Comments Thread For: Ruiz: I Looked Past Joshua; Thought It Would Same As June 1st

[Tatabanya]

It should not be hard for Ruiz to "bounce" back with that shape of his.

Some walrus may be willing to teach him a thing or two about nutrition.

[JimRaynor]

Im having a hard time understanding all these excuses. Not because I do not believe them, I certainly do, it's exactly as Ruiz put it. However, my confusion stems from why he'd think any of the stuff he said?

I'd understand if he was Mike Tyson, who steam rolled through all the competition and had been a champ for 3 years for him not to take an opponent seriously, but even Mike Tyson, if it were a top caliber opponent wouldn't not train.

Andy Ruiz wins one big profile fight, against what is perceived to be the best man in the division, and then just thinks he will steam roll through that same guy again next time around by taking the fight even less seriously than the first? Where does that sort of thinking stem from?

[Deleted]

First of all, hats off to AJ. He did a better job adjusting his style than most expected. It wasn't a pretty fight, but he got his belts back.

Since many don't seem to have read the article:

“I just should’ve trained harder, you know?,” Ruiz told BoxingScene.com in a post-fight interview. “There’s no excuses. I think I looked past him. I thought it was gonna be the same thing [as] June 1st. But we did work on some things. But I think for me, being a little heavier – well, a lot heavier – I didn’t perform my best.”

Seems to me that he's stating facts, but in this day and age..the word excuses seems to be the cool thing to do. We all seem to spin things like politicians nowadays.

Anyways, sad for boxing that things went down the way they did, but c'est la vie. Not a good weekend for boxing or UFC fans.

[Oldskoolg]

I can’t believe this level of malaise and unprofessionalism by Ruiz.....he really let himself down and has earned a reputation he will never shake

[Bandman]

this fat obese tub of butter has a new excuse every 5 minutes

[alexjust]

I think I looked past him. I thought it was gonna be the same thing [as] June 1st.
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But why?! You need to be a really ****ty judge of character to assume that AJ would have just folded and wouldn't have changed things around. If you follow AJ's interviews and info from his camp (as little insight as it gave), you could still see that he was working his butt off to succeed while Andy 3 weeks before the fight was going to JC Penny with his freeloader-like friends and eating pizza with tacos. His stock would have gone up significantly if at least he nicked 3-4 rounds or decked AJ once or twice. He would show the world he wasn't entirely a fluke, but their 2nd fight showed that the reason Andy won in the first was because AJ was completely not mentally in the fight and it showed. Ruiz has only himself to blame. Anticipating to see him balloon up to 200kg, he has enough money for that (which his dad should take away from him for his own good)

[alexguiness]

Ruiz is guilty of being unprofessional.

He just doesn't have the dedication to really maintain a tip HW career.

He was a 3 belt Champion and made around $20 million from his Joshua fights.

Can't really blame him too much.

[MOTHERDUCKER]

How can he look past? Joshua clearly had an off night in June and even then he put Ruiz on his ass

[Mister Wolf]

Ruiz has been obese his whole career.

[Tatabanya]

What one learns from this: never, ever place a bet on any fighter before the day of the weigh-in.