- George Chung
- Mar 5
- 3 min read
Updated: Mar 9
Women’s MMA star Maritza Sanchez will make her return to Combate Global action in the main event of the ‘Combate Female’ all-women’s fight card on Thursday, March 13, live on YouTube.
COMBATE GLOBAL ANNOUNCES
COMPLETE SIX FIGHT CARD FOR ‘COMBATE FEMALE’
ON THURSDAY, MARCH 13, LIVE WORLDWIDE ON YOUTUBE
IN BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH. FROM MIAMI
Catchweight (130 lbs.) Main Event:Maritza Sanchez vs. Kate Bacik
Atomweight (105 lbs.) Co-Main Event:
Nicole Geraldo vs. Janet Garcia
Previously Announced Featured Strawweight (115 lbs.) Bout:
Kenia Enriquez vs. Hayley Valentine
MIAMI – March 4, 2025 – COMBATE GLOBAL today announced a complete, six-fight women’s lineup for ‘Combate Female’, its previously announced, first-ever live YouTube streaming Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) event on Thursday, March 13, at TelevisaUnivision’s studios in Miami.
The all-women’s event will stream live, worldwide, free-of-charge on March 13, beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, on both Combate Global’s English language YouTube channel as well as its Spanish language YouTube channel.
“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.
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.
The agreement marks the first time in history that COMBATE GLOBAL events, in their entirety, will be distributed live globally and free-of-charge on the same platform in Spanish and English, on the world’s number one streaming video platform.
Additional information about COMBATE GLOBAL and its athletes can be found on www.CombateGlobal.com as well as on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
