LAS VEGAS -- Urijah Faber suppressed his title aspirations for over a year, allowing former friend and teammate T.J. Dillashaw to soak in the shine of being UFC bantamweight champion. But now that the relationship between Dillashaw and Team Alpha Male has been publicly severed, Faber is ready to throw his name back into the running.
"Fighting for the title is what my goal is, and I took myself off the market for a while," Faber said at Saturday's UFC 194 post-fight press conference. "It's kind of a weird thing when you've been at the top of a division you've been in your entire career to kind of take a backseat because of friendship.