Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will soon enshrine two more of its greatest stars in the Hall of Fame, coinciding with the historic 100th pay-per-view (PPV) event scheduled for July 11 weekend at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The dynamic duo was not revealed at this time; however, the announcement is expected to be made at the first-ever UFC Fan Expo on Friday, July 10, 2009 (unless, of course, the information is leaked sooner.)
Here’s a snip from UFCFanExpo.com:
“Join us on Friday, July 10, immediately following UFC President, Dana White’s keynote address, as two worthy members of the UFC world will join the ranks of Dan Severn, Mark Coleman, Ken Shamrock, Randy Couture, and Royce Gracie when they are inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame. You won’t want to miss this historical event happening right on the UFC Fan Expo show floor!”
Currently, there are five members of the UFC Hall of Fame: Mark Coleman, Randy Couture, Dan Severn, Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie. Coleman was the most recent addition, celebrating his induction last year in front of a hometown crowd at UFC 82: “Pride of a Champion” in Columbus, Ohio.
Former middleweight champion and epic adventurer, Evan Tanner — who succumbed to heat exhaustion and perished during a solo camping trip in a scorching California desert in September 2008 — would be a logical posthumous choice. And former light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell — who has yet to personally announce his retirement despite Dana White’s best efforts — would be another.
But, again, the identities of the next two future Hall of Famers remain a mystery … for now. Who do you think should get the nod?
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Matt Hughes & Chuck Liddell.
Liddell and hopefully Tanner
What did Liddell or Tanner ever do for the sport. I was thinking Junie Browning and his brother.
Liddell was the face of the UFC for like the longest time and that man went on a serius Whoop A$$ rampage of some serius LHW contenders in the UFC alone(Randleman,Babalu,Couture,Belfort,Silva to name a few).B4 the public really knew anything about mma he drew countless fands in with his dynamic striking and knockout power.Chuck Liddells a house hold name,i knew about this guy b4 Randy Couture or any1 else.He deserves that spot.
plz not evan tanner…… i dont mean any offense but would he get in if he lived a long life and died of old age? probably not so he shouldnt get to be in the HOF because he died young ….. we all know if he does it’ll be largely for that reason
Yep, Matt Yous and chucky for sure. Unrelated but someone needs to make an MMA hall of fame so that guys like Igor Vovchanchyn and oldschools badasses who changed the game are not forgotten. Maybe WAMMA if they stop all the other retarded $hit they do.
hopefully Liddell and Ortiz.. Isn’t it called hall of fame for a reason?..
Liddell and Ortiz are the rightful picks. But, Dana’s got beef with Tito so he’ll probably get passed over.
yep forget that one, lets wait for Tito to come in a couple of years..
R U KIDDINGME???? Junie and his bro?? His bro didn’t even make it on the show!!! They have done NOTHING for the sport Liddell is the face of mma, he’s one of the most well known fighters! People who don’t even know about mma know who chuck liddell is. Junie!!! pheffffffff no way ur crazy!! Tito & Chuck would be awsome but I waaaay doubt Dana would let Tito. My guess Chuck Liddell & Charles “Mask” Lewis.
Salobert- That is exactly what I was thinking.
salobert has got it right,
To even suggest even tanner would even be a remote possibility is mind boggeling. Yes he was the MW champ at one point and had an untimely and unfortunate passing but not even close to being worthy of the ufc hall of fame did he even defend the MW title once?
its a no brainer Matt hughes and the iceman
Shouldn’t you have to be retired to make the hall of fame? Unless Hughes is for sure retiring after 98 then I guess it would make sense.
Do u not know who Randy Couture is??
Randy was retired when he was inducted into the HOF.
Reggie Warren Jnr.
Tim Sylvia should be one. and what about Wes Simms?
Chuck and Mask all the way
I forgot about Tanner, Chuck is a definite. Hughes makes sense but would they induct him before retirement?
Yeah, I think Tanner and Liddell are going in.
Tanner shouldn’t go in based on the fact that he died prematurely. That is weak. It should be based on your accomplishments in the Octagon, and that’s it.
He was a UFC champion and was a pioneer of the sport that fought in multiple weight divisions
He won the title and lost it his next fight. He was 32-8. He was a cool guy and a very good fighter but if you’re going to let him in you better let in about 20 other guys.
Jeremy-
I agree.
