Ken Shamrock Reflects On Doubts About Refereeing Classic WrestleMania Bout Between Bret Hart And Stone Cold Steve Austin
Ken Shamrock reflects on doubts about refereeing a WWE Hall Of Fame bout.
Ken Shamrock reflects on doubts about refereeing a WWE Hall Of Fame bout.
At WrestleMania 13, Bret Hart and Stone Cold Steve Austin would meet in a bout that has since been immortalized in the WWE Hall Of Fame. On that night, Ken Shamrock would serve as the special guest referee for the bout.
While speaking to Wrestling Life Online in a new interview, Ken Shamrock reflected on the bout, speaking on his doubt at being able to play his role as special guest referee well.
“Yeah, actually, it was pretty confusing going into that match for me personally, because… I hadn’t had the experience to be in there with those two guys at that level. I mean, these are icons guys that are just, as we know now, just greatness, and I was just coming in. So here I was kind of pushed into that spot and I was very happy for sure. But you also have doubts in your mind. ‘Like, how am I going to do this?’ Like, ‘can I keep up with them?’ You know, there’s a lot of thoughts because (the) referee is a very, very important part of matches, and you see Hebner and many, many others that are so important on how matches can go with the way that things are done. So me being in that position, I really thought to myself, man, I just don’t know whether or not I’m able to do the things I needed to do coming from the MMA world, the fighting world, into this wrestling world now, and was I going to be able to do these guys right? So my whole time going into it, like I said, I have my doubts. But I think about 10 minutes into that match, or probably even shorter, I would say probably after they started locking up and made the first contact, it felt like I didn’t have to do anything other than just be me.”
Elsewhere in the same interview, Ken spoke about his first experience working with The Rock. You can read more about that here.
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