Ken Shamrock
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He was really instrumental in preparing me for the WWE or F. And along with Brett and many others people, a lot of people along the way really helped me get there.
But I think you wanna go back to how it all began and how it started.
Buzz Sawyer was actually the first person that I had met that was kind of a great guy.
I really liked him, but
very unorganized and didn't really help me understand a whole lot, but that's really where the transition started.
And I found a place in more than North Carolina, which was Nelson Royal and great family, man.
You know, he had an organized wrestling organization, really helped me understand being able to perform in front of crowds and the psychology of wrestling and the other stuff that's outside of wrestling, the business parts, also the things that you need to try to protect yourself in certain situations.
So I really got a true understanding of wrestling, pro wrestling from Nelson Royal.
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Well, I think, I think you were right, but the way that Buzz would work it, because, you know, he saw not my future in wrestling.
He saw an opportunity for me to be the hit man.
Um, um, I'd won a couple of top mans, you know, I was, uh, you know, because of the way I kind of grew up, I was, I was, I could, I could handle myself.
And so I remember going down to Sacramento, uh, from Reno.
to start training with Buzz.
And he didn't even have a gym at the time.
We were out of this racquetball court where he threw some mats down.
And I remember like every, I think every, at least once every weekend, he would do these tryouts.
And he would have me go in there and he would tell me, you know,