Even in telling the story now, Eric Lawson thinks the whole thing is almost too coincidental.
There he was, walking down a hallway of a building he had rarely been
in on the University of California-Davis campus. He was close to
finishing his economics degree, and he likely would soon be moving away
to find his first job.
Wrestling was just a memory. He had been a longtime practitioner of the
sport, but he had stopped competing as a freshman at UC-Davis to
concentrate on BMX racing. But, through acquaintances, he knew a guy on
campus named Urijah Faber.