3. Ken Shamrock Reveals Why He Left WWF, Not Taking Part In Brawl For All
During a recent interview with WrestlingInc, former WWF Intercontinental Champion Ken Shamrock talked about why he left WWF in 1999, not participating in the ‘Brawl For All’ tournament and more. Below are the highlights:
On Leaving WWF In 1999:
“There was a lot of stuff happening there. For me, I’d kind of hit this wall where I was on the roads so much that I was missing my kids’ football games and wrestling matches and the dances they were going to. I had five kids, so it really hurt me to miss that many things. I felt that was a good time for me to figure out how to stop being on the road and be with my family. We had a lot of things coming up in my family that was tearing it apart. That’s the reason those things happened. It just seemed like I spent so much time on the road, I missed my kids growing up, and I couldn’t handle that.”
On Not Taking Part In ‘Brawl For All’:
“When I got approached about it, I was disappointed. It took me a long time to be able to build trust with the different people I got in the ring with and would wrestle with. When I was asked to do that I was like ‘uh, okay, $50,000?’ It didn’t seem right to me that I would go into this tournament style fighting thing, I was a professional, and beat these amateur guys up.
That’s why I didn’t do it. Why are you asking me to do this? I just came into pro wrestling and I’m learning this craft, and now you want me to go in there and do a complete 360 and beat these guys up for $50,000 when I’m used to making half a million to a million. None of it made any sense to me.”
