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NEW YORK - september 6, 2018 – Combate Americas today announced a women’s strawweight (115 pond) co-main event bout between undefeated knockout artist Melissa “Super Mely” Martinez (4-0) en Francis “Hit Girl” Hernandez (3-2) for the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise’s live, Univision zet netwerk uit (UDN) uitzending (12 a.m. ET/9 pm. PT) from The Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif. op vrijdag, Zeven. 28.
Het evenement, “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, acht-man, $100,000 grand prize tournament that will take place in the featherweight (145 pond) 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, tweede ronde (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. Leger, the 30-year-old Hernandez, who hails from Camuy, Puerto Rico is coming off an impressive Combate Americas debut performance that saw her submit (achter-naakte vernauwing) Shyann Farmer in de tweede ronde (2:12) of battle in Sacramento, Calif.
Also announced today were five preliminary bout card matchups for the “Combate Americas: Camino a Copa Combate” event, waaronder een bantamgewicht (135 pond) strijd tussen Oscar “Jacare” Suarez (4-1) of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain and Carlos Ochoa (3-5) van Indio, Calif.
Elsewhere on the preliminary bout card, Dominic Clarke (11-8) Los Angeles, Calif. zal botsen met Danny “The Realist” Ramirez (6-4) van Sacramento, Calif. op lichtgewicht (155 pond).
Ongeslagen Jesse Strader (3-0) van Lancaster, Calif. USA will take on “Handsome” Mario Navarrio (4-5) of Northridge, Calif., VS. In featherweight action.
In one of two flyweight (125 pond) contests announced today, Heinrich Wassmer (6-3) of Highland Park, Calif. zullen strijden David “Farmer of Destruction” Duran (6-4) van Whittier, Calif., while in the other, ongeslagen Hugo Aranda (2-0) of Van Nuys, Calif. zal af plein met “Malicious” Michael Reyes(4-4) of Oxnard, Calif.
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, Calif. zal worden geconfronteerd met 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.
Geprijsd vanaf $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 p.m. PT on September 28, en de eerste voorlopige aanval zal beginnen om 7 p.m.
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OVER combate AMERIKA
Combate Americas is de belangrijkste Spaanse Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sportfranchise, snel de nummer twee sport aan het worden, na voetbal, voor Spaanstalige sportfans wereldwijd. De Combate Americas-franchise omvat reality-tv-programma's, live evenementen en mobiele programmering. De CEO van het bedrijf, Campbell McLaren, wordt algemeen erkend als de mede-oprichter / co-creator van het Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). New York Magazine omschreef McLaren als “de marketing genie achter de UFC” en Yahoo! Sporten verkondigde dat hij “weet meer over de sport dan zowat iedereen in het vandaag nog.” Met een ongekend product en een blue-chip eigendoms- en managementteam, Combate Americas staat klaar om nieuwe wegen in te slaan en een nieuw tijdperk in de MMA-competitie op wereldkampioenschappen te brengen.