{"id":129376,"date":"2015-02-13T04:59:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=129376"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:49:38","slug":"uriah-faber-frankie-edgar-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/uriah-faber-frankie-edgar-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Faber Breaks Down Fight, & Sends This Message To Frankie — “West Coast Homie”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Urijah<\/a>
\nThe UFC just recently announced a fight that has everyone in the MMA world buzzing and that is the matchup between former champions Uriah Faber and Frankie Edgar, taking place at UFC Fight Night 65 in Manila on May 16.<\/p>\n

On the recent episode of Team Alpha Male Radio ‘The California Kid’ himself joined the live video podcast and talked about the announcement and gave his thoughts on the super fight taking place at featherweight.<\/p>\n

“Frankie is a guy that is a legend in my opinion, one of the best fighters pound for pound. We know that because he\u2019s beat fighters who are pound for pound, and so have I. It\u2019s a fight that I\u2019ve been wanting for a long time, not because of anything against Frankie, just because I got into this sport because I wanted challenges. I like to have big fights, I like to have stuff that gets me motivated and this is the biggest one that could be put together for me right now.”<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s things that he\u2019s really good at, I feel like we\u2019re both really well rounded, and there\u2019s things that he\u2019s really good at and thing\u2019s that I\u2019m really good at and they match up really well for me I feel like. At [1]55 he was the faster guy at [1]45 I was probably the faster guy, at [1]35 I feel like I\u2019m still one of the fastest guys and at [1]45 I feel like he\u2019s still one of the fastest guys. So the speed thing is going to be a factor, he\u2019s probably a little bit bigger than me but like I said I feel like I\u2019m going to die every time I make 135.<\/p>\n

“I feel like his MMA wrestling is really good, my MMA wrestling is so-so and my jiu-jitsu in MMA is really good and his, I feel like [is] so-so.”<\/p>\n

“This gets me pumped, a challenge like this, against a guy like this, this is exactly why I started fighting.”<\/p>\n

Then Faber had some fun with his opponent and threw out some “fighting words”.<\/p>\n

“Frankie, West Coast homie. No blow-outs over here, my hair is long I just put it up in a bun or throw a hat on. We don\u2019t shave little lines in our hair, we don\u2019t shape our sideburns into like pointy things, we just chill out. If we want to take our shirt off it\u2019s not weird we don\u2019t get yelled at, we just take our shirt off. West Coast. We don\u2019t fake tan, we don\u2019t shave our chest, we don\u2019t pluck our eyebrows. So that\u2019s the big difference.”<\/p>\n

WATCH URIJAH FABER BREAK DOWN HIS FIGHT AGAINST FRANKIE EDGAR IN THE CLIP BELOW:<\/strong><\/p>\n