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    MMATorch
    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
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