Who is an all around better fighter, Tito Ortiz or Ken Shamrock?

Question

Ken Shamrock has been my favorite fighter sinse I can remember, but after my lil brother saw Tito ortiz beat him up he hasnt stop talking about how great Tito is, I just want to know, if tito could take Ken when Ken was in his prime?

Answer 1

Tito is 3-0 against Ken Shamrock and none of the fights were close.  

I think think Tito is just a slightly better athlete.  

They are both pretty one dimensional these days and neither is in their prime anymore.

If any of you saw Ken's last fight in EliteXC, you saw how far he has really falllen, getting KO'd by a nobody in the 1st round.

James

Answer 2

I'm sorry but I was almost in tears laughing when I heard this question. It's not even a contest, Tito is a much better fighter hands down. Tito has dominated Shamrock in all 3 of their fights. 2 of the fights by brutal tko in the 1st round. Shamrock is 0-5 by 1st Rd tko in his last 5 fights!! Even in his prime he wasn't the well rounded fighter that Tito is. I think one of the best examples of this fact is the way that Shamrocks team was destroyed by Tito's in the ultimate fighter. Ken isn't even the best fighter in his own family... that honor goes to his brother Frank who has beaten Tito.  

It's not that I'm trying to be a Ken Shamrock hater but his career record is 26-13-2 and Tito's is 15-6-1. I rooted for Shamrock back in the early days of MMA and even was pulling for him against Tito in their 3 fights.

In my opinion Shamrock was very good when the MMA game was new, he was stronger than most and had some good skills for the guys who he fought then. Once MMA became mainstream and the elite athletes started training, Shamrocks skills were exposed as fairly ordinary.

Answer 3

In his prime I think Ken would have taken Tito. Then again I think Tito has been way over rated for quite a while. I think he was kind of protected by the UFC there for a while just because he was popular and kind of became the poster boy there for a while. Look at how long he got by with ducking Chuck. In his earlier days Ken had better stand up than Tito has ever had and Ken as opposed to Tito can actually take a punch.

If Tito can get you down and ground and pound you he can't do much of anything with you.

Tito is a fighter and was pretty good there for a while, but he has never liked getting hit and it shows in his fighting. There is really no way to ever know for sure who would have won, but in my opinion it would have been Ken. I don't think Ken ever showed as well in the UFC as he did back in his days with Pancrase.

Answer 4

Tito is the better all around. Ken is generally a one trick pony (leg lock).

That said, Tito isn't particularly well rounded by today's standards. If he can't ground and pound you, he's pretty much confused the rest of the fight.

Answer 5

i bet if they fought again ken would kick titos ***.  tito looked like a ***** in his last fight.

Answer 6

Ken pre-1997 might have been able to beat Tito.  That was back when he beat Bas Rutten.  But all around, Tito has the better cardio, takedowns, and ground and pound.