{"id":5525,"date":"2019-05-24T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T19:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2019-05-24T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T19:19:16","slug":"eduardo-torres-a-hard-nut-to-crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/eduardo-torres-a-hard-nut-to-crack","title":{"rendered":"Eduardo Torres: a hard nut to crack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/eduardo-torres\">Eduardo &#8220;Cyborg&#8221; Torres<\/a> (9-0)<\/strong>, is one of two Chilean fighters who will represent his country next Friday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/events\/combate-38\"><strong>Combate Peru<\/strong><\/a>, The first <strong>Combate Americas<\/strong>&#8216; event in South America, and until this moment in his professional career, we could say that he is a hard nut to crack.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BmQ2yddlCGD\/<\/p>\n<p>All fighters think the same, there is nothing better than maintaining an undefeated record, especially when facing fighters at a higher level. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/eduardo-torres\"><strong>Torres<\/strong><\/a>, who began his professional career in 2015, has managed to maintain an immaculate record: <strong>nine-wins with zero defeats<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After 3 years fighting in <strong>Chile and Brazil<\/strong>, Torres managed to accumulate an 8-0 mark including three-wins by submission and one by technical knockout. He drew attention abroad and signed with Combate Americas along with one of his coaches from the <strong>Equipo Weichafe<\/strong>\u00a0and a pioneer of Chile&#8217;s MMA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/pablo-villaseca\"><strong>Pablo Villaseca<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BmOJsRDFgJs\/<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old&#8217;s arrival in Combate Americas was an absolute boom, as he took the bantamweight division by surprise by getting a victory over <strong>Kevin Amador<\/strong> in <strong>Combate 23<\/strong>. After dominating during the first two rounds of the fight using his range and excellent striking, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/eduardo-torres\"><strong>Torres<\/strong> <\/a>continued to be the aggressor throughout the third round and managed to connect with knees and punches <strong>until Amador tapped out due to strikes<\/strong> at 1: 27 of the round.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.facebook.com%2FCombateAmericas%2Fvideos%2F1870180856374716%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Adding one more victory to his unbeaten record, the rivalry between Chile and Peru will be reflected once again when Torres faces <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/pablo-villaseca\">Rodrigo &#8220;El Gato Loco&#8221; Vera<\/a> (8-0-1)<\/strong>, a young fighter who is making his Combate Americas&#8217; debut.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u00a1Chile! \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf1 No te pierdas la entrada a La Jaula de Eduardo Mat\u00edas &quot;Cyborg&quot; Torres, este viernes, 18 de mayo, en Tijuana. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CombateMEXvsElMundo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CombateMEXvsElMundo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf9f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EjlKTG8i0l\">https:\/\/t.co\/EjlKTG8i0l<\/a> <br \/>\ud83d\udccd Auditorio Municipal de Tijuana <br \/>\ud83d\udcfa Univision Deportes<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eduardo_mma_bjj?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@eduardo_mma_bjj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4NNXPvNKo3\">pic.twitter.com\/4NNXPvNKo3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Combate Global (@combateglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/combateglobal\/status\/996959339729448960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, I&#8217;m proud to represent my country,&#8221; said <strong>Torres<\/strong> to Combate Americas. &#8220;Carrying it on my back, gives me strength, motivates me to keep going, and I will turn it into a war that Friday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/pablo-villaseca\">Vera<\/a><\/strong>, who at 23 has a similar record to Torres, started as an amateur fighter 4 years ago. He managed to pile up 8-victories in a row, knocking out 5 rivals, three of them in the first round. He is a super explosive fighter with excellent striking and good submission techniques.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not afraid of going to the ground with him,&#8221; Torres said.\u00a0 &#8220;I can give him a battle on the ground as on the feet, I will do whatever is necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, Torres has not yet faced an opponent with a similar record to his and much less with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/pablo-villaseca\">Vera<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s ground and striking credentials, so this will be his biggest test so far.<\/p>\n<p>Who will keep their undefeated record? That&#8217;s something we will have to wait to see inside &#8220;La Jaula&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/events\/combate-38\">Combate Peru<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0will take place at\u00a0<strong>Coliseo Manuel Bonilla<\/strong>\u00a0in Lima, Peru, and will be broadcast exclusively in English in the United States and Canada on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/fighters\/melissa-martinez\"><strong>DAZN<\/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":"<p>Eduardo &#8220;Cyborg&#8221; Torres (9-0), is one of two Chilean fighters who will represent his country next Friday in Combate Peru, The first Combate Americas&#8216; event in South America, and until this moment in his professional career, we could say that he is a hard nut to crack. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BmQ2yddlCGD\/ All fighters think the same, there is&#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":[3049],"tags":[3949,4520,4521],"class_list":["post-5525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-combate-peru-2","tag-combate-peru","tag-eduardo-torres-en","tag-rodrigo-vera-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525","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=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}