{"id":336024,"date":"2019-12-20T07:04:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=336024"},"modified":"2019-12-20T07:04:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:04:22","slug":"petr-yan-says-urijah-faber-fight-wasnt-perfect-but-hopes-win-gained-him-new-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/petr-yan-says-urijah-faber-fight-wasnt-perfect-but-hopes-win-gained-him-new-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Petr Yan says Urijah Faber fight wasn&#8217;t perfect but hopes win gained him new fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petr Yan has been running through the UFC&#8217;s bantamweight division and at UFC 245, he was opened the pay-per-view card against Urijah Faber. It was the biggest fight of his career, and the perfect opportunity to make a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, that is what Yan did. He looked impressive throughout the fight, dropping Faber numerous times with vicious elbows, knees, and punches.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, after opening up a nasty cut beside the UFC Hall of Famer&#8217;s eye, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/urijah-faber\/ufc-245-results-petr-yan-kos-urijah-faber-video\/\">Yan knocked him out cold in the third round<\/a>. It was a dominating performance from the Russian, yet he wasn&#8217;t completely happy with it as he knows he could have been better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I don\u2019t think it was a perfect fight, I was just enjoying myself doing my job,&#8221; Petr Yan said to BJPENN.com through his translator Sayat Abdrakhmanov. &#8220;I like to express myself in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Octagon<\/a> and I had fun that night.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the win over Faber, Yan put himself right into the title conversation at bantamweight. After the performance, many fans took to social media to call for a fight between Yan and bantamweight champ Henry Cejudo. Although the win may earn Yan that opportunity, it also did something else for him. He&#8217;s realized he has gained a ton of fans. The Russian didn&#8217;t realize how popular Faber was until after the scrap when his social media started blowing up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;During the fight week and at the event, I [just] realized how popular Faber is in the USA,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;Hopefully I gained some new fans that night and got closer to the title.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Whether or not Petr Yan gets the next title shot is to be seen. But, he makes it clear UFC 245 was not the best he can be.<\/p>\n<p>Were you impressed by Petr Yan at UFC 245?<\/p>\n<p><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 12\/19\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petr Yan has been running through the UFC&#8217;s bantamweight division and at UFC 245, he was opened the pay-per-view card against Urijah Faber. It was the biggest fight of his career, and the perfect opportunity to make a statement. Ultimately, that is what Yan did. He looked impressive throughout the fight, dropping Faber numerous times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":316863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2674,39588,39610,54125,10116],"tags":[39616],"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>Petr Yan says Urijah Faber fight wasn&#039;t perfect but hopes win gained him new fans | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It was a dominating performance from Petr Yan over Urijah Faber. 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