{"id":15227,"date":"2021-12-02T19:49:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T03:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateglobal.com\/?p=15227"},"modified":"2021-12-02T19:49:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T03:49:19","slug":"jose-froggy-estrada-already-feels-like-a-champion-without-the-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/jose-froggy-estrada-already-feels-like-a-champion-without-the-belt","title":{"rendered":"Jose &#8220;Froggy&#8221; Estrada already feels like a champion without the belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Miami, FL-<\/strong> <span lang=\"EN\">Jose \u201cFroggy\u201d Estrada is Combate Global\u2019s homegrown fighter, having started his professional career with the promotion in 2016 and continues to be a fan favorite to this day, displaying \u201cfireworks\u201d each time he steps into La Jaula. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Campbell McLaren has even compared him to Conor McGregor. While Froggy agrees with the boss\u2019s intuition of recognizing him as Combate Global\u2019s starfighter, he takes more of a liking to \u201cthe classics [he] grew up watching: Tito Ortiz, Fedor Emelianenko, and Chuck Lidell.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">\u201cI\u2019m still waiting on the boss to take up my offer to come over to my abuela\u2019s house to eat some home-cooked Mexican food,\u201d Froggy jokingly remarked. \u201cWhat separates me from these other guys is just that I\u2019m authentic. There\u2019s only one of me; I don\u2019t try to be anyone else. I strictly represent myself, my culture, and my gym. I don\u2019t disrespect an opponent unless my opponent disrespects me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Froggy steps into La Jaula again for the tenth time to meet Martin \u201cEl Toro\u201d Bravo, a UFC veteran and The Ultimate Fighter Latin America Season 3 Winner. Considering both fighters&#8217; Mexican roots, Froggy predicted \u201ca war, but I am going to push the pace and wear him down. Froggy 2.0 will debut on Friday night: I\u2019ve been working a lot with a new coach on stand-up up, I recently got my black belt Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and this weight cut is significantly more dialed in than before. My discipline is going to show.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">While Froggy stays \u201cfocused on getting the win, rather than already looking past the fight\u201d; he nonetheless believes he has earned a title shot for the Featherweight title since former champion Bruno Cannetti vacated it. \u201cIn my mind, I am already the Featherweight Champion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami, FL- Jose \u201cFroggy\u201d Estrada is Combate Global\u2019s homegrown fighter, having started his professional career with the promotion in 2016 and continues to be a fan favorite to this day, displaying \u201cfireworks\u201d each time he steps into La Jaula. Campbell McLaren has even compared him to Conor McGregor. While Froggy agrees with the boss\u2019s intuition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":12459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3019],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-15227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-jose-estrada-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227","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=15227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15229,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227\/revisions\/15229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}