HOF’s should be for the very best and not just the most popular.
IMO, a HOF’er should be a name that should take 2 seconds to confirm.
If there is a debate needed, then the answer is an obvious NO.
I feel the same way about Tito. I like him but I don’t think he is a HOF’er. Close, but no cigar.
Tito is a definite HOFer, love him or hate him, he dominated an era, and may come back just as strong. i’d like to see it!
Tito is definantly HOF worthy. He defended his belt more than any other LHW in UFC history.
Yeah, but two of those were vs Mattyshenko and Elvis Sinosic. I wouldn’t put Ortiz in the HOF.
And I see you’re point on Tanner. If theres a dispute, then they shouldnt be there.
I wonder what their criteria on the HOF is, cause if its talent/skill level then imo, Shamrock should be ousted, he really wasn’t all that great in the UFC. And if shammy is in because he’s credited for a lot of the growth of the sport than Tito is definatley in for the same reason.
It’s probably going to turn into a popularity contest.
are you guys serious?.. Tito is a hall of famer way more than Coleman, Severn and Shamrock are… you guys are out of your freakin minds!
Get off Dana’s balls for once please!!!!!!!!!..
he beat Wanderlei Silva, BElfort, slammed the sh*t out of Tanner, beat Griffin at 50% and had a draw with Rashad… have you guys no idea of what a star is?
he has set more records and sold out arena’s in record time like no other MMA fighter ever.. he is the biggest draw in the UFC ever, Period! enough said
you know I am with you Rob,Tito should clearly be in the HOF,but I do not think Dana would ever let it happen,plus look at all of the rest of the HOF,they were all old when they were inducted ,Tito is still relativly young compared to them.I personally think it will be Chuck and Mask.Mask will be the first non fighter to be inducted ,because of all that he has contributed over the years
yea i know, and that’s good! you see things as they are with Tito unlike others that somehow comes up with the BS idea that Tito shouldn’t be in the UFC HOF.. I would personally be shocked if he isn’t inducted to the HOF when he’s retired and out of the biz, even Dana must realize that anything else would be a huge scandal! all the fans and all the money he’s brought to the company for how long was it, 11 years? is something you can’t overlook…
I still do not buy the fact,that he is done in UFC,this thing has carried on for so long,I am going here ,I am going there,he is going back to UFC ,watch.Lorenzo will bring him back.They need another big name to sell PPV if Chuck retires
no i do not buy that either, but as we both know Dana is the man standing in the way of that ever happening! Tito if anyone should be involved with the UFC somehow after he retires, instead of that Dana takes his boy Chuck in, I mean seriously (nothing against Chuck) but he’s not as smart as Tito is when it comes to business.. The president shouldn’t be friends with any of the fighters, cause that comes in the way of business and is not very proffessional!
Scott I agree totally. I said it a month and ahalf ago that Mask belongs in the hall. I hope it happens. And for the questions alot of you have for me, I will not answer. I didn’t finish well, came home and got hit by a drunk driver and broke the bottom of my back. So now I know more than I can do personally.
Yeah Tito was an even bigger draw in the Chuck Liddell series when he got tko’d in both.lol.Luckily Tickets didnt sell out those times.lol
he was always a bigger draw than Chuck yes..
and considering how the UFC marketed him it’s an even bigger accomplishment that he was… listen if Dana and the UFC would have stood behind Tito like they did with Chuck, the numbers would have been even bigger!!
Tito always had the “bad boy” image and it worked, it sells!
iagoof22,Thanks for your answer.Sorry to have bothering you with some questions.I wish you the best for the future!
I hate Tito as much as anyone but he for sure deserves to be a hall of famer. Sure he’s not close to top 10 LHW anymore but neither is Chuck you gotta judge by how dominate they were for their era and Tito certainly was dominate in his era even if he is the worlds biggest douchebag.
Dana’s got too big of a grudge to let Tito in, no way his ego would allow that. It’ll be two company guys – Chuck and Hughes!
I really like this site for the news and all, but Jesus the way you guys get all worked up over things gets pretty old.
Just relax and enjoy things. Trust me, the fighters don’t spend too much time worrying about what you think of them.
Ummmm this is an internet forum where people air their views, sometimes disagreeing with one another. Are you aware of the concept?
I’m aware of it attakdog, and I’m not trying to piss on anyone’s parade, I just think there is a fine line between having an opinion and getting your panties in a bunch over just about every single story that is published.
