For those who met Ken Shamrock...

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Was he really a bad guy? I noticed every person who met him at an event t's that he was rude and disrespectful.

Was this due to him being an active UFC star or was it his personality?

Did anyone have a positive experience meet ing ken?
 
i don't know him personally, but he's a true pioneer of mma. the guy assembled the first mma team, and the ufc made a nice mini-documentary about it. for those who haven't seen it:



Wrong!

That honor goes to judo gene lebell who was a true pioneer in America and together with gokor they already had a fight team but never got invited to the UFC.
 
Met him in 2012 at an amateur event. Had a brief convo for a couple mins. Seemed like a decent enough guy. I’ve definitely hung out with fighters that are assclowns (Ricco Rodriguez takes the cake) but he didn’t fit the bill.
 
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There are A LOT of stories about Ken in his younger years being a real asshole. Doink the Clown had a good interview about having to deal with Ken during the WWF and Ken being an insufferable ego-maniac. Don Frye also said that Ken was an asshole who liked to injure peoples legs in his fight pancrase fights.

That being said, Ken seems to have changed in the more recent years, and I'm sure it has to do with being humbled as many times as he has. Him and Don Frye ended up being friends.

There's also a pretty recent interview with Tito, might be a podcast, and he's being normal Tito, doesn't have his act turned on. He talks about Ken and their rivalry and he's talking about how Ken was back in the day and then literally says "Naa, Ken is cool now, he's a good guy." So I think Ken for sure changed.

Frank on the other hand seems like the fake nice guy that is a probably a bit of a creep. One of the guys that was on Gym Rescue said that Frank just ignored him and hit on his wife the whole time. Take that for what it is. But frank also stranded a dog, left it tied to car at an airport for days.

Personalities aside, I was and still am a huge fan of the shamrocks as fighters. They had strange careers for how good they were. Had Ken not gone into WWF and destroyed his body, and had Frank not taken a hiatus, they would be held in higher regard, because they were athletics machines, and they were two of the first complete fighters we have seen.
 
He was always awesome to the wrestling community. He would come hang out at the local tournaments(Lodi Invitational), sign a few autographs for the parents, congratulate the kids for winning matches and give encouragement to the losers. He's abrupt and not that smart, so he takes offense at the drop of a hat, but I think he felt comfortable around wrestling because nobody was talking shit to him.
 
I saw Ken Shamrock at a grocery store in Miami once. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
 
I saw Ken Shamrock at a grocery store in Miami once. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

Jesus Christ!

I don't even know what to say.
 
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