WWF vs WCW: Hate the Game

Click, click, Boom! St. Louis has been home to a lot of action over the years, but tonight, the superstars of the World Wrestling Federation will show the famed city No Mercy!

The show began with a big match between two of the hottest young stars that the WWF has seen appear in the past few years, as upstart Rob Van Dam takes on “Y2J” Chris Jericho. This promised to be one of the best matches of the show, and it did not disappoint. During the match, Jericho kept getting increasingly frustrated at how much crowd support RVD was garnering, and let that frustration get to him until finally he used a low blow and a new maneuver called the Flashback in order to score the victory. But Jericho wasn’t finished yet, and as the crowd gave him loud jeers, he got a chair and started assaulting Van Dam with it! Finally he left the ring after officials were escorting him away, now soaking in the boos he was receiving.

The Rock and Maven were backstage at the interview area with Jonathan Coachman, and after The Rock picked on “Coach” for looking like a pig in a blanket in his suit – calling him a “weenie” – the two talked about their match tonight against William Regal and Christopher Nowinski. Maven said he didn’t know what Nowinski’s problem with him is, he won Tough Enough fair and square, and The Rock closed the segment with the catchphrase barrage. Elsewhere, Mr. McMahon is getting a shoulder massage from Erica Harley, but before she can start to influence him in the battle for personal secretary dominance, Torrie appears and keeps her from using her “charms” on Vince. “Coach” is back in the interview area again, this time with RAW owner Shane McMahon, who says he is watching tonight’s show closely, unlike his distracted father. In the parking garage, Michael Cole is trying to see who is inside the limousine that arrived with Triple H earlier, but can’t. Who could he have brought with him?

In a crazy brawl between some of the biggest men in wrestling, Albert and Haku took on Kane and The Big Show. It was a lot of big man brawling, until Albert finally grabbed a steel chair and started attacking Kane with it, leading to a disqualification. A four man brawl commences, it looks like this battle is not over!

We can see Al Snow backstage, coaching Maven and Nidia ahead of their matches. After that, Diamond Dallas Page takes on the leader of The Island, Rikishi. Page nearly had this one a few times, but Jamal and Rosey end up costing him the bout by attacking him when the referee is down. Rikishi hits the banzai drop on Dallas to score the victory, but a further attack from the Samoan family is thwarted as SmackDown!’s resident superhero, The Hurricane, rushes to the ring and is able to chase them away!

Back in the parking garage, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Debra arrive to the building. He looks ready to get in there and whip some ass!

After we see Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit warming up in two separate locker rooms on a split screen. We then move onto one of SmackDown!’s main event matches, as The Rock teams with Tough Enough winner Maven to take on Mr. McMahon’s team of William Regal and the runner-up of Tough Enough, Christopher Nowinski. As the match goes on, Regal and Nowinski do all they can to cheat the victory, and they isolate young Maven. The Rock comes back in and evens the odds, but in the end, Nowinski is able to roll up Maven and pull his tights – “JR” saying he didn’t learn that from Al Snow, it must have been from Regal – and scores the victory! Maven is left very disappointed, as Christopher loudly brags about getting this win.

Backstage, The Band are all together; Hall, Nash, and X-Pac wave their titles in Justin Credible’s face, saying that he’s the only one not sporting any gold. Credible tells them that he has an idea to run past them, though. Over at WWF New York, Bradshaw and Faarooq meet up to share some drinks, but The Dudley Boyz are also there, and the two teams get into a brawl right on the bar! You never know what will happen at WWF New York!

Up next is the No Holds Barred match with the WWF Intercontinental championship on the line, as champion Edge takes on “The Man Beast” Rhyno. Rhyno made Edge furious by saying that he would not only beat him up to take his title but then go beat up his family as well, and that anger came out of Edge in violent fashion! The two went all out on one another with the title hanging in the balance, but Edge finally subdues the monstrous beast by spearing him through a table that was in the corner of the ring! Edge retains his title, but Rhyno recovers as he was holding his championship up for the crowd, and he charges in with a vicious Gore! It looks like Rhyno isn’t finished with Edge yet!

