{"id":25960,"date":"2022-04-19T13:48:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateglobal.com\/?p=25960"},"modified":"2022-04-19T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:53:10","slug":"cristian-perez-faces-sebastian-santana-guedes-in-lightweight-main-event-on-friday-april-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/cristian-perez-faces-sebastian-santana-guedes-in-lightweight-main-event-on-friday-april-22","title":{"rendered":"CRISTIAN PEREZ FACES SEBASTIAN SANTANA GUEDES IN LIGHTWEIGHT MAIN EVENT ON FRIDAY, APRIL 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

CRISTIAN PEREZ FACES SEBASTIAN SANTANA GUEDES<\/strong><\/p>\n

IN LIGHTWEIGHT MAIN EVENT <\/strong><\/p>\n

ON FRIDAY, APRIL 22, LIVE ON UNIVISION AND TUDN USA <\/strong><\/p>\n

ATOMWEIGHT CO-MAIN EVENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n

DIANA MENDOZA VS. DANIELA HERNANDEZ<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEW YORK <\/strong>\u2013 April 19, 2022 <\/strong>\u2013 Combate Global today announced a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fight card headlined by a lightweight (155 pounds) main event bout between Mexican star and 2021 \u201cFighter of the Year\u201d award winner Cristian \u201cPuas\u201d Perez<\/strong><\/a> (8-1) and Spanish standout Sebastian Santana Guedes<\/strong> (8-4-1) on Friday, April 22, live on Univision (12 a.m. ET\/PT) and TUDN USA (12 a.m. ET\/9 p.m. PT) in the U.S. from Miami, Fla.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Perez of Ensenada, B.C., Mexico was nearly unstoppable in 2021, winning five straight fights \u2013 four by way of (T)KO or submission \u2013 in a span of just seven months before losing a unanimous decision to Enrique \u201cBaby Bull\u201d Gonzalez in the championship stage of a one-night, eight-man tournament last November 12.<\/p>\n

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Above: Sebastian Santana Guedes (left) of Spain will make his second start in La Jaula, the Combate Global competition cage, against Cristian \u201cPuas\u201d Perez in lightweight main event action on Friday, April 22.<\/em><\/p>\n

Santana Guedes is a 27-year-old native of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, a hotbed for MMA, and a veteran of Combate Global\u2019s first-ever, one-night European tournament that took place last August 1.<\/p>\n

Santana Guedes has earned five of his eight professional career victories by way of submission.<\/p>\n

In the women\u2019s atomweight (105 pounds) co-main event, Diana Mendoza<\/strong> (2-0) of Dana Point, Calif. will take on fellow unbeaten upstart Daniela \u201cTiny Mexa\u201d Hernandez<\/strong> (2-0) of Monterrey, N.L., Mexico.<\/p>\n

A featured main card flyweight (125 pounds) affair will pit Gerardo \u201cTerrier\u201d Graniel<\/strong> (7-3) of Mexico City, Mexico against Chris Ocon<\/strong> (5-2) of Memphis, Tenn.<\/p>\n

The preliminary bout card will be highlighted by the Combate Global debut of Georgie Garcia<\/strong> (9-5) of Pacoima, Calif. Garcia will collide with Mexico City\u2019s Ismael \u201cKraken\u201d Zamora<\/strong> (2-1), who is coming off an impressive, second round (1:28) submission (armbar) of previously undefeated Rick Zelada on April 8.<\/p>\n

Leading off the undercard will be a women\u2019s strawweight (115 pounds) tilt between professional debut competitor, Valentina Moriel <\/strong>(0-0) of Santiago, Chile and Fernanda Larios <\/strong>(0-2) of Guadalajara, J.L., Mexico.<\/p>\n

Additional information about Combate Global and its athletes can be found on www.CombateGlobal.com<\/a> as well as on Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, Twitter<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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CRISTIAN PEREZ FACES SEBASTIAN SANTANA GUEDES IN LIGHTWEIGHT MAIN EVENT ON FRIDAY, APRIL 22, LIVE ON UNIVISION AND TUDN USA ATOMWEIGHT CO-MAIN EVENT: DIANA MENDOZA VS. DANIELA HERNANDEZ NEW YORK \u2013 April 19, 2022 \u2013 Combate Global today announced a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fight card headlined by a lightweight (155 pounds) main event bout…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":25951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[10014],"class_list":["post-25960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-cg2022-april-22"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960","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=25960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25961,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960\/revisions\/25961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}