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20-12-2004, 20:44
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Frank Juarez Shamrock's Bio

Sitting atop Diamond Head Mountain in Hawaii back in 1997, Frank Shamrock had a tough decision to make. He had just lost a grueling fight to John Lober after leaving his two year, steady paycheck with Japan's Pancrase organization. Wrestling with the lofty relationships he had with his adoptive father and brother, Shamrock could either continue living a masquerade or break away from the only family he knew to seek out his true destiny.

Five years later, Shamrock has achieved everything he set out to do inside the ring to become the epitome of a mixed martial artist. He was a man born into the sport who used his athleticism and free flowing thought process to systemically break down the elements of how to succeed in MMA. Today he sits at a friendlier crossroads yearning to breed a legion of future Frank Shamrocks through training and foresight. But the Rocky-esque story that created him could serve as inspiration to any athlete. And for the first time, that story can be told.

Born December 8, 1972, Frank Alicio Juarez III (he would soon adopt the name Shamrock) grew up in a broken home that led to confusion and sorrow. From the time he was 12, Frank bounced around from group homes, foster homes and crisis centers, until Bob Shamrock invited him into his home for troubled teenaged boys. Shamrock has raised hundreds of boys, pushing them to make something out of their lives and in the small, mountainous town of Susanville, California that was all there was to do. When Shamrock's adopted son Ken began his pro wrestling career, Bob joined him in North Carolina and the home was shut down for a period of time.

Without any guidance, 16 year-old Frank was still a product of the court system and bounced in and out juvenile halls; even doing time in an isolated work camp program that disallowed any music or TV. After finishing the work program he returned to Susanville and let his hair grow out, "like a wild Indian man," Frank said laughing.

When his girlfriend and high school sweetheart became pregnant, he married her before he was 17, which released him from court probation and made him an adult on paper. He was living with his wife and child working two jobs and going to high school, but it was hardly the American dream.

Frank couldn't make sense of the life he was leading even though his IQ had been tested at 148. Trying to make ends meet, Frank ended up falling in with a bad crowd and wound up serving another jail sentence.

When Bob moved back to California and learned of his situation, he made a deal with the sheriff to let him visit Frank every other week while incarcerated. "He was my only contact with the outside world and I didn't associate with anyone else," said Frank. "I didn't have any family-my family didn't talk to me at that point. I wasn't allowed to see my son and certainly those were dark times." Bob was waiting for Frank when he was finally released on April 4, 1994. With no money, a divorce and no place to go, Bob invited Frank to live him on a permanent basis and was subsequently adopted at 21.

In Bob's home, he always pushed sports on those who stayed with him, but Frank was more of an intellectual type and wasn't drawn to competition. But unlike many of the boys that stayed with Bob, Frank had a naturally athletic build. "By 15, I was completely ripped and didn't even do sports-I was a genetic freak," said Frank. After spending some time in Japan doing stiff-worked bouts for the Universal Wrestling Federation, Ken readied himself for a new career under superstar Masakatsu Funaki, who founded Pancrase Hybrid Wrestling in April 1993.
Frank needed a positive outlet, so Bob asked Ken to train him in submission wrestling. Ken refused at first because he didn't think much of Frank, and believed he and his adoptive father didn't owe him anything. Ken and Frank had never really known each other despite living under the same roof at different times. And while 21 year-old Frank was hesitant too, both young men agreed to give it a shot. On April 5, 1994, Frank Shamrock took his first lesson in submission wrestling and though he didn't know it, he would find salvation by testing the limits of the human spirit.

Shortly after his Pancrase career started, Ken fought in the inaugural Ultimate Fighting Championship. Frank accompanied him to many of his UFC matches and the need to understand the intricacies of MMA created the Lion's Den. At first, it was set up as a vehicle to find sparring partners for Ken, but eventually it became a training ground for a new stable of fighters. Frank was just along for the ride. "I saw the fight as being the story and I didn't want to participate because I didn't really like the violence," he said. "What I liked and what I appreciated was the athleticism, the courage and the sacrifice. To be perfectly honest, I didn't really want to do it." Ken eventually became the first King of Pancrase and soon after in December 1994, Frank made his debut in the organization. He fought using his real last name Juarez, but eventually inherited Shamrock. Soon after, Frank was learning the Japanese way of fighting for an organization that took its roots from pro wrestling. All of the fighters trained together, ate together and fought together. For the most part, the matches were gentlemanly until May 1995 when Frank took on Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist Allan Goes. He believed that Goes wouldn't pose a problem because he thought a non-Japanese fighter wouldn't be real competition.

