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Urijah Faber Reveals His Secret Struggle... | DSH #1963

13 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What lessons did Urijah Faber learn from his losses?

0.031 - 4.916 Sean Kelly

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Chapter 2: How did Urijah Faber build a successful business while fighting?

5.096 - 14.887 Sean Kelly

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Chapter 3: What was the early MMA scene like for Urijah Faber?

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Chapter 4: How did Urijah Faber manage his health and longevity in fighting?

55.84 - 61.966 Sean Kelly

That's selectquote.com slash DSH. Some of the losses ever get to you mentally? Were they hard to bounce back from some of them?

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62.106 - 74.258 Urijah Faber

Looking back at it, I was just like, you know what? I'm only going to worry about the things that I can control. I'm only going to let the things that I can control affect me. I've always had a pretty good head when it came to just leaving the experience and taking the lesson.

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Chapter 5: What mindset does Urijah Faber maintain to stay competitive at 46?

74.518 - 79.363 Urijah Faber

Fear is not something I can keep. It's about anything that's scary. It doesn't scare me.

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85.182 - 90.408 Sean Kelly

All right, guys, you're out here, a.k.a. the California Kid. Let's go. Back in Vegas, your second home, right?

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Chapter 6: How does Urijah Faber approach fatherhood and parenting?

90.649 - 100.161 Urijah Faber

Yeah, I've been here a lot lately. Just out here for the Song O'Malley fight. I mean, this is like killer's row of fight events in Vegas this next couple months.

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100.281 - 107.73 Sean Kelly

Yeah, great fight, by the way. Well done. I didn't even know you were his coach, honestly. I'm so new to the sport, but I saw you there. Great fight.

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107.71 - 117.643 Urijah Faber

Yeah, yeah. A lot of people thought he won, and obviously O'Malley's a beast, and he did a great job as well. It was too close for comfort, but I thought we got the W. Yeah.

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117.883 - 122.369 Sean Kelly

I feel like when you're the fan favorite, you have to win against those types of people more than normal, right?

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122.389 - 122.75 Urijah Faber

Yeah.

Chapter 7: What strategies does Urijah Faber use to build a healthy fight team?

123.23 - 147.104 Urijah Faber

Unfortunately, Song's a fan favorite in China. He's massive in China, same as O'Malley is here, and we happen to be in China. And O'Malley favored Arena. And I mean, it was a close fight, you know, and especially the later rounds, you know, O'Malley turned it on. And so it is what it is. We're happy for the, you take the lesson, leave the experience, we say.

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Chapter 8: What entrepreneurial ventures is Urijah Faber pursuing after fighting?

147.284 - 149.547 Sean Kelly

Absolutely. How many fighters you got on the team right now?

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150.151 - 170.286 Urijah Faber

Geez, I don't know. I mean, throughout history, we've had probably, you know, 110 UFC-caliber fighters on the team. I think now probably active maybe 20. We've got fighters from all over the world. So, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Chechnya. You know, we've got...

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170.266 - 193.965 Urijah Faber

russia ukraine china japan the uk australia and then of course good old california and in the us so um people are in and out quite a bit depending on their home base and where their fight camps are and whatnot and um but we have a lot of fighters man yeah that's impressive yeah team alpha male been around for 22 years now produced three ufc champions yeah no easy task right No easy task.

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194.085 - 217.394 Urijah Faber

We had, you know, like Misha Tate. I know she's around Vegas these days. She was on our team when she had a lot of success. Nice. You know, guys that have been parts of our team, touched our team that, you know, gone and done some big things. A lot of title contention, fighting for titles. And, you know, we've become a staple in the sport, which is awesome.

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217.695 - 221.299 Urijah Faber

Doing it around the globe and, you know, just started out just having fun.

221.279 - 225.206 Sean Kelly

Yeah, that's impressive. It can't be an easy business with all the moving parts, right?

225.547 - 247.902 Urijah Faber

It's not an easy business. I mean, well, you can make it very simple. It's guys and girls fighting each other. But there's obviously a lot of politics. There's a lot of... you know, things that are behind the scenes. There's the business of it all. So it could be very simple or very complicated. It's one of the simplest sports in the world, one of the most basic.

247.922 - 254.81 Urijah Faber

You know, people used to fight over, you know, women-sheltered food back in the day, and now we're still doing it, to be honest.

254.87 - 255.131 Sean Kelly

Yeah.

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