WWE 'No Mercy 2007' Preview and Predictions
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Welcome to the official preview for WWE’s ‘No Mercy’ 2007 which takes place this Sunday in Chicago. This card was to feature a Last Man Standing Match between John Cena and Randy Orton for the WWE Championship but life has a funny way of changing plans some time.
This show, due in part to Cena’s injury, and also to the Save_Us_222 deal that has been airing on WWE programming has more intrigue behind it than most of the other WWE Pay Per View offerings this year.
Lets break this one open and see what kind of juices spill out. No coin this month, and really it is for the best.
I say this in every preview for a WWE show but the Hardy/MVP dynamic is still the most entertaining thing on any of the WWE programs. The thing with Deuce and Domino would appear to have run its coarse for the time being, and so why not kick things up a notch by re-entering the Brothers of Destruction?
This match feels like something they set up to accomplish the goal of furthering the Hardy/MVP story but also to get undertaker on to a Pay Per View. I think the way they should go with it is play up the fact that the Brothers are a bad news matchup for 2 guys who don’t get along. Then I’d have MVP/Hardy win somehow with both taking credit for getting the job done and fracturing things that much more. No way Taker gets pinned though so if this happens Kane does the job. I’m ok with that myself.
Winners: Matt Hardy and MVP
Beth is getting the approval of Ric Gillespie which must mean she is secretly, or perhaps openly a man. Candice has held the title longer than most people thought she would but really what more can you do with her as champion? Of course, it isn’t as though the WWE has a lot of female faces to challenge Beth but they can put Candice in the challenger role for a PPV or 2 before resorting to Mickey James or trying to turn Melina. It feels like a title switch.
Winner: Beth Phoenix
Remember Rey’s much hyped return at SummerSlam? Yeah me neither and the reason is that feels like ages ago. The way he’s been treated lately, you’d almost think they had snuck the World Championship back on him while nobody was looking. I’ve got nothing against Finlay and this should be a good match, but this whole program is cold. Of course, that’s true of Rey in general and he’s only been back for a little over a month.
I think Rey needs the win here. Whether he gets the win or not is not up to me to decide. I’ll go with him winning, but really a Finlay win would mean a Rey job and that would certainly not surprise me.
Winner: Rey Mysterio
So they have a chase for the championship. It starts out with Kevin Thorn, Stevie Richards, Tommy Dreamer and Elijah Burke. Richards was eliminated in a 4-way, Thorn in a 3-way the next week and this past Tuesday Dreamer beat Burke to earn the shot. Then something very fat happened and Big Daddy V ate his way in to the match instead. Well, you knew the Big guy was going to get the title shot eventually cause they’re building him up for bigger things.
Honestly, a Big Daddy V title win because I honestly don’t think they like CM Punk all that much. However, there is a way they can protect V without Punk losing and that is for Morrison to interfere in the match causing the DQ. That actually sets up a 3-way that could lead to a fun stipulation at Cyber Sunday. So, I say Morrison attacks Punk which gives him the DQ win and we go from there. One more comment on Big Daddy V. I’m glad it is iMPACT and not ECW going to HD in 2008 because V shirtless in HD is not something that anyone should want to see.
Winner: CM Punk
It is generating enough buzz that you wonder if they don’t try to drag it out past this show. All signs point to this being connected to the return of Chris Jericho. As we discussed on Episode 9 of the Combat Hooligans audio show, Jericho’s return is welcome but really won’t change much of anything. It isn’t as though a throng of fans are not watching WWE only because Jericho isn’t around.
Umaga is back from suspension, otherwise known as a Wellness Policy mandated vacation. He’s coming back to face the guy who in storyline put him out and that is the one and only Triple H. Here’s how I see this one going. Vince McMahon and Carlito help to screw over the Game costing him the match but then after the match he does some fustigating to remind everyone that he’s still awesome.
Winner: Umaga via shenanigans
Yay, Punjabi Prison is making its return. I don’t even know how to explain this other than there’s basically 4 doors, one in each side of the cage. Periodically one swings open and you’ve got a certain amount of time to exit before it closes and is unable to be opened the remainder of the match. There’s 2 layers of this cage and the goal is to escape from both to win. I’m not sure on all of the details but that’s the match to the best of my understanding.
This is not going to be pretty. Some people I know were happy to see this match return because it is an interesting concept. I told them that it also had Undertaker and Big Show last time and now it has none of those. Khali and Batista do not work well together and this has ugly written all over it. It also has a Batista retaining the title written all over it.
Winner: Batista
I actually think it is kind of a mistake to declare a champion will be crowned on this show. A tournament or something like that could be used to really make a guy, kind of like Survivor Series 1998. However, this is the company of lost opportunities so lets just work under the assumption that somehow they crown a champion Sunday. Who will it be?
Mr. Kennedy – Maybe it is just me, but this guy still seems to be in the doghouse for that whole lying about Steroids thing.
Triple H – Seems too obvious of a choice, but if he does lose to Umaga and not immediately get his heat back, this becomes a greater possibility.
Chris Jericho – Hey, I give him a better chance of seeing the WWE Championship now than I did before John Cena got hurt.
Undertaker – Just to put that last nail in the coffin of Smackdown.
Val Venis – Give the people what they want!!!
Randy Orton – Vince is high on the guy lately, he’s given credit for the Cena injury and if you don’t give him the belt, then you might as well write can’t win the big one on his forehead and call him a choker. I see the benefits of putting the title on Orton, claiming he did the deed of injuring Cena and I’d keep the belt on him until Cena returns and make some big money. It seems too logical for it to happen but we’ll still go with it anyway.
New WWE Champion: Randy Orton
I’m not exactly sure how this show will be covered by our site. Euan is contemplating ordering it as part of an order 2 get 1 free special involving No Mercy, Survivor Series and Armageddon. If he orders it, you’ll have live coverage. If not, who knows?
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