{"id":5444,"date":"2019-09-03T09:39:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2019-09-17T07:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:19:38","slug":"rafa-garcia-beyond-the-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/rafa-garcia-beyond-the-talent","title":{"rendered":"Rafa Garcia: Beyond the Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/rafa-garcia\">Rafael &#8220;Gifted&#8221; Garcia<\/a> (10-0)<\/strong> is one of those mythological beings that excel in almost every aspect of the sport, something that he has proven again and again since <strong>Combate Americas<\/strong> discovered him three years ago in an open tryouts in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Y la celebraci\u00f3n en <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mexicali?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mexicali<\/a>, no tiene igual \ud83d\udc4a. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CombateMexicali?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CombateMexicali<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y8aKuKCEGv\">pic.twitter.com\/Y8aKuKCEGv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Combate Global (@combateglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/combateglobal\/status\/1096660113018937344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>It was a really good decision I made<\/strong>,&#8221; Garcia said in an interview with <strong>Combate Americas<\/strong>. &#8220;When they told me about the tryouts I didn&#8217;t want to go, I didn&#8217;t believe in that, because I had previously gone to Argentina and it didn&#8217;t work for me, but when I arrived at Los Angeles tryouts, there were more than 300 people and I was the only one that got the opportunity, from there we went to Mexico City, we won, and until now we are still undefeated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With only a 0.33% chance of getting the opportunity to enter &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/\">La <strong>Jaula,<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; Garcia<\/strong> managed to surprise the company at the tryout and earned a spot to compete in Combat 10. &#8220;Gifted&#8221; proved to be a perfect nickname during his debut, where he finished <strong>Ra\u00fal Najera Ocampo<\/strong> with a heel hook in just 64 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CombateAmericas\/videos\/1590431114349693\/<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican fighter who was 5-0 after his promotional debut, then <strong>started a winning streak<\/strong> where each one of his victories surpassed the next one.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CombateAmericas\/videos\/235247483817090\/<\/p>\n<p>Winning by TKO, decisions and especially submissions, the Mexican fighter demonstrates great <strong>technique<\/strong>. With eight submissions in 10 victories, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/rafa-garcia\">Garcia<\/a> <\/strong>has proven to be a dangerous fighter both on the\u00a0 ground and with his striking ability.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CombateAmericas\/videos\/1990038831055584\/<\/p>\n<p>With a 10-0 record as a professional, including 6 victories in a row inside <strong>Combate Americas<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/rafa-garcia\">Garcia<\/a> <\/strong>has established himself as a star in the lightweight division. He will make his return to &#8220;La Jaula&#8221; on September 20 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/events\/combate-americas-world-lightweight-championship\"><strong>Combate Americas: World Lightweight Championship<\/strong><\/a>, in Mexicali, B.C., Mexico. He is facing MMA superstar <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/erick-gonzalez\">Erick &#8220;The Ghost Pepper&#8221; Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> who will undoubtedly be the biggest challenge of Cub Swanson&#8217;s prot\u00e9g\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/rafa-garcia\">Garcia<\/a><\/strong> took an opportunity he was given 3 years ago and turn it into a meteoric career.\u00a0 He stands as proof that when talent meets dedication, the sky is the limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael &#8220;Gifted&#8221; Garcia (10-0) is one of those mythological beings that excel in almost every aspect of the sport, something that he has proven again and again since Combate Americas discovered him three years ago in an open tryouts in Los Angeles, California. Y la celebraci\u00f3n en #Mexicali, no tiene igual \ud83d\udc4a. #CombateMexicali pic.twitter.com\/Y8aKuKCEGv &mdash;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6355],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-combate-mexicali-2","tag-rafa-garcia-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}