Any regular Attitude Era viewer knows that those years of Raw and Smackdown featured a lot of backstage segments. That's when they really started to become a regular thing in WWE TV. In the mid 90s they didn't happen as much. That's around the time when Vince Russo became a main writer in WWE and he did a lot of things outside the ring. He was a guy that turned heel/face a few times yet he never really changed how he acted. Maybe that's what his character was supposed to be, but it also showed his lack of depth as a performer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoEOVvM5x78 Shamrock was a guy that came from UFC. He was one of the first big UFC stars back in the early 1990s when it wasn't as big as it is now. It's not like he had a lot of acting experience on camera before he got to WWE. What he brought to the table was credibility as one of the toughest men on the planet. There wasn't much to the Shamrock character. All he did was saying "I'm gonna snap" and let out a scream before he went after somebody. It's not like he was a bad in-ring performer. It's just that as an actor he wasn't one of the better ones.
John wrote at WhatCulture from December 2013 to December 2015. It was fun, but it's over for now. Follow him on Twitter @johnreport. You can also send an email to mrjohncanton@gmail.com with any questions or comments as well.