Frank didn't train hard for the fight and even drank and smoked weed the night before, but this was no ordinary match. "I understood that here was a man who did not care and was not there to fight a gentleman's game-he was there to fight and to win," said Frank. "At the same time, I was just an athlete competing in a sport and I didn't understand the need to create and inflict damage-the mental strength that it takes, not only to hurt people, but to be willing to accept the punishment." With Ken cornering him, he worked leg submissions and even broke the Brazilian's leg, but Goes would not quit. With a rope escape apiece (in Pancrase, four rope escapes are allowed when a fighter is in danger), the match was ruled a draw.

"That match taught me that there was a difference between sport and fighting and I had a brief taste of it." Frank stepped up his training and began taking his new career more seriously. From September 1995 to April 1996, he won six straight matches, even beating Funaki and Vernon White. But the situation turned intense when Ken Shamrock left Pancrase with Frank to fend for himself with the Pancrase brass. "I was bored with the style," said Frank. "I didn't know what I wanted to do so I was just going over there and collecting a paycheck. Ken left and there were some legal dealings that made me uncomfortable. Pancrase accused me of doing steroids and things became unpleasant.

“When I fight, I show people my soul and my soul wasn't there." Frank knew Pancrase didn't want him there. "It was a huge drain on my physical and mental abilities to perform well." Typifying his growing disinterest points to his match against Bas Rutten in May 1996.

In January of that year, when Rutten had vacated the King of Pancrase crown due to an injury, Shamrock fought Minoru Suzuki for the provisional title and won. He won two back to back decisions by lost points, but a rematch with a hungry Rutten was too much to bear. Both men had faced each other before and had one win apiece. "Several minutes into the fight, I realized that Bas was just too strong for me and that I wasn't going to make the time limit and be able to finesse him into a hold," said Shamrock.

"So I figured that the only way I could get him to win was to create a foul and get a point because in that time we had four rope escapes. So in my twisted little mind, I thought I could create a foul by making him angry and Bas gets angered easily." On the ground, Shamrock and Rutten were locked in a stalemate with leg locks on one another. Frank began taunting the Dutchman by making faces and sticking his tongue out at him. "I knew if I got him angry that he would eventually hit me with a closed fist and I would get a point. I figured I could survive and hopefully win the match." Unfortunately for Frank, in his zeal to win at all costs (even sacrificing his face) he tried a hasty takedown and ran into Bas’s knee, causing a cut on Shamrock's head; the match was stopped with Rutten winning by TKO.

After losing by knockout against Yuki Kondo in September 1996, 25-year old Frank signed a deal to fight in Hawaii's Superbrawl against John Lober. It would be his first closed-fist match-both Ken and Bob disapproved. "I told him he was not mean enough yet," said Bob. "I wasn't mentally prepared to break something on him, and if need be, beat him into unconsciousness," said Frank. "I didn't want to do that." Frank even knocked out two of his front teeth out, but John Lober refused to back down and kept pressing the fight.

Lober won by decision, but it was the best thing that could have happened for Shamrock. "I really view that fight as the beginning of my career because at that point, I decided to become a real fighter and apply myself 100%. I was tired of living the lies and the dishonesty and having all those things weigh down my soul. From that day forward, I studied and trained 100% and never, ever slacked or fooled around. I put 100% of my spirit into what I was doing. And that really gave me the freedom to be and do whatever I want to do because I gave myself permission." Shamrock also met Angelina Brown, a gorgeous strength coach, who had been working for Thompson's Superbrawl. The couple fell in love and Brown began working with Shamrock on his career.

At that time, Frank Shamrock was the trainer of The Lion's Den and worked out with fighters like Jerry Bohlander, Pete Williams and Guy Mezger. He knew the industry, researched fighters and taught class. But everything was business. Upon getting his Pancrase contract, he had to pay 15% of his purse to Bob in exchange for staying in his home, training and eating expenses. Frank had very little to show for and knew he would never get the same opportunities Ken had while staying there. Maurice Smith started training Ken in striking, but when it was Ken's turn to train Maurice in submission; he pawned him off to Frank. In Smith, Frank found a true friend who didn't want anything from him.

