{"id":16050,"date":"2022-03-22T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateglobal.com\/?p=16050"},"modified":"2022-03-21T19:21:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T02:21:13","slug":"eurosport-acquires-rights-to-combate-global-and-expands-its-mma-event-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/eurosport-acquires-rights-to-combate-global-and-expands-its-mma-event-offering","title":{"rendered":"EUROSPORT ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO \u2018COMBATE GLOBAL\u2019 AND EXPANDS ITS MMA EVENT OFFERING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>To complete its wide range of contact sports offerings this season, Eurosport has secured the Spanish rights for this live event series, which pits over 150 roster athletes from different countries athletes from different countries, including 14 fighters from Spain<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Eurosport viewers will be able to enjoy the first &#8216;Combate Global&#8217; event in the early hours of Thursday 24 to Friday 25 March from 05:00hrs live on the <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosportplayer.com\/\"><strong><em>Eurosport<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <strong><em><u>App<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>With nearly 600 hours per year of the biggest boxing and MMA events on the international circuit, Eurosport is the \u2018Home of Fight Sports\u2019 in Spain<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eurosport continues to expand its contact sports portfolio and, today, announced a <strong>new deal to offer &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\">Combate Global&#8217; <\/a><\/strong>the world\u2019s premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise, in Spain. Combate Global kicks off its 2022 season on<strong> Thursday, March 24. <\/strong>After securing the audiovisual rights to events such as UFC, Cage Warriors and the best boxing events, <strong>Eurosport reaffirms its position as The Home of Contact Sports in Spain<\/strong> by including &#8216;Combate Global&#8217; in its sports offering this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019La Jaula,\u201d the Combate Global competition cage,<strong> opens on Thursday, March 24 on the Eurosport App<\/strong>, which will offer a total of <strong>30 Combate Global events<\/strong> this year.<\/p>\n<p>Underscoring its country versus country format, Combate Global, led by CEO and UFC co-creator Campbell McLaren, has athletes, representing<strong> numerous countries around the world, facing off with each other throughout the year. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Each year culminates with \u201cCOPA COMBATE,\u201d a one-night, eight-man tournament pitting fighters from eight different countries against each other. Considered the toughest tournament in sports and the most coveted destination for fighters to represent their respective countries, \u201cCOPA COMBATE\u201d awards its winner of three consecutive bouts a grand prize of $100,000 USD.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Spain&#8217;s <strong>Kevin Cordero <\/strong>represented his country brilliantly, reaching the championship stage of the \u201cCOPA COMBATE\u201d bantamweight (135 pounds) tournament before losing a close, split decision to Frans Mlambo of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>COMBATE GLOBAL SEASON KICKS OFF ON THURSDAY 24 MARCH FROM MIAMI<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The action kicks off <strong>in the early hours of Thursday 24 to Friday 25 March from 05:00hrs on the Eurosport App<\/strong> with the first event headlined by a \u2018Mexico vs. USA\u2019 showdown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMBATE GLOBAL\u2019 &#8211; March 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daniel S\u00e1nchez vs \u00c1ngel \u00c1lvarez<\/li>\n<li>Melissa Amaya vs Yessica Ortega<\/li>\n<li>Rub\u00e9n \u2018El Diamante\u2019 Lozano vs Jimmy \u2018Sandstorm\u2019 Sandlin<\/li>\n<li>Miguel \u2018The Destroyer\u2019 Villegas vs Jake Childers<\/li>\n<li>Tyler \u2018Yogi\u2019 Hinton vs David \u2018Doggy\u2019 Aguilar<\/li>\n<li>Ismael \u2018Kraken\u2019 Zamora vs \u2018Slick\u2019 Rick Zelada<\/li>\n<li>Yajaira \u2018La Pantera Negra\u2019 Cunningham vs Kayla Hracho<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>SPANISH FIGHTERS IN COMBATE GLOBAL<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spain is well-represented in Combate Global, with <strong>14 athletes &#8211;<\/strong> 9 men and 5 women \u2013 on the franchise\u2019s roster:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kevin Cordero<\/li>\n<li>\u00d3scar \u2018Jacare\u2019 Su\u00e1rez<\/li>\n<li>Claudia D\u00edaz<\/li>\n<li>Sebasti\u00e1n Santana Guedes<\/li>\n<li>Andrea \u2018Kai\u2019 Meneses<\/li>\n<li>Roger Blanque<\/li>\n<li>Blanca Medina<\/li>\n<li>Silvia Juaneda<\/li>\n<li>Christian \u2018El Potro\u2019 Maro\u00f1as<\/li>\n<li>Tino \u2018No Mercy\u2019 Gilaranz<\/li>\n<li>Fernando \u2018El Bicho\u2019 Calvo<\/li>\n<li>Damari Olivares<\/li>\n<li>David Ruiz<\/li>\n<li>Sebasti\u00e1n del Cristo Hern\u00e1ndez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Combate Global is continuing to aggressively sign athletes from Spain and is in dialogue with a number of camps about adding their respective Spanish fighters to the Combate Global roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To complete its wide range of contact sports offerings this season, Eurosport has secured the Spanish rights for this live event series, which pits over 150 roster athletes from different countries athletes from different countries, including 14 fighters from Spain \u00a0Eurosport viewers will be able to enjoy the first &#8216;Combate Global&#8217; event in the early&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[9990],"class_list":["post-16050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-eurosport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050","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=16050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16051,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions\/16051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}