October 20, 201410 yr Author comment_5634446 Last few minutes. I'm there live somewhere. Billy Gunn is the referee. No heat for this at all. Ken's sister Ryan ends up helping Val after Ken audibly tells her to do so in a funny flub. Billy Gunn does a fast count and Val wins the IC title. Gunn and Shamrock brawl, then Gunn returns to the ring to attack Val too.
December 31, 201410 yr comment_5647542 Wasn't Ryan Shamrock actually Ken's GF at the time? Why is Billy Gunn and his tiny pants the ref in this? As Loss said, no heat for this whatsoever.
February 12, 201510 yr comment_5654088 "Slap Me". Never knew you went to this show Loss as between this and WM 17, you have some great attitude era highlights. This was awful for the heat and Val continues to be the person from this era that hasn't held up at all for me from a working or gimmick standpoint. He wins the IC title here and I yawn.
July 25, 201510 yr comment_5687458 Half a year ago Shamrock had been super over. Now the fans don't care about him. Injecting Mr Ass into the feud for whatever reason wasn't helping things either. I'll just quickly outline some of the major problems to explain why it's so dead out there: 1) Shamrock was a good face but a crap heel. 2) The face in the feud was a scumbag porn star who slept around with other wrestlers family members. 3) Nobody ever gave a shit about Billy as a singles competitor. 4) Nobody believes that Ryan is Ken's sister. Is Ryan even a unisex name? She'd only been around 10 minutes so had no established relationship with Ken. 5) Like I mentioned earlier, WTF is Ass even doing here in the first place?
March 6, 20178 yr comment_5790584 Should I even bother asking why Gunn was the guest ref for this? Did Shawn Michaels make that decision or did Vince deliberately allow his own Corporate champion to be at a disadvantage?
May 15, 20178 yr comment_5800457 This was the first ppv I ever got. Going on memory from re-watching my vhs copy: this was pure soap opera for men type match up. Val Venis was a comedy act as was most of the roster. Shamrock was probably one of the few along with Steve Blackman who didn't have some kinda funny gimmick or catch phrase at the time. So, putting him as the straight man in the comedy routine was gold. Even more so since he was too stiff an actor to ever pull it off:D This is capped off by the timeless camera at the wrong place wrong time "Slap me" LOL The match is forgettable but this incident is timeless unintended comedy in the vein of Big Poppa Pump Steiner/what the hell is going on!?
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