The date was September 16, 2001. It was still a period of uncertainty even after earlier when it was confirmed the remains of Osama Bin Ladin had been found in the wreckage of one of his attacks on America. No one was quite sure what to make of anything anymore. For the moment though, Unforgiven was happening tonight, and that meant Shawn Stasiak would be defending his WCW Championship against The Rock, Booker T and Shane McMahon.

The Rock came out first, followed by Booker T's entrance. However once both men were in the ring an immediate brawl broke out. Shane forgoed his usual entrance, instead running over to the ring to attempt to pummel Rock. The champion Stasiak came out with his usual entrance mannerisms, letting the chaos in the ring continue as it were.

Shawn climbed up one of the turnbuckles and attempted a Top Rope Splash on Rock. He ended up hitting Shane in the back with his leg and only lightly hitting Rock on the shoulder with his chest. Booker continued working over Rock with a series of hard chops. Following that, he took down Rock with a Vertical Suplex. As Rock struggled to get back up, Booker saw his opportunity for his Scissors Sweep. At that same time, Stasiak got up and saw a good DDT opportunity. Thus Stasiak gave Rock the DDT, causing Booker to hit only his legs.

"That was my spot dumbass, you better not screw that up again!" yelled Booker. For the moment, Booker and Stasiak would continue with weakening Rock. Shane got up and told his Alliance partners that he was going to go for his cross-turnbuckle dropkick attack. As Rock was thrown into the turnbuckle, Stasiak decided that Rock needed to be roughed up a bit more and kicked him. This resulted in Shawn getting hit by Shane's leap and being spared from the attack.

This gave Rock a window for a comeback and so he got the upper hand on Booker and Shane. With a double clotheslines he sent both his currently stadning opponents out of the ring. Rock lunged at them from outside with a Double Axe Handle and soon the brawl resumed on the entrance ramp.

Stasiak came back to some seconds later. "Six!" The referee was counting down the other three competitors as their brawl had found its way up to the entrance stage. "Seven!" Stasiak managed to get back up to his feet. "Eight!" Stasiak called out "Hey guys, get back in here!" "Nine!" With that Booker and Rock hurried their way back to the ring. The Rock was inches away from sliding into the ring. "Ten!"

But it was too late. All the other three competitors was disqualified by countout. Shawn Stasiak remained the WCW Champion. Stasiak was as surpised as anyone else. All he could do now was shrug. So he shrugged.