Urijah Faber

opportunity to go teach it was going to be like 14 bucks an hour i took my first fight made 200 bucks to show up 200 bucks to win i sold tickets so i made an extra 100 bucks it took me a minute and a half and i was like 500 bucks i said this is for me that was a good money at the time and uh you know i was busting tables and coaching the school and um

And that was my first business TLC.

And then I started doing, uh, you know, alpha male clothing.

I did a licensing deal before I even knew what licensing deals were.

My buddy, Mark Manfreda rest in peace, who, uh, you know, started making alpha male shirts for the football team.

And he'd give me a little cut and he'd do his own designs that are proven by me.

And then, you know, I was like learning the hard way about business about my first house, moved all my buddies in back when, before the economy crashed and

And, you know, the reason the economy crashed is because people like me could buy a house.

I had no money.

The 08 crash.

Yeah.

All the strippers and all the fighters were able to buy houses.

Yeah.

To the reverse mortgage and, you know.

Proof of income, you just do a column on what your income was.

There's no real proof of income.

And I started on the real estate game and kept on doing more.

Opened the first gym.

My gym is currently here.

It's 20 years ago.