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NEW YORK – August 23, 2018 – Combate Americas today announced a new women’s flyweight (125 pauna) co-main event – Tracy Cortez (3-1) vs, Karen Cedillo (1-0) – as well as six other new bouts featuring fighters representing five different countries, for the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) franchise’s world championship event in Phoenix on Rāmere, E whitu. 14, live on both Univision (12 a.m. AND/PT) and Univision Deportes Network (UDN) (12 a.m. AND/9 p.m. PT).
The unbeaten, 29=year-old Cedillo of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico will replace Brandi Narvaez, who was originally slated to face off with Cortez of Phoenix, engari i takoha ki te te unu i tika ki te whara.
In the previously announced, world championship bantamweight (135 pauna) hui matua, Monterrey’s Levy Saul Marroquin (11-2), the winner of the inaugural, 2017 “COPA COMBATE,” one-night, waru-tangata, $100,000 grand prize tournament, will collide with fellow star Jose “Pochito” Alday (11-3-1) o Tucson, Ariz. via Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
Among the other new fights announced today for the “Combate Americas: Marroquin vs. Alday” world championship event that will take place at Celebrity Theatre were a featured, live televised lightweight (155 pauna) contest between undefeated, rising star and Cub Swanson tiakina Rafa “Gifted” Garcia (7-0) a LaRue "te maoritanga o" Burley (8-3).
Ko te 5-waewae-7, 24-year-old Garcia of Palm Springs, Calif., USA by way of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, has been on a tear since he made his professional debut nearly four years ago, defeating all but one of his opponents via (T)KO tukunga ranei.
Burley, a 5-foot-10, 34-tau-tau, seasoned competitor who hails from Phoenix, has faced off with top level adversaries, and is best known for his upset, toru a tawhio noa (3:40) WHO (knee strike to the body and punches) o 2011 NCAA Division I national wrestling champion and previously undefeated MMA prospect Bubba Jenkins i runga i Mahuru. 20, 2013.
Also announced today was a featherweight (145 pauna) preliminary bout card contest between two unbeaten prospects – Tino Gilaranz (1-0) o Madrid, Spain and Austin Wourms (1-0) o Phoenix.
In a 140-pound catchweight matchup on the undercard, Roman “El Gallito” Salazar (12-7) of Mammoth, Ariz., USA will return to La Jaula, te whare herehere Combate Amerika, for the second time in his career, ki te mata Eduardo “El Pube” Alvarado (3-4) o Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
Another featherweight scrap will see Javier “Blair” Reyes Rugeles (7-1) of Bogota, Colombiá square off with “Magic” Mike Hamel (5-2) o Gilbert, Ariz., USA.
In flyweight action, tūturu, maranga whetu Richard Palencia (6-0) o Mesa, Ariz. Ka tangohia i runga i Federico “The Argentinian Ninja” Oliveira (3-4) of Mendoza, Argentina.
Battle-tested veterans Yaotzin Meza (21-11) o Glendale, Ariz., USA and Gilbert Aguilar (17-18-1) of Phoenix by way of Mexico City, Mexico will collide at featherweight.
Additional preliminary bout matchups for “Combate Americas: Marroquin vs. Alday” will be announced soon.
Utu i $30, tickets for “Combate Americas: Marroquin vs. Alday” are on sale at
CelebrityTheatre.com a Ticketon.com.
Doors at Celebrity Theatre open at 6 p.m. PT, with the first preliminary bout beginning at 7 p.m.