Acting credits
30
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Gilbert Melendez
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 27Series: 3
TMDB ID: 123602
IMDb ID: nm3083462
Known for: Acting
Born: April 12, 1982
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 2003 - 2019
Years active: 17
Average TMDB rating: 7.19
Wikidata: Q2696560
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
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Gilbert Melendez.
Quintet Ultra
2019 Movie
8.0
UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos
as Self
2019 Movie
Submission Underground 8
as Self
2019 Movie
6.5
UFC 215: Nunes vs. Shevchenko 2
as Self
2017 Movie
6.0
UFC on Fox 20: Holm vs. Shevchenko
as Self
2016 Movie
8.5
UFC 188: Velasquez vs. Werdum
as Self
2015 Movie
6.0
UFC 181: Hendricks vs. Lawler II
as Self
2014 Movie
7.4
UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos III
as Self
2013 Movie
7.5
UFC on Fox 7: Henderson vs. Melendez
as Self
2013 Movie
6.3
Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Cormier
as Self
2012 Movie
3.8
Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal
as Self
2011 Movie
3.8
Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley
as Self
2011 Movie
2.8
Supreme Champion
as Logger
2010 Movie
3.8
Strikeforce: Nashville
as Self
2010 Movie
Strikeforce: Evolution
as Self
2009 Movie
4.0
Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg
as Self
2009 Movie
Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Diaz
as Self
2009 Movie
4.2
Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Thomson
as Self
2008 Movie
Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Le
as Self
2008 Movie
9.5
Yarennoka!
as Self
2007 Movie
Strikeforce: Playboy Mansion
as Self
2007 Movie
6.0
Pride Shockwave 2006
as Self
2006 Movie
Pride Bushido 12
as Self
2006 Movie
Strikeforce: Revenge
as Self
2006 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Gilbert Melendez.
