Ken Shamrock laughs at BMF title.

[storeybuckle]

“It’s funny to hear these guys talk about toughness and being tough and being bad,” Shamrock told Ariel Helwani of ESPN recently. “It’s like, man, if they only knew what went through in those beginning days, with no training, there was no map of how to train. There were guys that would go to the park and get in fights with people in order to get training, real training in. You’ve seen a lot of guys that would just do a road tour. They’d drive from one end of California to the other end and they would stop at different places and do fights on these different promotions in the beginning days when there was promotions everywhere. They would drive across country just hitting every stop and fighting at them, just to get the training in.”

“There was no map,” Shamrock said. “There was no way of real training. Obviously, early on we were able to develop a way to do that but for most guys you used to hear stories like that all the time about how guys would go to the park and fight or they’d take fights anywhere just so they can actually get in and get a fight somewhere where they really knew what they were doing because back in the day when I was over in Japan, before they even started the UFC, I couldn’t get anybody to train with me. I would go into karate schools and boxing schools, they were striking and you’d take them down and they’d be like ‘No, what are you talking about’ or I’d get a wrestler and say ‘Shoot on me, I’m not gonna knock you out but I’m gonna punch you.’ There was nobody to do that so I had to open a gym and slowly start training people.

“So for them to start talking about being a Bad MF, I just kinda laugh and go, oh my gosh, you guys are wearing four-ounce gloves, you fight one time a night, every six months to a year. Really? [Laughs] Come on.”

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It’s funny how Shamrock didn’t talk about the steroid use in the early days?!

 

[tasticles]

He mad cuz Tito beat him up.

That largely could have been avoided if he didn't feel he was too tough to train BJJ. His guard work is horrendous.

 

[wake_me]

Doesn't he have some dog to kill?

wrong Shamrock

 

[Bend NvR Break]

He's not wrong

 

[ChangeIsComing]

old man yells at clouds

lol, other than rambling about park fighting...he does make a valid point though....but I believe guys like Masvidal and Nate are born out of a different mold and would have been able to do the same.

 

[weaselkenievil]

old man yells at clouds

While I laughed at this I think he may have a point. I don’t care about the Diaz v Masvidal BMF bullshit title and stuff I mean how hard it was back then.

 

[BabyBlue_Bomber]

All of Sherdog was laughing at the BMF title...

 

[jsbx45]

Ken has a point,, but they're all tough.

 

[Pakman]

What's really sad is spending 15 years trying to stay relevant and failing at it consistently.

Shamrock will leave a legacy (whether good or bad) in the game n on Earth while youre just a peasant.

Relax moron.

 

[amok attitude]

I'd love to make fun of Ken he's a dummy. But the sport is really stale these days. And it feels like people fight once a year now.

and who the hell publicly wants to admit they are "UFC" fan. Really? the "bad mother fucker belt"? That's like treating the average fan like a middle schooler.

Same here, its one of the first time in years, that i agree with the guy.

 

[amok attitude]

Who was it? his brother?

Indeed it was Frank

 

[Avenchi]

He'd beat both of em into a living death.

 

[MescalineDreams]

Yea totally has a fucking point. Look at spoiled Jorge Masvidal who never grew up fighting in backyards. Just was born and became a famous MMA fighter without having to work hard. Ken is a genius for this take.

True

Ken is right thou


There were some seriously bad motherfuckers in those early days who gave no fucks

 

[submerged88]

Well Royce was tough, as was Oleg, Frye,, etc and all those other who won the tournaments but did Ken ever complete a tourney run or did he drop out in all of them? Ken should say, "many of my colleagues back then were bad motherfuckers but I wasn't as tough as they were back then"

 

[Bork Neslar]

Poor Ken.

 

[SHAZAM]

Ken would have a point if he was talking about Cringeton vs Snoozeman, but 2 thugs like Nate and Mas??? The fuck, bro? These guys were fighting in the streets and Nate, to some extent, continues to do so.

 

[wilKO]

Nate and Jorge would both beat the absolute shit out of any version of Ken Shamrock.

 

[ramair455]

Ken sounds like the old school NFL players accusing current offensive players lack of toughness, because of all the rule changes in that last 15yrs.

Times change...

 

[Xaero]

BMF should be open weight.

The champs at LHW and HW probably had a good chuckle about how stupid the BMF belt is.

 

[OrigFan255]

No map of how to train?

Is he talking about 1993 or in Roman gladiator times?