Urijah Faber

I mean, first off, it was illegal in California.

So the only fights I was having were in casinos.

I had my first eight fights on any casinos.

There was no weight class for me.

There's no weight class in the UFC.

The best guys that were winning championships in the UFC and they're holding three events a year were getting like a couple hundred grand.

And for whatever reason, I set off on this journey to be a professional fighter.

Yeah.

These visions of being rich and famous when no one was really rich and famous at the time.

But I, I would forget that I was even getting a paycheck until it was all over.

Oh, shit.

Wow.

200 bucks.

And eventually you started selling tickets in the lower region.

And and that's why I started doing business was just

to find a means to be able to fight.

I had, you know, I started my first business when I was directly out of school.

I stayed on as a wrestling coach at UC Davis, and I started TLC, top-of-the-line coaching, which I was coaching kids and working at some of the schools around there, doing camps and that kind of stuff, coaching wrestling for $7,000 a year, and then started fighting.

Wow.

I mean, I had my emergency teaching credential, so I got, like, a little, you know,