History Wrestling / KenShamrock

* SadistTeacher: Ken was known as a incredibly harsh teacher, always seeking to break his trainees until they learned not to fear and were fit to wage war in the ring. Mikey Burnett recalls how, if you were caught in a choke by Ken while rolling, you would get choked out completely (they eventually had to establish a rule that a trainee "only" could be choked out thrice a day). [[RealityEnsues While his methods did produce tough as nails fighters, his methods also made his pupils more liable to get injured in training.]]

%%* HotBlooded
* IKnowKarate: Specifically Japanese shoot-style MMA, which is based around catch wrestling and other martial arts.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Turned down a match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, one of the most prestigious titles in pro wrestling, for a special guest referee spot in WWE because Vince was offering more money than Inoki. This was arguably his entire attitude in WWE, he had already proven himself a legit BadAss in a "real" combat sport, and had no problems being treated like a B-lister in [[{{Kayfabe}} "fake"]] wrestling as long as he was getting paid.

* SadistTeacher: Ken was known as a incredibly harsh teacher, always seeking to break his trainees until they learned not to fear and were fit to wage war in the ring. Mikey Burnett recalls how, if you were caught in a choke by Ken while rolling, you would get choked out completely (they eventually had to establish a rule that a trainee "only" could be choked out thrice a day).

%%* {{Determinator}}

* HeroicBuild: In his younger days.

%%* TheBigGuy

%%* TheBrute: As a heel.

** In 1990, before Shamrock became a fighter, the Nasty Boys encountered him and his date in a bar and started sexually harassing her, eventually attacking Ken before the bouncers broke it off. In a fit of HonorBeforeReason, Shamrock wasn't willing to leave it aside, so he later went to the hotel where the Boys were staying at, kicked the door down and attacked one of them. Turning it into a two-one when, they knocked Ken out with a steel-plated phone, stomped him until breaking his sternum and nose, and tried to throw him out a second floor window before Col. Robert Parker stopped them. Years later, with Shamrock turned into a MMA fighter and WWF star, he encountered the Boys again in an airport, and this time [[OhCrap they weren't so confident to engage him]], so nothing happened at the end.

-->"He made me do 500 push-ups, sit-ups, leg-lifts,and squats, and then I had to clean the gym. Then I came back and had to kickbox with him, and again he made me do 500 push-ups, sit-ups, leg lifts, and squats, and after that I was in."

* MightyWhitey: The first one in Pancrase, his losses there were either works or under special conditions like his kickboxing match with kickboxing champion Frank Lobman and according to Shamrock his first fight with Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki had an agreement between the two of them that Ken wouldn't strike him as Suzuki was very injury prone.

* RealMenLoveJesus: Is born-again Christian. He also made a documentary on his life and faith with filmmaker Darren Wilson of WP Films (formerly Wanderlust Productions) who is known for his Christian-based documentaries.

* SadistTeacher: Ken was known as a incredibly harsh teacher, always seeking to break his trainees until they learned not to fear and were fit to wage war in the ring. Mickey Burnett recalls how, if you were caught in a choke by Ken while rolling, you would get choked out completely (they eventually had to establish a rule that a trainee "only" could be choked out thrice a day).

* TheUnfavourite: Wrestling/KarlGotch never liked Ken and Frank Shamrock, considering they were more streetfighters than wrestlers, and believed they should not have been pushed so much in Pancrase. He also disliked Ken because of his taking of performance enhancing drugs, which was SeriousBusiness for him since he developed his own physique naturally and thought Ken was taking a shortcut and therefore unworthy.
** Wrestling/YoshiakiFujiwara had the same opinion, but was at least nicer about it.

** In 2000, Mark Hall supposedly accused Shamrock of trying to snatch sponsors from small shows, and even telephoned his wife and made her cry with foul language. Then, when the two met in a crowd at the King of the Cage 4 event, Hall tried to intimidate Shamrock and even attacked him. The thing was followed with Ken painting the arena red with Hall and the police arresting the latter because the 100 people of the event had saw him starting the brawl.

* BallsOfSteel: Literally. Wrestling/DanSevern tried to get out of a guillotine choke by low blowing Ken, but under his purple speedos Shamrock wore a muay thai metal cup, and all Dan did was hurting his hand. Felix Mitchell was supposedly more GenreSavvy and tried to stuck his hand in Ken's tights and remove the cup, but Ken didn't let him.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: He defeated [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] to win the 1998 ''King of the Ring'' Tournament... the same night as the Hell in a Cell match between [[Wrestling/MickFoley Mankind]] and Wrestling/TheUndertaker.
%%* PermaStubble

** (in SAPW): Jones' Rangers (which included a young [[Wrestling/{{Tatanka}} Chris Chavis, later Tatanka]]) (face) and The Stud Stable (heel)

* RealSongThemeTune: For most of his [=UFC=] career, he used [=Reveille=]'s "What You Got."

** Shamrock has also ended up receiving the shorter end of the stick a few times, though. During his match against Wrestling/{{Vader}} at the ''WWF in Your house 15: A Cold Day in Hell'' PPV in May 1997, Shamrock (who hadn't wrestled in a while) came out ''really'' stiff against Vader, laying into his legs with brutal kicks then cornering him and delivering blows and knees to the head. Eventually Vader (no gentle touch himself) had enough of this abuse, wound up a big one, and [[MegatonPunch hit Shamrock so hard his face nearly ended up on the back of his skull]].

** Shamrock has also examples at the shorter end of the stick, thought. During his match against Wrestling/{{Vader}} at the ''WWF in Your house 15: A Cold Day in Hell'' PPV in May 1997, Shamrock (who hadn't wrestled in a while) came out ''really'' stiff against Vader, laying into his legs with brutal kicks then cornering him and delivering blows and knees to the head. Eventually Vader (no gentle touch himself) had enough of this abuse, wound up a big one, and [[MegatonPunch hit Shamrock so hard his face nearly ended up on the back of his skull]].

%%* UnstoppableRage

* UnrelatedBrothers: He's unrelated to his foster brother and MMA fighter Frank Shamrock. In Kayfabe, Ryan Shamrock is his sister.

* TortureAlwaysWorks: He once applied an ankle lock to {{Wrestling/Christian}} to force him to reveal the location of Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon. While Christian resisted for a while, he eventually told Shamrock that truth about her location.

** During his match against Wrestling/{{Vader}} at the ''WWF in Your house 15: A Cold Day in Hell'' PPV in May 1997, Shamrock (who hadn't wrestled in a while) came out ''really'' stiff against Vader, laying into his legs with brutal kicks then cornering him and delivering blows and knees to the head. Eventually Vader (no gentle touch himself) had enough of this abuse, wound up a big one, and [[MegatonPunch hit Shamrock so hard his face nearly ended up on the back of his skull]].

* RedBaron: "The World's Most Dangerous Man", "One Punch Shamrock" (in his toughman contest days), "The Ultimate Hero" (in Japan after his UFC fights), "The Lion", "The Rock" (apparently).

* RedBaron: "The World's Most Dangerous Man", "One Punch Shamrock" (in his toughman contest days), "The Ultimate Hero" (in Japan after his UFC fights).

* TheUnfavourite: Wrestling/KarlGotch never liked Ken and Frank Shamrock, considering they were more streetfighters than wrestlers, and believed they should not have been pushed so much in Pancrase. Wrestling/YoshiakiFujiwara had the same opinion but was at least nicer about it.