PHILADELPHIA, Penn. \/ ORANGE, Calif. (June 26, 2018) \u2013 Unbeaten featherweight standout Ruben Villa (11-0, 4 KOs) of Salinas, Calif stars in the main event this Saturday when he takes on Mexico\u2019s Ricardo Lopez (7-2-2, 6 KOs) in an 8-round fight that will mark his third start of the year.<\/p>\n
The bout will take place this Saturday, June 30, from Omega Products International in Sacramento.<\/p>\n
The slick southpaw defends his WBO Youth title that he won in April in his hometown. Villa thoroughly outpointed Marlon Olea for his first championship as a professional.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m anxious to get back in the ring,\u201d said Villa, who is managed by Danny Zamora. \u201cI like being active. I\u2019m defending my title for the first time. I\u2019ll have a lot of fans in attendance so I\u2019m ready to put on a great show.\u201d<\/p>\n
Villa is promoted by Banner Promotions and Thompson Boxing.<\/p>\n
Tickets for \u201cNew Blood\u201d are priced at $40, $60, & $100, and are available for purchase by calling 714-935-0900, or online at ThompsonBoxing.com.<\/p>\n
All fights will be live streamed on TB Presents: New Blood via Thompson Boxing Facebook and ThompsonBoxing.com.<\/p>\n
The livestream starts at 7:45 p.m. PT \/ 10:45 p.m. ET with Beto Duran as the blow-by-blow announcer and Steve Kim providing expert, color commentary.<\/p>\n
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. local time with the first bout at approximately 7:45 p.m. Omega Products is located at 8111 Fruitridge Road, Sacramento, CA 95826, and can be reached at 916-635-3335.<\/p>\n
For regular updates<\/strong> on our fighters, events, and promotions, please like the Banner Promotions Facebook Page, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter @BannerBoxing.<\/p>\n Photos by<\/strong>: Carlos Baeza \/ Thompson Boxing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PHILADELPHIA, Penn. \/ ORANGE, Calif. (June 26, 2018) \u2013 Unbeaten featherweight standout Ruben Villa (11-0, 4 KOs) of Salinas, Calif stars in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,225],"tags":[418],"class_list":["post-11132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-fights","tag-ruben-villa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132","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=11132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11133,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132\/revisions\/11133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}