{"id":127397,"date":"2015-01-26T21:24:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T05:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=127397"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:53:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:53:14","slug":"faber-praises-mcgregor-disagrees-muhammad-ali-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/faber-praises-mcgregor-disagrees-muhammad-ali-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Faber Praises McGregor, Disagrees With Muhammad Ali Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Faber1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Faber1.png\" alt=\"Faber\" width=\"484\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Faber1.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Faber1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Faber1-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Faber1-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conor McGregor has been the subject on nearly every fighter&#8217;s mind recently, with some criticizing the Irish star, and others, like Urijah Faber, praising him. <\/p>\n<p>With McGregor&#8217;s recent win over Dennis Siver, there has been much talk regarding his upcoming title match against Jose Aldo, with some even going as far as to compare McGregor to Muhammad Ali.<\/p>\n<p>Faber disagrees with the Ali comparison, and spoke to media members in Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t know about that. I mean, Muhammad Ali was a very influential person for a lot of other reasons just from being a great fighter.  Right now, Conor McGregor \u2026 he can speak well and he dresses like Pee Wee Herman, but it\u2019s not because of anything that he\u2019s done that he\u2019s getting notoriety. Muhammad Ali was a very influential person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s an exciting fighter.  I think Jose Aldo is the best fighter in the world, pound-for-pound. He\u2019s beat guys like Frankie Edgar, Chad Mendes, myself. He\u2019s beat some of the best guys in the game and I don\u2019t think that Conor\u2019s not in his league. I just think that Aldo\u2019s the better fighter. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re coddling Conor, by any means \u2013 but they\u2019re definitely keeping him away from guys like Frankie Edgar, Dennis Bermudez and Chad Mendes, for now. Because it\u2019s his best chance against another striker to get the belt because he\u2019s a promotional piece of gold. The guy\u2019s a whole pot of gold.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; via <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/01\/urijah-faber-not-ready-to-put-pee-wee-herman-dressing-conor-mcgregor-in-muhammad-alis-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor has been the subject on nearly every fighter&#8217;s mind recently, with some criticizing the Irish star, and others, like Urijah Faber, praising him. With McGregor&#8217;s recent win over Dennis Siver, there has been much talk regarding his upcoming title match against Jose Aldo, with some even going as far as to compare McGregor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":127398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"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>Faber Praises McGregor, Disagrees With Muhammad Ali Comparison | 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\/faber-praises-mcgregor-disagrees-muhammad-ali-comparison\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Faber Praises McGregor, Disagrees With Muhammad Ali Comparison | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Conor McGregor has been the subject on nearly every fighter&#8217;s mind recently, with some criticizing the Irish star, and others, like Urijah Faber, praising him. 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