Are you kidding me. Faber is borderline Hall of Fame. Brown, Aldo, Barao, and Cruz (whom he beat once and could best in a rubber match) are his only really setbacks and three are arguably P4P'ers. He should've been fighting at 135 to 125 all along as well where frame, reach, speed are at a premium (the three lightest weight class that is).
Mighty Mouse a P4P'er couldn't even beat Cruz and thed dropped down and we know how that worked out for him. And Faber fought a murderer's row above. A murderer's row who mostly dwarfed him too add.
And if I had to wager I'd put him up against MM, TJ, Cruz, favorably. LOL, at people mocking his striking. So was it just his great base in wrestling that got him by all along?
His downfall, again, is his reach and short frame most of the time against his opponent because this guy is as dynamic as they come.
Sherdoggers are quite fickle. T J puts on one once of lifetime performance and Faber is relegated to chopped liver just like that. Please. Faber's accomplishments dwarfs TAM's collectively by a good margin - and again, there's a reason he's the Alpha of Team Alpha.