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PHOENIX – September 13, 2018 – Combate Americas today announced that former world championship challenger Gustavo Lopez (8-3) will challenge Jose “Pochito” Alday (11-3-1) in the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (ММА) sports franchise’s bantamweight (135 кг) world championship main event in Phoenix tomorrow, Баасан, Долоон. 14.
Alday’s original world championship opponent, Levy Marroquin (11-2) of Monterrey, Мексик, was forced to withdraw from the commitment due to symptoms of influenza detected by the Arizona Boxing Commission physician, Доктор. Ken Ota.
The much-anticipated, world championship event’s three-fight main card airs live on television in Spanish in the U.S. on both Univision (12 a.m. ET / PT) and Univision Deportes Network (UDN) (12 a.m. ET/9 p.m. PT)
Иж бүрэн, nine-bout fight card airs in its entirety on DAZN, the live and on-demand sports streaming platform, in English in the U.S. Канад, beginning with the first preliminary card bout, үед 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT.
The 29-year-old Lopez of Las Vegas, Невада. via Yakima, Угаах. is a five-time Combate Americas veteran who, in his last start under the promotional banner, notched an impressive, first-round (2:34) хүлээн авах (guillotine багалзуурдаж алах) of Steve Swanson, the brother of MMA superstar Cub Swanson, in the main event of Combate Americas’ debut event in Mexico City, Мексик.
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 Америк тор, by way of (T)К.О, эсвэл хүлээн авах.
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) ДЭМБ-ын (гаргагч цоолтуур) by Castaneda in an epic, see-saw battle. Because Castaneda failed to make weight for the fight, he was not awarded the title.
Alday, who will celebrate his 27th birthday tomorrow, is a native of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico and resident of Tucson, Ariz., coming off his career-best victory to date, a split decision win over Castaneda in the main event of the historic, анх удаа, live Univision and UDN simulcast of MMA action with “Combate Estrellas I” in Los Angeles, Калифорни мужийн. дөрөвдүгээр тухай 13.
Нь үнэлэгдсэн $30, tickets for “Combate Americas: Marroquin vs. 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.