But then I can just choose to not read the comments too much if I’m so bothered by it. No big deal
Don Frye!
Definitely Don Frye! The only reason I checked the coments in this post was to make sure someone mentioned Don Frye. How about Don Frye and Oleg Taktarov… 2 tough as nails old-schoolers that deserve the recognition.
Definitely agree with Fry, the guy was undefeted for ages, won two tournaments and was one of the first truely rounded MMA fighters.
Was Tanner really a hall of famer? I’m not being rude, just asking, I was actually a huge fan.
Chuck??? no way, there has to be some waiting period like other major sports after first retirement. I’m not a fan of current fighters in the hall!
I don’t know who, maybe Mask!
Good call on Mask.
Mask and Tanner.
the RIP induction…
Actually, guys, I think I got the scoop.
Dana White will induct Chuck Liddell and HIMSELF to the UFC Hall of Fame. There will be a bronze statue of Chuck Liddell and there will be a smaller bronze statue of Dana, sucking on Chuck’s bronze balls.
VM-
Oh sh!t! LMFAO !!!
Or of Dana kicking him in the junk; to symbolize how his retirement went down.
LOL VM.
LMAO I just spit my drink out at VM!
Awesome!!
lmfao vm that was great
Agree, one of the inductees is likely going to be Mask.
The second inductee hopefully is Evan Tanner. But I doubt it, it a touchy subject, and its not my place to be critical but Mask had several video highlights, moments of silence, dedications by the UFC.
Compare that to the way the company handled the death and remembered its former champion in Evan Tanner.
RIP
Kev- I loved watching Tanner fight, but I don’t know if he did enough in the UFC to really be a hall of famer? If he’s worthy, then the UFC hall of fame is going to have a lot of guys in it.
Mask would make sense just for what he did for the sport and it’s growth.
Other possibilities- Chuck, Jens (still in WEC though), Hughes (could retire after Serra fight?), Militech, TITO!!!
LJ, specifically which fighters in the UFC 1999-2005 is more deserving, ‘THAT’ isn’t fighting today, than Evan Tanner? Take in to consideration Tanner had 14 fights during that time and 17 overall in the UFC, was a Champion and only losses were to the elite during that span. Whoever said that Mask was to be inducted to the UFC Hall of Fame, hit it on the nose.
I loved watching Tanner fight, but he lost to almost all the elite fighters. He lost to Franklin twice, Tito, The Crow, Kendall Grove, Yushin Okami (I know I’m going outside your 99-05 window). He beat Lawler, Terrel, and Baroni. He never defended his title either. Beat Terrell, and lost to Franklin the next fight. If we’re going for Volume of fights, then we might as well elect Jeremy Horn into the hall of fame at UFC 100.
LJ, Mark Coleman never defended his title either. Jermy Horn is part of MMA history, but he’s never been a UFC Champion. 1999-05 (6yrs)is for many fighters, all the window of opportunity they have to make the most of it. Rich Franklin was his last good fight. I think Tanner represented the best of what UFC had to offer at the time when he was at his peak.
E. Tanner’s career is about as illustrious as maybe, Mark Coleman’s, “in the UFC”… however, u could make the argument Coleman shouldn’t be in there either, or his short UFC career was somehow more meaningful I guess?
Was thinkin’ the same thang LJ. Jeremy Horn is a robot!
well they inducted coleman and he was still fighting, and shamrock.does not look like they have a waiting period its what ever dana wants and that goes for tanner too if dana wants him in he is in.
I know Roy, but I think they should.
i agree, maybe down the road they will set some standards.
i’m never a fan of putting in active people into a hall of fame…. at least when it comes to the organization…
if chuck retires put him in…
too bad dana HATES frank shamrock
what about big john?
tanner for sure… right??? eh? i mean he did have a good career, i loved the guy’s style… but his beard was a bit more epic than his title run…
its the UFC hall not the MMA hall isn’t it? so shouldn’t we ONLY take into account the UFC careers and influence?
what about jens pulver? bas rutten? marco ruas? there are more HALL OF FAME worthy guys than just those from 2003 and on…. i mean come on… hall of fame… not “who rocked the past few years”
san-
Nice post.
