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The 1999 No Mercy held in the United States was the second No Mercy
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produced by the
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(WWF, now WWE). It took place on October 17, 1999, at the Gund Arena in
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,
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. While the previous No Mercy event was held exclusively for the United Kingdom and held in May, this event was moved to the United States and established No Mercy as the annual October PPV until 2008. Nine matches, including three
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matches, took place at the event. In the first,
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won the
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to become the oldest champion in professional wrestling history at the time. In the second,
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defeated
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to win the
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, becoming the first and only female Intercontinental Champion in the promotion's history. Lastly,
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defeated
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to retain the
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. Also on the
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was a
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ladder match in which The New Brood ( Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy) defeated
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. The event also marked the last appearance of Jeff Jarrett in the promotion until 2019. Reviews for the event were generally positive. Both
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and 411mania.com rated the event eight out of ten. The tag team ladder match in particular received very positive reviews from critics.


Production


Background

On May 16, 1999, the
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(WWF, now WWE) held No Mercy as a United Kingdom-exclusive
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(PPV) and it was broadcast from the
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in
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. A second No Mercy was then scheduled for later that same year on October 17, but at the Gund Arena in
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,
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. Before the event, Jeff Jarrett was on his way out of the company, as management felt he had been a bad investment for the company. Vince McMahon, the WWF Chairman, came up with the idea for Jarrett and Chyna to become involved in a storyline together. Vince Russo was asked to write the storyline leading up to the match, including when Jarrett would taunt Chyna and hit her with random household objects.Laurer, Joanie. ''If They Only Knew'', p. 308–309. The fans responded positively to the battle-of-the-sexes match-ups.Laurer, Joanie. ''If They Only Knew'', p. 310. They were originally supposed to have their match-up at Rebellion, but the WWF extended the storyline for another month due to its popularity.Laurer, Joanie. ''If They Only Knew'', p. 311. In the midst of the feud, Russo left the WWF for rival promotion
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(WCW). In her autobiography ''If They Only Knew'', Chyna implies that Russo was the person who convinced McMahon to delay their pay-per-view match for a month, because he knew Jarrett was also going to sign with WCW. Because of the delay, Jarrett's contract expired the day before the match, so he was not contractually required to wrestle at the event.Laurer, Joanie. ''If They Only Knew'', p. 314–315. Hours before the event began, Jarrett demanded (and received) somewhere between $300,000–500,000 to wrestle Chyna for the night.


Storylines

Nine
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were featured on the event's
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. Matches were planned with predetermined outcomes by WWF's creative staff and featured wrestlers for the entertainment of the audience. Leading up to their match at No Mercy, Jeff Jarrett would taunt Chyna and hit her with random household objects. He also began a gimmick where he would degrade women, which involved him attacking female WWF employees. At
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, Chyna defeated Jarrett by disqualification after the British Bulldog interfered and clotheslined Chyna. During this time, Jarrett also introduced
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to be the
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for his
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. Prior to No Mercy, The New Brood (
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and
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) were in a rivalry with
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and the two teams were in the midst of the Terri Invitational Tournament, where the winning team would win the managerial services of
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. The series was a "best-of-five" and began on the September 30 episode of '' SmackDown!'' when Edge and Christian defeated The New Brood in the first match of the tournament. In the weeks proceeding the pay-per-view, the teams traded wins until both teams had two each. Therefore, the match at No Mercy would be the deciding match in the tournament. Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin were also feuding heading into the event. They had a
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, also including
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, at the previous No Mercy pay-per-view in May; in the match, Austin defeated Triple H to retain the title. In the following months, the WWF Championship was traded back and forth amongst Austin, The Undertaker,
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, Triple H, and
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. In late September at
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, Triple H won the championship in a match against five other wrestlers, including The Rock, with Austin as the
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. At the beginning of October at
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, Triple H retained his title in a
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against The Rock.


