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Aug 2 2014
Manny Gamburyan dropping to bantamweight, meets Cody Gibson at UFC 178
in Las Vegas
Aug 2, 2014 - 10:40:49 AM
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Manny Gamburyan will become one of the few fighters to compete in
three different weight classes in the UFC this September, as he's
dropping to bantamweight to fight Cody Gibson at UFC 178.
The UFC announced the fight on Friday.
Gamburyan has been competing under the Zuffa banner sine 2007, when he
entered the UFC out of a fairly stacked Ultimate Fighter season 5. The
Armenian lost to Nate Diaz in the Finals of that season, picked up two
straight wins after that, and lost two in row from there to send him
to the featherweight division.
At the time, the UFC hadn't brought in the 145 lb. field, so Gamburyan
shifted to sister promotion World Extreme Cagefighting, where he won
three straight to earn a shot at Champ Jose Aldo.
After losing that fight - the final WEC Featherweight Title bout - the
division was brought into the UFC. While he would lose two more fights
in a row, the UFC kept him on, and he defeated Michihiro Omigawa and
Cole Miller a year apart, though the Miller fight brought about some
controversy.
This latest drop comes after losses in two more fights for Gamburyan.
The first, in December to Dennis Siver, was overturned to a no contest
when Siver tested positive for HCG. The second came against Nik Lentz
in May, and was a one-sided decision in Lentz's favor.
He'll try to reinvent himself at 135 lbs. against Gibson, who had a
bit of controversy himself in his last outing. After a loss to
Aljamain Sterling in February in his UFC debut, Gibson took on Johnny
Bedford, and scored a TKO win in what many felt was a very quick and
unjust stoppage. Regardless, it goes down as a win for the
26-year-old, who will try to make it two in a row in the UFC on Sept.
27.
UFC 178 will be headlined by the Light Heavyweight Championship bout
between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier.
http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_22565.shtml#.U92Oa9J0z4g
From: A. Papazian
Aug 2 2014
Manny Gamburyan dropping to bantamweight, meets Cody Gibson at UFC 178
in Las Vegas
Aug 2, 2014 - 10:40:49 AM
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Manny Gamburyan will become one of the few fighters to compete in
three different weight classes in the UFC this September, as he's
dropping to bantamweight to fight Cody Gibson at UFC 178.
The UFC announced the fight on Friday.
Gamburyan has been competing under the Zuffa banner sine 2007, when he
entered the UFC out of a fairly stacked Ultimate Fighter season 5. The
Armenian lost to Nate Diaz in the Finals of that season, picked up two
straight wins after that, and lost two in row from there to send him
to the featherweight division.
At the time, the UFC hadn't brought in the 145 lb. field, so Gamburyan
shifted to sister promotion World Extreme Cagefighting, where he won
three straight to earn a shot at Champ Jose Aldo.
After losing that fight - the final WEC Featherweight Title bout - the
division was brought into the UFC. While he would lose two more fights
in a row, the UFC kept him on, and he defeated Michihiro Omigawa and
Cole Miller a year apart, though the Miller fight brought about some
controversy.
This latest drop comes after losses in two more fights for Gamburyan.
The first, in December to Dennis Siver, was overturned to a no contest
when Siver tested positive for HCG. The second came against Nik Lentz
in May, and was a one-sided decision in Lentz's favor.
He'll try to reinvent himself at 135 lbs. against Gibson, who had a
bit of controversy himself in his last outing. After a loss to
Aljamain Sterling in February in his UFC debut, Gibson took on Johnny
Bedford, and scored a TKO win in what many felt was a very quick and
unjust stoppage. Regardless, it goes down as a win for the
26-year-old, who will try to make it two in a row in the UFC on Sept.
27.
UFC 178 will be headlined by the Light Heavyweight Championship bout
between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier.
http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_22565.shtml#.U92Oa9J0z4g
From: A. Papazian