{"id":123570,"date":"2014-12-22T08:10:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=123570"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:00:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:00:35","slug":"wsof-17-picks-cobb-vs-nunez-mladenov-vs-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/world-series-of-fighting\/wsof-17-picks-cobb-vs-nunez-mladenov-vs-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"WSOF 17 Picks Up Cobb vs. Nunez, Mladenov vs. Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Taylor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Taylor.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Taylor.jpg 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Taylor-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Taylor-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>World Series Of Fighting 17 has picked up two new bouts for its January 17th event.<\/p>\n<p>The card, which will be headlined by Jake Shields and Brian Foster, now sees Brian Cobb vs. Johnny Nunez, and Kasimir Mladenov vs. Jesse Taylor added to the card.<\/p>\n<p>Cobb is 1-1 under the WSOF banner, most recently losing via TKO to Justin Gaethje, who went on to defeat Melvin Guillard for the lightweight championship.<\/p>\n<p>His opponent, Johnny Nunez is 5-0 in his pro career, and 1-0 under the WSOF banner.  He will be looking to pick up a win over a very experienced opponent in Cobb, and make waves in the lightweight division.<\/p>\n<p>Kasimir Mladenov is also undefeated in his pro career, going 11-0, and securing 2 wins under the WSOF banner already.  <\/p>\n<p>His opponent, former UFC fighter and TUF competitor, Jesse Taylor went 1-1 under the WSOF banner before being released from the promotion, and competing in the BattleGrounds O.N.E. tournament, which he lost in the first round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/12\/wsof-17-adds-brian-cobb-vs-johnny-nunez-krasimir-mladenov-vs-jesse-taylor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a> confirmed the news of the bouts with WSOF President Ray Sefo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Series Of Fighting 17 has picked up two new bouts for its January 17th event. 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Cobb is 1-1 under the WSOF banner, most recently losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":123571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[5806],"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>WSOF 17 Picks Up Cobb vs. Nunez, Mladenov vs. Taylor | 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\/mma-news\/world-series-of-fighting\/wsof-17-picks-cobb-vs-nunez-mladenov-vs-taylor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WSOF 17 Picks Up Cobb vs. Nunez, Mladenov vs. Taylor | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"World Series Of Fighting 17 has picked up two new bouts for its January 17th event. 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