Urijah Faber Announces His Fight in December Will be His Last

By Muk

Urijah Faber, aka "The California Kid", told Ariel Helwani of "The MMA Hour" that his fight December 17th against Brad Pickett will be the final fight of his illustrious career. Urijah Faber is one of the most popular, and well-liked fighters in MMA history, helping pave the way for the lighter weight classes during his dominant WEC days, and will go down as one of the greatest Bantamweight/Featherweight fighters of all time. 
Faber is coming off back-to-back losses for the first time in his career, and to me this announcement seems like the right thing for him. He has over 40 professional fights under his belt, with a record of 33-10, and multiple championship belts to show for it. However, Urijah was unable to ever successfully capture a UFC championship belt, and while he has done and proved more than enough in this sport, that will always be something he missed out on. He lost 4 separate Bantamweight Championship fights, two against his longtime rival Dominick Cruz, and the other two against former champ Renan Barao.
Urijah has been a part of some of the best battles in UFC-WEC history, and he truly is an icon in this sport. He helped launch the UFC further into mainstream when he joined them in 2011, and he helped lower-weight class fighters gain the respect and credit that they were owed. An absolute legend in the world off MMA, and someone who never backed down from any challenge over his 13+ year career. Thank you Urijah, and I hope you go out on top come December.