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PHILADELPHIA, PENN. \/ ORANGE, Calif.\u00a0\u00a0(Aug. 22, 2018) – For the third time in his young career, featherweight\u00a0Ruben Villa<\/strong>\u00a0(12-0, 5 KOs)\u00a0faces a well experienced veteran looking to upend his hot start.<\/p>\n Villa, who turned 21 in April, headlines Thompson Boxing’s\u00a0\u00a0“Locked n’ Loaded”<\/strong>\u00a0event against\u00a0\u00a0Jose Santos Gonzalez<\/strong>\u00a0(23-6, 13 KOs)\u00a0of Mexico this Friday night from\u00a0\u00a0Omega Products International\u00a0in\u00a0Corona, Calif.<\/strong><\/p>\n Gonzalez is no stranger to big fights, having suffered defeats against current bantamweight world champion Zolani Tete, and unbeaten contender Duke Micah. The southpaw Villa, despite his young age, is more than ready to face this challenge.<\/p>\n “Even though I’m young, I saw a lot of styles in the amateurs and even now as a professional I spar with a lot of top quality boxers,”\u00a0\u00a0said Villa, who is a former back-to-back National Golden Gloves champion.<\/strong>\u00a0“Gonzalez might have the big fight experience working for him, but I know how to beat him in a convincing way.”<\/p>\n Villa has certainly gotten off to an impressive start since hitting the paid ranks two years ago. In his seven fights that have gone the distance, Villa has lost only one round on a single scorecard. He boasts an excellent combination of size and speed, plus a defensive acumen far ahead of most prospects his age.<\/p>\n “I feel like my development as a complete boxer has taken a big jump this year,”\u00a0\u00a0said Villa, who is managed by Danny Zamora.<\/strong>\u00a0“I’m able to see things a lot faster and that opens up different angles and combinations.”<\/p>\n Villa, who resides in Salinas, Calif. and is trained by Max Garcia, will fight for the fourth time this year after earning six wins last year. He credits the consistent activity for his fast rising development.<\/p>\n “It’s real important for young fighters like myself to stay as active as possible in the early years,”\u00a0\u00a0Villa said.<\/strong>\u00a0“High level sparring is great, but it doesn’t replicate the real thing. We have all this protective gear and we wear big gloves. It just feels different. That’s why I’m extremely thankful to my promoters for keeping me as active as I’ve been.” 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, Calif.\u00a0\u00a0(Aug. 22, 2018) – For the third time in his young career, featherweight\u00a0Ruben Villa\u00a0(12-0, 5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,225],"tags":[418],"class_list":["post-11208","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\/11208","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=11208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11210,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions\/11210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVilla is promoted by Banner Promotions and Thompson Boxing.<\/p>\n