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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 (MMA) sports franchise’s bantamweight (135 英镑) world championship main event in Phoenix tomorrow, 星期五, 七. 14.
Alday’s original world championship opponent, 列维·马洛奎恩（Levy Marroquin） (11-2) 蒙特雷, 墨西哥, was forced to withdraw from the commitment due to symptoms of influenza detected by the Arizona Boxing Commission physician, 博士. Ken Ota.
The much-anticipated, world championship event’s three-fight main card airs live on television in Spanish in the U.S. 两个悠景 (12 A.M. ET / PT) 和Univision的Deportes进行网络 (UDN) (12 A.M. AND / 9时三十分. PT)
完整, nine-bout fight card airs in its entirety on DAZN, the live and on-demand sports streaming platform, in English in the U.S. 和加拿大, beginning with the first preliminary card bout, 在 10 P.M. ET /下午7时. PT.
The 29-year-old Lopez of Las Vegas, 内华达州. via Yakima, 洗. is a five-time Combate Americas veteran who, in his last start under the promotional banner, notched an impressive, 第一回合 (2:34) 服从 (断头台扼流圈) of Steve Swanson, the brother of MMA superstar Cub Swanson, in the main event of Combate Americas’ debut event in Mexico City, 墨西哥.
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, 在康贝特美洲笼, 通过 (牛逼)KO或提交.
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) WHO (拳) 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, 索诺拉, Mexico and resident of Tucson, 亚利桑那州。, coming off his career-best victory to date, a split decision win over Castaneda in the main event of the historic, 第一, live Univision and UDN simulcast of MMA action with “Combate Estrellas I” in Los Angeles, 加利福尼亚州. 四月 13.
从价格 $30, “对抗美洲”门票: 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.