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Former WEC Bantamweight Champion Urijah Faber has had many rivals during his lengthy professional MMA career, with his biggest being former UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz.
The California Kid recently revealed that he and Cruz has squashed their beef and ended their longtime rivalry.
“We had a really unique event before our third fight, maybe our second fight, where the PR people with the UFC just kind of overlooked and put us, a month before our fight was announced, together on a type of team building PR event where we went to go see the marine station in San Diego,” Faber said on The MMA Hour. “We’re there to meet people and all of a sudden we get drill sergeants in our face, they give us backpacks, and we do a whole day of the crucible, which is a three-day journey they have to do to become a marine. ... We were getting berated about the fallen soldiers and what it meant, and we had to work as a team. So we had like a two-day stint where we like actually became kind of friends, and then we went right back to being enemies. But we always communicated after that, even if it was to talk a little trash. ... I like Dom. And I remember when I retired, he handed me a poster... He’s made an effort and I’ve made an effort to be cool.”
Faber and Cruz fought three times in the UFC and WEC, with Faber winning just one of those three against Cruz.
Another rival of Faber is former UFC Bantamweight Champion TJ Dillashaw and Faber hopes they can settle things one day.
“I think T.J. is back in my area. ... I have a friend who was like, hey, T.J. just bought a house right next to me,” Faber said. “Honestly, I don’t know. That was such a weird transaction, how the whole thing went. We have a lot of mutual friends. I don’t know how much in contact [with them] he is or isn’t. I’ve got a lot of great friends. We probably will [make amends] now that we’re in the same area. I’ve walked by him once or twice at [events]. I’m willing to let bygones be bygones. I don’t like negativity in my life. If there’s negativity there, I’ll squash it.”
