Urijah Faber on Duane Ludwig cornering him: ‘I don’t really like to be be in contact with people that rub me the wrong way’

Urijah Faber may be content with Duane Ludwig "hanging around" the gym but he has no interest in being cornered by someone who rubs…

By: Karim Zidan | 9 years ago
Urijah Faber on Duane Ludwig cornering him: ‘I don’t really like to be be in contact with people that rub me the wrong way’
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Urijah Faber may be content with Duane Ludwig “hanging around” the gym but he has no interest in being cornered by someone who rubs him the wrong way.

The former WEC bantamweight champion revealed that the recently resigned Team Alpha Male head coach is still at the gym working with several of the fighters there and will likely remain with the team for the next few months. It is a temporary setup until Ludwig prepares his own facility.

“He is still a part of the team,” Faber said in an interview with MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani.“He is still working out with some of the guys. I think it is going to be a couple of months before he gets his own building. Until then, he is at the gym hanging out.

“I’ve seen the guy for the last year and a half everyday. He never left. We interact all the time”

While Faber may not find Ludwig’s presence at his gym awkward, he made it clear that he has no intention of having him corner him during fights.

“People wondered a bunch about that. It really comes down to the way I was treated by him. It had a lot to do with money and the idea of things that in my mind weren’t true but he kinda conjured up in his mind. I don’t really like to be be in contact with people that rub me the wrong way and that is kind of what happened.”

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Karim Zidan
Karim Zidan

Karim Zidan is a investigative reporter and feature writer focusing on the intersection of sports and politics. He has written for BloodyElbow since 2014 and has served as an associate editor since 2016. He also writes for The New York Times and The Guardian. Karim has been invited to speak about his work at numerous universities, including Princeton, and was a panelist at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival and the Oslo Freedom Forum. He also participated in the United Nations counter-terrorism conference in 2021. His reporting on Ramzan Kadyrov’s involvement in MMA, much of which was done for Bloody Elbow, has led to numerous award nominations, and was the basis of an award-winning HBO Real Sports documentary.

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