COMBATE GLOBAL ANNOUNCES WOMEN’S MMA SHOWDOWN ‘QUEEN OR NOTHING’

PARAMOUNT+ COVERAGE BEGINS
WITH A COMBATE GLOBAL PRE-SHOW AT 10:30 PM ET;
FIRST BOUT BEGINS AT 11:00 PM ET

NEW YORK – September 19, 2022 – Combate World has introduced a ladies’s flyweight (125 kilos) foremost occasion contest between two fierce rivals – Lucero “La Loba” Acosta (2-2) and Mariel Celimen (2-1) – for Saturday, Sept. 24, on Paramount+ from Miami, Fla.

Paramount+ protection will start with a Combate World pre-show at 10:30 p.m. ET/9:30 p.m. CT, and can proceed with the battle motion, starting at 11:00 p.m. ET/10:00 p.m. CT.

“This battle between ‘La Loba’ and Mariel Celimen would be the most watched ladies’s MMA battle in historical past,” stated Combate World CEO Campbell McLaren.  “and it is going to be a superb indicator so far as which of those reinas (queens) will finally rule the ladies’s flyweight division in Combate World.”

The showdown between the 28-year-old Acosta of Tijuana, B.C., Mexico by way of San Diego, Calif.  and the 26-year-old Celimen of Maracaibo, Venezuela by way of Miami will happen roughly six months after the 2 confronted off as coaching companions on the Miami-based Goat Shed Academy, which Celimen calls dwelling.

What was going to be a routine sparring session that day rapidly became a full-on battle within the cage at Goat Shed after Acosta, who was visiting the gymnasium, landed a straight proper hand that prompted Celimen to take down and try an armbar submission on Acosta.

Above: Archrivals Lucero “La Loba” Acosta (left) and Mariel Celimen (proper)

Acosta is an web sensation whose battle movies and life-style content material have garnered thousands and thousands of views throughout YouTube, Instagram and Snap.

Acosta will enter La Jaula, the Combate World competitors cage, for the primary time in 2022, after a damaged ankle sustained in coaching final November set her again.  Her final victory got here on April 16, 2021, when she scored a primary spherical (2:28) TKO (punches) on Xtreme Couture group member Allysen Breeden.

Like Acosta, Celimen has notched a pair of wins underneath the promotion of Combate World, together with her newest conquest coming within the type of a 3rd spherical (4:09) submission (rear-naked choke) of Tyler Schaefer on April 29.

Celimen’s lone defeat got here on account of being disqualified within the third spherical (2:59) of motion in opposition to Chile’s Jazmin Navarrete after illegally headbutting Navarrete a number of occasions whereas a noticeably annoyed Celimen was in Navarrete’s guard.

The bout between Acosta and Celimen marks the fifth time in 2022 {that a} ladies’s battle will headline a Combate World occasion.

Combate World is producing 30 stay occasions yearly, and has expanded its ladies’s fighter roster significantly since 2021.  The ladies’s division includes one-third of Combate World’s whole roster of over 170 athletes.

In Saturday’s co-main occasion, Javier “Blair” Reyes (14-3) of Bogota, Colombia will collide with Jose “Froggy” Estrada (7-3) of Oxnard, Calif. at featherweight (145 kilos).

The 28-year-old Reyes is the highest featherweight from Colombia, and can look to increase his win streak to 5 consecutive bouts, whereas Estrada, in his first begin this yr, will attempt to rebound from a primary spherical (1:14) submission (armbar) defeat by the hands of Martin “El Toro” Bravo final December 3.

In a featured bantamweight (135 kilos) contest, undefeated Erik Mendez (2-0) of Spokane, Wash. will tackle Anas Azizoun (1-0 MMA; 28-1 kickboxing) of Saint Etienne, France.

Former kickboxing star Jade Jorand (1-2) of Bordeaux, France will return to Combate World motion in a 113-pound catchweight affair with Guilia Ghinello (3-6) of Brugine, Padova, Italy on the preliminary bout card.

Main off the undercard shall be a flyweight matchup between Edwin Sarria (5-4) of Miami and Pablo Caballero (8-9) of Miami.

Further details about Combate World and its athletes might be discovered on www.CombateGlobal.com in addition to on Fb, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.