No Mercy (2003)

No Mercy
Promotional poster featuring Brock Lesnar preparing the F5 to The Rock at SummerSlam (2002)
PromotionWorld Wrestling Entertainment
Brand(s)SmackDown!
DateOctober 19, 2003
CityBaltimore, Maryland
Venue1st Mariner Arena
Attendance8,500[1]
Buy rate254,000
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The 2003 No Mercy was the sixth No Mercy professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's SmackDown! brand division. The event took place on October 19, 2003, at the 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore, Maryland.

Nine professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event's card. The main event saw WWE Champion Brock Lesnar defeat The Undertaker to retain his championship in a match where a chain was hung from a pole and the first man to reach it could use it as a legal weapon in what was called a Biker Chain match. Two featured bouts were scheduled on the undercard. In a standard match for the WWE United States Championship, the Big Show defeated Eddie Guerrero to win the title. The other was also a standard match, in which Kurt Angle defeated John Cena.

No Mercy had an attendance of approximately 8,500 and received about 254,000 pay-per-view buys, more than the following year's event. This event helped WWE increase its pay-per-view revenue by $6.2 million from the previous year. When the event was released on DVD, it reached a peak position of seventh on Billboard's DVD Sales Chart.

  1. ^ "No Mercy 2003 at Pro Wrestling History". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved 2008-11-03.