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UFC and
Pride Fighting Championships veteran Mark Kerr will be
enshrined in the UFC Hall of Fame this summer.

Kerr will be 21st entrant into the “Pioneer Wing,” which honors
athletes who turned professional before November 17, 2000, which
was when the unified rules of MMA were adopted. Fighters must be at
least 35 years old or retired for a year or more to be eligible for
the “Pioneer Wing.”

Kerr won one-night heavyweight tournaments at UFC 14 and UFC 15,
making him one of just five athletes to win multiple tournaments
within the promotion. The others are Royce Gracie,
Mark
Coleman, Dan Severn, and
Don Frye.
After those victories, Kerr went on to compete in Pride, where he
was victorious in six of his first eight appearances.

“Mark
Kerr was a high-level wrestler who also fought for PRIDE and
was one of the early pioneers of the sport,” UFC CEO Dana White
said in a release.

Kerr’s rapid rise — as well as his downfall due to opoid addiction
— has been in the spotlight recently thanks to the biopic entitled
“The Smashing Machine,” which is slated for an Oct. 3 release in
theaters. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will play Kerr in the
A24-produced film, and he is expected to be in attendance at the
Hall of Fame induction ceremony on June 26 at the T-Mobile
Arena.

IMAK ADMIN

By IMAK ADMIN

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