{"id":121436,"date":"2014-12-04T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T23:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=121436"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:06:24","slug":"gilbert-melendez-knockout-get-knocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/gilbert-melendez-knockout-get-knocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert Melendez: &#8216;Knockout or Get Knocked Out&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/gilbert-melendez-knockout-get-knocked\/gil-melendez-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121437\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121437\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gil-melendez.png\" alt=\"gil-melendez\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gil-melendez.png 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gil-melendez-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gil-melendez-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGoing through that experience then and knowing where I\u2019m at now, those reasons aren\u2019t there anymore. This time I\u2019m going to go for it and get knocked out in the process, or else knock him out in the process.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201c&#8230;That\u2019s not going to be the case with me. I can\u2019t wait to see his face at the end of the first round, when he knows he\u2019s down one round to zero, and he realizes he\u2019s in for a long night.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During a recent chat with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/12\/in-second-title-shot-gilbert-melendez-willing-to-take-big-risks-for-ufc-belt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>, UFC lightweight title challenger, Gilbert Melendez discussed his co-main event slot on this weekend&#8217;s UFC 181 card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGoing through that experience then and knowing where I\u2019m at now, those reasons aren\u2019t there anymore. This time I\u2019m going to go for it and get knocked out in the process, or else knock him out in the process.\u201d \u201c&#8230;That\u2019s not going to be the case with me. I can\u2019t wait to see his face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":121437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"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>Gilbert Melendez: &#039;Knockout or Get Knocked Out&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC lightweight title challenger, Gilbert Melendez discussed his co-main event slot on this weekend&#039;s UFC 181 card. 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