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NOVA YORK – Octubre 30, 2018 – Combate Americas today announced its much-anticipated, second annual “COPA COMBATE” one-night Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) extravagància del torneig amb vuit lluitadors, representant vuit països diferents, lluitant per a $100,000 gran premi, a Save Mart Center de Fresno, Qualif., viu en anglès als EUA. i Canadà a DAZN (10 p.m. ET / 7 pm. PT), live on television in Spanish in the U.S. tant a Univision (12 a.m. ET / PT) i Univision Deportes Network (UDN) (12 a.m. I / 21 h. 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 Campbell McLaren changed the combat sports world forever with UFC 1, a one-night, eight-man tournament that produced MMA’s first iconic figure, Royce Gracie.
Preus des de $30, tickets go on sale online at www.CombateAmericas.com/Tickets and Ticketmaster.com, així com a les taquilles del Centre Save Mart, a partir de les 10 a.m. PT on Wednesday, Novembre. 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,", Va dir McLaren.
The “COPA COMBATE” tournament will take place in the featherweight (145 lliura) divisió, and will feature the winners of September’s two ‘Copa’ qualifier bouts – Andrés “La Bala” Quintana (15-2) de Roswell, N.M., USA and Alejandro “Gallito” Flores (13-1) de Monterrey, Nou Lleó, Mexico – as well as previously announced San (8-2, 2 NC) de Montevideo, Uruguai.
Reyno was announced as a tournament entrant on the air live, immediately following his stunning, first-round (2:21) submissió (estrangulament per l'esquena) de Carlos Ochoa at the “Combate Americas: Camino a Copa” live event in Long Beach, Califòrnia. al setembre 28.
Also announced today for “COPA COMBATE” tournament action was the competitor who will represent Spain – 24-year-old Zebenzui "The Rock Boy" Ruiz (7-2) de Las Palmas, Gran Canària.
Ruiz will enter La Jaula, Combat la gàbia Amèriques, for the first time in his career, riding a four-fight win streak. Fins a la data, all but one of his victories have come by way of (T)KO o submissió.
The remaining four fighters who will compete in the 2018 “COPA COMBATE” tournament will be announced soon.
Les portes del Save Mart Center s'obriran per a l'esdeveniment a 5 p.m. de desembre 7, i la primera baralla preliminar començarà a les 6 p.m.