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NEW YORK – September 6, 2018 – Combate Americas today announced a women’s strawweight (115 funti) co-main event bout between undefeated knockout artist Melissa “Super Mely” Martinez (4-0) a Francis “Hit Girl” Hernandez (3-2) for the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise’s live, Mreža Univision Deportes (UDN) televizijska emisija (12 a.m. ET/9 pm. PT) from The Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Kalif. u petak, Sedam. 28.
Događaj, “Combate Americas: Camino a Copa Combate,” will be headlined by the previously announced, first two-ever “COPA COMBATE” qualifying fights, the winners of which will represent their respective countries – the U.S. and Mexico – in the one-night, osam čovjek, $100,000 grand prize tournament that will take place in the featherweight (145 funti) division on a November date to be announced soon.
An explosive Muay Thai stylist, the 21-year-old Martinez of Mexico City, Mexico has been on a warpath since she made her Combate Americas promotional debut on June 30, 2017, scoring a thunderous, Drugi krug (2:45) head kick TKO on Yajaira Romo.
In her last effort on April 20, Martinez dominated Argentina’s Ivanna Martinenghi for three consecutive rounds of action at “Combate Estrellas II” in Monterrey, Mexico before earning a unanimous decision victory.
Fighting out of Little Rock, Ark. where she is serving as an active duty Staff Sergeant with the U.S. Vojska, the 30-year-old Hernandez, who hails from Camuy, Puerto Rico is coming off an impressive Combate Americas debut performance that saw her submit (stražnji goli gušiti) Shyann Farmer u drugom krugu (2:12) of battle in Sacramento, Kalif.
Also announced today were five preliminary bout card matchups for the “Combate Americas: Camino a Copa Combate” event, including a bantamweight (135 funti) Bitka između Oscar “Jacare” Suarez (4-1) of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain and Carlos Ochoa (3-5) Indio, Kalif.
Elsewhere on the preliminary bout card, Dominic Clarke (11-8) Los Angeles, Kalif. će se sudaraju s Danny "Realist" Ramirez (6-4) Sacramento, Kalif. na lagan (155 funti).
Neporažen Jesse Strader (3-0) Lancaster, Kalif. USA will take on “Handsome” Mario Navarrio (4-5) of Northridge, Kalifornija, SAD. In featherweight action.
In one of two flyweight (125 funti) contests announced today, Heinrich Wassmer (6-3) of Highland Park, Kalif. će borba David “Farmer of Destruction” Duran (6-4) od Whittier, Kalifornija, while in the other, neumućen Hugo Aranda (2-0) of Van Nuys, Kalif. će otpočeti borbu s "Zlonamjerni" Michael Reyes(4-4) od Oxnarda, Kalif.
Additional preliminary bout matchups will be announced soon.
In one of the two, single, five-minute round featherweight “COPA COMBATE” tournament qualifying fights that will send the winner to represent the U.S. in the eight-man tournament in November, Erick “The Ghost Pepper” Gonzalez (8-2) of Redondo Beach, Kalif. će se suočiti Andres “The Bullet” Quintana (14-2) of Roswell, N.M.
In the second tournament qualifying fight, the winner of which will represent Mexico at “COPA COMBATE," Pablo “El Gallo Negro” Sabori (8-4) of San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora will collide with Alejandro “El Gallito” Flores (12-1) of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
Po cijeni od $30, tickets for “Combate Americas: Camino A Copa Combate” are on sale at The Walter Pyramid’s online ticketing platform, as well at Ticketon.com.
Doors at the venue will open at 6 poslije podne. PT on September 28, a prvi preliminarni borba će početi u 7 poslije podne.
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O COMBATE Americas
Combate Americas vodeća je latinoamerička mješovita borilačka vještina (MMA) sportska franšiza, brzo postajući sport broj dva, nakon nogometa, za ljubitelje sporta koji govore španjolski širom svijeta. Franšiza Combate Americas uključuje programe stvarnosti, događaji uživo i mobilno programiranje. Izvršni direktor tvrtke, Campbell McLaren, je univerzalno priznat kao suosnivač / sukreator Ultimate Fighting Championship-a (UFC). New York Magazine opisao je McLarena kao “marketing genij iza UFC” i Yahoo! Sport proglasio da je on “zna više o sportu nego samo o bilo tko u njemu danas.” S proizvodom bez presedana i modrim timom za vlasništvo i upravljanje, Combate Americas spreman je otvoriti novi teren i stvoriti novu eru u MMA natjecanju na razini svjetskog prvenstva.