Just finished watching WWE’s No Mercy and good thing I didn’t pay for it but I did watch it legally. It was shown in a local cable channel as a special feature. Anyway, I felt that most, if not all, of the matches were not worth to be on a pay-per-view. All feels short and the setup of each spot move were too obvious. It’s a very mediocre PPV. In fact, I fell asleep during Triple H’s and Jeff Hardy’s match.

A quick win for Batista (Photo from WWE.com)

The PPV started with the ECW Championship match between Matt Hardy and Mark Henry. I know Matt won’t lose the title to Mark Henry since he just won it at Unforgiven but, come on, do they have to make the match suck as well. I feel that Matt didn’t do enough damage to make the defeat of Henry believable. Hey, it’s fake but it doesn’t have to look fake, right?

The Women’s Championship match between Beth Phoenix and Candice Michelle followed the ECW match. I don’t care much for WWE’s women’s division but I do like looking at most of them. For some reason, the match was okay maybe because I wasn’t expecting anything from the two ladies or maybe I was just glad it was over that quick.

The next match was between Rey Mysterio and Kane and honestly it was a decent match with Rey doing what he does best and that is to fly. I’m just disappointed that it ended in a disqualification. My guess is that, this thing with Kane and Rey isn’t over yet.

The Batista versus JBL Number One Contender’s match ended rather quickly. Batista was all over JBL, although JBL did do a few moves here and there but the entire match was all Batista. It was like, WWE just wanted to get that match over with so that Batista can be the number one contender once again for the championship. Wait a minute, I think the whole segment between Cryme Tyme and JBL, including JBL’s monologue, took longer than his match with Batista.

That was followed by the match between the Bigshow and the Undertaker. Again, this match is like a Smackdown setup match. There was nothing special in it and I still can’t believe that the Undertaker can be taken out that easily with a couple of punches. It’s not very Undertaker like.

I wasn’t able to watch the WWE Championship match between Triple H and Jeff Hardy because, as I’ve said above, I fell asleep. I woke up with Triple H overturning Jeff Hardy’s cover to pin Jeff Hardy and to retain the title. Anyway, I don’t think Jeff would ever become WWE Champion. I feel that WWE is just teasing the fans of a posible Jeff Hardy title run to keep them excited and wanting only to drop the belt to someone else.

In general, I was not too impressed with this year’s No Mercy. As I’ve said, the matches were too short, too predictable and they were not exciting. In short, the execution of the matches were not PPV material.

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I was able to watch the entire 2008 Royal Rumble yesterday and no I’m not talking about the Jimmy Snuka/Roddy Piper thing. I’m referring to the Y2J and JBL’s match where Y2J missed a move but JBL still went down hard on the canvass. Too bad for them, the entire Madison Square Garden caught it and I almost fell out of my chair when I saw JBL fell down like a log. LOL! That particular sequence totally destroyed the match. Y2J was a bloody mess and I felt both tried hard to salvage the match from the botch but all I can think of was JBL falling down from a missed move.

Royal Rumble 2008’s singles matches weren’t great but the Rumble was pretty good until it got to the ending where John Cena entered as the 30th entry and eventually won the Rumble. My guess is, now that he is back, he will again be main eventing all future WWE PPVs. Darn! I was really hoping Jeff Hardy will win against Orton but with John Cena back, Jeff and many other Superstars will be put aside once again.

Anyway, if you wish to watch Royal Rumble 2008 then just head on over to Dailymotion.com and search for Royal Rumble 2008 or just click here.

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