MMA Quick Quote: Frank Shamrock and his stability ball ready for Nick Diaz or Tito Ortiz rematches
By: MMAmania
“Certain things didn’t go well leading up to that fight, during practice I popped a few ribs — it was really painful at the time but I thought it wouldn’t have a big impact on the fight, but as you could see it obviously did. I could feel that I couldn’t get any power in my shots so I had to keep it standing. Before the fight, I was told that I had to rest my ribs for a while so I couldn’t work out on the stability ball which is crucial to getting a good workout, most guys like to train BJJ, boxing or whatever but the stability ball encompasses all of those aspects into one. It was weird because usually I can go 3 rounds no problem but it was like my body started shutting down after the first round. I think that fight was a blessing is disguise, I changed up my training schedule and bought a new stability ball which I’ve been working out on to help me with my balance. But props to Diaz he did a great job. Of course the Diaz fight didn’t sit well with me so I definitely would like to get a rematch. There’s still plenty of fights left out there for me before I call it a day, if Tito wants to do it I wouldn’t mind kicking his ass again, I’m sure we could agree to a catch weight.”
– GracieFighter.com passes along a snip from Frank Shamrock, which indicates that the former UFC champion would like to rematch Nick Diaz now that he is fully healthy and able to train with his stability ball — a luxury that he was not afforded prior to the match because of a rib injury. It must be a huge difference maker because Diaz went on to punch Shamrock’s guts out en route to a decisive second round technical knockout. Diaz followed up the performance by putting on another clinic against Scott Smith in his next fight. Shamrock would more than likely need to put together one or two more wins before a Diaz rematch would make sense, making a showdown with Ortiz much more realistic. It will also give him more time to roll around with his trusty stability ball, which you can check out after the jump.
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I don’t think a stability ball is gonna make that big of an impact in a rematch with diaz. I say Nick wins that fight 10 out of 10 times.
no doubt~
nick would cearly beat the piss out of him again..
let tito grab a win of this fool before he comes to reality, figures out he sucks, and finally calls it quits~
gosh dangit!! i hate frank shammy!!~ always have, and always will..
Yeah not a big fan either, I hope he does fight tito. I hate both of them and love it if they just beat the piss out of each other!!! lol
I have no interest in seeing Tito vs. Shammy! Neither one of those Has-been egomaniacs, deserve to ever win a fight again….If they fight, someone will have to win….
Only way I would watch that fight is if it was guaranteed to end in a double KO, or both fighters simply killing each other!
I hope that this starts a new wave of fighters blaming losses in mma, on lack of stability ball training! Now that I think about it, that had to be what cost Rashad the fight against Machida…hahahahah!
i think he was blaming it on the fact his balls arnt stable~
its simple~
he is scared to fight top fighters!!
it is actually as simple as that Sinky! he has always been Bitch made!
LOL Stinky. Nice call.
I dunno, I kind of like Shamrock. He seems ok. I noticed so many people hate him but perhaps I’m not as familiar with his antics.
It’s his marketing that people don’t seem to like, I like Frank too, he’s a great fighter and usually puts on an exciting fight. He talks a sh!t ton of trash and gets pretty arrogant about his skills; but the guy always seems to give his honest opinion and usually tells it like it is (if the issue isn’t involving himself).
I agree with Frank, I think he looked flat against Diaz, and IMO he could do much better in a rematch and make it much more competitive. And he actually isn’t the one that brought up the rib injury in the first place it was Scott Coker, who stated Frank was encouraged to pull out and advised not to fight with his injury and he went ahead with it anyway. Didn’t say a word about it after the fight until Coker brought it up and took his loss like a man.
Frank’s only problem is his pride and arrogance, he overrestimates himself a lot and tends to take fights while injured thinking he’s going to be so technically superior to his opponent that it won’t matter. Thats my only knock on Frank, other than that he cuts a good promo and definatley knows how to sell a fight. Most people will watch just to see him lose; mission accomplished.
k this picture for the heading is the funniest thing
O damn-
Great post. Agreed 100%.
Old Saying: like a monkey trying to f*ck a football
New Saying: like Shammy tring to f*ck a stability ball
That stability ball has better stand-up than Frank.
Yeah, good post O damn.
if his ego wasn’t as big as it is he would be out of mma for good
True, he needs to use that giant ball on his head, pound some sense into it and realise he aint relevant no more, never will be again!
I hope you guys read the Jake Sheilds Rant when he called out Shammy in the hotel lobby following Sheilds vs. Lawler fight! I didnt know Jake had much of a personality, but he Laid the verbal smachdown on Shammy! Constantly making fun of his stability ball, and his braces….it was so damn funny! For those that havent read it, I suggest reading it, you will laugh and its pretty recent!
I Have just canceled my membership at my mma school….who needs to train, when I can just get a stability ball! hahahhaha
Here it is, Jake SHields just moved up on my favorite list of fighters.
