WWE: No Mercy 2017, analysis: Suplex City, bitch!

At the Staples Center in Los Angeles, No Mercy finally had a big showdown between Beast and Monster: Brock Lesnar met Braun Strowman at the main event for the Universal Championship and defended successfully with F-5.Roman Reigns defeated John Cena in the second Main Event and Enzo Amore won the Cruiserweight Championship of Neville.

Winner: Elias after the drift away.Expected victory for the drifter after a successful musical performance, with which he fought the hall against himself.Elias stands out from the crowd with his gimmick and has potential for more – but there is no clear goal on the writer’s side yet.He’d need a feud against a bigger name next.The same goes for crews, but with the difference that he felt the train had already left before he ever had a chance to get on.Titus Worldwide’s momentum has generally disappeared quickly after Tozawa’s loss of the Cruiserweight title.If you don’t pull the rudder here as quickly as possible, you drive an entertaining midcard gimmick completely in front of the wall.

During the kick-off, it was also announced that Asuka will make her Main-Roster debut at the next Raw-PPV TLC.It remains to be seen whether she will then immediately enter with a title shot or continue her dominance of NXT over a victory in a regular match.

Winner & Intercontinental Champion: The Miz per Skull Crushing Final after the Miztourage.The match illustrated the problem with this constellation: Jordan was able to prove himself in long matches against Cena and Reigns, but the fans still don’t accept him.The push came much too fast, Jason is missing the necessary charisma for the position he was pushed out of nowhere.It was therefore no surprise that Miz, who has been proving himself week after week for years and has become one of the biggest midcard champs of all time, was consistently cheered on, while Jordan would be booed loudly, especially during the post-match interview.That’s the worst case and in view of his bookings, his standing among the fans won’t change much.It is doubtful that WWE will continue to hold on to Jordan in the long term, as it does to Reigns.Booker T summed it up perfectly with “Get back in the line, kid” after the match.

Winner: Finn Bálor after the Coup de Grâce.Wyatt attacked Finn before the ring gong was heard and hammered him onto the commentator’s desk, whereupon the Irish was accompanied with a rib wound towards the backstage area.After Bray denied him the masculinity, Finn came back as expected and a decent match followed, which suffered from the usual problem throughout the match:”Because Bray can’t even be taken seriously in the beginning, there was never a second of tension.This could only be changed if the Eater of Worlds would finally be dominantly beaten in the long run – which will certainly not happen.For Bálor, one can only hope that this feud will now end and that he will be put into a more spectacular pairing, because his performance has also been uninspired and aimless since the comeback.

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Winner & further Raw Tag Team Champions: Rollins & Ambrose through the Dirty Deeds of Dean against Sheamus.The Bar once again put the same in a strong day’s match and dominated the shield almost the entire match.The highlight of the match was anything but beautiful: Cesaro sailed with his mouth on the turnbuckle and lost at least two front teeth.The Swiss player was bleeding correspondingly badly, but still easily denied another ten minutes of match time.The Shield’s title defence was as expected, but after Jeff Hardy’s shoulder injury, the question of how the division should proceed is now more than ever before.Without the revival and the Hardyz, next to Sheamus & Cesaro, only Two Good Brothers remain; if the Authors of Pain don’t call up or if a new duo is created out of necessity, then it will be damn tight in the coming months.

Winner & further Raw Women’s Champion: Alexa Bliss against Bayley by DDT.Nia proved her physical superiority, among other thingswith a worth seeing Double Samoan Drop against Alexa and Sasha.Shortly before the end, both Sasha and Bayley seemed to be on top of their finishers before the title win, but the other one broke open the cover.Thus, further food for a possible feud of the two Horsewomen was delivered and the field was kept completely open.Nia received very positive reactions from the audience and once again got into contact with Bliss, so that this feud was further developed.Emma was neither portrayed weakly nor, as expected beforehand, pinned, so that the Australian may also continue to claim a role in the division.

Page 1: Elias vs.Apollo, The Miz vs.Jordan and Balor vs.Wyatt

Page 2: Cena vs.Reigns, Neville vs.Amore and the conclusion