{"id":61910,"date":"2016-07-31T20:28:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T01:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=61910"},"modified":"2016-07-31T20:31:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T01:31:28","slug":"ruben-villa-professional-debut-a-knockout-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=61910","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Villa Professional Debut a KNOCKOUT &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=61910\" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=61910\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-61911 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/18fc33d3-fd8f-47bd-871d-7e451719c607-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"18fc33d3-fd8f-47bd-871d-7e451719c607\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/18fc33d3-fd8f-47bd-871d-7e451719c607-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/18fc33d3-fd8f-47bd-871d-7e451719c607-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/18fc33d3-fd8f-47bd-871d-7e451719c607.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Photo by Carlos Baeza\/Thompson Boxing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heralded amateur Ruben Villa (1-0, 1 KO) did not waste any time putting away challenger Gerardo Molina (1-2, 1 KO) this past Friday night in his professional debut. Villa landed a counter left hook early in the first round that sent Molina backpedaling onto the canvas. Seconds later, Villa, who is from Salinas, Calif., rocked Molina with a series of punches, knocking him out at the 2:25 mark of the opening round.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It felt great to get that first win,&#8221; Villa said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t go in thinking knockout, but I knew after the first knockdown that I was going to end it early. I had a bunch of friends and family in attendance. I&#8217;m glad I gave them something to smile about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ruben looked sensational in his pro debut,&#8221; said Banner Promotions President, Arthur Pelullo. &#8220;Even though it was just inside of one round, you could tell that Ruben is a tremendous talent, and we are looking forward to his next fight, which should be announced shortly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ruben looked fantastic tonight,&#8221; said Ken Thompson, president of Thompson Boxing Promotions. &#8220;He gave us a glimpse into his immense potential. Ruben has a very bright future ahead of him and we are excited to continue to feature him on our Southern California shows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Villa is co-promoted through Thompson Boxing and Banner Promotions.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>RSR Readers we have a contest for the 500th subscriber to the RSR YouTube Channel. Our 500th subscriber will win a personally autographed picture from James \u201cQuick\u201d Tillis.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/theheartofboxing\">Here is the link to the RSR YouTube Channel to subscribe.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Carlos Baeza\/Thompson Boxing Heralded amateur Ruben Villa (1-0, 1 KO) did not waste any time putting away challenger Gerardo Molina (1-2, 1 KO) this past Friday night in his professional debut. Villa landed a counter left hook early in the first round that sent Molina backpedaling onto the canvas. Seconds later, Villa, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15564],"class_list":["post-61910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-ruben-villa-professional-debut-a-knockout-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61910"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}