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PHILADELPHIA, PA \/ ORANGE, CA-\u00a0February 25, 2020\u00a0– The accolades continue to come in for undefeated featherweight Ruben Villa (18-0, 5 KOs), as he is now ranked #2 by the World Boxing Organization (WBO).<\/p>\n
Last week it was announced that Villa is now ranked #9 by Ring Magazine “Now to be ranked #2 by the WBO shows that the hard work is paying off. I am looking to face any champion.\u00a0I am just being patient, and when my time comes, I will be ready for that opportunity,” said Villa.<\/p>\n Villa is co-promoted by Banner Promotions and Thompson Boxing.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PHILADELPHIA, PA \/ ORANGE, CA-\u00a0February 25, 2020\u00a0– The accolades continue to come in for undefeated featherweight Ruben Villa (18-0, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[418],"class_list":["post-11791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ruben-villa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791","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=11791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11793,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions\/11793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe new position has the Salinas, California native inching ever closer to a world title opportunity against\u00a0amateur\u00a0rival Shakur Stevenson.\u00a0Villa and Stevenson split four bouts in their amateur career.<\/p>\n