WWE NO MERCY 2004
Continental Airlines Arena
East Rutherford, New Jersey
October 3, 2004
Eddie Guerrero versus Luther
Reigns with Mark Jindrack
There was a time when Jindrack was going to be the fifth member of Evolution.
The crowd chanted Eddie from the start as Michael Cole talks about how Luther
has been shot and stabbed. Eddie begun the match in control over the much, much
larger Luther Reigns, using his speed to hit quickly and counter well. Luther
ended the speed of Eddie by grabbed him and pressing him high above his head and
slamming him down. He took control from there on in, grabbing a bear hug before
having to break it when Eddie stuck his thumbs in the bigger man’s eyes. Cole
said that Reigns has had his throat slit from ear to ear in his life. I say:
Good for him! Luther started to work the lower back of Eddie, suplexing him down
and bending him over his knee following a back breaker. After every move,
Jindrack would call from ringside to a pin attempt and Luther complied. Eddie
was forced to kick out of numerous near-falls. Luther hit his modified suplex
slam, but Eddie kicked out. Luther was frustrated, and set up his swinging neck
breaker. Eddie used high knees to counter, and then kicked off the ropes to flip
over Luther’s head and slam him down. Eddie took control, and began to show boat
with some silly looking repeated elbows. He was two into his three amigos snap
Suplexes when Luther threw him face forward into the mat. Eddie rolled out of
the ring to recover, and noticed a security guard keeping the crowd back. He
stole the security guard’s collapsible baton and hid it in his boot. Eddie
brought a chair into the ring and he and Luther fought over it. When Luther
pulled it away, he nearly hit Mark who was on the apron. Eddie drop kicked
Luther, chair and all, into Jindrack. Eddie missed a frog splashed, but while
the referee was checking on Jindrack Eddie pulled the baton from his boot and
knocked Luther over the head with it. Eddie hit the frog splash and got the
victory.
A replay of the cat fight between Dawn Marie and Jackie was shown. Dawn was
interviewed backstage by Josh Mathews. Dawn said that when Charlie Haas needed
something, he came to her not Jackie. Dawn said she would tell Jackie the truth
of their relationship face to face. Dawn went to Jackie’s dressing room and
found her shirtless. Jackie covered her breasts with her hands while Dawn
extolled that she knew that Jackie was the one who proposed, because Charlie
told her the night before.
Cruiserweight Championship Match: Spike “The Boss” Dudley with the Dudley
Boyz versus Nunzio with John Stambolli.
Words cannot describe how small Spike looks. I would say I could take him, but
history has shown I could not hurt the man. Nunzio was able to outwrestle Spike
from the start, countering and tossing the champ about and out the ring before
hitting him with a pescado. Nunzio went to the top rope (Which Tazz rightly said
was out of character for the Italian shooter) while Bubba Ray distracted the
referee, allowing Devon to push Nunzio off. Spike took control, constantly
reapplying a full nelson between attacks, but could not get a pin and was still
being countered by the mat technician Nunzio. This greatly frustrated the
Dudleyz outside the ring. Spike would begin feeding Nunzio to the Dudleyz
outside the ring whenever possible. Still Nunzio fought back. He Irish whipped
the champion to the corner, where Spike tried to jump to the top rope. Nunzio
was right upon him, wrapping his arm under Spike’s crotch and slamming him down
to the canvas. Nunzio went on offense with Suplexes and flips, but the Dudleyz
became involved. Nunzio and Johnny tried to fight off them, but it was three on
two. Nunzio was pulled crotch first into the ring post and Spike got a cheap
cover over the challenger.
A video showing the Undertaker winning his first WWE Championship from Hulk
Hogan is shown. A video detailing the disintegration of the tag team of Paul
London and Billy Kidman and the leading to their match is shown.
