From his years in professional wrestling, mixed martial arts, and shoot fights, Shamrock has been hit in the face more than the average human being. With that in mind, Shamrock explained the way he protected his head, and he did it, with his own head. "All I did was just like I would in a fight. I tucked my chin and it hit me right in the forehead," Shamrock said, who went on to explain the anatomy of the human skull factored into his decision to take the chair to the face.

"Anybody knows how the skull is put together, the thickest part is your forehead. And just like within football, and now they can't do it, but you usually hit with the forehead. And if you get punched, most of the time, if you hit somebody in the forehead, you break your hand. So I just logically thought if I was going to get hit in the head, hit me in the hardest part."

Despite how brutal it looked, and sounded as well, Shamrock looks back fondly on the moment, as it still gets brought up to him to this day, and he's just glad that he felt he took an unprotected chair shot to the head in the safest, and least stupid fashion possible.

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