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| No Mercy | |
| Promotions | World Wrestling Entertainment |
| Date | October 9, 2005 |
| Venue | Toyota Center |
| City | Houston, Texas |
| Sponsor(s) | PlayStation 2 (PS2) |
| Pay-per-view event chronology | |
| Previous | Unforgiven |
| Next | Taboo Tuesday |
| No Mercy chronology | |
| Previous | 2004 |
| Next | 2006 |
No Mercy was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on October 9, 2005, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas and featured wrestlers and other talent from WWE's SmackDown! brand division. It was the eighth event under No Mercy chronology. Nine professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event's card.
Three of the four championships exclusive to the SmackDown! brand were contested for; one was lost while the other two were retained. The main event was a standard wrestling match, in which World Heavyweight Champion Batista defeated challenger Eddie Guerrero to retain his title. One of the featured preliminary matches was a Casket match between The Ortons (Randy and "Cowboy" Bob) and The Undertaker. The Ortons won the match after placing Undertaker inside the casket and closing it. Another primary preliminary match was a standard match between John "Bradshaw" Layfield and Rey Mysterio, which JBL won.
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Storylines[]
Nine professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card, which were planned with predetermined outcomes by WWE's script writers. The buildup to these matches and scenarios that took place before, during and after the event were also planned by the script writers. The event featured wrestlers and other talent from WWE's SmackDown! brand, a storyline expansion in which WWE assigned its employees. Wrestlers portrayed either a villainous or fan favorite gimmick, an on-screen character, for the entertainment of the audience.
The main rivalry heading into No Mercy was between Batista and Eddie Guerrero over the World Heavyweight Championship. On the September 16 episode of SmackDown!, Palmer Cannon, a miscellaneous on-screen authority figure of SmackDown!, a portrayed match maker and rules enforcer, announced that Guerrero was the next challenger to Batista's World Heavyweight Championship. Guerrero, who had recently portrayed a manipulative character, came out and claimed he was now more about compassion than manipulation. Two weeks later, on the September 30 episode of SmackDown!, Guerrero, as part of the scripted events, accidentally hit Batista with a folding chair while attempting to hit MNM tag team member Joey Mercury. The following week, Batista showed Guerrero the footage of him hitting Batista last week. Batista, as part of their storyline, then proclaimed that he would hurt Guerrero if he were to revert to his villainous character.
The feud between The Undertaker and Randy Orton and "Cowboy" Bob Orton began at SummerSlam. At the event, Randy faced off against Undertaker. During the match, "Cowboy" Bob (disguised as a fan) came into the ring and interrupted the match. Following this, Randy pinned Undertaker after he jumped and pulled Undertaker's head down over his shoulders, a move dubbed the RKO, to win. After the match, Randy peeled off the latex mask of the fan and revealed him to be his father, "Cowboy" Bob. On the September 16 episode of SmackDown!, Undertaker defeated Randy. During the match, "Cowboy" Bob drove a U-Haul truck down to the ring and unloaded a casket. As Undertaker went to put Randy inside the casket, he opened it and found a mannequin of himself inside. Despite this distraction, Undertaker pinned Randy after he drove Randy's head into the mat in an upside down position, a move called the Tombstone Piledriver. The following week, druids wheeled out a casket. Undertaker appeared on the TitonTron and urged The Ortons to look inside. The Ortons opened the casket and found mannequins of themselves inside. Undertaker then proclaimed that this would be their fate at No Mercy.
At the previous SmackDown! brand pay-per-view event, The Great American Bash, The Legion of Doom (Road Warrior Animal and Heidenreich) defeated MNM (Joey Mercury and Johnny Nitro) to win the WWE Tag Team Championship. After both teams got involved in a storyline between Melina (Melina Perez), who was also a member of MNM, and Christy Hemme, The Legion of Doom and Hemme versus MNM was announced for No Mercy.
The storyline over the WWE United States Championship began when Booker T, Orlando Jordan, and Christian each explained why they thought they deserved a title match against the champion, Chris Benoit. Theodore Long, SmackDown!'s on-screen general manager/authority figure, then announced that Benoit could choose who he wanted to face for the title. After Jordan won a standard wrestling match between three wrestlers, also involving Booker and Christian, Benoit decided that he would face all three men in a match between the four at No Mercy.
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Results[]
| No | Results | Stipulation | Time |
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| 1H | William Regal and Paul Burchill defeated Paul London and Brian Kendrick | Tag team match | N/A |
| 2 | The Legion of Doom (Animal and Heidenreich) and Christy Hemme defeated MNM (Joey Mercury, Johnny Nitro, and Melina) | Tag team match | 06:28 |
| 3 | Bobby Lashley defeated Simon Dean | Singles match | 01:55 |
| 4 | Chris Benoit (c) defeated Booker T (with Sharmell), Christian, and Orlando Jordan by submission | Fatal 4-Way match for the WWE United States Championship | 10:22 |
| 5 | Mr. Kennedy defeated Hardcore Holly | Singles match | 08:49 |
| 6 | John "Bradshaw" Layfield (with Jillian Hall) defeated Rey Mysterio | Singles match | 13:24 |
| 7 | Randy Orton and Bob Orton defeated The Undertaker | Casket match | 19:16 |
| 8 | Juventud (with Psicosis and Super Crazy) defeated Nunzio (c) (with Vito) | Singles match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship | 06:38 |
| 9 | Batista (c) defeated Eddie Guerrero | Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship | 18:40 |
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See also[]
| No Mercy |
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