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<\/p>\nCombate Americas, the world\u2019s premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports and media franchise, today announced the tournament brackets and quarterfinal stage matchups for the 2019 \u201cCOPA COMBATE\u201d extravaganza, presented by Cricket Wireless, and headlined by the one-night, eight-man, $100,000 grand prize lightweight (155 pounds) tournament at Coliseo Manuel Bonilla in Lima, Peru on Friday, Dec. 20.<\/p>\n
The annual, year-end extravaganza airs live on television in Spanish in the U.S. on Univision (12 a.m. ET\/11 p.m. CT) and TUDN USA (12 a.m. ET\/9 p.m. PT), and in English in the U.S. and Canada on DAZN (9 p.m. ET\/6 p.m. PT), and marks the first time since the 2017 launch of \u201cCOPA COMBATE\u201d that the tournament event will take place in South America.<\/p>\n
The winner of the eight-man tournament, which features competitors from seven different countries, will have fought three times in one night to earn the $100,000 grand prize, and become the number one contender and next challenger to reigning, undefeated Combate Americas world champion Rafa \u201cGifted\u201d Garcia<\/b> (11-0).<\/p>\n
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On one side of the tournament draw, Humberto Bandenay<\/b> (15-7, 1 NC) will face Hugo \u201cHache\u201d Prada<\/b> (8-3), and Jose \u201cDos Lobos\u201d Luis Verdugo<\/b> (10-8) will battle undefeated Lucas \u201cLubera\u201d Corbage<\/b> (10-0).<\/p>\n
The winner of the bout between Bandenay of Lima and Prada of Bogota, Colombia will face the winner of the bout between Verdugo of Tijuana, B.C., Mexico and Corbage of Buenos Aires, Argentina via Guaratinguet\u00e1, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil\u00a0 <\/span>in the semifinal stage of the tournament.<\/p>\n On the other side of the tournament draw, Yoel \u201cEl Gitano\u201d Jimenez<\/b> (5-3) will collide with former world championship challenger Erick \u201cGhost Pepper\u201d Gonzalez<\/b> (10-4); and Kevin \u201cEl Polaco\u201d Koldobsky<\/b> (9-6), who was announced today as a replacement for Esteban \u201cEl Gringo\u201d Ribovics<\/b> (7-0), will square off with wildcard entrant and recent Combate Americas main event fight winner, Salvador Becerra <\/b>(8-2).<\/p>\n The winner of the matchup between Jimenez of Pallaresos via Tarragona, Spain and Gonzalez of Redondo Beach, Calif., USA will face the winner of Koldobsky of Buenos Aires and Becerra of Modesto, Calif. in the semifinal stage of action.<\/p>\n The winners of the two semifinal stage fights will face off with each other in the championship stage of the tournament for the $100,000 grand prize.<\/p>\n Each quarterfinal stage bout will consist of one, five-minute round.\u00a0 <\/span>Each semifinal stage bout and the championship stage bout will consist of three, three-minute rounds.<\/p>\n Also announced today were a pair of featured \u201cSuperfights\u201d for the card.\u00a0 <\/span>In a featherweight (145 pounds) affair, Renzo \u201cEl Nene\u201d Mendez<\/b> (13-6) of Lima will do battle with Juan \u201cEl Molo\u201d Pablo Gonzalez<\/b> (7-3-2) of Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n In a women\u2019s strawweight (115 pounds) tilt, Sandra Lavado<\/b> (7-2) of Lima will meet Lina Franco Rodriguez<\/b> (4-2) of Bogota.<\/p>\n In the lone tournament alternate bout, Ignacio \u201cNacho\u201d Bahamondes<\/b> (9-3) of Santiago, Chile will face off with Milko \u201cTatu\u201d Tucto<\/b> (4-1) of Lima.<\/p>\n In the event that one of the quarterfinal stage fight winners is unable to return to La Jaula, the Combate Americas competition cage, for the semifinal stage bout due to injury, the winner of the tournament alternate bout will replace the injured tournament fighter in the semifinal stage of action.<\/p>\n Priced from 50 soles ($15 USD), tickets for the 2019 \u201cCOPA COMBATE\u201d event presented by Cricket Wireless, are on sale at CombateAmericas.com\/Copa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Combate Americas, the world\u2019s premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports and media franchise, today announced the tournament brackets and quarterfinal stage matchups for the 2019 \u201cCOPA COMBATE\u201d extravaganza, presented by Cricket Wireless, and headlined by the one-night, eight-man, $100,000 grand prize lightweight (155 pounds) tournament at Coliseo Manuel Bonilla in Lima, Peru on Friday,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copa-combate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187","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=10187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}