-- The knockout finish to the Big Show and Undertaker match at last night's WWE No Mercy pay-per-view is part of the company's attempt to put more "realistic" elements in their matches. Backstage, the finish to the match didn't go over as well as WWE officials had hopes and they felt that the spot with the exposed turnbuckle didn't get over as it should have with the live crowd.

-- Portland Trail Blazers Channing Frye and Jerryd Bayless were in attendance at the Rose Garden Arena for last night's No Mercy.

-- WWE cut a few comedy segments out of last night's No Mercy pay-per-view. The feeling was they didn't want to have to cut short the WWE Title match with Jeff Hardy & Triple H or the Ladder match with Chris Jericho & Shawn Michaels, which worked out well. We will probably see some of those segments on tonight's RAW.