Combate Americas’ CEO – and UFC co-founder – Campbell McLaren has just landed a television deal with NBC Sports Network for an English-language broadcast of the promotion’s 1-night 8-man tournament, known as Copa Combate, on November 11, 2017 in Cancun, Mexico. Alongside the English broadcast on NBCSN, the rare tourney will also be broadcast in Spanish on Telemundo.
The Copa Combate tournament is comprised of 8 bantamweight fighters from the U.S.A., Spain, and Latin America. The winner must get past 3 competitors in one night in order to claim their $100,000 grand prize.
NBCSN and Telemundo will air the tournament semifinal matchups as well as the tournament finals, with the quarter finals and alternate bouts airing live on the Telemundo Deportes En Vivo app and TelemundoDeportes.