World Wrestling Entertainment – No Mercy 2002 – 20th October 2002
There are three things people remember about this show: one of the greatest tag team matches of the modern era, an extremely bloody Hell In A Cell Match…and Katie Vick. Being completely honest with you, I’ve forgotten the entirety of the undercard on this DVD, but have seen the fantastic conclusion to Smackdown’s WWE Tag Title tournament numerous times down the years and can’t wait to finally review it. The main event sees Super-Taker once again challenge Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship – this time within the confines of the notorious ‘Hell In A Cell’. Our World Title bout pits champion Triple H against Kane, and the less said about the ‘build’ to that one the better. The rest of the show is a bit of a mixed bunch. Raw’s ‘World Tag Title’ match casts Booker T and Goldust as challengers once again – this time to new champions Chris Jericho and Christian. RVD looks for revenge on Ric Flair for costing him the World Title at Unforgiven, Jamie Noble defends the Cruiserweight Title against Tajiri, and Victoria makes her ppv debut. This was taped in Little Rock, AR. Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole and Tazz once again form your announce teams.
In an amusing cold open, Kane plonks himself down next to his brother (who is nursing his broken hand in a cast) and asks ‘how was your week?’
Chris Jericho/Christian vs Booker T/Goldust – World Tag Title Match
Raw’s Tag Titles have been renamed the ‘World Tag Titles’ to mirror the top prize of the red brand, and they’ve been hot-shotted around since we were last on pay-per-view. Kane and The Hurricane held them for a while (including Kane defending them single-handedly in TLC4) before losing them to Jericho and Christian. The two Canadians have been allies for a while (Jericho was originally going to be in a Hart Foundation-inspired Canadian stable with Christian, Lance Storm and Test – but was scrapped in favour of the ‘brilliant’ Un-Americans) and became tag partners as the Un-Americans split in late September/early October.
I guess the WWE don’t see the irony in Christian still using the ‘At Last Your On Your Own’ theme when he’s had to drop back to the tag ranks all year. Booker and Jericho had been feuding coming into this so, as the heel, Y2J has no interest in starting with him. Goldust takes it to both champions with jumping hip attacks…and sends them both packing by catapulting Jericho into his partner on the floor. Gradually the Canadians work their way into the match by isolating Goldust, showing solid tag team skills despite their relative inexperience as a duo compared to ‘Book-Dust’. The hot tag to Booker eventually comes though, and he hops in to assault his rival Chris Jericho with gusto. Y2J eats the 110th Street Slam before Christian comes to his rescue…so Goldust double bulldogs both of them. Shattered Dreams on Christian, and to make matters worse he drop toeholds Jericho into his partner’s ailing testicles too. Final Cut countered to the Walls Of Jericho, with Booker hitting the Ghetto Blaster to save. Heat Seeker drops Y2J again…and as Jericho looks to recover with a springboard dropkick the middle rope SNAPS! The turnbuckle literally explodes away from the ringpost, and Jericho is probably lucky not to sustain a serious injury. As Christian and Booker brawl into the crowd Y2J bulldogs Goldust onto one of the title belts, then improvises a MOONSAULT to win at 08:46
Rating - ** - The first half was pretty boring, but everything after the hot tag to Booker was very enjoyable. Christian and Jericho were quite a fun double act. It seems like a bit of a waste hiding them away in Raw’s mediocre tag division (as it does with Booker T), but if there are no serious plans to use them then at least they were doing something entertaining to watch. By this point I think WWE realised how badly they’d dropped the ball with Jericho and were desperately throwing championships at him in the vein hope of rebuilding him even though his credibility was shot long ago.
Funaki is standing by to interview Al Wilson and asks him about his recent interactions with Dawn Marie. Al was notoriously devoid of charisma during this bizarre angle, and the whole ‘interview’ is a (very long) set-up to a Bill Clinton joke. I didn’t care for this but the live crowd guffawed loudly, it probably gave the crew time to fix the ring, and Funaki before the ‘#1 Announcer’ gimmick got really old was pretty comical.
