{"id":83746,"date":"2014-01-28T06:10:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T14:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=83746"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:12:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:12:06","slug":"joe-ellenberger-makes-his-octagon-debut-against-yancy-medeiros-at-ufc-172","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/joe-ellenberger-makes-his-octagon-debut-against-yancy-medeiros-at-ufc-172\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Ellenberger Makes His Octagon Debut Against Yancy Medeiros at UFC 172"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/joe-ellenberger-signs-four-fight-deal-with-ufc\/joe-ellenberger-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80807\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80807\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/joe-ellenberger-png-300x207.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/joe-ellenberger-png-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/joe-ellenberger-png-361x250.png 361w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/joe-ellenberger-png.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UFC 172&#8217;s main event will be Jon Jones vs Glover Teixeira for the UFC&#8217;s light heavyweight championship. It was already announced that another fight on that card, which takes place April 26 in Baltimore, would be <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/jake-ellenberger-meets-tarec-saffiedine-at-ufc-172-in-april\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake Ellenberger vs. Tarec Saffiedine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, UFC officials announced a third fight. Joe Ellenberger (14-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC), Jake&#8217;s brother, will be making his UFC debut against Yancy Medeiros (10-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC).<\/p>\n<p>Only 3 of Ellenberger&#8217;s 15 fights have gone to a decision. His last fight was in December of 2012, where he defeated Joe Wilk. Medeiros lost his UFC debut in April of last year, but won his last fight in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 172&#8217;s main event will be Jon Jones vs Glover Teixeira for the UFC&#8217;s light heavyweight championship. 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Joe Ellenberger (14-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":80807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[3324,387,432,7196,483,11,649,878,15,6447,16,4894],"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>Joe Ellenberger Makes His Octagon Debut Against Yancy Medeiros at UFC 172 | 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\/joe-ellenberger-makes-his-octagon-debut-against-yancy-medeiros-at-ufc-172\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joe Ellenberger Makes His Octagon Debut Against Yancy Medeiros at UFC 172 | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UFC 172&#8217;s main event will be Jon Jones vs Glover Teixeira for the UFC&#8217;s light heavyweight championship. 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