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PHOENIX – September 13, 2018 – Combate Americas today announced that former world championship challenger Gustavo Lopez (8-3) will challenge Jose “Почито” Алдай (11-3-1) in the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise’s bantamweight (135 фунт) world championship main event in Phoenix tomorrow, Жұма, Жеті. 14.
Alday’s original world championship opponent, Леви Маррокин (11-2) Монтеррей, Мексика, was forced to withdraw from the commitment due to symptoms of influenza detected by the Arizona Boxing Commission physician, Dr. Ken Ota.
The much-anticipated, world championship event’s three-fight main card airs live on television in Spanish in the U.S. Univision екеуінде де (12 -ден. ET / PT) және Univision Deportes Network (UDN) (12 -ден. ЖӘНЕ / 9 p.m. PT)
аяқталған, nine-bout fight card airs in its entirety on DAZN, тірі және сұраныс бойынша спорттық ағындық платформа, in English in the U.S. және Канада, beginning with the first preliminary card bout, жанында 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT.
The 29-year-old Lopez of Las Vegas, Nev. via Yakima, Жуу. is a five-time Combate Americas veteran who, in his last start under the promotional banner, notched an impressive, бірінші раунд (2:34) ұсыну (Гильотина штуцер) of Steve Swanson, the brother of MMA superstar Cub Swanson, in the main event of Combate Americas’ debut event in Mexico City, Мексика.
A member of MMA legend Randy Couture’s Xtreme Couture fight camp in Las Vegas, Lopez has produced all of his victories in La Jaula, Combate Americas қуысы, by way of (T)KO немесе ұсыну.
Lopez previously challenged fellow star John “Sexi Mexi” Castaneda for the vacant Combate Americas world bantamweight championship on October 14, 2016, but was stopped via fourth round (2:24) ДДҰ (соққылары) by Castaneda in an epic, see-saw battle. Because Castaneda failed to make weight for the fight, he was not awarded the title.
Алдай, who will celebrate his 27th birthday tomorrow, is a native of Hermosillo, Сонора, Mexico and resident of Tucson, Аризона штаты., coming off his career-best victory to date, a split decision win over Castaneda in the main event of the historic, бірінші, live Univision and UDN simulcast of MMA action with “Combate Estrellas I” in Los Angeles, Калифорния. сәуір 13.
Бастап бағаланған $30, билеттер «Combate Americas: Маррокинге қарсы. Lopez” are on sale at CelebrityTheatre.com and Ticketon.com.
Doors at Celebrity Theatre open at 5 p.m. PT, with the first preliminary bout will beginning at 7 p.m.