I saw the 10 ball race to 100 between shaw and shane. shane iirc, shane was ahead the whole match, a couple of games up to mabye 15 to 20 lead. but then shaw came back and played superb! I cannot remember exactly, but I believe they were even in the 90s and shane eventually won by 3 or 4 games. A great match!
Since I have seen almost every race to 100 shane played in the past (streams only), I can say that apart from Alex obviously, shaw was the only one that gave me the impression he could actually beat shane fair and scare in a 10ball race to 100.
That said, I consider shane to be the much better pool player over all. Shaw is very entertaining and fun to watch. If a rematch will be set up, I will fore sure be on bord!
PS: someone please correct my shale memories