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NEW YORK - ottobre 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, a Save Mart Center di Fresno, Calif., live in English in the U.S. e il Canada sulla DAZN (10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT), live on television in Spanish in the U.S. su entrambi Univision (12 a.m. ET / PT) e Univision Deportes Network (UDN) (12 a.m. E / 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.
Fissato il prezzo da $30, tickets go on sale online at www.CombateAmericas.com/Tickets and Ticketmaster.com, as well as at the Save Mart Center box office, con inizio alle 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,"Ha detto McLaren.
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The “COPA COMBATE” tournament will take place in the featherweight (145 libbre) divisione, and will feature the winners of September’s two ‘Copa’ qualifier bouts – Andres "The Bullet" Quintana (15-2) di Roswell, N.M., USA e Alejandro "Gallito" Flores (13-1) di Monterrey, Nuovo leone, 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, primo round (2:21) presentazione (choke retro-naked) di Carlos Ochoa at the “Combate Americas: Camino a Copa” live event in Long Beach, Calif. settembre 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, la gabbia Combate Americas, per la prima volta nella sua carriera, riding a four-fight win streak. Ad oggi, all but one of his victories have come by way of (T)KO o sottomissione.
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 p.m. a dicembre 7, e il primo incontro preliminare avrà inizio alle 6 p.m.