Dawn Marie vs Torrie Wilson
You can see why WWE kept Dawn around long after the Invasion angle and ECW had run its course. She looks fantastic here, was game for anything and had a big personality too. That said, this angle with Torrie Wilson’s real-life father, was completely strange. Paul Heyman, who normally gets tons of praise for his creative stuff, was booking Smackdown at this point so should probably take some criticism now. Even as comic relief it felt pretty odd. Dawn had been inexplicably flirting with Torrie’s father for weeks, before Torrie eventually caught them in the shower together. The two divas hadn’t seen eye-to-eye for a while so Ms Wilson didn’t take kindly to her father’s liaison with her rival.
The match starts with Torrie dropkicking Dawn off the apron. Credit to Marie as that was a hell of a bump. Sadly once they return to the ring they try to wrestle it like a serious match and things mostly fall apart. Dawn, the better of the two as far as actual wrestling skill goes, starts working Wilson’s back then hits a diving headbutt to the vagina for 2. Is it wrong that I’m annoyed that Torrie then starts no-selling the back to hit a snap suplex? She wins with a swinging neckbreaker at 04:40
Rating - DUD - Sorry ladies. The effort was certainly there but neither of these two were good enough wrestlers to have a five minute straight wrestling match on a pay-per-view. This was a real waste of time. Having given away Bikini Matches and Swimsuit Matches on free TV, to run this on the ppv was disappointing on every level.
Rob Van Dam discusses the differences between he and Ric Flair. When did RVD’s gimmick change to doing weird impersonations of his opponents?
Brock Lesnar, Paul Heyman and ‘Tracy’ (the Undertaker’s supposed mistress) arrive…
Ric Flair vs Rob Van Dam
At Unforgiven we saw Flair cost RVD the World Championship when he whacked him in the ribs with HHH’s sledgehammer. Now out of the World Title picture, Van Dam will be looking to compensate by getting some vengeance on the Nature Boy tonight.
Van Dam tries to act like this is a big, serious grudge match despite clowning around in an interview just seconds earlier. He doesn’t thumb pose during his entrance and immediately pursues Flair out of the ring to hit the corkscrew leg drop against the rails. Once they return to the ring RVD continues to pummel the veteran and Ric looks hopelessly outmatched against the unique skills he is coming up against. He has plenty of tricks up his sleeve though and after delivering a craft low blow he starts working over Rob’s leg. The assault on the aforementioned leg lasts minutes whilst at the same time Flair is switched on enough to cut short any comeback attempt with an eye poke or a choke. Figure 4 Leglock applied, with more stomps to the leg coming as soon as Van Dam makes the ropes. Sure enough, as soon as he escapes RVD is back sprinting around the ring and throwing kicks around in his normal fashion. Rolling Thunder gets 2 and the Five Star wins it at 07:59
Rating - * - This one felt far longer than it actually was. There is an argument that this was Flair’s best individual performance since WrestleMania, as I thought he looked really crisp and on point. Unfortunately RVD is so unsuitable for him as an opponent. Ric can’t bump a lot, he can’t move quickly enough and he certainly can’t throw high spots around with Van Dam. In turn RVD’s selling sucks ass, and his total inability to sell a leg that Flair had worked on all match was pretty laughable here. There is value to having both of these guys in prominent roles on the Raw brand but they should not be wrestling each other. In fact, Flair should be wrestling far less frequently in general.
Big Show (who looks fatter than ever) is talking to Smackdown GM Stephanie McMahon. As he’s a Raw superstar Eric Bischoff isn’t best pleased. He complains about not being on a ppv since July and demands to be put into main events…
A video package showcasing the history and heritage of the Intercontinental Championship is shown. It will be unified with the World Title tonight…
Jamie Noble vs Tajiri – WWE Cruiserweight Title Match
These two used to be friends, but that friendship had sadly gone awry by this point. Tajiri wants to hit his old buddy where it hurts the most – and take away his Cruiserweight Championship.
