WWE No Mercy - key questions: Will John Cena equal Ric Flair?
Watch the show on Sky Sports Box Office on Sunday night
By David Ruse
Last Updated: 09/10/16 3:19pm
The Superstars of WWE Smackdown will in action at No Mercy on Sunday night, with titles, bragging rights and history up for grabs.
You will be able to watch the show live on Sky Sports Box Office (channel 491) from 1am, while you can also keep up to speed with our live blog on skysports.com and the Sky Sports app.
Plenty of questions will be answered inside the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California, including the following…
Will John Cena equal The Nature Boy?
Should The Cenation Leader get the better of reigning WWE World Champion AJ Styles and Dean Ambrose in the main event Triple Threat Match, he will match Ric Flair's record of 16 world titles in WWE. A victory would also take Cena to 25 cumulative championships in the company - he has also claimed the United States Title on five occasions and won four sets of Tag Team Titles - and that would move him one clear of Smackdown commentator JBL's 24. The smart money, though, is on Styles to retain his gold - he proved at Backlash, when he blasted Ambrose with a low-blow to nab his first WWE belt, that he will go to any length to be champion.
Is this it for Dolph Ziggler?
Ziggler's fans - Dolph-ins, if you will - won't be sleeping easy ahead of No Mercy as they know one slip-up from the Show-Off on Sunday night will signal the end of his WWE tenure. Sick of coming up short in big title matches, including to Ambrose at SummerSlam and twice recently to The Miz, Ziggler agreed to put his career on the line for one final shot at The Awesome One's Intercontinental crown. Defeat would not just signal the end of his WWE existence, with the Ohio-born star confirming he would retire if he was beaten and not wrestle elsewhere. So, can Ziggler - a two-time world champion and Survivor Series MVP - triumph when it matters?
Will Bray Wyatt's Sister Abigail appear?
Randy Orton was left dumbfounded on this week's WWE Smackdown when Bray Wyatt somehow extracted himself from a locked storage pod but, as some hidden camera footage showed, the Eater of Worlds may have had some help… Ahead of his escape, Wyatt was seen conversing with an unseen presence, someone he later referred to as Sister Abigail. Is said Sister a woman ready to wreak havoc on the females of Smackdown? Is it a code name for the bearded grappler's latest muscular follower following his separation from Erick Rowan, Braun Strowman and Luke Harper? Or is it all a cunning ruse designed to mess with Orton's mind?
Will Randy Orton earn a long-awaited PPV win?
Orton will not want to let his mind wander from the task at hand - winning his first match on a WWE pay-per-view since he defeated Sheamus at Battleground in July 2015. The Viper lost a rematch with the Irishman at SummerSlam 2015 and, following a shoulder injury, it wasn't until SummerSlam in August this year that he made his PPV comeback. That quickly turned sour when he was crushed by Brock Lesnar, while his scheduled bout with Wyatt at Backlash last month was called off when he was blindsided by his rival backstage. Orton has No Mercy Pedigree, though - in 2007, he defeated Triple H in a bruising Last Man Standing bout to regain the world title he had lost earlier in the night.
Who will Curt Hawkins wrestle?
Former WWE Tag Champion Hawkins will make his television in-ring return at No Mercy following weeks of promos akin to Chuck Norris Facts. The 31-year-old's opponent is yet to be named, leading to all manner of internet speculation. Kane stepped up to face Wyatt at Backlash following Orton's injury, so will the Demon also see fit to battle Hawkins? Or will Hawkins slug it out with Apollo Crews, a man he defeated on the house show circuit earlier this month? Perhaps we could even see a reunion with the man he became WWE Tag Team Champion with, Zack Ryder - although Ryder's current partner, Mojo Rawley, may have something to say about that!
Watch WWE No Mercy, live on Sky Sports Box Office (channel 491) and Sky Sports HD Box Office (channel 492) from 1am on Monday.
The show is priced £14.95 for customers in the United Kingdom and €21.95 for viewers in the Republic of Ireland.
You can also follow the pay-per-view on skysports.com and Sky Sports' mobile and iPad apps with our live blog.
WWE No Mercy booking details
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