Ken Shamrock was in the Independence Arena at the UFC 5 event in Charlotte, North Carolina, ready to fight Royce Gracie in the main event. He was a fierce fighter, respected and feared by opposition who knew the kind of training one had to go through, to succeed in mixed martial arts.

However, there were those who did not respect him, or the law. As a Deathgiver, Ken Shamrock had made powerful people his enemies, in particular, by his murder of two higher-up drug dealers in Atlanta, as they were preparing to distribute a new type of drug onto the streets.

A month before the MMA bout, he had been alerted of suspicious activity near the juvenile home he had once attended by an acquaintance. The MMA fighter chose to expose himself, since thrill, risk and violence offered an outlet for his impulsive nature, for his destructive desires. As it turned out, the men who came out indeed had the sleazy, falsely elegant look of drug dealers.

They were in the company of a teenager, who gave off the impression he was a drug addict. The men did mention the drug was new to the market. From a concealed position, Ken sought to simply make sure the two men did not have any weapons on them, before attacking.

Once he believed it was safe enough, Ken Shamrock ran out, and made a beeline for the two drug dealers, and ignored the fact that the likely customer panicked, and alerted the other two by backing off and shouting.

The targets turned around, but it was too late. Ken leap in the air, and performed a running dropkick, knocking one of them down hard onto the pavement. As the other one reached within his suit to grab a likely weapon, the ferocious fighter wanted to subdue him as well, as fast as possible.

Rolling towards him, Ken wrapped his legs around the man’s right foot, pulling him down to the ground, and by acting fast, he caused the criminal to drop the pistol he was pulling out, forcing him to fall on his face, wincing in pain, even as the landing was softened by the forearms which absorbed some of the impact force. However, it would get much worse for both him and the other one.

Ken Shamrock immediately got up to his knees, and reached for the right foot of the fallen foe, gripping it with his hands. Locking his legs to trap the whole leg, he twisted sharply, trying to cripple the drug dealer with an ankle lock. It took very little time for the telltale crack to ring through the air, alongside screams and cries of the injured man.

The gritted teeth and the focused eyes of Ken painted a fearsome facial expression, while a tent in his tracksuit indicated he was aroused by what he just did, but the stirring of the dropkicked man meant the MMA fighter had little time to properly enjoy the combat in a sexual manner.

To stop the desperate attempt of the crippled drug dealer at reaching his dropped firearm, the fierce fighter quickly sat on the man’s back, and wrapped his right arm around the criminal’s neck, pulling on it with a dragon sleeper hold.

The flailing of the victim was dramatic, but useless, as the interruption of oxygen supply quickly shut his body down. Ken Shamrock kept the hold on for about 40 seconds, well past the point where the man had gone limp, before jerking his neck upwards once.