Billy Kidman versus Paul London
London ran right down to the ring, and immediately took the fight to Kidman with
his spectacular offense. He tossed Kidman outside the ring, and used a running
springboard moonsault from the second rope over the top rope to the outside onto
Kidman. Kidman took control once back in the ring, racking the eyes of London
and kicking him in the face. Kidman’s offense was ground based, but vicious. It
was comprised of stiff kick after stiff kick to the gut of London, and then
following them up with placing his knee in London’s back and pulling his arms in
the wrong way. When London tried to run at Kidman, Kidman caught him up in a
fireman’s carry and dropped his opponent into a gut buster. Billy was working
over the ribs of London, tossing him up into the air and letting him fall front
first to the mat. Kidman seemed to be showing off the suffering his was
inflicting and the announcers openly wondered if Kidman thought this is the
blood thirsty fans wanted. London began to fight back with spin kicks and an
enziguri. Paul attempted a power bomb… but you can’t power bomb Kidman. Billy
and Paul started to trade flying kicks and counters, until Kidman had London
down on the mat after a dropkick. Billy went to the outside for the Shooting
Star, but decided against it and moved to leave. At the count of nine Kidman
returned to the ring and resumed the action with London. Paul hit a super kick
to the chest of Kidman and went to the top. Instead of the four-fifty splash,
however, London preformed an absolutely perfect shooting star press. It was much
better than the one Kidman does mind you. Unfortunately for London, Kidman got
his knees up into the face of Paul London. Billy decided to give the fans what
they wanted, and hit a shooting star of his own, no where near was well done as
Paul’s and was mostly knees to the gut of Paul and got the pin fall. After the
match, Paul was bleeding from the mouth and the paramedics were strapping him to
a backboard. Billy Kidman took the microphone and asked the fans if that was
what they wanted to see and if they were happy they made him do that. Billy
climbed to the top rope and gave Paul another shooting star (Equally bad, please
stop using that move) while he was strapped to the board.
Another video was shown, this one of the Undertaker winning the title from
Psycho Side at WrestleMania XIII. JBL was interviewed backstage. He said that
this Pay-Per-View had been biased for the Undertaker. He wondered if the videos
were fair and balanced, or if this was more Dan Rather liberal media lying. He
was too afraid to guarantee a victory though. Instead he said his loss would be
over his dead body.
WWE Tag Championship Match: Kenzo Suzuki and Rene Dupree versus Rob Van Dam
and Rey Mysterio Jr.
Before the match, Rene said something in French and Kenzo did his impression of
New Jersey’s Bruce Springsteen. RVD and Rene started the match off with a series
of missed maneuvers on the canvas, with each man nimbly dodging from the other.
Rey and Kenzo were tagged in, with Rey dancing around Kenzo and striking inward
suddenly. He and RVD hit tandem topes onto the heel team. RVD had been tagged in
and gone to the top rope, but Rene tossed him off (Flying over the head of
Kenzo’s Geisha) and to the outside. Kenzo went on offense on RVD, using his
awful offense on Rob and preventing the tag to Rey Rey. When Rey got the tag he
hit a flying head butt from the top and a tornado DDT onto Kenzo. He knocked
Rene off the apron and then launched himself back into the ring, onto Kenzo in a
seat senton. Rey set up a 619 but Dupree ran in to interfere, bringing Rob Van
Dam back in to double team first Dupree and then Kenzo. Rey hit the 619 on Kenzo,
and set up the West Coast Pop but Rene pulled him from the ropes. Kenzo pinned
Mysterio, held on the ropes and got the very cheap victory to retain the title
belts.
An advertisement for the Interactive Taboo Tuesday was shown. A video detailing
the feud between Kurt Angle and The Big Show was shown.
Kurt Angle versus the Big Show
The stipulation for the match was that anyone who interfered would be fired. The
Big Show looked bigger (Read: Fatter) than ever, and had an ugly sun burn on his
back. Slow and methodical action to start, with the Big Show throwing Angle
across the anytime he got close. Angle was hiding in the corner, but Big Show
threw him into the corner and then guerrilla press slammed him down. Angle had
enough, and Kurt began to walk away from the match. Angle ran back to the ring
and than counted along with the referee, waiting for the loss. Teddy Long came
to ringside and declared that if Kurt ran away he would never wrestle on
Smackdown again. Of course Kurt returned to the ring, actually tripping over the
steel steps in the process. The beating resumed, with the Big Show actually
standing on Angle at one point. Kurt tried to grab a steel chair, but the Big
Show punched it into Angle’s face. Kurt tried to jump onto the Big Show from the
second rope, but was caught and slammed down. The Big Show called for the choke
slam – but Kurt actually countered it into the Ankle lock! The Big Show was
diagonally away from the ropes, and was in the hold over a minute before he
finally kicked out. The official was bumped, and evil Kurt Angle went after the
downed Giant. He beat the injured ankle with a steel chair and wrenched the leg
around in a variety of holds. He even hung upside from the apron to further
aggravate the leg of the Big Show before the referee awoke. Still Angle could
not get the victory. Frustrated, he went beneath the ring and grabbed the
tranquilizer gun. The Big Show popped up, seemingly enraged. He grabbed the gun
and broke it over his knee. The Big Show gave Angle the choke slam and pinned
him for the 1, 2…3.
A vignette for Carlito was shown. Kurt Angle was shown being helped to the back.
A video detailing the feud and best of five series between Booker T and John
Cena was shown.