“I would love to fight that old man Frank Shamrock for all the shit he talks about me. But Frank would never fight me in a million years. All the stability balls in the world couldn’t save Frank. He is a shameless self promoter that would not make it out of round one against me and he knows it. I called him out at the hotel last night for all the shit he talks about me. He has zero jiu-jitsu skill. Apparently rolling around with a rubber ball all day does not tighten up your jiu jitsu game as much as previously thought (LOL). But I’m wasting all of our time even talking about this right now. Frank knows he would get smashed by me. Yet he will still talk shit about me but not sign on the dotted line. That’s what Frank does. He’s a creepy looking 50 something year old man, with a flat nose, and some 13 year old kids braces on his teeth, trying to always talk himself up so people think he is still relevant. He beat Cesar and Nick smashed him…How about a rubber match Frank? I would come up to your weight and I would give you my entire purse if you could even make it to a decision against me. Then you could buy all the stability balls in San Jose to grapple against every day for the rest of your life, you dick
what does that say about jake shields calling out a 50 year old man? jake has never even beatin anyone in the top 10 in his weight class…he is the most overrated fighter to have never beatin a highly rated fighter in his weight class…
dude has had nearly 30 fights and only one impressive victory over lawler…but still the dude has YET to beat anyone in the top 10 in his weight class….thats why he calls out 50 year old men…hes a fraud
I’d have to agree here… not saying Shields is a joke but all the WW’s are in the UFC. He did beat the ‘goat’ for what that’s worth
Diaz is clearly rubbing off on Jake… Oh, and for what it’s worth, Shields did beat Fitch in a grappling tourney.
He needs to prepare for retirement. Who can Shamrock beat? He can’t hang with anyone but lowered tiered fighters. Nick wins by whatever he wants.
only one person left to beat, the other Shamrock.
Shields has to be the most over rated fighter ever. His greatest victory is over Lawler. Frank Shamrock was a 5 time ufc champ who beat a good Tito Ortiz and a good Jeremy Horn. He didn’t look any worse against Diaz than Scott Smith did, in fact better. I think he would beat Shields. Shammy has insane cardio and is well rounded. Shields has NO stand up game and would probably get KO’d.
*yawn*
Wait a second here….You’re telling me I don’t need to train BJJ, boxing or wrestling if I simply buy a stability ball??? Gyms everywhere beware of the infamous stability ball – it will put you out of business! Good one Frank.
The same ball expecting mother’s use while in labour. Nice.
I heard Machida quit is now, world renowned Machida Karate….to focus on the stability ball!
Finally, my expertise in Stability Ball, I rec’d my black belt from Master Richard Simmons, can be used in cage fighting.
I believe the stability ball comes free with the purchase of Sweatin to the Oldies on DVD.
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Perfect, just perfect!
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Hey John G, did someone piss in your cheerios this morning, because ive read about 6 threads this morning and you have been nothing but angry and critical in all of them. There has to be certain fighters or aspects of mma you dont completely hate. You are allowed to have opinions man, but you have to have some positive things to say too…right lol
LOL Call out Tito for a rematch and say you think you can agree on a catch weight. LOL Tito Ortiz is one of the biggest LHW in the world, and you know this Frank. How much weight would you expect him to cut? Your a joke old man just like your brother Ken. You know for not being biological brothers they look aloike and sound alot alike.
You do realize Frank wooped the sh!t out of Ortiz when they fought in the UFC? IMO, that fight would end with Tito on the recieving end of a TKO loss; I don’t care how big he is, you can’t change the fact that he’s a 1 dimensional wrestler with decent GnP and no stand up.
Please, your kidding right. After that fight Tito learned the importance of being in shape. Shoot he had Machida in a tight triangle had he not transitioned to an arm bar Machida would have never got a shot at the title. Rampage wouldn’t be running to TUF to avoid him. Tito would crush Frank.
Sorry I couldn’t keep a straight face while reading that one. Rampage running from Tito Ortiz? Rampage would knock Tito’s big head into orbit, it would be Earth’s 2nd moon if they fought. Which isn’t going to happen anyway because Page and Tito happen to be good friends. You also might want to watch the Machida fight again; while it was a nice try by Tito, he didn’t have that triangle locked up by any means. The only reason he had to go for the armbar in the first place was because his triangle wasn’t on good enough.
Frank DRUG his @ss when they fought; there was no debating who won that fight, Ortiz was in the damn press conference CRYING after that fight. He did the same crying crap after Randy Couture spanked his @ss in front of a live audience. I know you’re a fan of Tito and all and thats fine, but your boy has become a 1 dimensional lay n prey wrestler who can’t punch his way out of a wet paperbag. Frank, unlike Tito, has actually gotten BETTER since the first time they fought; the only thing that would even keep Tito in the fight is his size; and even that would fail him against Frank.
O I see, you meant Rampage running from Machida; thats still laughable. I’m not going to debate it cause I think it went on long enough in a diff thread, but even the thought of Rampage being afraid of Machida just makes me laugh. People don’t seem to understand the concept of $$$; he’s going to do TUF, not train, not get punched in the face, get loads of $$$, get a free vehicle and tons of publicity to build a fight afterward thats going to rake in even MORE $$$$.
And on top of that; assuming he beats Rashad; he’s STILL going to cash in on a title fight against Machida. I don’t think people are sour on the fact that he went to do TUF, they’re impatient cause they want the Machida vs Page fight now, and they’re really sour because, not only is Page getting paid phat on the show, he’s getting a good pay day off a fight with Rashad afterward AND the title fight will STILL be waiting when he gets done.
