10 most notorious street fights in MMA

#4 Urijah Faber

Urijah Faber was enshrined in the UFC Hall Of Fame this year, but he won over MMA fans long before this coronation. His chilled-out, surfer dude persona and Farrah Fawcett hair were completely at odds with his toughness in the cage (in 2009, he went five rounds against Mike Brown for the WEC Featherweight Championship despite breaking his right hand and left thumb early in the fight).

Regardless of place where he fights, the crowd always erupts on hearing the auto-tune voice that epitomises Faber’s love for his native soil.

But if events transpired a little differently on a fateful evening in 2006, the California Kid’s greatest years would never have come to be. On a trip to Bali, Faber was in a bar when a local man started giving him trouble.

After trying unsuccessfully to skirt confrontation, Faber called the man out to the parking lot. Predictably, Faber dropped the goon with a right hand, following which he called over some men who were close by and presumably, known to him.

What followed next is straight out of a movie. Listen to Faber narrate the near-fatal gang attack, in the video above. Your respect will only soar for the man who did the lion’s share for winning a place on the podium for the lighter weight classes in MMA.