{"id":12976,"date":"2022-08-19T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=12976"},"modified":"2022-08-19T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:23:08","slug":"tito-ortiz-vs-alberto-el-patron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=12976","title":{"rendered":"Tito Ortiz vs. Alberto El Patr\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMBATE AMERICAS ANNOUNCES
\n\u2018WINNER TAKE ALL\u2019 SHOWDOWN FOR TITLE BELTS
\nTITO ORTIZ VS. ALBERTO EL PATR\u00d3N \u2013
\nWHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
\nLEGENDARY ICONS PUT THEIR TITLE BELTS
\nON THE LINE IN HISTORIC AND UNPRECEDENTED MMA SHOWDOWN
\nLIVE ON PAY-PER-VIEW ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7
\nFROM PAYNE ARENA AT U.S.-MEXICO BORDER IN HIDALGO, TEXAS
\nTICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY
\nNEW YORK \u2013 October 8, 2019 \u2013 Combate Americas, the world\u2019s 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 Tito Ortiz and Alberto El Patr\u00f3n (formerly \u201cAlberto Del Rio\u201d of the WWE).
\nOrtiz, 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 Payne Arena in Hidalgo, Texas on Saturday, Dec. 7.
\nPriced from $30, tickets for the event go on sale on Friday, Oct. 11 at 10 a.m. CT at Ticketmaster.com.
\nIt was also announced today that the two, who will face off at a 210-pound catchweight, have agreed to an unprecedented and historic \u201cwinner take all\u201d title belt challenge.
\nIf Ortiz emerges victorious in the bout, he will take possession of El Patr\u00f3n\u2019s WWE title belt. If El Patr\u00f3n wins the fight, however, Ortiz will relinquish possession of his UFC title belt to his opponent.
\n\u201cThis 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\u2019s most decorated champions and an accomplished MMA fighter in his own right,\u201d said Combate Americas CEO Campbell McLaren. \u201cOn top of all that, these two legends are putting their belts where their mouths are. It\u2019s 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.-Mexico border.\u201d
\nOne of the biggest pay-per-view television draws in MMA history, Ortiz of Huntington Beach, Calif. has produced some of the sport\u2019s most memorable moments while facing off with nearly every major rival in his weight class and defeating the likes of Ryan Bader, Ken Shamrock, Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar.
\nOrtiz\u2019s status in the sport has garnered him starring roles in three different hit reality television shows \u2013The Celebrity Apprentice hosted by Donald Trump, and two different seasons of the UFC\u2019s The Ultimate Fighter.
\nOrtiz is coming off a first round knockout of fellow UFC Hall of Famer and former world champion Chuck Liddell in Los Angeles last November 24.
\nBorn in San Luis Potosi, SLP, Mexico, into one of the most famous Lucha Libre family dynasties, El Patr\u00f3n, who resides in San Antonio, Texas, 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.
\nEl Patr\u00f3n is the only athlete in history to win two of the WWE\u2019s most coveted titles \u2013 the \u201cRoyal Rumble\u201d and the \u201cMoney in the Bank\u201d ladder match \u2013 in the same year (2011).
\nCompeting under his Lucha Libre name, \u201cDos Caras, Jr.\u201d and training under former UFC and Vale Tudo champion Marco Ruas, 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.
\nEl Patr\u00f3n announced last October that he had returned to MMA training and was intent on competing for Combate Americas.
\nHe has since re-located for training camp to Glendale, Ariz., the home of former UFC star and fellow Mexican American Javier \u201cChunty Boy\u201d Torres\u2019 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 C.B. Dollaway, among others.
\nSince 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 Latin America and Spain.
\nCombate 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\u2019 television audience in the U.S. is comprised of viewers that do not watch general market MMA programming.
\nABOUT COMBATE AMERICAS
\nCombate 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.
\nCombate Americas CEO Campbell McLaren, also the co-founder\/co-creator of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), has been described by New York Magazine as \u201cthe marketing genius behind the UFC,\u201d while Yahoo Sports has said he \u201cknows more about the sport than just about anyone in it today.\u201d 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.Click Here: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COMBATE AMERICAS ANNOUNCES \u2018WINNER TAKE ALL\u2019 SHOWDOWN FOR TITLE BELTS TITO ORTIZ VS. ALBERTO EL PATR\u00d3N \u2013 WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? LEGENDARY ICONS PUT THEIR TITLE BELTS ON THE LINE IN HISTORIC AND UNPRECEDENTED MMA SHOWDOWN LIVE ON PAY-PER-VIEW ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 FROM PAYNE ARENA AT U.S.-MEXICO BORDER IN HIDALGO, TEXAS TICKETS ON … <\/p>\n

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