Parker says Ruiz hits the hardest

Ken Ridout from the fight podcast with Teddy Atlas takes credit for Ruiz's first win over AJ. He was standing in the corner motionless with no sweat coming down, so ken yells "Andy Ruiz! Do something!" Andy responds by jumping up and down. With a glistening sweat going on, Ruiz proceeds to knock out Anthony Joshua!

 

Parker fought Ruiz about 8 years ago. But Ruiz still hit hard enough years later to make Joshua quit.

 

Yeah I heard Ken say that haha the last few times I listened to The Fight Teddy's son was hosting. Did Ken quit or get fired?

 

Idk my g, I was wondering about rumblings about that too lol! He had a good ear to listen to Teddy's dialogues lol. I saw a funny quote on that show with Teddy's son lol, he said towards son; "buddy guess what? If it's good enough for you than it's good enough for me?" Just the delivery and cheesiness of it made me laugh lol

 

Haha I like Teddy but the show can be pretty cheesy that is why I don't often listen. I actually found Ken really annoying after a while he would just brown nose Teddy non stop is was getting cringe.

 

True that! Keeping the cringe fest going, back when Michael Moorer was active lol during the Friday night fight days, during the interview/ in studio with Max and Brian Kenny thing, Michael and Teddy had a golden moment where double M retired just for teddy exclusively. The whole thing was over the top, like it was scripted from rocky or somesorts ...lol.

 

There is zero chance Ruiz hits harder than Zhang, absolutely none.

Harder than AJ, Wilder, Chisora, Whyte etc, all of those I can accept.

But Parker is telling porky pies when it comes to Zhang, because he knows a rematch could be on the horizon if they both win their next fights.

Also, it’s obvious Parker would want to praise the future unified champion who he beat to win the WBO world title, over the 40 year old who dropped him twice with grazing shots.

 

Ruiz can clearly crack - and yeah, speed/velocity plus weight/power is gonna be different than just pure Hail Mary winging shots, or power that comes purely from mass.

so I guess I’m not that surprised. It’s definitely interesting, but not shocking.

 

No one else fanboys AJ as hard as you tbh.

 

Yes, Ruiz and Chisora are the biggest punchers at HW.

No statistics or common observation suggests anything close to that. In fact, both were broadly considered to not be big punchers for many years.

But boxers know more than keyboard warriors.

As a side note, I specifically remember Parker (after the AJ fight) saying that he couldn't really compare AJ to Ruiz power wise because AJ never hit him clean.

But it gets worse, because Whyte and Zhang and Joyce badly hurt him or KO'd him and Ruiz didn't. So it's not even about not getting hit clean.

Thus we discover why asking boxers anything is problematic. They can't actually think. And thus give ridiculous answers to simple questions.

 

Bingo. I'll never understand why boxer always say the hardest hitting guys are the ones they beat. Joe Joyce knocked Parker out. It stands to reason Parker should say he is the hardest puncher if he's being honest.

Truth is, it's Zhang, like you said. Parker fought scared most of the fight. He didn't fight scared against Wilder.

 

Call it a hunch, but, Parker will likely be saying that Dubois hit him the hardest come this Saturday.

 

Bold claim: Joyce, Wilder, AJ, Zhang...

 

Ruiz Jr is deceptivly fast and counters or trades which are the worst punches to take.

 

A while ago he said it was Zhang lol