Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11305 in VHS
• Released on: 2002-02-11
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of tapes: 1

Video Description
Please note this product was created before 10 November 2002 when the World Wrestling Federation Entertainmnet Inc. traded as WWF. This product refers to WWF and carries a WWF logo

Synopsis
Includes Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Rob Van Dam vs Kurt Angle and the first ever Lingerie Match.

Customer Reviews

While showing his opponents No Mercy...
2001 was overall a great year for the WWF and No Mercy was one of the best PPV events of the year. The highlights of the card were the much-touted Rock vs. Chris Jericho match (which ended up being voted the Best Match of the Year in several magazines. I don't think that it was QUITE as good as people made out but I think it was definatly a **** star match - a worthy payoff to the excellent feud leading up to the match. Rock and Jericho have had other matches since - but none have lived up to this initial bout) and the Ladder match for the Intercontinental Title between *brothers* Edge and Christian. This match is, I think, very overlooked by a lot of fans who feel the Ladder match gimmick has been overused in recent years. I would agree with them on that - but not to the extent of making this match look bad. It is an excellent bout with a LOT of brutal spots in it. It does't live up to the Jericho vs. Benoit Ladder match from earlier in the year (see the Royal Rumble 2001) and no-where near the outstanding Ladder match from Wrestlemania X but it still is a great bout. The other matches on the card are good - though not great. The main event is entertaining - although it can't be seen as anything more than a *** match. None of the three men pull out anything special for it and the ending is irritating due to how convoluted it is. However it does have at least ONE excellent moment in it (With Angle out of the ring following a stunner and Austin down from a chair-shot, RVD goes up-top and gets ready to nail a Five-Star on Austin - I thought he'd win the Title and prove my prediction wrong!!!) and the Triple Threat stipulation is entertaining enough. Undertaker vs. Booker T is also average - although the wrong man won it. How can the WWF push a 40-year-old man over a 5-time ("1, 2, 3, 4, 5-time!!!") WCW Champion - it makes no sense. They also recycle the ending to the Undertaker/HHH match from Wrestlemania X-Seven. Both the Tag Championship matches are also average - both fun and by no means boring but not as good as the four-way Tag Title match from Unforgiven 2001 one month prior to No Mercy. Kane vs. Test is fun - a GOOD big-man match that is quite fun to watch with LOTS of near-falls - and the Lingerie match is EXCELLENT. I LOVE STACY KIEBLER!!!!! *ahem* anyway - No Mercy is a good PPV. Lots of average (yet fun) matches but a few real gems in there.

The WWF and the Alliance start to fall apart
WCW Tag Team Title Match
The Hardy Boyz vs Lance Storm and Hurricane Helms 6/10
A decent enough opener that felt a bit short.

Test vs Kane 6/10
I thought this match was going to be slow and boring but it was quite fast and powerful.

Intercontinental Title Ladder Match
Edge vs Christian 10/10
WOW match of the night (I think so anyway).

First Ever Lingerie Match
Stacy Keibler vs Torrie Wilson 3/10
I think you know the score by now two women prancing around the ring dressed in lingerie.

WWF Tag Team Title Match
The Dudley Boyz vs Tajiri and Big Show 4/10
A fun tag match but not the best tag match the Dudleys have featured in.

The Undertaker vs Booker T 5/10
An average match that could have done so much more.

WCW World Title Match
The Rock vs Chris Jericho 10/10
Finally Jericho gets a shot a the big one and what a great opponent he gets. This match is emotionally and physically charged.

WWF World Title Triple Threat Match
Steve Austin vs Kurt Angle vs Rob Van Dam 7/10
This match could have done so much more and the storyline behind it was messy.

Rock Vs Jericho! Austin Vs Angle Vs RVD! All For Gold!
No Mercy took place on October 21st 2001 from the Savvis Center in an historic wrestling city, St Louis. The show was headlined with a double main event, two big matches for the two major World Heavyweight Championships!

Ever since he arrived in the WWF, Chris Jericho had been planted with the "choker tag", as he always seemed to lose big match after big match after big match. A post match altercation a few weeks before this PPV with the WCW Champion, The Rock, gave Y2J the chance to change that tag. Two of the most popular superstars in the WWF were now to collide for the newest championship in the WWF, and the Alliance were all out to disrupt it, but the focus as far as the combatants were concerned were on their opposition. The match turned out to be one of the greatest ever for the WCW title during its stay in the WWF, and I recommend it on this match alone! The start of the Rock/Y2J rivalry, a nice long, great one!

A couple of weeks before No Mercy, Stone Cold Steve Austin had won the WWF Title back from Kurt Angle via interference from William Regal, who had since become the Alliance's new commissioner. His replacement in the WWF post was the former commish, Mick Foley, and he was out to make sure that Austin's reign as champ wouldn't last long. Not only did he give Angle his rematch, but he also gave the shot to the hottest newcomer of the WWF, the Alliance's Rob Van Dam. This move upset Austin, as he was aware of RVD's great popularity in spite of Austin's unpopularity with the fans. He also felt that RVD was out to take over from Austin as Alliance leader, so Austin was on a double hunt-and-destroy mission. In the week leading up to No Mercy, Austin tried to make a deal with Van Dam, but the Whole Damn Show refused to make the pact to save Austin's title, rather to go for it himself, and this match was all the more exciting for it. I'm personally not a huge fan of the Three-Way Dance format, but it was a good match and I'm sure fans will enjoy this one.

A month earlier at Unforgiven, Christian had used foul means to win the WWF Intercontinental Title from his brother and former tag-team partner, Edge. No Mercy was the chance for Edge's revenge, as a rematch was signed for the title. Not only that, it was made into a ladder match! Admittingly, it's not the best ladder match you'll see, but Christian and Edge posess the skills necessary to make it an entertaining match that will keep you hooked for its duration.

Other matches that took place at WWF No Mercy 2001...

WCW TAG TEAM TITLES MATCH: Hardy Boyz (c) Vs Lance Storm/Hurricane
Kane Vs Test
LINGERIE MATCH: Stacy Keibler Vs Torrie Wilson
WWF TAG TEAM TITLES MATCH: Dudley Boyz (c) Vs Tajiri/Big Show
Booker T Vs The Undertaker