{"id":30171,"date":"2023-05-17T19:28:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T02:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateglobal.com\/?p=30171"},"modified":"2023-05-17T19:28:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T02:28:42","slug":"combate-global-announces-world-bantamweight-championship-main-event-for-sunday-may-28-live-on-univision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/combate-global-announces-world-bantamweight-championship-main-event-for-sunday-may-28-live-on-univision","title":{"rendered":"COMBATE GLOBAL ANNOUNCES WORLD BANTAMWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MAIN EVENT FOR SUNDAY, MAY 28, LIVE ON UNIVISION"},"content":{"rendered":"

REIGNING COMBATE GLOBAL WORLD CHAMPION DAVID MARTINEZ<\/strong><\/p>\n

TO DEFEND HIS TITLE AGAINST TOP CONTENDER JOSE ZARAUZ <\/strong><\/p>\n

UNIVISION TO AIR A SPECIAL, 60-MINUTE COMBATE GLOBAL PROGRAM ON SATURDAY, MAY 20 <\/strong><\/p>\n

TO GIVE FANS A PREVIEW OF THIS MUCH-ANTICIPATED TITLE FIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n

MIAMI <\/strong>\u2013 May 17, 2023 <\/strong>\u2013 COMBATE GLOBAL has announced a world bantamweight (135 pounds) championship fight as its next main event on Sunday, May 28, live on Univision (11 p.m. ET\/8p.m. PT) from Miami.<\/p>\n

Reigning COMBATE GLOBAL World Bantamweight Champion, David \u201cThe Black Spartan\u201d Martinez<\/strong> (9-1) will put his coveted title on the line against former \u201cCOPA COMBATE\u201d tournament competitor, Jose \u201cThe Mercenary\u201d Zarauz<\/strong> (23-9-1).<\/p>\n

Univision will give fans a look at this much-anticipated world championship showdown with a special, one hour preview show on Saturday, May 20 at 1 a.m. ET\/10 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid Martinez has shown why he is a world champion at only 24 years old,\u201d said COMBATE GLOBAL CEO Campbell McLaren. \u201cThe fight with a seasoned fighter like Jose Zarauz, however, will be a new kind of challenge for the champ, though.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bout will mark the second title defense by Martinez of Mexico City, Mexico, after he successfully defended his crown against fellow Mexican star Axel Osuna last October 7.<\/p>\n

To date, Martinez, also a decorated, competitive kickboxer with numerous titles on his resume and a member of the famed Mexico City-based camp, Bonebreakers, has earned 8 of his 9 professional MMA career victories by way of (T)KO.<\/p>\n

Martinez became the third COMBATE GLOBAL world bantamweight champion in history on May 29, 2021 by defeating three consecutive opponents in a one-night, eight-man tournament.<\/p>\n

In the 30-year-old Zarauz, a native of Lima Peru with 10 years of professional fight experience, Martinez faces a competitor with a great deal more of experience than the champion.<\/p>\n

Zarauz, who holds a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and typically looks to finish opponents by way of ground-and-pound, will enter La Jaula for the first time in 2023, following a second round (4:19) victory over American Jordan Espinosa that Zarauz produced by rear-naked choke submission on May 20, 2022.<\/p>\n

Other than his appearance in the 2021 \u201cCOPA COMBATE\u201d one-night, eight-man, $100,000 grand prize tournament in 2021, the championship showdown marks the highest stakes fight of Zarauz\u2019s career, a factor that drove him to train for the fight at the famed, New York-based Tiger Schulmann\u2019s Martial Arts camp. where Zarauz was able to prepare with a number of MMA stars, including Julio Arce.<\/p>\n

The remainder of the COMBATE GLOBAL fight card for May 28 will be announced next week.<\/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>, and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

REIGNING COMBATE GLOBAL WORLD CHAMPION DAVID MARTINEZ TO DEFEND HIS TITLE AGAINST TOP CONTENDER JOSE ZARAUZ UNIVISION TO AIR A SPECIAL, 60-MINUTE COMBATE GLOBAL PROGRAM ON SATURDAY, MAY 20 TO GIVE FANS A PREVIEW OF THIS MUCH-ANTICIPATED TITLE FIGHT MIAMI \u2013 May 17, 2023 \u2013 COMBATE GLOBAL has announced a world bantamweight (135 pounds) championship…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":30165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3019],"tags":[10189],"class_list":["post-30171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cg-2023-may-28-martinez-vs-zarauz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30171","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=30171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30172,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30171\/revisions\/30172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}