{"id":318621,"date":"2019-07-07T14:37:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T21:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=318621"},"modified":"2019-07-07T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T21:37:43","slug":"gilbert-melendez-unsure-on-retirement-following-ufc-239-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/gilbert-melendez-unsure-on-retirement-following-ufc-239-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert Melendez unsure on retirement following UFC 239 loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gilbert Melendez won&#8217;t commit to retiring or continuing his fighting career just yet.<\/p>\n<p>Last night (July 6), Melendez returned to action to meet Arnold Allen inside the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-239-live-results-and-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UFC 239<\/a>. &#8220;El Nino&#8221; hadn&#8217;t competed since Sept. 2017. After three rounds of action, Melendez suffered his fifth loss in a row.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oRoLKA8aBcI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESPN&#8217;s Brett Okamoto<\/a> spoke to Gilbert Melendez following his unanimous decision defeat to Allen. &#8220;El Nino&#8221; had the following to say when asked about his fighting future:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gilbert Melendez: \u2018Hard to say\u2019 if I fight again | UFC 239 | ESPN MMA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oRoLKA8aBcI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to say. I don&#8217;t know man. It&#8217;s hard to just say it&#8217;s over. I love how Renzo Gracie will never retire. Who knows? Maybe five years down the road something will happen. But I think it&#8217;s safe to say I want to put my energy towards my team, towards my wife who&#8217;s a fighter, to all my members out there. And not leaning on them like that&#8217;s the reason I have to stop. I just think maybe I can thrive in those moments a little bit more. I&#8217;m gonna take some time off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert Melendez continued:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ran into Ricardo Almeida back there. He&#8217;s like, &#8216;bro you did great. Two years off and you should just jump back in man. Of course you&#8217;re gonna do that.&#8217; And I was like, &#8216;you know what, maybe I&#8217;ll get back in there next week. Maybe he&#8217;s right.&#8217; It&#8217;s so much emotion with this fight game. It&#8217;s just a roller coaster ride. Again, I didn&#8217;t do it for people&#8217;s opinion. I didn&#8217;t do it because I care what people say or I&#8217;m gonna care if they&#8217;re talking crap on me. I did it when no one knew it. I did it before Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar fought. I was eight, nine fights deep trying to explain to people at the bar what I was doing for a living. And then overnight, everybody knew what this was or what I was doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert Melendez has gone 1-6 in his last seven outings. He hasn&#8217;t earned a win since Oct. 2013 against Diego Sanchez, who <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-239-results-michael-chiesa-defeats-diego-sanchez-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also competed on the UFC 239 card<\/a>. Melendez admitted that fighting at the UFC event in San Francisco planned for later this year is enticing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilbert Melendez won&#8217;t commit to retiring or continuing his fighting career just yet. Last night (July 6), Melendez returned to action to meet Arnold Allen inside the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for UFC 239. &#8220;El Nino&#8221; hadn&#8217;t competed since Sept. 2017. After three rounds of action, Melendez suffered his fifth loss in a row. 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