The next match is not as one sided as you would think, as female Tough Enough winner Nidia may be in over her head as she decided to stand up to Jazz. The teachings of Al Snow and Jacqueline began giving Nidia a bit of a rush against the female monster, but Jazz finally catches her after a rookie move, and the rest of the match becomes difficult to watch as Jazz lays into the young up-and-comer, before putting her away with the Bitch Clamp.

We briefly go back to Shane McMahon’s office, where he is writing down notes on a clipboard that reads “RAW Survivor Series matches” before we go to a hallway. In this hallway, WWF Hardcore champion Tommy Dreamer is enjoying the evening until The Band appear and begin laying him out! Hall, Nash, and X-Pac do the damage, and they pull Jack Doan in from being on his way toward the ring as Justin Credible covers Tommy, and this gives him the Hardcore title! It looks like all of The Band have championships around their waists now!

The “SmackDown! main event” is next, as Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit join forces to be one of the purest wrestling tag teams this side of the Brisco Brothers to take on Mr. McMahon’s hired assailants, “Latino Heat” Eddie Guerrero and The Undertaker. Neither team is a well oiled machine, but they all have common goals as they want to either impress Mr. McMahon or knock him down a peg. Angle and Benoit work over Guerrero for the first few minutes of the bout, but when Undertaker steps into the match, he takes over on Angle and begins taking over. Kurt keeps trying to come back and make the tag, but he’s cut off each time. But he won’t be stopped, and Angle fires back on Eddie before making a big tag to Benoit, who comes in with chops to both Guerrero and Undertaker! The crowd are loving every minute of it, but it turns back around when Eddie uses a low blow on Angle, rolling him up and holding the tights to score a sneaky victory! As Guerrero and Undertaker leave, Angle and Benoit look disappointed to not have won, but they seem more together now than they were at the beginning of the match!

In Mr. McMahon’s office, Torrie is listening in where she can’t be seen, as she finds out that Erica Harley is promising Vince she’ll have “No Mercy” for him later tonight! Torrie is not happy to have heard that, it sounds like Harley is trying to turn the tides into her favor!

Back out to the ring, Jerry Lawler is in seventh heaven as prudish Molly Holly takes on the fiery beauty Lita in a bra and panties match! The two have quite the showing, but the ending sees Molly being pulled into the ring by Lita but she sneakily hits her with a steel rod! Lita goes down to the canvas, and it’s very easy for Holly to pull off Lita’s pants to win the bout. Before Molly can try to humiliate Lita any further, Matt Hardy comes to the ring to pull her away.

It’s finally time for our main event, as Kevin Nash and Scott Hall defend their WWF World Tag Team championships against the Undisputed WWF World champion Triple H and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin! The reformed Power Trip aren’t on the same page completely, as Austin flips Hunter off when he tried to be the man to start the match, and Helmsley later crotch chops toward Austin when he wanted tagged in. The match goes back and forth constantly, with everyone hitting some of their biggest moves to try and put the other team away, but it is to no avail. “JR” and Jerry keep wondering who Triple H has brought with him to No Mercy, but it turns out The Band had someone in mind already…



















Sycho Sid steps over the top rope while Triple H was about to hit the Pedigree on Nash and drills him with a big boot, causing a disqualification!

The three on two attack quickly becomes five on two as X-Pac and Justin Credible join in the fray, and the entire Band are looking to eliminate two of their biggest threats. But as they look for spraypaint to tag their fallen enemies, the surprises don’t stop coming…



















“Oh my Gawd, King,” screams Jim Ross; “Business is damn sure pickin’ up!”



Running out from the back with steel chair in hand is none other than “The Heartbreak Kid” Shawn Michaels! He rushes the ring and starts swinging the chair at The Band, sending them all scattering to the outside! Triple H gets back to his feet and helps by clotheslining Justin over the top rope, and the duo of degenerates stand tall in the ring! They turn to Austin, who pulls himself to his feet, but doesn’t exactly join in their celebratory dynamic, instead just flipping the double bird toward The Band while Triple H and Shawn Michaels point crotch chops in their direction. The crowd are in a frenzy at the return of “HBK” as No Mercy closes!

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