Maritza Sanchez vs. Kate Bacik Headlines ‘Combate Female’ Six Fight Event on Thursday, March 13, Live on YouTube From Miami
Combate Global all-women’s fight card will consist of six bouts, including the previously announced MMA debut of three-time Mexican boxing champion, Kenia Enriquez, who will take on Hayley Valentine at strawweight.
Combate Global has announced its complete lineup of six fights for its ‘Combate Female’ all-women’s MMA event that will mark the company’s first show to stream live in both English and Spanish, on YouTube.
Combate Global has a YouTube channel for Spanish as well as a separate channel for English.
In a 130-pound catchweight main event, Maritza Sanchez (6-1) will face Kate “Queen of the South” Bacik (5-2).
“Global interest in women’s sports is exploding, and ‘Combate Female’ is the most explosive version of women in competition,” said COMBATE GLOBAL CEO Campbell McLaren.
Above: Yazmin Najera (right) will look for her fifth professional victory at ‘Combate Female’
The 27-year-old Sanchez of Placerville, Calif. is a member of Urijah Faber’s Team Alpha Male and one of the hottest new stars in the women’s field of fighting.
Sanchez has been riding a six-fight win streak while showcasing her knockout power along the way since February 2020.
Fighting out of London, England, Bacik is a 31-year-old former undefeated amateur competitor and member of Great Britain Top Team.
Bacik is aiming to rebound from a defeat at the hands of Thalita Soares in December that snapped a five-fight win streak for Bacik.
In atomweight (105 pounds) co-main event action and a USA vs. Mexico showdown, undefeated knockout artist Janet Garcia (3-0) will collide with Mexican prodigy Nicole Geraldo (6-1).
Garcia, a 33-year-old Mexican American resident of San Jose, Calif. and member of Javier Mendez’s Team AKA, is a veteran of several dozen Muay Thai fights in addition to being in the middle of a perfect run, to date, in MMA competition.
Garcia’s last COMBATE GLOBAL start saw her score a second round (4:20) TKO on Spain’s Andrea Meneses with a series of elbow and knee strikes on June 22, 2024.
Like Garcia, the 26-year-old Geraldo of Mexico City is coming off a victory in her last effort, a unanimous decision over Solangel Vera on November 1, 2024.
To date, Geraldo has never been knocked out or submitted in either professional or amateur MMA competition.
In a previously announced strawweight (115 pounds) featured matchup, three-time professional boxing champion Kenia Enriquez (0-0 MMA; 28-1, 11 KO’s Boxing) of Tijuana, B.C., Mexico will make her much-anticipated MMA rules debut against undefeated Hayley “Bloody” Valentine (5-0) of Northampton, England.
In other action that was announced today for the ‘Combate Female’ fight card, Yazmin “La Niña Árbol” Najera (4-1) of Mexico City will face off with Wiktoria Wojciechowska (3-2) of Mosina, Poland in a flyweight (125 pounds) bout.
Rising star and unbeaten professional boxer Sayury Cañon (4-1) of Bogota, Colombia will square off at strawweight against veteran and former world championship challenger Nicdali Rivera-Calanoc (10-11) of Boca Raton, Fla.
Kicking off the card will be another strawweight battle between unbeaten upstarts, Sharon Martinez (1-0) of Managua, Nicaragua and Claudia “La Lobita” Pizarro (1-0) of Santiago, Chile.
Last week, COMBATE GLOBAL announced a transition to worldwide distribution of its live, premium Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) events on YouTube, beginning with the ‘Combate Female’ show.
COMBATE GLOBAL will be YouTube’s first premium producer of live MMA programming for global distribution.
