Why did Andy ruiz pass as "mexican"?

[HewJohnson]

Lol 😂 how can ‘Mexican’ be an ethnicity!??? It’s a nationality, a country, a passport.... Mexicans are a mix of ethnicities (ethnicity being a largely bogus concept anyway). You are truly a moron 🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

I might’ve had the technical terminology messed up between race ethnicity nationality. My mistake.

But you know what I meant.
Touché! Ya little gay boy!

[Thuglife Nelo]

Lol �� how can ‘Mexican’ be an ethnicity!??? It’s a nationality, a country, a passport.... Mexicans are a mix of ethnicities (ethnicity being a largely bogus concept anyway). You are truly a moron ������������

“Black” or “white” have a mix of shades. Is it politically correct to say “black history month” or “brown history month?”

That would be a paradox of color and race if you want to talk about phrases for a type of month.

If Paulie Malignaggi identifies himself as “Italian” is it offensive to an objective person whom wants to empathize his ethnic pride? Who has the right to judge?

Go to school dude...

[icha]

he is mexican-american, nothing wrong with that... plus dual citizanship seals the deal for me... that means legally he should also be considered mexican and is not even up for debate...

[famicommander]

His parents were born in Mexico, he grew up in a primarily Mexican neighborhood in California, he trained to box in Mexico, and he fought for Mexico as an amateur.

He's Mexican and he's American. It's not complicated.

[Marchegiano]

Same reason why Calzaghe is Welsh

[Idunnoshet]

Why does it bother you?

You need to think more maturely... If Andy Ruiz wanted dual citizenship and live in Mexico, he could, do protocol, and became a Mexican citizen. Therefore, he's ethnicity already (technically) looked the part, so would Mexican citizenship justify him being a ''Mexican?''

Just so you know, Joshua is already aiming for Nigerian citizenship. If he is granted one then by having dual-citizenship means any AJ fan can claim his as a Nigerian as well. yet, does it really fooking matter?

Anthony Joshua @anthonyfjoshua enrolls for the National Identification Number and issued his NIN slip. pic.twitter.com/GS1osa6Rea

— NIMC (@nimc_ng) February 18, 2020

Good post .

[elfag]

He was very disingenuous about the whole thing.

He was born and raised in California and at some point moved to mexico and has lived there for a while.

But with him you never hear him mention the US or his US citizen ship. With other mexican americans like ODLH and Mikey Garcia ect, you never got that same vibe, everyone knew they were american and californian. Everyone knew guys like Chavez, Mab, morales, JMM were all mexican mexicans. Someone like Lennox Lewis, you knew his whole story and never tried to bury his links to UK, Canada and US.

Ruiz seems to bury his links to the US which is ridiculous because you hear his accent and he sounds like a bro frat boy from california.

[boogbx]

Anthony Joshua is Nigerian and Andy Ruiz is Mexican.

Why is that so hard to understand?

Nigerians love Joshua and Mexicans loved Andy. His performance in the rematch lost a lot of fans but he don’t stop being Mexican.

[elfag]

Anthony Joshua is Nigerian and Andy Ruiz is Mexican.

Why is that so hard to understand?

Nigerians love Joshua and Mexicans loved Andy. His performance in the rematch lost a lot of fans but he don’t stop being Mexican.

Does AJ have the nigerean national anthem play at his fights and only talk about nigeria?

There is a difference with Ruiz that I have not seen in other fighters. He acts like he is ashamed of being American.

[UNBANNED]

Why did Andy ruiz pass as "mexican"? He was born in California which is part of the US. Shouldn't he be called american. When he won against Joshua everyone was calling him the first "mexican heavyweight champion". No one had a problem with Ruiz being called mexican.

But lets says Anthony Joshua is Nigerian. People would say hes not nigerian but british. Could be said for many other boxers. If I called Amir Khan for pakistani almost everybody would correct my saying hes British. The same could be said for Naseem Hamed as Yemeni and Lennox Lewis as Jamaican. Why is this?

Its lineage. Hes Mexican American.

Not a big deal IMHO