COMBATE GLOBAL as we speak introduced the Blended Martial Arts (MMA) debut of World Boxing Council (WBC) interim world flyweight (112 kilos) champion, Kenia Enriquez (0-0 MMA; 28-1, 11 KO’s).
The 31-year-old Enriquez of Tijuana, B.C., Mexico will enter La Jaula, the COMBATE GLOBAL competitors cage, on the beforehand introduced all-women’s stay occasion, ‘Combate Feminine’, on Thursday, March 13 in Miami.
Enriquez, a three-time skilled boxing champion, will sq. off with undefeated Hayley “Bloody” Valentine (5-0) of London, England in a strawweight (115 kilos) contest.
The bout between Kenia Enriquez and Hayley Valentine will stream stay, together with the rest of the ‘Combate Feminine’ struggle card, on each Combate World’s Spanish language YouTube channel in addition to the promotion’s English language YouTube channel, starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
Enriquez has been getting ready for her much-anticipated debut at Lobo Gymnasium MMA, the famed Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico-based coaching camp owned by the household of ladies’s MMA famous person and former world champion, Alexa Grasso.
A 12-year veteran {of professional} boxing, Enriquez grew to become the WBC interim flyweight champion with a unanimous resolution victory over Ibeth Zamora Silva on September 10, 2023.
She efficiently defended the title in her final boxing bout on February 3, 2024, defeating Maria Salinas by unanimous resolution.
In 2014, Kenia Enriquez grew to become the World Boxing Group (WBO) world flyweight champion after besting Ana Fabiola Arrazola Dominguez by means of unanimous resolution and, in 2017, Enriquez was topped WBC interim world mild flyweight (108 kilos) champion after she scored a 3rd spherical (1:57) TKO (left hook) on Maria Salinas.
COMBATE GLOBAL is not any stranger to introducing skilled boxers to MMA competitors in La Jaula.
“Following our profitable launch of boxing world champion Amanda Serrano’s MMA profession, we’re excited to start Kenia’s,” stated COMBATE GLOBAL CEO Campbell McLaren.
In April 2018, COMBATE GLOBAL welcomed Serrano to the MMA world.
The Puerto Rican boxing star, in her MMA debut, fought Corina Herrera to a draw and, six months later, confirmed marked enchancment and made historical past by changing into the primary skilled boxing champion to earn an MMA victory by submission when she pressured Erendira Ordonez to faucet out from a standing rear-naked choke within the first spherical (4:23) at a Combate occasion in Tucson, Ariz.
COMBATE GLOBAL has additionally served as a house to undefeated skilled boxer and Lucha Libre famous person, Dulce “Attractive Star” Garcia, who reeled off two consecutive MMA wins in 2019.
Enriquez’s opponent, the 28-year-old Valentine, hails from Northampton, England, and can be making her debut at strawweight after competing at atomweight (105 kilos) in addition to a catchweight of 110 kilos over the course of her five-fight skilled profession up to now.
Valentine holds a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
On Tuesday, COMBATE GLOBAL introduced a brand new international partnership with YouTube, the world’s main digital streaming platform, for the MMA promotion’s stay occasions.
COMBATE GLOBAL programming may even nonetheless air in Spanish on Univision, which has been the U.S. Spanish-language tv residence for the promotion since 2018.
The rest of the ‘Combate Feminine’ struggle card can be introduced subsequent week.