"My training with Maurice really brought me along in my career and the conditioning was a minimal part of it," he said. "What Maurice brought was friendship and love and the desire to help me for no other reason than he wanted me to do well. And that is a strong motivator that will give you lots of courage and will help you to do things that alone, you could not do. Maurice gave that to me, along with conditioning and kickboxing. He was like a brother to me. He wanted me to succeed for no other reason than it would make me happy. And no one had ever offered that to me at this point. He taught me a lot about conditioning and he taught me the need to be in shape and how to fight tired. He always trained me hard. He always cared about how I was doing and that's a testament to the type of friendship we had. That bond, that training is what helped me turn into Frank Shamrock." Over the course of seven months, Shamrock became an entirely different type of competitor and wanted the world to know it.

In September 1997, he fought Tsuyoshi Kohsaka for Rings, another Japanese organization with rules similar to Pancrase. Kohsaka outweighed him by nearly 30 pounds, but just over 11 minutes into the bout, Shamrock sunk in a guillotine to force a rope escape. The match went the distance and Shamrock was declared the winner due to the lost point. The following month back in the states, Shamrock competed in The Contenders, a wrestling vs. submission promotion from the people behind Extreme Fighting. Shamrock didn't take long to finish off Dan Henderson by ankle lock in just 56 seconds.

Stepping back into the realm of closed-fist combat, outweighed and ever the underdog Shamrock took on Enson Inoue in Japan Vale Tudo '97. While the first round went back and forth, Shamrock caught Inoue with a knee that floored him in the second round in one of the most exciting MMA fights in history. Enson's older brother Egan stepped in and pushed Frank down before any more damage could be done. The fight was ruled a disqualification in favor of Shamrock. Winning this fight was important because it meant he would get to fight in UFC Japan just three weeks later (December 1997).

Frank was still living in Bob's home, but that was about to change. "The Lion's Den was my life and I put every ounce of my energy into that," said Frank. "That was my calling and I never doubted it. One day, Ken got very upset at the way I was running things and told me, in his opinion, what he really thought of me, which was extremely derogatory and very hurtful. At that point, I understood that I could no longer be there because that life wasn't really what it was supposed to be and wasn't what I thought it was. I knew that I had to leave and make a life that would be healthier for myself." Bob had been talking to the UFC about Frank, but Frank had his own plans and took control of the deal. .

Just two weeks before his fight in the UFC, Frank took one pair of boxing gloves and left The Lion's Den without muttering a word. "That was the hardest thing that I've ever done in my entire life." Both Bob and Ken to this day are not on speaking terms with Frank, and though they say he stabbed them in the back, they agree that it was his only option-just not in the way he handled it. There is a strange bitterness between Ken and Frank-one that even Frank can't explain. In his eyes, they never had any type of relationship that was real. When asked if there were any regrets, Frank said, "Unfortunately, I would do nothing different and I realize that's caused a lot of pain and it's hurt a lot of people, myself included. It showed me who everybody was and all I wanted was for everyone to be honest anyway. I wanted what Maurice offered: nothing attached." When Shamrock married Angelina in Hawaii, neither Bob nor Ken were invited.

For the first time in UFC history, a lightweight champion would be crowned from Frank Shamrock vs. Kevin Jackson, a gold medalist in wrestling. Jackson had beaten John Lober in Extreme Fighting and was undefeated in the UFC. This was to be the ultimate test for the new and improved Shamrock. "Wrestling has no submission holds. I went by the wrestler's rulebook and that's how I beat Kevin Jackson. I just read his manual and knew what he was going to do, so I'm going to do the opposite. It helped me understand that people are missing certain chapters from their rulebooks when they're used in this type of fight," said Shamrock, who beat Jackson with an armbar in just 14 seconds.

After winning the championship (which stayed the same weight class but SEG kept renaming: from lightweight to middleweight to light heavyweight), he successfully defended it four times. In March 1998, Frank defended his title for the first time by knocking out Igor Zinoviev-he picked him up and slammed his head to the mat-it was over in just 20 seconds. UFC matchmaker John Perretti then came to Shamrock and made a peculiar pitch. He told Shamrock that the UFC didn't have the money for a full show so they wanted him to fight at UFC 17 just two months after the bout with Zinoviev. This fight was to be kept secret as Frank would fight first fight of the night and then quickly change and be a commentator the rest of the show. "Perretti told me, 'We realize you're not training, but we're going to give you a B-Level opponent that you can beat easily,'" said Shamrock. Brazilian Fabiano Iha was Shamrock's first opponent, but he was too small. Next Perretti told Shamrock that Iowan Jeremy Horn would be his opponent and he was not to worry. "I only had about two weeks of training with about a week and a half of cardiovascular and one day of sparring," said Shamrock, who had a shoulder injury at the time. Just one week before the fight, Shamrock learned that Horn was no pushover, having gone the distance with Dan Severn and racking up several wins in Iowa. It took him over 16 minutes to catch Horn making a mistake to win the fight by knee bar.

