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Urijah Faber wants to avenge loss to Tyson Griffin
Urijah Faber wants to avenge loss to Tyson Griffin
World Extreme Cagefighting featherweight champion Urijah Faber knows he has bigger things to worry about -- such as Sunday's WEC 34 main event fight with Jens Pulver -- but the 29-year-old fighter says he eventually wants to avenge his only career loss. Faber won his first eight professional fights before suffering a third-round TKO loss to current UFC lightweight Tyson Griffin at a ...
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Stick-and-ball US sportswriters are throwing a fit about EXC on CBS
FightOpinion.com — ... The Philadelphia Daily News: MMA is blooming in the Philly area MMA Predictions: Phil Baroni, Joey Villasenor exchange words prior to May 31st fight Jared Barnes: EXC 5/31 event preview MMA HQ: Elite XC - CBS Saturday Night Fights preview USA Today: Dana White Q & A (this is quite the interview — White claims WEC is 10 times better than PRIDE) Mainichi Daily News: Shaolin Temple Grand Master arrested for tax evasion MMA Junkie: Urijah Faber wants to avenge loss to Tyson Griffin MMA Madness: Sit-down interviews with Anderson ...

Risk and Reward For Faber
Bloody Elbow — ... UFC has long flirted with the idea of bringing in Urijah Faber to main event a Spike special or fight on a PPV to get him even more over nationally as a star, because it would help WEC a lot.  In an interview over at MMA Junkie, Faber says he wants to avenge his loss to Tyson Griffin: ...

WEC 34 Salaries Released
CagePotato.com — ... def. Kenneth Alexander ($3,000) Donald Cerrone ($10,000) def. Danny Castillo ($3000) Mike Brown ($10,000) def. Jeff Curran ($10,000) Will Ribeiro ($6,000) def. Chase Beebe ($7,000) Tim McKenzie ($12,000) def. Jeremy Lang ($4,000) Alex Serdyukov ($6,000) def. Luis Sapo ($3,000) Jose Aldo ($6,000) def. Alexandre Franca Nogueira ($8,000) Dominic Cruz ($6,000) def. Charlie Valencia ($7,000) Total: $260,000 Anyway, it’s just another reason why Faber should move up in weight and head to the UFC , especially now that he’s reached an Anderson Silva-level of domination in his ...

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