ASAI MOONSAULT TO THE FLOOR BY TAJIRI! And that’s before the match even starts! The challenger uses his striking superiority to his advantage and kicks Noble all around the ring. Jamie retaliates with a RUNNING electric chair drop for 2. He then counters an attempted crucifix pin into a Samoan drop to start taking control of the contest. Noble starts working over the back, I’m guessing because he was so impressed by Dawn Marie earlier. Tajiri misses a moonsault, but lands on his feet and rotates straight into a tornado DDT! Spectacular as that was, it appears to hurt his back as much as it hurts the champ so both men lie on the deck. Strike flurry from Tajiri, succeeded by the handspring elbow, then a bridging German for 2. Tarantula next…before Noble ducks the Buzzaw Kick. Gibson Driver countered into a superkick…but Nidia saves the belt by making out with the referee! GIBSON DRIVER gets 2! In the end Nidia gets the assist on a roll-up pin and Noble retains at 08:15
Rating - *** - The usual superficial, fast-paced and all-action showing from the cruiserweights. It was certainly better than anything on the show so far but, as usual, it just doesn’t amount to anything significant. Noble had been consistently entertaining and consistently decent in the ring for months, but the gimmick was starting to run it’s course and his career was no further along than when he debuted. The same can be said for Tajiri, who has been around for longer, always has fun matches, but was never viewed as anything more than a reliable, dime-a-dozen junior heavyweight.
Tajiri gets revenge by forcing himself on Nidia then Buzzsaw Kicking both their heads together.
Chris Benoit finds Eddie Guerrero in the locker rooms to tell him that Kurt Angle is assaulting Chavo. Eddie thinks it’s a scheme (he and Benoit weren’t getting along)…but it isn’t.
Triple H vs Kane – World Heavyweight Title/WWE Intercontinental Title Unification Match
Apparently the WWE were fed up with the more traditional way of building up World Title Matches. You know…one guy has the belt, the other guy wants it, so they wrestle? Hell, even the (already ridiculous) idea of unifying the Intercontinental Title with the World Title wasn’t enough hype to satisfy the WWE bigwigs. Here the WWE boldly attempted to revolutionise wrestling by incorporating something we’d all long-felt it lacked...necrophilia. Yes, Kane wanted Hunter’s World Title. So to get into his head, HHH dug into the Big Red Machine’s past and unearthed the closeted skeleton that was ‘Katie Vick’. She was Kane’s first love (unrequited obviously), whom he inadvertently killed in a car accident – presumably whilst he’d escaped the mental institution he was supposedly concealed in for many years until his WWE debut. Not content with that, Triple H also implied that Kane was such a ‘sick freak’ that he decided to rape Katie’s corpse in the funeral home too. Complete with one of the most bizarre skits in wrestling history where HHH, dressed as Kane, undressed and simulated sex with a mannequin ‘corpse’. It was supposed to be funny, and in some ways it was, mostly because it was so UNBELIEVABLY bad you couldn’t believe what you were watching. But moronic segments like that had no place on a wrestling show and fans almost instantly rallied against the entire angle. Kane’s main event push was pretty much shot, and it became another in the growing arsenal of critical bullets people wanted to fire at Triple H. People knew there was no way Kane was winning this match, and they were desperate to get the match over with so we could forget the angle ever happened. The ‘funeral parlour’ skit isn’t included at all in the pre-match hype video in case you were wondering.
Kane looks to vent all his frustration on HHH, beating on him so much that the champ tries to leave. JR quite rightly questions what Katie Vick has to do with a wrestling match at all (ask the f*cking writers Jim, they came up with this sh*t) as in the ring Kane continues to bludgeon Helmsley and no sell any offence coming back his way. We are almost five minutes in when Triple H succeeds in shunting the monster into the ringpost with a jumping knee. He follows it with a series of neckbreakers, but does so with so little energy and urgency the crowd have pretty much fallen asleep. A spinebuster and a slingshot into the bottom rope come next so at least he is keeping it consistent with which body part he looks to target. The Game attacks the neck still further as he mounts Kane with a sleeper hold but he simply doesn’t have the strength to keep the Big Red Machine on the ground. Kane retaliates with the flying clothesline…before Ric Flair runs in and guillotines his throat over the top rope. Triple H brains Kane with the World Title belt for 2, before The Hurricane flies in trying to help out his tag partner. PEDIGREE ON THE FLOOR destroys the superhero! Kane puts a boot into the champion’s face after he attempts an ill-advised dive off the top rope…but seconds later he also puts his foot through Earl Hebner as well. Poor Earl bumps in every HHH match at this stage it seems. CHOKESLAM THROUGH THE SPANISH ANNOUNCE TABLE! Flair comes to his protégé’s aid, drawing some genuine laughs as he chops at Kane like a wildman, only for the Machine to no sell them all. The challenger grabs HHH’s sledgehammer but Hunter saves his skin with a kick to the balls. Helmsley hits Kane in the chest with the sledgehammer. Yet Kane NO SELLS? How the f*ck do you no sell a sledgehammer? Chokeslam nailed…and when Flair drags the replacement referee out of the ring Kane gives him a Chokeslam too. HHH wins with a Pedigree at 16:12, unifying the World and IC Titles.
