{"id":43772,"date":"2015-12-01T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/combate-americas-hits-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2015-12-01T16:34:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:34:03","slug":"combate-americas-llega-a-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/combate-americas-llega-a-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Combate Americas Hits Hollywood!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 1, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Combate Americas, the first-ever U.S. Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise founded by Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) co-creator Campbell McLaren, today announced that it will make its debut in <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles, Calif.<\/span> with a stellar, nine-bout fight card at Florentine Gardens, live on <b>NBC UNIVERSO<\/b>, the modern entertainment and sports cable channel for Latinos, on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Wednesday, Dec. 16<\/span> at <span class=\"xn-chron\">11 p.m. ET<\/span>\/<span class=\"xn-chron\">8 p.m. PT<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg61eeleft\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg61eeleft\" title=\"NBC UNIVERSO Logo \" border=\"0\" alt=\"NBC UNIVERSO Logo \" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnvar\/20150716\/237654LOGO\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This event represents Combate Americas coming of age, and presenting a lineup that is second to none with a collection of the brightest up-and-coming Hispanic fighters in the U.S.,&#8221; said McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>Priced from <span class=\"xn-money\">$40<\/span>, tickets for &#8220;Premier Insurance Services and Aspira Mas Present Combate Americas: Road To The Championship Hollywood,&#8221; are on sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodfightnight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.HollywoodFightNight.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the bantamweight (135 pounds) main event of the live, four-fight telecast on NBC UNIVERSO, <b>John &#8220;Sexy Mexy&#8221; Castaneda<\/b>, fresh off his victory at the inaugural &#8220;Combate Americas: Road To The Championship&#8221; event in <span class=\"xn-location\">Las Vegas, Nev.<\/span> on <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 17<\/span>, will square off with fellow striking sensation <b>Federico &#8220;Kiko&#8221; Lopez<\/b>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Castaneda (8-2), a seasoned striker who hails from <span class=\"xn-location\">Mankato, Minn.<\/span>, earned his third consecutive victory in the form of a unanimous decision over <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Justin Governale<\/span><\/b> in the Combate Americas cage.<\/p>\n<p>A 31-year-old member of Team Quest, Lopez (10-5) of <span class=\"xn-location\">Murrieta, Calif.<\/span> is riding a five fight win streak, with four of those victories having come by way of either (T)KO or submission.<\/p>\n<p>In the bantamweight co-main event, Combate Americas reality television series star and power puncher <b>Ricky &#8220;El Gallero&#8221; <span class=\"xn-location\">Palacios<\/span><\/b> will square off with dangerous scrapper <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Anthony Paredes<\/span><\/b> of Murrieta.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">Palacios<\/span> (5-1), a 28-year-old resident of <span class=\"xn-location\">Mission, Texas<\/span> who also boasts an unblemished professional boxing record of 2-0-1, scored a thunderous, first round (1:00) KO on <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Benji Gomez<\/span><\/b> with a head kick at the &#8220;Combate Americas: Road To The Championship&#8221; event on <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 17<\/span>, while the 26-year-old Paredes, another member of Team Quest, is looking to return to the win column after suffering a loss in July that snapped a two-fight win streak.<\/p>\n<p>In a featured women&#8217;s atomweight (105 pounds) attraction on the live telecast, <b>Kyra &#8220;Mogwai&#8221; Batara<\/b> will collide with <b>&#8220;Lightning&#8221; <span class=\"xn-person\">Liz McCarthy<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting out of <span class=\"xn-location\">Las Vegas<\/span>, Batara (3-3) is a 21-year-old protege of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu guru <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Eddie Bravo<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0 During the &#8220;Combate Americas: Road To The Championship&#8221; event in <span class=\"xn-location\">Las Vegas<\/span>, Batara pulled off a stunning upset win via unanimous decision over <b>Nicdali Rivera-Calanoc<\/b>, a former world championship challenger with five times as many professional bouts as Batara.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old McCarthy (2-3), also fighting out of <span class=\"xn-location\">Las Vegas<\/span>, is a four-time veteran of Invicta FC, the world&#8217;s premier all-women&#8217;s MMA league.