US Championship Match: Booker T versus John Cena
Cena struck first, landing enough blows to knock Booker T backwards over the top
rope to the outside. Booker quickly fought back, sending Cena over the top to
the outside, and pounding John’s head into the ring steps before being reversed
into them himself. Back in the ring, Cena ran gut first into a shoulder block
and was hung up on the ropes. Booker chained that into a thrust kick for a two
count. Cena would later roll Booker into a pinning combination, but the official
wouldn’t until Booker’s shoulders were completely down. Booker would then take
control after more back and forth action, but missed a kick and ended up with
his crotch connecting with the top ropes. The crowd began to die as the
wrestlers appeared to be taking turns. Cena would pump up, hitting a flying
shoulder block and the five knuckle shuffle for a two-count. Cena tried to
follow up with an F-U (AKA: The worst finisher in professional wrestling) when
Booker countered into the Book-end. Cena kicked out, and Booker was frustrated.
He went for a chair and the official started to argue with him over it. This
gave Cena the required recovery time to dodge the scissor kick, hit the F-U and
be declared the undisputed United States Champion.
My name is Eugene is this month’s WWE Fanatic episode on Pay-Per-View. A video
showing the ridiculously cheap victory the Undertaker had over Stone Cold Steve
Austin to win his third WWE Championship was shown.
The Dudley Boyz and Dawn Marie versus Charlie Haas and Rico and Jackie
Dawn wore a belly shirt which read “Charlie <3’s Dawn” Charlie seemed to have no
idea about the altercation between his fiancé and Dawn earlier in the night.
Charlie was back body dropped and Dawn was tagged in to nuzzle her hurt love.
Charlie backed away, looking confused to say the least. Jackie tagged herself in
and the two girls ripped off each others tops and beat on one another. Bubba
tagged himself in and demanded Jackie give him a kiss, and closed his eyes. Rico
came in and kissed Bubba, prompting Bubba to run away and gag audibly. Rico
wrestled against Devon, and was in control until Bubba returned so Devon and he
could double team him. Bubba called for the flying head butt to the crotch of
Devon, but Devon would not do it to Rico. Jackie and Dawn got to roll around the
floor one last time before Charlie delivered the flying axe handle, setting up
the legal Rico to hit a moonsault and get the victory. After the match, Charlie
separated the women and took Jackie away with him.
The Undertaker winning the WWE Title another time was shown on video. A vignette
detailing the feud and eventual build up to the last ride match was shown.
Last Ride WWE Championship Match: The Undertaker versus JBL
The only way to win this match The Dead Man began the match pounding on JBL in
the corner, before twisting his arm around and dropping the hammer after walking
the top rope. The referee tried to keep the action from getting too violent, but
this was a no-disqualification match and so the Undertaker simply scared him
away. Very early on the Undertaker choke slammed JBL, and then hit him with the
leg drop off the ring apron. Outside the ring, JBL had still offered very little
as offense while the Undertaker was throwing the champion against the rails and
ring steps. The challenger was removing the camera from the Spanish announce
table when the Champion recovered, running the steps into ‘Taker’s head.
Bradshaw was on offense now, beating the Dead man against the barricades outside
the ring. JBL tried to put the Undertaker in the hearse, but he began to fight
back. So JBL took him back to the ring, and hit a sloppy flying shoulder block
from the top rope. The Undertaker reversed the momentum though, tying JBL up in
a triangle choke while he fruitlessly tapped out. The Undertaker continued to
beat the snot (Yes, I said snot) out of JBL. Bradshaw tried to pile drive the
Undertaker onto the steps, but the Undertaker back body dropped him off and
resumed his attack. The Undertaker set JBL for a tombstone, and drove Bradshaw’s
head into the steel steps. Ouch. The champion was bleeding heavily as he was
tossed besides the announcer booth, where he grabbed a chair and desperately
smacked it into Mean Mark. The two men climbed atop the announce tables, and the
Undertaker choke slammed JBL through the other table. The Undertaker carried JBL
to the hearse, and Jon Heidenreich popped out. The lunatic pounced onto the
Undertaker and covered his mouth with a chloroform soaked rag. The Undertaker
was placed into the hearse and drove off. Inside the hearse, for some reason, a
camera was inside the hearse to show the Undertaker wake up and jump out to
attack Heidenreich. JBL recovered, and delivered the clothesline from hell and
helped shove ‘Taker back in the hearse to be driven away. JBL told the fans
never to bet against him, the greatest WWE champion of all time. Backstage, Paul
Heyman drove the hearse to the parking lot, where Jon Heidenreich drove his car
into it at high speed. Jon looked hurt from the crash, and he and Heyman ran
off.