The UFC Hall of Fame is a big honor for any fighter in the organization and there are different ways to get in. Cub Swanson got inducted a few days for his epic fight against Choi Doo-ho back in 2016.
The UFC Hall of Fame induction was a complete surprise for Cub Swanson and he was simply watching TV when it happened. His wife was working the event and got to see everything happen live.
“It was pretty funny,” Swanson said on The MMA Hour. “My wife Kenda [Perez] was at the fight, she was working the event, so I had all three kids from Thursday to Sunday. And so on Saturday, the community I live in, because there’s a lot of kids, had a little Easter thing, and so I took the kids and they were going crazy eating candy, and so me and my brother were both exhausted because he came to help. He fell asleep on the couch, and I was sitting there and I was like, ‘Man, I should take a shower before the main card starts. I’m getting tired.’
“I got a random text, and then I started getting more texts, and then my wife said, ‘Hey, they’re doing like a thing on you,’ because she was sitting front row. So I turned it back on and I was just kind of blown away. I didn’t expect it. I got emotional a little. It was nice.”
Cub Swanson couldn't help but get emotional after finding out the huge news. The featherweight has been in the UFC for a long time and has fought some of the best fighters the sport has to offer.
“I was a little bit emotional,” UFC featherweight Swanson said. “I just feel like I’ve put so much into this sport, and I’m just trying to be an advocate of the sport literally from the day I started. This sport, it still wasn’t popular, it hadn’t been on TV yet. I was a little ahead of The Ultimate Fighter, the original one, and so when I started fighting, people assumed that I was still getting into trouble, that I had been getting into trouble when I was a youth, and I had to educate people myself, like, ‘No, it’s not cage fighting. This is mixed martial arts. It’s a legitimate sport.’ And I’ve been doing that my whole career, just trying to make fans, one person at a time.
“I’ve almost put two decades into this sport, and 15 years at the highest level. And just that little recognition, it was pretty huge for me. It was like the sport saying thank you back to me,” the UFC featherweight said.
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