Ken Shamrock returned to the mixed martial arts cage earlier this month at Bellator 139 and was defeated by Kimbo Slice in the main event of the fight card.
The following day, UFC color commentator Joe Rogan commented on the fight during his “Fight Companion Podcast” with Brendan Schaub and Bryan Callen.
“I gotta tell you right now, that fight looked fake as f**k,” Rogan said. “There’s a couple of things I don’t like about that fight. I don’t like that clinch, that long clinch that they had where they were mouth to ear. They were mouth to each other’s ears for a long time. How about the fact that when Ken did take him down he never hit him once? How about that? He never hit him! He had him down, he had him flattened out, he had his back and he’s not crashing him. 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 to me.”
A week has passed since Rogan made his comments on the fight and Shamrock addressed the statement by Rogan on Submission Radio. Shamrock wonder why someone who has no proof would make that kind of statement, which could ruin his career and life.
“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? 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.”
Shamrock would proclaim that the fight with Slice was not fixed.
“I swear on everything that I love, my family, my God, everything that I love. That fight was not fixed,” said Shamrock. “The people that are saying that are angry because they lost a bet or are just trying to be hurtful. That’s it.”