FITE.TV has partnered with Combate Americas to bring fans the much- anticipated match between two legends – Tito Ortiz and Alberto “Patroni” Rodriguez.
Airing live from the Payne Arena in McAllen, Texas on Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 8pm EST, the show will feature commentary in both English and Spanish.
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FIRST BIG INITIATIVE WILL BE ‘REINAS DEL COMBATE’
THE FIRST ALL-WOMEN’S LINEUP IN HISTORY
TO AIR ON BROADCAST TELEVISION ON FRIDAY, APRILIS 26 FROM LOS ANGELES
NEW YORK – April 04, 2019 – Kate Del Castillo, and premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports entertainment franchise, Combate Americas, announced today a landmark deal that redefines the world of combat sports. Del Castillo has acquired an equity stake in the company and is now an owner and significant shareholder of Combate Americas.
Her investment comes as part of a $20 million equity infusion from a powerhouse group of investors that also includes finance and sports industry leader Joe Plumeri, Ambassador Cliff Sobel and Irving Place Capital CEO John Howard.
Del Castillo will chair the advisory board, continue the company’s commitment to female empowerment and take on an active leadership role in growing the global MMA sports entertainment brand.
“Kate embodies the fierceness, tenacity and passion that defines the Combate Americas brand and its fighters." says Campbell McLaren, CEO and Founder of Combate Americas. “Kate is now an equity partner and will take on a leadership role in the company and chairs our advisory board, joining our other prestigious investors including Chairman Joe Plumeri, Ambassador Cliff Sobel and John Howard,” he added.
Del Castillo said she was most drawn to Combate Americas’ embracement and development of Hispanic athletes, the tremendous opportunities it affords female fighters, its global media platform and its potential for the franchise to become the number two sport for Hispanic sports fans worldwide, after soccer.
“I am thrilled to join Campbell and the talented leadership team at Combate and will be relentless in helping Combate Americas reach its full potential as the second most popular sport.”
Del Castillo’s most immediate point of focus as an owner will be the upcoming ‘Combate de Reinas’ live television event at Galen Center in Los Angeles on Friday, Aprilis 26.
A watershed moment, the event will mark the first time in history that a combat sports event will feature an all-women’s lineup on broadcast television.
“’Combate del Reinas’ is a significant feat for women in sports,” said Del Castillo, “and is a clear testimony to the Company’s commitment to female empowerment which I am excited to champion!"
Del Castillo was represented in the deal with Combate Americas by Walter Mosley of Mosley and Associates, while Combate Americas was represented by attorneys Andrew Nightingale and Krista Whitaker of Proskauer Rose, LLP.
Prior to making her boxing debut in April 2017, Garcia had appeared in 57 episodes of El Rey Network’s Lucha Libre television series, Lucha Underground, and was crowned the first women’s champion in the show’s history on April 9, 2016.
Garcia is also a four-time champion of Mexico’s Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide professional wrestling organization, and the wife of former, three-time world boxing championGonzalez Jhonny.
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FRESNO – December 3, 2018 – Combate Americas today announced two changes to the lineup for its much-anticipated, biggest event of the year – the “COPA COMBATE” one-night, octo viri, $100,000 grand prize Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Featherweight (145 libras) showdown – as well as the tournament brackets for the event that takes place at Save Mart Center on Friday, Dec. 7.
The second annual “COPA COMBATE” extravaganza airs live in its entirety in English in the U.S. et Canada in DAZN (9 p.m. ET / VI p.m. PT), et vivere in televisione in Spanish in US. in utroque Univision (12 a.m. ET / PT) et Univision Deportes Network (UDN) (12 a.m. ET/9 p.m. PT).
Originally slated for action in a previously announced tournament alternate bout, 26-annorum Joey “El Cazador” Ruquet (6-1), pugnatorum de Las Vegas, Nev., USA and representing Puerto Rico, has been entered into the main draw of the eight-man tournament where he will replace Uruguay’s San(7-2, 2 NC), who has been forced to withdraw from the tournament due to staph infection.
