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Do they even offer any financial/ medical benefits or any sorts of perks like other major league organizations or just a glass trophy and a plaque thats hung next to a staircase in the P.I.?
Media UFC "Hall of Fame": Legit or borderline bush league
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Mostly legit. But Sonnen in it is crazy lol
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he cashed the biggest upset of all time.
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It's bush league. Every major sport has a rigorous process for HoF nominations and votes, some of which is made public.
UFC Dana picks whomever he feels like and whomever is his buddy.
Same for title shots and other match making.
UFC Dana picks whomever he feels like and whomever is his buddy.
Same for title shots and other match making.
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Super Bush League.
Hes in the "fight wing", so it's for that one fight, which he lost, and yet now he's in the HOF, but he isn't because it's a fight... Or something.
For the record, I'd add him eventually anyway - wasn't a GOAT fighter, or even a UFC champion, but we'll never forget him.
Hes in the "fight wing", so it's for that one fight, which he lost, and yet now he's in the HOF, but he isn't because it's a fight... Or something.
For the record, I'd add him eventually anyway - wasn't a GOAT fighter, or even a UFC champion, but we'll never forget him.
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Sonnen's fight is being inducted which isn't a bad call. But it has more to do with Anderson overcoming adversity. In terms of the actual fight wing the only people that shouldn't be there are Bonnar and Cowboy. The rest are fine.
I think the fight wing is super weird and I can't quite get my head around it.
It strikes me as wrong to put a fighter in the HOF because their fight was inducted.
The fight is what is in the HOF, not the fighter.
I would get rid of the fight wing and the non fighters like the Tapout guy/s and just leave it for fighters.
Won't make people happy until they cave and let guys like Shamrock and Sylvia in but it would be better than it is now.
Still wouldn't call it Bush league though, I think almost every HOFer (fight wing aside) deserves to be there.
It strikes me as wrong to put a fighter in the HOF because their fight was inducted.
The fight is what is in the HOF, not the fighter.
I would get rid of the fight wing and the non fighters like the Tapout guy/s and just leave it for fighters.
Won't make people happy until they cave and let guys like Shamrock and Sylvia in but it would be better than it is now.
Still wouldn't call it Bush league though, I think almost every HOFer (fight wing aside) deserves to be there.
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Good to know you can melt the post-fight drug test and still get into the HOF 
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Jones and AndyGood to know you can melt the post-fight drug test and still get into the HOF
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Charles “Mask” Lewis disapproves of these scrubs getting into the HoF
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HOF isn’t about just accomplishments. It’s about who contributed to helping the sport grow and someone who won’t be forgotten. Chael is a legend of the sport
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Sonnen got inducted for a fight, specifically the first Anderson Silva fight, Jones is still active but i think he is already there for some BS reason or probably as a fighter which would be weird, Anderson might already be there as well as a Fighter but he retired from MMA a while back.
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Jon is in the fight wing for Gustafsson 1 where he didn't fail a test, and Anderson only ever popped out-of-competition. Both are very different than failing the test immediately after the fight and setting the company record for highest T:E ratio.
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Both were on steroids, failing out of competition doesn’t mean you didn’t bring those advantages to the fight. It also proves he was masking the PEDs before and after the fight but just got caught in camp.
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Chael/Silva 1 was a classic. People still bring it up. UFC does their hof differently than most, having a pretentious committee to vote is cringe. HoF is just a spotlight for some guys. No idea why you think it should be anything besides a database. Most guys in it are legends.
