I wonder if it went too far that some of his family was embarrassed and hurt by it, and confronted him directly.
In that case I could see him backing away from an idea he had initially approved of.
With his new found faith and confessional tour – I would guess that he himself isn’t ashamed of coming to terms with his mistakes publicly.
But family being affected is a different thing, and that could make a difference.
Great Ep! Hope he comes back for future episodes. It’s insane that Ken competed in Pancrase on 11/8/1993 and 4 days later was competing in UFC 1 on 11/12/1993
Also was very interesting to hear Ken’s perspective on what we have heard so much of in the other episodes which is his style of hard training and initiating people in to the team. Beating people down to build them back up again. Sounds brutal but I can get what he is saying for that era because people were so stubborn on what worked and what didn’t that sometimes you had to have it beaten in to you. And THEN you could learn lol.
Another interesting perspective was his pull out of UFC 3 and while I wish he would’ve just stepped in to the Finals regardless if Royce was or wasn’t there, after hearing him talk about how just how much he lost his motivation that night and made it clear that he only wanted him then it does help make more sense of it. And he ended up getting Royce again a couple events later and said the money or title didn’t mean much to him cause he was already a Champion in Pancrase so he got what he wanted in the end. Still wish he would’ve fought the Finals but I understand his reasoning more now.
Nevermind just heard the part at about 51 minutes where he talks about it.
Seems to me he’s saying most of it is true including the juicy stuff but he just had issues with a couple details.
Also sounds like Snowden kind of made a mistake there – at least from Ken’s perspective.
Too bad because a book as good as that you would like the have the subject’s full endorsement.
I would still consider what Ken said at least a partial endorsement, and a full endorsement of the “juicy stuff” lol.
IMO his response was kind of like responding without responding.
Saying that it was business and he wouldn’t get into it is IMO similar to Coleman saying he had to feed his family RE Takada.
“Business” being the key word from Ken there.
Also, I have a feeling a little more of a response about the Pancrase stuff will come from Ken in the future.
Just a hunch.
I’ve heard Ken repeat that reasoning for years.
And while I do get it – from a legacy perspective, you go in there and heel-hook Howard without breaking a sweat – and get the UFC tournament victory under your belt.
Then again, Ken probably wasn’t thinking people on the Internet would be holding that against his “legacy” 30 years later.
After all, he did prove he was straight-up better than guys who won UFC tournaments.
My big takeaway from this episode, is the idea that Ken pulling out helped realize the Superfight between him and Royce.
I don’t recall thinking about it from that specific angle before.
Interesting.
I trained with him in San Diego and they conditioned the fuck out of us before the training. I was in great shape and thought I might die. Ken was pretty aloof but his guys were all cool.
