Combate Americas: Combate Peru complete card announced
‘Combate Peru’ airs live on television in Spanish in the U.S. on both Univision and UDN, and in English in the U.S. and Canada on DAZN.
Combate Americas today announced the completion of a 10-bout fight card, including a new main event, for its much-anticipated debut in South America with the largest-scale MM) event in Peru history, at Coliseo Manuel Bonilla in the capital city of Lima, on Friday, May 31. The flagship show will mark Combate Americas’ entry into a third country and second continent with its aggressively expanding live television event series.
In the new lightweight (155 pounds) main event, previously announced, undefeated Daniel Golden Boy Zellhuber (6-0) will collide with fellow unbeaten, rising star Gian Franco Cortez (4-0). The 19-year-old Zellhuber of Mexico City, Mexico was originally slated to face Rolando Bedoya (11-1), but Bedoya has since withdrawn from the commitment. Fighting out of Lima, the 22-year-old Cortez is coming off a spectacular, first round (1:35) TKO (punches) of Steven Muñoz on March 23. Cortez made his professional debut on October 7, 2017, scoring a knockout on Benji Ayala just 15 seconds into the first round of action.
The previously announced co-main event between Marlon Deriko Siete Gonzales (14-4-2) Lima and Pablo Villaseca (14-5) of Santiago, Chile will be contested at a catchweight of 150 pounds.
Also announced today was a new bantamweight (135 pounds) matchup between undefeated David The Black Spartan Martinez (3-0) of Mexico City and William Sanchez (0-0) of Lima. Sanchez will make his professional debut after a nearly untarnished, 5-1 run as an amateur. Martinez was originally slated to face 2017 COPA COMBATE tournament competitor Kevin El Frio Moreyra (4-2) of Lima before Moreyra’s camp determined he would no longer be able to make the contracted weight of the bout.
Moreyra will move up to the next weight class, featherweight (145 pounds), and will square off with Bruno Jacunda Pereira (10-6-1) of Lima via Macapa, Amapa, Brazil in a ‘Combate Peru’ preliminary card bout.
In other preliminary card action announced today, fellow Lima competitors Yuri Valenzuela (12-6-1) and Vicente Vargas (10-4) will face off at bantamweight, while unbeaten upstarts Jose Alberto Ochoa (2-0) of Lima and Omar Torres (2-0) of Arequipa, Peru will battle each other in a flyweight (125 pounds) affair.
‘Combate Peru’ airs live on television in Spanish in the U.S. on both Univision (12 a.m. ET/PT) and UDN (12 a.m. ET/9 p.m.PT), and in English in the U.S. and Canada on DAZN (10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT).
Main Card
Daniel Zellhuber vs. Gian Franco Cortez
Marlon Gonzales vs. Pablo Villaseca
Alitzel Mariscal vs. Maria Paola Buzaglo
Prelim Card
Rodrigo Vera vs. Eduardo Torres
Renzo Mendez vs. Andres Ayala
Kevin Moreyra vs. Bruno Pereira
Yuri Valenzuela vs. Vicente Vargas
Jennifer Gonzalez vs. Dana Zighelboim Grau
Martinez vs. William Sanchez
Jose Alberto Ochoa vs. Omar Torres