I wonder if it’s occured to the Rampage apologists yet that his fight with Rashad isn’t even going to be the main event for the stacked New Year’s card.
Last year Wanderlei/Rampage was the third main event. The year before the Chuck/Wanderlei Superfight was the co-main event. You can bet your asses there will be at least one big title fight ahead of Rashad/Rampage that will steal the lion’s share of the hype.
You guys have been talking about how Machida/Rampage wouldn’t do the numbers Rashad/Rampage would (a completely ridiculous and totally incorrect assumption… Machida is a hot commodity after his well-publicized beatdown of Rashad). How can the numbers be compared when Rampage/Rashad isn’t even the main event?
JJ: I don’t get the point of your argument; I’m not arguing that Page vs Machida is or isn’t going to do the same ppv buys that Page vs Shad is going to do. I’m saying from a business perspective it doesn’t make any sense for him to pass on TUF (which is basically free money, air time on spike and a free vehicle), and a fight with Rashad to jump straight to the title fight with Machida, when Machida isn’t going anywhere; that title shot will still be there assuming Page can keep winning. And if he can’t keep winning then who’s interested in that fight anyway? Most the people trying to say he’s scared of Machida are just sour that they don’t get to see the fight right away and they have to wait. Well too bad!
Also as far as Machida being a hot commodity… I got some friends who are just casual fans, they watch every now and again when I order a PPV; and they just so happened to catch the Shad vs Chida fight; I guarantee if today I called one of them up and said “Hey, you remember that Lyoto Machida fight we saw in May?” Their response would probably be “who?”.
If I mentioned Rampage, Wanderlei, Chuck or even Rashad (Thx to TUF and the fact that they don’t like him); they’d know exactly who I was talking about.
Yeah JJ,I Don’t get your point either…The Wand/Page fight was the 3rd main even on that night b/c the 2 other fight was for a title and their fight wasn’t.How,can you be serious by saying this?The same,can be said for the Chuck/Page fight the year before!
For the numbers how,can you be positive of which fight,will generated more,than the other?Did you find a survey or statistic or something to prove your saying?
As for Machida’s be a hot commodity…I sure haven’t heard much of him lately and I haven’t see more ad of him anywere…just a sh!t load of Kimbo’s and the Spider,but no LaCheetah.You probably won’t hear about him till he fight again and if by chance his fight get on the same card than GSP you,can be sure that he won’t be the top main even of that night.
OD: Machida is now way more popular than Rashad. That’s my point. John was claiming in a past thread that Rashad/Rampage was a bigger fight than Machida/Rampage and the numbers would prove it. My point is that those numbers are incomparable due to the fact that Rashad/Rampage won’t be a main event.
Alpha: The higher the weight class, the bigger the title fight. WW and LW title fights don’t sell as many buys as LHW or HW fights. That’s why GSP/Alves, the two top ranked welterwights in the world, takes a backseat to Lesnar/Mir two HWs who aren’t even top 5. So Machida would definitely trunmp GSP if they were to fight on the same card, which they won’t.
Yea JJ, my point at the end was no I don’t think Machida’s that popular yet. Like I said, my friends that only watch every now and again know who Rashad Evans is; they have no clue who Machida is even though they’ve seen him fight!
Your right JJ!Good point!
Yeah I do realize that, but Frank wanting to meet at a ctach weight is a joke
And one more thing O damn learn to read before you try and call someone out. My post was about him calling out a huge LHW to a catch weight fight. I said nothing about the out come you jackass
Lokie, please read my post and quote the line where I say you picked Tito Ortiz to win a rematch with Frank.. Actually please quote the line to me where I “call you out”. Please point that out to me cause when I read it, I see me bringing up the results of their first fight(mostly in response to you calling Frank a joke); and then giving MY prediction on a rematch… And anything below MIKE’S post is a response to MIKE, not you; if anyone’s a JACK@SS that needs to learn how to read here, it’s you.
There’s nothing I hate more than when a fighter makes excuses after a fight. If you show up for a fight, regardless of your health, you lose the right to be a baby after and whine about injuries. If you’re hurt, don’t fight. Otherwise, shut the hell up. I think Shamrock would have gotten worked regardless of any “rib injuries”. Diaz’s boxing and reach are just too much for some guys, and Shamrock’s wrestling hasn’t been a factor in any of his last few fights anyway
Unlike the rest of the world i actually like Frank Shamrock, however unless his stability ball is made from Cement and he is intending to drop it on Nicks head before they fight, i cant see it really making any difference in a rematch.
“I changed up my training schedule and bought a new stability ball…”
are you kidding me? this actually has to be a joke.
While Frank is sucking on stable balls Tito will be training in big bear with world class MMA fighters preparing to skullfuuck him!
Actually Tito hasnt trained with elite fighters in a long time
Frank likes stable balls
The other balls arent stable enough for frank
look everyone i changed my name
“I changed up my training schedule and bought a new stability ball…”
god forbid he works out with MMA experts…….