Very well put san
ya good call sanshauer, big john definitly deserves to be inducted but dana has more grudges against people than the ebineeser scrooge
well the night they inducted Coleman was the same night they announced he was suppose to fight Brock,Randy had only been retired that time for maybe a couple of months.I think it will be Mask and Chuck
I also think that it is Chuck Liddell and Matt Hughes, But Evan Tanner is a big possibility too..
chuck norris and mask!
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A- CHUCK NORRIS!!!
Chuck norris drives optimus prime to work
You know that they built the great wall of china to keep out Chick Norris not mongolians…..it failed miserably!!
LOL! I love Chuck Norris jokes.
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We don’t know if Chuck Norris enjoys a good fight. He’s never had one.
Chuck Norris bites the hand that feeds him?and eats their entrails.
lol, do I got to go get them all?
chuck norris uses pepper spray to spice his steak!
Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.
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Most people have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Chuck Norris has 72… and they’re all poisonous.
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Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship.
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Lol Kev, you’ve got too much time on your hands.
Sorry, guys! I’m replacing Chuck Norris with Fedor!
Evan for sure. He will be missed forever. He was one of my all time favorites.
Tanner was a good man who died too young.
But I’m not sure he was a hall-of-famer.
he wasn’t all that young, and he went into the desert without supplies…just kinda dumb!
Dude? Too soon Kev
too soon for what? to state what anyone with sense is thinking?
i agree with kevin, a man dies thats sad of course, but to hear he went out to the DESERT with no supplies is pretty damn stupid if you ask me
yep…I feel bad for his family but use common sense
someone should have stopped him seriously, when i read that he was gonna go so deep into the desert that he might die a week or something before he actually did, Was when i realized that he was about to pass away…
Charles Lewis died from street racing at the age of 45. Hopefully he nor Evan Tanner are not remembered for the circumstances at the time of there shortened lives.
One action should never act as a summary of an entire life.
Tanner and Hughes
Chuck still has one fight left on his contract…it isn’t him.
One thing is for sure…it better not be that Mask guy…I’d vomit if it is.
Intro-
Wow. Between the other thread and this comment, look out.
You just might make it on to O Damn’s hate list…even though your opinion is harmless and hurts no one.
Good luck!
I kinda agree with introvert here! Mask sold t shirts, it’s kinda like beat writers in the baseball HOF.
Introvert, no comments about Coker turning down Diaz/RJJ for same mma legitimacy reasons Dana had or is just Dana wrong?
No way Coker would be able to pay RJJ what he would want, so why even get into the debate with him? Coker would be setting himself up for embarrasment if he couldn’t negotiate a deal with him.
Besides, I don’t remember Coker calling out boxers and saying he’d let his guys fight them like Dana did with Sherk and Mayweather.
come on introvert, he and showtime or CBS could pay him easily! You have all the answers when it comes to Dana, but Coker said the same thing Dana did yesterday about this fight! Money wasn’t even an issue, it was the legitimacy of mma!
It’s not about whether they could afford to pay him… it’s could they afford to pay him AND make a profit. The answer is probably no.
Strikeforce doesn’t have the high profile brand recognition of the UFC, and their numbers on Showtime were poor for their last card. Also, Jones isn’t that big a draw anymore.
Coker does need to explore options like this though, if he wants to maintain his niche in the market. Going outside the box and offering fans fights they couldn’t see in the more-rigid UFC is a good business strategy IMO.
As an aside, are their any Canadians on this board who get Showtime in their cable package? I’ve never seen it offered by my carrier, which is Shaw.
I answered you question Kevin. Coker didn’t call out boxers publicly…Dana did. Coker isn’t a two-faced liar…Dana is.
Look at the history of all of this…
- Floyd Mayweather opened his yap.
- Dana said he’d love to have a Mayweather vs Sherk MMA fight.
- Mayweather didn’t accept the invitation, because of the MMA rules.
- Anderson Silva challenged Roy Jones Jr. to a boxing match.
- Nick Diaz challenged Roy to a boxing match.
- Roy accepted both challenges, and even took it a step further and more favorable for Dana, Silva and Diaz and, agreed to MMA rules.
- When push came to shove, the guy who offered the first public challenge to a boxer wused out…that’d be Dana White.
Coker was a bystander in all of it.
