{"id":10161,"date":"2019-12-12T07:14:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/?p=10161"},"modified":"2019-12-12T07:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:17:04","slug":"combate-americas-arrives-in-puerto-rico-on-jan-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/combate-americas-arrives-in-puerto-rico-on-jan-25","title":{"rendered":"Combate Americas Arrives In Puerto Rico On Jan. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Combate Americas today announced that it will bring Mucha M\u00e1s Acci\u00f3n – its brand of Hispanic world-class Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) action to Puerto Rico for the first time ever with a star-studded, live television event at Arena Coliseo in San Juan on Saturday, Jan 25.<\/p>\n

The historic event will mark the first time that a live television event takes place on the island since Combate Americas CEO Campbell McLaren, a co-founder of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), executive produced UFC 8 in November 1996.<\/p>\n

Priced from $50, tickets for the Combate Americas event are on sale at TicketeraPR.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot since I brought the UFC to San Juan almost two and a half decades ago, has there been a major MMA television event in Puerto Rico.\u00a0 Combate Americas is going to change that at the beginning of the New Year,\u201d said McLaren.<\/p>\n

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Returning to her birthplace in a featured bout will be seven-division world boxing champion and MMA upstart Amanda \u201cThe Real Deal\u201d Serrano<\/strong> (1-0-1 MMA; 37-1-1 (27 KO\u2019s), boxing), who will face off again with former boxing adversary Dahianna \u201cLa Cobra\u201d Santana<\/strong> (0-0 MMA; 36-12 (15 KO\u2019s), boxing) in a 130-pound catchweight attraction and rematch to the pair\u2019s world championship boxing showdown in 2017.<\/p>\n

Born in Catalina, the 31-year-old Serrano, who fights out of Brooklyn, N.Y., is the only Puerto Rican and only female fighter to win seven world titles in seven different weight classes, a feat matched only by fellow icons Manny Pacquiao<\/strong> and Oscar De La Hoya<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Serrano\u2019s latest victory in the squared circle \u2013 a unanimous decision over Heather Hardy<\/strong> at Madison Square Garden Theater on September 13 \u2013 earned her the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and interim World Boxing Council (WBC) featherweight championships.<\/p>\n

In her last MMA start on October 13, 2018, Serrano became the first world boxing champion in history to claim a victory by submission (standing rear-naked choke) when she stopped Erendira Ordo<\/strong>\u00f1<\/strong>ez<\/strong> in the first round (4:23) of action in a Combate Americas main event bout.<\/p>\n

Hailing from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Santana is a former International Boxing Federation (IBF) world featherweight champion.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old will make her MMA rules debut, looking to exact revenge after Serrano\u2019s TKO victory over Santana in\u00a0 a WBO world bantamweight championship bout<\/a> at Barclay\u2019s Center in Brooklyn on April 22, 2017.<\/p>\n

Santana has been preparing for her crossover to MMA since earlier this year at Team Mordan in Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n

Additional fights for Combate Americas\u2019 debut event in Puerto Rico will be announced soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Combate Americas today announced that it will bring Mucha M\u00e1s Acci\u00f3n – its brand of Hispanic world-class Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) action to Puerto Rico for the first time ever with a star-studded, live television event at Arena Coliseo in San Juan on Saturday, Jan 25. The historic event will mark the first time that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-combate-puerto-rico"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}