To hear Gilbert Melendez tell it, he was on a call with his management and UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta when he got the news. This was after he’d been told to look elsewhere by UFC president Dana White. After he’d done just that by going out and getting a deal with Bellator . It take-it-or-leave-it time for the UFC, and Fertitta had just told Melendez that the UFC had decided to take it . “It was on a conference call and I had to put them on mute,” Melendez said. “I was just smiling and yelling and dancing around like a little girl.
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Gilbert Melendez: ‘I never wanted to walk away’ from the UFC – MMA Junkie