Faber sees final fight as a start, not the finish

Urijah Faber was 24 and fresh out of college. Clean-cut in a surfer-dude sort of way, Faber had a job lined up as a substitute school teacher that paid something like $14 an hour.But he wanted more out of life. That’s why on Nov. 12, 2003, Faber entered a mixed-martial arts cage for the first time – fighting in front of fewer than a thousand fans at a remote tribal casino. He would take home the princely sum of $480 as the reward for choking out his opponent in just 82 seconds.R