{"id":270671,"date":"2025-11-08T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/270671\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:24:09","slug":"california-kid-returns-mma-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/270671\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018California Kid\u2019 Returns! | MMA Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Urijah Faber will be returning to combat sports early next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is according to an announcement at Faber\u2019s A1 Combat event Friday night in Wheatland, Calif., as A1 Combat president, Tom Anderson, took center stage to reveal the promotion\u2019s plan for their upcoming fight card on Jan. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Details are scarce at this time, but Anderson announced that Faber will be part of a special main event \u201csuperfight.\u201d It\u2019s unknown at this time who \u201cThe California Kid\u201d might face in his return and if the ruleset will in fact be mixed martial arts (MMA), but the former UFC superstar appears ready for his long-awaited comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out Friday\u2019s announcement below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Faber, 46, made headlines earlier this week when he re-connected with former UFC rival, Dominick Cruz, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/400949\/rivals-to-allies-watch-dominick-cruz-and-urijah-faber-break-bread-over-iconic-bad-blood-rivalry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bury the hatchet and discuss their old fights<\/a>. Fight fans weren\u2019t expecting Faber to springboard from podcast guest to professional fighter all in the same week, but that is exactly what the former WEC featherweight champion is doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Faber has mixed in some grappling competitions over the past few years he hasn\u2019t competed inside of a MMA cage since a knockout loss to Petr Yan all the way back at UFC 245 nearly six years ago. It\u2019s unknown at this time what Faber has left in the tank and who might be pegged as his comeback opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Stick with Mania for further updates over the next two months!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Urijah Faber will be returning to combat sports early next year. This is according to an announcement at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,22248,82],"class_list":["post-270671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-regional-mma-news-results","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}