What makes me laugh is how all the MMA ‘huggers are saying that Roy is trying to ride MMA’s coatails with all this. 3 fighters, and the president of the biggest MMA organization in the world challenged boxers to MMA fights…one of the boxers accepted the challege. In my world, when you challenge a guy and that guy accepts…you’d better put your dukes up…but I guess when you’re Dana (and have an army of followers behind you) you can chicken out and run away without recourse.
Good for Roy for showing just how tough Dana and his followers really are…pussies.
let me just say this… Dana’s videoblogs and his public appearances are for him to become a superstar so that he can do and say whatever the F he wants too!.. and when a fighter comes up the smash him and shuts him up, throws him under the bus and all the Dana/UFC lovers goes on to thrash the guy!…
they smash him*.. fans wants to see Anderson vs RJJ, and more importantly Anderson and RJJ both agreed to fight eachother!..
lol, can’t keep my name out your posts I see… Nah, Intro slipped up on a post about Roy Jones vs A. Silva and got reemed, I might give him sh!t for it, but its all good. You on the other hand are a douche bag.
Cry me a river, p*ssy…
he just can’t keep you out of his, i think you got your first fan.
roy-
Hey come on. Don’t ruin my fun. I like these battles between me and my internet enemy. Something to do while I am at work.
i am just having some fun at work as well, don’t blame me that your stalking odam and like him in your mouth.j/k
***FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENT***
OJR vs. o damn he got caught on the preliminary card of UFC 104. Fight will take place in the parking lot.
I wouldn’t object
Jeremy-
You get it! LOL. Cheers!
Roy-
Find your own internet enemy. I am spoken for !
well i tried. odam is a lucky man you make a great stalker.
why would you vomit,he has done alot for the sport,every sport induct people for contributing to the sport ,why should the UFC be any different.Why would it be Hughes,he has clearly stated he does not plan on retirement,so if you can not put Chuck in ,then you cannot put Hughes in.It will be Chuck and Mask,if they would put his name on the outside of the cage from here on out ,they will definatly induct him into the HOF.Which also now that I think of it ,is probably how Chuck would want it ,seeing as how Mask meant so much to him
tank?
tank was terrinle for the world of mma and didn’t do much in the ufc sure he knocked out a few dudes but when it came up to the elite he didn’t do well. the coming off the bar stool and fighting image he had didn’t really do much with trying to make it a legit sport
Yeah he was basically the first Kimbo.
I remember someone interviewing Tank and asking him what his favorite place to fight was.
His answer? “On the side of the freeway.”
LOL.
As a long time MMA fan, I’d like Helio Gracie to be intucted…but that would take some of Dana’s lustre away because he always claims that he and the bros. started the whole sport….so probably Mask instead. Mask made Dana money…Helio didn’t.
Tito Ortiz he might not be everyones favorite but he made a huge impact when he entered the UFC
I liked it when Chuckles made a huge impact on his face.
Who defended their title more times????
Who ducked the #1 contender more times?
he fought Chuck twice JJ!
He did his best not to.
no he didn’t JJ…
Dana and Chuck threw Tito under the bus… Tito wanted more money cause he knew that fighting Chuck would be a huge fight! instead of that they went on to force Tito to fight Chuck by marketing the whole thing as if Tito was afraid to fight Chuck, which was his friend up until Chuck wanted the fame and the belt, but Chuck knew nothing about business and has never done so he just followed along with Dana like a puppet..
who were his friend*.. when the longtime LHW champ and the poster boy of the company at the time wants more money and you want to make a fight happen you have to come up with the money, it’s that easy!.. why did he fight Chuck if he was so afraid of him? why did he fight Wanderlei Silva and all the other guys
Gmoney1-
Chuck’s list of defeated opponents is a who’s who of MMA.
Tito was very good but Chuck was great.
Yeah who is Vernon White?
To be honest I think Tito should get in. I know it probably wont happen because dana hates him but He should be in. He help put MMA on the map, and he has made the UFC a lot of money.
Gmoney1-
Chuck’s list of defeated opponents is a who’s who of MMA.
Tito was very good but Chuck was great.
I dont disagree there but Tito filled alot of seats and alot of pockets while he was in the UFC. And nobody can deny that.
That is undeniable, Gmoney.
I am with you there. I like Tito even if he acts like a tool but he is not close enough, IMO.
