HISTORIC EVENT’S ONE-NIGHT, EIGHT-MAN,
$100,000 GRAND PRIZE TOURNAMENT BROADCASTS LIVE
ON TELEMUNDO DEPORTES FROM GRAND OASIS CANCUN
ALTERNATE BOUTS AND PRELIMINARY BOUT
STREAM LIVE BEFORE LIVE TELEMUNDO BROADCAST
紐約 - 十月 26, 2017 –Combate Americas today announced the addition of two “alternate bouts” for its historic, 一晚, eight-man “COPA COMBATE” Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) 最輕量級 (135 英鎊) tournament that will award its winner a grand prize of $100,000 at Grand Oasis in Cancun, Mexico on 星期六, 十一月. 11, live on Telemundo Deportes (11:35 P.M. AND/10:35 P.M. CT, or following “Titulares y Mas”).
The two alternate matchups, as well as a newly announced women’s atomweight (105 英鎊) matchup between world top 10-ranked Sheila Padilla (3-1) 維塞利亞的, 加利福尼亞州. and aggressive-minded Lisbeth “Bunny” Lopez Silva(4-3) 墨西哥城, Mexico will stream live on the Telemundo Deportes En Vivo app and TelemundoDeportes.com, 在開始 9 P.M. AND/8 P.M. CT, preceding the live Telemundo Deportes broadcast of the event that picks up with the tournament’s first semifinal stage matchup.
In one tournament alternate bout, Levy Saul “El Negro” Marroquin (8-2) 將廣場下車用 Alejandro “Pitbull” Abomohor (5-4) 和, in the other tournament alternate bout, Felipe “Pipe” Vargas (4-0) will face off with Jose “Pupi” Calvo (3-1).
In the event a winner of one of the tournament’s quarterfinal stage bouts is unable to advance to the semifinal stage due to injury, one of the two alternate bout winners will take the injured quarterfinal bout winner’s place in the semifinal stage.
以上: Sheila Padilla (左) will square off with Lisbeth Lopez Silva (權) in an atomweight (105 英鎊) preliminary bout at “COPA COMBATE” 上 星期六, 十一月. 11. 圖片來源: 康貝特美洲, LLC
Marroquin’s start will mark a drop from the featherweight division. 22歲, who hails from Monterrey, 墨西哥, has produced seven of his eight career victories to date, by way of (牛逼)KO或提交.
Abohomor of Barranquilla, Colombia is a 23-year-old Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu national champion and Capoeira expert.
不敗, 23-year-old Vargas is a ferocious knockout artist who recently relocated from Spain to Miami, 佛羅里達州. where he has been training with famed fight squad American Top Team.
Similar to Vargas, the 24-year-old Calvo of San Jose, Costa Rica moved to Chicago, 生病. where he trains with renowned coach Mike Valle.
Tickets for “COPA COMBATE” at Grand Oasis Cancun are on sale at SmarTicket.
“COPA COMBATE” takes place on the 24日 anniversary of McLaren’s now legendary UFC 1 event that he executive produced as the co-founder of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). The storied event set off a combat sports revolution, and changed the martial arts fight world forever.
The live Telemundo broadcast of “COPA COMBATE” marks the first time in history that NBCU’s leading Spanish language television network will air MMA fight programming, and will cover the tournament’s two semifinal stage bouts and championship stage showdown as well as a previously women’s strawweight (115 pounds0 co-main event between Melissa “Super Melly” Martinez (2-0) of Mexico City and Gloria “Gloriosa” Bravo (4-2) of Santiago, Chile.
A lottery ball drawing to determine the “COPA COMBATE” tournament quarterfinal stage matchups will be held on星期四, 十一月. 2. The eight tournament competitors are as follows:
- 約翰“性感MEXI”卡斯塔涅達 (14-2) 曼凱托, 從.
- 馬塞洛“鬥犬”紅 (12-4) 科爾多瓦, 阿根廷
- Carlos “Lobo” Rivera (10-2) 墨西哥城, 墨西哥
- Mikey “El Terrible” Erosa (12-5) 聖胡安, 波多黎各
- Marc “Lufo” Gomez (20-10) of Barcelona, 西班牙
- Andres “Doble A” Ayala (11-4) of Bogota, 哥倫比亞
- Kevin “El Frio” Moreyra (4-1) of Lima, 秘魯
- 瑞奇“的Gallero”帕拉西奧斯 (9-1) 團, 得克薩斯州
The entire quarterfinal stage of the tournament will stream live on the Telemundo Deportes En Vivo app and TelemundoDeportes.com, along with the tournament alternate bouts and the women’s preliminary bout.
Telemundo Deportes, one of the leading providers of sports content in Spanish in the United States, is home to two of the world’s most popular sporting events: the FIFA World Cup™ through 2026 and the Summer Olympic Games through 2032. 此外, Telemundo Deportes broadcasts the FIFA World Cup™ CONCACAF qualifying matches for most of the region, including the Mexico and USA national teams’ away matches and the Premier League. Telemundo Deportes is also home to “Boxeo Telemundo Ford,” the #1 boxing program in Spanish, and “Titulares y Más,” the #1 sports news, entertainment and commentary show in Spanish, among other recognized sports properties. |
