Ken Shamrock Comments On Comeback To The UFC, Heat With Dan Severn, Fighting Frank Shamrock, Pro Wrestling, More
Posted by Dustin James on 07.04.2008
Ken Shamrock talks, and we listen.........
Ken Shamrock recently conducted an interview with MainEventRadio.com. During the interview he discussed why the UFC billed his fight with Tito as his "retirement match", what MMA fighters he thinks can make it in pro wrestling, fighting his brother Frank Shamrock, a possible come back to the UFC, and plenty more:
On why his fight with Tito was billed as his "retirement match" if he never actually retired:
"You know stuff like that, its just a shame that I cant talk about it, because right now were in the middle of a court battle with the UFC, and I can't really comment on that, because I'd rather have the lawyers deal with those because anything I say about any of that stuff they'll try and turn it around so I'd rather leave it alone."
Will he ever return to the UFC?:
"Well again you never know, I don't know how things will work out, I hope we could put things behind us some day and that we can all grow up and be cool about this and lets get it done, instead of having to go through all this mess, but again I'm not an attorney and I cant answer those questions, only the attorney's can."
On what other companies he could fight for, and possibly fighting his brother Frank:
"Well im looking at trying at trying to maybe face Frank, or maybe Hoyce Gracie, it just depends, there is a lot of ways that I could do this, I wanna go fight, I'd like to fight one more time, there is a lot of guys out there that would make sense to me but id tell you the ones who make the most sense to me and that's Frank or Hoyce."
On the heat between him and Dan Severn:
"One day we were sitting in this meeting room with Dan and his management as well as me and my management, and they were talking and at the time I was the champion, and they were asking questions, but none of them were directed at Dan, they were all directed at me, while we were both sitting in the same room, well Dan got up and left, he got pissed off and got up and left, and so then I got up and I told Dan I was gonna kill him for disrespecting this business by just getting up and leaving, and so he spouted off and said something like whatever your dreaming, and I said well yea you watch that this dream don't come true and so when I got into the ring, I literally tried to snap his neck, when he shot in I just about popped his head off and that's when he tapped out, but after the match was over, he walked up to me and said hey dude I didn't mean anything by that and I said hey man no worries im happy."
On Brock Lesnar turning to MMA:
"Well I think Brock, especially Brock Lesnar, needs to be very very careful, because he's a big star in wrestling and if he's not careful, being in MMA could really bring him down quite a bit because he was built differently than I was built, he was built as a indestructible mass of a person, and now that he's been in there and has been tapped out, it takes some credibility away from his character, so he needs to be very careful in his next match, and I said it before he fought Frank Mir that this was a very bad matchup for him because eventhough Frank Mir is slower and little bit older and doesn't seem to have the desire to want to fight, the fact still remains that he is a very good submission guy and Brock doesn't know anything when it comes to being on the ground other than how to wrestle, therefore it was just a matter of time before he caught him, I would of liked to see him fight a striker, where Brock could of just wrestled him to the ground and just laid on him and just punched on him."
Are there any other MMA fighter's that he thinks could make it in pro wrestling?:
"I don't. I think that Pro wrestling is one of the toughest things to achieve in the world because there is so many variables that you have to do you've got to be able to remember things and as your remembering things you got to be able to act in different ways up or down, sad or cried or excited, there is just so many things you gotta do, you gotta be an athlete, you gotta be a stuntman, there is just so many things to it and being a fighter, and coming from being a fighter, you don't know how to let people know that your hurt, to let people know that your being beat up, or let people beat you up and feel good about it, there is just too much pride there, so it is a very difficult thing, and the only way you can find out if someone could really do is when they do it."
