The Rock vs Mankind vs Ken Shamrock Cage Match part 1

Here is another match from 1998, The cage match between The Rock, Ken Shamrock and Mankind. The video kicks off with a promo battle between The Rock and Mick Foley, please take into account the usage of "shoot" vocabulary Mick Foley uses when slating the peoples elbow (abortion is wrestling lingo for a move that has been butcherd in some fashion and to sell is to react to the move. though note after taking the move in the match, Mick actually does sell it.) This is another prime example of great matches that have been lost over the years,everyone in this match works SO hard. It's no spot fest like most cage matches in this era were, but the few spots used are well executed and mind blowing. The Rock walks away from this match the most hard working by far, this match was litterally for a shot at the title and Rock proved he belonged in the Main Event by turning an entire arena on his side despite being heel. Mick Foley is a risk taker and although the risk he takes in this match can be considered "tame" compared to his Hell in a Cell near suicide attempt, he really does put it all into this match. The few moves he hits are hit well and the spots that he calls are well set up. Ken Shamrock is probably the most under rated superstar of 1998, although not working as hard as the others. Ken Shamrock puts on another solid display, it's a shame WWE never did anything with him.

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• ken
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• cactus
• jack
• dwayne
• johnson
• wwf
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• shawn
• micheal
• undertaker

[KungLaoChicken]

Wow Ken Shamrock....I finally found someone who is worse on the mic than John Cena.

[grayfoks]

@KungLaoChicken John Cena is a poor poor poor Wrestler, but he isn't bad on the mic. He can cut a half decent promo. If he couldn't then he wouldn't be where he is today.

[KungLaoChicken]

@grayfoks yeah I can't really disagree with you on that one. Cena's mic skills are really limited cause of the era he's in. As a heel, I thought he was very entertaining...hell even that first year he was a face and won the U.S. Title a couple of times I was fine with him.

[grayfoks]

@KungLaoChicken Yeah PG really makes John Cena what he is. There's no excuse for his bad technical wrestling skills however. He is clunky and unco-ordinated. I consider CM Punk to be this generations Randy Savage and Cena to be Hulk Hogan... Macho was the match guy and Hogan was the superhero.

[jayNicks10]

Despite still technically being a member of The Nation, The Rock recieved a standing ovation in this match.

[jasonfreak99]

HOLY SHIT!! MICHEAL COLE!!

[wechildrenof1990]

This was the first ppv match of the "attitude era" I ever saw and this match is still one of my favourites

[wwe395]

Is it just me or does the "WWF Breakdown" logo look like the "WWF No Way Out" logo from 2002?

[Kas58223]

@SayHI2TheBadGuyMang i know live events are great mate i say that was some night the rock finally become accepted by the crowd

[Kas58223]

Man its us the fans who really makes are favourite faces like the rock he was so over everytime he went heel we always ended up cheering for him even doh he tried to piss all of us fans of

[Pseudonym25]

Look how juiced Shamrock is.

[sayanroy36]

@StuUngar

thats not even an argument, its ignorance...you just gotta watch raw week after week. there was no intention to turn him face, he turned face as he got over as fuck, people loved the heel persona. then obviously he went heel again as the corporate champion

[sayanroy36]

this was when rock was getting over as a million bucks even as a heel

[StuUngar]

I disagree with anyone who says The Rock was getting cheered bc this was in Canada. I was in high school at the time and it was cool to be a wrestling fan. People were quoting, "Roody poo, jabroni, candy/monkey ass, etc" They were mimicking the eyebrow, and the elbow pad/arm swing of the ppls elbow. In other words, ppl thought he was cool. He got over the same way Austin got over...by being a quotable badass.

I watched this live, and me & my friends' reaction was the same as the crowds.

[cfcdaviddcfc]

it was after this match wwf HAD to make the rock a face he was gettin cheered anyway "heel" or not