Gilbert Melendez
Acting
Born 1982-04-12
33 credits
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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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Filmography
Acting
32 credits
NCIS: Los Angeles
The Ultimate Fighter
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
UFC 188: Velasquez vs. Werdum
Mexican Fighter
WEC 10: Bragging Rights
Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg
Pride Bushido 12
Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Cormier
Supreme Champion
WEC 5: Halloween Fury
Submission Underground 8
UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos III
UFC 181: Hendricks vs. Lawler II
Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley
Yarennoka!
UFC 215: Nunes vs. Shevchenko 2
Pride Shockwave 2006
Fight Life
Strikeforce: Revenge
UFC on Fox 20: Holm vs. Shevchenko
UFC on Fox 7: Henderson vs. Melendez
Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Diaz
Strikeforce: Nashville
WEC 6: Return of a Legend
Strikeforce: Evolution
UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos
Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Le
Strikeforce: Playboy Mansion
Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Gracie
Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal
Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Thomson
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