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Chapter 1: What is the significance of Ken Shamrock's career in wrestling and MMA?
Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGreca. On today's episode, myself and Bully Ray talk to one of the all-time greats, the world's most dangerous man, Ken Shamrock, right here on the Busted Open Podcast. This is the Busted Open Podcast. Let's bring in the world's most dangerous man, the legend himself, the one and only Ken Shamrock joins us here on Get Your Flowers.
Sir, thank you so much for the time. And we wanted to take this time to celebrate everything that you've done for the business. So first and foremost, thank you for everything that you've done. Appreciate you.
Well, thank you. I appreciate that introduction. Thank you.
Ken, always great to see you. You look like you're in great shape as always. How are you feeling these days?
I'm good, man. You look good also, brother, man.
You look nice and thick, man. Not as good as you, not as good as you, but I'm trying, I'm trying.
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Chapter 2: How has Ken Shamrock adjusted to life after his fighting career?
Life in general these days, Ken, good for you? What are you doing with yourself?
Yeah, you know, it takes a while, as you know, to go from place to place, all the fast-paced excitement to normal life, family life. And it took me two, three, four years to try to let go and settle in to the things that were really important to me and the things that I was missing along those ways.
But right now, I'm in a great space, good head space, good life, great marriage, great family, just celebrated Father's Day. To all those out there, happy Father's Day, belated Father's Day. But it is a special time, and a lot of times I miss some of those days, as you know.
a lot of holidays a lot of special times that you have to miss in order to be able to live a certain lifestyle and so you know now it's that time for me to really enjoy the things that are really most important to me and that's my family and friends
That's awesome. And to be able to, and that's the biggest thing, Ken, right? It's just embracing the new era in your life that you've earned because of all the hard work that you put in. Like you deserve and earned this period to kind of just celebrate your career, but also celebrate your life with the loved ones and the people who truly care about you.
Well, again, and I don't mean to dump on anything anybody says, but Whenever you start getting into the area of saying deserved or, you know, I kind of like to live my life on being able to accomplish things that you accomplish, right? Deserved never enters into it. And so that's just kind of the way I like to live my life. Even while I was in the industry and working and doing those things,
And now in the life that I am now with family and friends, everything that you do in life is always by the efforts that you put into it.
Ken, we see a lot of people come from the outside into the world of WWE. Do you remember the first time you stepped into the locker room or stepped into the ring and how different it was for you and how you were accepted by the boys?
I think it was gradual for me it was a lot of stops and goes uh because of the career that I had in MMA and then also pro wrestling you know I started out as a pro wrestler you know I was a high school wrestler I did well I broke my neck early on had to do some things to get around that football uh ended up um finding some places down in Mooresville North Carolina and working with uh
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Ken Shamrock face when transitioning to professional wrestling?
Guy probably weighed about 190 pounds, maybe 200 at the most. And really no athletic ability. He says, you know, I want this guy to pass. And, you know, come to find out there was some business transactions that were going on between him and this other guy that were going to support or do something. I don't know what the details were, but it wasn't for his wrestling ability.
And it just, you know, I caught on pretty quickly that this wasn't where I was going to learn to do pro wrestling. 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 ā
Let yourself relax a little bit because you realize that you're not being taken advantage of.
awesome ken uh when you were with the wwe during the attitude era you guys were probably doing between 200 and 250 uh you know shows a year between live events and television and you know when you have a bad night in the wrestling ring you really gotta forget about it immediately you gotta rip it up throw it away because you gotta get back in the ring the next night you gotta entertain in front of a fresh audience a fresh house and you can make up for it real quick
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Chapter 4: How does Ken Shamrock compare the mental aspects of MMA and wrestling?
I did the same thing. We were both the lightest ones in mixed martial arts. I was 190 at the time, and I think he was 170, 180. So we were definitely way ahead of everyone else. But without Hoist and without me being able to have competitors against one another, we can't build this organization.
So I'm half right, which means I'm not way off. You said I was way off. I was half right. Half right's not way off. Okay. Glass is half full.
I got you.
Ken, obviously you got to work with The Rock. The Rock just did the moving fighting machine about Mark Coleman. Pardon my ignorance, but did you and Mark Coleman ever cross paths?
Oh, yeah. I've never fought, but we definitely, he came in towards the end of my reign. It was just, I mean, the dude, I mean, he saw it. The guy just crushed everyone.
Did Rock do justice to Mark Coleman in his portrayal? I think he portrayed Mark Kerr.
I'm sorry, Mark Kerr. My bad. Yeah, Mark Kerr, I met him in Japan and had my acquaintance with him. Guy's a super nice person. Super nice person. And I always thought that he was... His mind was in the wrong body because he is such a gentle, kind human being. But, yeah, he's put into this body that's like a cyborg and going out there and destroying people and hating every minute of it.
It's definitely a struggle. Kent, I know that in the break before we started the interview, you asked how long it was going to be. I said 15 minutes. We went 30 minutes. But that's bully's fault. Just so you know, that's not my fault. That's because of bully. I would have been happy just going 15 and being truthful and honest with you. But because of bully, we went long.
I just found him very intriguing to talk to, and I wanted to hear more from him.
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