{"id":6418,"date":"2019-06-17T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/?p=6418"},"modified":"2019-06-17T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T21:48:00","slug":"a-mexican-clash-yazmin-jauregui-calls-out-super-mely-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/a-mexican-clash-yazmin-jauregui-calls-out-super-mely-martinez","title":{"rendered":"A Mexican Clash? &#8211; Yazmin Jauregui Calls Out &#8220;Super Mely&#8221; Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Combate Americas&#8217;<\/strong> strawweight division is heating up! Mexico&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/yasmine-jauregui\">Yazmin Jauregui<\/a> (3-0) <\/strong>is looking to continue to rise within Combte Americas&#8217; ranks, possibly by taking on the division&#8217;s star, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/melissa-martinez\">Melissa &#8220;Super Mely&#8221; Martinez<\/a> (6-0)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/yasmine-jauregui\"><strong>Jauregui<\/strong><\/a> debuted with the promotion in April this year for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/events\/combate-36\"><strong>Combate Reinas<\/strong><\/a>, an event in which she shared <strong>&#8220;La Jaula&#8221;<\/strong> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/melissa-martinez\"><strong>Martinez<\/strong><\/a>. With a 1-0 record, the fighter born in Tijuana, Baja California, defeated <strong>Daniela Espinosa<\/strong> decisively. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/yasmine-jauregui\"><strong>Jauregui<\/strong> <\/a>finished the fight in just 13 seconds, managing to knock down her opponent with a vicious short left hook, forcing the referee to stop the fight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6434\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6434\" src=\"http:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Yazmin-Juaregui-vs-Daniela-Espinoza_205-1024x921.jpg\" alt=\"Yasmine Jauregui vs. Daniela Espinosa\" width=\"640\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Yazmin-Juaregui-vs-Daniela-Espinoza_205-1024x921.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Yazmin-Juaregui-vs-Daniela-Espinoza_205-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Yazmin-Juaregui-vs-Daniela-Espinoza_205-768x691.jpg 768w, https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Yazmin-Juaregui-vs-Daniela-Espinoza_205-250x225.jpg 250w, https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Yazmin-Juaregui-vs-Daniela-Espinoza_205-500x450.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yazmin Jauregui vs. Daniela Espinosa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Expectations were high for the 19-year-old fighter, as she entered &#8220;La Jaula&#8221; for the second time, facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/events\/combate-36\"><strong>Mckenna Mitchell<\/strong><\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/events\/combate-39\"><strong>&#8220;Combate Americas: Tucson Unbreakable, presented by Cricket Wireless&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> event.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/yasmine-jauregui\"><strong>Jauregui<\/strong> <\/a>did not disappoint. Through 10 minutes of action, the Mexican warrior was able to connect multiple times with <strong>Mitchell&#8217;s<\/strong> face, including strikes from the ground, injuring her right eye and taking the victory via doctor stoppage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Saved by the bell in the second round!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CombateUnbreakable?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CombateUnbreakable<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AF392bUwBI\">pic.twitter.com\/AF392bUwBI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Combate Global (@combateglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/combateglobal\/status\/1137222328423600128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now, with two consecutive, devastating victories, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/yasmine-jauregui\"><strong>Jauregui<\/strong> <\/a>is lobbying for a fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/melissa-martinez\"><strong>Martinez<\/strong> <\/a>. In a Combate Americas&#8217; interview, the charismatic fighter challenged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/melissa-martinez\"><strong>Martinez.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel very happy to be able to fight in this company,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/yasmine-jauregui\"><strong>Jauregui<\/strong> <\/a>said after her fight last week. &#8220;I&#8217;m willing to face [any] woman they put in front of me and be able to step up, but later, I&#8217;d like to face <strong>Super Mely<\/strong>, who is a woman that I admire so much and does a great job inside the cage. Then, my respects, and I think it would be a great fight for real, later of course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Super Mely&#8221;<\/strong>, who is also from Mexico, is currently undefeated with a 6-0 record (5-wins within Combate Americas), and has finished 4 of his 5 opponents in &#8220;La Jaula&#8221;, two of them in the first round. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/melissa-martinez\"><strong>Martinez&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> last fight had an overwhelming second round TKO victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/caroline-gallardo\"><strong>Caroline Gallardo<\/strong><\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/events\/combate-36\"><strong>Combate Reinas<\/strong><\/a> main event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u00a1Revive el nocaut de Melissa Mart\u00ednez en lo que fue su sexta victoria consecutiva! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CombateReinas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CombateReinas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qLDBaN9NWx\">pic.twitter.com\/qLDBaN9NWx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Combate Global (@combateglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/combateglobal\/status\/1121994683582795778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/yasmine-jauregui\"><strong>Jauregui<\/strong><\/a> will be given a chance to take on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/en\/fighters\/melissa-martinez\"><strong>Martinez<\/strong><\/a>, a well-positioned star inside Combate Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combate Americas&#8217; strawweight division is heating up! Mexico&#8217;s Yazmin Jauregui (3-0) is looking to continue to rise within Combte Americas&#8217; ranks, possibly by taking on the division&#8217;s star, Melissa &#8220;Super Mely&#8221; Martinez (6-0). Jauregui debuted with the promotion in April this year for Combate Reinas, an event in which she shared &#8220;La Jaula&#8221; with Martinez&#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":[3019],"tags":[74,5282],"class_list":["post-6418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-melissa-martinez","tag-yasmine-jauregui-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418","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=6418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}