooter bur Steph distracted the ref and he didn't see Angle tapping out in pain. Rock went after Stephanie but that allowed Angle to blindside him. Steph was on a roll tonight. They returned to the floor and brawled around the announcers' desks, each taking bumps. Rock got posted. Stephanie gave the title belt to Angle and he used it on Rock but only scored two. Rock hit a tornado DDT for two. Angle missed a high moonsault. Rock nailed Angle with the spinebuster and was about to do the People's Elbow when Steph got in his face. Rock plastered her with a Rock Bottom and was going to hit the People's Elbow on her but Angle tackled him. This brought in HHH, who threw Angle from the ring and Pedigreed Rock. HHH carried Stephanie out. Angle and Rock went back at it to great heat and scored some twos. Rikishi then arrived, still covered with blood from his earlier brawl. He tried to help Rock but it backfired and he thrust kicked Rock in the face (actually the shoulder) and Angle won with the Olympic slam. Good strong main event! Rock, who was juicing, was furious afterward as Angle left triumphantly with the belt.
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