(One of these two men is still telling this story.)
What do you do when you’re an over-the-hill fighter who has repeatedly refused to take the dignified route to retirement? Apparently you challenge another over-the-hill fighter who you faced a couple of times back when you were both still relevant to the sport. That’s the only possible explanation for why Ken Shamrock thinks it’s a good idea to call out Royce Gracie like it’s 1995 all over again:
The second time I beat him in every aspect of the fight; in fact his corner had to carry him out. Fans have been calling for a rematch ever since. After this particular fight Royce left the UFC. As a matter of fact I ran the entire Gracie family out of the UFC. His talk is cheap. Let’s settle it in the cage. I heard Royce agree to a rematch three times now, every time he has come up with a reason not to fight me. Royce and my brother Frank should get together and write a book about how to set up fights and not fight.
At least Shamrock’s smack-talking skills haven’t atrophied at the same rate as his physical ones. Where this statement goes from being the typical crazy Shamrock banter to being completely out of touch with reality is when Shamrock claims that “fans have been calling for a rematch ever since.”
Really? Fans want to see a rematch of the thirty-six minute stallfest that ended in a draw? What fans? Where do they live? Could they accurately be described as fully functioning adults?
Fightlinker claims to think it’s a good idea as long as they do it in Japan with extended rounds. If the fight does happen, it had better not be in a place with an athletic commission, and any time you admit that you could only put on a fight in a place where there is no official oversight, aren’t you basically admitting that it’s a fight that is not athletically meaningful?
ur a real couch warrior haha, and shit you wanna know who really shouldn’t be allowed in the cage? severn and that 63 year old motherfucker, can’t member his name now, but shit those guys are relics at least ken can still get televised bouts haha.
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hey douchbag, i can tell u are in denial of the legend of gracie jui jitsu. all u couch critics are entitled to your opinion, but let me be the first to tell you your opinion sucks bin ladin dick!!!! in the superfight between gracie and shamrock all shamrock was trying to do was get a draw with a gracie. it’s better than a loss. ken never tried to pass royce’s guard and his punches were weak and a majority of them didn’t land, and the ones that did land did little or no damage. the only punch that did damage was the punch shamrock landed before the clinch. which ken couldn’t even capitalize on. and as far as rickson having a fake record is bullshit. rickson has all the proof he needs to back that up. his alleged loss to ron tripp in ’86 is a loss in sambo. if u listen to the announcers when he enters the ring they say undefeated in vale tudo and jui jitsu! sambo has bullshit rules. so all u disrespectfull haters can kiss my hairy wop ass.