Predicting the 2019 UFC Hall of Famers

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Frank Shamrock

It is pretty remarkable that the adopted brother of Ken Shamrock is not in the Hall of Fame already. Few MMA fighters have gone their entire UFC careers unbeaten, however, that is exactly what Shamrock did as we won all five of his fights for the promotion; often in the main event.

He defeated Kevin Jackson at UFC Ultimate Japan in December 1997 in his UFC debut as the company crowned its first Middleweight Champion (a belt that is now known as the Light-Heavyweight Championship) and successfully defended that title four times, most notably versus Jeremy Horn and Tito Ortiz. He retired from UFC following his defeat of Ortiz citing a "lack of competition."

As one of the most dominant performers of UFC's early years, his induction is definitely a "when" rather than an "if."

Kevin Randleman

Kevin Randleman competed for UFC between 1999 and 2002, in which time he was a UFC Heavyweight Champion; just the fifth in the belt's history.

He defeated Pete Williams to win the vacant title after Bas Rutten had relinquished the title due to a desire to compete as a Light-Heavyweight.

In truth, Randleman should have already been champion but was robbed on the judge's scorecards in his title match with Rutten at UFC 20.

As champion, Randleman successfully defended the strap versus Pedro Rizzo at UFC 26, before losing it to Randy Couture at UFC 29.

Randleman beat Renato Sobral in his final UFC fight at UFC 35 before joining Japanese promotion, PRIDE FC.

Unfortunately, as Randleman passed away in 2016 at the age of 44 from a heart attack, his induction would be a posthumous one.