Meeting the early characters in NHB

Top one:Wood

Bottom one: Woodn’t

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This thread needs more Giant Killer Keith Hackney IMO.

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What about Keith Hackney. It’s been said he was a navy seal, but none of that was mentioned by the UFC

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I guess you’re not cumming on?

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I remember Hackney did some interviews in the late 90s days on eyada.com and such. Haven’t heard from him after that. Maybe he’s sick of talking about those days. I remember some fans found his air conditioning company and called him…hehe.

I think it would have been mentioned if Keith was a Navy SEAL.

First that I heard of this.

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Oh,I can tell you that I have Googled Hackney’s Heating & Air Conditioning.

I googled Hackney and called him once to fight in an Iowa show. He turned it down because " he just signed with Kingdom in Japan" but it was a bullshit excuse.

Being on the midwest circuit i met many early nhb guys as well as many up and comers that went on to fight in the UFC and bigger events.

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This looks like Keith Hackney’s LinkedIn profile, if anybody wants to connect.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-hackney-3286991ab

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Ok,that’s only the second time that I heard of it.

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I’ve got a picture with Keith & Ken Shamrock involved in something together.

From what I have heard & I seriously believe that it might have came from Art Davie himself & Art or someone else that told Keith that nobody wanted to fight Emmanuel Yarborough & that if he wanted to be in the UFC he would have to fight Yarborough & Keith said yes.

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I’m pretty sure that I have 2 pictures that you would not expect Keith to be in.

Looking now.

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WHOOPS,I thought he was in this one.Make that 1 picture.

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Old school you bastids.

Anybody know the guy on the top left? I have no idea of who he is.

Old school Tank.

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Found that sumbitch.

World Pankration Team coaches Keith Hackney & Ken Shamrock.

Oh yeah…they were trying to pitch that as a possible Olympic sport.

In for the cool thread

Imagine being Hackney staring across the octagon from Yarborough. That would have been terrifying but he went forward and got the job done.

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@Miller do you have any leads that you can give me to track Hoffman down???

Family, old jobs etc…