Urijah Faber has fought the greatest bantamweights and featherweights in MMA history, and he built a Hall of Fame career on his ability to avoid taking excessive punishment.
Never in his lengthy, storied career did Faber look like he did after exiting the Octagon following his bout with Petr Yan, a little-known Russian to those outside the MMA bubble who on Dec. 14 in Las Vegas established beyond a doubt that he was a threat to everyone in the UFC’s bantamweight division.
Yan knocked Faber out at UFC 245 with a head kick after beating on him throughout the fight.