Faber rips McGregor: He gives up
Urijah Faber: “Something a guy like me doesn’t have, a guy like Chad Mendes doesn’t have, a guy like Frankie Edgar has, and that’s the instincts and willingness to give up…”
For his next fight, Urijah Faber is returning to the featherweight division and a win over Frankie Edgar could put him right back in title content. Faber recently joined ‘The Fighter and The Kid’ podcast and talked about he feels he matches up with some of the divisions best, including outspoken Conor McGregor:
“I wouldn’t mind fighting Conor. I’ll tell you what – he’s got something that a lot of guys don’t have. Something a guy like me doesn’t have, a guy like Chad Mendes doesn’t have, a guy like Frankie Edgar has, and that’s the instincts and willingness to give up when he’s about to get knee barred. I wouldn’t give up. Come on…His knee was in danger of having some pain inflicted on it and he was like, ‘I’m out.'”
Faber was referring to a 2008 submission loss of McGregor’s to Artemij Sitenkov. Three fights later, McGregor would lose by submission again, this time to Joseph Duffy.
Everyone loses, but Faber claims that McGregor gets queasy at the prospect of any real pain, and gives up too quickly. “If his body is in danger, he gives up,” Faber said.
“Can you teach that? Can you take that away? I don’t think so. That’s an instinct. He will give up.”