In addition, Daniel “El Gallego” Requeijo (14-6) will represent Spain in place of previously announced Zebenzui "Petra Puer" Ruiz (7-2), after Ruiz was unable to secure a visa to enter the U.S.
The 34-year-old Requeijo, who hails from Spain’s Las Palmas, Canary Islands, boasts a near-93 percent finish rate, earning 13 eius 14 career victorias, per viam (T)KO aut submissionem.
Also announced today were the official tournament brackets for the “COPA COMBATE” tournament affair.
On one side of the draw, or “Group A,” Requeijo will square off with Paulus "El Gallo" Villaseca (13-4) of Santiago, Chile, dum Alejandro "Gallito" Flores(13-1) de Monterreyensi, Nova Leon, Mexico will battle undefeated Ioannes "Ronin" Bedoya (6-0) de Bogota, Colombia.
On the other side of the draw, or “Group B,” Ruquet will collide with Bruno "Achilles" Cannetti (7-5) de Buenos Aires, Argentina, dum Andres "The Bullet" Quintana (15-2) Roswell, N.M., USA will face fellow prolific star Marlon "Deriko Siete" Gonzales (13-3-2, 1 NC) de Lima, Peru.
The winners of each quarterfinal stage bout in Group A will meet in semifinal stage action, while the winners of each quarterfinal stage bout in Group B will do likewise.
The two semifinal stage fight winners will face off in the championship showdown with the $100,000 grand prize at stake.
Replacing Ruquet in one the two tournament alternate bouts will be Vicente “Chento” Enriquez Marquez (5-5) of Barcelona, Hispania. Enriquez Marquez will take on Ruquet’s original, tournament alternate bout opponent "Et crudelissimi nationum" Rudy Morales (5-6) of Las Vegas via Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Announced today as an addition to the “COPA COMBATE” event preliminary bout card was a flyweight (125 libras) tilt between Paul Elizondo (1-0) of Fresno and Nathan Napolitano (0-0) of Salinas, Ill. USA.
Pretium ex $30, tesserae "COPA PUGNA" in online venalia sunt apud CombateAmericas.com/Tickets et apud Ticketmaster.com, tum apud Saum Mart Centrum archa officium.
Ianua apud Save Mart Center aperiet pro eventu at 5 p.m. TP nonis Decembris 7, et prima preliminary bout incipient pervenientes 6 p.m.
UPDATED “COPA COMBATE” UPDATED FIGHT CARD:
PRELIMINARY BOUT CARD:
Flyweight: Paul Elizondo vs. Nathan Napolitano
Welterweight: Evan Solorio vs. Jimmy Molina
Middleweight: Albert Gonzales vs. James Porter
FEATURED FLYWEIGHT BOUT:
Corina Herrera vs. Maria Paula Buzaglo
“COPA COMBATE” FEATHERWEIGHT TOURNAMENT ALTERNATE BOUTS:
Pablo Sabori vs. Michael Irizarry
Rudy Morales vs. Vicente Marquez Enriquez
“COPA COMBATE” FEATHERWEIGHT TOURNAMENT QUARTERNAL STAGE BOUTS:
Group A:
Daniel Requeijo vs. Pablo Villaseca
Joey Ruquet vs. Bruno Cannetti
Group B
Alejandro Flores vs. Ioannes Bedoya
Andres Quintana vs. Marlon Gonzales
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NEW YORK – November 27, 2018 – Combate Americas today announced a pair of “alternate” bouts for its much-anticipated, biggest event of the year – the “COPA COMBATE” one-night, eight-man Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) tournament that will award its featherweight (145 libras) winner of three consecutive bouts a $100,000 grand prize at Save Mart Center in Fresno, Ill. on Friday, Dec. 7.
The second annual “COPA COMBATE” tournament airs live in English in the U.S. et Canada in DAZN (10 p.m. ET / VII p.m. PT), et vivere in televisione in Spanish in US. in utroque Univision (12 a.m. ET / PT) et Univision Deportes Network (UDN) (12 a.m. ET/9 p.m. PT), and marks the first time in history that California State will sanction a one-night, eight-man MMA tournament.
