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PHILADELPHIA, PA\/ \/ ORANGE, CA. (Sept. 21, 2020)\u00a0– On Friday night, October 9th, undefeated WBO number-two ranked featherweight contender\u00a0Ruben Villa<\/strong>\u00a0(18-0, 5 KOs) gets his much deserved world title shot when he takes on former WBO super bantamweight world champion, and WBO number-one ranked contender,\u00a0Emanuel Navarrete<\/strong>\u00a0(32-1, 28 KOs), in a battle for the WBO World Featherweight title. Photo by: Emily Harney \/ Banner Promotions FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PHILADELPHIA, PA\/ \/ ORANGE, CA. (Sept. 21, 2020)\u00a0– On Friday night, October […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[418],"class_list":["post-11846","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\/11846","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=11846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11850,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions\/11850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Navarrete is undefeated in the last eight-years, which spans 27 fights.
The fight will take place at “The Bubble”\u00a0inside\u00a0the MGM Grand Conference Center, and will be televised live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes.
“I have been working my butt off since I was a little kid for this opportunity, and I just can’t wait to get in there and fight for the title,” said Villa, who is promoted by\u00a0Banner Promotions\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Thompson Boxing<\/strong>. “Navarrete is a real aggressive\u00a0Mexican fighter.\u00a0He is coming to win.\u00a0He was a former champion, and I am the underdog, but I have the style to beat him.\u00a0We have kept the camp the same.\u00a0We just treat it like it’s every other fight, just that this fight is for a world title.\u00a0\u00a0All my hard work is paying off.\u00a0I am honored and excited\u00a0to represent\u00a0everyone who has supported me and my journey to become a world champion, and I plan on bringing the world title back to my home city of Salinas, California.”
“This is what we envisioned for Ruben when we signed him out of the amateurs, to be fighting for a world title,”\u00a0said\u00a0Artie Pelullo,<\/strong>\u00a0President of Banner Promotions.\u00a0“That opportunity has now arrived, and we expect Ruben to put on a great performance on October 9th and win the WBO\u00a0Featherweight World Title. I\u00a0would be remiss if I didn’t thank\u00a0Stephen Espinoza<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Gordon Hall\u00a0<\/strong>of Showtime for all\u00a0their\u00a0help with the development of Ruben’s career, by showcasing him on ShoBox that has helped get him ready for this fight.”
“Ruben Villa is a terrific fighter and has the ability to make his dream to become a world champion a reality. The hard work that Banner Promotions and us at Thompson Boxing have put on his career will surely pay off,” said\u00a0Ken Thompson<\/strong>, CEO of Thompson Boxing. “Navarrete is a terrific champion and it will be a huge challenge for our fighter, but I’m sure Ruben will rise up to the occasion and make us all proud.”\u00a0
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