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NEW YORK – September 6, 2018 – Combate Americas today announced a women’s strawweight (115 funtov) co-main event bout between undefeated knockout artist Melissa “Super Mely” Martinez (4-0) in Francis “Hit Girl” Hernandez (3-2) for the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise’s live, Univision Deportes Network (UDN) televizijska oddaja (12 a.m. ET/9 pm. PT) from The Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Kalifornija. v petek, Seven. 28.
Dogodek, “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, osem-man, $100,000 grand prize tournament that will take place in the featherweight (145 funtov) 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 krog (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. Army, the 30-year-old Hernandez, who hails from Camuy, Puerto Rico is coming off an impressive Combate Americas debut performance that saw her submit (zadnja naked choke) Shyann Farmer v drugem krogu (2:12) of battle in Sacramento, Kalifornija.
Also announced today were five preliminary bout card matchups for the “Combate Americas: Camino a Copa Combate” event, including a bantamweight (135 funtov) bitka med Oscar “Jacare” Suarez (4-1) of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain and Carlos Ochoa (3-5) od Indio, Kalifornija.
Elsewhere on the preliminary bout card, Dominic Clarke (11-8) Los Angeles, Kalifornija. bo zadenejo Danny “The Realist” Ramirez (6-4) od Sacramento, Kalifornija. na lahek (155 funtov).
Neporažen Jesse Strader (3-0) Lancaster, Kalifornija. USA will take on “Handsome” Mario Navarrio (4-5) of Northridge, Kaliforniji., ZDA. In featherweight action.
In one of two flyweight (125 funtov) contests announced today, Heinrich Wassmer (6-3) of Highland Park, Kalifornija. bodo zavzemali David “Farmer of Destruction” Duran (6-4) od Whittier, Kaliforniji., while in the other, neporažen Hugo Aranda (2-0) of Van Nuys, Kalifornija. bo kvadratni off z “Malicious” Michael Reyes(4-4) of Oxnard, Kalifornija.
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, Kalifornija. bo obraz 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 ceni 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 p.m. PT on September 28, in prvi predhodni dvoboj se bo začel ob 7 p.m.
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O COMBATE AMERIKE
Combate Americas is the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise, rapidly becoming the number two sport, after soccer, for Spanish speaking sports fans worldwide. Combate Americas franšize vključuje realnost TV programov, dogodki v živo in mobilna programiranje. CEO družbe, Campbell McLaren, je splošno priznano kot soustanovitelj / soustvarjalca v Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). New York Magazine opisal McLaren kot “trženje genij UFC” in Yahoo! Šport razglasil, da je on “ve več o športu kot skoraj vsakdo v njej danes.” Z izjemno proizvoda in blue-chip lastniško in vodstveno ekipo, Combate Americas je pripravljen orati ledino in prinesla novo obdobje v ravni svetovno prvenstvo MMA konkurence.