Urijah Christopher Faber is an American mixed martial artist, fighting as a bantamweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Faber won the WEC Featherweight Championship at WEC 19 on March 17, 2006 and held the title for over two years until losing it to Mike Brown at WEC 36 on November 5, 2008. As of September 29, 2014, he is #3 in official UFC bantamweight rankings and ranked the #4 bantamweight in the world by Sherdog. Faber is widely known as one of the most important fighters to establish the lighter weight classes in the world of MMA. Faber is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu brown belt under Fabio "Pateta" Prado, who, under Carlson Gracie Jr., is a fifth degree black belt. 

May 14th, 1979 in Isla Vista, California (Age 45) as Urijah Christopher Faber