shawn is a mouth running little arrogant midget in yates' eyes.
flex came up with the ninja BS in the heat of battle vs yates.
shawn and flex are best buddies.
combo of disgust for yates
tattoos, slums, whores and drugs = yates and cormier were meant for each other.
as crazy as the vid is, you can see yates is enjoying himself with chris. i'm guessing if this was shawn or flex yates would have walked out the gym cursing