Before fighters are legends, they were young contenders. They also still had all their teeth and a lot less injuries to aggravate. Yes, even your favorite fighter was young once. They had birthday parties, drank cheap beer, and left the bar with ‘less than attractive’ women before they were famous. Sometimes, all three of those things happened in the same evening. Once the hangover came to an end, they’d return to the gym and strive to improve the following evening’s quality of beer, bar, and women. The process continues until TMZ catches you leaving a night club with two ‘DTF’ playmates. That’s when you know you’ve made it. Not sure what Frank Shamrock’s love life is like, but Dan Henderson looks like he rebounded just fine from his loss to the former Strikeforce middleweight champion. This week’s blast from the past brings you back to 1998 when the two met for a grappling match and it ended with a quick submission. Yes, that’s really Dan Henderson and Frank Shamrock despite Wikipedia having you believe this never happened…

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+26 # Guest 2012-08-08 10:41

Yeah I knew about it, you guys are just not that old school.

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+10 # Sambro 2012-08-08 12:30

I was there motherfackers, while the rest of you were still suckling yo mama's teats.

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+4 # Guest 2012-08-08 16:02

So what you old farts?

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+9 # Guest 2012-08-08 10:41

Yes, I did know that this happened....tha nks.

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+6 # Jonesy 2012-08-08 10:43

I knew this happened

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+22 # Guest 2012-08-08 10:45

Wow, 1997 looks like a whole other era. Like the wild west or something.

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+25 # Guest 2012-08-08 11:32

I don't recall the 90's looking so... 90's.

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0 # Guest 2012-08-08 18:20

That ws Lodi, it looks wilder and older now, somehow.

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+10 # Guest 2012-08-08 10:50

Grappling match =/= fight

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+4 # Guest 2012-08-08 10:52

I was unaware that any such event ever took place.

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+22 # juice lee 2012-08-08 10:52

I'm gonna be brutally honest:

I had no idea

so thanks for posting

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+3 # Guest 2012-08-08 11:01

Forrest Griffin also fought Dan Severn back in the day. I'm not sure how common of knowledge that is.

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+2 # Guest 2012-08-08 11:23

yea for 300 dollars it was his first pro fight

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+5 # Guest 2012-08-08 11:03

good old 90's

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-2 # Hpnova 2012-08-08 11:09

209!

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+25 # Guest 2012-08-08 11:22

This was back in the days when TRT was taken in pill form and called steroids.

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+2 # io31 2012-08-09 01:59

You can't take testesterone as a pill, it has no bio-availability.

Also T/E ratio doesn't indicate the amount of excess test in ones system since the natural production shuts down due to exogenous test, bringing down the EpiT levels with it. Unfortunately, people don't even try to explain this because they get shouted down.

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+3 # Guest 2012-08-09 08:24

Quoting io31:

You can't take testesterone as a pill, it has no bio-availability.

Also T/E ratio doesn't indicate the amount of excess test in ones system since the natural production shuts down due to exogenous test, bringing down the EpiT levels with it. Unfortunately, people don't even try to explain this because they get shouted down.

Somebody's on steroids.

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+1 # io31 2012-08-09 08:53

No point in doing it when you are a lab rat. It would be another story if I was a professional athlete.

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+2 # sukotsuto 2012-08-08 11:28

As mentioned before, this wasn't an MMA/NHB fight, this was a grappling match. That's why it doesn't count as an MMA fight in the records.

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+3 # Guest 2012-08-08 11:32

Why does Frank keep armbarring that guy...

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+12 # boloblack 2012-08-08 11:48

2:50
Frank Shamrock could fly.


In the 90s

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0 # Guest 2012-08-08 16:16

dude my uncle was on this card. dan henderson

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+1 # Guest 2012-08-08 16:48

5:03 sounds like dan is about to rage

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+3 # cacc 2012-08-08 16:53

i wuz doeen dis when bj was in hees fadda's nutsack!

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+16 # TIMinBALTIMORE 2012-08-08 17:17

Frank's teeth are a little crooked in that post fight interview, he should consider braces in the future.

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0 # Guest 2012-08-08 17:26

Ha... nice

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0 # Guest 2012-08-08 19:28

Hendo was a lot more articulate and introspective in his youth. Not only that, but McMahon took his advice on the Sports entertainment thing, what a visionary.

I never seen this fight, but I used to love watching Pancrase on Saturday mornings as a youth

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0 # Guest 2012-08-08 20:24

Noobs...

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+4 # Guest 2012-08-08 20:40

Looking at mma fighters past records... If there is a better use for Wikipedia I haven't found it

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0 # Guest 2012-08-09 09:43

Nike just signed Jones, Dan is definitely going to lose now.

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0 # bloodandmetal 2012-08-09 21:28

dam ..frank made hendo scream like a lady..

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0 # Guest 2012-08-10 19:37

baba booey

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