Rating - ** - The angle was so bad nobody was ever going to give this match a chance. Whilst I didn’t think it was as good as their 2001 Chain Match, it certainly wasn’t atrocious. It was definitely more exciting than the interminably boring HHH/RVD match at Unforgiven too. HHH targeting the neck was cool, even though it went nowhere, and once Flair arrived on the scene it did have a certain car crash (pun intended) quality to it.
Stephanie McMahon has summoned ‘Tracy’ into her office to talk about her affair with Undertaker. She admits to Steph that the ‘affair’ was all a lie concocted by Paul Heyman. Taker was hiding behind the door (I’m not sure why) to hear the whole thing…and Stephanie kicks Tracy out of the building. Another retarded plot bites the dust…
Kurt Angle/Chris Benoit vs Edge/Rey Mysterio – WWE Tag Title Tournament Final
With the only recognised Tag Title belts in the WWE being exclusive to the Raw brand, Stephanie announced plans to create a new Tag Championship for Smackdown. The first champions would be determined via an 8-team tournament lasting several weeks and culminating tonight. Edge and Mysterio formed a partnership based on friendship and mutual respect – and made it to the finals by defeating the team of Brock Lesnar and Tajiri in the first round, then D-Von Dudley and Ron Simmons in the semi-finals. The history of their opposing team tonight is more complex. Steph wanted the best tag division in wrestling history, so forced her two best wrestlers to become a team – even though they hated each other. We saw Benoit and Angle tear strips off each other at Unforgiven, but they had now been put together as a duo and threatened with a year-long suspension if they didn’t get along. Tensions were barely concealed during their first round victory over John Cena and Billy Kidman, but by the semi-finals the manipulative actions of Los Guerreros actually brought them together. Will they be able to remain on the same page for the duration of this match?
Angle smirks as he starts with Rey, and wastes no time taking to the mat to playfully smack the back of his head. Mysterio refuses to tag out to Edge, coming back at a much quicker pace and skipping off the top rope into a slingshot headscissors. Now it’s time for Edge to get in there with his old rival Kurt – completely dominating the frustrated Angle. Benoit helps out his partner and gets punished with a running knee to the stomach. Edge starts working Chris’ ribs; hitting an assortment of backbreakers and gutbusters then a fast-paced flapjack for 2. SPEAR THROUGH THE ROPES ON ANGLE! Kurt isn’t impressed with that and throttles Edge on the top rope before tagging in. The Olympian’s plan is to make it as hard as possible for Edge to breathe. He stomps on the ribs, stands on the throat then snares him in a rear chinlock with bodyscissors. When the Canadian escapes that Angle is poised and ready to drop him again with a belly to belly suplex. Benoit follows up on that with repeated knees to the stomach then ROLLING GERMANS! They haven’t inflicted enough damage for him to hit the Flying Wolverine though…and Edge catches him on the top rope for a superplex. The wounded Edge gets the hot tag to Mysterio…who hits a SPRINGBOARD LEG DROP on Benoit as he hangs from the middle rope! In response Benoit counters a bulldog attempt into the Crippler Crossface! Edge lunges in to save the match…619 COUNTERED! So Edge MISSILE DROPKICKS his own partner into a crossbody on the Wolverine for 2! ROPE RUN BELLY TO BELLY from Angle to Rey! Kurt and Chris absolutely maul the luchador – doing a real number on his back. Mysterio was so athletic and slim at this point that he seriously flies around the ring into absolutely crazy bumps during this heat segment. He absorbs serious punishment before finally springboarding into a headscissors on Benoit – which knocks his shoulder into the ringpost. Tags all round, with Edge spearing Benoit’s ribs then flinging Rey into a Bronco Buster. He then lifts Angle onto the top rope FOR THE LEAPFROG SUPER RANA FROM MYSTERIO! FLYING WOLVERINE BY BENOIT…GETS HIS OWN PARTNER! Edge isn’t done…he BELLY TO BELLY’S REY INTO A SOMERSAULT SENTON ON ANGLE! CRIPPLER CROSSFACE ON EDGE! REY SAVES WITH THE 619! ANGLE SLAM ON MYSTERIO! Edge kicks away from the Anklelock and runs through Kurt with the SPEAR! BENOIT SAVES! EDGE POWERBOMBS REY INTO A MOONSAULT TO THE FLOOR! EDGECUTION COUNTERED TO THE ANKLELOCK! COUNTERED TO AN ANKLELOCK ON ANGLE! BACK TO KURT’S ANKLELOCK! EDGE TAPS! Benoit and Angle are the champs at 22:02