How is he not? He defended his title more time than any other LHW ( Chuck may have tied him, but didnt surpass him ) And he was the UFC’s biggest draw for years. He was also part of the the UFC that had more PPV buys than any mma event in history. Hands down he is a HOF’er my god ken Shamrock, and Mark Coleman made it
don’t argue with them lokie, seriously you guys have got to be kidding me… Tito and the UFC created a bad boy image for him, because it sold tickets.. the so called tool is the smartest businessman in the UFC!
so who’s really a tool, a guy that fights just because he knows nothing other than fighting and drinking beer or a guy like Tito..
Tito has tons of records of sold out arena’s and the Spike TV record, biggest buyrate of a PPV ever…
Chuck was never a bigger draw than Tito he was just pushed harder by the UFC, get over yourselves!
Take your own advice. Jeez!
my vote is for Don Frye
or Joe Son
did you see the match where Joe Son got punched in the balls about 10 times. Talk about blue balls.zing
Hackney rocked his world
That was hilarious. No wonder nobody took the “sport” seriously back then.
Didn’t Joe Sun just get arrested for rapeing a girl 20 years ago? Think Hackney knew something we didn’t and dished out his own brand of justice!
Tanner, Hughes, Liddell or Mask are all good choices
I’ll be very happy if Tanner’s name is there! I hope he is!
RIP Evan Tanner! He has done a lot for this sport! We appreciate it!
Tanner and Ortiz. And then Dana will announce that he has signed Ortiz. They need a big draw badly even if it is Tito.
Helio!!!!!!!!!!
What about Lesnar? I mean the guy did get a title shot after only 2 ufc fights. Now after his third he gets inducted into the hall of fame!
Hahaha, gotcha:))))))
Frank Shamrock and Josh Barnett.
I’m just going to throw a name out ther Jeremy Horn? 80 wins over 100 fights?
They’re not going to put a guy in who was stripped of the belt for steriod use.
technically it should be matt hughes, chuck, tito, frank shamrock, PEDRO RIZZO, but id say dana would only pick Chuck and Matt Hughes who is on numerous occasions called a future hall of famer!
It’ll be Chuck Liddell and either Matt Hughes or Tito Ortiz as the other.
and y are people suggesting Mask – without any disrespect i think the hall of fame should be left for the fighters?? thats like saying that you would expect Dana to be in the Hall of fame in years to come because hes done so much for the company…
agreed, but i still think big john is worthy of being inducted
Any 2 out of Liddell, Hughes and Ortiz deserve to be inducted, I’m not a fan of the latter 2 but all 3 have dominated their weight classes as champions and helped bring the UFC into the mainstream. I think all 3 deserve their spot as much as Couture as they’re all from a similar era and were in their primes around the same time, whilst all 3 are coming towards the end of their careers. Unfortunately because of his feud with Dana, Tito may miss out which would be a shame and in all honesty make the UFC HoF a bit of a joke because you can’t have Shamrock without Ortiz, or indeed his more talented brother Frank (another in Dana’s bad books).
I don’t want to see Tanner and Mask inducted because they died. I know its sad that two men died at relatively young ages and both in their own way did a lot for MMA and made big impacts in the UFC, but the fact is that both would only be inducted because of their deaths rather than their achievements and I don’t think it’s fair to treat people differently because they died. If both were alive today, neither would be considered for the HoF.
All of the 4,000 trailer park, toothless, drunken, fans that were at UFC 1 in Denver Co.
Why? because they wer pioneers, the first to arbitrarily throw the reverse rock fist up while sticking their tongues out every time they were in a camera shot. Their legacy lives on my friends.
Disclaimer: I would have been there if I could.
The dark ages…Love it!
All I want to know is when are the “Hall of Famer” fights going to start?
Unfortunately, it doesn’t really matter who gets inducted into the UFC HoF. if it’s not voted on by unbiased third parties (like the HoFs for all other sports), it really lacks all credibility. I mean, who cares who Dana White wants in his HoF? What we need is an MMA HoF voted on by a mix of industry professionals, MMA journalists and fan online voting.
Helio Gracie deserves it without question. The father of the man who started the UFC (Rorion Gracie) and the father of the man who put the sport on the map (current hall-of-famer, Royce Gracie). Aside from these two things, he was also the first widely known “mma” fighter because of his early no-holds-barred fights before mma even existed. On top of all this, he single handedly invented one of if not THE most important techniques utalized in mixed martial arts today: BJJ. I’m not saying that he’s gunna get the nod from White; I’m just saying that he is unquestionably deserving of the honor.