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纽约 - 三月 29, 2018 – Univision Deportes and Combate Americas, the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) 体育特许经营, today jointly announced a historic, multi-year partnership to produce and distribute live Combate Americas fight programming on Univision and Univision Deportes Network (UDN).
The agreement marks the first time ever that Univision Deportes will produce and distribute live MMA programming and, 在 2018, will include a total of 16 television airings, beginning with a live, 90-minute broadcast on Univision (12是美国东部时间/ 12我有PT) 和UDN (12是美国东部时间/ 9下午PT) of the recently announced “Combate Estrellas I” show at Shrine in Los Angeles, 加利福尼亚州. 上 星期五, 四月 13.
“We’re incredibly excited that our growth last year has culminated with a new partnership with Univision Deportes, a sports media brand that is home to some of the best sports and entertainment programming,”康贝特美洲首席执行官 坎贝尔迈凯轮.
“Univision Deportes is proud to partner with Combate Americas in an effort to bring fans the best programming of one of the most popular sports today,” said Juan Carlos Rodriguez, 总统, Univision Deportes. “As the leading Spanish-language sports brand, our commitment to deliver high-quality sports content is reinforced through this new partnership, bringing fanáticos the top MMA events in a way that only Univision Deportes knows best.”
完整 2018 时间表, which will be announced soon, will include several dates across Univision and UDN.
The live shows will all air in a 90-minute window and will follow the live stream of Combate Americas preliminary bout cards on UnivisionDeportes.com.
The live Univision broadcast of “Combate Estrellas I” will be headlined by a much-anticipated, 最轻量级 (135 英镑) rematch between 约翰·“塞西·梅西”·卡斯塔内达 (16-3), 代表美国, 和 马克·“卢佛”·戈麦斯 (21-11), 代表西班牙.
在合作的主要事件, five-division world boxing champion 阿曼达“实打实”塞拉诺 (0-0), 的战斗布鲁克林, 纽约州, will make her long-awaited MMA rules debut, representing Puerto Rico against rising star Erendira “Aketzaly” Ordoñez (2-1) of Mexico in a flyweight (125 英镑) 竞赛.
羽量级 (145 英镑) contest between hard-hitting knockout artist 何塞·“青蛙”·埃斯特拉达 (4-1), representing the U.S. and fellow striking machine 巴勃罗·“加洛·内格罗”·萨博里 (8-4) 墨西哥, will open the live broadcast.
The complete preliminary bout card, which will stream live on UnivisionDeportes.com, 将很快公布.
Since it launched its live event series in 2015, Combate Americas has emerged as a destination for the best, new fighters from the U.S., Latin America and Spain, and a platform pitting athletes, in a country versus country style format, facing each other in “La Jaula,” the Combate Americas competition cage.