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No Mercy 2016 Recap

It started with many. It is now down to two. Like gladiators and warriors before, they will dispense justice in it's raw, most brutal form. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to go to war......in the second Presidential Debate, as Donald Trump takes on Hillary Clinton, inside of a steel cage. Only one can survive, and for the other, there will be.........No Mercy(puts on shades).


Running up against the most anticipated presidential debate in history can't have been fun for Miz and Co, but they did their best, delivering a solid product with some very confusing decisions. 

To open the show, we had a big rarity, with the world title on the line in the opening contest. I do understand why it happened, as there was no way even John Cena could've outdrew the debate, but it was strange nonetheless. The match itself was fine, bordering on great, and the finish will keep several feuds running for now. Poor Nikki and Carmella, as they were the designated cool down match, with both women working hard to get their story over. These two have been impressing over the past month or so, and I enjoyed their match tonight. 

I'm going to be completely honest here- I, like most of the rest of the nation, tuned out here to watch the debate. From this point forward, I'm going to be relying on my snippets that I caught watching the show on the Network, and what I've seen online. The tag title match was fine, with Slater and Rhyno too soon into their reign to drop the belts, and the Usos continuing to impress during their heel run. Corbin-Swagger was a fun match, and the Lone Wolf continues to impress, with a main event push surely in his future. 

Among the strange decisions made on this night was to put Ziggler vs Miz at this spot on the card. One of the hottest feuds in the past six to seven years for the 'E, it totally made sense to give these guys the main event, but oh well. These two have great chemistry, and they put together another match of the year candidate. The Miz has slowly developed into one of the best workers on the roster, and Ziggler got a tremendous pop from the Sacramento crowd. Their story has been fantastic, and should have been the main event, but it is what it is. What a great match.

With Becky Lynch out of action, Alexa Bliss took a shocking loss tonight, losing to Naomi, who was been on a 2-year long pay-per-view losing streak. Following that waste of time, we have another, bigger waste of time in the main event, Bray Wyatt vs Randy Orton. I like both guys, but their feud is not even close to main event level, and it showed. Luke Harper returned, I guess? What a terrible end to a fine show.

7/10

It's a difficult balancing act, as this show had two very good matches, essentially become a two-match show. The rest was mostly filler; it's just a shame the filler also got to be the main event.

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