Ken Shamrock spoke about his run in WWE while making an appearance on the latest episode of The Kurt Angle Show Podcast.
Shamrock signed in 1997 and left in 1999. This is where he talked about his departure. The main reasons were Owen Hart’s death and Bret Hart being screwed in 1997.
“I think there was a lot of insecurity on my end when they did the thing with Bret Hart and then the thing with Owen and then they did the little skit thing with the Road Warriors where he fell off the big screen and then we saw a body fall behind it,” Angle said. “It just felt like it was hurting, to see a guy that you knew you worked with, was down in Calgary with him and he falls from the rafters. They did the screwjob with Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels, then they do a little skit where the Road Warriors, I think it was Hawk, fell off the screen and you see a body hit the ground. Everything that I was taught going into the WWF was that you had to trust people and that when you went into the ring, the guy across from you, you had to trust he would do his job and you were going to do yours, the announcers were going to do their jobs and so on. It just felt like it came apart.
“I felt like my trust and the security I felt I had was just disappearing. It felt like there was no foundation there for me. I’m not saying this is true, I’m saying this is what I was feeling. I was going to be destroyed, I was going to get ruined and what if something happened to me in the ring because somebody wanted to do something. Doors were now open to do that and it was just a lot of un-trust on my part. Not to say any one person did anything to build that, I think it was just a culmination of a bunch of things that had happened that made me feel like I wasn’t wanted anymore.”
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