Shamrock weighs in critically on Brock-DC scuffle
Ken Shamrock: “A guy pushes you are you’re a fighter, you don’t just laugh. It’s like, ‘I’m here now, what are you gonna do about it’ and nobody does anything about it.”
When Brock Lesnar took to the Octagon after Daniel Cormier’s knockout victory over Stipe Miocic, there was a bit of pro wrestling flair built into the interaction. A quick shove and some banter made for a quick, but seemingly effective promo.
While the moment did plenty to create buzz around a possible fight, don’t count the first ever UFC/WWE crossover star, Ken Shamrock, among the impressed. In an interview with the Top Turtle MMA Podcast, Shamrock shared just how bad he thought it was.
It was a disaster, Shamrock states confidently, the biggest problem to him being that there was no commitment to the promo. If you’re going to do something like that, do it. Don’t do it halfway.
And that commitment issue, according to Shamrock comes with the push. In his opinion, nobody is buying a fighter pushing another and him just being okay with it.
To me [the promo] didn’t have life… A guy pushes you are you’re a fighter, you don’t just laugh, he argued. It’s like ‘I’m here now, what are you gonna do about it’ and nobody does anything about it.
So while plenty are now excited for the bout rumored for early 2019, Shamrock still isn’t loving it.
Author Daniel Vreeland is a co-founder of the Top Turtle Podcast, and a brown belt in Jiu-Jitsu at New England Submission Fighting in Amherst, Massachusetts.