20 years since Tito-Shamrock 1

[SSgt Dickweed]

Awesome fight. Tito looked really good. Thing is we know in hindsight that Tito was a limited fighter and Ken, being as tough he is took all that damage and not really give too much back because of his age, injuries and all the steroid withdrawals from being in WWE.



Kinda funny at the end that Tito seemed really hesitant on fighting Chuck Liddell.

 

[TJ177]

Tito and Ken both knew what put butts in seats to sell a fight. It's an entertainment business. Some guys today still don't get it.

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

Awesome fight. Tito looked really good. Thing is we know in hindsight that Tito was a limited fighter and Ken, being as tough he is took all that damage and not really give too much back because of his age, injuries and all the steroid withdrawals from being in WWE.



Kinda funny at the end that Tito seemed really hesitant on fighting Chuck Liddell.

Despite his bold claim, Ken Shamrock was unable to beat Tito into living death

However, Anderson Silva did it for Ken

 

[locust rising]

Despite his bold claim, Ken Shamrock was unable to beat Tito into living death

However, Anderson Silva did it for Ken

He looks so peaceful

 

[muhammadgoatli]

Love the old ones... the opening, I can still here that music, the pomp, the circumstance, ol Goldy.... shit...

The shear madness!


...but those fights were gifts for Tito

 

[Bearknuckle]

My first thought was of Frank Shamrock beating tito down

 

[Glove]

People tend to forget, that Ken Shamrock was 38 years old by the time he fought Tito Ortiz, with a record of 25-8-2 after fighting a very nasty brawl and grappling match with Don Frye 9 months prior.

 

[Klaavical]

Is this the "Petey my heart" fight?

 

[muhammadgoatli]

tldw:

 

[CallMeCasual]

Ken has the same mannerisms as Ferg.

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

I forgot to add that this was a historic fight. I think it set a PPV record for the UFC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Ortiz_vs._Ken_Shamrock
The pay per view numbers set North American MMA records with 775,000 buys on pay-per-view and a $3.4 million gate.

 

[BigTruck]

People tend to forget, that Ken Shamrock was 38 years old by the time he fought Tito Ortiz, with a record of 25-8-2 after fighting a very nasty brawl and grappling match with Don Frye 9 months prior.

Ken was legit flash ko'ed in that fight as well. Don tags him he drops like a nut sack and then wakes up as soon as his head bounced off the mat. Would have been stopped by herb dean.
18:50 in. Don't know how to timestamp.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

People tend to forget but early on in his comeback I think Ken actually looked really good, he basically gassed himself out trying to crack Fujita's skull and then the fight with Frye was pretty much even.

That match though IMHO ended both mens primes, they fucked up each others legs with those duelling leg locks.

 

[mahavishnunj]

I've been living daily death ever since.

 

[Big Tuppy Hole]

Is this the "Petey my heart" fight?

That was against Fujita and sadly it was the best Ken had ever looked. He was piecing Fujita up.

 

[Big Tuppy Hole]

I forgot to add that this was a historic fight. I think it set a PPV record for the UFC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Ortiz_vs._Ken_Shamrock
The pay per view numbers set North American MMA records with 775,000 buys on pay-per-view and a $3.4 million gate.

It's the 1st ppv they aired live down here in Australia.

 

[DizzyKronic]

Crazy that it’s been 20 years. This was my introduction to mma and I remember thinking Tito Ortiz was unstoppable lol.

 

[Nathan LaMontagne]

I ordered this in middle school, invited a bunch of friends over. I'd barely started training that month.

Now I'm 33, yeesh.

 

[DizzyKronic]

I forgot to add that this was a historic fight. I think it set a PPV record for the UFC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Ortiz_vs._Ken_Shamrock
The pay per view numbers set North American MMA records with 775,000 buys on pay-per-view and a $3.4 million gate.

That doesn’t sound right, I don’t remember ppvs getting anywhere near those number of buys back then.

 

[CashMoney1991]

outside of one good punch, Ken did nothing in that fight