In October 1998, Shamrock got the opportunity to avenge his loss to John Lober. The fight wasn't as important to Shamrock as people might think, but it certainly was personal. "He was sending me dirty e-mails and cursing at me and my wife. I could have won that fight in 30 seconds because I had that front choke deeper than you can imagine, but I let it go because I wanted to punish him. I let the choke go and put the beat down on him. During my entire fighting career, I had never been angry in a fight because when you're angry, you make stupid mistakes. But that was John Lober's strategy and it worked well; he took punishment, but he did get into my head. So by the end of the fight, I'm beating him down and got him near the fence and I'm hitting him hard in the ribs and he's like, 'I don't think I can take anymore.' And this came from a guy who was saying all those horrible things to me-and I'm a nice guy. So I was like, 'Oh, you're going to take it and I'm going to beat you to death on television! (laughing)'" Shamrock literally asked Lober several times to give up, but Lober refused and tapped out just after seven minutes.

Shamrock was unstoppable. He had taken training to a whole new level and even developed new strategies in the ring.

In many of his fights, there is a moment where he almost moves in fast-forward by unleashing a burst of energy to put his opponents away. "It comes from the mental desire to never lose and when you see that doubt, to immediately take advantage of it," said Shamrock. "It's the kill shot. If I smell your weakness, if I hear you breathing hard, if I see you stumble. . . I'm going to go 200% because I know you're weak and that's the time to break you. And I've made my career by breaking people-not by submissions or knockouts. I physically outworked them and mentally out-gutted people. I did more than people were willing to do. There's a point in every fight where a fighter takes a step backward and takes a big breath and you see the doubt in his eye and that's when I'm there and that's when I'm-there 200%. I studied their manuals and went into their heads and I took what was mine."


But there was a new wrecking force on the scene- Tito Ortiz, the Huntington Beach Bad Boy. Ortiz had a similar story growing up and also decided to dedicate his life to the sport. After beating Lion's Den fighters Jerry Bohlander and Guy Mezger, Ortiz was ready for a shot at the champ. At 6' 2", he could tip the scales at 199 pounds before a fight and then walk out at 215 by the time the match started. Like many wrestlers, Ortiz knew how to cut weight and make it work in his favor.

In September 1999, Ortiz would be the most formidable opponent for Frank Juarez Shamrock, a name that he would use from now on. "I think it makes me many more things and it differentiates me," he said.

With Smith in his corner, Shamrock's offense didn't seem to be working. "I couldn't submit Tito-he was way too strong," said Shamrock. "I couldn't knock him out and I tried to do that. He was just too big." During the first three rounds, Ortiz manhandled Shamrock on the canvass and was ahead on the score cards. But going into the fourth, Ortiz was losing the battle of attrition and Shamrock took advantage. After punishing him with leg kicks, Ortiz mounted his only offense by taking Shamrock to the ground, but could do little else. With barely a minute left, "I heard that breath; I felt that relaxation where he got weak for a second and then it came on and I went in for the kill," said Shamrock, who unleashed a flurry of punches and kicks to stun Ortiz when they got back to their feet.

Shamrock caught Ortiz in a guillotine choke with 37 seconds left on the clock and had to work fast. With blood streaming down Shamrock's face, he held Ortiz in his guard and started to gas. Ortiz had enough to turn Shamrock over, but Shamrock was the first to his feet and dropped a huge elbow down on his foe. . . who didn't get up. He landed two more punches that finally made Ortiz tap out with just 10 seconds left in the round. "I mentally broke him, but like any champion, he turned that around and understood what I did to him," said Shamrock. "And now he's doing that to everyone else and no one is going to beat him. Right now, I don't think there is a bigger, stronger, more well prepared athlete." Shamrock had done the impossible and once and for all, silenced any doubt that the 27 -year old was still at the top of his game. But the fight took its toll. After the adrenaline went away, Shamrock had a small boxer's fracture in his right hand, 13 stitches in his head and cracked the end of his ankle bone due to a kick at Tito's knee.

During a time when the MMA movement was at a standstill, fans had witnessed one of the greatest fights in the history of the sport. There was nothing more that Shamrock could achieve in the ring; he had done it all. Immediately after the fight, he relinquished his title and retired from the UFC. Winning that fight forever cemented the name Frank Shamrock in the history this sport but when he dedicated that fight to little girl with cancer afterwards; he stole the hearts of millions. Ortiz won the vacant title after beating Wanderlei Silva at UFC Japan II.

