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NEW YORK \u2013 August 15, 2018<\/strong> \u2013 Combate Americas today announced a live Univision Deportes Network (UDN) telecast (12 a.m. ET\/9 pm. PT) of an event that will be headlined by the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise\u2019s first-ever \u201cCOPA COMBATE\u201d<\/strong> qualifying bouts in Long Beach, Calif. on Friday, Sept. 28.<\/p>\n The \u201cCombate Americas: Camino a Copa Combate\u201d<\/strong> event, which will air live from The Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, will feature a pair of one, five-minute round featherweight (145 pounds) fights, the winners of which represent their respective countries \u2013 the U.S. and Mexico \u2013 in the \u201cCOPA COMBATE,\u201d one-night, eight-man, $100,000 tournament, the date and location of which will be announced soon.<\/p>\n Priced from $30, tickets for \u201cCombate Americas: Camino A Copa Combate\u201d<\/strong> are on sale at The Walter Pyramid\u2019s online ticketing platform, as well at Ticketon.com.<\/p>\n \u201cThese one-round qualifier fights are symbolic of what Combate Americas represents – \u2018Mucha Mas Accion,\u2019 or \u2018Much More Action,\u201d said Combate Americas CEO Campbell McLaren. \u201cFaster-paced fights in a shorter time frame create the most electrifying platform in the sport and, with the opportunity to represent your country in the “COPA COMBATE,\u201d<\/strong> $100,000 grand prize tournament on the line, the intensity will be at an all-new high.\u201d<\/p>\n Facing off with each other in one of the two “Camino a Copa Combate”<\/strong> one, five-minute round, featherweight fights with the right to represent the U.S. in the high-stakes tournament, will be Erick \u201cThe Ghost Pepper\u201d Gonzalez<\/strong> (8-2) and Andres \u201cThe Bullet\u201d Quintana<\/strong> (14-2).<\/p>\n In the second \u2018Camino a Copa\u2019 one-round, five-minute fight, Pablo \u201cEl Gallo Negro\u201d Sabori<\/strong> (8-4) will collide with Alejandro \u201cEl Gallito\u201d Flore<\/strong>s (12-1). The winner of the matchup will represent Mexico in the \u201cCOPA COMBATE\u201d<\/strong> tournament.<\/p>\n The 5-foot-10, 26-year-old Gonzalez of Redondo Beach, Calif. will drop from lightweight (155 pounds) to featherweight for the first time since joining the ranks of Combate Americas, in an effort to qualify for the coveted, one-night tournament.<\/p>\n A relentless battler capable of finishing opponents in any range of combat, Gonzalez has earned six of his eight professional career wins by way of (T)KO or submission, including his last fight in which he avenged a previous, unanimous decision defeat at the hands of Danny \u201cThe Realist\u201d Ramirez by scoring a highlight reel, first-round (3:15) knockout (punches) on Ramirez at \u201cCombate Estrellas\u201d in Los Angeles on April 13.<\/p>\n Quintana, a 6-foot, 27-year-old trailblazer who hails from Roswell, N.M., has been perfect to date in La Jaula, the Combate Americas cage, winning all four of his matchups under the promotional banner since he made his debut last year.<\/p>\n Among Quintana\u2019s conquests in Combate Americas action is a June 30, 2017 unanimous decision win over last year\u2019s \u201cCOPA COMBATE\u201d tournament winner Levy Marroquin, in a bout that took place in the taxing, high altitude of Mexico City, Mexico.<\/p>\n The 5-foot-8, 26-year-old Sabori of San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora is a feared, devastating finisher who boasts a 100 percent finish rate, with all 8 of his professional career wins to date having come by way of knockout or submission, 5 of them inside the first round of action.<\/p>\n In his last start on July 29, 2017 in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, Sabori slugged his way to a third round (3:03) TKO (punches) of Andrew Lagdaan.<\/p>\n Flores is a 5-foot-10, 27-year-old, fast-rising star out of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon who will return to 145 pounds after a phenomenal run in the bantamweight (135 pounds) class.<\/p>\n Flores is riding a four-fight win streak after coasting to victory over Team Grasso standout Victor Madrigal in Combate Americas\u2019 debut live event in Monterrey on April 20. The win marked Flores\u2019 second straight win in La Jaula, since defeating Walter Zamora by way of split decision on March 30, 2017.<\/p>\n An additional matchup for the live televised, main card portion of the Combate Americas world championship event will be announced soon, as will a complete, preliminary bout card.<\/p>\n Doors at The Walter Pyramid will open at 6 p.m. PT on September 28, and the first preliminary bout will begin at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COMBATE AMERICAS ANNOUNCES FIRST-EVER \u201cCOPA COMBATE\u201d TOURNAMENT QUALIFIER BOUTS LIVE ON UNIVISION DEPORTES NETWORK FROM LONG BEACH, CALIF. ON FRIDAY, SEPT. 28 Winners of the one-round, featherweight fights will represent the U.S. and Mexico in the $100,000 grand prize tournament U.S. qualifying bout: Erick Gonzalez vs. Andres Quintana Mexico qualifying bout: Pablo Sabori vs….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copa-combate","category-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combateglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ERICK GONZALEZ VS. 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PABLO SABORI VS. ALEJANDRO FLORES<\/h2>\n