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Monday, October 16, 2006
No Mercy
Mood:  cheeky
Welcome back to the latest entry of my blog. This past weekend, I finally got around watching No Mercy. If you read my previous entry, you would have known that I was pleasantly surprised about the quality of the last WWE PPV, Unforgiven. I said that it was one of the best PPV's the WWE has put out this year. After watching No Mercy, I have to say that the trend is continuing. No Mercy had some great matches from the tag team champs, Paul London and Brian Kendrick vs. Idol Stevens and K.C. James to Taker vs. Kennedy. Read on for my opinionated views and critiques on each match.

Matt Hardy vs. Gregory Helms: It was nice to show the audience how this feud started out with the previous matches they had prior to their PPV encounter. However, the whole "former friends, now enemies; who's the better man" mentality could have benefited if either man had mic time to tell their side of the story, but I digress.

The match started out well and progressed nicely. There were no bad spots in this match. In the late middle of the match, the frustration of the competitors was shown with both Helms and Hardy pulling out their secondary finishers three times ion a row to get a pinfall. That was well done in that it added more to their match. Matt Hardy won this match with the Twist of Fate and opened the PPV with a good match. 8.5/10.

Paul London and Brian Kendrick vs. Idol Stevens and K.C. James: Coming into this match, I had no idea why these guys were fighting, who the challengers were or why they received a tag team title shot. The challengers didn't even look like a legitimate team to me. It looks like two guys thrown together to act like a team and are barely doing that.

The announcers, Cole and JBL, talked about how the champs have been champions for about 5 months now. While that may seem impressive, consider the fact that, as far as I know, they have rarely defended the titles or even been showcased in a larger role on Smackdown.

The match played out how I thought it would, with the champs being the underdogs. Seeing as how both of them are cruiserweights, I had no doubt that would be how it would have worked. Paul London was taking the brunt end of the double team and made the hot tag to Kendrick. There was your obligatory chick fight with Michelle McCool, who accompanied the challengers, and Ashley, who accompanied the champions. (Again, I don't know why she is with them since I don't watch Smackdown.) At the end Kendrick hit the Sliced Bread #2 and London hit a standing Shooting Star Press off of Kendrick's back for the 1-2-3. A good match, but seeing as I don't know why they were fighting took it down a notch. 7.75/10

M.V.P vs. Marty Gartner: The newest member of the Smackdown roster is Montel Vontavious Porter, otherwise known as M.V.P. This is his PPV debut, so he had to show that he wasn't all show and no go. His entrance was a bit conceited, but that works for his character. The thing that distracted me was his outfit. He truly did look like a Power Ranger, a fact which was not lost by JBL or the audience who chanted it at him.

After his pre match mic work, Marty Gartner came down to the ring as his opponent, which I thought was great. I can guess that some people would find that to be idiotic when there are other superstars who could have done the job for M.V.P, but then again what would a win over Scotty or Funaki or any other resident jobber do? With M.V.P bringing out his own opponent, it makes him a thinking mans wrestler, in my opinion. It goes towards his character, by showing that he can play the game, but by his own rules.

This match was nothing more than a glorified squash, but it had an entertaining appeal to it. 6/10.

Undertaker vs. Ken Kennedy: I know that a lot of people love Mr. Kennedy. I hear people talk all the time, that he is the next big superstar to be a world champ in the future. He is good, but he was nothing special. After all, who saw greatness in the Ringmaster, Rocky Maivia or Greenwich blueblood Hunter Hearst Helmsley? When I saw this match, and I saw how Kennedy handled himself with Taker with his wrestling, charisma and mannerisms, I became a fan of his. I became convinced that this guy could very well be a future champ. I became convinced that Ken Kennedy was the real deal.

Given the fact that he was in there with The Undertaker, I may be giving more credit to Kennedy, but I did become a bigger fan of his because of that match. What I didn’t appreciate from this match was how Taker got tossed into this match with no reasoning for the match whatsoever. The match was made with Kennedy’s rising in the ranks, which I have no problem with at all, it seems to hurt Taker by the fact that Taker is in a position that he just doesn’t go out and wrestle just anyone. Take Randy Orton for example. His feud with Taker was stemmed by the fact that he challenged Taker. Taker wasn’t handed to him, like he was to Kennedy. It was a bit perturbing to me, but seeing as how this match was about Kennedy, I can let it slide. Another thing I didn’t like was the fact that they kept pushing that Kennedy wanted to leave Smackdown to go to Raw because it had more competition. As if Smackdown wasn’t regarded as a B team before, how does it look when one of their own wants to leave to go to the other side.

