Dillian Whyte vs Andy Ruiz JR

I think an in shape Ruiz takes this pretty easily. I think it’s the beginning of the end for Whyte now personally. I don’t think he has the chin to mix it and although he can punch himself, I think if he gets caught clean he goes.

 

At first I thought Ruiz here, but I wouldn't be surprised if Whyte took a decision. I need to see Ruiz against a good opponent soon because he doesn't have many on his resume

 

Am I watching the same Whyte quite a lot of other people are watching?

His footwork is poor, his ring IQ is poor, his boxing ability is OK, he is game, he is brave, a little bit crazy and he has a great left hook sometimes.. is it the same man?

Because Whyte seems to get better when he doesn't fight, his reputation seem to just grow and grow even though the more you see him the more questions are raised.

Does anybody remember his last fight? He was sparked by a shot to pieces 40 year old, is it the same Whyte? Although he was up at 8 according to Hearn.


The reality is the Heavyweight division is poor, there are maybe 4-5 solid heavyweights and the rest are bang average at best.

Whytes best win on paper was Parker, Whyte was lucky to get a decision and lucky to survive the final round, Parker has since gone on to do literally nothing and looked so bad in his last fight he sacked his trainer.

In my opinion he lost the first fight to Chisora, struggled badly, won the second with a career best punch and seems to be living off that.

Went the distance with Wach, struggled with Rivas after some dodgy test results, went the distance with a brittle Helenius, went the distance with Dave Allen FFS the same Dave Allen that David Price battered, put in Hospital and basically retired.

He is now fighting a Covid ridden shot to pieces 41 year old on a rock somewhere which looks rather suspect to me and raises all sorts of questions about a fighter who was banned for two years once for failing a test.


The same one?

 

With motivated for long term before fight Ruiz Whyte will not walk 12 rounds.

Ruiz does have short reach but his hands aren't slower than Usyk's hands.
Ruiz is one from top2 counter punchers in division.
Ruiz does have flaws, like leg lazy etc, still he isn't 40 y.o or 41 y.o Povetkin long years ago over the hill and smaller than Whyte.
Vs Ruiz Whyte will not have weight advantage like he had vs 40 y.o Povetkin 224 lbs dude.
Ruiz as short and stocky is lesser prove to be impacted with body blows.

 

Pretty much how i see it TBH.

I do have the ocaisional punt on fights. This would definitely be one of them. Cha-ching!

 

Whyte would really need to depend on his left hook for this one

 

I can see Whyte taking a sloppy decision where Ruiz has his moments, but never does quite enough to satisfy the judges. Basically a similar fight to the Rivas one, Ruiz plodding forward trying to break through Whyte's high guard and taking heavy jabs to the face and sneaky body shots and uppercuts in close. I can see Whyte looking a bit ragdolled when Ruiz opens up on him but still taking the majority of his shots on the gloves, and Ruiz looking clueless at long range, lacking the reach, the footwork or the ring iq to close distance before Whyte smothers him. Whyte always has the potential to do something stupid though, so wouldn't rule out a Ruiz win, but I lean towards Whyte unless he looks like absolute ass in the Povetkin rematch.

 

I forgot about that one

Maybe he meant Whyte was conscious at the count of 8?

 

fight vs old small Povetkin he get because he isn't going to beat up A.J or Fury and still money with him should be earned.
Therefore uncle eddie booked old Povetkin and put him on rematch clauses as B side away corner kid.

Now if 250-252 lbs 32 y.o Whyte will beat up post covid 41 y.o Povetkin, fans will be ensured that KTFO did not had happened, how cool Whyte is and will type here nice talks how shitty Povetkin is, how overvalued he was.

Like with A.J, everyone now had forget how A.J had been beated up by Ruiz.
A.J is world champ for his fans now.
Looks Ruiz was not enough old for A.J to beatup him and therefore business clauses had been used.

LOL at boxing business.

 

He can't handle Povetkin @ 41 he ain't doin nutin with an in shape focussed Ruiz...AJ still has his Mommy cuddle him when he remembers that nasty Mexican...

 

Id say it goes to decision I think they're pretty evenly matched fighters Ruiz has the hand speed, chin, and better countering ability IMO. Whyte has the better jab and is better at long range than Ruiz and even in short-range he has that dangerous counter left hook. Whyte would probably look to keep Ruiz at range and Ruiz would try to get inside.

Whyte has the faster feet but he's shown he does gas in the later section of the fight. I'd say it's a 50/50 fight probably with Whyte getting a early points lead with the Jab and then once Whyte starts to gas Ruiz would start raking up points and maybe even score a KD or stoppage depending on how badly Whyte gasses. If Whyte manages to not gas or not gas until super late he could walk away with a win.

I'd probably go with Ruiz by Decision but it's a close fight and anything is possible at this level of heavyweight boxing. It'll be interesting to see how Reynoso changes Ruiz's style he could end up becoming the dark horse of the division if he stays motivated.

 

Not close to A.J or Parker speed.

Yeah, but this is not like A.J or Usyk level.

Countering ability Ruiz does have better than Usyk or A.J too, not alone Whyte.

Ruiz moves in the ring slowly and a lot depends from his motivation and shape.
Otherwise, vs motivated during long months Ruiz I do not see that Whyte might beat him. Then Ruiz via stoppage.

 

Ruiz by brutal KO. Whyte is done and has been for a while

 

I wasn't comparing them to Aj or Usyk lmao I do agree a lot depends on the motivation of Ruiz coming in Whyte probably beats a unmotivated Ruiz and a motivated Ruiz has a high chance of stopping Whyte