How come John Ruiz managed to avoid punchers?

[kebark]

Whats level of opponents got to do with anyting?

A lot of journeymenm have better chins than ranked guys and champs.

Ruiz was in the manipulated by Don King WBA rankings for about a million years.....He fought everyone who was ranked there beside him. Just so happens other fighters you consider punchers held other titles and were ranked by other sanctioning bodies.

Bring able to stop the Marcus Johnsons of the world doesn't qualify you as a puncher imo.
Lewis was the WBA champion and didn't want to get involved with King, though Ruiz won a WBC eliminator to face Peter and didn't take it...

[DonairesRevenge]

Bring able to stop the Marcus Johnsons of the world doesn't qualify you as a puncher imo.
Lewis was the WBA champion and didn't want to get involved with King, though Ruiz won a WBC eliminator to face Peter and didn't take it...

Point still stands though, just cause you dont have a good record dont make you less durable than anyone.

He didnt fight for the WBC title cause he got a shot against Valuev who held the WBA title. Peter wasnt champ either, Maskaev was.

[etlux]

yeah he avoided punchers alright

[Abraham Reyes]

Must have been a reason neither Klitschko, Lewis, Peter, Arreola, Brewster or even Grant or a shot Tyson got him...

[kebark]

Point still stands though, just cause you dont have a good record dont make you less durable than anyone.

He didnt fight for the WBC title cause he got a shot against Valuev who held the WBA title. Peter wasnt champ either, Maskaev was.

Actually...your wrong. Peter won the title on the SAME night (in fact it was on the same card) that Ruiz beat Jameel McCline.

Being stopped a lot shows your not particularly durable. Stopping guys like Brian Nix (Golota) who had been stopped been stopped 5 times previously (and would be against Audley Harrison as well) doesn't make Golota a puncher. Golota could dix, thats true, but he hit hard, not concussively. His 60% or so KO stat saw him unable to stop guys like Lewis (fair enough), Byrd (hmm), Bowe (and he landed enough), a 41 year old Terrible Tim, Lamon Brewster...basically anyone world class that he faced.

Tua and Haye aside, he "didn't face" top level punchers.