Some wonder if Joshua quit in the first match.
Some have wondered if Joshua should have pushed for this rematch only six months after taking a real beating. That’s what I’m focused on.”ģ) Is Joshua mentally ready for Ruiz?: That’s one of the major questions heading into the fight.
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“I shed the skin from last time, re-built myself, and all I’m doing is going to win. “I’m forever changing, that’s what training camp is about, evolution, like night and day,” Joshua said. Don’t worry about having a beautiful body, but do worry about sparring and being in fighting shape. In some ways, that’s Ruiz’s approach, as well. “He was training too hard, he is training smarter now,” Hearn said, via the Independent. As promoter Eddie Hearn explained, Joshua cut out some of the strength and conditioning work and focused more on sparring and boxing technique. Arreola is up there in age at almost 40, and this is a relatively safe fight for Ruiz Jr as long as he’s in good condition.2) Joshua changed his body and his approach: The former champ looks less bulky, and he weighed in Friday at 237 pounds, about 10 pounds lighter than the first fight with Ruiz and his lightest weight for a match since 2014. The fact that Ruiz Jr is facing Arreola rather than a higher-ranked contender like Ortiz suggests that there’s some concern on his management’s part. Ruiz Jr hurt his reputation by coming into the fight with Joshua so grossly out of shape and putting in poor performance.
Ruiz Jr needs a solid win over Ortiz, 41, or one of the other top ten heavyweights for him show Joshua and Hearn that he can be taken seriously as an opponent. Ruiz Jr wants a rematch with Joshua, but his promoter Eddie Hearn said he needs to build himself back up and redeem himself by beating several highly ranked heavyweights before he’ll consider him.Īrreola is more of a stay-busy fight for Ruiz Jr, and he’s not going to impress Hearn and AJ with a win over him. Ortiz (31-2, 26 KOs) is someone that Ruiz Jr might wind up facing in 2021, considering he’s someone that will help him get ranked higher. NEWS: Andy Ruiz targeting Usyk, Fury, Joshua & Wilder for his next fight In Kownacki’s next match against Robert Helenius, he was knocked out in the 4th round last March in New York. Throwing over 1000+ punches in a fight still is an impressive statistic by Arreola, and he did damage to Kownacki. The 1125 punches that Arreola threw broke a CompuBox record for punches thrown by a heavyweight. The season for that is most of the shots threw arm punches with no power on them, and they didn’t look as impressive as the heavy shots that Kownacki was nailing him with. People want to see Ruiz take on #3 WBA, #3 WBC Luis Ortiz rather than #7 WBA Arreola, who is coming off of a 12 round unanimous decision defeat to Adam Kownacki last year on August 3, 2019.Īrreola threw an absurd 1125 punches in the fight but still lose by these set of comprehensive scores: 117-111, 117-111 and 118-110. The reaction from boxing fans on social media in the news of Ruiz and 39-year-old Arreola having agreed to a fight is negative. Ruiz weighed a whopping 283 lbs for that fight, but he’s since trimmed down considerably and appears to be in the 250s now. NEWS: Andy Ruiz sounding desperate, asks Joshua & Wilder to face him next
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