Combate Americas today announced that it has postponed its debut in Puerto Rico, originally slated for Saturday, Jan. 25.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel that the timing of our January date will no longer allow us to accomplish our original, big picture goal of uplifting the island given everything that is going on and, that in order to achieve what we set out to, we must re-schedule the show,\u201d said Combate Americas CEO Campbell McLaren<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cPuerto Rico has suffered greatly these past few weeks due to the earthquakes that have hit the island,\u201d said Dr. Luis Martinez<\/strong> of LM Entertainment, the promoter of the event.\u00a0 \u201cGiven these extraordinary circumstances, we feel that postponing the event was the best option.\u00a0 Our efforts are now focused on helping get things back to normal.\u00a0 We are certain that the fans understand and agree with this.\u00a0 We will announce a new date soon.\u201d<\/p>\n All of the athletes scheduled to compete on the original date have been notified.<\/p>\n The card was to feature a previously announced, 130-pound catchweight bout between seven-division world boxing champion Amanda \u201cThe Real Deal\u201d Serrano<\/strong> (1-0-1 MMA; 37-1-1 (27 KO\u2019s), boxing) of Brooklyn, N.Y. via Carolina, P.R. and former International Boxing Federation (IBF) world champion Dahianna \u201cLa Cobra\u201d Santana<\/strong> (0-0 MMA; 36-12 (15 KO\u2019s), boxing) of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n Combate Americas will begin its 2020 live event series on Friday, Feb. 21 with a world championship showdown in Mexicali, B.C., Mexico, between undefeated, reigning world lightweight (155 pounds) kingpin Rafa \u201cGifted\u201d Garcia<\/strong> (11-0) of Mexicali and 2019 \u201cCOPA COMBATE\u201d tournament champion Humberto Bandenay<\/strong> (18-7, 1 NC) of Lima, Peru.<\/p>\n The world lightweight championship event airs live on television in the U.S. in Spanish on both Univision (12 a.m. ET\/PT) and TUDN USA (12 a.m. ET\/9 p.m. PT), and in English on AXS TV (10 p.m. ET\/7\u00a0 p.m. PT), and in Mexico on Televisa Canal 5 (11 p.m. local time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Combate Americas today announced that it has postponed its debut in Puerto Rico, originally slated for Saturday, Jan. 25. \u201cWe feel that the timing of our January date will no longer allow us to accomplish our original, big picture goal of uplifting the island given everything that is going on and, that in order to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321","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=10321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}