{"id":13112,"date":"2021-08-02T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateglobal.com\/?p=13112"},"modified":"2021-08-01T19:31:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T02:31:52","slug":"irelands-patrick-lehane-wins-inaugural-combate-global-european-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/irelands-patrick-lehane-wins-inaugural-combate-global-european-tournament","title":{"rendered":"IRELAND\u2019S PATRICK LEHANE WINS INAUGURAL COMBATE GLOBAL EUROPEAN TOURNAMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami, FL<\/strong>– Ireland\u2019s Patrick Lehane<\/a> (2-0) placed himself in Copa Combate after winning Combate Global\u2019s inaugural four-man lightweight European tournament.<\/p>\n

Lehane, who made his professional debut, defeated France\u2019s Maxime Giacalone at 4:34 in the first round by TKO in the finals of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Already entering la jaula with tons of buzz, Lehane, who came in with 19 amateur fights under his belt, solidified himself as an up-and-comer to keep a close eye on.<\/p>\n

Last year, his uppercut victory from his last amateur fight went viral.<\/p>\n

FINALS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Giacalone and Lehane both exchanged shots. At one point, Giacalone inadvertently kicked Lehane in the groin, but Lehane didn\u2019t use his five minutes.<\/p>\n

The Irish continued to land shots including a left hand which shook Giacalone. The fight eventually went to the ground where Lehane searched for a triangle choke, but from that position he landed elbows to the temple. Lehane continued an onslaught of fists, which led the referee to stop the fight.<\/p>\n

SEMI-FINALS<\/strong><\/p>\n

To get to the finals, Giacalone defeated Italy\u2019s Gianluca Rocca (6-1) at 2:13 in the first round by rear naked choke submission. While Lehane, defeated Spain\u2019s Sebastian Santana Guedes (8-6) by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

Lehane will return later this year for Combate Global\u2019s annual Copa Combate tournament one-night eight-man tournament $100,000 grand prize tournament in December.<\/p>\n

In a reserve bout, Tommy Aaron (8-6) defeated Jean Marc Howell (13-6) by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

Carlos Arana (3-1) defeated Jimmy Sandlin (4-3) by Split decision.<\/p>\n

In a fight that went back-and-forth and had hints of the classic bout of Wanderlei Silva vs Kazushi Sakuraba, both men went toe-to-toe striking each other consistently with few take down attempts. A fight that could potentially be nominated as a fight of the year. After three rounds of action, the judges were left to make the decision.<\/p>\n

Irlanda Galindo defeated Maraya Miller at 4:51 in the second round by rear naked choke.<\/p>\n

Also, the 18-year-old Galindo defeated a tough and experienced Miller. Flash forward to the second round, Miller used her judo take down Galino. Miller worked out of ground-and-pound position, yet Galindo transitioned, where she landed the rear naked choke to pull off the upset.<\/p>\n

Results<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tournament Semi-finals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrick Lehane defeated Sebastian Santana Guedes by unanimous decision<\/p>\n

Maxime Giacalone defeated Gianluca Rocca by rear naked choke at 2:13 in the first round.<\/p>\n

Finals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrick Lehane defeated Maxime Giacalone by TKO at 4:34 in the first round<\/p>\n

Reserve Bout<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tommy Aaron defeated Jean March Howell by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

Carlos Arana defeated Jimmy Sandlin by split decision<\/p>\n

Iralanda Galindo defeated Maraya Miller at 4:51 in the second round by rear naked choke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miami, FL– Ireland\u2019s Patrick Lehane (2-0) placed himself in Copa Combate after winning Combate Global\u2019s inaugural four-man lightweight European tournament. Lehane, who made his professional debut, defeated France\u2019s Maxime Giacalone at 4:34 in the first round by TKO in the finals of the tournament. Already entering la jaula with tons of buzz, Lehane, who came…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,3019],"tags":[9889],"class_list":["post-13112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-combate-global-european-tournament"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112","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=13112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13113,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112\/revisions\/13113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}