{"id":208245,"date":"2016-10-24T12:53:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=208245"},"modified":"2016-10-24T12:53:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:53:28","slug":"urijah-faber-says-pickett-fight-will-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/urijah-faber\/urijah-faber-says-pickett-fight-will-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Urijah Faber says Pickett fight will be his last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urijah Faber says his upcoming fight with Brad &#8220;One Punch&#8221; Pickett will be his last.<\/p>\n<p>Faber broke the news on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2016\/10\/24\/13374614\/the-mma-hour-with-randy-couture-fabricio-werdum-urijah-faber-matt\">Monday&#8217;s edition of The MMA Hour<\/a>, where &#8220;The California Kid&#8221; announced that his next fight will be his last one, after a long and storied career.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>To be honest with you, I&#8217;m super excited to fight in [Sacramento],&#8221; Faber said. &#8220;Those are all my people out there. I built our team, Team Alpha Male, it&#8217;s like an extended family to me, and I was raised in the greatest Sacramento area all the way through college. It&#8217;s going to be a really cool event.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been kind of waiting for this, and this is actually going to be my last fight. And it just feels right to do it in [Sacramento] in this new area. It just feels like the right time and the right place. I&#8217;ve been waiting for this new arena to be built, I was waiting for that Dominick Cruz opportunity, and I feel like this is going to be an epic event and I can&#8217;t wait to do it in front of the people I love.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Urijah-Faber-wins.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-203736\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Urijah-Faber-wins.png\" alt=\"Urijah Faber\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Urijah-Faber-wins.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Urijah-Faber-wins-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Urijah-Faber-wins-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Urijah-Faber-wins-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faber will take on Pickett in his hometown of Sacramento at UFC on FOX 22 on December 17.<\/p>\n<p>The former bantamweight contender has most recently dropped two fights to Jimmie Rivera and champion Dominick Cruz. 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