“An honorary WEC Belt,” Cub Swanson calls out legend Urijah Faber for a vintage title fight , Faber responds


“An honorary WEC Belt,” Cub Swanson calls out legend Urijah Faber for a vintage title fight , Faber responds

Cub Swanson- Urijah Faber

Cub Swanson and Urijah Faber, if these two names bring a lot of memories and smiles to you than any other fighter, then you might have been a fan of this sport for almost 2 decades. Swanson and Faber have been two of the most fan-favourite fighters in the WEC-UFC history. Before fighting for the featherweight and bantamweight division of the UFC, both Swanson and Faber used to fight at the same weight class of featherweight in WEC before the UFC brought over the organisation.

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After that, it wasn’t possible for both the fighters to collide against each other, with both being from California, it would’ve been surely a treat for the fans hailing from the “Silicon Valley of the World.” Since we are living in 2022, it seems like a lot of impossible options can become possible now and this fight might be the starting of it.

UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber also responds to Cub Swanson callout

Urijah Faber
Urijah Faber

It was Swanson who first laid out his interest to fight Faber, a UFC Hall of Famer and now a coach at Team Alpha Male who retired in 2019 while Swanson is coming off a spectacular first-round knockout victory recently against Darren Elkins, who also trains under Team Alpha Male.

In an interview with MMA Junkie, Swanson said “After fighting a stretch of up-and-comers, I was excited to fight Elkins because it was somebody that’s been around for a while, someone there’s tons of tape on, somebody close to my age, There were a lot of things where I was like, ‘Ah, we’re two veterans, we’re going to go and throw down.’”

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“I think fighting Urijah is the same thing on another level.” continued Swanson. “People love him and people have loved me for years, so I think it always makes for a great fight. We should have fought many, many times and just never did, so why not now? We should do it for an honorary WEC belt. They did the ‘BMF’ belt, so why not? Throwback,” concluded Swanson.

“Honestly, I know he broke his hand, that might give me enough time to train,” Faber said on his YouTube channel responding to Swanson’s challenge.He might drop down to 135 – we were supposed to fight back in 2004, with King of the Cage on short notice for a thousand bucks, I think they were gonna pay him a couple of hundred bucks and me a thousand bucks and that never happened, so Cubby, I’m honoured that I’m your dream fight here in this scenario. So we might have to find out who the king of California is, I don’t know.” [h/t MMA Fighting]

What do you make of this fight between Cub Swanson and Urijah Faber? Two evergreen legends of this sport that helped to grab eyeballs for attention upon the action of MMA amongst the lighter weight classes, they are surely not going to be in the competition for long, so we might as well appreciate them as fans help them get the fight they want, as long as they are here.

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