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No Mercy (1999) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and presented by Eidos Interactive's ''Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver'', which took place on October 17, 1999, at the Gund Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=No Mercy 1999: Venue )〕〔 Nine matches, including three championship matches. In the first, The Fabulous Moolah won the WWF Women's Championship from Ivory to become the oldest champion in professional wrestling history. In the second, Chyna defeated Jeff Jarrett to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship, becoming the first female Intercontinental Champion in WWF history. Lastly, Triple H defeated Steve Austin to retain the WWF Championship. Also on the card was a tag team ladder match in which The New Brood (Matt and Jeff Hardy) defeated Edge and Christian. Generally, reviews for the event were positive, with both SLAM! Wrestling and 411mania.com rating it eight out of ten. The tag team ladder match, in particular, received very positive reviews from critics. ==Writing and production== Vince Russo and his writing partner, Ed Ferrara, watched ''The Jerry Springer Show'' for ideas to develop into WWF storylines.〔 Some of the wrestlers also were involved with writing their own storylines. For example, the four competitors in the tag team ladder match made the decision for their rivalry to involve a "best-of" series.〔 The plan was to originally do a "best-of-seven" series, but it was later changed to five.〔 They had the whole match planned, including all of the stunts.〔 In addition, Pat Patterson was the booker for the event.〔Laurer, Joanie. ''If They Only Knew'', 318.〕 Before the event, Jeff Jarrett was on his way out of the company, as management felt he had been a bad investment for the company.〔Laurer, Joanie. ''If They Only Knew'', p. 299, 302.〕 Vince McMahon, the WWF Chairman, came up with the idea for Jarrett and Chyna to become involved in a storyline together.〔Laurer, Joanie. ''If They Only Knew'', p. 304.〕 Vince Russo was asked to write the storyline leading up to the match, including when Jarrett would taunt Chyna and hit her with random household objects.〔Laurer, Joanie. ''If They Only Knew'', p. 308–309.〕 The fans responded positively to the battle-of-the-sexes match-ups.〔Laurer, Joanie. ''If They Only Knew'', p. 310.〕 They were originally supposed to have their match-up at Rebellion, but the WWF extended the storyline for another month due to its popularity.〔Laurer, Joanie. ''If They Only Knew'', p. 311.〕 In the midst of the feud, Russo left the WWF for rival promotion World Championship Wrestling (WCW).〔 In her autobiography ''If They Only Knew'', Chyna implies that Russo was the person who convinced McMahon to delay their pay-per-view match for a month, because he knew Jarrett was also going to sign with WCW.〔 Because of the delay, Jarrett's contract expired the day before the match, so he was not contractually required to wrestle at the event.〔Laurer, Joanie. ''If They Only Knew'', p. 314–315.〕 Hours before the event began, Jarrett demanded (and received) somewhere between $300,000–500,000 to wrestle Chyna for the night.〔〔Laurer, Joanie. ''If They Only Knew'', p. 322.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「No Mercy (1999)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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