Urijah Faber Talks TJ Dillashaw, Fighter Pay and Losing McGregor fight in 2016 | Room Service Diaries
Morning Kombat
Black Effect x All The Smoke Productions
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Room Service Diaries is back with a BANG as UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber sits down with Luke and Brian. Faber discusses why didn't get the Conor McGregor fight in 2016, how to fix fighter pay and much more. You won't want to miss this one!
(1:10) - Family Life
(3:05) - Career Longevity
(7:15) - Being the Face of WEC
(9:50) - California Life
(13:40) - WEC Mount Rushmore
(15:00) - Jose Aldo
(18:20) - Managing Fighters
(21:30) - Fighter Pay/MMA Unions
(29:50) - Being an Entrepreneur
(37:20) - Tattoos
(38:00) - TJ Dillashaw
(40:30) - Song Yadong
(44:00) - Maycee Barber
(46:00) - Mike Malot
(48:45) - Chris Holdsworth
(49:30) - Neurological issues
(51:25) - Josh Emmett
(55:15) - Almost Getting the Conor McGregor fight in 2016
(61:30) - Reflecting on his MMA Journey
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys you're I favor here just about to this interview |
| 0:05.0 | I've done interviews with those guys playing times in the past and always a good time |
| 0:12.2 | man |
| 0:15.7 | Here talk shop and have a good time |
| 0:24.5 | Well, there are three dads in this room two of them are washed and one of them is an MMA legend |
| 0:37.9 | Can you figure out which ones which it's Brian Campbell luke Thomas and this welcome to room service diaries is your |
| 0:44.2 | I favor your I favor everybody around the wall let's here for |
| 0:47.1 | Thanks for inviting me to your room. Yes. Yes. Welcome to our room. You're a week last things up because there's one girl on her |
| 0:53.0 | You guys are pretty standard for you guys you got one two three four five six seven guys one girl |
| 0:58.2 | No big deal, you know, we had Michael Kies on this couch, and you know, he might be a great fighter |
| 1:02.5 | But he's a dirt hole proper like one of us. We classed it up with mr. Favourable |
| 1:08.0 | Good man, did you stay busy your gift is from one lane to the next, but it's just a switch it never seems to slow |
| 1:14.1 | Yeah, I'm kind of wired like that. I feel like I need to just keep things moving and |
| 1:19.4 | I'm I get antsy if I don't have enough going on and |
| 1:23.0 | The kids |
| 1:24.5 | You have you have you have I mean you put them on social media. It's beautiful family. Thank you. Thank you |
| 1:29.0 | It's it's been a lot of fun man. Those kids are the best so |
| 1:32.6 | Rome is now |
| 1:34.6 | 20 little over 20 months and Cali's |
| 1:36.9 | You know three years in a couple months and |
| 1:39.6 | Yeah, but you were telling Luke in the show and this will break his heart again. I know that since you've had became a dad your wife |
| 1:46.0 | By the way, I just want to point out before you finish. He's the only dad I've ever heard this from |
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