{"id":99917,"date":"2014-06-05T05:09:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T12:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=99917"},"modified":"2022-02-06T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T18:06:09","slug":"gilbert-melendez-the-russians-have-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/gilbert-melendez-the-russians-have-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert Melendez: &#8216;The Russians have arrived&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/melendez-on-new-ufc-deal-everyone-thinks-im-this-millionaire-now-but-thats-not-the-case\/gilbert-melendez-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88353\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88353\" title=\"Gilbert Melendez PNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gilbert-Melendez-PNG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gilbert-Melendez-PNG.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gilbert-Melendez-PNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gilbert-Melendez-PNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Russians have arrived and they all have that special style, the Sambo. They know how to wrestle. They know how to grapple and they know how to put it together. Khabilov will try to push Henderson with the punches and get the takedowns. But what\u2019s going to make the difference is the scramble in the takedowns. Benson is too slick and too smooth and once he defends the takedowns, then we\u2019ve got a striking battle. Henderson is very tactical landing some kicks and scoring the points.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taking to his role as guest host on &#8216;UFC Tonight&#8217; last night, former UFC title challenger Gilbert Melendez discussed this weekend&#8217;s UFC main event between Ben Henderson and Rustam Khabilov.<\/p>\n<p>Think there&#8217;s a Russian Invasion in the UFC?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Russians have arrived and they all have that special style, the Sambo. They know how to wrestle. They know how to grapple and they know how to put it together. 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But what\u2019s going to make the difference is the scramble in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":88353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[382,11,649,15,16],"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>Gilbert Melendez: &#039;The Russians have arrived&#039; | 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\/gilbert-melendez-the-russians-have-arrived\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gilbert Melendez: &#039;The Russians have arrived&#039; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cThe Russians have arrived and they all have that special style, the Sambo. 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