Rating - ***** - This was easily WWE’s MOTY in 2002, and very possibly the best tag team match the company has ever produced. There are probably some minor criticisms you could make regarding selling, but twelve years later this is still mind-blowingly good. You had one former and three future World Champions in there. You had Kurt, Benoit and Mysterio at their absolute peak before their bodies started falling apart, and Edge on the cusp of breaking the main event scene after a phenomenal year. Despite both teams being relatively thrown together, the chemistry they all shared was magnificent. Angle and Benoit were a revelation as the no-nonsense, hard-hitting, wrestle-their-opponents-into-the-ground team. Their heat segments on both Edge and Rey were a joy to watch and an absolute masterclass in how to make a heat segment mean something, rather than just coast along stalling for time until you can hit your spots at the end. Across the ring from them, Edge and Rey looked like they’d been teaming together for years. Their array of double teams blew the roof off the arena down the closing straight. This was the pinnacle of the ‘Smackdown Six’ era and a truly legendary match. It is a real shame that the events of 2007 in the Benoit household mean that WWE can’t acknowledge this as the all-time classic that it is.
Undertaker demands a painkilling injection for his hand so he can get through Hell In A Cell. Manly…
Trish Stratus vs Victoria – WWE Women’s Title Match
Victoria had been around developmental for a long time, but finally got her break when WWE brought her up to TV to play a twisted, jealous, former rival of Trish’s during her time as a fitness model. The basic idea is that Victoria wants revenge by taking the thing Trish values above all else – the Women’s Championship, which she is now holding for the third time.
To my immense disappointment, this is before Victoria started using that Tatu song as her entrance music. She is significantly taller than Trish – and starts looking to use that size to her advantage. She actually absorbs a flurry of Chick Kicks without falling off her feet…then takes the fight to the outside where she smashes Stratus’ head into the post. The champion is dropped chest-first over the guardrails next and immediately struggles to catch her breath. Slight botch on a monkey flip next before Trish scores with the headstand frankensteiner for 2. Spider’s Web gets a nearfall right back for the challenger though, and drops Trish on her ribs again. Somehow Trish counters an attempted moonsault into an electric chair drop but is too injured to capitalise right away. Chick Kick floors Victoria this time though – and the Stratus rolls her up for three at 05:33
Rating - ** - A really solid ppv debut for Victoria and a surprisingly competitive little match considering they were put into the death slot. At times it did feel more like a procession of spots than a match, but credit to Victoria for keeping things ticking along with a consistent and coherent attack on the ribs. The roll-up finish (rather than Stratusfaction) provides Victoria with an element of protection and they’d go on to get a special stipulations rematch at Survivor Series to top this
Victoria attacks Trish after the match to make the point that this feud isn’t over yet…
Rikishi is at The World to talk about how being thrown off the Cell by Undertaker changed his career. If somebody could point out exactly how his career was changed by Hell In A Cell at Armageddon 2000 I’d be grateful.
Brock Lesnar vs Undertaker – WWE Title Hell In A Cell Match
At Unforgiven these two couldn’t be separated. They fought to a bloody no contest and the show went off the air after Taker tossed the WWE Champion through the set. Since Brock failed to beat him, Undertaker immediately felt he was entitled to a rematch and it was set for No Mercy – with a stipulation to be determined. Brock and Paul Heyman made Taker’s life miserable: breaking his hand in a violent backstage ambush then dragging up his personal life by bringing ‘Tracy’ to a show. Stephanie McMahon sanctioned Hell In A Cell to finally settle the feud between these two. Can Lesnar survive the Phenom’s signature match? Can he add the Deadman to the growing list of legends who have fallen victim to the Next Big Thing? Or can the Undertaker get revenge for the hell he’s been put through and once again wear the WWE Championship?