\u00a0\u00a0 Prior to her professional debut at Invicta FC 2 where she defeated <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Jessica Philippus<\/span><\/b> by way of first round (5:00) TKO (doctor stoppage) on <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 28, 2012<\/span>, McCarthy amassed a perfect, 6-0 record as an amateur.<\/p>\n<p>The live NBC UNIVERSO telecast will kick off with a featherweight (145 pounds) matchup between <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Urijah Faber<\/span><\/b> protege and prolific finisher <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Erick Sanchez<\/span><\/b> (5-2) of <span class=\"xn-location\">Sacramento, Calif.<\/span> and fellow rising star <b>&#8220;Ruthless&#8221; <span class=\"xn-person\">Rudy Morales<\/span><\/b> (3-3) of <span class=\"xn-location\">Las Vegas<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The complete, five-bout preliminary card for &#8220;Combate Americas: Road To The Championship Hollywood&#8221; will be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>Doors at Florentine Gardens open at <span class=\"xn-chron\">5 p.m. PT<\/span> for the event, and the first preliminary bout will begin at <span class=\"xn-chron\">6 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><u>ABOUT COMBATE AMERICAS<br \/><\/u><\/b>Combate Americas, LLC. is the first\u00a0U.S. Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)\u00a0sports franchise in history, designed to build Latino fighting\u00a0champions and serve Hispanic fans,\u00a0one of the world&#8217;s\u00a0most avid groups of\u00a0prize fighting\u00a0enthusiasts.\u00a0 The Combate Americas franchise\u00a0includes reality TV programming, live events and mobile programming.\u00a0 The company&#8217;s CEO, Campbell McLaren, is universally recognized as\u00a0the co-founder\/co-creator of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).\u00a0 New York Magazine\u00a0described McLaren as\u00a0&#8220;the marketing genius behind the UFC&#8221; and Yahoo! Sports proclaimed that he &#8220;knows more about the sport than just about anyone in it today.&#8221;\u00a0 With an unprecedented product and a blue-chip ownership and management team, Combate Americas\u00a0is poised to break new ground and\u00a0bring about a new era in world championship level MMA competition.<\/p>\n<p><b>About NBC UNIVERSO:<br \/><\/b>NBC UNIVERSO\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/heaqgcrq\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/fwjybbdr\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/nqrztncq\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/vjrdzjer\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/ugvvcqar\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/iszcvmaq\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/jwgeolxo\/www.nbcuniverso.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.nbcuniverso.com<\/a>) is a modern entertainment and sports cable channel for Latinos, bringing the world&#8217;s top sports franchises and edgy programming to more than 40 million households in the U.S. As one of the most widely available modern cable channels for U.S. Latinos, NBC UNIVERSO delivers a thrilling mix of exclusive sports action \u2013 including FIFA World Cup\u2122, Liga MX, Premier League, NASCAR Mexico Series, NFL and The 2016 Rio Olympics \u2013 along with signature series, blockbuster movies, music, must-see live events and strategic acquisitions, on TV, online and mobile devices. NBC UNIVERSO is part of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/heaqgcrq\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/fwjybbdr\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/nqrztncq\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/vjrdzjer\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/ugvvcqar\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/iszcvmaq\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/jwgeolxo\/www.nbcuniversal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.nbcuniversal.com<\/a>), one of the world&#8217;s leading media and entertainment companies. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comcastcorporation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.comcastcorporation.com<\/a>). To find the NBC UNIVERSO channel number in your area, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcuniverso.com\/encuentralo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.nbcuniverso.com\/encuentralo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20150716\/237654LOGO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20150716\/237654LOGO<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 1, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Combate Americas, the first-ever U.S. Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise founded by Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) co-creator Campbell McLaren, today announced that it will make its debut in <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles, Calif.<\/span> with a stellar, nine-bout fight card at Florentine Gardens, live on <b>NBC UNIVERSO<\/b>, the modern entertainment and sports cable channel for Latinos, on &lt;span&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entretenimiento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}