Andy Ruiz: record, next fight and profile →
Top Rank boss Bob Arum is bothered by Dillian Whyte’s monetary demands as the mandatory challenger for Tyson Fury's WBC heavyweight belt, so he’s already drawing up alternative plans to get his prizefighter back in the ring by spring.
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, the co-promoter of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has made it clear that his boxer is looking to fight by March - with or without mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte.
Former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua shockingly suffered his first professional loss to the hands of Andy Ruiz Jr. in June 2019. In that fight, he knocked down Ruiz in the third round only to get dropped twice later in the round himself. A clearly rattled Joshua never really recovered and was downed twice more in the seventh as the fight was stopped.
World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman would love to see Mexico secure a battle of former world champions between Andy Ruiz and Deontay Wilder.
Andy Ruiz, 32, underwent knee surgery a few months ago and for this reason his planned December ring return was delayed. His most recent fight was in May of this year, when he hit the mat, but got up to beat Chris Arreola by way of a wide points decision.
Ruiz (34-2, 22 KOs) and Wilder (42-2-1, 41 KOs) both held all of the championship belts from June to December 2019. Ruiz collected the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO titles after shockingly knocking out Anthony Joshua, but he failed to defend the titles six months later against Joshua.
(video by Ryan Burton) - Heavyweight contender Andy Ruiz was ringside at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and watched Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (57-1-2, 39 KOs) become the undisputed champion at 168-pounds with a sensational knockout of unbeaten Caleb Plant (21-1, 12 KOs) in the eleventh round.
Thompson Boxing's unbeaten welterweight, Giovani Santillan (27-0, 15 KOs), will return to the ring this Friday October 15, 2021, against Angel Ruiz (17-1, 12 KOs), of Los Angeles, California.
Andy Ruiz is raring to get back into heavyweight title contention. The former heavyweight titleholder from Imperial Valley, Calif. recently recovered from knee surgery and says he expects to return to the ring in December.
Count Andy Ruiz as one among the legion of shocked observers who saw Oleksandr Usyk’s recent upset win over Anthony Joshua. Like many others, the Mexican-American heavyweight titleholder expected his former nemesis to come out on top against the Ukrainian southpaw in their WBA/WBO/IBF heavyweight title bout that took place on Sept. 25 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. Instead, Joshua wound up tasting defeat for the second time in his career, dropping a 12-round decision to the former unified cruiserweight champion.