The first UFC Heavyweight Champion and the wrestler credited with turning ground-and-pound into a game plan.
Mark Coleman is an American retired mixed martial artist, professional wrestler and amateur wrestler. Coleman was the UFC 10 and UFC 11 tournament champion, the first UFC Heavyweight Champion, and the Pride Fighting Championships 2000 Open Weight Grand Prix champion. At UFC 82 Coleman was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame.
Fighters whose careers began before the Unified Rules era (debut before November 17, 2000).
The first UFC Heavyweight Champion and the wrestler credited with turning ground-and-pound into a game plan.
No freely licensed portrait was found in approved sources for this inductee (15 candidates rejected on license or identity), so the monogram plate is shown.
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