Urijah Faber Reveals He Had Off-Camera Scuffle With Conor McGregor
Former WEC (World Extreme Cagefighting) featherweight champion and current UFC bantamweight/featherweight Urijah Faber has landed yet another Ultimate Fighter coaching gig. This time, off the back of a seemingly harmless confrontation with Conor McGregor, ‘The California Kid’ will coach opposite the interim featherweight champion for TUF 22. With Faber having already admitted that the scuffle seemed scripted, a lot of us were thinking that this was quite a pointless TUF gig for both guys to be involved in.
Well, as seen in the video above courtesy of MMAUnderground, quotes by Trove, ‘TCK’ says this isn’t the only time that he has had a run in with ‘The Notorious’, and he also believes that they will be fighting at some point in the UFC octagon:
“That [first incident] was completely off the cuff,” Faber told The Underground. “I don’t even know what it was. I talked to Conor about it, too. I was like, ‘What was that?’ and he just said, ‘Eh, I don’t know.’ It started out kind of playing and turned out what it was.
“That happened again. It happened again a couple of days ago. They didn’t have any cameras on us, we’re giving each other crap and the next thing you know we’re testing each other a little bit. Then we’re like manhandling each other. It always ends with him getting pissed off.”
“He likes them until the end when he’s getting manhandled,” said Faber. “Then he doesn’t like it. The last one was kind of funny. His guy Tom [Egan] had to come in and be like, ‘Alight guys let’s break it up.’ I feel like it was all in good fun for the most part. We both like to fight. That’s what we do.”
“He felt OK when we’ve had interactions,” said Faber. “I think he’s definitely best at a distance with his structure. We saw that with Chad. He’s a tough guy.”
“I think it’ll probably happen at some point,” said Faber. “Honestly, it’s pretty hard to get under my skin and he seems to be OK himself so we’ll see how it goes [during filming]. We’ve already started the banter back and forth. I think people will want to see that fight.”
At this stage nothing is planned in relation to a McGregor vs Faber showdown, but what if the champ Jose Aldo is injured again? Frankie Edgar may be waiting in the wings, but he has been looked past twice already for a title shot, so he may go blue if holding his breath on a title shot this year.
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