Gilbert Melendez
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
Фильмы и сериалы
- Морская полиция: Лос-Анджелес (2009), роль
- Тайная кухня Энтони Бурдена (2013), роль
- The Ultimate Fighter (2005), роль
- UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos III (2013), роль
- Супер чемпион (2010), роль
- Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Thomson (2008), роль
- Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Cormier (2012), роль
- Mexican Fighter (2013), роль
- Strikeforce: Nashville (2010), роль
- Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg (2009), роль
- Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley (2011), роль
- Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal (2011), роль
- UFC 188: Velasquez vs. Werdum (2015), роль
- UFC on Fox 20: Holm vs. Shevchenko (2016), роль
- UFC 215: Nunes vs. Shevchenko 2 (2017), роль
- Pride Shockwave 2006 (2006), роль
- UFC on Fox 7: Henderson vs. Melendez (2013), роль
- Fight Life (2012), роль
- UFC 181: Hendricks vs. Lawler II (2014), роль
- UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos (2019), роль