‘COMBATE PERU,’ THE BIGGEST MMA EVENT IN PERU HISTORY,
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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, рӯзи ҷумъа, Май 31.
‘Combate Peru’ airs live on television in Spanish in the U.S. on both Univision (12 саҳарӣ. ЕТ / PT) and UDN (12 саҳарӣ. ET/9 p.m.PT), and in English in the U.S. and Canada on DAZN (10 Земле. ЕТ / 7 p.m. PT).
The flagship show will mark Combate Americas’ entry into a third country and second continent with its aggressively expanding live television event series.
Priced аз 88 soles, tickets for ‘Combate Peru’ are on sale atCombateAmericas.com/Peru.
In the new lightweight (155 мино) чорабинии асосии, previously announced, Рокки Daniel “Golden Boy” Zellhuber (6-0) will collide with fellow unbeaten, тулӯъи ситораи 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19-year-old Zellhuber of Mexico City, Mexico was originally slated to faceRolando Bedoya (11-1), but Bedoya has since withdrawn from the commitment.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, Даври аввал (1:35) ТУТ (punches) аз Steven Muñoz март 23.
Cortez made his professional debut on October 7, 2017, scoring a knockout onBenji Ayala танҳо 15 seconds into the first round of action.
Also announced today was a new bantamweight (135 мино) matchup between undefeated David “The Black Spartan” Martinez (3-0) of Mexico City andWilliam Sanchez (0-0) of 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, featherweight (145 мино), 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) ва 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 мино) кор.
The previously announced co-main event between Marlon “Deriko Siete” Gonzales (14-4-2) Lima and Пабло Villaseca (14-5) of Santiago, Chile will be contested at a catchweight of 150 мино.
COMBATE AMERICAS: COMBATE PERU
LIGHTWEIGHT MAIN EVENT:
Daniel Zellhuber vs. Gian Franco Cortez
CATCHWEIGHT (150 LBS.) CO-АСОСӢ ЬОЛАТ:
Marlon Gonzales vs. Пабло Villaseca
FEATURED STRAWWEIGHT BOUT:
Alitzel Mariscal vs. Maria Paola Buzaglo
PRELIMINARY BOUT CARD:
Bantamweight: Rodrigo Vera vs. Eduardo Torres
Bantamweight: Renzo Mendez vs. Andres Ayala
Featherweight: Kevin Moreyra vs. Bruno Pereira
Bantamweight: Yuri Valenzuela vs. Vicente Vargas
Catchweight (120 мино): Jennifer Gonzalez vs. Dana Zighelboim Grau
Bantamweight: David Martinez vs. William Sanchez
Flyweight: Jose Alberto Ochoa vs. Omar Torres