10 Stiffest WWE Wrestlers Ever
7. Ken Shamrock
Ken Shamrock's pro wrestling lineage goes back further than many know, as he trained under legendary territory era rogue Buzz Sawyer in 1988 and began his first full tour of Japan the following September, eight years before joining the WWF.
It was under Vince McMahon that Shamrock's most notoriously stiff night went down. Wrestling fellow leather-thrower Vader, the former UFC Superfight Champion hit his bigger, beefier opponent so hard, 'The Mastodon' let loose, swinging at Shamrock with such force a lesser man would have been decapitated.
Ken brought MMA striking credibility to the Attitude Era and sometimes, there was scant different between the real bombs he dropped in the Octagon and those he was supposed to be simultating in the squared circle. A student of Pancrase, the formative MMA organisation where the line between "work" and "shoot" barely existed, Shamrock, in his physical prime, was a beast.
Shamrock has described coughing up blood after WWF matches with The Rock, saying they "wanted to change the landscape of pro wrestling from being a talent show and looking pretty to just rough and tough." Rocky once slammed him so hard he developed a small tear on one of his lungs. summoning up the blood. Clearly, Ken was as willing to take it as he was dish it out.