Your Midweek Links: No Mercy Fallout and More

Lesnar as Champion at the end of No Mercy showed no booking bravery Photo Credit: WWE.com

It's Wednesday. You're tired from the grind but you still need to power through to get to the weekend. I know the feeling. It's been a rough week over here. But fear not, you can help pass the time or even gain ENERGY from these monstrously intelligent takes in the articles below. Come read the best in wrestling writing from the last week. It'll cure what ails ya.

Brain Week concluded Friday. Please click the tag and take your pick of the best tribute to Bobby Heenan this side of the 1980s. [The Wrestling Blog]

New Japan Pro Wrestling had three "Destruction" titled shows, and Elliot has the review for all of them here. [The Wrestling Blog]

Carrie Dunn has had enough of sexism in wrestling, and sparked by the Billi Bhatti and other raging misogynists, she has written about how it needs to stop. [The Only Way Is Suplex]

Kyle Kensing has his own tribute to Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, who was Coach K before Coach K even thought about being Coach K. [The Open Man]

WWE punted on its two main matches at No Mercy, but Ian Williams argues that it only would've taken a little bit of courage to make the show one of the best ever. [Waypoint on VICE]

Ashly Nagrant looks at No Mercy's Women's Championship match, ponders why WWE made the wrong choice in the match, and examines reasons why it went the way it did. [Deadshirt]

Meanwhile, Matthew Martin wants to know why the heck Vince McMahon hates big burly beefy boys. [Cageside Seats]

Tom Breen takes a critical look at Rikidozan through the lens of a classic match with Freddie Blassie in Los Angeles. [The Spectacle of Excess]

Football and wrestling collide as Vaughn Johnson has the scoop on former Eagles defensive back Walter Thurmond transitioning into a pro wrestling career. [Philly Dot Com]

NON-WRESTLING #1: Alexander Goot examines the controversy stemming from Jemele Hill rightfully calling Donald Trump a White supremacist and argues she's always been the one to lead the charge from the media. [From the Sidelines]

NON-WRESTLING #2: Patrick Redford reminds you that while Pat Tillman gave up a NFL career to become an Army Ranger, he was also an anti-war, Noam Chomsky-loving, George W. Bush-hating leftist. Keep his name out of your mouth when trying to justify squashing protests of police brutality during the National Anthem, thanks. [Deadspin]