{"id":32025,"date":"2024-04-25T03:07:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T10:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/lucero-la-loba-acosta-lesionada-combate-global-anuncia-nueva-pelea-estelar-femenil"},"modified":"2024-04-25T03:13:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T10:13:08","slug":"lucero-la-loba-acosta-lesionada-combate-global-anuncia-nueva-pelea-estelar-femenil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/lucero-la-loba-acosta-lesionada-combate-global-anuncia-nueva-pelea-estelar-femenil","title":{"rendered":"LUCERO \u201cLA LOBA\u201d ACOSTA INJURED; COMBATE GLOBAL ANNOUNCES NEW WOMEN\u2019S MAIN EVENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

– ALEJANDRA \u201cAZUL\u201d LARA VS. GISELA \u201cLA EMPERATRIZ\u201d LUNA –<\/strong><\/p>\n

ON SATURDAY, MAY 11, LIVE ON FUSE FROM MIAMI<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEW FLYWEIGHT MATCHUP PITS COLOMBIA AGAINST ARGENTINA AS LUNA, A 9-TIME KICKBOXING CHAMPION FROM BUENOS AIRES, STEPS UP TO FACE \u201cAZUL\u201d LARA<\/strong><\/p>\n

PLUS: \u201cJIMBO SLICE\u201d BATTLES A NEW OPPONENT, <\/strong><\/p>\n

UNBEATEN JADEN ORTEGA, IN A 175-POUND CATCHWEIGHT FIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n

AFTER OVIDIO BOJORQUEZ BOWS OUT DUE TO INJURY<\/strong><\/p>\n

FUSE IS THE EXCLUSIVE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BROADCAST HOME OF COMBATE GLOBAL MMA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED FEATHERWEIGHT CO-MAIN EVENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n

UNDEFEATED RIVALS MAURICIO RIOS AND TONY CORTEZ <\/strong><\/p>\n

SQUARE OFF IN MEXICO VS. USA BATTLE<\/strong><\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK \u2013 April 24, 2024<\/strong> \u2013 COMBATE GLOBAL today announced a new women\u2019s flyweight (125 pounds) Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) main event matchup between former world championship challenger Alejandra \u201cAzul\u201d Lara<\/strong> (9-7) and nine-time kickboxing champion Gisela \u201cLa Emperatriz\u201d Luna<\/strong> (5-1), live on Fuse at 9:30 p.m. ET from Miami on Saturday, May 11.<\/p>\n

Fuse is the exclusive English-language home of COMBATE GLOBALMMA<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The new main event matchup comes after previously announced Lucero \u201cLa Loba\u201d Acosta<\/strong>, who had been slated to face off with Lara, was forced to withdraw from the commitment this week due to a fractured meniscus sustained in training camp.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old Luna of Buenos Aires, Argentina will make her COMBATE GLOBAL promotional debut, bringing with her a stellar resume that includes nine regional kickboxing championships, including four South American titles and five Argentinian national titles, as well as an outstanding overall record of 36-3-1 in the sport of kickboxing.<\/p>\n

In MMA competition to date, Luna has earned four of her five professional victories via (T)KO or submission.<\/p>\n

At 29 years of age, Lara, who hails from Medellin, Colombia and fights out of San Diego, Calif., is looking to return to the win column since teaming up with 10th<\/sup> Planet San Diego Jiu Jitsu and Training Center several months ago. She has since been training with the likes of superstars Phil Davis and Cat Zingano.<\/p>\n

Lara has faced off with a handful of world-class opponents, including Ilima-Lei Macfarlane, whom Lara challenged for the Bellator women\u2019s world flyweight title, and Muay Thai world champion Lena Ovchynnikova, whom Lara defeated by way of third round (4:03) submission (rear-naked choke) in 2018.<\/p>\n

A second change to the COMBATE GLOBAL card on May 11 was announced today after previously announced Ovidio Bojorquez<\/strong>, who had been scheduled to take on Jimmie \u201cJimbo Slice\u201d Pace, Jr.<\/strong> (3-1), was forced to bow out of the welterweight (170 pounds) fight due to a hand injury sustained in training camp.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Pace, Jr., better known by his nickname, will collide with unbeaten fellow knockout artist Jaden Ortega<\/strong> (1-0) in a 175-pound catchweight contest.<\/p>\n

Ortega is a 22-year-old prodigy from Spokane, Wash., where he trains under Rick Little at Sik Jitsu, the home of former world champion, Julianna Pe\u00f1a and undefeated COMBATE GLOBAL star, Melissa \u201cLa Mamba\u201d Amaya.<\/p>\n

A former All-American high school football star, Ortega posted an overall 4-1 record as an amateur, notching all of his victories via (T)KO, inside of two rounds.<\/p>\n

Ortega made his professional debut on May 19, scoring a (T)KO on Billy Martin in the first round of battle.<\/p>\n

\u201cJimbo Slice,\u201d hails from Miami and is a former undefeated (3-0) amateur who has since earned all of his professional wins by way of (T)KO or submission, including a thunderous 16-second knockout of Spain\u2019s Boris Garcia last July 1.<\/p>\n

In the previously announced COMBATE GLOBAL featherweight (145 pounds) co-main event, Mauricio Rios<\/strong> (4-0) will square off with fellow undefeated, new star Tony \u201cThe Conqueror\u201d Cortez<\/strong> (2-0) in a Mexico vs. USA showdown.<\/p>\n

Rios of Mexico City is a 25-year-old member of the fearsome Bonebreakers fight squad and has earned three of his four professional wins by way of submission.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Cortez, who is on a 10-fight win streak since the start of his career as an amateur, looks to keep his perfect record intact, winning his last two bouts via submission and KO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– ALEJANDRA \u201cAZUL\u201d LARA VS. GISELA \u201cLA EMPERATRIZ\u201d LUNA – ON SATURDAY, MAY 11, LIVE ON FUSE FROM MIAMI NEW FLYWEIGHT MATCHUP PITS COLOMBIA AGAINST ARGENTINA AS LUNA, A 9-TIME KICKBOXING CHAMPION FROM BUENOS AIRES, STEPS UP TO FACE \u201cAZUL\u201d LARA PLUS: \u201cJIMBO SLICE\u201d BATTLES A NEW OPPONENT, UNBEATEN JADEN ORTEGA, IN A 175-POUND CATCHWEIGHT…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":32018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10309],"tags":[10349,10350,10159],"class_list":["post-32025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anuncios-en","tag-alejandra-azul-lara-en","tag-azul-lara-en","tag-la-loba-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32025","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=32025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32028,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32025\/revisions\/32028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}