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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, sa Save Mart Center sa Fresno, Calif., live in English in the U.S. and Canada on DAZN (10 sa gabii. ET / 7 hapon. PT), live on television in Spanish in the U.S. on both Univision (12 am. ET / PT) and Univision Deportes Network (UDN) (12 am. 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.
Nagkantidad gikan sa $30, tickets go on sale online at www.CombateAmericas.com/Tickets and Ticketmaster.com, as well as at the Save Mart Center box office, sugod sa 10 am. 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,"Miingon McLaren.
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The “COPA COMBATE” tournament will take place in the featherweight (145 libra) division, and will feature the winners of September’s two ‘Copa’ qualifier bouts – Andres “The Bullet” Quintana (15-2) of Roswell, N.M., USA and Alejandro “Gallito” Flores (13-1) of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico – as well as previously announced Gaston “Tonga” Reyno (8-2, 2 NC) of Montevideo, Uruguay.
Reyno was announced as a tournament entrant on the air live, immediately following his stunning, first-round (2:21) pagpasakop (likod-hubo choke) sa Carlos Ochoa at the “Combate Americas: Camino a Copa” live event in Long Beach, Calif. sa Septiyembre 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, ang Combate Amerika halwa, for the first time in his career, riding a four-fight win streak. Sa petsa, all but one of his victories have come by way of (T)KO o pagpasakop.
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 sa gabii. sa Disyembre 7, ug ang unang preliminary away magsugod sa 6 sa gabii.