{"id":6945,"date":"2019-06-27T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combateamericas.com\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2019-06-27T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T20:45:08","slug":"hector-sandoval-challenges-bantamweight-champion-gustavo-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/hector-sandoval-challenges-bantamweight-champion-gustavo-lopez","title":{"rendered":"Hector Sandoval Challenges Bantamweight Champion Gustavo Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexican-American fighter Hector “Kid Alex” Sandoval<\/a> (15-4)<\/strong> publicly challenged the 135-pound Combate Americas<\/strong>‘ champion Gustavo Lopez<\/a> (10-4)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BzJc3_aAAQd\/<\/p>\n

Combate Americas <\/strong>recently asked fans who should be the next rival to face Lopez.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Sandoval<\/a> <\/strong>used this opportunity to offer himself as the next challenger.\u00a0Sandoval<\/a> <\/strong>concluded by asking Combate Americas’<\/strong> CEO Campbell McLaren<\/strong> to organize a title fight.<\/p>\n

“Gustavo<\/a> <\/strong>is a cool guy,” Sandoval<\/a><\/strong> stated in the Combate Americas Instagram post. \u00a0“I’ll take his belt though. McLaren set it up!”<\/p>\n

Sandoval<\/a> <\/strong>came to Combate Americas with a 14-4 record, where six of his victories have been finishes, including four knockouts and two submissions. In his promotional debut, he dominated the fight and won via unanimous decision over Jorge Calvo Martin<\/strong>, sending a clear message to the 125-pound division.<\/p>\n

The bantamweight champion pointed out that although Sandoval<\/a><\/strong> has performed well in the 125-division, he is not necessarily ready to take on the 135-division.<\/p>\n

“You’re a cool guy too Sandoval,” Lopez<\/a> <\/strong>responded to Sandoval’s<\/a> <\/strong>comment. “Good luck with trying to get the 125 belt first. Keep doing your things. I’ll keep doing mine”.<\/p>\n

Lopez<\/a><\/strong> won the bantamweight title last march in his rematch against Jose “El Pochito” Alday<\/a> (13-4-1)<\/strong>, whom he beat via first-round TKO<\/strong> taking home Combate Americas’ gold.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CombateAmericas\/videos\/276208293291490\/<\/p>\n

Who will be the next to face Lopez<\/a><\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mexican-American fighter Hector “Kid Alex” Sandoval (15-4) publicly challenged the 135-pound Combate Americas‘ champion Gustavo Lopez (10-4). https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BzJc3_aAAQd\/ Combate Americas recently asked fans who should be the next rival to face Lopez.\u00a0Sandoval used this opportunity to offer himself as the next challenger.\u00a0Sandoval concluded by asking Combate Americas’ CEO Campbell McLaren to organize a title fight….<\/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":[5753,3705],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gustavo-lopez-en","tag-hector-sandoval-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945","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=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}