While Ortiz became one of the biggest superstars the sport has ever seen-partly due to Zuffa's takeover of the UFC from SEG-Shamrock was missing in action. He took a break from fighting to try his hand at acting. First up was a role on Walker, Texas Ranger playing a villainous inmate who is used as a pawn for illegal fights promoted by the prison warden. "It was by far the hardest work that I've ever done," said Shamrock.

"We did 10 fights and it was 12 hours a day for 10 days." The fights were held in a makeshift cage, but unlike the one used in the UFC, it had no plastic coating. "At the end of the 10 days, we were just hacked up." Shamrock left his home in San Jose and lived in Los Angeles for a while. He landed a Burger King commercial, but the experience working in Hollywood was in many ways just like the facade he experienced in his youth. People weren't honest and though the pay was great, Shamrock felt the hunger to get back to what he was best at.

Moving back to San Jose, Shamrock landed a deal to fight in a MMA match for K-l, the premiere kick-boxing event in the world. His opponent would be Australian standout - Elvis Sinosic, an experienced jiu-jitsu player who could pose a threat.

It had been a year and three months since the Ortiz fight, and Frank Shamrock wasn't entirely ready. He faced Sinosic with a completely severed tendon in his right shoulder, which prevented him from raising his arm on that side for two weeks before the fight.

Shamrock came to the ring in a headdress with Native American theme music. It wasn't that he was converting or anything - he could identify with their plight - but the regalia was more marketing than anything else. "I have tried to bring some other elements to the fight and make it more entertaining” - to make our sport a more crossover sport. In reality, people are there for the story - the fight is how the story plays out. I know what's missing from our sport and I have just taken steps to add that final piece of the story for the fans. Fighting is fighting and kickboxing, boxing and wrestling are all the same thing - it's the story that everyone follows. I want to create stories."


Right from the start, Shamrock did everything in his power to put Sinosic away, believing the striking savvy crowd would appreciate the gesture. "I went out there like a kickboxer and I tried to box and kickbox and it took a big toll on me physically," said Shamrock, who said his spirit wasn't in the fight because of his shoulder. "I hit him so hard on many, many occasions. I hit him one time so hard that he bent over at the waist and then on his way down, he got a hold of me and I couldn't keep myself from falling down with him.

There were so many instances in that fight where I thought that I had him." But Sinosic could not be broken. "I did everything humanly possible to take this guy out and he wouldn't go." Shamrock ended up winning by unanimous decision after 15 minutes and felt dejected about it. For the first time in his career, he had not broken down his opponent. At UFC 32, Sinosic faced Tito Ortiz for the light heavyweight championship while Shamrock served as commentator and picked the Australian to win.

"Elvis' strength is his mental strength," said Shamrock. "He's not physically strong, technically he's good, his striking is good, but his mental ability is his strength in any fight. Before that fight with Tito, I went up to Elvis and I said, 'Look, I don't know how to beat Tito, but I know the one thing that you have that he doesn't have. I broke Tito but I couldn't break you. I thought his mental strength could win the fight." But Ortiz' experience with Shamrock changed him forever and Sinosic was no match. At 3:32 into the bout, the referee stopped the action with Ortiz pounding away on him.

Over a year later, Shamrock's name has all but disappeared from the public's eye. On August 11, 2001, he fought in a kickboxing match against Shannon Ritch in K-1 held in Las Vegas. Shamrock had once coached Ritch, and with a ten-pound weight advantage for Shamrock, it was an easy fight. He broke Ritch's arm with a roundhouse kick just 56 seconds into the bout. He was looking for a challenge and bored with the routine, but Shamrock only got a taste of something different.

While sparring as a way to better his boxing, Shamrock broke the cartilage in his ribs and had to pullout of the November 3rd Pride 17 event. He has come full circle and slain every dragon that's crossed his path. "I have done so much in MMA that it's hard to get excited anymore," exclaimed Shamrock. "It's hard to go to the gym and do all these things. I need new challenges and new stories to tell and I feel like boxing could be one of those stories.”

When asked about Pride's upcoming middleweight tournament, Shamrock was interested to learn about Royce Gracie's possible return and with a possible card stacked with Wanderlei Silva, Kazushi Sakuraba, and Dan Henderson, how could he resist? Tired of fighting in the light heavyweight division, Shamrock would only come back if he could fight as a middleweight.