In one of two tournament alternate bouts announced today, Michael Irizarry (9-2) of San Juan, Puerto Rico will take on Pablo “El Gallo Negro” Sabori (8-5) of San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico, and in the second alternate bout, Joey “El Cazador” Ruquet (6-1) de Las Vegas, Nev., USA will face off with” Ruthless” Rudy Morales (5-6) of Las Vegas via Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Should any of the winners of the four quarterfinal stage tournament bouts be unable to re-enter La Jaula, the Combate Americas competition cage, for his semifinal stage bout due to injury sustained in quarterfinal stage action, one of the two tournament alternate bout winners will replace the injured competitor in the semifinal stage of the tournament.
Also announced today was a featured women’s strawweight (115 libras) contest between unbeaten Maria Buzaglo (1-0) de Lima, Peru and relentless battler Corina Herrera (3-4-1) of Porterville, Ill., USA.
The “COPA COMBATE” tournament field features eight previously announced fighters, representing octo diversis regionibus: Andres "The Bullet" Quintana(15-2) Roswell, N.M., USA; Alejandro "Gallito" Flores (13-1) de Monterreyensi, Nova Leon, Mexico; San (8-2, 2 NC) de Montevideo, Uruguay; atque Zebenzui "Petra Puer" Ruiz (7-2) Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Hispania; Bruno "Achilles" Cannetti (7-5) de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Latin American MMA pioneer Paulus "El Gallo" Villaseca (13-4) of Santiago, Chile; Invictus Ioannes "Ronin" Bedoya (6-0) de Bogota, Colombia; et powerhouse Marlon "Deriko Siete" Gonzales (13-3-2, 1 NC) de Lima, Peru.
The tournament brackets and quarterfinal stage tournament matchups will be announced this week.
In “COPA COMBATE” preliminary bout action announced today, local police officer Evan “Pitbull” Solorio (3-2) of Fresno will face off with Jimmy “Mamba” Molina (0-0) of Spokane, Lava., USA in a welterweight (170 libras) certamen.
In a battle of two professional debut competitors, Albert Gonzales (0-0) of Fresno will collide with James Porter (0-0) convallis.
Pretium ex $30, tesserae "COPA PUGNA" in online venalia sunt apud CombateAmericas.com/Tickets et apud Ticketmaster.com, tum apud Saum Mart Centrum archa officium.
Ianua apud Save Mart Center aperiet pro eventu at 5 p.m. TP nonis Decembris 7, et prima preliminary bout incipient pervenientes 6 p.m.
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FRESNO - November 8, 2018 - Certamina hodie Americas revelata ad colloquium nuntium ad Consulatum Mexicanum in Fresno, Ill., ingens victor poculum tropaeum, et nuntiavit quattuor tenui (145 libras) decertantes eius multum praeventus, "PUGNA CALIX","Unus nox Mixta Martialis (MMA) torneamentum extravaganza featuring octo pugnatores, representing octo diversis regionibus, dimicans pro a * $100,000 grande praemium, apud Save Mart Center in Fresno Veneris, Dec. 7.
Antea nuntiatum est, secundus annuus "COPA PUGNA" res in US Anglice vivet. et Canada in DAZN (10 p.m. ET / VII p.m. PT), et vivere in televisione in Spanish in US. in utroque Univision (12 a.m. ET / PT) et Univision Deportes Network (UDN) (12 a.m. ET/9 p.m. PT).
In torneamentum victor per tres pugnas perseveraverit una nocte , ut magnificum bravium coerceat et trophaeum vindicet..
The "COPA PUGNA" tropaeum victoris hodie detectum stat 4 et dimidium pedes alta, et fere 2 latum pedes in latissima parte. Consuetudo facta ab U.K.-CA substructio in exemplum, fabros vikingi stili cidaris musici superstar Madonna vestitos in eius 2012 NFL vehicula nisi SuperBowl perficientur halftime, et aurum-coloratus tropaeum, aestimabitur $100,000, Summus tech compositum fit ex materia plastica in Formulae 1 racing et aerospace.
