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PHOENIX – September 13, 2018 – Combate Americas today announced that former world championship challenger Gustavo Lopez (8-3) will challenge Jose “Pochito” Alday (11-3-1) in the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (วีค) sports franchise’s bantamweight (135 ปอนด์) world championship main event in Phoenix tomorrow, วันศุกร์, เจ็ด. 14.
Alday’s original world championship opponent, ประกาศ Marroquin (11-2) มอนเตอร์, เม็กซิโก, was forced to withdraw from the commitment due to symptoms of influenza detected by the Arizona Boxing Commission physician, ดร. Ken Ota.
The much-anticipated, world championship event’s three-fight main card airs live on television in Spanish in the U.S. บนวิชั่นทั้งสอง (12 การพบปะดังกล่าว. ET / PT) และเครือข่ายวิชั่นเนรเทศออกนอกประเทศ (UDN) (12 การพบปะดังกล่าว. และ / 9 p.m. PT)
ที่สมบูรณ์แบบ, nine-bout fight card airs in its entirety on DAZN, the live and on-demand sports streaming platform, in English in the U.S. และแคนาดา, beginning with the first preliminary card bout, ที่ 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT.
The 29-year-old Lopez of Las Vegas, เนป. ผ่านทางกิ, ล้าง. is a five-time Combate Americas veteran who, in his last start under the promotional banner, notched an impressive, รอบแรก (2:34) การยอม (กระดาษสำลัก) of Steve Swanson, the brother of MMA superstar Cub Swanson, in the main event of Combate Americas’ debut event in Mexico City, เม็กซิโก.
A member of MMA legend Randy Couture’s Xtreme Couture fight camp in Las Vegas, Lopez has produced all of his victories in La Jaula, กรง Combate อเมริกา, by way of (T)KO หรือส่ง.
Lopez previously challenged fellow star John “Sexi Mexi” Castaneda for the vacant Combate Americas world bantamweight championship on October 14, 2016, but was stopped via fourth round (2:24) องค์การอนามัยโลก (เจาะ) by Castaneda in an epic, see-saw battle. Because Castaneda failed to make weight for the fight, he was not awarded the title.
Alday, who will celebrate his 27th birthday tomorrow, is a native of Hermosillo, โซโนรา, Mexico and resident of Tucson, Ariz, coming off his career-best victory to date, a split decision win over Castaneda in the main event of the historic, แรก, live Univision and UDN simulcast of MMA action with “Combate Estrellas I” in Los Angeles, พระเจ้ากาหลิบ. เมษายน 13.
ราคาเริ่มต้นที่ $30, tickets for “Combate Americas: Marroquin vs. Lopez” are on sale at CelebrityTheatre.com and Ticketon.com.
Doors at Celebrity Theatre open at 5 p.m. PT, with the first preliminary bout will beginning at 7 p.m.