{"id":468147,"date":"2026-02-09T08:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468147\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:26:12","slug":"davao-combat-league-kicks-off-with-13-mma-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468147\/","title":{"rendered":"Davao Combat League kicks off with 13 MMA matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Davao City \u2013 The Davao Combat League (DCL) Mixed Martial Arts competition will feature 13 exciting matches in its opening event on 21 February at Sta. Lucia Mall in Buhangin.<\/p>\n<p>The main and co-main events will showcase Davao City\u2019s Dave Villarias of Limitless Fitness facing Cagayan de Oro\u2019s King Mangalili, and another featured bout between local fighter John Labang of I Flex Gym and Nathan Rey Mandunahan of CDO, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do promote local fighters based here in Davao in these featured bouts. We will also feature other martial arts disciplines in other matches,\u201d said Mark Nimanand of the DCL.<\/p>\n<p>The other matches will include jiu-jitsu, kickboxing, and MMA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fighters will mostly come from Davao City\u2019s Limitless Fitness and students of URCC legend Victor Torres from Cagayan de Oro,\u201d said DCL\u2019s Miko Ponce de Leon, adding that the officials for the bouts will be coming from Manila.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davao City \u2013 The Davao Combat League (DCL) Mixed Martial Arts competition will feature 13 exciting matches in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-468147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}