Former WWE Superstar Ken Shamrock was recently interviewed on the Wrestling Perspective Podcast with Lars Frederiksen of Rancid & Dennis Farrell to talk about several professional wrestling topics.
Shamrock talked about nobody in professional wrestling being able to hold a candle to him in a shoot fight, and his WWE peers being professional and not testing him.
Here’s what he had to say:
On nobody in pro wrestling could hold a candle to him in a shoot fight:
“No, I think they were more interested in things I knew. Obviously I got to roll with Blackman, I got to roll with some other guys. But anybody that ever rolled with me or ever was with me would tell you that I was legit. There’s no question. In pro wrestling, there was nobody that could hold a candle to me when it came to actual shooting.
Anybody that says anything different, that’s that pro wrestling character coming out of them because I don’t think there’s any doubt in anybody’s mind. Obviously with me being a world champion in Japan and being a world champion in the United States at the same time, I was the world’s most dangerous man, and nobody could beat me.
Going into pro wrestling, I don’t think that somebody that does that career in pro wrestling would have a chance of actually beating me at my game.”
On his WWE peers being professional and not testing him:
“Nobody did that because I think when you’re at that level in the WWF, it’s business, and everybody knows it’s business. So you didn’t have that. I guess maybe on a smaller circuit and you’re going around, there’s somebody who wants to kind of get the best of you and get over in you in a match where they try to make you look stupid, yeah, maybe in lower circuits. But at the WWF, everybody was professional. It was about getting the match over, putting on great matches, and everybody walking out of there healthy.”
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