Ken Shamrock
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Appearances Over Time
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Now, again, Buzz treated me well.
Don't get me wrong.
But everything that brought him to his demise was out in the open.
I mean, I seen him, you know, wiped out at times and we'd come down for practice and he was just blown up.
And so it wasn't hard to really catch on.
My dad was the one going with me all the time.
It wasn't hard for us to catch on very quickly to realize we needed to go somewhere else.
And so after we went through that, and again, like I said, I don't like bashing on Buzz was a good dude.
I just think that he ran into
issues in his career, uh, ran into issues in his life that he just couldn't overcome.
Um, but we had to make it, we had to make a change in order to, to, to keep me going in the direction that we needed to go.
And that's how we ended up start going around.
My dad looked all over trying to find quality wrestling camps and ones that we felt like we could.
go in and learn um it was funny too because every one of the camps we went to all had tryout fees and in my head i'm thinking yeah this ain't gonna work out the way they want it to so we we went down to the nelson school and they had a tryout fee and i believe it was like 3500 or something i don't remember because my dad was the one that paid for it
but it was funny too because they had these i'm thinking in my head okay if i was my ears were up because i thought you know who knows maybe this is how it works so we went to this tryout they worked this out for i don't know three two three hours then they brought a shooter in and i'm like oh here we go and the guy was fresh and i whooped this dude i mean even after all the training i went i whooped him um and uh
Right then and there, Nelson took me under his wing.
And again, the experience I had at first with Nelson was nothing like Nelson Royal.
He was a class act.
You know, Buzz was a little bit different, you know, a little more edgier, a little bit more unprofessional, I guess you could say.
And so it was a great experience, you know, being able to kind of let your –