Pat Healy is known in MMA circles as a "grinder." Strikeforce champ Gilbert Melendez is aware of this, but he's not worried that he'll be stifled for five rounds when they fight. He's a...
It has been more than a year since Dana White first declared Gilbert Melendez was making the move to the Octagon. A lengthy, torturous wait is likely to result in an immediate title shot.
There's almost no other way to put it: Here we go again. Two months ahead of his title defense at Strikeforce's next card - and reportedly its last card - lightweight champion Gilbert M...
Strikeforce lightweight champ Gilbert Melendez won't need surgery to repair a bad tear to his AC joint, though a timetable for his return is unknown. Melendez's manager and father, Gilb...
For the second time in a month, a Zuffa-affiliated mixed martial arts card has been canceled.
World-ranked lightweight Gilbert Melendez now has a date and opponent for his next Strikeforce title defense.
All the guessing about Gilbert Melendez’s next opponent came to a halt on Wednesday when Strikeforce announced that its lightweight champion would square off with Pat Healy on Sept. 29.
A week and a half into the realization that he won't be going to the UFC, Gilbert Melendez is getting used to the idea of fighting Josh Thomson a third time. "I guess it was inevitable,"...
Former Strikeforce middleweight champion Jake Shields is returning to the 185-pound division. On Tuesday's new edition of "UFC Tonight," FUEL TV's weekly UFC news program, Shield's intent...
Sick of talking, and ready to do some walking. That's the current mindset of Strikeforce lightweight champ Gilbert Melendez as he nears his third title defense, which comes against Jorge...