Wrestling fans since it's been a little while since we last talked I thought that i'd hopefully dedicate the next few days to talking nothing about classic WWE PPV's. Why classic WWE PPV's I hear you ask well the answer simple alot of these classic WWE PPV's are shows that I grew up with as such it made sense to me at least to cover a few pf these shows because when these shows first aired I would watch WWE all the time where as now while I do keep up with the product via Youtube I don't watch WWE on a weekly basis and so join me as I review "No Mercy 2002" enjoy the review.
I honestly don't feel that you need to have watched Smackdown or Raw from around the same period of this show. Simply because they sum up every story line either in a full blown video package or by showing highlights from either Raw or Smackdown and I do feel that this is great way to remind people of what the storylines going on at the time were as well as get new fans into the product who perhaps might not want to watch several weeks worth of episodes to understand one match or to understand what's going on in this show.
Let's talk about the set for this show to me it's a very plain looking set with there being alot of space between the titantron and the thin square thing. I honestly that the set for this show isn't that visually interesting to look out in fact it looks rather plain and boring in my opinion which is a shame because the sets for WWE shows be they weekly shows or PPV's should in my opinion always look visually interesting.
This is the first time that i've seen a show with Chris Benoit on the card for years and I have to say given what he did it's honestly uncomfortable watching him compete on this show. That being said I do strongly believe that we should judge Christ Benoit and what he did outside of the ring separately from what he did inside of the ring but I will fully understand if people just don't want to talk about Christ Benoit anymore.
Just t talk about the the opening match which is Chris Jericho and Christian vs Goldust and Booker T for some reason the WWE chose to have Christian and Goldust be the ones that are involved with the finish. This is despite the fact that the story behind the match is focused on Booker T and Christ Jericho as such to me would have made alot more sense to have Christ Jericho and Booker T involved with getting the pin fall rather then Christian and Goldust.
Just to give you guys an idea of how badly the women in WWE were treated during this time period because there are only two women's matches on this card and not only does each match last less then ten minuets it's the second that has actual wrestlers. Since the first women's match is Torrie Wilson vs Dawn Marie with the second match being Trish Stratus vs Victoria as such just from those two matches alone you can very easily tell that the Trish Stratus vs Victoria which is for Trish Stratus's WWE Women's Championship but to be fair both Torrie Wilson and Dawn Marie do a passable job and you can tell that both Torrie Wilson and dawn Marie are trying to put on a decent match but you can't compete with Trish Stratus vs Victoria in my opinion.
Sticking with Trish Stratus what I wasn't expecting was to see her use all of her main moves in her match with Victoria. Since I had honestly forgotten that she using the Chick Kick , The Stratusphere and The Stratusfaction at this point as such it was honestly refreshing to see her bust those moves out and what was even more shocking is seeing Victoria kick out of all of those moves it's just a shame that after a killer tag team match the crowd was pretty much dead for the Trish Stratus vs Victoria match since the match was really good.
If you know your wrestling history then you'll know that this show was taking place during the infamous Katie Vick storyline. Which wasn't just bad by the standards of today it was always pretty bad and just watching a match that was about that storyline and advancing that storyline just brought back of that storyline and thank god that storyline ended not long after this show because my god was that Katie Vick storyline pretty freaking bad.
This pay per view is two hours and forty six minuets and thirty seconds which is honestly the length that a WWE pay per view should be in my opinion. In my opinion those involved with making this pay per view do make the most of the time that they have since almost every segment is either advancing a current storyline or is setting up a current / future storyline which in turn helps the WWE get more viewers and i'm shocked that the WWE don't does this now with there current pay per views because honestly they could really do with building up todays WWE wrestlers so that they are actually superstars.
There are honestly alot of really good matches on this card as such it would be hard for me to pick out just one good match. Even the matches that aren't the main event are for the most really good (yes i'm including Torrie Wilson vs Dawn Marie in there as well) every wrestler is on their game in this show and while none of the other matches will ever top the main event which here is Brock Lesner Vs The Undertake in a Hell In A Cell match for the WWE Championship they are all still some really good matches in my opinion.
Overall No Mercy 2002 was a really good pay per view in my opinion with like I said some really solid matched. While I didn't go to much into the negatives in this review since all the negatives were just bad backstage comedy segments those are still some bad elements and while they don't out do the good elements with me having discussed both the good and the bad elements of those pay per view in this review those bad elements have to be taken into account and as such this pay per view gets a n 8 out of 10 from me , as for where I got the images that I used in this review I got the images that I used in this from either the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page or Google Images and honestly it doesn't matter which website you use if you want images from this pay per view since there's no difference in terms of image quality.