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Joey Mercury's face, a raw, inflamed mess with blood still seeping out from his stitches, was scarlet red around his nose and left eye with hundreds of flakes of dry blood clinging to various places on his face.

“I’ve shattered my nose around the bridge area,” said a bruised and swollen Mercury, who was severely injured at last night’s Armageddon pay-per-view in a Ladder Match. “I have four fractures on the inside of my nose; I have 5 stitches on the inside of my nose and my cheek and 15 stitches on the outside of my nose and cheek. My left eye is swollen shut and I have continual internal bleeding from my nose and my eye.”

To Mercury’s credit, the injury that would have knocked most people out cold only left him momentarily stunned.

“I remember everything [about the incident],” he said. “I never lost consciousness and I never passed out.”


Asked what it felt like when the legs of the ladder dug into his face and ripped a gaping hole down his nose and under his eye, he thought long and hard before he spoke.

“I have nothing to compare it to; I’ve never been hit that hard in the face before,” he said as he paused. “I’d have to say it felt like a hundred-pound steel ladder connecting with my face at one-hundred miles per hour; or going head first through a windshield of a car without a seatbelt on; maybe getting hit in the face with a baseball bat swung by Sammy Sosa.”

Mercury made it clear it was the outcome of the match, not the injury, that was on his mind the day after the ghastly incident.

“Had I not been forced to leave the match due to a severe amount of blood loss, MNM would be the WWE Tag Team Champions,” he said. “Again, we made it clear that MNM is the greatest tag team in the modern era – not The Hardys.”

- From WWE.com

Here's the picture of him after he got the stitches;
That's gotta hurt...

I got the impression that the Masters/Carlito match was actually supposed to be a full match. When he started to bleed so badly, they called it, and headed for the back as fast as was possible for story. After Mercury, i think they'll all be a little edgy about seeing blood for a week or so.

ninja "...when the legs of the ladder dug into his face and ripped a gaping hole down his nose and under his eye, ..."
Edit: Wait, what part didn't you get? I don't understand, at
the moment my brain is fried. gonk

Mercury was indeed very lucky- he is not a personal fave of mine, but i hate to see anyone injured that badly in a match...now dont get me wrong, i like to see the hardcore matches, especially the TLC and cage matches, etc...i love to see how creative the wrestlers can be-and all to entertain us fans cool

And although i am sure the verbal abuse that Mercury directed toward the Hardy Boyz is an angle, i still didnt like it...if you sign up for a match that includes items from Home Depot aisle 2-10, then you are probly gonna get hurt, and probably bleed profusely...and if you take that chance, then you dont come cry about later...you sit at home and recuperate-then when you are cleared, you have a revenge match....and have it in the Home Depot, just no power tools allowed-thats probly an ECW match then

Well from what I read on Wrestlezone. Joey Mercury was in good spirits about it.

It makes a good Angle. Especially since Hardys and MNM were added last minute. They didn't know about it until the night before. Its great. I would love for hardy's to go heel right now and be like "Ha Ha we did it on purpose. So pound it buckwheat!"

I'm guessing you didn't watch SmackDown! the week it happened?

I know it's real, it's damn real. (Where have I heard that before?)
I was just quoting JBL, he ranted at Michael Cole about calling it an injury, saying that Joey was basically maimed.

Lol, my brother and I come up with some great comments when we are watching Raw together...we like to call the matches and make predictions; like, who's gonna win, how they win, does someone interfere, etc....we have a lot of fun

I agree with what you said about Eddie-and others when they pass away...when you watch it for as long as i have, whether you like them or not, they seem like family and it sucks when they are gone....i cried like a baby when they said Eddie was gone...heck i cried for a week when Owen died.

but thank you for the comments...hope to entertain you all again soon-lol!