Nuntiatum est hodie quasi quattuor pugnatores qui unam noctem "COPA COMPUGNO complebunt", octo homo torneamentum agri erant Bruno "Achilles" Cannetti (7-5) de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Latin American MMA pioneer Paulus "El Gallo" Villaseca (13-4) of Santiago, Chile; Invictus Ioannes "Ronin" Bedoya (6-0) de Bogota, Colombia; et powerhouse Marlon "Deriko Siete" Gonzales (13-3-2, 1 NC) de Lima, Peru.
Cannetti est XXIX annos, frater minor MMA superstar Guido "Ninja" Cannetti, et equitantes in pugna trium series winning.
Combate Americas’ La Jaula exemplar Alyshia Barragan cum the “PUGNA CUP” victor tropaeum
Villaseca est XXXI annos, veteranus pugnator qui certavit in tribus diversis continentibus – America Septentrionalis, America Meridionalis et Europa - et qui meruit 10 eius 13 victorias professionales via (T)KO aut submissionem.
Bedoya erat discessisset on Ultimate Pugnator: Latin America re televisifica seriei. The XXVII annos notatos tres sex victorias professionales per modum subiectionis.
In XXVI annos Gonzales est numerus unus praeferebatur tenui Pugnator in Peru. Is exit intonans, primum circum (3:34) QUI (pugnis) autem Marianus Rocca on August 18.
Quattuor "COPA CERTAMEN" entrantum torneamentum hodie nuntiarunt, cum quattuor entrantibus antea nuntiatis. – Andres "The Bullet" Quintana (15-2) Roswell, N.M., USA; Alejandro "Gallito" Flores (13-1) de Monterreyensi, Nova Leon, Mexico; San (8-2, 2 NC) de Montevideo, Uruguay; atque Zebenzui "Petra Puer" Ruiz (7-2) Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Hispania.
Officialis "COPA PUGNA" torneamentum uncis cum quarterfinal scaena matchups unius noctis, octingenti homini torneamentum mox nuntietur.
Pretium ex $30, tesserae "COPA PUGNA" in online venalia sunt apud CombateAmericas.com/Tickets et apud Ticketmaster.com, tum apud Saum Mart Centrum archa officium.
Ianua apud Save Mart Center aperiet pro eventu at 5 p.m. TP nonis Decembris 7, et prima preliminary bout incipient pervenientes 6 p.m.
Certamen Americas etiam hodie pronuntiat se communicasse cum Jimenez Grappling Academy, an Exeter-fundatur non-lucri organizatione focused in adhibendis artibus militaribus classes ad creare familia et communitatis progressiones ordinantur. Ut pars loci societate, MMA superstar Julianna “Venezuelan Vixen” Pena iungam commilitones Americae commentator et multiplex tempus WWE Heavyweight Champion, Albertus El Patron, olim ut Alberto Del Rio, offerre seminarium MMA discipuli die Mercurii Jimenez, Dec. 5, biduo ante "COPA PUGNA" res.
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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) torneamentum extravaganza featuring octo pugnatores, representing octo diversis regionibus, dimicans pro a * $100,000 grande praemium, at Save Mart Center in Fresno, Ill., live in English in the U.S. et Canada in DAZN (10 p.m. ET / VII p.m. PT), live on television in Spanish in the U.S. in utroque Univision (12 a.m. ET / PT) et Univision Deportes Network (UDN) (12 a.m. ET/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.
Pretium ex $30, tickets go on sale online at www.CombateAmericas.com/Tickets and Ticketmaster.com, tum apud Saum Mart Centrum archa officium, incipientibus ab Hierosolyma 10 a.m. PT on Wednesday, Nov. 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,"Dixit McLaren.
The “COPA COMBATE” tournament will take place in the featherweight (145 libras) divisio, and will feature the winners of September’s two ‘Copa’ qualifier bouts – Andres "The Bullet" Quintana (15-2) Roswell, N.M., USA and Alejandro "Gallito" Flores (13-1) de Monterreyensi, Nova Leon, Mexico – as well as previously announced San (8-2, 2 NC) de Montevideo, Uruguay.
Reyno was announced as a tournament entrant on the air live, immediately following his stunning, first-round (2:21) deditionem (rear, nudi suffocant) autem Carlos Ochoa at the “Combate Americas: Camino a Copa” live event in Long Beach, Ill. on September 28.
