Comments Thread For: Barry Hearn Defends Choice of Saudi Arabia For Ruiz-Joshua II

[kushking]

So in other words hearn says fck you to the fans. And yes all fans theres no fans of sports in Saudi Arabia,they know absolutely fck all about Boxing & its laughable to think we'll pay to see this shtshow in the usa, itll likely be on crazy hrs

[alexguiness]

As long as AJ is able to plow Eddies wife on a regular basis...the Hearn family is happy.

[Roadblock]

There is nothing wrong with Saudi being a place to hold a Boxing match. The problem here is Team Ruiz trying to get out of the fight and they and the PBC junkies will crap hard on anything they dont wana do. Its what they do.

Just hold it the same venue as the first fight, Hearn chose that, well Joshua lost it there so win it back there thats the stand up way.

[johnnycontrolet]

****** arguments of Hearn Sr.
He had also defended the Olympic Games 1936 in Berlin.

[Apollo7]

Well if you don't like Saudi Arabia as a location, do it in the UK. First fight was in the USA so it's only fair the rematch is in the UK. Ruiz agreed to that when he agreed to the terms if the contract.

[LetOutTheCage]

Did you watch the Ruiz/Joshua fight?. NO ONE who drops someone four times while crushing them is afraid to face them again. NO ONE! Let's use some needed logic on this one!

Where did he use the word afraid or fear?

[P4Pdunny]

This is all a mess, I wonder if Ruiz has even started training yet.

[Ake-Dawg]

Quote:
Originally Posted by DaNeutral.
There is nothing wrong with Saudi being a place to hold a Boxing match. The problem here is Team Ruiz trying to get out of the fight and they and the PBC junkies will crap hard on anything they dont wana do. Its what they do.



I'm certainly no fan of Saudi Arabia, and would never go there. But then I can't travel at all these days until/if I get some health issues fixed. But to say Ruiz isn't afraid to go there is a bit disingenuous IMO. It's ok to say he IS afraid to go there, and maybe even afraid to rematch Joshua and is using his refusal to go there because of the nation's human rights violations history as an excuse. He's indicated he'll only fight in the U.S. or Mexico, and not even England. Like Hearn said, several sporting events have been held in Saudi, and no glitches. So we will soon see the reality of all this when Hearn holds Ruiz to the contract... which I think is what will happen in the long run.

So you watched the first fight, what gave you an indication that Ruiz is afraid of fighting Joshua? If he didn't look scared in the lead up to the fight, didn't start the fight scared, didn't fight scared, and didn't looked scared after the knockdown, what makes him scared now?

[_Rexy_]

So you watched the first fight, what gave you an indication that Ruiz is afraid of fighting Joshua? If he didn't look scared in the lead up to the fight, didn't start the fight scared, didn't fight scared, and didn't looked scared after the knockdown, what makes him scared now?

Joshua took his shirt off and flexed?

[Ake-Dawg]

Joshua took his shirt off and flexed?

Nah.... Joshua asked the gods to not send Ruiz anymore lucky punches.