{"id":72023,"date":"2019-10-08T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-combate-americas-announces-winner-take-all-showdown-for-title-belts\/"},"modified":"2019-10-08T09:06:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:06:11","slug":"combate-americas-anuncia-el-ganador-lo-toma-todo-confrontacion-por-los-cinturones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/combate-americas-anuncia-el-ganador-lo-toma-todo-confrontacion-por-los-cinturones\/","title":{"rendered":"Combate Americas Announces &#8216;Winner Take All&#8217; Showdown For Title Belts"},"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\">Oct. 8, 2019<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Combate Americas, the world&#8217;s premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports and media franchise, today announced the details as well as an unprecedented challenge for the most highly-anticipated fight of the year between legendary combat sports icons <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Tito Ortiz<\/span><\/b> and <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Alberto El Patr<\/span><\/b><b>\u00f3<\/b><b>n <\/b>(formerly &#8220;<span class=\"xn-person\">Alberto Del Rio<\/span>&#8221; of the WWE).<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg992bleft\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg992bleft\" title=\" \" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1007257\/Combate_Americas_LLC_Tito_Alberto.jpg\" imagelabel=\"General\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Ortiz, an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Hall of Fame member, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and pioneer of the sport, will square off with multiple-time WWE Heavyweight Champion, former Pan American Games Greco Roman wrestling medalist and former PRIDE MMA star, El Patr\u00f3n, in a live, national Pay-Per-View television broadcast from <span class=\"xn-person\">Payne Arena<\/span> in <span class=\"xn-location\">Hidalgo, Texas<\/span> on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Saturday, Dec. 7<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Priced from <span class=\"xn-money\">$30<\/span>, tickets for the event go on sale on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Friday, Oct. 11<\/span> at <span class=\"xn-chron\">10 a.m. CT<\/span> at Ticketmaster.com. <\/p>\n<p>It was also announced today that the two, who will face off at a 210-pound catchweight, have agreed to an unprecedented and historic &#8220;winner take all&#8221; title belt challenge. <\/p>\n<p>If Ortiz emerges victorious in the bout, he will take possession of El Patr\u00f3n&#8217;s WWE title belt. If El Patr\u00f3n wins the fight, however, Ortiz will relinquish possession of his UFC title belt to his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a one-of-a-kind, larger than life fight\u2013 one of the greatest MMA superstars of all-time, facing off with one of professional wrestling&#8217;s most decorated champions and an accomplished MMA fighter in his own right,&#8221; said Combate Americas CEO <b>Campbell McLaren<\/b>. &#8220;On top of all that, these two legends are putting their belts where their mouths are. It&#8217;s the type of fight that comes around once or twice in a lifetime, and Combate Americas is going to deliver it to fans worldwide from the U.S.-<span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span> border.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest pay-per-view television draws in MMA history, Ortiz of <span class=\"xn-location\">Huntington Beach, Calif.<\/span> has produced some of the sport&#8217;s most memorable moments while facing off with nearly every major rival in his weight class and defeating the likes of <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Ryan Bader<\/span><\/b>, <b>Ken Shamrock<\/b>, <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Forrest Griffin<\/span><\/b> and <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Stephan Bonnar<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz&#8217;s status in the sport has garnered him starring roles in three different hit reality television shows \u2013<i>The Celebrity Apprentice<\/i> hosted by <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/b>, and two different seasons of the UFC&#8217;s <i>The Ultimate Fighter<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz is coming off a first round knockout of fellow UFC Hall of Famer and former world champion <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Chuck Liddell<\/span><\/b> in <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span> last <span class=\"xn-chron\">November 24<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Born in <span class=\"xn-location\">San Luis Potosi<\/span>, SLP, <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>, into one of the most famous <span class=\"xn-person\">Lucha Libre<\/span> family dynasties, El Patr\u00f3n, who resides in <span class=\"xn-location\">San Antonio, Texas<\/span>, has blazed a trail to superstardom in his own manner, establishing himself as a force in three different combat sports \u2013 Greco Roman wrestling, American professional wrestling and MMA.<\/p>\n<p>El Patr\u00f3n is the only athlete in history to win two of the WWE&#8217;s most coveted titles \u2013 the &#8220;Royal Rumble&#8221; and the &#8220;Money in the Bank&#8221; ladder match &#8211; in the same year (2011). <\/p>\n<p>Competing under his <span class=\"xn-person\">Lucha Libre<\/span> name, &#8220;Dos Caras, Jr.&#8221; and training under former UFC and Vale Tudo champion <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Marco Ruas<\/span><\/b>, El Patr\u00f3n crossed over into the world of MMA, where he fought under the promotion of the former number one MMA franchise in the world, PRIDE, and earned all of his career victories by way of (T)KO or submission. <\/p>\n<p>El Patr\u00f3n announced last October that he had returned to MMA training and was intent on competing for Combate Americas. <\/p>\n<p>He has since re-located for training camp to <span class=\"xn-location\">Glendale, Ariz.<\/span>, the home of former UFC star and fellow Mexican American <b>Javier &#8220;Chunty Boy&#8221; Torres<\/b>&#8216; MMA camp, where El Patr\u00f3n has been preparing for his MMA return with former Ortiz opponent Bader as well as with former UFC star and NCAA Division I All-American wrestler <b>C.B. Dollaway<\/b>, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Since launching its live event series in 2015, Combate Americas has catapulted to the top of the food chain in the sport of MMA, consistently beating the television ratings of general market competitors in the U.S., and amassing millions of television viewers regularly across <span class=\"xn-location\">Latin America<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Spain<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Combate Americas live television programming has also attracted almost an entirely new audience to the sport. According to Nielsen research produced this year, over 90 percent of Combate Americas&#8217; television audience in the U.S. is comprised of viewers that do not watch general market MMA programming.<\/p>\n<p><b>ABOUT COMBATE AMERICAS<br \/><\/b>Combate Americas is the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise, rapidly becoming the number two sport after soccer, for Spanish speaking fans worldwide. The Combate Americas franchise includes live event and original shoulder programming on some of the biggest television, OTT and digital platforms in Spanish and English, including Univision and Univision Deportes Network (UDN), DAZN, ESPN, GOL, Pluto TV and Facebook Watch worldwide. The company also owns and operates a multi-platform media studio, La Jaula Studios. This event is not sponsored or affiliated with WWE or UFC.<\/p>\n<p>Combate Americas CEO Campbell McLaren, also the co-founder\/co-creator of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), has been described by New York Magazine as &#8220;the marketing genius behind the UFC,&#8221; while Yahoo Sports has said he &#8220;knows more about the sport than just about anyone in it today.&#8221; With an unprecedented and cutting edge product and a blue-chip ownership and management team, Combate Americas is poised to break new ground and bring about a new era in world championship level MMA competition.<\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2603639-1&amp;h=3286055181&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1007257%2FCombate_Americas_LLC_Tito_Alberto.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1007257%2FCombate_Americas_LLC_Tito_Alberto.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1007257\/Combate_Americas_LLC_Tito_Alberto.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p\/>\n<p>SOURCE  Combate Americas LLC<\/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\">Oct. 8, 2019<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Combate Americas, the world&#8217;s premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports and media franchise, today announced the details as well as an unprecedented challenge for the most highly-anticipated fight of the year between legendary combat sports icons <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Tito Ortiz<\/span><\/b> and <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Alberto El Patr<\/span><\/b><b>\u00f3<\/b><b>n <\/b>(formerly &#8220;<span class=\"xn-person\">Alberto Del Rio<\/span>&#8221; of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72023","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\/72023","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=72023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}