Also announced today for “COPA COMBATE” tournament action was the competitor who will represent Spain – 24-year-old Zebenzui "Petra Puer" Ruiz (7-2) Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.
Ruiz will enter La Jaula, Cavea principalis in Americas decertaret, for the first time in his career, riding a four-fight win streak. Modernum, all but one of his victories have come by way of (T)KO aut submissionem.
The remaining four fighters who will compete in the 2018 “COPA COMBATE” tournament will be announced soon.
Ianua apud Save Mart Center aperiet pro eventu at 5 p.m. in December 7, et prima preliminary bout incipient pervenientes 6 p.m.
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NEW YORK – October 29, 2018 – Combate Americas today announced a bantamweight (135 libras) main event matchup between superstar Erik “El Goyito” Perez (18-6) and prolific finisher Andres “Doble A” Ayala (12-6) for the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise’s return to Monterrey, Nova Leon, Mexico, on Saturday, Nov. 17, live in English in the U.S. et Canada in DAZN (10 p.m. ET / VII p.m. PT), et vivere in televisione in Spanish in US. in utroque Univision (12 a.m. ET / PT) et Univision Deportes Network (UDN) (12 a.m. ET/9 p.m. PT).
The addition of the matchup between the two 28-year-old competitors completes the Combate Americas fight card, which will take place at Gimnasio Nuevo Leon Unido, apud 10 finibus.
A native of Monterrey who fights out of San Diego, Ill., USA, Perez will seek his fifth straight victory after making his Combate Americas promotional debut in stunning fashion, avenging a previous defeat at the hands of old rival David “D.J.” Fuentes by scoring a third round (1:22) knockout (pugnis) on Fuentes in the main event of “Combate Estrellas II” at Gimnasio Nuevo Leon Unido on April 20.
Perez, who has notched 12 eius 18 career wins per modum (T)KO aut submissionem, left the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on a three-fight win streak to sign with Combate Americas last November.
Both of Perez’s brothers – older brother Ivan and younger brother Jair – are also slated for action on the card.
Perez was slated to face off with knockout artist John “Sexi Mexi” Castaneda in a Combate Americas headlining contest on October 13, but the matchup was called off after Castaneda was forced to withdraw due to a staph infection that he sustained just a week before the commitment.
Ayala of Bogota, Colombia is one of his nation’s top ranked bantamweights. He will make his debut in La Jaula, Cavea principalis in Americas decertaret, on the heels of a TKO (ground and pound) victory on Guido Gongora in a main event bout in Barranquilla, Colombia on July 27.
Modernum, Ayala has earned an astounding 11 autem 12 career wins per modum (T)KO aut submissionem.
Pretium ex 300.00$ MXN, tickets for the Combate Americas event at Gimnasio Nuevo Leon Unido are on sale at www.CombateAmericas.com/Tickets.
Until Friday, Nov. 2, fans can purchase general admission level tickets at a 15 percent discount by entering the code ‘COMBATE’ at check-out when purchasing tickets online.
Doors at Gimnasio Nuevo Leon Unido open at 6 p.m. CT on November 17. The first preliminary card bout will begin at 7 p.m.
UPDATED “COMBATE AMERICAS: GOYITO VS. AYALA” FIGHT CARD:
BANTAMWEIGHT MAIN EVENT:
Erik Perez vs. Andres Ayala
ATOMWEIGHT CO-MAIN EVENT:
Irene Cabello Rivera vs. Yajaira Romo
FEATURED FEATHERWEIGHT BOUT:
Levy Marroquin vs. Jose Estrada
Preliminary Bout Card:
Lightweight: Rodrigo Vargas vs. Ricardo Arreola
Bantamweight: Eduardo Alvarado vs. Alan Cantu
Lightweight: Jose Luis Medrano vs. Vincitur Sik Park
Lightweight: Ivan Perez vs. Daniel Rico
Featherweight: Jair Perez vs. Tino Gilaranz
Lightweight: Daniel Zellhuber vs. Salvador Izar
Flyweight: Ramiro Ruiz Castillo vs. Ivan Hernandez Flores
