Whatever happened to Heath Herring?

Brock hit him with a textbook straight right and broke his face. Haven't seen much of him since.
 
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He had a pretty decent showing in Rizin considering the 10 year lay off, thought he'd look a lot worse. Actually put up a good fight against a serious prospect in Amir.
 
While performing the greatest rendition of the Joker we will ever see, he dove too deep into the dark side of human nature and died of a drug overdose shortly after filming.
 
Like most top ranked PRIDE heavy weights, he came to the UFC and got murked.

Jarl
 
P4p Islam said:
Lol there were an alarming number of shertards who really thought Herring was gonna come to the ufc and clean house...
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Slim, athletic, motivated and in shape 2000 - 2004 Herring vs Sylvia, Couture, Ricco, Arlovski and with presumption of allowed knees on the ground = even chances for Heath. Probably takes UFC belt at some point, that was passed arround by those guys almost every fight.

Often neglected and underrated in recent times, because he failed to get some belt, while holders of B UFC belt from those times got praised as champions because UFC brand prevailed in the long run.
In reallity Herring did not have lesser career than for example Tim Sylvia or Ricco Rodriguez. They just got belts because they were in weaker league, while Heath was title challenger in A league.

If we compaire career wins of Tim Sylvia vs Heath Herring, it is about even.

Tim Sylvia:
big wins:
Arlovski 2x, Ricco, McGee, Monson
other good wins:
Vera, Rothwell, Correira, Telligman, Buentello, Assuerio, Whitehead

Heath Herring:
big wins:
Kerr, Vovchanchyn, Erikson, McGee, Kongo
other good wins:
Inoue, Tanner, Goodridge, Schrijber, Kochkine,

It is about the same.
 
cheesus said:
He had a pretty decent showing in Rizin considering the 10 year lay off, thought he'd look a lot worse. Actually put up a good fight against a serious prospect in Amir.
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i completely forgot he had 2 fights in rizin.
 
DapperDave said:
While performing the greatest rendition of the Joker we will ever see, he dove too deep into the dark side of human nature and died of a drug overdose shortly after filming.
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He was great as Dr. Joshua Landers in the TV series The Young and the Restless as well.
 
Royce's Gi said:
He was great as Dr. Joshua Landers in the TV series The Young and the Restless as well.
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Excuse me but Yushin Okami was never a big MW, let alone huge.

Fought at WW almost half of his career, in his 20s and late 30s, for major and minor promotions, never missed weight.

Just another example of sherbro retarded eye tests from uneducated "fans"

Huge head though
 
Heath certinly did better vs long time best Bellator HW Kongo than CroCop did
 
Herrings decline really pre dated the UFC, he signed to FEG in 2005 and fucked up his knee in his first fight vs Sam Greco.

Its pretty inline with his style as well, Heath in his prime was a scrambler like say Cain or Shogun and we've seen the effect that style has causing loads of joint injuries. By comparison to those guys Heath's prime years arguably lasted rather longer as he debuted in 1997.
 
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pankrat said:
Excuse me but Yushin Okami was never a big MW, let alone huge.

Fought at WW almost half of his career, in his 20s and late 30s, for major and minor promotions, never missed weight.

Just another example of sherbro retarded eye tests from uneducated "fans"

Huge head though
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UFC always referred to Yushin as a "HUGE MW" but you're right.
 
DayV said:
Slim, athletic, motivated and in shape 2000 - 2004 Herring vs Sylvia, Couture, Ricco, Arlovski and with presumption of allowed knees on the ground = even chances for Heath. Probably takes UFC belt at some point, that was passed arround by those guys almost every fight.

Often neglected and underrated in recent times, because he failed to get some belt, while holders of B UFC belt from those times got praised as champions because UFC brand prevailed in the long run.
In reallity Herring did not have lesser career than for example Tim Sylvia or Ricco Rodriguez. They just got belts because they were in weaker league, while Heath was title challenger in A league.

If we compaire career wins of Tim Sylvia vs Heath Herring, it is about even.

Tim Sylvia:
big wins:
Arlovski 2x, Ricco, McGee, Monson
other good wins:
Vera, Rothwell, Correira, Telligman, Buentello, Assuerio, Whitehead

Heath Herring:
big wins:
Kerr, Vovchanchyn, Erikson, McGee, Kongo
other good wins:
Inoue, Tanner, Goodridge, Schrijber, Kochkine,

It is about the same.
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There's no way Heath would've beaten either Ricco or Couture at that point in time, they're awful matchups for him.

And the only reason he beat Erikson was due to Tom's age more than anything, a younger Erikson would've kept controlling him without much trouble.
 
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