The match was pretty good as far as the give and take that both men handled, with Taker starting working on the arm and taking his time on the process, while Mr. Kennedy taking a lot of punishment and coming back. A nice mixture of high spots, working on a body part, weakening it to gain leverage and as I said before the give and take made this match really good.

Another part of the match that had me scratching my head was when Kennedy gave Taker a piledriver and the announcers selling it as if Kennedy cut off takers head. “Oh my God, did you see that?” “I can’t believe what I just saw.” No one has ever done that to the Undertaker.” He just Tombstoned the Undertaker with his own move.” What the hell? First of all, a piledriver in not exclusive to Deadman’s repertoire. If he had done a Tombstone to Taker, that would have been different. Secondly, Taker has taken more and gotten up from it. This was no exception. This scenario was confusing to me, and it got irritating to a point when the announcers kept yapping about it over and over and over.

The end of the match saw Kennedy, frustrated that he didn’t get the win over Taker with the Kenton Bomb, rolled outside of the ring to grab his U.S. Championship belt, but Taker knocked him down, grabbed the belt and hit Kennedy with the belt, giving Kennedy the win via DQ. A clean win over Taker would have put Kennedy over huge, but with how the match between them took place, it wouldn’t have done Taker much good, so it seems a DQ finish was the way to go. 8.5/10.

Rey Mysterio vs. Chavo Guerrero (Falls Count Anywhere): I won’t even begin to speak of the disdain I have over the trampling of Eddie Guerrero’s legacy and memory. Instead, I’ll just speak on the match itself.

First of all, I’d like to say how much better Chavo looks with new hair in the front of his head. He looks much younger that his real age of 35. The match started out strong with starting in the ring and going up the ramp where Rey hit a hurricarana from the set onto Chavo for a 1 count. From then, they took their battle to the audience where I felt the emotion within the match was being reduced. I can’t explain it, but it seems like they were going through the motions instead of projecting Chavo and Rey’s hatred for what they are doing for Eddie’s memory.

As for a Falls Count Anywhere match, I expected it to be a more brutal contest, but that’s not the way it came out. After a flying crossbody from Rey onto Chavo, he registered a three count and the victory. A fun match that shouldn’t have been so tame. 7.75/10/

William Regal vs. Chris Benoit: Welcome back Chris. Smackdown needed you more than you could ever imagine. What a great surprise that he would be facing up against Regal. When I saw that Regal was going to fight Benoit, I expected a classic match, and unlike many times when I except a classic and am not given one, this time was different.

This match was easily the match of the night with classic mat wrestling, coupled with high intensity attacks and submissions galore. This was one of the matches that you can watch and lose yourself in it. A great start to the match exchanges of arm bars, wrist locks and takedowns which led to the middle of the match with repeated headbutts, which busted Regal on the forehead, and suplexes and chops which lead to near the end of the match with submissions from each men leading up to Benoit reversing the Regal Stretch into the Crippler Crossface. Easily my favorite match. 9/10.

King Booker vs. Lashley vs. Finlay vs. Batista (Fatal Four-way): The original main event was supposed to be Lashley vs. King Booker, but the WWE head honchos smartened up to the fact that Lashley is not ready to be a main event player and that he will not draw a big crowd. With the inclusion of an established main eventer like Batista and a wrestler who can make anyone look good in Finlay, this match already has increased in quality.

The team up with Finlay and Booker was surprising in the fact that it actually lasted a while, whereas other matches will see a team up that lasts maybe two minutes before one turns on the other. Another great surprise was the stare down between Lashley and Batista. These two powerhouses getting ready to take each other on makes great drama and a match between these two could do some good business. The ending saw Batista hit the Batista-Bomb on Finlay, and Lashely spearing Batista, nearly breaking him in half while Booker, taken down ay Batista’s spinebuster crawled his way to Finlay for the pinfall. A fun match to watch. 8.75/10.

All in all, a pretty good Pay Per View that, while not better that last month's Unforigven, could have done fairly well if some of the matches had time to develop instead of throwing them on PPV without more of a back story. Despite that, a few good to great matches, along with a returning Chris Benoit in a match of the night made this PPV worth while.

Posted by Ron at 1:33 PM EDT
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 6:54 PM EDT

Name: Crow

I just thought that I would point out one minor thing...

Just that the match between Undertaker and Mr. Kennedy was not just a random match. Mr. Kennedy said that he was done with SmackDown and ready for Raw because he had beat everyone there and he was ready for more contestants. One person he forgot about was the Undertaker. So the match was made to give Kennedy a chance to beat Taker (and also the fact the Taker was pissed because he said that...). And Kennedy won the match via DQ as you said.

Just thought I'd point that out
Later!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 3:17 PM EST

Name: "johnny"

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