I will say Ken’s run in the WWF was impressive. He had the physique and he learned great in-ring ability rather quickly. He could have been a champion there had he been able to cut a decent promo.
Sperry was 35.
I still remember Big Nog crying ringside after Sperry lost to Ninja.
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Ken is a big part of the reason I stopped watching pro wrestling.
I would have eventually anyways, but Ken sped up the process lol.
Ken’s hyping of MMA fights was usually pretty convincing.
Not sure what about that didn’t translate.
I never really cared about mic skills when I did watch pro wrestling.
WCW gave Goldberg a huge push and he hardly said a word. WWF should have done something similar with Ken.
But they were giving Undertaker magic powers and shit at the time, so they had already jumped the shark lol.
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It was incredibly impressive. Igor ate blackbelts for lunch in his day. That choke was sunk in from half guard like he was playing with a new student.
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Ken got elevated very highly in the WWF aside from becoming Champion he was as high as you could get.
He had some kind of belt didn’t he?
I just couldn’t stand the “rivalry” with Jericho.
I’m watching this shit, knowing that Ken could rip this guy’s leg off and take it home any time he wanted.
Had to tap out.
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What was that belt called i hadn’t watched in so long? I think it was the Intercontinental one and i believe he also held the hardcore belt at some point.
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Something like that.
I wish he had stayed with MMA. Would have been some great matchups. He re-injured his neck in WWF and was never the same.
But I realize he brought attention to MMA through that, so it was a positive for the sport – if not for Ken’s physical health.
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This is old and Don talks about it later how he was hopped up on pills talking shit.
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Pills will make you say and do some loopy shit. Especially, if someone has wronged you in the slightest. Exacerbates the shit out of it. Even worse if you’ve had a couple(beerongas).
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Some of that blame is on Ken. Not all MMA translates to Profession Wrestling.
You can knee bar somebody when they’re flying off the top turnbuckle.
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I actual fucked up a dude’s ankle for life with this. We were rolling and he was a much bigger guy than me and a talented athlete. I fell back and grabbed on and he said “you ain’t gonna do shit with that foot”. I locked it in and applied enough force to where anyone with sense would tap. Dude had too much pride too. I was wondering if i had it locked in good enough he tried to roll with it and i locked his legs up with mine and pulled his toes down as i did it and he tapped rapidly. He had trouble standing up and told me he had to call out of work two days because of it. That was about 30 years ago. I ran into him recently and he told me he had thought about me every morning since then. I was thinking wtf and he then told me every morning when he got out of bed his ankle painfully popped twice. I felt like shit about it but he said it was his ego that caused it.
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Shamrock is a GD menace for teaching you that illegal lock. Its the equivalent of a nutshot in boxing.
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That toehold has been around a very long time before Ken of course. I learned it from a catch wrestler before Ken was doing it in WWF. Simple but very effective. People think it is garbage because Ken used it as a gimmick. I think Mir even broke Tank’s ankle with it.
Yes, but it was his influence that made you do his exact finisher on the buddy you crippled for life. He is the literal heel of MMA and WWE. I would say Ken Shamrock is exactly to blame for your friend walking with a limp and juanpunch by association.
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I guess that is also why every fight i have ever been in i do that Hogan leg drop of doom finisher on my unlucky opponents!
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One of my favorite breaks from competition was a toe hold. All his metatarsals tore in half. It felt like tearing a really thick stalk of celery.
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Sak tried to get Vitor in one iirc while he was standing and Vitor was on ground.
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Inter-Continental Title
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