‘COMBATE PERU,’ THE BIGGEST MMA EVENT IN PERU HISTORY,
AIRS LIVE ON UNIVISION, UDN AND DAZN
FROM COLISEO MANUEL BONILLA
BILLETS EN VENTE MAINTENANT
LOS ANGELES – May 20, 2019 – Combate Americas today announced the completion of a 10-bout fight card, including a new main event, for its much-anticipated debut in South America with the largest-scale Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) event in Peru history, at Coliseo Manuel Bonilla in the capital city of Lima, vendredi, Mai 31.
‘Combate Peru’ airs live on television in Spanish in the U.S. on both Univision (12 a.m. ET/PT) et UDN (12 a.m. ET/9 p.m.PT), and in English in the U.S. and Canada on DAZN (10 p.m. HE / 7 h, heure. PT).
The flagship show will mark Combate Americas’ entry into a third country and second continent with its aggressively expanding live television event series.
Prix à partir de 88 soles, tickets for ‘Combate Peru’ are on sale atCombateAmericas.com/Peru.
In the new lightweight (155 livres) événement principal, previously announced, invaincu Daniel “Golden Boy” Zellhuber (6-0) will collide with fellow unbeaten, rising star Gian Franco Cortez (4-0).
The 19-year-old Zellhuber of Mexico City, Mexico was originally slated to faceRolando Bedoya (11-1), but Bedoya has since withdrawn from the commitment.
Fighting out of Lima, the 22-year-old Cortez is coming off a spectacular, premier tour (1:35) OMS (poinçons) de Steven Muñoz sur Mars 23.
Cortez made his professional debut on October 7, 2017, scoring a knockout onBenji Ayala juste 15 seconds into the first round of action.
Also announced today was a new bantamweight (135 livres) matchup between undefeated David “The Black Spartan” Martinez (3-0) of Mexico City andWilliam Sanchez (0-0) de Lima.
Sanchez will make his professional debut after a nearly untarnished, 5-1 run as an amateur.
Martinez was originally slated to face 2017 “COPA COMBATE” tournament competitor Kevin “El Frio” Moreyra (4-2) of Lima before Moreyra’s camp determined he would no longer be able to make the contracted weight of the bout.
Moreyra will move up to the next weight class, poids plume (145 livres), and will square off with Bruno “Jacunda” Pereira (10-6-1) of Lima via Macapa, Amapa, Brazil in a ‘Combate Peru’ preliminary card bout.
In other preliminary card action announced today, fellow Lima competitors Yuri Valenzuela (12-6-1) et Vicente Vargas (10-4) will face off at bantamweight, while unbeaten upstarts Jose Alberto Ochoa (2-0) of Lima and Omar Torres (2-0) of Arequipa, Peru will battle each other in a flyweight (125 livres) affaire.
The previously announced co-main event between Marlon “Deriko Siete” Gonzales (14-4-2) Lima and Pablo Villaseca (14-5) de Santiago, Chile will be contested at a catchweight of 150 livres.
AMÉRIQUES DE COMBAT: COMBATE PERU
LIGHTWEIGHT MAIN EVENT:
Daniel Zellhuber vs. Gian Franco Cortez
PRENDRE DU POIDS (150 LBS.) CO-MAIN EVENT:
Marlon Gonzales vs. Pablo Villaseca
FEATURED STRAWWEIGHT BOUT:
Alitzel Mariscal vs. Maria Paola Buzaglo
PRELIMINARY BOUT CARD:
Coq: Rodrigo Vera vs. Eduardo Torres
Coq: Renzo Mendez vs. Andres Ayala
Poids plume: Kevin Moreyra vs. Bruno Pereira
Coq: Yuri Valenzuela vs. Vicente Vargas
Poids variable (120 livres): Jennifer Gonzalez vs. Dana Zighelboim Grau
Coq: David Martinez vs. William Sanchez
Poids mouche: Jose Alberto Ochoa vs. Omar Torres