Enjoying the spoils of victory, Ruiz packed on 15 pounds after winning the title and was ill-prepared for a rematch against Joshua in December 2019.“I don’t want to say that [months] of partying and celebrating affected me,” Ruiz said. “But it kind of did.”
“When the pandemic hit, I was 310 pounds. Right now I’m at 255 pounds,” Ruiz said during an interview with the Journal in mid-April. “I’m not where I want to be at but I’m better than where I was at.” “At one point, I was a little sensitive about it. I was always this big, big kid,” Ruiz said. “My first amateur fight, there was no kid at my weight at that age so I always had to fight older guys.”
The 6-foot-2 Ruiz weighed in at 268 pounds for the first Joshua fight but tipped the scales at 283 pounds for the December 2019 rematch. By comparison, the finely sculpted 6-foot-6 Joshua was 237 pounds for the second fight, 10 pounds lighter than the first bout.Ruiz said he felt sluggish during the rematch, which Joshua easily won in a unanimous decision.
“We’re turning that fat into muscle. Before, I wouldn’t do weights. I wouldn’t do weightlifting. I wouldn’t work out my legs, nothing like that. It’s actually given me more ability to be faster, to move around. To bob and weave.”In the short time they have worked together, Reynoso said Ruiz has shown that he is serious about getting back to the top of the sport.
Speaking of heavyweights, JERRY IZENBERG's best-selling book, Once There Were Giants: The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing, is being re-released in paperback by skyhorsepub on May 11. It's available at Amazon and BNBuzz.
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