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NEW YORK – October 30, 2018 – Combate Americas today announced its much-anticipated, second annual “COPA COMBATE” one-night Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) tournament extravaganza featuring eight fighters, representing eight different countries, battling it out for a $100,000 grand prize, на Save Mart Center ў Фресно, Каліфорнія., live in English in the U.S. and Canada on DAZN (10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT), live on television in Spanish in the U.S. on both Univision (12 a.m. ET / PT) and Univision Deportes Network (UDN) (12 a.m. І / 9 p.m. PT).
The winner of the tournament will have persevered through three fights in one night to claim the grand prize.
The “COPA COMBATE” event will mark the first one-night, eight-man tournament in California state history, and will take place 25 years after Combate Americas CEO and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) co-founder Кэмпбэл Макларен changed the combat sports world forever with UFC 1, a one-night, eight-man tournament that produced MMA’s first iconic figure, Ройс Грэйс.
Па кошце ад $30, tickets go on sale online at www.CombateAmericas.com/Tickets and Ticketmaster.com, as well as at the Save Mart Center box office, пачынаючы з 10 a.m. PT on Wednesday, Лістапада. 7.
“This is the way I started the UFC 25 years ago – an 8-man tournament – the toughest challenge in sports – and now it’s coming to Fresno and the great state of California for the first time in history,"Макларен сказаў.
The “COPA COMBATE” tournament will take place in the featherweight (145 фунты) падзел, and will feature the winners of September’s two ‘Copa’ qualifier bouts – Andres “The Bullet” Quintana (15-2) of Roswell, Н.М., USA and Alejandro “Gallito” Flores (13-1) з Мантэрэя, Nuevo Leon, Mexico – as well as previously announced Gaston “Tonga” Reyno (8-2, 2 Паўночная Караліна) of Montevideo, Уругвай.
Reyno was announced as a tournament entrant on the air live, immediately following his stunning, first-round (2:21) прадстаўленне (задні ўдушэнне) з Carlos Ochoa at the “Combate Americas: Camino a Copa” live event in Long Beach, Халіф. верасня 28.
Also announced today for “COPA COMBATE” tournament action was the competitor who will represent Spain – 24-year-old Zebenzui “El Niño Roca” Ruiz (7-2) of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.
Ruiz will enter La Jaula, клетка Combate Америкас, упершыню ў кар'еры, riding a four-fight win streak. Сустрэцца, all but one of his victories have come by way of (T)КО або падпарадкаванне.
The remaining four fighters who will compete in the 2018 “COPA COMBATE” tournament will be announced soon.
Doors at Save Mart Center will open for the event at 5 p.m. снежань 7, і першы папярэдні бой пачнецца ў 6 p.m.