Ken Shamrock tests positive for steroids

[lander2312]

Ken def had some skills...and steroids doesn't make you have those quick reflexes and that instinct that you have to have as a fighter.

 

[gunslinger2]

Wow, that's insane, you got your blue belt from Royce?

Does Royce give tests, or does he give out belts based on time put into training? I noticed some professors give tests while others promote based on time in the gym.

He actually does both, or he did at the time. I got to train with him when ever he was in the Memphis area. At the end of the day he would have us roll with people of our own rank and then the people that did the best would get to roll with people of higher rank. If you could come in as a white belt and tap a higher rank and you had enough hours in, he would promote you.

When I got my blue belt I taped 2 other white belts and a blue.

 

[rikishi]

He actually does both, or he did at the time. I got to train with him when ever he was in the Memphis area. At the end of the day he would have us roll with people of our own rank and then the people that did the best would get to roll with people of higher rank. If you could come in as a white belt and tap a higher rank and you had enough hours in, he would promote you.

When I got my blue belt I taped 2 other white belts and a blue.

That's it? Geez, I wish my professor was like that. I generally smash everybody I roll with (perhaps it's because of my size advantage) and I'm still only a second degree white belt. I even tapped my professor one night with a leglock.

Oh well. I guess I'll have to wait.

 

[gunslinger2]

Yeah, they want to see you use as little muscle as possible. If you beat a guy bigger than you with something really slick like a triangle from the bottom, or a sweet choke you will more likely get a bump up. A lot of instructors are like that. With Royce if you could beat someone who out ranked you with legit Jiu-jitsu he seen you as being under ranked. With a former instructor of mine I was taping all of his blue belts with ease and he refused to even let me try for a stripe.

 

[DidiXterra]

Does anyone remember when he was in WWE? He was jacked. 245 and cut. He said he was benching 500 and dead lifting and squating over 600. Then when he came back to the UFC he had dropped down to 205 and looked like shit. All in less than a year.

He has always been juicing throughout his career... Many MMA fighters do, even the ones that aren't that big...

I know a guy that fights for Top Team Brazil, in UFC, who has a fight very soon in one of the lower weight classes, that got an infected butt from a cooked needle while training in Brazil and juicing and had to go to the hospital.

 

[gunslinger2]

further, I would say the fighters are much better conditioned all around today then ten years ago. When you have a guy like Tank Abbot winning fights (holding a belt? is that correct?) something is wrong.

do you really think he could hold his own with the top heavy weights of todays UFC?

No. Fighters like Tank cannot make it today for many reasons. Conditioning is just one of them. Tank was a brawler pure and simple. Any time you have a 280lb guy throwing haymakers, he can knock someone out.

I agree that there should be rounds to make the fight more interesting. But some of the other rules I think have cheapened the world of MMA down a lot.