Former Olympic gold medal winning wrestler Jeff Blatnick and the April 2005 fight between then welterweight champion Matt Hughes and Frank Trigg were the first announced inductees for the 2015 UFC Hall of Fame.
The announcements were made on Wednesday night's edition of UFC Tonight.
UFC recently announced a revamping of the Hall of Fame, inducting people in four different categories: Contributors, for non-fighters, Greatest Matches, the Pioneer category for fighters who started their career before 2001, and the Modern Fighter category, open to fighters who started their careers after 2001 and are at least 35 years old.