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| Promotion | World Wrestling Entertainment | |||
| Brand (s) | Raw SmackDown! |
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| Date | October 20, 2002 | |||
| Attendance | 9,074 | |||
| Venue | Alltel Arena | |||
| City | North Little Rock, Arkansas | |||
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No Mercy (2002) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) that took place on October 20, 2002, at the Alltel Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It was the fifth annual WWE No Mercy event and featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown! brand.[1]
Eight professional wrestling matches were scheduled for the event which featured a supercard, a scheduling of more than one main bout. The first match from the SmackDown! brand featured WWE Champion Brock Lesnar defeat The Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match to retain the title.[2] The other match from the Raw brand was a title unification match, where World Heavyweight Champion Triple H defeated WWE Intercontinental Champion Kane to unify both titles.[3] There were four featured matches on the undercard. The first featured WWE Women's Champion Trish Stratus defeat Victoria to retain the title. The next match saw Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit become the first ever WWE Tag Team Champions by defeating Rey Mysterio and Edge.[4]
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Background
The event featured nine professional wrestling matches with outcomes predetermined by WWE script writers. The matches featured wrestlers portraying their characters in planned storylines that took place before, during and after the event. All wrestlers were from either one of the WWE's brands - SmackDown or Raw - the two storyline divisions in which WWE assigned its employees.
Results
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times[5] |
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| Sunday Night Heat | The Hurricane defeated Steven Richards | Singles match | 03:05 |
| 1 | Chris Jericho and Christian (c) defeated Booker T and Goldust | Tag team match for the World Tag Team Championship | 08:46 |
| 2 | Torrie Wilson defeated Dawn Marie | Singles match | 04:40 |
| 3 | Rob Van Dam defeated Ric Flair | Singles match | 07:59 |
| 4 | Jamie Noble (with Nidia) (c) defeated Tajiri | Singles match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship | 08:15 |
| 5 | World Heavyweight Champion Triple H defeated WWE Intercontinental Champion Kane | Singles title unification match | 16:16 |
| 6 | Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit defeated Rey Mysterio and Edge | Tag team match to crown the first WWE Tag Team Champions | 22:03 |
| 7 | Trish Stratus (c) defeated Victoria | Singles match for the WWE Women's Championship | 05:31 |
| 8 | Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman) (c) defeated The Undertaker | Hell in a Cell match for the WWE Championship | 27:18 |
The tournament was held between October 3 and October 20, 2002. The tournament brackets were:
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||
| Los Guerreros | Sub | ||||||||||||
| Mark Henry and Rikishi | |||||||||||||
| Los Guerreros | |||||||||||||
| Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle | Sub | ||||||||||||
| Billy Kidman and John Cena | |||||||||||||
| Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle | Sub | ||||||||||||
| Edge and Rey Mysterio | |||||||||||||
| Reverend D-Von and Ron Simmons | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Billy and Chuck | |||||||||||||
| Reverend D-Von and Ron Simmons | |||||||||||||
| Edge and Rey Mysterio | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Edge and Rey Mysterio | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Brock Lesnar and Tajiri | |||||||||||||
See also
References
- ^ "Alltel Arena - Little Rock, AK". World Wrestling Entertainment. http://www.wwe.com/shows/nomercy/history/2002/venue/. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
- ^ "Brock Lesnar vs. Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell Match for the WWE Championship". World Wrestling Entertainment. http://www.wwe.com/shows/nomercy/history/2002/sdmainevent/. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
- ^ "Triple H vs. Kane in a match to unify the World Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships". World Wrestling Entertainment. http://www.wwe.com/shows/nomercy/history/2002/rawmainevent/. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
- ^ "History of the WWE Tag Team Championship". World Wrestling Entertainment. http://www.wwe.com/inside/titlehistory/wwetag/. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
- ^ "WWE No Mercy". Prowrestlinghistory.com. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/usa/wwf/nomercy.html#2002. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
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