Deontay Leshun Wilder vs. Andrés Ponce Ruiz, Jr.

Will it be in front of 80,000 fans at Jerry Jones' Death Star? Or 5,000 casuals in a newly built arena with wooden seats? Maybe in Montana somewhere?

 

I don’t think round 1 but i completely agree CST80, Ruiz lacks head movement and likes eating shots nearly as much as he enjoys eating tacos, he also likes coming forward in straight lines is flat footed, wilder will bang a 1-2 down the pipe and it’s night night Ruiz.

 

I was thi nking during the Big Baby fight with Lucas Browne, that it's useless to hit fat boxers to the body because they have a lot of flab protection. Wilder is a headhunter, rarely going to the body, so he's like to win by KO fairly early.

 

All these people predicting an early and easy KO for Wilder.....I do not agree.

Don't forget Ruiz can fire off explosive combos, and Wilder isn'texactly a sharpshoorter. I also think that the Viking KO1 may be misleading a lot of people about where his head is at. Fury took his soul, and if he gets buzzed then we will really see the effect that trilogy had on him.

If Ruiz comes in good shape I may slightly lean in his direction.

 

Ruiz is a plodder who has a bad tendency to stand in front of his opponent for long periods of time doing nothing and just waiting for a counter shot.

Both are past their best, but Wilder’s style ages better, and Ruiz quite frankly looked awful against a shot to pieces Ortiz, needing 3 official KDs (1 of those being bogus) to narrowly scrape a decision win.

Wilder inside 6 via brutal KO, I would genuinely be shocked if Ruiz won.

 

T-Rex vs Kangaroo.

Kangaroo by brutal KO...

 

If Wilder doesn't learn to clinch, he'll have problems when Ruiz closes the distance.

 

Wilder-Ruiz is a comical mismatch

1. 6’6.5 vs 6’

2. 83 inch reach vs 74 inch reach

3. Fast feet vs slow feet

4. Agile vs laboured

5. Massive puncher vs relatively light puncher

6. Good jab at long range vs no jab at long range

7. Highly disciplined and motivated vs poor discipline and often unmotivated

8. Outpointed Chakhkiev in the amateurs vs outpointed by Mike Wilson in the amateurs

9. Won Olympic bronze in Beijing vs won the Mexican nationals

10. 13 world title fights (10-2-1) vs 3 world title fights (1-2)

11. Beats shorter or slower men vs beaten by taller faster men

12. KO’d Morales, Liakhovich, Arreola and Ortiz x2 vs distance with more worn versions of Morales, Liakhovich, Arreola and Ortiz

It gets worse for Ruiz: compared to Joshua, Wilder has superior stamina, mental toughness and (likely still) durability, he’s unlikely to underestimate Ruiz as Joshua and Ortiz did, he will be extremely motivated to beat Ruiz given the history with Joshua and Ortiz and for what it’s worth, Arreola, Ortiz and Ruiz’s former coach Sanchez strongly favour Wilder to KO Ruiz.

 

Probably Wilder stoppage, but if Ruiz is in shape (probably won't be) it could get interesting as he's a good counter puncher and Wilder will give him opportunities to counter until he eventually nails him.

 

I guess that I just don't think Wilder has the boxing ability to consistently land that shot and keep a motivated Ruiz off of him. Allow me to present a scenario and you tell me if it is far fetched.

Wilder comes out throwing wild haymaker right hands looking for a knockout. He lands one or two, and he also gets countered and buzzed on one of them. He holds his punches a bit more after that and is looking slightly unwilling to pull the trigger. This allows Andy to close the distance and use his superior interior fighting to make Wilder very uncomfortable. Wilder shows his age, looks sloppy, and gets outworked to a decision loss.

Wilder is 37, and coming off of career altering beatdowns that have ruined fighters far younger than him. I think he has a chance to land an early KO sure, but if he gets hurt slightly I think Andy takes this.