{"id":26682,"date":"2022-05-19T15:34:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T22:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateglobal.com\/?p=26682"},"modified":"2022-05-19T15:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T22:34:38","slug":"combate-global-announces-new-bantamweight-main-event-for-sunday-may-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/combate-global-announces-new-bantamweight-main-event-for-sunday-may-29","title":{"rendered":"COMBATE GLOBAL ANNOUNCES NEW BANTAMWEIGHT MAIN EVENT FOR SUNDAY, MAY 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>INJURY FORCES FRANS MLAMBO TO WITHDRAW FROM PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TITLE FIGHT AGAINST <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>REIGNING WORLD CHAMPION DAVID MARTINEZ<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MARTINEZ SET TO FACE HARD-HITTING <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CHILEAN ARTURO VERGARA IN A NON-TITLE BOUT <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK <\/strong>\u2013 <strong>May 19, 2022 <\/strong>\u2013 Combate Global today announced a new main event for its show on Sunday, May 29 in Miami, Fla., due to an abdominal injury sustained by Ireland\u2019s <strong>Frans \u201cThe Zulu Irishman\u201d Mlambo<\/strong> (13-5), who had been scheduled to challenge reigning Combate Global World Bantamweight (135 pounds) Champion <strong>David \u201cThe Black Spartan\u201d Martinez<\/strong> (6-1) for Martinez\u2019s title.<\/p>\n<p>Mlambo, the number one contender in Combate Global\u2019s bantamweight division, will be replaced by hard-hitting <strong>Arturo \u201cEl Makako\u201d Vergara<\/strong> (2-0 MMA; 3-1 Kickboxing) of Los Andes, Chile via Miami. Vergara will challenge Martinez of Mexico City, Mexico in a bantamweight non-title bout.<\/p>\n<p>Combate Global will announce television programming details as well as the complete fight card for the event on Tuesday, May 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish Frans a full and speedy recovery,\u201d said Combate Global CEO Campbell McLaren, \u201cand are excited to debut Chile\u2019s Arturo Vergara, who is coming off an incredible, nine-second knockout! I have a lot of respect for Arturo stepping up because David Martinez is as tough an opponent as they come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unbeaten to date under MMA rules, Vergara produced a stunning, nine-second knockout via a flying knee strike of Cody Schieve on May 6.<\/p>\n<p>The speedy win followed another first round (2:21) TKO (strikes) that Vergara notched in his MMA rules debut against Steven Orozco on February 19.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his first MMA start, Vergara had competed exclusively under kickboxing rules, amassing over 80 bouts as an amateur, and a 3-1 record as a professional.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Martinez of Mexico City will enter La Jaula, the Combate Global competition cage, for the first time since he was crowned world champion one year ago, on May 29, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A member of Team Bonebreakers, Martinez defeated three consecutive opponents \u2013 including championship round adversary Francisco \u201cCisco\u201d Rivera, Jr. via second round (0:17) TKO (head kick and punches) \u2013 in one night, to become world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information about Combate Global and its athletes can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\">www.CombateGlobal.com<\/a> as well as on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CombateGlobal\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/combateglobal\/?utm_medium=copy_link\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/combateglobal\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UClvfFzGFsKp5x4V8SaeG9Dw\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INJURY FORCES FRANS MLAMBO TO WITHDRAW FROM PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TITLE FIGHT AGAINST REIGNING WORLD CHAMPION DAVID MARTINEZ\u00a0 MARTINEZ SET TO FACE HARD-HITTING CHILEAN ARTURO VERGARA IN A NON-TITLE BOUT NEW YORK \u2013 May 19, 2022 \u2013 Combate Global today announced a new main event for its show on Sunday, May 29 in Miami, Fla., due&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":26684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[3987],"class_list":["post-26682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-david-martinez"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682","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=26682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26719,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682\/revisions\/26719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}