{"id":5845,"date":"2019-06-01T00:37:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T07:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2019-06-01T00:37:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T07:37:15","slug":"mexico-and-chile-shine-in-combate-perus-preliminary-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/mexico-and-chile-shine-in-combate-perus-preliminary-card","title":{"rendered":"Mexico and Chile shine in Combate Peru&#8217;s Preliminary Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Combate Peru&#8217; preliminary card paved the way for the main card after featuring 5 finishes out of 7 bouts, where Chile and Mexico&#8217;s fighters took home the important victories.<\/p>\n<p>Directly from <strong>Coliseo Manuel Bonilla <\/strong>in Lima, Peru, <strong>Combate Americas<\/strong> presented <strong>Combate Peru<\/strong>, the first event on South American soil and first of its class in the host country. The event was broadcasted live in the United States and Canada by <strong>DAZN<\/strong>, as well as by <strong>Univisi\u00f3n and Univisi\u00f3n Deportes<\/strong>. Peru enjoyed the whole card via telecast nationwide through <strong>Movistar Deportes<\/strong> and Latin America enjoyed it via <strong>Facebook Watch<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary card had fighters from 5 different countries where Chile, Mexico and the host country, Peru, stood out. Starting the night was Chilean veteran fighter, <strong>Jennifer Gonzalez (12-5)<\/strong>, who defeated local fighter <strong>Dana Zighelbolm Grau (2-1)<\/strong> via submission (arm bar) in just 83 seconds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf1 CHI CHI &#8211; LE LE. Relive Jennifer Gonzalez&#39;s victory in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CombatePeru?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CombatePeru<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EZRYTYMr4g\">pic.twitter.com\/EZRYTYMr4g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Combate Global (@combateglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/combateglobal\/status\/1134641365852315652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With this victory, Gonzalez gets her 6-straight-consecutive victory, and the most surprising thing is that she had not fought in over a year. The last time Gonzalez lost a fight was in December of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Later, one of Mexico&#8217;s and Combate Americas&#8217;\u00a0 most promising fighters continued his ascend in the bantamweight division, when <strong>David Martinez (3-0)<\/strong> defeated Peruvian William Sanchez (0-1) in devastating fashion by TKO, in just 56 seconds of the very first round.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">David Mart\u00ednez derrota a William S\u00e1nchez v\u00eda TKO a los 0:56 del R1<\/p>\n<p>En Vivo \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XlvJS2kemc\">https:\/\/t.co\/XlvJS2kemc<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CombatePer%C3%BA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CombatePer\u00fa<\/a>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddea <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lRL1chcXHa\">pic.twitter.com\/lRL1chcXHa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Combate Global (@combateglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/combateglobal\/status\/1134640944089882624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another Chilean fighter who left his mark inside &#8220;La Jaula&#8221; was <strong>Eduardo &#8220;Cyborg&#8221; Torres (10-0)<\/strong>, who took home a unanimous decision win over <strong>Rodrigo &#8220;El Gato Loco&#8221; Vera (8-1)<\/strong>. It is his second victory inside Combate Americas, and he extended his unbeaten record to 10-0.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Eduardo Torres derrota a Rodrigo Vera v\u00eda Decisi\u00f3n Un\u00e1nime (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)<\/p>\n<p>En Vivo \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XlvJS2kemc\">https:\/\/t.co\/XlvJS2kemc<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CombatePer%C3%BA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CombatePer\u00fa<\/a>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddea <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CS1aBqFflS\">pic.twitter.com\/CS1aBqFflS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Combate Global (@combateglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/combateglobal\/status\/1134662872561332224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Peruvian fighters also had their share of the moment, <strong>Jos\u00e9 Ochoa (3-0)<\/strong> earned an important victory in his Combate Americas&#8217; debut, defeating <strong>Omar Torres (2-1) <\/strong>by second round KO, after connecting a tremendous head kick.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New country, same <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CombateAmericas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@combateamericas<\/a> action \ud83d\udca5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LIZhfKS7Qn\">pic.twitter.com\/LIZhfKS7Qn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DAZNBoxing\/status\/1134632988132696066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Also, Peruvian <strong>Renzo M\u00e9ndez (13-6),<\/strong> won in impressive fashion over Colombian <strong>Andres Ayala<\/strong>, after opening a cut on Ayala&#8217;s face provoking the referee to stop the action at the end of the second round.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Revive la \u00e9pica batalla entre Andr\u00e9s Ayala y Renzo Mendez, sin dudas, una de las mejores de la noche\ud83d\udc4a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CombatePer%C3%BA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CombatePer\u00fa<\/a>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddea <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L0ZtIyYnfR\">pic.twitter.com\/L0ZtIyYnfR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Combate Global (@combateglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/combateglobal\/status\/1134663014060363781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of fans who attended the event, and thousands more watching from home, enjoyed an incredible preliminary card that excited everyone and had them waiting for much more action in the main card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combate Peru&#8217; preliminary card paved the way for the main card after featuring 5 finishes out of 7 bouts, where Chile and Mexico&#8217;s fighters took home the important victories. Directly from Coliseo Manuel Bonilla in Lima, Peru, Combate Americas presented Combate Peru, the first event on South American soil and first of its class in&#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":[],"class_list":["post-5845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-combate-peru-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845","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=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}