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During the UFC 328 broadcast, it was announced that Chris Weidman and Thomas Gerbasi will join the UFC Hall of Fame. An accomplished amateur wrestler at Hofstra, Weidman began his MMA career in 2009 and joined UFC in 2011.  He quickly rose up the Middleweight ranks and defeated the legendary Anderson Silva for the UFC Middleweight Title at UFC 162 in 2013.  He would successfully defend his championship against Lyoto Machida (UFC 175) and Vitor Belfort (UFC 187) before losing the strap to Luke Rockhold at UFC 194. He retired after a loss to Eryk Anders at UFC 310 in…

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB.  Once that is done, we will examine how each team honors its past players, coaches, and executives.  This will eventually extend to college sports.  As such, it is important to us that Utah State retire Bobby Wagner's number 9 this upcoming season. The extraordinary Defensive Back was a three-time First Team WAC Selection, and carried the Aggies to their first bowl appearance in 23 years.  He had 445 Combined Tackles, 28.5 Tackles for Loss, 4.5…

Yes, we know that this is taking a while! As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we maintain and update our existing Top 50 lists annually.  We are pleased to present our pre-2026 revision of our top 50 Miami Marlins. As for all of our top 50 players in baseball, we look at the following:  1.  Duration and Impact. 2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the Major League Baseball. 3.  Advanced Statistics. 4.  Playoff performance. 5. Their respective legacy on the…

1995 PRELIMINARY RESULTS: Thank you to all who participated in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. If you are still determining what that is, we treated the PFHOF as having its first class in January 1946. We have completed the first 49 years. For “1995,” a Preliminary Vote with over 100 players whose playing career ended by 1989. We also follow the structure in which players have 20 years of eligibility, and if they do not make it into the Hall, they are relegated to the Senior Pool. Each voter was asked to select 25 names from the…

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB.  Once that is done, we will examine how each team honors its past players, coaches, and executives.  As such, it is important to us that the New England Patriots will be inducting Rob Gronkowski into their Hall of Fame. Gronkowski was chosen via an online vote that pitted him against Adam Vinatieri and Logan Mankins.  A four-time First Team All-Pro and five-time Pro Bowl selection with the Patriots, Gronkowski played there from 2010 to 2018,…