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    Gilbert Melendez

    April 12, 1982

    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

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    The Ultimate Fighter

    2005

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    UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos III

    2013

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    Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix Finals: Barnett vs. Cormier

    2012

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    UFC 188: Velasquez vs. Werdum

    2015

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    UFC 215: Nunes vs. Shevchenko 2

    2017

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    Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Thomson

    2008

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    Mexican Fighter

    2013

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    UFC on Fox 20: Holm vs. Shevchenko

    2016

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