Defeated Gerardo Bisbal (Puerto Rico) 24–7.Lost to Mike Colin Wilson (United States) 16–9Īmerican Olympic Qualifications results.Defeated Juan Isidro Hiracheta (Mexico) AB–2.Defeated Jose Luis Castro (Mexico) RSC–3.Lost to Michael Hunter (United States) RSCO–3.Ruiz's parents were born in Mexico, making Ruiz eligible to represent Mexico. Ruiz also represented Mexico in two 2008 Beijing Olympic Games qualification tournaments, losing to eventual Olympians Robert Alfonso of Cuba and Óscar Rivas of Colombia in the first and second qualifiers. His 105 wins include two Mexican National Junior Olympics gold medals and a title at the Ringside World Championships. Ruiz has explained that his nickname, 'Destroyer', was acquired before he started boxing, because as a child, "I was always destroying stuff." Amateur career ĭuring his amateur career, Ruiz boxed to a 105–5 record under Cuban trainer Fernando Ferrer. His grandfather owned a boxing gym in Mexicali that was used by featherweight champion Jorge Páez. Ruiz later worked for his father in construction for a time before deciding to become a full-time boxer and starting his amateur career in Mexico. Ruiz had a passion for baseball before his father got him into boxing he has noted that his first fight was at age seven in San Diego. His father is a former construction worker who started his own business flipping houses. Ruiz was born in Imperial, California his parents had emigrated from Mexico to the U.S. He is a former unified heavyweight champion, having defeated Anthony Joshua to win the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO titles in 2019 to become the first male boxer of Mexican heritage to win a world heavyweight championship.Īs of June 2023, he is ranked as the world's fifth-best active heavyweight by ESPN, fourth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and BoxRec, and sixth by The Ring magazine.
ANDY RUIZ FIGHT. PROFESSIONAL
(born September 11, 1989) is an American professional boxer. We gotta be dogs in there.Andrés Ponce Ruiz Jr. We can't really show that we're hurt or that we're scared. And when he dropped me on my knees, when I buckled, I still had to get back up. When Cris Arreola hurt me a few times, I still had to have that same momentum to win the fight. But the main thing is you got to have those cajones to get back up and to win the fight. I feel that's what fighters fear of them getting dropped, getting hurt, or getting knocked out. I feel we should go out there with the bang. That's why Anthony Joshua was not that aggressive. "I did have a lot of text messages of people telling me like, ‘Man, it was your fault. Ruiz wouldn't admit that was the case, but it is something he's been told often in the Usyk-Joshua 2 aftermath. However, the growing consensus was the urgency had been taken away from Joshua since the war against Wladimir Klitschko in 2017.Ī case can be made that the in-your-face mentality of Joshua was taken away by Ruiz after Joshua dropped him in the third round, and the former bounced up and pulled off one of the biggest upsets in modern boxing history. He had many feeling he was arguably the best heavyweight in the world. One of the key factors heading into the fight was Joshua returning to be the aggressive guy running roughshod over the heavyweight division. I find that Anthony Joshua didn't do those things." "We've been training for four months already for the lefty style, so we have to adapt to those types of styles and especially if they move around, or if they be aggressive. "Because even in the training, even in the media workout, I fell his foot was a little off," Ruiz said. He saw it coming before the first bell even sounded. I felt like he needed that aggressiveness. But I felt… I don't know what happened with Anthony Joshua. He was watching the action and wondering if something was or is wrong with Joshua. The result of the fight was exactly how Ruiz pictured it. Joshua came back six months to dominate Ruiz and regain the titles.
Ruiz handed Joshua the first loss of his career in June 2019 in front of a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden when he stepped on short notice to drop the Englishman four times in route to winning the IBF, WBA (super), and WBO heavyweight belts. 4, against former two-time heavyweight challenger Luis Ortiz. One man who had a keen interest in the rematch was Andy Ruiz Jr., who returns to action on Sunday, Sept. But this past weekend's effort wasn't enough as Usyk roared back from nearly being stopped in the ninth round to win the last three rounds to retain his three heavyweight titles. Joshua fought better than he did in the first fight. Anthony Joshua lost for the second consecutive time on Saturday to Oleksandr Usyk by a split decision in Saudi Arabia.
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