{"id":109801,"date":"2014-08-26T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=109801"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:37:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:37:29","slug":"melendez-nate-is-such-a-cholo-would-have-fought-pettis-at-anytime-during-tufm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/melendez-nate-is-such-a-cholo-would-have-fought-pettis-at-anytime-during-tufm\/","title":{"rendered":"Melendez: &#8216;Nate Is Such A Cholo, Would Have Fought Pettis At Anytime During TUF&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/sorry-homie-dana-white-says-no-to-nates-request-to-be-released\/nate-diaz-png-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88833\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88833\" title=\"NAte Diaz PNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/NAte-Diaz-PNG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/NAte-Diaz-PNG.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/NAte-Diaz-PNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/NAte-Diaz-PNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI hope people aren\u2019t too disappointed, but there\u2019s not much interaction between us. We\u2019re kind of guys who don\u2019t talk too much s\u2013t and like to fight more. I don\u2019t really want to build a relationship with him. I think he feels the same.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cWe\u2019ve had a little bit of words, but other than that, we just keep it separate. Because we ain\u2019t friends. I don\u2019t want to like him, and he doesn\u2019t want to like me, and we\u2019re going to want to beat each other up. Ain\u2019t no joke about that. I just don\u2019t high-five and hug people like other people.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think we\u2019re the best salesmen in (focusing on the fight). We\u2019re both fighters, and the fight itself will sell. But a relationship isn\u2019t going to work out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe\u2019s (Nate Diaz is) such a cholo, bro. He don\u2019t smile one bit; he don\u2019t say hi to nobody. I like having him around; he has a great intimidation factor. He\u2019s all business. He\u2019s always ready to go.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMost people just give him his space. They don\u2019t want to call his bluff. (He would say about fighting Pettis), \u2018Whenever you want, Gil, you let me know.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Nah, Nate, it\u2019s cool.&#8217;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/08\/gilbert-melendez-on-tuf-20-nate-diaz-had-more-tension-with-anthony-pettis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>, Gilbert &#8220;El Nino&#8217; Melendez discussed his role on the TUF 20 set as a coach for the UFC&#8217;s first-ever all-female season of The Ultimate Fighter.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI hope people aren\u2019t too disappointed, but there\u2019s not much interaction between us. We\u2019re kind of guys who don\u2019t talk too much s\u2013t and like to fight more. I don\u2019t really want to build a relationship with him. I think he feels the same. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a little bit of words, but other than that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":88833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[255,11,649,664,15,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Melendez: &#039;Nate Is Such A Cholo, Would Have Fought Pettis At Anytime During TUF&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/melendez-nate-is-such-a-cholo-would-have-fought-pettis-at-anytime-during-tufm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Melendez: &#039;Nate Is Such A Cholo, Would Have Fought Pettis At Anytime During TUF&#039; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cI hope people aren\u2019t too disappointed, but there\u2019s not much interaction between us. 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