Round 4: Ruiz comes out and is trying to finish Joshua off! Joshua still doesn’t look like he has his legs under him. Both fighters trade and Ruiz drops Joshua with a counterpunch! Oh My God! This has escalated quickly! Joshua beats the count and Ruiz tries to maul him! Right hand lands for Joshua and Joshua’s legs are wobbly! Ruiz comes with a combination and Joshua is hurt badly in the corner and goes down again! WHAT IS HAPPENING?! How do I score this? Ruiz 10-8? Hard right hand lands again for Joshua and then a left hook. Right hand lands for Joshua, then a left hook that drops Ruiz! Ruiz beats the count and takes a deep breath. Round 3: Ruiz probes Joshua’s defense and tries to step in by using a lot of head movement. Another touching jab to the body scores for Joshua. Left hook lands for Joshua but Ruiz takes it well. There hasn’t been any real action in this fight so far, and it looks like the crowd is getting a little anxious. Joshua touches Ruiz to the body with a jab again, waiting for Ruiz to overextend himself and walk into something big - Ruiz hasn’t taken the bait yet. Ruiz misses on a right hand that comes up short. Ruiz starts out with a combination that’s pretty ineffective. Round 2: Joshua’s trainer urges him not to rush his offense in between rounds. Joshua touches Ruiz to the body again and then lands a stiff jab to the face. Another three punch combination just misses from Ruiz. Joshua starting this fight really cautiously, staying on the back foot and letting Ruiz come to him. Joshua touches Ruiz to the body again and then lands a right hand upstairs. Joshua misses on a left hook and Ruiz responds with three punches that miss. Round 1: Ruiz steps in but falls short with a jab to the body. Ruiz, check out the play-by-play courtesy of Bad Left Hook. ![]() After the way Ruiz looked tonight, he’ll lose to all of those fighters, including a half dozen contenders in the division.WE HAVE A FIGHT ON OUR HANDS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! #JoshuaRuiz /Kf4zJBebne- DAZN USA June 2, 2019įor more on Joshua vs. I’m not sure that I agree that Ruiz can compete with Wilder, Usyk or Fury. It’s not that hard, especially for someone like Andy, who has been doing it his whole life. “Of course,” said Arreola when asked if Ruiz could compete with world champions Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury. Wilder is eventually going to drop that hammer and put him to sleep. The difference is that he can’t sit on the outside and get punched like that against Wilder. If you had more exchanges, he probably would have taken him out by the eighth. “The thing is, the exchanges were short-lived. “His hands are so fast, and he’s just the stronger fighter. Every exchange, he wins,” said Chris Arreola to Fighthype after Andy Ruiz Jr’s win over Luis Ortiz. Read: Andy Cruz: “I'm Going To Be A Legend” Both of those fighters would easily beat Ruiz if he fought like he did tonight. ![]() This wasn’t the type of performance that Ruiz needed that would suggest that he’ll stand a chance against WBC champion Tyson Fury or IBF, WBA & WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk. He couldn’t get to the taller fighter to land anything because he used his mobility and hard jab to dominate Andy. Again, it was the same thing that we saw in Ruiz’s rematch with Anthony Joshua. The lack of reach and more mobility of Ruiz hurt him in rounds eight through twelve, as he couldn’t get to Ortiz. After that round, Ortiz got smart, choosing to stay at range, jab, and move to keep the stocky Ruiz from getting in position to land anything. In round seven, Ruiz caught Ortiz with a big right hand high on the head to send him down. Ortiz got overly aggressive after he got back up, and he was soon dropped for a second time in the round. In the second round, Ruiz caught Ortiz with a right to the head and sent him down to the canvas. Ortiz lit Ruiz up in round twelve, hitting him repeatedly with jarring left hands and making him look once-dimensional. Read: Anthony Joshua Ditches Nice Guy Image As he Lays Into “Fat Slob” Tyson Fury
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