Urijah Faber

About Urijah Faber

Urijah Christopher Faber (born May 14 , 1979 in Isla Vista, California) is an American mixed martial artist currently fighting in the World Extreme Cagefighting organization, where he is the WEC World Featherweight champion. All major MMA ranking agencies list Faber as the number-one Featherweight fighter in the World.

Faber was born May 14, 1979, in the college town of Isla Vista, California, a small community bordering the University of California-Santa Barbara, and raised in Sacramento. Faber was born at home with the help of a midwife and raised holistically, his parents refusing to give him immunization shots. To this day Faber has scarcely used conventional medicine and has maintained a lifestyle of healthy dieting and exercise habits. Faber attended high school in Lincoln, a town of about 40,000 people.

Athletics have been a part of Faber's life since an early age, where he spent much of his childhood and teen years participating in football, roller hockey, and wrestling. After a successful high school career as a wrestler in Lincoln, California, Faber continued his wrestling along with his academics at the University of California-Davis.