10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About No Mercy
6. No Mercy In The UK
It's long been accepted that the WWE crew don't perhaps give full effort, or at least don't try as hard as they do when they're on home soil, when they travel across the Atlantic Ocean and perform in the UK. While that may or may not be true today, there's sufficient effort to suggest that WWE tended to phone it in some years ago, including when they were on pay-per-view.
UK-exclusive PPVs were inconsistent at the best of times, with perhaps only one or two matches littered amongst the dross. No Mercy in the UK, on the other hand, never rose above 'mediocre' and many of the matches were terrible and belonged nowhere near pay-per-view. Hell, some of them barely passed 'house show' level.
Gilberg versus Tiger Ali Singh, The Brood versus Viscera & The Acolytes, Droz versus Steve Blackman, Kane versus Mideon, Nicole Bass versus Tori and Mankind versus Billy Gunn is hardly a stunning line-up, is it? Only one match - a European Championship tussle between Shane McMahon and X-Pac - was truly entertaining.
Even the Triple H Vs. The Undertaker Vs. Steve Austin top-liner failed to truly satisfy despite the obvious star power, relying on shortcuts and brawling and going on for an age (twenty-five minutes).