Was this a work or a shoot?

[BAMBINO]

PCO says it's a shoot in that interview (at 11:10) :

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_b0CQWw5F4&feature=plcp"]Shootamania 22 - Pierre Carl Ouellet - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

I know PCO had heat with the Kliq from his WWE days. Its possible it was a shoot but Nash clearing the air and making it a work wouldn't surprise me either

 

[The Push Man]

Here's what the Observer had to say, all the shoot talk beforehand, to me, would indicate a work.

A much-publicized show on 5/30 in Montreal saw Kevin Nash face Pierre-Carl Oullet in the IWS 10th anniversary show. They tried to push it with a shoot theme off a real story. In 1995, when Nash was WWF champion, he defended against Oullet, then Jean Pierre Lafitte, in Montreal. Lafitte refused to do the job, and it was a power play deal. Apparently Pat Patterson was strong on not beating the local star in Montreal, since Patterson understood the unique Montreal market, since he grew up there and always tried to protect it more than other markets. But the office still decided they wanted Nash over clean. They ended up doing a double DQ, but Nash really roughed Oullet up the next night in another Canadian market where he did do the job, and the Kliq basically buried him and his push was over and he was fired a few months later. They two had never wrestled since. They pushed the idea Nash was being brought in for a match but Oullet could be looking for revenge for them politicking to end his push and get rid of him. Nash played it up as before the match, he said, “I’m a professional wrestler. That’s what I do for a living. I’m not a shootfighter. I get paid to wrestle, not to shoot fight. I was paid in advance, so if anyone in the back decides to turn this into a shoot, I will roll my old, grey-haired ass out of this ring and go back to Florida.” They did a match, and Oullet juiced. Nash hit his power bomb finish but Oullet kicked out at one. Nash acted like Oullet was double-crossing the script and started throwing stiff looking punches, but Oullet then did an armbar on Nash’s bad arm, he tapped immediately and sold the arm big. As the story goes, Nash claimed later to be double-crossed, I guess perhaps to build for something in the future, claiming they had an agreement nobody was to touch his bad arm, that had the staph infection. They pushed that Oullet had learned the armbar training with Steve Bosse, a former minor league hockey enforcer who is well known in the area, and is now a popular local MMA fighter.

 

[Slystallion]

No while Nash's punches were stiff at the end you can tell he really didn't want to connect and hesitated...

This would be a good angle to make santino legit like at a ppv have him wrestle punk or Cena and he actually does a "real" armbar and makes the person tap out to look like a shoot mistake...would be interesting on how that could be played

 

[COQWAVE]

No while Nash's punches were stiff at the end you can tell he really didn't want to connect and hesitated...

This would be a good angle to make santino legit like at a ppv have him wrestle punk or Cena and he actually does a "real" armbar and makes the person tap out to look like a shoot mistake...would be interesting on how that could be played

no one using an armbar in wwe currently... great idea breh

 

[Black Thunder]

so nash killed his own finish to do this lame work shoot bullshyt??