10 Best WWE Matches of The Year 2001

What a year!
What a year!

#7 The Rock vs. Chris Jericho - No Mercy

Jericho wins 'The Big One'
Jericho wins 'The Big One'

No Mercy 2001 is one of the best WWE events of all time as it delivered in every match, without a single bad performance. And the best match of this show of solid encounters was the WCW Championship bout between Champion The Rock and challenger Chris Jericho.

While The Rock was his usual ultra-popular self going into this one, Jericho had a lot of crowd support here to as he was obviously well liked, but more importantly, WWE had been building up to this all month, really hamming it up that Jericho had never 'won the big one'. Was this to finally be his night?

Despite Rock being a huge star and Jericho just really having recently entered the main event scene, Rocky helped make Jericho look like he was right where he belonged. The match went back and forth for almost all of it, some vintage moves from each men's arsenals including Rock Bottoms and Lionsaults leading to convincing near falls. The end came when Stephanie McMahon ran out with a chair, seemingly insisting that Rock use it but he instead dragged her into the ring.

As referee Charles Robinson is trying to eject her, Jericho nailed Rock with a Stroke onto the chair for the three, and finally wins the big one.

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