Gilbert Melendez

Gilbert El Niño Melendez is a MexicanAmerican mixed martial artist who has fought at Featherweight and currently fights at Lightweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC He is a twotime 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 fightstyle and the manner in which he stormed through the Shooto Featherweight division