8 Things WWE Got Right At WWE No Mercy 2016

It wasn't perfect, but it was pretty darn good.

by John Bills
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These pay-per-view events come by pretty darn quickly don't they? Just five or so minutes after Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho back-peddled up the Clash of Champions ramp, Mauro Ranallo, JBL and David Otunga were welcoming us to SmackDown Live's No Mercy. Okay, not quite five minutes, but it sure seemed like it.

SmackDown Live's second exclusive pay-per-view of the brand split era was something of a mixed bag in truth. The show opened with AJ Styles defending his WWE World Championship (that is still a wonderful thing to type) in a triple threat match against former champion Dean Ambrose and champion in the eyes of the company John Cena.

The show was somewhat hampered by Becky Lynch having to pull out of her scheduled SmackDown Women's Championship defence against Alexa Bliss, but going into the show the card looked like it would be a whole lot of fun. Sure, it was a little generic in that fantasy booking sort of manner (title matches, upper mid-card feud, enhancement match etc), but there was plenty to get behind and enjoy.

As mentioned, No Mercy ended up being something of a mixed bag of an event, but I'll be damned if I'm starting my Monday off complaining about Alexa Bliss doing Gedo impressions. Here are eight things WWE got right at No Mercy.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.