Let’s be honest, Ken Shamrock vs Kimbo Slice was a hard fight to watch. Neither fighter looked sharp and it looked like they were going in slow motion in the cage. That led to Joe Rogan saying what many observers were thinking.
“That fight looked fake as f-ck,” Rogan said. “There are a couple things I don’t like about that fight. I don’t like that clinch. That long clinch they had when they were mouth to ear, they were mouth to each other’s ears for a long f-cking time.
“When Ken did take him down, he never hit him once. How bout that? He never hit him. He had him down. He had him flattened out. He’s not blasting him with punches. He’s got him flattened out, and he’s not hitting him. That doesn’t make any sense.”
“The other thing that got me was the way Kimbo stopped Shamrock,” he said. “That was real as f-ck. I mean he definitely cracked him. So maybe they made an agreement and Kimbo said, ‘I’m going to punch this motherf-cker anyways.’”
It didn’t take Shamrock long to hear these comments and to respond to Rogan.
“Why in the world would someone in Joe Rogan’s position sound off on something like that when there’s no proof, when it’s just speculation of his thoughts of what he thought?” Shamrock said. “That could literally ruin somebody’s career. That’s like me going out there and telling his wife that he cheated on his wife, yet I don’t have any proof, but someone just said something.
“Those are things, when you say them being in a professional position where you have the people’s ear and you have a responsibility to make sure that whatever you say, you can back up, that you could prove, and not just say it because you think it. Because you ruin people’s lives on something that you have no proof. And he’s wrong what he’s saying. He’s wrong what he’s saying, and therefore he could have ruined my career and my life on what he’s saying, when there’s no proof to it.”
“I swear on everything that I love, my family, my god, everything that I love, that fight was not fixed. And the people that are saying it are saying it because they’re angry or they lost a bet, because they bet in Vegas, or they’re just trying to be hurtful. That’s it.”
That’s the MMA equivalent of Shamrock putting it on his momma.
If the fight wasn’t fixed then it is easily one of the worst MMA fights to ever headline an event and hopefully both Shamrock & Kimbo have made enough money to just walk away.