True or False: Urijah Faber is the 2nd greatest FW of all time behind Jose Aldo

[West Linn]

23-5 at FW. Lost to only Tyson Griffin, Mike Brown and Jose Aldo, Frankie in the one off in the Phillipines. Defended the WEC championship 5 times. 9 title fights. As Elysianwing noted the KOTC BW division was 136-145, so FW in today's divisions.

Beat a young Cruz. One of only two men to beat him.

The only people I can think of that would have an argument are Conor and Holloway.

Discuss.

 

[ThatGuy7698]

Aldo
Faber
Holloway
McGregor

Although I think Holloway is getting closer to taking that number 2 spot.

 

[avenue94]

No. Faber is important for the development of the divison and legacy standpoint, but his resume is not good. Edgar has wins over Faber, 2 over Swanson, Mendes, Olivera, Stephens, etc. His resume at FW is clearly better than Faber's entire career, to be blunt.

 

[Elysianwing]

10-4 at FW. Lost to only Mike Brown and Jose Aldo, Frankie in the one off in the Phillipines. Defended the WEC championship 5 times. 9 title fights.

Beat a young Cruz. One of only two men to beat him.

The only people I can think of that would have an argument are Conor and Holloway.

Discuss.

He's actually 18-4 at FW

KOTC's "bantamweight" was 136-145lbs.

 

[West Linn]

He's actually 18-4 at FW

KOTC's "bantamweight" was 136-145lbs.

Did not know that. Thanks.

 

[L.T.]

Faber is a pioneer with a big chin. He's the original Alpha manlet. He isn't in GOAT talks gtfoh dude seriously? Fuck this thread.

 

[DaGenius]

I don’t know if he is the second best FW ever but he is the most important. Every small fighter on the list above him owes Faber money..

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

Mike Brown deserves a mention at least.

 

[Lawrence]

I think Uriah gets to be included in the conversation, but it's hard to put him above Edgar and Aldo is the king.

Faber had a great ability to do damage from guard in the top position.. *Tito style* He prolly has more submissions and wins over BJJ blackbelts than anybody else in UFC/WEC history, But some of that I think would not hold true with today's talent and strategy changes in the game.

Faber vs Pulver 1 was a fight for the ages... His battle with MTB, going the distance with two broken hands showed heart and ferocity that ya just don't often see.

His Hall of Fame induction was legit.

 

[SeattleFightFan]

No. Faber is important for the development of the divison and legacy standpoint, but his resume is not good. Edgar has wins over Faber, 2 over Swanson, Mendes, Olivera, Stephens, etc. His resume at FW is clearly better than Faber's entire career, to be blunt.

damn there is a solid argument for Edgar, even though he spent the first half of his career in another division.

quick google search found this fun list

http://www.fightmatrix.com/all-time-mma-rankings/all-time-featherweight/

and it certainly won't clear anything up lol

 

[West Linn]

damn there is a solid argument for Edgar, even though he spent the first half of his career in another division.

quick google found this fun list http://www.fightmatrix.com/all-time-mma-rankings/all-time-featherweight/. that certainly won't clear anything up lol

Faber is basically Frankie Edgar but a weight class lower in terms of their fight careers in different divisions. Fought at FW and found success there, and later moved to a more fitting weight division.

Interesting list.

 

[Jordan3399]

Holloway is second now, already has a much better resume even if a lot weren't title fights.

 

[VVarhead]

Hell no, Holloway is.

 

[OmegaRugal]

No. Faber is important for the development of the divison and legacy standpoint, but his resume is not good. Edgar has wins over Faber, 2 over Swanson, Mendes, Olivera, Stephens, etc. His resume at FW is clearly better than Faber's entire career, to be blunt.

Maybe Im not recalling their fight that well but I recall it being largely a sparring contest.

Frankie "won" but it was largely uneventful and neither guy did much to actually deserve a win.

 

[JustOnce]

18-5 at FW. Lost to only Tyson Griffin, Mike Brown and Jose Aldo, Frankie in the one off in the Phillipines. Defended the WEC championship 5 times. 9 title fights.

Beat a young Cruz. One of only two men to beat him.

The only people I can think of that would have an argument are Conor and Holloway.

Discuss.

No

 

[Elysianwing]

Fuck, actually, now that I'm looking at his record, those Gladiator Challenge(KOTC apparently was the the parent company to GC) fights seem to have been at 145 as well. (Griffin's page has him winning the GC featherweight title from Faber)

That'd put Faber to 23-5 at 145lbs.

 

[West Linn]

Fuck, actually, now that I'm looking at his record, those Gladiator Challenge(the parent company to KOTC apparently) fights seem to have been at 145 as well. (Griffin's page has him winning the GC featherweight title from Faber)

That'd put Faber to 23-5 at 145lbs.

Crazy. WIll fix in OP.

 

[tenniswhiz]

No. Faber is important for the development of the divison and legacy standpoint, but his resume is not good. Edgar has wins over Faber, 2 over Swanson, Mendes, Olivera, Stephens, etc. His resume at FW is clearly better than Faber's entire career, to be blunt.

That comes down to whether or not holding the #1 spot is the most important thing for you, or not.

Similar to trying to rank Fitch on an all time WW list alongside champs like Hughes, GSP, Lawler, Hendricks, Condit, and Woodley.

 

[Joonyer]

For like 10 years it seemed like every couple of weeks I'd see Faber wrapped all over some poor dude's neck. Just one of those "glance up at TV while in the bar". Yep there's Faber fucking destroying another dude. Legend.

 

[RayA]

Faber's resume is much better than Mendes's, but I will always see Chad as the superior version of Faber.