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NEW YORK – March 29, 2018 – Univision Deportes and Combate Americas, the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise, today jointly announced a historic, multi-year partnership to produce and distribute live Combate Americas fight programming on Univision and Univision Deportes Network (UDN).
The agreement marks the first time ever that Univision Deportes will produce and distribute live MMA programming and, a 2018, will include a total of 16 television airings, beginning with a live, 90-minute broadcast on Univision (12ke ET/ 12am PT) and UDN (12ke ET/ 9am PT) of the recently announced “Combate Estrellas I” show at Shrine in Los Angeles, Dorella. ka Labohlano, April 13.
“We’re incredibly excited that our growth last year has culminated with a new partnership with Univision Deportes, a sports media brand that is home to some of the best sports and entertainment programming,"O ile a re Combate Amerika CEO Campbell McLaren.
“Univision Deportes is proud to partner with Combate Americas in an effort to bring fans the best programming of one of the most popular sports today,” said Juan Carlos Rodriguez, E le mopresidente, Univision Deportes. “As the leading Spanish-language sports brand, our commitment to deliver high-quality sports content is reinforced through this new partnership, bringing fanáticos the top MMA events in a way that only Univision Deportes knows best.”
E feletseng 2018 kemiso, which will be announced soon, will include several dates across Univision and UDN.
The live shows will all air in a 90-minute window and will follow the live stream of Combate Americas preliminary bout cards on UnivisionDeportes.com.
The live Univision broadcast of “Combate Estrellas I” will be headlined by a much-anticipated, bantamweight (135 lik'hilograma tse) rematch between John “Sexi Mexi” Castaneda (16-3), representing the U.S., le Marc “Lufo” Gomez (21-11), representing Spain.
A ho sebdisana ka sehloohong ketsahalo, five-division world boxing champion Amanda "The Sebetsana Real" Serrano (0-0), ho loantša ho tsoa Brooklyn, N.Y., will make her long-awaited MMA rules debut, representing Puerto Rico against rising star Erendira “Aketzaly” Ordoñez (2-1) of Mexico in a flyweight (125 lik'hilograma tse) tlholisanong.
A featherweight (145 lik'hilograma tse) contest between hard-hitting knockout artist Jose “Froggy” Estrada (4-1), representing the U.S. and fellow striking machine Pablo “Gallo Negro” Sabori (8-4) of Mexico, will open the live broadcast.
The complete preliminary bout card, which will stream live on UnivisionDeportes.com, tla o ile a phatlalatsa haufinyane.
Since it launched its live event series in 2015, Combate Americas has emerged as a destination for the best, new fighters from the U.S., Latin America and Spain, and a platform pitting athletes, in a country versus country style format, facing each other in “La Jaula,” the Combate Americas competition cage.