Ken Shamrock never had a problem with Vince McMahon.
The "Mr. McMahon" docuseries chronicling Vince McMahon's life premiered on Netflix on September 25th, 2024, and it sparked plenty of controversy in the wrestling world. McMahon has always been a divisive figure, especially since Janel Grant filed a lawsuit against him, John Laurinaitis, and WWE in January 2024, alleging that she was the victim of emotional abuse, sexual assault, and trafficking at WWE. Various WWE stars from the past and present have discussed the docuseries since it premiered.
Speaking with Makthavare.se, Ken Shamrock discussed the documentary and said that it had an agenda.
“I’ve been a part of supporting documentaries, and I’ve been a part of ones that were agenda [driven] and you were collateral. It’s hard to say which it is, because it’s not real. It’s produced, it’s cut up. They put in certain things to make it more exciting or friendly or abusive or destructive. If there’s any way that they want to spin this they can, and we don’t know which one it is. Only Vince knows, and his family knows whether that was true or not. We don’t. That’s why it is frustrating for me when people see something and all of a sudden they say, 'Well that guy is an absolute jackass,’ and you don’t know if that is even true. Since when do you believe everything that someone tells you? Especially when it’s agenda-driven. No. I didn’t watch it, I don’t usually get into that because I don’t want to be persuaded by what I’m watching, because I know for a fact that it could be wrong. Or it could be, it could be true. There’s no reason why I want to watch it, unless it’s going to be something positive for me,” Shamrock said.
Shamrock, who joined WWE in 1997 and left the company in 1999, went on to discuss his experience working with Vince McMahon. The former WWE Intercontinental Champion said that others have different ideas of who McMahon is, but from what he had seen, he was awesome.
“I spoke a little bit earlier about my experience with the McMahons. I think I had a lot more [interaction] with Stephanie when she was around, and Shane as well. I’ve spoken with him a lot longer. In fact, when I was even in the ring, when I was working out, he was around. He’d come up to me, so I spoke more with them than I did with Vince. In the beginning, Vince kind of took me through the character, and how everything was gonna go. Linda, I didn’t really have much of a conversation with her. But I will say this, that I’ve seen, and whenever I was around, Vince was nothing but professional to me, and everything that I saw him around. Other people have different ideas of who Vince is. Maybe I haven’t been around enough to know that. But everything that I know and what I have seen, he’s been awesome," Shamrock said.
Shamrock also said that McMahon gave him an opportunity to make twice the amount of money that he was making as a fighter. He stated that McMahon allowed him to keep moving forward and supporting kids as well.
“I’m not sure there was an influence that Vince had on my career, but I do believe that he did give me an opportunity to be able to make more money than I was making, twice the amount of money I was making fighting at the time. Money didn’t drive me, but I was fighting for $1,500 when I started, it was for a love of it. It continued to be for a love of it until I got to a point in which I couldn’t support my family, I couldn’t pay the bills. I had built this whole universe with the Lion’s Den and bringing fighters in. We had a group home for kids and all of a sudden it was all in jeopardy so I had to make a decision. A decision to collapse everything or to keep following my journey and step into something else to allow the brand to move forward. I created this brand and I was pretty confident I could find something else I could do to make the money I needed to to keep supporting what I had built, and so Vince gave me that opportunity. He did. He gave me an opportunity to be able to continue moving forward and supporting these kids, these at risk kids and these fighters that were at the Lion’s Den fighter house. I got to keep supporting these fighters and allowing them to continue doing what they loved and I loved that too. Wrestling was very interesting to me, I was interested to do it and see what happened. It was exciting, but over time it didn’t feel like enough and I had to get back to what I was used to," Shamrock said.
In September 2024, Shamrock confirmed that he was under a WWE Legends Deal.
"Mr. McMahon" director and executive producer Chris Smith previously commented on the series. Click here to see what he had to say.
Click here to see what Bill Simmons had to say about working on "Mr. McMahon".
Thanks to Makthavare.se for sharing these quotes.