Event

The first match was between
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and
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in a singles match. During the match,
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interfered several times on the behalf of Mideon. The Godfather, however, won the match after
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Mideon. Subsequently, The Fabulous Moolah, accompanied by her friend
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, and Ivory, the reigning WWF Women's Champion, went to the ring for their match. Ivory immediately performed a
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on Moolah. After interference from Young, Moolah surprised Ivory by pinning her and winning the Women's Championship. At the time, Moolah was in her seventies, thus becoming the oldest champion in the history of professional wrestling. The Hollys (
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and
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) versus the
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(
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and The Road Dogg) was next. In the midst of the match, Hardcore Holly threw a steel chair into the ring. Billy Gunn, however, used the chair to his advantage by performing an offense maneuver on Crash Holly that caused his head to slam into the chair which was lying in the ring. Therefore, the Hollys won the match by disqualification. The fourth match of the night was between Chyna and Jeff Jarrett in a Good Housekeeping match—a hardcore match where the ring is surrounded by household objects which the wrestlers can use against each other—for the WWF Intercontinental Championship. After Jarrett hit Chyna with the Intercontinental title belt, he pinned her. The referee
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, however, overturned the ruling because the belt was not considered a "household item". As a result, Jarrett performed a submission maneuver on Long, but Chyna hit him over the head with a guitar. She then pinned him to win the title. With the win, Chyna became the first woman to ever hold the title. Also as a result of the win, Jarrett's valet Miss Kitty left Jarrett to valet for Chyna. Subsequently, The Rock defeated The British Bulldog in a singles match by performing a Rock Bottom and People's Elbow. After the match, The Rock cut a promo where he challenged the winner of the main event to a match. Triple H, however, came out and hit The Rock with a
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, which caused The Rock to be taken backstage by a stretcher. Backstage, The Rock refused to be taken to the hospital. The following bout was the last match in the ''Terri Invitational Tournament'', contested between The New Brood (
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and
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) and
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in a tag team ladder match. For the match, a bag with $100,000 was hung from the ceiling, and the goal of the match was to use one of the two ladders in the ring to climb and retrieve the bag. The first team to retrieve the bag would win the match. The manager of The New Brood, Gangrel brought a ladder to the ring, but as a result, he got ejected from ringside by the referee. During the match, the ladders were set up so that one was on top of the other, resembling a
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, Jeff jumped on one side so that the other side jutted upwards, knocking down both Matt and Christian. Later in the match, all four men were on the ladders and after Edge pushed Matt off of the ladder they were both on, he fell into the other ladder, knocking Christian to the mat. Jeff however, jumped onto the other ladder to continue to battle with Edge. As Jeff and Edge climbed the ladder, Jeff pushed Edge to the ground and grabbed the bag of money to win the match. As a result of winning the match, The New Brood won $100,000 and the managerial services of Terri Runnels. Backstage, the trio celebrated the win and their new partnership with a bottle of champagne. The seventh match of the night was between
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and
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. During the course of the match, Venis slammed Mankind back first into a steel chair which was lying in the ring. When Mankind tried to perform a
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on Venis, he retaliated by simultaneously grabbing Mankind's crotch. As a result, both men collapsed, but because Venis landed on top of Mankind—causing a pinning predicament—Venis defeated his opponent. The second to last match was between
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, Bradshaw, Kane, and
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in a
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. Eight minutes into the match, Kane performed a
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on Bradshaw to pin and eliminated him from the match. Approximately two minutes later, X-Pac performed a
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on Kane and pinned him to eliminate him. X-Pac eliminated Faarooq by using the
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to win the match. Triple H defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin in an
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for the WWF Championship. When Triple H attempted to use his sledgehammer against Austin, Vince McMahon grabbed it from him. They spent seven minutes of the match outside the ring, where Austin used a steel fence, trashcan, and microphone as weapons. Once in the ring, both men attempted to end the match by utilizing their finishing maneuvers. Back outside of the ring, Austin threw Triple H into both the steel ring stairs and the announce table, causing him to bleed profusely. Near the end of the match, The Rock, bandaged from his injuries earlier in the night, came down to ringside carrying the sledgehammer. Although he was aiming at Triple H, he accidentally hit Austin with the weapon. Triple H performed a Pedigree on Rock and pinned Austin to retain the WWF Championship. After the match, Austin and Triple H continued to fight into the backstage area, where Chyna picked Triple H up in a limousine and drove away.


Reception

John Powell of SLAM! Wrestling said that the tag match between the Hardy Boyz and Edge and Christian overshadowed the main event match between Triple H and Steve Austin. He called the match "astonishing" and claimed it "brought the crowd to their feet". Specifically, he claimed that both The Hardy Boyz and Edge and Christian "were the future of the federation" and deserved "a hefty raise". Powell also liked the match between The Rock and The British Bulldog, calling it "A well-fought, explosive encounter". In contrast, Powell stated that the women's match was the "worst match e'dever seen". Overall, he rated the event eight out of ten. In 2008, J.D. Dunn of 411Mania gave the event a rating of 8.0
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He called the tag team ladder match "1999's WWE MOTY atch of the Yearby most accounts" and rated it four and one-fourth stars out of five. In addition, he called the Chyna-Jarrett match "a goofy-but-fun match" and claimed "The Jarrett-Chyna feud was one of the best of the year, although that's not saying much." The main event of Triple H versus Austin achieved three out of five stars.


Aftermath

The ''Terri Invitational Tournament'' and the tag team ladder match between The New Brood (later known as The
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) and Edge and Christian elevated both teams. According to Matt Hardy, the match elevated them from "WWF wrestlers to WWF Superstars". Both teams received standing ovations the night of the match, as well as the following night on ''Raw is War''. It also led to WWE utilizing ladder matches more frequently. After No Mercy, Jeff Jarrett left the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and showed up on ''
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'' the next evening. Miss Kitty began accompanying Chyna to the ring for her matches. Kitty also began dressing like Chyna, including wearing a black wig, and became known as "Chynette". Chyna then began a rivalry with
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over the championship. Chyna defeated Jericho at the subsequent pay-per-view
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in November to retain the title. Triple H held the WWF Championship until Survivor Series in November when he lost it to The Big Show in a Triple Threat match that also involved The Rock. Meanwhile, Stone Cold Steve Austin was written out of WWF storylines so he could have neck surgery. On-screen, his absence was attributed to being hit by a car. When he returned to television a year later, it was revealed that
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had hit him with a car to allow The Rock to become champion. The Rock, however, did not win the championship until
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in April 2000. Later, though, it was revealed that the hit-and-run on Stone Cold Steve Austin was orchestrated by Triple H. This U.S.-based No Mercy event established No Mercy as the annual October PPV for the promotion that was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2002. The event continued to be held until 2008, as it was replaced by
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in 2009, which became the annual October PPV. No Mercy was reinstated in October 2016, but was moved up to September in 2017, after which, No Mercy was discontinued as following
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in 2018, brand-exclusive PPVs were discontinued, resulting in the promotion reducing the amount of yearly PPVs produced.


Results


Footnotes


References

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External links


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