Frank Shamrock has always seemed a little wiser than his brother. The younger Shamrock retired last month while Ken Shamrock is still fighting because he needs the money. The results are now one-sided embarrassing losses for the UFC Hall of Famer. This is commonplace in boxing where it's nearly impossible to make older fighters see the light and retire. Now that MMA has been around for nearly 20 years, you had to expect the same scenario to unfold. But there's always some promoter willing to put a fighter who is a broken down, shell of himself in the cage to make a buck.
That's where Ken is now. He's lost 8-of-10 fights dating back to 2002. Over the weekend in Australia, the 46-year-old took on another aging fighter in Pedro Rizzo. He had his hat handed to him in less than four minutes. Shamrock (27-14-2) down on one knee, begging for stoppage (1:38 mark) is not the way you want to remember the former UFC heavyweight champ.
He chose to stand the entire time with Rizzo, who has tree trunks for legs. Rizzo (19-9) started the devastation early with inside leg kicks and then blasted away with more big kicks to the outside of Shamrock's lead leg. It only took 11 kicks total to finish the fight.
We're not going to shred Shamrock because everyone is entitled to make a buck. None of us want to be in a position of having to work when we're not capable of doing so but commissions around the world need to step up and tell him he's not fit to fight any longer.
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