He was quick to mention that he's a fan of Wanderlei Silva, and while Henderson isn't exactly the most technical fighter in the world, "He's got the biggest balls in the sport. He can punch and kick like a mule and has great spirit." He also wants to see that the new Frank Shamrocks of this world gain his insight into the sport. From noon to 2:00 PM, Shamrock trains with UFC lightweight contender BJ Penn at American Kickboxing Academy.

The way he sees it, there are three generations of fighters. "Before, you had the Ken Shamrocks and Royce Gracies who I deemed as singular athletes-first generation. The second generation was made up of single style athletes that were training in other styles and now you have the third generation which are MMA athletes training in all mixed martial arts." And he points to Penn as being the epitome of the latter. "I see his training and his physical ability to be a step above mine," claimed Shamrock. "Mentally and psychologically, I have a stronger foundation. I learned everything the hard way. [Ouch!] This really, really hurts! Then I studied and figured out the right way. BJ has the opportunity to get that information straight from the source and utilize it immediately. I see him being the next Frank Shamrock." He believes that Penn will be the next champion and he'll do so with the knowledge that he'll pass along, as well as that of his diverse training partners.



Shamrock seems more focused on promoting the sport rather than his career inside the ring. "I've done about all the fighting that I care to do. I mean, who else can I fight? What more can I do? How many more titles can I win? Now I want everyone else to be able to do that and I want everyone to be able to see it and appreciate it like I have been able to because it's changed my life. It made me a different person; it made me a better person." He wants to continue producing his own fight promotions Bushido and ShootBox; two shows that he considers to be the pinnacle of martial arts competition. With Bushido, “we have created a unique opportunity and atmosphere for the aspiring martial artist to challenge themselves as entertainers and athletes” says Frank. He continues ‘ShootBox is a show that will change combative martial arts forever; no ropes, no rings, no limits!”

When Frank Shamrock says that he loves the sport that made him, he certainly means it.

“I like to try everything out there especially if it has to do with this sport. Sometimes you win some and other times you get your ass kicked… it’s the experience that I love.” His latest challenge: winning the WEC Light Heavy Weight title (March 2003) in just under 2 minutes. “I not only went up a weight class, I also produced the show, negotiated the PPV sale and produced the DVD; that was a new challenge that I thought I might get my butt kicked on.” When asked, ‘why all that’ he says “because I could (laughing) and my mom wanted to see me fight.”

Rebuilding relationships with his family is new goal for our people’s champion Shamrock. “its one of the hardest things in the world to deal with family, but at the end of the day its so worth it” laments Frank. When asked about the Shamrock family “I am here when they are ready.”

Settling down once again in San Jose, Shamrock isn't too motivated for acting gigs anymore. He lost a part on HBO’s Resurrection Blvd., passed on an Old Spice commercial, and he says he'll go to Los Angeles for guaranteed roles, but that's it. Right now, he seems content on being a homebody and nursing his injuries. After divorcing Angelina, Frank went through "six months of dark gloom" as he describes it. "I have spent a lot of my life alone and a lot of my life wondering what to do and where to go. I feel that when the fog clears, I have a better vision about what I'm doing." He has matured years past his biological age and wants to spend more time with his son and Amy, the new love in his life. He isn't contracted to fight anyone and no one "owns him" for the first time in his life. And whether he passes the torch to the BJ Penn’s or not, Frank Shamrock still has a fire burning within him and a light to lead the way.

The Legend Continues.....

makavelli
20-12-2004, 20:53
Cool!
Thanks :thumbs:

ICON
20-12-2004, 21:01
ben nu op de helft maar moet gaan trainen. echt n mooi stuk tot nu toe :thumbs:

Hollandpride
20-12-2004, 21:04
Das een half boek om te lezen man!

Mij iets teveel.

Marc
20-12-2004, 21:36
goed verhaal

Nickuraba
20-12-2004, 23:26
Lang maar wel mooi! respect voor deze man!

phranq
21-12-2004, 10:50
Lang maar mooi stuk! :thumbs:

Remco
21-12-2004, 16:09
Voor wie te lui is: het is de moeite waard!

Wel gek dat er zo hoog wordt opgegeven over Sinosic, ik vind hem geen uitvinding. Ik mis ook de RINGS partij tegen Tamura, mooie pot!

m.g
21-12-2004, 16:46
Ja zeker een vet stuk... en echt de moeite waard om te lezen..