Ruiz is still relatively young and could still be a factor in a division that is getting increasingly better. It would also help raise Ruiz’s profile because Wilder is not only better than Ortiz but is far better known. Despite his two losses to WBC champion Tyson Fury, Wilder remains an elite opponent and has a style that would pair well with Ruiz’s.Ī Ruiz-Wilder fight would be bombs away and have fans on the edges of their seats from the beginning of the fight. Ortiz is a curious choice of opponents because while he’s big and powerful, he’s nearing the end of the line and other than two KO losses to Deontay Wilder in WBC heavyweight title fights, he’s fought mostly journeymen and fringe contenders.Ī Ruiz-Wilder fight would have been great for September. It’s been his attitude and the matchmaking. Reynoso is one of a handful of the best in the game.
ANDY RUIZ FIGHT PROFESSIONAL
Robles is an excellent, professional trainer. Ruiz’s problems since winning the belt haven’t been his trainers. My team is going to bring the best out of me.” I feel like this is exactly what I needed for this fight. “He’s used to training for lefty fighters. “I wanted to work with Alfredo Osuna a long time ago, it just wasn’t the right time then,” Ruiz said at a Los Angeles news conference earlier this week. He hired Eddy Reynoso for the Arreola fight and is now with Alfredo Osuna. Manny Robles coached him in his two fights with Joshua. He’ll be using his third trainer in as many fights.
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When Ruiz walks into the ring that night, a week before his 33rd birthday, it will have been more than 16 months since he last fought. The fight with Ortiz will be his next since then. has fought just once since losing the unified heavyweight title in December 2019. Ruiz was in better shape, but what did he prove in that fight? Arreola had come to the end of the line and he wasn’t the kind of challenge for Ruiz he would have been had each of them met in their primes.Īndy Ruiz Jr. His only bout since then was against Chris Arreola on May 1, 2021, in Carson, California. But Ruiz came in at 283 pounds and wasn't prepared to fight a four-rounder, let alone a 12-round fight against a determined former heavyweight champion looking to make amends.
Joshua may well have won no matter what, because he’s an elite athlete. Two of the judges gave Joshua, who fought timidly and conservatively, 10 of the 12 rounds. 7, 2019, in Diriyah, Saudia Arabia, that he all but surrendered the title back to Joshua.
Ruiz partied so much between the time he won the belt and he faced Joshua in the rematch on Dec. Every elite heavyweight wanted to fight him. Hordes of fans showed up everywhere he went. He got an invitation to visit President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico just 10 days after the stunning KO of Joshua. Mexico is a boxing-mad country and Ruiz was embraced by Mexicans - and Mexican Americans - fully. Ruiz at that point was one of the hottest properties in the sport. It now seems a long time ago when Ruiz made history by becoming the first heavyweight champion of Mexican descent on June 1, 2019, when he knocked out previously unbeaten Anthony Joshua to win the IBF-WBA-WBO belts.
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