Get ready to see one of the biggest examples of "running" in boxing in the Joshua vs Ruiz fight

Yup in the moment of truth Ruiz after the first knockdown Ruiz bit down on his mouthpiece and kept moving forward.

Parker showed pretty good defence but he was largely happy to survive the 12. He didn't have any plan, tools or desire to turn his defence into offense.

 

Maybe the bodybuilder wanted to imitate his boxing idol Deontay Wilder and knock Ruiz out early? There are some fighters in the division you can't just knock out in 6 rounds. I think the blob has to take a **** ton of punishment, and be fatigued to even risk doing that. It's been explained lots of times, guys like Tua, Bowe, McCall, Ibeabuchi, Holyfield, Mercer in their primes were all 12 round fighters. Ruiz is another it seems. Joshua 's team should be training for 24 rounds.

 

Good advice from rival Dillian Whyte on how to beat Ruiz

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Whyte from his experience fighting Chisora knows how to cook the opponent well done before going for the kill

Ruiz and Chisora are similar, fire in their bellies, the more you hit them the more they lash out and come forward tough guys

Need to drag it out and drain them

 

I don't know if he will run or fight or bit of both.

But why does it matter as long as he (from his perspective) wins the fight.

I'm sure he would take a scrappy points win or a knock out or a dodgy decision.

He won't care he just needs to win, move on and forget all about Andy Ruiz, the man is just all wrong for him.

 

They don't, but the fact is he's not fought like the bigger, taller fighter against any of his decent shorter foes makes me question his team. He's the one fighting, but if he's not implementing their plan then he needs people in his team who can get through to him.

Personally, I don't think they have a proper plan, these shorter fighters should be easy pickings, especially Ruiz. The guy is decent with decent hands, can cut the ring off (slowly) but is there top be mauled, leaned on and pummeled with his slow feet and mediocre defence. All I can think is that Wlad would utterly shut Ruiz out and knock him out.

 

Ruiz walked AJ down from the get go.......put AJ and his "superior" back foot boxing right away......the thing is , AJ never fights tall even when he jabs, he crouches down looking to get into range and start hooking.while over extending...he was and always will be a mid to close range fighter despite his height and reach advantage....his MO is to overpower his opponents, that works for oldtimers like WK or Hypejob Povetkin or against the tame Samoan but it aint working against a fighter like Ruiz who comes to win with a solid boxing back ground.

He has had always questionable stamina and has a poor chin.....he cannot rely on it in a fire fight, Ruiz did, he could not. Concussion my azz.

This is Ruiz's fight to loose not AJ's to win......I repeat myself again, if Ruiz shows up in the same state of mind and body like in the first he will cook AJ's goose again.

IMO, the Bodybuilder is totally mentally shell shocked.

Now lets see if I have to eat crow next week.

 

Just going thru his resume. Ruiz is no KO machine. If Joshua just play it safe he will win.