{"id":6331,"date":"2019-06-12T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2019-06-12T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:55:07","slug":"dj-fuentes-returns-to-his-home-state-of-texas-looking-for-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/dj-fuentes-returns-to-his-home-state-of-texas-looking-for-redemption","title":{"rendered":"DJ Fuentes Returns to his Home State of Texas Looking for Redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/david-fuentes\">David &#8220;DJ&#8221; Fuentes<\/a> (13-11)<\/strong> will have the home state advantage as he faces <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/tag\/cee-jay-hamilton\">Cee Jay &#8220;The Autobot&#8221; Hamilton<\/a> (14-7)<\/strong> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/events\/combate-40\"><strong>\u201cTS-1 Promotions presents: Combate Americas Hidalgo\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting out of McAllen, Texas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/david-fuentes\"><strong>DJ Fuentes<\/strong><\/a> is returning to Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) after a 14 months break.\u00a0 This will be his third fight inside &#8220;La Jaula,&#8221; since he joined the promotion in 2017.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u00a1DJ Fuentes regresa pronto!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TuesdayPic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TuesdayPic<\/a> \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffd <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9xdkxV8TrO\">pic.twitter.com\/9xdkxV8TrO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Combate Global (@combateglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/combateglobal\/status\/968515485896663040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/events\/combate-40\"><strong>\u201cTS-1 Promotions presents: Combate Americas Hidalgo\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0will be held Friday, June 21, and will be broadcast live on Spanish television in the U.S. both on\u00a0<strong>Univision<\/strong>\u00a0(12 am ET \/ PT) and\u00a0<strong>UDN<\/strong>\u00a0(12 am ET \/ 9 pm PT), as well as in English in USA and Canada on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/watch.dazn.com\/en-US\/sports\/\">DAZN<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(11 pm ET \/ 8 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/david-fuentes\">Fuentes<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is an experienced and veteran MMA fighter who trains at <strong>Ohana Academy<\/strong> in Texas, where he fights alongside of professional fighter <strong>Alexander Hernandez<\/strong> and his brother, professional boxer <strong>Randy Fuentes<\/strong>. With more than 10 years of competing as a professional, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/david-fuentes\">DJ<\/a> <\/strong>has a record of 13 wins and 11 losses, winning 69% of the time via TKO (4) or submission (5).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/david-fuentes\">DJ Fuentes<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; arrival to <strong>Combate Americas<\/strong> came in late 2017, after riding a 4-win-streak, with 2 of them by TKO. He entered &#8220;La Jaula&#8221; to face <strong>Joel Scott<\/strong> in <strong>Combate 19<\/strong>, whom he dominated easily, showing strong boxing, kickboxing and an impeccable wrestling base.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CombateAmericas\/videos\/1804916926234443\/<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/david-fuentes\">Fuentes<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0had defeated <strong>Erik Perez<\/strong> by submission via arm bar around eight years ago, and in his second fight in <strong>Combate Americas<\/strong>,\u00a0 he faced &#8220;El Goyito&#8221; once again. As the <strong>Combate Estrellas<\/strong> main event in 2018, <strong>Perez<\/strong> had a strong showing, winning via KO in the third round, giving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/david-fuentes\"><strong>Fuentes<\/strong> <\/a>his first defeat in more than 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CombateAmericas\/videos\/1884299804962821\/<\/p>\n<p>In this upcoming fight, <strong>DJ Fuentes<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t plan on letting &#8220;ring rust&#8221; affect him. He&#8217;s facing another MMA veteran, who is making his <strong>Combate Americas<\/strong>&#8216; debut. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/tag\/cee-jay-hamilton\"><strong>Cee Jay Hamilton<\/strong><\/a> is entering into &#8220;La Jaula&#8221; with a lot of momentum after a submission-win early this year. <strong>Hamilton<\/strong>\u00a0has a 14-7 record with six finishes, including 4 knockouts and 2 submissions.<\/p>\n<p>The fight between these two experienced batamweight fighters will be marked by the similarity of their styles. <strong>Fuentes<\/strong>, likes the standing battle, using front kicks to keep the distance and quick entries to connect with his fists; <strong>Hamilton,<\/strong> on the other hand, has an explosive style and an incredible athletic ability, which he uses to power-up strikes inside the pocket, and complements all that with very strong Muay Thai techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Can DJ Fuentes vindicate himself after his last loss against &#8220;El Goyito&#8221;?\u00a0 Or will Hamilton&#8217;s momentum propel him to a victory in his <strong>Combate Americas<\/strong> debut?<\/p>\n<p>For more information and how to get tickets, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/events\/combate-40\"><strong>\u201cTS-1 Promotions presents: Combate Americas Hidalgo\u201d<\/strong><\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David &#8220;DJ&#8221; Fuentes (13-11) will have the home state advantage as he faces Cee Jay &#8220;The Autobot&#8221; Hamilton (14-7) in \u201cTS-1 Promotions presents: Combate Americas Hidalgo\u201d\u00a0in less than two weeks. Fighting out of McAllen, Texas, DJ Fuentes is returning to Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) after a 14 months break.\u00a0 This will be his third fight&#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":[4024],"tags":[5195,5194,4579,204,69],"class_list":["post-6331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-combate-texas-2","tag-cee-jay-hamilton-en","tag-cj-hamilton","tag-combate-texas-en","tag-david-dj-fuentes-2","tag-dj-fuentes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","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=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}