{"id":121524,"date":"2014-12-05T11:37:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T19:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=121524"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:06:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:06:21","slug":"francisco-rivera-thinks-fight-uriah-faber-life-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/francisco-rivera-thinks-fight-uriah-faber-life-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Rivera Thinks Fight With Uriah Faber Could Be Life Changing- Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/francisco_rivera_1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-120984\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/francisco_rivera_1.png\" alt=\"francisco_rivera_1\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/francisco_rivera_1.png 620w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/francisco_rivera_1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/francisco_rivera_1-533x400.png 533w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/francisco_rivera_1-333x250.png 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s ready for UFC 181? UFC bantamweight Francisco Rivera is. He spoke with BJPENN.COM Radio this past Sunday about his upcoming fight with &#8220;The California Kid&#8221;, Uriah Faber.<\/p>\n<p>Checkout some of the highlights below, then go listen to the episode for the full interview, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/bjpenncomradio\/2014\/12\/01\/chico-camus-ashlee-evans-smith-francisco-rivera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Huge fight, looking forward to it, I can&#8217;t wait,&#8221; said Rivera, who is coming off of a decision loss to Takeya Mizugaki, &#8220;It\u2019s fight week, just cant wait to get down there and do what I have to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rivera is aware of what it means to fight someone like Faber, who is coming off of a submission win over Alex Caceres at UFC 175.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fighting somebody like him is always a huge opportunity. His name alone can easily change my career or change my life and my family&#8217;s life. When we got the call, I don\u2019t know if somebody didn\u2019t want to fight him or they didn\u2019t have a fight for him, I don\u2019t know what happened but they called us and we accepted it. I cant wait to get in there and fight somebody like Uriah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rivera was already planning on fighting someone in December, he just didn&#8217;t know it was going to be Uriah Faber.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was planning on fighting sometime in December, but they hadn\u2019t called me yet, so I was already in training. I was at my strength gym. My manager called me and told me about the fight and asked me what I thought. At first he was like, \u2018We don\u2019t have to take it\u2019, but right away I jumped on and took the fight because it\u2019s a huge opportunity for me. I accepted it and that\u2019s that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Who&#8217;s ready for UFC 181? UFC bantamweight Francisco Rivera is. 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Checkout some of the highlights below, then go listen to the episode for the full interview, HERE. &#8220;Huge fight, looking forward to it, I can&#8217;t wait,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":120984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2674,2681],"tags":[150,333,2762,11,649,15,8908,16,7224],"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>Francisco Rivera: &#039;Win Over Faber Could Change My Life&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Francisco Rivera discusses his upcoming fight with UFC star Uriah Faber.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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