{"id":103479,"date":"2014-07-01T09:33:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T16:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=103479"},"modified":"2022-02-06T09:55:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:55:40","slug":"urijah-faber-understands-why-he-is-on-the-ufc-175-prelims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/urijah-faber-understands-why-he-is-on-the-ufc-175-prelims\/","title":{"rendered":"Urijah Faber understands why he is on the UFC 175 prelims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufc-169-results-faber-loses-by-way-of-tko-in-round-1-barao-retains-ufc-bantamweight-championship\/urijah-faber-wins-png-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84592\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84592\" title=\"urijah faber wins PNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/urijah-faber-wins-PNG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/urijah-faber-wins-PNG.png 391w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/urijah-faber-wins-PNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/urijah-faber-wins-PNG-362x250.png 362w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber says he understands the UFC&#8217;s choice to showcase him on the prelims for this weekends UFC 175 event in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;You know, for me it actually makes a little more sense,&#8221; <\/em>Faber told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1mx0dlH\">Submission Radio<\/a>.<em> &#8220;It&#8217;s the main event on the free card, the Fox Sports 1 card, so you know I think as far as exposure goes, I&#8217;ll probably get a wider view for more viewers that don&#8217;t have to pay. I think the PPV numbers haven&#8217;t necessarily been as high as they used to be, so for me it makes more sense. I&#8217;m the featured fight on the free card right before the PPV, and I don&#8217;t get piece of that PPV anyway, so I&#8217;d rather more people watched the fights.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>UFC 175 takes place this Saturday night\u00a0(July 5) live from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Urijah Faber\u00a0(30-7 MMA, 6-3 UFC) vs. Alex Caceres (10-5 MMA, 5-3 UFC) will headline the events prelims, which air on FOX Sports 1.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to BJPENN.com for all your MMA News!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber says he understands the UFC&#8217;s choice to showcase him on the prelims for this weekends UFC 175 event in Las Vegas. &#8220;You know, for me it actually makes a little more sense,&#8221; Faber told\u00a0Submission Radio. &#8220;It&#8217;s the main event on the free card, the Fox Sports 1 card, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":84592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[3436,9,7753,16,1045,1064],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urijah Faber understands why he is on the UFC 175 prelims | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/urijah-faber-understands-why-he-is-on-the-ufc-175-prelims\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urijah Faber understands why he is on the UFC 175 prelims | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber says he understands the UFC&#8217;s choice to showcase him on the prelims for this weekends UFC 175 event in Las Vegas. &#8220;You know, for me it actually makes a little more sense,&#8221; 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