Faber reflects on crappy week
Urijah Faber on TJ Dillashaw departure, and The Crappening: “It was kind of similar to the drunken poop lady. It took me by surprise.” We bet.
Team Alpha Male founder and top UFC bantamweight Urijah Faber had a really crappy week. His team lost their sole world champion when TJ Dillashaw accepted a sponsored opportunity at Elevation Fight Team, which is closer to ousted TAM coach Duane ‘Bang’ Ludwig. And then there was the actually crappy “The Crapping.”
Faber appeared recently on the Opie and Jim Norton Show to talk about it all.
“It was the most bizarre thing ever,” said Faber as transcribed by David St. Martin for MMA FIghting. “It took me hours to [clean up]. I was trying to think if there was someone I could call, if there was any 3:00 AM cleaning service. I just had to pony up, roll up my pants and clean this thing up. It was pretty nasty.”
That only made it to #2 on Faber’s $#!^ list however. #1 was the departure of Dillashaw.
“Yea, you know, that all took me by surprise,” said Faber. “This was all along the same week when ‘The Crapping’ happened so it is what it is. At this point, I don’t really have a reason not to fight him other than that we’ve been friends for a long time. Before, it was ‘We’re on the same team.’ We’re not, now. I’ve got to say ‘Yes’ to it at this point.
“It was kind of similar to the drunken poop lady. It took me by surprise. We had lunch and he mentioned it, that he was getting paid to go somewhere else and I’m like, ‘Oh, alright.'”
Faber also discussed UFC interim featherweight champ Conor McGregor, who was the opposing coach on the latest season of TUF. McGregor won the Interim title fighting TAM’s Chad Mendes this summer.
“[Mendes] trained for two weeks,” said Faber. “He also broke his foot five days into that two weeks. Then he broke his thumb a minute and a half [into the fight]. It wasn’t a fair showing, but Conor is good. He’s real good. The stand up, especially. He’s big for the weight class. I think we saw his grappling isn’t the greatest, but he can take a beating.
“He’s got that big old melon head. He took a beating and he’s got that championship mentality. He’s a tough guy. His ground game, I saw some holes, for sure, but he’s deserving of what he’s got. That’s for sure.”
Urijah Faber fights Frankie Saenz on Dec. 12 at UFC in Las Vegas, Nevada. Interim champion Conor McGregor fights featherweight champion Jose Aldo in the main event on the same card. Faber is not pressing charges on The Crappening Lady.