Ken Shamrock vs Royce Gracie 3 set for Feb 19th 2016

On tonight’s Bellator 145 : With a Vengeance broadcast, Bellator CEO Scott Coker brought out Kurt Angle to announce a February 19 2016 bout in Houston between Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie. This will be their third MMA match and first since a draw at UFC 5 in April 1995. 

Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie first faced off at the inaugaral UFC event on November 12th, 1993.  Royce defeated Shamrock in 57 seconds with a rear naked choke in the tournament semi-finals.  Royce would go on to win that tournament to become the first UFC tournament champion.  The two would face-off again less that 2 years later at UFC 5.  The two fought to a 36 minute draw for the first Superfight Championship.  

Feb. 19 at Toyota Center in Houston, Texas at “Bellator 149: Shamrock vs. Gracie.” will be their 3rd and hopefully last match.

Also announced for the first tentpole event of 2016 is the return of Kimbo Slice vs Dada 5000.

Kurt Angle, during his announcement, teased a match between he and Shamrock and that could be the direction they’d head, should Shamrock win. 

Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez discuss all of these crazy fights plus more on the new edition of Wrestling Observer Radio that went up late Friday night for subscribers.