![]() ![]() Before Fury vacated, Duco Events promoter Dean Lonergan announced in early October that he had been negotiating an alternative WBO title fight against Ruiz Jr., suggesting he had a chance of reaching a deal with promoter Bob Arum. With his sudden announcement that he would relinquish his heavyweight world titles due to his issues with various problems, it was unclear exactly how the WBA, and WBO would go about filling the vacancies. With number two ranked Klitschko targeting the WBA belt, it cleared the way for number three Ruiz Jr., to step up against Parker.ĭiscussions and negotiations began after Fury was expected to be stripped of his WBO title over inactivity and testing positive for cocaine. Although the WBO president Francisco Varcarcel said his preference was to set up a four-man box-off for the vacant title involving the four top-ranked available contenders for the title, it subsequently went down the route of their own rule book which gave number one ranked Parker the first rights to challenge. The belt was vacated by Tyson Fury, who was battling depression and drug issues and hadn't fought since November when he beat Wladimir Klitschko to snare the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO, and The Ring magazine titles. for their belt with their championship committee voting unanimously in favor of the title fight. The organisation had granted permission to Parker fighting Ruiz Jr. world title fight had been officially sanctioned by the World Boxing Organization. Parker won the contest by majority decision, with two judges scoring it 115–113 and the other 114–114. The event took place on 10 December 2016, at the Vector Arena in Auckland, New Zealand. Andy Ruiz Jr., billed as History, was a professional boxing match between undefeated Joseph Parker and Andy Ruiz Jr. After the way Ruiz looked tonight, he’ll lose to all of those fighters, including a half dozen contenders in the division.Joseph Parker vs. I’m not sure that I agree that Ruiz can compete with Wilder, Usyk or Fury. It’s not that hard, especially for someone like Andy, who has been doing it his whole life. “Of course,” said Arreola when asked if Ruiz could compete with world champions Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury. Wilder is eventually going to drop that hammer and put him to sleep. The difference is that he can’t sit on the outside and get punched like that against Wilder. If you had more exchanges, he probably would have taken him out by the eighth. “The thing is, the exchanges were short-lived. ![]() “His hands are so fast, and he’s just the stronger fighter. Every exchange, he wins,” said Chris Arreola to Fighthype after Andy Ruiz Jr’s win over Luis Ortiz. Read: Joe Joyce's career devastated after KO loss to Zhilei Zhang Both of those fighters would easily beat Ruiz if he fought like he did tonight. This wasn’t the type of performance that Ruiz needed that would suggest that he’ll stand a chance against WBC champion Tyson Fury or IBF, WBA & WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk. He couldn’t get to the taller fighter to land anything because he used his mobility and hard jab to dominate Andy. Again, it was the same thing that we saw in Ruiz’s rematch with Anthony Joshua. The lack of reach and more mobility of Ruiz hurt him in rounds eight through twelve, as he couldn’t get to Ortiz. After that round, Ortiz got smart, choosing to stay at range, jab, and move to keep the stocky Ruiz from getting in position to land anything. In round seven, Ruiz caught Ortiz with a big right hand high on the head to send him down. Ortiz got overly aggressive after he got back up, and he was soon dropped for a second time in the round. In the second round, Ruiz caught Ortiz with a right to the head and sent him down to the canvas. Ortiz lit Ruiz up in round twelve, hitting him repeatedly with jarring left hands and making him look once-dimensional. Read: September 2016 to September 2022: The Canelo-Golovkin Rivalry – Who Really Won?
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