Comments Thread For: Bob Arum: Joseph Parker vs. Andy Ruiz Will Take Place!

[Eff Pandas]

This feels like a cashing out or **** or get off the pot move for Arum with Ruiz. Guy was having mental issues & falling out of fights about 6 months or so ago while fighting whoever caliber guys & now he's associated with 2 or 3 name guys every time I hear about him in fights that are huge jumps up in class from who he's been fighting.

[KillaCamNZ]

Great. Match up the winner of this fight with one of the other champs, Wilder or the winner of Wlad vs Joshua.

Looking forward to it - these fights effectively become semi-finals.

And should Parker win the Ruiz fight, being the IBF mando throws more weight behind forcing the winner of Klitch-Joshua into an immediate unification fight.

Finally, we're seeing **** worth watching in the heavyweight division.

[b d w]

This feels like a cashing out or **** or get off the pot move for Arum with Ruiz. Guy was having mental issues & falling out of fights about 6 months or so ago while fighting whoever caliber guys & now he's associated with 2 or 3 name guys every time I hear about him in fights that are huge jumps up in class from who he's been fighting.

Reality is if you've invested money in a guy you need to recoup it at some point. The other reality is with the way Ruiz is who knows if he'll ever get another shot at a strap? Might as well roll the dice and see if he can have an Oliver McCall moment.

[AddiX]

This feels like a cashing out or **** or get off the pot move for Arum with Ruiz. Guy was having mental issues & falling out of fights about 6 months or so ago while fighting whoever caliber guys & now he's associated with 2 or 3 name guys every time I hear about him in fights that are huge jumps up in class from who he's been fighting.

Can't really blame bob.

Hen tried to make ruiz work, Ruiz just isn't doing much to help. I like Ruiz, but what else is bob supposed to do for him?