Ken Shamrock

Ken Shamrock is one of those rare figures who genuinely helped build a sport from the ground up. I remember watching early UFC events and thinking this guy was unlike anything we'd seen — a submission wrestling specialist who could strangle you out or slam you into next week, all with this cold, controlled menace. Being an inaugural UFC Hall of Fame inductee isn't just an honor, it's recognition that he was there when mixed martial arts was still figuring out what it even was. His WWE run added mainstream pop-culture reach, and the fact that he also wrote about his life shows there's real depth behind the tough-guy persona. Born on an Air Force base in Georgia and built like a machine at 6'1", Ken Shamrock is legitimately one of the founding fathers of modern combat sports, and that legacy holds up no matter how many years pass.

Name (English)

Ken Shamrock

Name (Japanese)

ケン・シャムロック

Reading

けん・しゃむろっく

Born

February 11, 1964 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dragon

Origin

Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, United States

Height

185 cm

Occupation

actor / American football player / professional wrestler / mixed martial arts fighter / writer

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://kenshamrock.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kenshamrockofficial/
• Xhttps://x.com/Ken_Shamrock
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A0%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF

Tags

• Georgia
• actor
• American football player
• professional wrestler

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.