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NEW YORK – September 6, 2018 – Combate Americas today announced a women’s strawweight (115 pounds) co-main event bout between undefeated knockout artist Melissa “Super Mely” Martinez (4-0) iyo Francis “Hit Girl” Hernandez (3-2) for the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise’s live, Univision Deportes Network (UDN) telecast (12 a.m. ET/9 pm. PT) from The Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Message. on Friday, Todoba. 28.
Munaasabadan ayaa waxaa, “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, sideed nin, $100,000 grand prize tournament that will take place in the featherweight (145 pounds) 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, wareega labaad (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 (gadaal qaawan ceejiya) Shyann Farmer wareegii labaad (2:12) of battle in Sacramento, Message.
Also announced today were five preliminary bout card matchups for the “Combate Americas: Camino a Copa Combate” event, including a bantamweight (135 pounds) dagaal u dhexeeya Oscar “Jacare” Suarez (4-1) of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain and Carlos Ochoa (3-5) of Indio, Message.
Elsewhere on the preliminary bout card, Dominic Clarke (11-8) ee Los Angeles, Message. isku doonaa Danny “The Realist” Ramirez (6-4) ee Sacramento, Message. ee miisaanka (155 pounds).
Beyer Jesse Strader (3-0) ee Lancaster, Message. USA will take on “Handsome” Mario Navarrio (4-5) of Northridge, Message., USA. In featherweight action.
In one of two flyweight (125 pounds) contests announced today, Heinrich Wassmer (6-3) of Highland Park, Message. tartami doona David “Farmer of Destruction” Duran (6-4) of Whittier, Message., while in the other, badin Hugo Aranda (2-0) of Van Nuys, Message. Square doonaa iyadoo “Malicious” Michael Reyes(4-4) of Oxnard, Message.
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, Message. wajihi doonaan 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.
Fillooyinka ka $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, iyo xumad ugu horeysay hordhac ah bilaaban doona 7 p.m.
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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. The taaso Combate Ameerika ka mid ah barnaamijyada xaqiiqada TV, dhacdooyinka live iyo barnaamijyada mobile. CEO shirkada ee, Campbell McLaren, waxaa adduunka aqoonsan yahay co-aasaha / co-abuure ah ee Championship Fighting (UFC). New York Magazine ku tilmaamay McLaren sida “hanad marketing ka dambeeya UFC ah” iyo Yahoo! Sports kii lagaga dhawaaqi “dheeraad ah oo ku saabsan isboortiga ka badan oo ku saabsan qof kasta oo ku sugan jooga maanta wuxuu ogyahay.” Iyada oo aan horay loo arag wax soo saarka iyo koox lahaanshaha iyo maamulka buluug-jab, Combate Ameerika ayaa qarka u saaran in ay jebiyaan dhulka cusub iyo marxalad cusub ee heerka horyaalka adduunka tartanka MMA keeno ku saabsan.