Mark Kerr / UFC. The winner the UFC 14 and UFC 15 heavy -weight tournaments, will enter the pioneer wing of the Hall of Fame.
Mark Kerr is the last fighter who will enter the UFC Hall of Fame at the end of this month.
Kerr, who won the UFC 14 and UFC 15 heavy -weight tournaments, will enter the room pioneer, announced the promotion on Saturday during the Payment Transmission by event UFC 316. The entrance ceremony will take place in Las Vegas as part of the International Fight Week for UFC 317.
“Mark Kerr was a high -level fighter who also fought for Pride and was one of the first pioneers of this sport,” said UFC executive director Dana White, in a press release. Kerr will be the 21st member of the pioneer wing, which has fighters who became professionals mainly in the 1990s, before the adoption of a set of unified rules.
Kerr is one of the five fighters with multiple victories in UFC tournaments. The other four are in the UFC Hall of Fame: Royce Gracie, Mark Coleman, Dan Severn and Don Frye. Kerr and his nickname “Smashing Machine” became a legend, and his career is so legendary that an upcoming biographical film starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is already reaping praise. Johnson will be present to include Kerr in the hall, as announced by the UFC.
The UFC press release includes the following about Kerr’s activities outside the UFC:
“Out of the Octagon, Kerr, 56, was the protagonist of a documentary acclaimed by the critic entitled The Smashing Machine, who narrated his career while competing in multiple organizations of MMA. A film with the same name, starring Dwayne Johnson as Kerr, will be released by A24 on October 3.
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Kerr began his career in wrestling as a first -year student at the Bettendorf High School in Iowa, where he was a teammate of the future member of the Hall of Fame of the UFC Pat Mileph. Kerr returned to Toledo and joined the wrestling team of the Waite High School, becoming the state champion of Ohio Division I in 1986.
After the institute, Kerr began his university career at the University of Syracuse, competing for the Orangemen in the Interuniversity of the Wrestling of the East. During his time in the university mats, Kerr won the title of the Conference in 1989, 1991 and 1992, in addition to obtaining the Honors All-America and the National Championship of Division I of the NCAA in its last season.
Kerr would spend the next four years as a free -style fighter, winning silver and gold medals during the World Wrestling World Cup unida in 1992 and 1994, as well as the silver medal at the UWW Pan American Games in 1995. He also won the tests of the US World Wrestling Team. UU. In 1993 and 1994.
Kerr also competed at the ADCC Submsion Fighting Championship, a grappling competition, defeating future UFC heavyweight champions Josh Barnett and Ricco RodrÃguez on their way to the conquest of gold medals during tournaments of 1999, 2000 and 2001. In 2022, it was included in the inaugural class of the hall of the hall of the hall of the hall of the hall of the hall of the hall of the hall of the hall ADCC.
