{"id":5462,"date":"2019-05-22T10:55:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T17:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/?p=5462"},"modified":"2019-05-22T10:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T17:55:29","slug":"andres-ayala-is-looking-to-redeem-himself-in-combate-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/andres-ayala-is-looking-to-redeem-himself-in-combate-peru","title":{"rendered":"Andr\u00e9s Ayala is Looking to Redeem Himself in Combate Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday May 31st, Combate Americas<\/strong> is coming to South America for the first time with Combate Peru<\/a><\/strong>, an unprecedented event inside the South American country’s capital. On that stage, Colombian\u00a0Andres Ayala<\/a> (12-7)<\/strong> will seek his first victory and will try to redeem himself after his debut in the promotion.<\/p>\n

Ayala’s beginnings within\u00a0Combate Americas <\/strong>were not easy.\u00a0 The fighter from Bogot\u00e1 was invited to participate in Copa Combate 2017<\/strong>, but due to issues with his team not traveling with him, he did not make weight, and he was unable to compete.<\/p>\n

Although his trip to Cancun<\/strong> for the Copa Combate 2017 didn’t pay off, Ayala<\/a> <\/strong>accepted the situation and embraced it as an opportunity to improve. With that outlook, he managed to get a second chance to fight for Combate Americas.<\/strong> He faced off against Erik “El Goyito” Perez<\/a><\/strong> in the Combate Monterrey<\/strong> main event last November, with less than one month’s notice.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CombateAmericas\/videos\/2228411997429094\/<\/p>\n

In the packed Nuevo Le\u00f3n Gimnasio<\/strong>, P\u00e9rez<\/strong> defeated Ayala<\/a>,<\/strong> winning the fight via rear naked choke, at minute 3:39 of the first round. This was the seventh career loss for the Colombian fighter, a second disappointment for Ayala<\/a> <\/strong>in “La Jaula.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Now, six months later, Ayala<\/strong> <\/a>seeks to redeem himself yet again,<\/strong> when he faces Peruvian veteran Renzo Mendez<\/a> (12-7)<\/strong> in a fight that could define Ayala<\/a>‘s<\/strong> future.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CombateAmericas\/videos\/2431806793731724\/<\/p>\n

“Well, this new opportunity is not going to be wasted,” Ayala<\/a> <\/strong>said in an interview. “With everything I learned from the past, I picked it up and improved those details that had failed. I haven’t stopped training, and I’m focused on the failures that had happened to me.”<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9s is an innate sportsman, who started training in combat sports at 17 years old. He originally wanted to be a professional soccer player, and even played as a goalkeeper for a while.\u00a0 However, his height and skills took him down the path of MMA. Ayala<\/a><\/strong>, has a 12-7 record, with 6 victories by KO \/ TKO and four wins by submission. He is a very explosive fighter.<\/p>\n

Ayala<\/a><\/strong>, who has a 2-4 record in his last six bouts, thinks that his next performance in “La Jaula” will be a shocking “surprise.” He plans to show off how much he has evolved since his last fight.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BwiqdgXgF69\/<\/p>\n

“Every fight is different,” he said. “Every event is different; all people are different for each fight; so, here I’ll give a surprise.”<\/p>\n

Mendez, Ayalas<\/a><\/strong> upcoming opponent, is on a 4-win streak and will make his Combate Americas’ debut against the Colombian. Ayala<\/a><\/strong> will have his third opportunity within the promotion to showcase his skills and, above all, to live up to his expectations, his country’s and his fans’. Mendez may have the advantage, fighting in his own country and city. However, Ayala explained that it was something that he mentally accepted as soon as he took the fight.<\/p>\n

“Fighting as a visitor, or just accepting the fight, for me is a challenge and I took it,” Ayala<\/a> <\/strong>said with great confidence. “It’s part of this sport and you said it yesterday, we’re crazy, fighters are crazy doing this and I love what I do, and I think that being in his land with all his people, in his arena, that’s when the challenge begins, since I accepted the fight it’s a challenge for me, it’s a big experience, but here we are… for what we want to do, and if this is for me, that’s how it is going to be”.<\/p>\n

Combate Peru<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0will take place at\u00a0Coliseo Manuel Bonilla<\/strong>\u00a0in Lima, Peru, and will be broadcast exclusively in English in the United States and Canada on\u00a0DAZN<\/strong><\/a>(12am E, 11pm C, 9pm PAC), as well as on Univision (12am E, 11pm C) and on Univisi\u00f3n Deportes (12am E, 11pm C, 9pm PAC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday May 31st, Combate Americas is coming to South America for the first time with Combate Peru, an unprecedented event inside the South American country’s capital. On that stage, Colombian\u00a0Andres Ayala (12-7) will seek his first victory and will try to redeem himself after his debut in the promotion. Ayala’s beginnings within\u00a0Combate Americas were not…<\/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":[3049],"tags":[4445,3949,4446],"class_list":["post-5462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-combate-peru-2","tag-andres-ayala-en","tag-combate-peru","tag-renzo-mendez-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462","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=5462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}