Talk about it here.

Shane shows up with his wrestling boots in hand and gets a "Please don't go" chant. Shane claims that they have revolutionized wrestling and talks about his arm injury and how severe it has been. The crowd keeps interfering with their chants plus Shane Douglas is long winded anyway, so this lasts far too long. He points out that unlike some people in wrestling, he knows when he has overstayed his welcome. I think if the fans had just let Shane talk, I could have gotten way more into this moment, as he seems sincere and Francine seems genuinely touched as well. Well, I take that back when Justin Credible shows up. And then Lance Storm shows up too. He gets in an argument with Credible and Douglas interrupts them both to tell them neither one of them is The Franchise, since they seem to both think they are in line. He tells them Tommy Dreamer is actually the guy. Francine ends up eating a cane shot and Tommy Dreamer runs out but gets beaten up as well. Whatever.

So was Shane already headed to WCW or was he really gonna retire? The fans totally killed this dead by not shuting up. Just super annoying. Francine takes a vicious shot with the cane.

I thought this was actually pretty great. Douglas looks sincere and Francine continues to be an excellent second. He gives a great send off promo only for Credible and Storm to leech off the heat. Good business on the way out and the attack on Francine was brutally violent.

Horrible, horrible, horrible. As bad as the worst WCW segments we've seen in '99. I'm not getting where any of this "sincerity" comes from, because Francine's acting in this is awful and we've gotten so much "shoot" bullshit from Shane (oh, I'm sorry, I mean TROY MARTIN) that it's impossible to buy this as such whether it is or not. There's no quicker way for me to NOT buy something as a shoot than to say that it is one. I'm also really fucking sick of Shane taking continued cheap shots at Big Two guys suffering legitimate injuries--here, he compares how he handled his elbow injury to how Ultimo Dragon handled his. Just when I think this segment couldn't be any more interminable, Justin Credible has to be the person to interrupt Shane. Congratulations Paul E., you found the one person on the roster to make me wish we could just have more of Shane talking by himself. Credible rants a bunch, Douglas and Francine and Dreamer get laid out, and now after years of being the most despicable heels imaginable we're supposed to feel sympathy for Shane and Francine. Well, call me cold and callous if you must, but I don't.