9 Times WWE Promoted 'Freak-show' Matches

4. Ken Shamrock Vs. Owen Hart

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In 1998, Owen Hart and Ken Shamrock traded a set of fights in one another's home stage, like a couple of characters in a beat-em up. At Fully Loaded, the 'King of Harts' took the former UFC star to his dad's dungeon (only in wrestling is this sentence perfectly regular), before the 'World's Most Dangerous Man' responded in kind by inviting Owen to the Octag... er, 'Lion's Den'.

Though it took place within an MMA locale, the 'fight' was strictly pre-meditated; Owen would have been beaten in about two seconds flat had that not been the case. Instead, the pair contested a highly-entertaining nine minute brawl within the polygonal cage, before Mad Ken naturally concluded affairs with an ankle lock - much to the (probably actual) disgust of Owen's second, Dan Severn.

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