Undertaker is juiced up remember, so comes out swinging his numbed, casted hand looking to use it as a weapon. He thumps Brock in the stomach with the cast, which the champion dislikes so much he actually tries to leave the Cell – though the heavy padlocks on the door prevent him. Lesnar returns to the ring and starts attacking the broken hand…and despite the painkilling injection Taker is clearly in pain. Paul Heyman screams as Undertaker splits Brock’s head open with the cast-wrapped hand…and things get significantly worse for the Next Big Thing as he is repeatedly thrown into the walls of the Cell causing plenty of blood to flow. Some of the intensity of the beatdown is lost as Undertaker climbs to the top rope, instantly regrets doing so, and hits the most hilariously awful top rope knee drop to the apron you’ll ever see. He gets the crowd back quickly by booting the wall of the Cell so hard into Paul E.’s face that it busts him open too! Brock uses Heyman’s distraction to his advantage though, as he recovers sufficiently to scoop the Deadman up and flapjack him into the steel mesh. The bloody WWE Champion uses Heyman’s belt to fasten the broken hand against the Cell. STEEL CHAIR TO THE HAND! He strikes it so many times that the belt holding it in place snaps, though the assault continues as he starts smashing the hand into the Cell and tries to rip the protective cast off. With the protection of the cast now gone Lesnar keeps savagely attacking the injury. He also swings off the roof of the cell like an ape to punt Taker in the face. Undertaker uses the roof of the Cell as well – mostly for balance rather than for an offensive purpose – and traverses the top rope into a MACHO ELBOW! Clearly the injured hand is now causing him to take massive offensive risks and use moves he never normally executes. Heyman is absolutely POURING blood by the way – pleading with Brock to get up as the Phenom boots him off the apron and into the Cell. TOPE SUICIDA BY TAKER! The broken hand prevents him from picking up the steel steps…allowing Brock to pick them up instead. He HAMMERS Taker with the steps…which he sells with one of the sickest blade jobs in WWE history. Referee Mike Chioda is all over Taker instantly, obviously checking whether he is ok to continue as massive pools of blood start to form on the white canvas. He swings broken-handed punches in Lesnar’s direction (sending droplets of blood into the lens of the ringside camera) then does his best to break Brock’s hand. Unfortunately the challenger is far too beaten up to hit the Old School walk and is hauled off the top rope with a super armdrag. F-5 countered to the Chokeslam for 2! In response Brock cockily tries to steal the Last Ride…and is planted on his own bloody forehead with a running DDT. LAST RIDE ON LESNAR! But he’s so bloody and injured he loses precious seconds before pinning, allowing Brock to make the ropes. Tombstone COUNTERED TO THE F-5! Lesnar retains at 27:18
Rating - **** - It took two years (and a total BS finish at last month’s ppv) but finally Undertaker has done a clean job to put someone over. It doesn’t excuse how he’s acted over the last couple of years, but you do have to praise him for (finally) doing the right thing here. He did everything possible to put Lesnar over. A clean loss, plenty of big bumps, one of the sickest blade jobs in WWE history, losing to him in ‘his’ signature stipulation match etc. It’s one of the more graphic brawls you’re ever likely to see. They didn’t have too many elaborate spots, and the psychology around Undertaker’s hand is all over the place – but you can’t deny that from the first minute to the last it felt like a fight. It felt like two big, tough dudes beating the sh*t out of each other. When you consider how hollow and perfunctory the HHH/Jericho HIAC Match at Judgment Day felt (with a far longer feud behind it) you’ll realise just how good this was.
Brock further mocks Undertaker by climbing up to the top of the Cell (where the Deadman has inflicted such punishment in the past) and poses triumphantly with his belt.
Tape Rating - ** - This is a very similar show to Unforgiven from the preceding month. The Smackdown half was far better than the Raw side, HHH’s World Title match was pretty boring and two stand-out matches carry a pretty underwhelming card. Unforgiven was probably a more consistent show, as this had a lot more crap on it. However, the WWE Tag Title tournament finals was 2002’s MOTY for the company, and the bloody and brutal Hell In A Cell match is a hell of a main event (which also cemented Brock Lesnar’s main event spot). The rest of this event is completely skippable, but you owe it to yourself to check out those two matches.
Top 3 Matches
3) Jamie Noble vs Tajiri (***)
2) Brock Lesnar vs Undertaker (****)
1) Kurt Angle/Chris Benoit vs Edge/Rey Mysterio (*****)