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Acting
Birthdate
1982-04-12 (Age: 44)
Place of Birth
Unknown
Gilbert Melendez
Biography
Gilbert "El Niño" Melendez is a Mexican-American mixed martial artist who has fought at Featherweight and currently fights at Lightweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is a two-time Strikeforce Lightweight Champion and a former WEC Lightweight Champion. He also competed in PRIDE FC, Shooto, and Rumble on the Rock. Melendez holds the distinction of being one of a select group of fighters who have ever been ranked #1 in the world in two weight classes in MMA, among the likes of Anderson Silva, Dan Henderson, Randy Couture, Kazushi Sakuraba, and BJ Penn. Melendez was nicknamed after the infamous El Niño storm that wreaks havoc across the Pacific Rim. It was given to him by a Japanese broadcaster describing his fight-style and the manner in which he stormed through the Shooto Featherweight division
Filmography (30)
Quintet Ultra
2019
UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos
2019
Submission Underground 8
2019
UFC 215: Nunes vs. Shevchenko 2
2017
UFC on Fox 20: Holm vs. Shevchenko
2016
UFC 188: Velasquez vs. Werdum
2015
UFC 181: Hendricks vs. Lawler II
2014Mexican Fighter
2013
UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos III
2013
UFC on Fox 7: Henderson vs. Melendez
2013
Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Cormier
2012Fight Life
2012
Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal
2011
Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley
2011
