'The Destroyer' re-shared a post on his Instagram story that read "Tyson Fury vs Andy Ruiz Jr is official! July 22nd", with the caption also containing a United Kingdom emoji. Their second fight took place just six months after the Mexican-American shockingly stopped 'AJ' on a month's notice, handing the Brit his first professional defeat and capturing his world titles. Ruiz, 33, hasn't competed in a world title fight since he lost his unified belts to Anthony Joshua in their 2019 rematch. Now six months later, after training religiously and maintaining a healthy diet, he has lost 55 pounds and says he feels more explosive, more elusive and better equipped to fight at a high level.Andy Ruiz Jr has seemingly confirmed he will fight heavyweight champion Tyson Fury on July 22 in the UK. Ruiz had a clear vision.Īfter convincing super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez to let him train with him and trainer Eddy Reynoso, Ruiz attacked his mission with a vengeance. The temptations that led him astray had vanished. “The next day, everything changed, bro,” he declared. Ruiz recalled falling to his knees one day in late November 2020, sobbing and prayerfully begging for redemption, and for help to get his eating and training under control. “It was just like a spaghetti bowl, going in circles and circles, and I got tired of that life so I started telling God that if he could forgive me and give me another chance to redeem myself.” … There was one day that I was so tired and sick of the way I was living. I started doing the stuff I shouldn’t be doing, and wasn’t training like I should be training and that’s why I was overweight and wasn’t disciplined and wasn’t focused on the right things. “He helped me through all my journey and I kind of fell off track and forgot where I came from. … I feel like my purpose was to encourage more people and make the unbelievers into believers and let them know God was on my side,” Ruiz told USA TODAY Sports. “I felt like I let God down and didn’t fulfill my purpose. It means a lot to me and hopefully the fans can see and say, ‘Andy could be more dangerous than he was before because he is more dedicated and more disciplined.’” It means a lot because I know inside that I’m doing the right things and progressing, going to the gym and training hard. “I feel like the old Andy died and this is the new Andy,” the 31-year-old Ruiz told USA TODAY Sports. But because Ruiz, in his words, has experienced so much change and learned so many lessons in the last 17 months, he’s not even the same man or boxer anymore. will indeed return to the ring for the first time since that December 2019 loss in a rematch with Joshua that cost him his belts.Īnd this upcoming bout against Chris Arreola in a Fox Sports pay-per-view event does represent a meaningful step in Ruiz’s quest for redemption. reflects on the life-changing, rollercoaster seven-month stretch of 2019 – how he upset Anthony Joshua that June to become Mexico’s first heavyweight champion, how it all came crashing down in an embarrassing defeat that December – and then recalls how depression and shame engulfed him for much of 2020, the boxer wants no parts of comeback talk. Editor’s note: This article was originally published on.
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