FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n
PHILADELPHIA, PENN. \/ ORANGE, Calif.\u00a0(Oct. 13, 2018) – Undefeated featherweight prospect\u00a0Ruben Villa<\/strong>\u00a0(13-0, 5 KOs) weighed in at 127.2 lbs. while his opponent\u00a0Miguel Carrizoza<\/strong>\u00a0(10-3, 2 KOs) checked in at 127.9 lbs. for\u00a0tonight’s\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0eight-round main event in at the\u00a0Salinas Storm House<\/strong>\u00a0in Villa’s hometown of\u00a0Salinas, California<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Villa, 21, returns to the Salinas Storm House for the second time this year. Villa vs. Carrizoza is the\u00a0the 8-round\u00a0“New Blood”\u00a0main event.<\/p>\n Villa last fought from the Storm House in April, when he routed fellow prospect Marlon Olea in route to winning the vacant\u00a0WBO Youth\u00a0featherweight championship. It was Villa’s first title since turning professional in July 2016.<\/p>\n The two-time national Golden Gloves winner fights for the fifth time this year after registering six wins in 2017.<\/p>\n Villa is promoted by Banner Promotions and Thompson Boxing.<\/p>\n Tickets for\u00a0“New Blood”\u00a0are priced at\u00a0$40, $75, & $125, and are available for purchase by calling 714-935-0900, or online at\u00a0\u00a0ThompsonBoxing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Salinas Storm House is located at 185 Maryal Drive in Salinas, CA 93907.<\/p>\n Doors open at 4:30 p.m. local time with the first bout at approximately 6 p.m.<\/p>\n All fights will be live streamed on\u00a0Banner’s\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page.<\/strong><\/p>\n The livestream starts at\u00a06:00 p.m. PT \/ 9:00 p.m. ET\u00a0with\u00a0Beto Duran\u00a0as the blow-by-blow announcer and\u00a0Steve Kim\u00a0providing expert, color commentary.<\/p>\n “New Blood”\u00a0\u00a0is presented by\u00a0Thompson Boxing Promotions and Banner Promotions\u00a0\u00a0and sponsored by\u00a0Everlast.<\/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(Oct. 13, 2018) – Undefeated featherweight prospect\u00a0Ruben Villa\u00a0(13-0, 5 KOs) weighed in at 127.2 lbs. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,225],"tags":[418],"class_list":["post-11308","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\/11308","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=11308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11311,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions\/11311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}