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Philadelphia, Penn.. Orange, Ca. (Aug. 14, 2018) –\u00a0\u00a0Ruben Villa<\/strong>\u00a0(12-0, 5 KOs), one of the rising talents in the featherweight division, takes to the ring for the fourth time this year on\u00a0Friday, Aug. 24<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0Omega Products International\u00a0in\u00a0Corona, Calif.<\/strong><\/p>\n The southpaw from Salinas, Calif. battles well tested veteran\u00a0Jose Santos Gonzalez<\/strong>\u00a0(23-6, 13 KOs)\u00a0of Mexico in the\u00a0“Locked n’ Loaded”<\/strong>\u00a08-round main event.<\/p>\n Villa, 21, has fought veterans before, specifically Ernesto Guerrero and German Meraz. The seasoned Gonzalez poses a threat in the sense that he’s been in the ring against current bantamweight title holder Zolani Tete, and unbeaten contender Duke Micah.<\/p>\n “These are the types of fights that help you grow into a better fighter,”\u00a0said Villa, who is managed by Danny Zamora<\/strong>.\u00a0“We have a smart game plan in place. I’m naturally bigger than him so we’ll use that to our advantage.”<\/p>\n Villa, a two-time national Golden Gloves champion, is coming off an impressive sixth round knockout of Ricardo Lopez in June. The talented featherweight showed off his finishing ability by out boxing Lopez until the knockout moment presented itself.<\/p>\n “I was landing solid punches in every round,”\u00a0\u00a0remarked Villa after the fight.<\/strong>\u00a0“I knew I would be able to take him out. I wore him down and in the sixth, I just let me hands go and I caught him with a lot of heavy punches.”<\/p>\n Villa is promoted by Banner Promotions and Thompson Boxing.<\/p>\n All fights will be live streamed on\u00a0TB Presents: Locked n’ Loaded\u00a0via Thompson Boxing\u00a0Facebook\u00a0<\/a>page and\u00a0\u00a0ThompsonBoxing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n The livestream starts at\u00a08:00 p.m. PT \/ 11:00 p.m. ET\u00a0with\u00a0Beto Duran\u00a0as the blow-by-blow announcer and\u00a0Steve Kim\u00a0providing expert, color commentary.<\/p>\n For regular updates<\/strong> on our fighters, events, and promotions, please like the\u00a0Banner Promotions Facebook Page<\/a>,\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0@BannerBoxing.<\/p>\n Photo by<\/strong>: Carlos Baeza \/ Thompson Boxing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Philadelphia, Penn.. Orange, Ca. (Aug. 14, 2018) –\u00a0\u00a0Ruben Villa\u00a0(12-0, 5 KOs), one of the rising talents in the featherweight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,225],"tags":[418],"class_list":["post-11203","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\/11203","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=11203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11205,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203\/revisions\/11205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}