12/14/2023 0 Comments Andy ruiz jr vs luis ortiz![]() ![]() With 1:51 left in the second, Ruiz caught Ortiz with a counter right on the side of the head, which downed the 43-year-old Ortiz. I showed more class than I usually do just coming forward.”Īfter a feeling-out first round, Ortiz (33-3, 28 KOs) added an exclamation point with a straight left to Ruiz’s face at :17 left. “Everyone was doubting me, but I worked so hard for this fight,” said Ruiz, who was facing a southpaw for the first time. and Zachary Young’s scorecards, and 113-112 on Fernando Villarreal’s card. ![]() (35-2, 22 KOs) knocked down the Cuban southpaw twice in the second, and once in the seventh, with essentially the same punch, a pulverizing right on the left side of Ortiz’s head. Ruiz dropped two-time world title challenger Luis "King Kong" Ortiz three times on Sunday night on his way to a 12-round unanimous decision in a WBC heavyweight title eliminator in a FOX Sports PBC Pay-Per-View from the Arena in Los Angeles. Each punch lands with a terrible thud, followed by a sweat hallow, and then another thud-from his opponent falling. It’s probably because the Mexican-American heavyweight doesn’t have to. “Do you think I’m done? You saw a war here tonight.Andy “The Destroyer” Ruiz doesn’t throw a lot of punches. I felt I gave a great fight tonight,” Ortiz said via an interpreter, adding that he would like a rematch. “Anybody who said that ‘King Kong’ is old, I gave you a war today. 15 against Robert Helenius, and had about 20 percent of the total broadcast dedicated to him this evening, was in attendance, and Ruiz said he would welcome that as a next fight, too: “Me and him are in the same organization, Al Haymon can make this fight happen. I’m ready, man, I’m hungry, I want to be champion again.”ĭeontay Wilder, who returns on Oct. I want to fight at least three or four times again. “I do not want to be waiting so long until I fight. “It was pretty difficult, but the ability that I have, my counter-punching and connecting and dropping him, it was blessing.” “I thought I did a beautiful job boxing him,” Ruiz said. The fight was never really the same from there, other than a good rush in round seven when Ruiz dropped Ortiz a third time. We almost saw it late in round two, when Ortiz did crack him, and Ruiz clearly felt it. He won’t face many fighters like Ortiz, and he knew Ortiz was dangerous with his power and timing, too, if he gave him too many opportunities. It wasn’t the all-star performance you would have wanted to see from Ruiz, but a lot of it was very smart, and he gets the job done. It never totally bit him, though, as Ortiz doesn’t have the legs anymore to catch opponents by surprise other than timing them coming in, and Ruiz was able to take advantage of that, and also use his own quickness and hand speed to sting Ortiz pretty often, which Ortiz couldn’t do much about because he’s just slow now. Ruiz (35-2, 22 KO) was facing a southpaw for the first time as a pro, and it definitely showed, including the former titleholder usually circling the “wrong” way, into Ortiz’s power hand. And it wasn’t hard to find six or seven of those for the Cuban. If he laid back too much, it was easy to score them for Ortiz, whose jabs could be said to carry rounds where, frankly, nothing much was happening at all. Most rounds seemed to go whichever way Andy Ruiz approached them. We’d probably be talking a bit more about controversy in that case.īut the 43-year-old Ortiz (33-3, 28 KO) never really put a true stamp on this fight, either. It should be noted that the second one was a questionable judgment call from referee Thomas Taylor, and had that one not been counted, Ruiz still would have won, but by split decision, and the two cards his way would have been by a single point. It was a fight with bursts of action, mainly in the second round, where Ruiz scored two of his knockdowns. Bad Left Hook also scored it 113-112 for Ruiz on our unofficial card. Taking three points from Ortiz due to knockdowns, that would mean two judges had it even in rounds, 6-6, and one judge had Ortiz winning seven rounds to Ruiz’s five. Andy Ruiz Jr rode three knockdowns to a close decision win over Luis Ortiz tonight, picking up his second straight win following his 2019 rematch loss to Anthony Joshua. ![]()
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