Ken Shamrock On How It Was To Work With The Rock, Steroids, WWF Not Doing Well When He First Signed

Ken Shamrock joined Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson and Jake Brown on the Brown and Scoop podcast on CBS Radio’s Play.it network. You can check out the full interview in the video above, they sent us these highlights:

WWF:

“When I first came in, it wasn’t doing that well. The ratings weren’t there. Once I got there, I think Vince had this thought of trying to cross the lines… walk on the edge of what you can and can not do and say on TV. He pushed the envelope on that. He built characters that were no nonsense, badass characters. It really changed the face of wrestling on that attitude era. It was the best time in wrestling. People could be proud that they watched wrestling. They didn’t have to be embarrassed and say ‘yeah, I watched wrestling.’ There was a lot of closet fans for a long time in pro wrestling.”

STILL GOING IN 50’S:

“It’s more the way I was raised, where I came from, and just my nature. I’m a warrior at heart. A lot of other people do it for money or they want stardom and fame, because they want to be famous or they just want to be on TV, and they just happen to have the skills to be a good fighter. How you find out who somebody is whether or not they are a true warrior, a true competitor all the way through…is people that don’t know how to walk away or say I’m retired. Those are the ones that are purebred warriors. They don’t know anything else.”

“I think it’s pretty clear to me and I know it’s clear to the fans and clear to the promoters…that I am not the level that I used to be. People think I’m ignorant or something. ‘Oh, you’re all washed up. You shouldn’t be fighting again.’ I hear all these things and I say ‘dude I know this. I know all this’ But you can’t tell me to stop breathing. You can’t tell me to stop being me. As long as there’s something out there for me or somebody offers me something that’s reasonable, people that I want to fight, not just anybody, it’s gotta make sense…but as long as those fights come around I will continue to keep being me.”

“People go fishing and hunting and playing basketball and hiking and skydiving and all kinds of things that can hurt you seriously, and they don’t have to stop doing that when they get older.”

THE ROCK:

“Working with him, I became a better wrestler …

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