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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, inawakilisha nchi nane tofauti, battling it out for a $100,000 grand prize, katika Save Mart Center katika Fresno, Calif., live in English in the U.S. na Canada kwenye Dazn (10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT), live on television in Spanish in the U.S. juu ya Univision zote (12 a.m. ET / PT) na mtandao wa Univision Deportes (Udn) (12 a.m. Na / 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 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.
Bei kutoka $30, tickets go on sale online at www.CombateAmericas.com/Tickets and Ticketmaster.com, na vile vile katika ofisi ya sanduku la kituo cha Save Mart, kuanzia saa 10 a.m. PT on Wednesday, Novemba. 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,"Alisema McLaren.
The “COPA COMBATE” tournament will take place in the featherweight (145 paundi) mgawanyiko, and will feature the winners of September’s two ‘Copa’ qualifier bouts – Andres "Bullet" Quintana (15-2) ya Roswell, N.M., USA and Alejandro "Gallito" Flores (13-1) ya Monterrey, Leon mpya, Mexico – as well as previously announced SAN (8-2, 2 NC) ya Montevideo, Urugwai.
Reyno was announced as a tournament entrant on the air live, immediately following his stunning, first-round (2:21) kuwasilisha (nyuma-uchi hulisonga) ya Carlos Ochoa at the “Combate Americas: Camino a Copa” live event in Long Beach, Calif. Septemba 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) ya Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.
Ruiz will enter La Jaula, Combate Amerika ngome, Kwa mara ya kwanza katika kazi yake, riding a four-fight win streak. Hadi sasa, all but one of his victories have come by way of (T)KO au kuwasilisha.
The remaining four fighters who will compete in the 2018 “COPA COMBATE” tournament will be announced soon.
Milango katika Kituo cha Hifadhi Mart itafunguliwa kwa hafla hiyo 5 p.m. Desemba 7, na kwanza awali bout itaanza saa 6 p.m.