
(This must be what Bizarro World Ross Clifton looks like.)
Forget about the Ken Shamrock-Tank Abbott bout that you’ve been positively salivating over, because Bloody Elbow says Shamrock will get beaten up by former pro wrestler Bobby Lashley at Roy Jones Jr.’s “March Badness” event in Pensacola, Florida first. Looks like you’ll have to wait a little longer for your dream fight, MMA fan who is stuck in 1996.
Lashley has only one pro fight so far, which might be reason enough for Shamrock — who is still riding high after his victory over morbidly obese tomato can Ross Clifton — to think he has a chance.
But does he really have a shot? Of course not. Lashley may be a newcomer to MMA, but he was a national wrestling champion in college. In addition to that, he’s also a superb athlete and is not really old, slow, and suffering visible effects from years of beatings. In other words, he has several crucial advantages over Shamrock.
Naturally, Shamrock is agreeing to take this beating because he wants to get paid, but we’d also like to think that maybe some part of him was spurred on by the grilling Michael David Smith gave him over whether he should just quit if all he’s going to do is fight fat dudes from here on out. Mostly it’s money, though.
As much of an oddity as this fight is, you have to admit that it does have a certain name-value appeal. Two former WWE guys, one at the long, sad twilight of his MMA career and the other just starting out, squaring off on a card that also features boxing and MMA fights that are actually competitive (Roy “Big Country” Nelson vs. Jeff “Enemy of Monogamy and Grandfather Clocks” Monson, for example).
Basically, this is the event with something for everyone. Say what you will about Roy Jones Jr., but he’s proving to be a decent promoter. Now if he can just book a couple figure skaters, a heavy metal band, and some dogs that catch frisbees in their mouths, he will truly have every form of entertainment that matters.








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commentsThat way people could at least see something that has never been done, and an ending that isn't ridiculously predictable.
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Just because reading is so difficult for you, you do't have to make it so time consuming for the rest of us.
Also, Shamrock is dead....I mean he might actualy die in this match. Not because Lashley is an MMA god or anything, but if he punches shamrock in the face as hard as he can.....welll bad things will happen.
If Lashley wins this id love to see Danna take him in to the UFC! Could you imagin Brock v Bobby in the UFC one day!?
Props to Netterbog, Zombie Rock, & The Harvester for making me LOL.....
He will be sitting in the middle of the ring when the fights over (min at best) with shamrocks head and limp body on his lap crying "I tried to take it back, I tried to take it back!"
They will have an over/under on the day Ken backs out
What/when the injury/excuse will be
How many hours before the fight will Ken backout
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