{"id":333290,"date":"2019-11-26T05:37:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=333290"},"modified":"2019-11-26T05:37:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T13:37:02","slug":"urijah-faber-on-bantamweight-this-is-a-rich-weight-class-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/urijah-faber-on-bantamweight-this-is-a-rich-weight-class-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Urijah Faber on bantamweight: &#8216;This is a rich weight class right now&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber has praised the bantamweight division as his comeback continues.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The 40-year-old returned to the Octagon back in July at UFC Sacramento, shocking a lot of fans in the process with his TKO victory over Ricky Simon. Ever since then fans have been wondering <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/urijah-faber-and-henry-cejudo-continue-to-trade-barbs-on-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"what the next step (opens in a new tab)\">what the next step<\/a> for &#8220;The California Kid&#8221; was going to be, and the answer was Petr Yan.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>He&#8217;ll face off against the Russian sensation at UFC 245, but prior to that, Faber has taken the time to voice his praise of the division that he&#8217;ll be returning to during an interview with UFC Unfiltered.<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UFC Sacramento: Urijah Faber Octagon Interview\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vZhxGH21JKY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting. I mean, this is the most interesting this weight division has ever been,\u201d Faber said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/11\/urijah-faber-raves-ufc-bantamweight-division-intrigue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMA Junkie (opens in a new tab)\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cYou\u2019ve got the up-and-coming guys like Aljamain (Sterling) and Petr Yan and Song Yadong and (Cory) Sandhagen and the list goes on of guys who we probably haven\u2019t even heard of yet. Then you\u2019ve got the current level guys like Cody Garbrandt \u2026 well, (T.J. Dillashaw is) out for cheating, of course, and then you\u2019ve got the guys who have been in the mix.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cJose Aldo, I\u2019ve always said he\u2019s one of the pound-for-pound best fighters, and 12 years undefeated and beating all these top-level guys. And then you have Frankie Edgar, who\u2019s a legend of all legends, and I\u2019m coming out of retirement. It\u2019s like, man, this is just a rich weight class right now. It\u2019s an exciting time to be a part of it, and it\u2019s one exciting time to know that I\u2019m still in the mix.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Yan is going to pose quite a few problems for Faber, as he has done for everyone else he&#8217;s faced, but if Faber is able to get the win then there&#8217;s a very good chance that he could be in line for a title shot.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 11\/25\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber has praised the bantamweight division as his comeback continues. The 40-year-old returned to the Octagon back in July at UFC Sacramento, shocking a lot of fans in the process with his TKO victory over Ricky Simon. Ever since then fans have been wondering what the next step for &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":319519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39588,39610,10116],"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>Urijah Faber on bantamweight: &#039;This is a rich weight class right now&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber has had high praise for the bantamweight division as he prepares to face rising contender Petr Yan at UFC 245.\" \/>\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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