Is Matt Hughes a Hall of Famer?

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship has five members in its Hall of Fame. Each of them – Dan Severn, Mark Coleman, Ken Shamrock, Randy Couture and Royce Gracie – still are active fighters.

And that’s why it’s puzzling that Matt Hughes, who has contributed as much to the UFC and to mixed martial arts as any of those five, isn’t already enshrined. It appears that Hughes will have to wait until retirement to be inducted, which is as it should have been in the first place.

He was badly beaten and looked like a shell of himself in a drubbing he suffered at the hands of Thiago Alves at UFC 85 in London on June 7. The technical knockout defeat marked his second consecutive loss and third in his last four fights.

But Hughes isn’t done.

He’ll fight arch-rival Matt Serra on May 23 in the co-main event of UFC 98 at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas, and even has raised the possibility of competing at middleweight.

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