Ken Shamrock: If I never had those fights with Tito, the UFC wouldn't have been sold for 4 Billion

If 'if' was a 5th, we'd all be drunk
 
He's 100% right, and just because the UFC buried his legacy, doesn't mean anyone else should.

The first fight in 2002 was the UFC's breakout event:

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The 2006 revisit broke the PPV record, the trilogy fight set a ratings record on Spike TV, and set Tito Ortiz up as a major star for Chuck Liddell to beat in UFC's first 1,000,000 PPV buy rate.

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Take Ken Shamrock out of the equation, and MMA is an underground sport today.
 
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Dude was the OG Brock but legit, before he was WWF he was one of the top dogs.

Old fuck do tend to be right sometimes and its usually brutally right.
 
If the queen had balls, she'd be a king...

Conor and Ronda is the reason it was worth 4b so don't wait for that royalty check shammy
 
UFC 40 had that super fight feel at the time, I remember it well. there was a huge hype that the previous events didn't have. I remember the press conferences were crazy.
 
Ken Shamrock put Dana in an ankle lock. In a roid rage.... that's why Lorenzo got scared and didn't let him back.
 
Ken Shamrock still thinks he would be competitive right now in the UFC. The guy is delusional, unfortunately.
 
While it is an arrogant thing to say that, he is still correct.
 
Hard to tell in retrospect... LOT of things happened between that fight and the sell.

MIght be right though.
 
this is true but impossible to quantify or qualify as a scientific truthso i guess it becomes a meta truth something so true it makes other things seem to pale in comparison
define truth
 
I mean in a way he is right. But its kind of like Bill Gates mom saying, "If I hadn't fucked Bills daddy, you wouldn't have personal computers."
 
This is bullshit. You don't know what would have happened without those fights. Maybe another bigger star would have emerged.
 
Same can be said for Liddell/Couture, Lesnar/Mir, Anderson/Sonnen, Conor/Nate, and Ronda/Miesha.
 
I knew nothing about the UFC when I was a sophomore in high school, but one of my friend's brother got the Ortiz Shamrock ppv and GTA Vice City. What a magical day. That fight was HUGE, and we were all rooting for Shamrock.
 
RTL said:
Take Ken Shamrock out of the equation, and MMA is an underground sport today.
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...so it would be much better than it is now? a lame boxing fight, a bunch of ducking, pushing for pretty people to be stars...

also, mma would or would not be underground. the ufc might have died or stayed small but pride was bigger at the time, anyway. we'd be looking at a much different mma landscape, but the alternative landscape might be a better one, anyway.
 
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