Venezuela’s Mariel Celimen of Miami fights ‘La Loba’ to be the face of Combate Global MMA

Venezuelan Mariel Celimen, who trains at GOAT Shed Miami, needs to be the face of Combate Global MMA, and he or she takes a giant step towards that distinction by headlining Combate Global on Saturday in opposition to web sensation Lucero “La Loba” Acosta of Tijuana, Mexico.

Combate Global CEO Campbell McLaren predicts: “This fight between ‘La Loba’ and Mariel Celimen will be the most watched women’s MMA fight in history, and it will be a good indicator as far as which of these reinas [queens] will eventually rule the women’s flyweight division in Combate Global.”

McLaren is aware of what he speaks. An American entrepreneur and media government with stable worldwide ties, he’s the co-creator/co-founder of UFC. He is now constructing Combate Global into the premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports activities franchise, quickly changing into the No. 2 sport after soccer for Spanish talking followers worldwide.

Celimen, initially from Maracaibo, Venezuela, battles Acosta in a flyweight grudge match. Celimen is 2-1 and Acosta 2-2. Acosta trains at Gamebred Training Center in Chula Vista, California.

People can watch Sept. 24 in Spanish on Univision and TUDN at 11 p.m. ET (and Televisa in Mexico) and in English on Paramount+ at 10 p.m. Paramount+ covers the prelims and the primary card. The English broadcast crew options WWE alum Max Bretos and Miami’s Rodolfo Roman.

This intense, aggressive confrontation between Celimen and Acosta stems from their heated 1-on-1 sparring session in April at GOAT Shed, beneath the route of Asim Zaidi, a former official National MMA Coach for Team USA, a two-time Kickboxing World Champion and a black belt in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, judo and tae kwon do.

In Celimen’s newest bout, she defeated American Tyler Schaffer by way of rear-naked choke submission. Her lone loss was by way of DQ on account of illegally headbutting her opponent.

Acosta is an web sensation whose battle movies and way of life content material have garnered hundreds of thousands of views throughout YouTube, Instagram and Snap. Her final victory was April 16, 2021, when she scored a primary spherical (2:28) TKO (punches) on Xtreme Couture crew member Allysen Breeden.

Celimen, 27, who went 4-1 as an novice, is raring to develop and enhance on this self-discipline of fight sport. She spent a while in Garden City, New York, coaching at Longo-Weidman MMA.

Here is my video interview with Combate Global MMA fighter Mariel Celimen.

Celimen, a single mother of a 5-year-old daughter, left Venezuela for the United States after the loss of life of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2013. Her mother lives in Miami, too.

A former prime notch swimmer in Venezuela, Celimen determined to check herself, following the beginning of her youngster. She gained weight from the being pregnant, and he or she regarded for a strategy to lose the “baby fat.” Her daughter’s father competed in MMA; so she started coaching in jiu-jitsu. She took shortly to that fashion of preventing, which led to her curiosity in competing in MMA.

The bout between Acosta and Celimen marks the fifth time in 2022 {that a} girls’s battle will headline a Combate Global occasion. Combate Global is producing 30 reside occasions yearly and has expanded its girls’s fighter roster significantly since 2021. The girls’s division includes one-third of Combate Global’s complete roster of greater than 170 athletes, and Celimen is proud to be a part of that.

Celimen is hard within the cage and powerful mentally, making her a harmful, up-and-coming fighter.

Combate Global battle card

In addition to Saturday’s important occasion (Celimen vs. Acosta), the Combate Global co-main occasion options Javier “Blair” Reyes (14-3) of Bogota, Colombia in opposition to Jose “Froggy” Estrada (7-3) of Oxnard, California 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 12 months, will attempt to rebound from a primary spherical (1:14) submission (armbar) defeat by the hands of Martin “El Toro” Bravo on Dec. 3.

In a featured bantamweight (135 kilos) contest, undefeated Erik Mendez (2-0) of Spokane, Washington collides with 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 Global motion in a 113-pound catchweight contest with Guilia Ghinello (3-6) of Brugine, Padova, Italy on the preliminary bout card.

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

Combate Global MMA

Combate Global showcases fights weekly, normally Fridays from Miami by way of Paramount+ (English) and Univision and TUDN (Spanish). The firm, beneath the route of UFC founder Campbell McLaren, consists of fighters from around the globe with a robust Latin American presence.

More details about Combate Global and its athletes might be discovered on www.CombateGlobal.com in addition to on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

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