UFC GOAT brutalized Dana White’s least favorite fighter ever in ‘Fight of the Year’ before being erased from UFC history

One of the very first goats of the UFC scored one of the biggest victories of his career against Dana White's least favorite hunter ever, Tito Ortiz.

Frank Shamrock is generally considered one of the very first goats of the UFC, who made his promotion debut in UFC Japan in 1997.

'The Legend' then won the inaugural UFC Middleweight Championship after submitting Kevin Jackson within the first 16 seconds of their collision.

However, it was a total dominance about Tito Ortiz, so that Shamrock was labeled as the largest champion of the UFC ever by various UFC-MEDE owners.

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Frank Shamrock brutalized Tito Ortiz during Historical UFC Run

After several successful title defense, 'The Legend' was then linked to Ortiz, who was then generally considered one of the greatest stars of the promotion.

Earlier that year, 'The Huntington Beach Bad Boy' collided with Shamrock's brother Ken Shamrock at UFC 19, who turned Frank's fight against him into a huge resorting competition.

Despite the fact that he had gone through all his opponents to this point, Shamrock was considered an underdog in this fight because of the fact that Ortiz chose a lot of weight to fight it and had a large format advantage.

The champion, however, went brutalization Ortiz with elbows and Helliclacious Hammer -fists before the Challenger tapped due to damage in round four in what is considered one of the greatest fights of all time.

The fight then won the 1999 Fight of the Year Award, but not long after, Shamrock left the UFC middleweight title and marked its last fight under the UFC banner.

Shamrock was then erased from the UFC history

Since his retirement, Shamrock is not really mentioned as one of the greatest hunters of all time, even though he is ever labeled as the biggest competitor in UFC history.

Last year, Shamrock had set the promotion after he claimed that he had been removed from the UFC website and claimed that they 'erase history'. Despite his claim, the former champion still has an active profile on the official website, with his fighting statistics and more.

After his UFC exit and short retirement of the sport, Shamrock returned to action, fighting for people like K-1 and StrikeForce.

His pension fight came against Nick Diaz in 2009 and he lost the fight via a second round stop page.

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