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No Mercy 2007 took place on October 7, 2007 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois.[9]
Dark match: Hardcore Holly defeated Cody Rhodes Holly pinned Rhodes after an Alabama Slam. Triple H defeated Randy Orton to win the WWE Championship (11:15) Triple H pinned Orton with a Schoolboy. This match was originally supposed to be John Cena defending the title against Randy Orton in a Last Man Standing match, but was changed when Cena suffered a legitimate injury and the title was vacated. Orton was awarded the title at the beginning of No Mercy by Vince McMahon. Mr. Kennedy, Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch defeated Jeff Hardy, Paul London and Brian Kendrick (8:06) Kennedy pinned London after a Green Bay Plunge. CM Punk defeated Big Daddy V (w/Matt Striker) by disqualification to retain the ECW Championship (1:37) Big Daddy V was disqualified after Striker attacked Punk. Triple H defeated Umaga to retain the WWE Championship (6:33) Triple H pinned Umaga after a Pedigree. Finlay fought Rey Mysterio to a no-contest (9:08) The referee stopped the match after Finlay took a bump to the outside and feigned unconsciousness. Finlay then attacked Mysterio from behind. Beth Phoenix defeated Candice Michelle to win the WWE Women's Championship (4:32) Phoenix pinned Michelle with a Bridging Fisherman's Suplex. Batista defeated The Great Khali (w/Ranjin Singh) in a Punjabi Prison match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship (14:47) Batista won after escaping from the structure by climbing over the bamboo cage. Randy Orton defeated Triple H in a Last Man Standing match to win the WWE Championship (20:25) Triple H failed to answer the 10-count after an RKO on the announce table. WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008 WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008 is a professional wrestling video game scheduled to be released on the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii consoles and the PlayStation Portable, and Nintendo DS handheld consoles by THQ and developed by YUKE's Future Media Creators. It will be the latest edition to the long-running WWE SmackDown! video game series based on the professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It will be the sequel to 2006's WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007, and will be the first to include the promotion's ECW brand. It will also be the first WWE game to be available for all seventh generation game consoles. WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008 is a 2007 Game Critics Award nominee for Best Fighting Game http://en.wikipedia.org For WWE's Chris Jericho, a sort of homecoming He may have spent most of his life living in Winnipeg, but World Wrestling Entertainment writers just didn't like the idea of wrestling hero Chris Jericho being billed from the Great White North. "They didn't want guys to be from Canada if they were good guys," said Jericho, 37, recalling the policy change about three years ago. "So I said, 'Why don't you just say Manhasset?' That's at least where I was born." Tonight promises to be a homecoming on two different fronts for Jericho. Not only will he be signing copies of his recently published memoirs, "A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex" at the Carle Place Barnes & Noble at 5 p.m., but he is rumored to be making his return to the ring after a two-year hiatus at the Nassau Coliseum for a taping of WWE's "Smackdown!" program. "I never had any intentions of retiring. I just needed to take a step back," said Jericho, who spent his time off touring with his band, Fozzy, and doing some acting. But Jericho said writing a book, "helped me to remember the passion and the love that I had for the [wrestling] business." "A Lion's Tale," which details Jericho's journey from a childhood Hulk Hogan fan through honing his craft in Mexico, Japan and, eventually, making it to the WWE, has drawn solid early reviews, including from Publishers Weekly, which called the book "Funny, insightful and compulsively readable." Tonight's WWE event is the first on Long Island since controversy struck WWE when authorities say Chris Benoit killed his wife, son and himself in June. Jericho writes plenty about his close friend and mentor, in his book, which he completed more than a month before the deaths. In an addendum, Jericho addresses the incident, but otherwise left his remembrances of Benoit intact. "He was involved so much in my life and especially in my early career, that you couldn't just edit this guy out," said Jericho. "It would be compromising my story." Jericho, who moved to Canada when he was 5, has few memories of growing up on Long Island, but said performing here is always special. "It's still always neat to see these words on a street sign of "Manhasset," and know that's what's on my birth certificate." http://www.newsday.com/ |
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