Francisco Rivera and Urijah Faber UFC bantamweight Francisco Rivera was taken back to his days on the football field while fighting Urijah Faber at this past Saturday’s UFC 181. Rivera, 33, remembered he used to break the tackles of bigger players because he had more speed and will to elude them. When he was able to resist Faber’s efforts to get him to the mat, where he would surely have been at a disadvantage, he felt a surge of confidence. “It was fun,” he today told MMAjunkie Radio. “I wasn’t tired. I was just being patient.” Then, in the second round, the fight was taken away from Rivera (10-4 MMA, 3-3 UFC) before he even realized
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Francisco Rivera: Urijah Faber was getting frustrated – I could see it in his eyes – MMA Junkie