{"id":30246,"date":"2023-06-14T19:47:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T02:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateglobal.com\/?p=30246"},"modified":"2023-06-14T19:47:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T02:47:30","slug":"combate-global-announces-complete-fight-card-for-sunday-june-18-live-on-univision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/combate-global-announces-complete-fight-card-for-sunday-june-18-live-on-univision","title":{"rendered":"COMBATE GLOBAL ANNOUNCES COMPLETE FIGHT CARD FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 18, LIVE ON UNIVISION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FEATURED FEATHERWEIGHT BOUT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MARTIN \u201cEL TORO\u201d BRAVO (MEXICO) VS. JOSE \u201cTIRO LOCO\u201d FERREIRA (CHILE)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FEATURED WOMEN\u2019S ATOMWEIGHT BOUT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MELISSA GOMEZ (CHILE) VS. ANNA SOMERS (USA)<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED LIGHTWEIGHT MAIN EVENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CRISTIAN \u201cPUAS\u201d PEREZ (MEXICO) VS. BRUNO \u201cAQUILES CANNETTI (ARGENTINA)<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MIAMI <\/strong>\u2013 <strong>June 14, 2023 <\/strong>\u2013 COMBATE GLOBAL today announced the completion of its next fight card with a pair of new bouts, live on Univision at 11 p.m. ET\/8 p.m. PT, on Sunday, June 18.<\/p>\n<p>In the previously announced lightweight (155 pounds) main event, 23-year-old burgeoning star <a href=\"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/fighters\/cristian-perez\"><strong>Cristian \u201cPuas\u201d Perez<\/strong><\/a> (11-1) will square off with former world champion <strong>Bruno \u201cAquiles\u201d Cannetti<\/strong> (11-6).<\/p>\n<p>In one of two new featured, main card matchups announced today, <strong>Martin \u201cEl Toro\u201d Bravo<\/strong> (13-3) will collide with undefeated <strong>Jose \u201cTiro Loco\u201d Ferreira<\/strong> (10-0) in a featherweight (145 pounds) clash.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting out of Cerritos, Calif., the 29-year-old Bravo, who hails from Rosarito, B.C., Mexico, was the winner of <em>The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America 3<\/em> competition reality television show that pitted a collection of the best lightweight (155 pounds) fighters from nine different Spanish speaking countries against one another.<\/p>\n<p>Bravo signed with Combate Global in 2021, and resurrected his career with back-to-back, first round victories \u2013 a TKO (punches) of Andrew Whitney on September 17, followed by a submission (armbar) of Jose \u201cFroggy\u201d Estrada on December 3.<\/p>\n<p>Sidelined for the entirety of 2022 due to an injury, Bravo will look to return to form in 2023, beginning with the fight with Ferreira.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Ferreira of Temuco, Chile has been an unstoppable force in competition, thus far, since turning professional five years ago and competing regionally in his home country.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Ferreira re-located to Chicago, Ill. where he joined one of the top MMA camps in the world in Mike Valle\u2019s Team VFS.<\/p>\n<p>Ferreira made his COMBATE GLOBAL debut last September 16, dominating Irish upstart Patrick \u201cThe Leech\u201d Lehane, the dark horse winner of the COMBATE GLOBAL one-night, four-man European tournament in 2021, to earn a unanimous decision over Lehane.<\/p>\n<p>Last November 4, Ferreira returned to La Jaula, scoring a first round (4:39) TKO (knee strike to the body, followed by punches) on Venezuelan Genier Penagos.<\/p>\n<p>In a featured women\u2019s atomweight (105 pounds) contest announced today, another unbeaten Chilean, <strong>Melissa Gomez<\/strong> (2-0), will take on American <strong>Anna Somers<\/strong> (1-1).<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Gomez jumpstarted her professional career with Combate Global in 2022, earning back-to-back victories \u2013 a unanimous decision over Jharely Reyes and a split decision over Elizabeth Avila \u2013 on May 20 and August 12, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Like Gomez, the 29-year-old Somers of Chicago notched her first professional career win in 2022 with a first round (4:05) technical submission of Mexico\u2019s Irlanda Galindo by way of kimura, after Galindo refused to tap out on April 8.<\/p>\n<p>The non-televised preliminary bout card will be highlighted by a bantamweight (135 pounds) tilt between <strong>Hector Ferral<\/strong> (6-2) of Juarez, Chih., Mexico and <strong>Fabia \u201cPotro\u201d Sintes<\/strong> (4-2) of Barcelona, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>A women\u2019s strawweight (115 pounds) matchup will see <strong>Damari Olivares<\/strong> (1-1) of Gran Canaria, Spain face off with <strong>Tyler Schaefer<\/strong> (1-3) of San Diego, Calif.<\/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>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UClvfFzGFsKp5x4V8SaeG9Dw\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEATURED FEATHERWEIGHT BOUT: MARTIN \u201cEL TORO\u201d BRAVO (MEXICO) VS. JOSE \u201cTIRO LOCO\u201d FERREIRA (CHILE) FEATURED WOMEN\u2019S ATOMWEIGHT BOUT: MELISSA GOMEZ (CHILE) VS. ANNA SOMERS (USA)\u00a0 PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED LIGHTWEIGHT MAIN EVENT: CRISTIAN \u201cPUAS\u201d PEREZ (MEXICO) VS. BRUNO \u201cAQUILES CANNETTI (ARGENTINA)\u00a0 MIAMI \u2013 June 14, 2023 \u2013 COMBATE GLOBAL today announced the completion of its next fight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":30240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,3019],"tags":[10203,10198,9945,10202],"class_list":["post-30246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-bruno-aquiles-cannetti-en","tag-cg-2023-june-18-perez-vs-cannetti-en","tag-cristian-puas-perez","tag-martin-el-toro-bravo-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30246","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=30246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30251,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30246\/revisions\/30251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}