MMA Hall of Fame: First Class

[Kingfarthur]

If you were to elect five people to go into the inaugural class of an MMA Hall of Fame, who would it be?

Rorion Gracie
Rickson Gracie
Dana White
Fedor Emelianenko
Nobuyuki Sakakibara

Just a rough list, three contributors and two fighters. Also could go

Royce Gracie
Ken Shamrock
Bas Rutten
Rickson Gracie
Fedor Emelianenko

If all fighters. I like having contributors in there as well though.

 

[Hades86]

Fedor/Anderson/Royce/Chuck/Dana (Because you know he is gonna put himself up there anway).

 

[JustBleedUFC**]

Missing Sakuraba on that list.

 

[KillerOfTheSun]

Royce Gracie
Fedor Emilianenko
Anderson Silva
Kazushi Sakuraba
Randy Couture

 

[structurefit]

Royce
Shamrock
Severn
Frye
Rutten
Tank
Taktarov

 

[DezWalker]

Royce Gracie
Ken Shamrock
Fedor
Dana White
Dan Severn

 

[Rampage_Jackson]

Royce Gracie
Bas Rutten
Anderson Silva
Fedor
Ken Shamrock

 

[PanyeEast17]

Royce
Fedor
Bruce Lee
Anderson
Randy

2nd Class
Rich
Forrest
Liddell
Tito
Wanderlei

 

[JustBleedUFC**]

Royce
Fedor
Bruce Lee
Anderson
Randy

2nd Class
Rich
Forrest
Liddell
Tito
Wanderlei

If you are adding Bruce Lee on there then might as well add Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal.

 

[Cigano Pwnz**]

 

[Da Speeit]

where the fuck is sakuraba

 

[Almighty One]

Fedor
Anderson
Sakuraba
Royce
Chuck/Penn/GSP? don't know

 

[Sharknado]

Royce Gracie
Ken Shamrock
Dana White
Fedor
Kazushi Sakuraba

2nd Class
Mark Coleman
Dan Severn
Randy Couture
Dan Henderson
Bas Rutten

3rd Class
Frank Shamrock
Tito Ortiz
Chuck Liddell
Matt Hughes
Don Frye

4th Class
Anderson Silva
Georges St.Pierre
B.J Penn
Big Nog
Wanderlei Silva

 

[SocraticMethod]

Royce Gracie
Fedor Emilianenko
Anderson Silva
Kazushi Sakuraba
Randy Couture

Replace Randy with Hughes and this looks solid to me.

 

[Big_Chief_Stove]

Not in any particular order

-Royce Gracie
-Ken Shamrock
-Rickson Gracie
-Bas Rutten
-Mark Coleman
-Fedor Emelianenko
-Kazushi Sakuraba
-Georges St. Pierre
-Matt Hughes
-Dan Henderson
-Randy Couture
-Pat Miletich
-Big Nog
-BJ Penn
-Chuck Liddell
-Anderson Silva
-Vitor Belfort
-Shogun Rua
-Wanderlei Silva

 

[catchwrestle]

Not in any particular order

-Royce Gracie
-Ken Shamrock
-Rickson Gracie
-Bas Rutten
-Mark Coleman
-Fedor Emelianenko
-Kazushi Sakuraba
-Georges St. Pierre
-Matt Hughes
-Dan Henderson
-Randy Couture
-Pat Miletich
-Big Nog
-BJ Penn
-Chuck Liddell
-Anderson Silva
-Vitor Belfort
-Shogun Rua
-Wanderlei Silva

Nice list. I'd add Igor V.

 

[Kingfarthur]

I think the issue for me is narrowing it down to 5. I think Rorian is more important to MMA than Royce, seeing as how any of the Gracie brothers could have probably done what Royce did, but Rorian put it all together.

 

[Kingfarthur]

where the fuck is sakuraba

I don't think Sakuraba is a shoe-in for top 5 MMA contributor of all time. I think a better question is, where the fuck is Helio Gracie?

 

[thetaylor22]

Connor MgGreggor
Dana White
Chandella Powell
James Toney
James McSweeney

 

[Pem123]

Fedor/Royce/Silva/Ken/Liddell