{"id":12490,"date":"2021-07-06T17:06:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateglobal.com\/?p=12490"},"modified":"2021-07-06T17:06:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:06:37","slug":"combate-global-announces-complete-mma-fight-card-for-its-premiere-on-paramount-on-friday-july-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/combate-global-announces-complete-mma-fight-card-for-its-premiere-on-paramount-on-friday-july-9","title":{"rendered":"COMBATE GLOBAL ANNOUNCES COMPLETE MMA FIGHT CARD FOR ITS PREMIERE ON PARAMOUNT+ ON FRIDAY, JULY 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARAMOUNT+ LIVE COVERAGE BEGINS <\/strong><\/p>\n

WITH A COMBATE GLOBAL PRE-SHOW AT 10:30 PM ET; <\/strong><\/p>\n

FIRST BOUT BEGINS AT 11 PM ET<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MAX BRETOS AND JULIANNA PE<\/strong>\u00d1<\/strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n

WILL CALL THE LIVE ACTION <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

FEATURED MAIN CARD BOUTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

MARCOS \u201cEL TORO\u201d LOPEZ VS. HEINRICH \u201cRICKY SCRAPS\u201d WASSMER<\/strong><\/p>\n

CAROLINE \u201cTAZ\u201d GALLARDO VS. ISIS \u201cFIGHT QUEEN\u201d VERBEEK<\/strong><\/p>\n

GUSTAVO NAVARRETE VS. ISMAEL ZAMORA<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEW YORK <\/strong>\u2013 July 6, 2021 <\/strong>\u2013 Combate Global today announced the complete Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) lineup for its premiere live event on Paramount+ on Friday, July 9.<\/p>\n

Paramount+ live coverage will begin with a Combate Global pre-show at 10:30 p.m. ET\/9:30 p.m. CT, and will continue with a five-bout fight card, beginning at 11:00 p.m. ET\/10:00 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n

Combate Global veteran play-by-play announcer and LAFC voice Max Bretos<\/strong> will call the action alongside UFC women\u2019s superstar Julianna Pe<\/strong>\u00f1a<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an awesome lineup of fights, and are excited to launch on Paramount+ and be able to show this new audience why MMA stands for M<\/strong>uch M<\/strong>ore A<\/strong>ction in Combate Global,\u201d said Combate Global CEO Campbell McLaren<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Originally planned as the main event, a bout between reigning Combate Global featherweight (145 pounds) champion Bruno \u201cAquiles\u201d Cannetti<\/strong> (9-6) of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Jean Marc \u201cKokito\u201d Howell<\/strong> (13-5) of Aruba has been removed from the card as a result of the Argentinian government closing the country\u2019s borders last week and prohibiting travel due to heightened COVID-19 protocols.<\/p>\n

A flyweight (125 pounds) matchup between Marcos \u201cEl Toro\u201d Lopez<\/strong> <\/a>(5-3) and Heinrich \u201cRicky Scraps\u201d Wassmer<\/strong><\/a> (6-5) has been added to the main card as a result of the Cannetti-Howell bout being scrapped.<\/p>\n

Fighting out of Spokane, Wash., Lopez, 28, has earned all but one of his victories via submission, while the 31-year-old Wassmer of Los Angeles, Calif. has notched all but one of his wins via (T)KO or submission.<\/p>\n

In a featured women\u2019s strawweight (115 pounds) matchup, Caroline \u201cTaz\u201d Gallardo<\/strong> (4-3) will battle Isis \u201cFight Queen\u201d Verbeek<\/strong> (2-1 MMA, 9-4 Muay Thai\/kickboxing).<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old Gallardo of Santiago, Chile by way of Chicago, Ill. will see action for the first time since she defeated Corina Herrera by way of unanimous decision on November 22, 2019, prior to the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Verbeek, a 26-year-old Muay Thai specialist from The Netherlands, is fighting out of Miami. She has posted back-to-back wins in a span of less than one month this year, most recently submitting Dana Yasiri Garcia with a rear-naked choke on April 2.<\/p>\n

Another Muay Thai star, Gustavo Navarrete<\/strong> (0-0 MMA, 4-1 Muay Thai) of Quito, Ecuador by way of Las Vegas, Nev. will enter La Jaula for the first time against fellow professional MMA debut fighter and former top amateur prospect, Ismael Zamora<\/strong> (0-0) of Mexico City, Mexico in a bantamweight (135 pounds) contest.<\/p>\n

In undercard action, Ramon \u201cWild Boy\u201d Vizcarra<\/strong> (2-2) of Mexicali, B.C., Mexico will square off with Dany Gonzalez <\/strong>(2-2) of Miami at bantamweight.<\/p>\n

In a third bantamweight affair on the card, \u201cSlick\u201d Rick Zelada<\/strong> (0-0) of Los Angeles and Justin Arteaga<\/strong> (0-0) of Miami will make their respective professional debuts against one another.<\/p>\n

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PARAMOUNT+ LIVE COVERAGE BEGINS WITH A COMBATE GLOBAL PRE-SHOW AT 10:30 PM ET; FIRST BOUT BEGINS AT 11 PM ET\u00a0 MAX BRETOS AND JULIANNA PE\u00d1A WILL CALL THE LIVE ACTION \u00a0 FEATURED MAIN CARD BOUTS: MARCOS \u201cEL TORO\u201d LOPEZ VS. HEINRICH \u201cRICKY SCRAPS\u201d WASSMER CAROLINE \u201cTAZ\u201d GALLARDO VS. ISIS \u201cFIGHT QUEEN\u201d VERBEEK GUSTAVO NAVARRETE VS….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":12482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,3019],"tags":[9868],"class_list":["post-12490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-cg2021-july-9"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12491,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490\/revisions\/12491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}