Kazushi Sakuraba will be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame on July 6, it was announced during Saturday’s UFC 212 Pay-Per-View event. The Japanese MMA icon, who won a UFC heavyweight tournament in 1997 before becoming the biggest star of the legendary PRIDE FC organization, enters the UFC Hall of Fame as a Pioneer Era inductee.Sakuraba was a natural lightweight whose talents were so vast that they not only towered above the greatest welterweight and middleweights of his era but – astonishing as it is to recall in 2017 – also allowed him to compete and even defeat some of the best f … Read the Full Article Here
Sakuraba tabbed to join UFC Hall of Fame in 2017
Kazushi Sakuraba will be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame on July 6, it was announced during Saturday’s UFC 212 Pay-Per-View event. The Japanese MMA icon, who won a UFC heavyweight tournament in 1997 before becoming the biggest star of the lege…