High praise from Shamrock onto the Hall of Famers.
For the first time, a match was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Stone Cold Steve Austin and Bret Hart's match from WrestleMania 13 was honored at the 2025 ceremony.
During their respective speeches, Ken Shamrock's name was brought up as he was the special guest referee for the bout. Shamrock discussed his name being mentioned while he was being interviewed by Toronto Sun.
Yeah, I mean, it was an honor (to hear my name shouted out at the 2025 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony). Those guys deserve everything and they did a tremendous job. Like I said, I’ve said this over and over whenever I’ve been interviewed and we talk about that match: I didn’t know whether or not I was capable of actually reffing a wrestling match because I’d never done it. I knew what I was doing in fighting but wrestling was a whole nother thing, right? I experienced it a little bit but never in that side, and this was a big match. These guys were like megastars and so I’m thinking like, I hope I don’t screw this up because I didn’t feel like I could fake it and I could do those things, and that’s when I went into pro wrestling. I didn’t know whether or not I was able to act or not act but be able to create a character like those guys were doing and when I got into that match, I’ve said it many times, two minutes, three minutes into that match, I couldn’t tell whether I was reffing a wrestling match or whether an MMA match. I mean, they did a heck of a job. It was tremendous.
Shamrock is the first inductee of UFC's Hall of Fame. He has weighed in on the possibility of being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame and that can be read here.
Shamrock is under a WWE Legends contract.
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