Say what you want about shammy but he had some of the nastiest leg locks in his prime. Even when he was washed he still caught or hurt a few good fighters. His entries were pretty good too. He could hit them from a closed guard.
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He was the most versatile submission threat pre-2000 NHB/MMA.
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He was strong as fuck and was a mean guy too, sort of like a phalhares but not as retarded
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versatile power threat imo
Royce booted his foot like there was no tomorrow when Ken dropped back
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here’s one for you.
was it the TUF series where he brought in Erik Paulson as a assistant coach? I remember he was under pressure coaching those guys due to his technical limitations.
he ended up resorting to describing himself as a brawler/leglock guy. then said he’d gone over leg locks with erik and ‘started to remember details he already knew’ - pretty much seemed an admission that erik understood leglocks on an entirely different level.
tl,dr: he knows how to crank a kneebar but might struggle to explain its finer details.
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Erik might have better technique but Ken Also had power. Ken would have broken that black guys leg that beat Paulson
‘yes I agree, ken’s a neanderthal’?
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Ken was effective in his prime because he had enough technique to know how to properly apply a leglock and also be pretty versatile from his positions, and then would try and rip your limb out with his gorilla steroid strength.
A ruthless man for a pretty ruthless era of NHB.
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I saw him 360 that guys foot in the early day. I have never heard a man scream so much in mma
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He had some of the most convincing fake fights for the time
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List them.
I don’t have all day. Can I list the ones that were actually real instead
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Was Ken Shamrock the king of leg locks in his prime?
Yes.
And I’ll do you one better.
He’s probably the main reason defending leg submissions was a part of the learning curve relatively early on.
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Sure.
Then I’ll tell you how many you left out.
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So DRAMATIC
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That was PWFG.
Never intended to be real and isn’t on their records.
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you must be the stupidest sonvabitch alive,
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