Veteranerna Ken ”The Worlds Most Dangerous Man” Shamrock (28–15–2) och Ian ”The Machine” Freeman (19-7-1) var inbokade för match den 27 juli för brittiska organisationen Ultimate Cage Fighting Championships men Shamrock ska nu ha dragit sig ur den planerade matchen.
Freeman blev måttligt road av nyheten om Shamrocks beslut och valde att ta till Facebook med sin frustration och det är tydligt att han inte har några höga tankar om sin amerikanske kollega.
“Well, everyone including myself, knew this fight was too good to be true as we know what a coward Shamrock is. Not only is Shamrock a coward but he’s also a thief. He accepted the fight, demanded $5,000 upfront as a deposit of trust, of which was sent, and now refuses to return the money. Not only has he demanded that money up front but also ask for his purse and ticket deal to be paid “before” he fights and this money to be sent to an American bank. Shamrock you are fucking delusional? What promoter pays a fighter before he fights and with your track record of being a bum, I’m not surprised the promoter said no. UCFC bent over backwards to stick to your Diva demands but you bitched about everything. Even to the fact that they were advertising your name to sell tickets. Thats what every show in the world does dumb Fuck. The fight was confirmed, and you signed and made a video signing the contract. Idiot.
You know I would have hurt you bad but you had to string everyone along after your WWE speech about wanting to fight me, so you had to play along with it. Now your making excuses saying the promoters are in breach of contract. Bullshit. You had no intentions of fighting me. Your a fake, a crook and a liar. You even made an interview about not fighting me yesterday “without” telling the promotion you pulled out. That just shows what a professional knob you are.
Your over and I hope the rest of the world see this and realise you’ve lost the plot, your an idiot and I hope your never hired for anything again.
As far as I’m concerned, I have been training hard and ready to fight anyone. A replacement is confirmed and will be announced very soon. A fighter a lot tougher than Spamcock, but hey, I’m here to fight. Win or lose that’s what I do. I’m here to please My fans, not to let them down.”
I en intervju ger Shamrock sitt perspektiv om orsakerna bakom att matchen inte blir av.
“Well that fight’s not happening. Unfortunately, like we just got done talking about promoters and things of that nature, that is exactly what happened. We put a contract together and we made a deal. They came back to me, probably after about four weeks, with the contract that we agreed upon and said that, “We don’t want to do that contract.” Ha-ha. I was just like, “Wait a minute. What did you say?” It’s like I’m from another world sometimes. It’s like, “You made a deal, but you don’t want it no more. You want to pay me less. Okay. That sounds great. Let’s just do it then.”
So that’s the stuff that I have to run into now that I’m kind of independent and doing my own thing. A lot of times I run into that, where people, what they do, which is what they’re doing on this, they put my name on the card. They try to sell tickets as much as they can. Then they’ll come back and say, “Well, listen, we can’t pay you this much,” and think that I’m going to go ahead and fight. Even if I don’t fight, they’ve already got those ticket sales and they’ll just blame it on me. They’ll say, “Shamrock is a no-show.”
Now I’ve got my work cut out for me to get that out there so that I can let people know that this was negotiated a long time ago, and these guys are in breach of contract, and they’re the ones not holding up their end of the bargain. So, like I said, now I have to do my due diligence to let my fans and other people realize that, hey, this is the kind of stuff that goes on. Most of the time I wouldn’t do that, but in this situation they keep selling tickets with me supposedly going to be there to fight. Then when I don’t show, they’re going to blame it on me.”
Den nu 49-årige Ken Shamrock gjorde sin MMA-debut år 1993 och deltog redan på UFC 1. Efter flera års tävlande i både Pancrase och UFC besegrade han bland andra Bas Rutten och Dan Severn och blev mästare i UFC. Shamrock har förlorat sju av sina nio senaste matcher och han gick sin senaste match 2010.
Även 42-årige Freeman en sann veteran som gjorde sin debut år 1999. Britten gjorde sin UFC-debut på UFC 24 och karriärens största vinst kom mot Frank Mir via teknisk knockout i den första ronden på UFC 38 under organisationens första gala i Storbritannien. Freeman har även mött Valentjin Overeem, Andrei Arlovski och Melvin Manhoef men har förlorat samtliga av de matcherna. Freeman har inte tävlat sedan 2008.
