So, yeah. At Wrestlemania 13, Bret Hart and Steve Austin's feud was deemed so wild that MMA legend Ken Shamrock -- who was later set to debut in the WWF -- was needed as a special enforcer referee. In the match, Shamrock's physical presence and star power added a considerable level of intrigue to the now iconic confrontation. Why waste Samoa Joe for 30 seconds at the end of NXT Takeover's epic confrontation between Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens instead of potentially having him serve the same purpose as Ken Shamrock? For the purposes of NXT, Samoa Joe could be seen by the crowd at Full Sail as on the same level as Shamrock nearly 20 years prior.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
