{"id":11069,"date":"2018-04-16T17:31:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T21:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=11069"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:31:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T21:31:04","slug":"ruben-villa-wins-wbo-youth-title-saturday-night-in-front-of-hometown-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=11069","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Villa Wins WBO Youth Title Saturday Night in Front of Hometown Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PHILADELPHIA, Penn. \/ ORANGE, Calif.\u00a0(\u00a0April 16, 2018) – Prized prospect\u00a0\u00a0Ruben Villa<\/strong>(11-0, 4 KOs)\u00a0continued his upward trajectory by thoroughly dismantling\u00a0\u00a0Marlon Olea<\/strong>\u00a0(13-3, 12 KOs)\u00a0to win the vacant\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0WBO Youth Featherweight Title<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Saturday night from his hometown of\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Salinas, Calif.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Villa, just days before his twenty-first birthday, headlined his first event and won his first title in front of a raucous home crowd. The southpaw delivered an impressive performance, winning every round on all three scorecards (80-72 x3).<\/div>\n
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“It’s exactly how I wanted to end this night,”\u00a0\u00a0s<\/strong>\u00a0aid Villa, who is promoted by Banner Promotions and Thompson Boxing.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0“I blocked out the crowd and just did what I had to do. Olea moves around a lot, but I was able to land whatever I wanted.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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After a feeling out first round, Villa turned up the heat in the second. Both hands began to split Olea’s guard, which became a constant theme throughout the 8-round title fight.<\/div>\n
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As in his other fights, Villa consistently landed a seldom used punch by most boxers, a stiff jab to the midsection that neutralized the Colombian’s attack.<\/div>\n
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In the third round, a “Ruben” chant broke out in the\u00a0\u00a0Salinas Storm House<\/strong>\u00a0, just as the former back-to-back Golden Gloves champion started to land heavy combinations. Villa, who is managed by Danny Zamora, thrilled the sold-out crowd with his aggressive punching.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“I thought Ruben had a terrific performance\u00a0\u00a0on Saturday,”\u00a0said Artie Pelullo,\u00a0president\u00a0of Banner Promotions<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 ”\u00a0It was a great night for him to perform in front of his hometown fans, and capture his 1\u00a0st\u00a0\u00a0title.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This is the 1\u00a0st\u00a0\u00a0of many titles in Ruben’s future, and by the way, the fans turned out for him. I see Salinas being the home of many more fights for Ruben.”<\/div>\n
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“Ruben put an exclamation point on what turned out to be a fantastic event,”\u00a0\u00a0said Ken Thompson, president of Thompson Boxing<\/strong>\u00a0. “It’s the best I’ve seen him fight since he turned professional. He showed the skill and confidence of a veteran, yet he’s barely turning 21. The sky is the limit for Ruben.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“New Blood”<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0was presented by\u00a0\u00a0Banner Promotions and Thompson Boxing Promotions.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Photos by<\/strong>: Carlos Baeza \/ Thompson Boxing<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. \/ ORANGE, Calif.\u00a0(\u00a0April 16, 2018) – Prized prospect\u00a0\u00a0Ruben Villa(11-0, 4 KOs)\u00a0continued his upward trajectory by thoroughly dismantling\u00a0\u00a0Marlon Olea\u00a0(13-3, 12 KOs)\u00a0to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[418],"class_list":["post-11069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-ruben-villa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11071,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069\/revisions\/11071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}