{"id":47636,"date":"2012-12-20T11:58:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T19:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=47636"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:22:58","slug":"chad-mendes-meets-manny-gamburyan-at-ufc-157-ufc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/chad-mendes-meets-manny-gamburyan-at-ufc-157-ufc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Mendes Meets Manny Gamburyan At UFC 157 | UFC NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chad-mendes1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chad-mendes1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"UFC 142: Aldo v Mendes - Press Conference\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chad-mendes1.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chad-mendes1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chad-mendes1-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n The UFC\u2019s return trip to The Honda Center in Anaheim, California is already set to deliver fireworks and it just keeps getting better.<\/p>\n<p>In featherweight action, two former title challengers will square off when Chad Mendes meets Manny Gamburyan.<\/p>\n<p>UFC officials announced the bout recently.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 157 is set to take place on February 23 from Anaheim, California\u2019s Honda Center. In the main event history will be made on pay-per-view when Ronda Rousey will defend her UFC title against Liz Carmouche in the first ever female MMA fight in UFC history.<\/p>\n<p>Mendes last saw action last weekend when he took out Yaotzin Meza in Australia. Chad now finds himself with back-to-back wins after notching his first career loss to Jose Aldo at UFC 142.<\/p>\n<p>Gamburyan last saw action at UFC on FOX 4 where he picked up a much needed win over Michihiro Omigawa. It was his first victory in four-fights.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC 157 card is shaping up as follows:<\/p>\n<p>    Ronda Rousey vs. Liz Carmouche &#8211; <em>for women&#8217;s bantamweight title<\/em><br \/>\n    Dan Henderson vs. Lyoto Machida<br \/>\n    Urijah Faber vs. Ivan Menjivar<br \/>\n    Lavar Johnson vs. Brendan Schaub<br \/>\n    Josh Koscheck vs. Robbie Lawler<br \/>\n    Manny Gamburyan vs. Chad Mendes<br \/>\n    Dennis Bermudez vs. Matt Grice<br \/>\n    Mike Chiesa vs. Anton Kuivanen<br \/>\n    Court McGee vs. Josh Neer<br \/>\n    Neil Magny vs. Jon Manley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC\u2019s return trip to The Honda Center in Anaheim, California is already set to deliver fireworks and it just keeps getting better. In featherweight action, two former title challengers will square off when Chad Mendes meets Manny Gamburyan. UFC officials announced the bout recently. UFC 157 is set to take place on February 23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":47637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[197,2780,568,11,649,790,15,2785,16],"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>Chad Mendes Meets Manny Gamburyan At UFC 157 | UFC NEWS | 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\/chad-mendes-meets-manny-gamburyan-at-ufc-157-ufc-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chad Mendes Meets Manny Gamburyan At UFC 157 | UFC NEWS | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The UFC\u2019s return trip to The Honda Center in Anaheim, California is already set to deliver fireworks and it just keeps getting better. 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