Anthony Joshua

Not his fault it clashed with Ken Bruce's Pop Master.

Really looking forward to this fight. I think Joshua is a great fighter, but Ruiz gave him such a pasting last time out that I haven’t got a clue who will win tonight.

I wonder what the odds are? I’ll be going on the exchange right now to check.

1.47 Joshua.

3.25 Ruiz.

46.00 The Draw.

When is the fight? Isn't it Saturday night around 8-9pm UK time?

Yes mate, I think so.

Sorry if my post was confusing. I wrote “tonight” because technically it is already Saturday.

Hope the cooont gets knocked out. Commentator before the last fight called him the best exer heavy. ffs other greats must be spinning at that. The division has become a fkn joke.

He wouldn't have lasted 2 minutes in the ring with a prime Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali ffs

He was on the verge of losing to an 18 month out the ring 42 year old Klitchko

The media are pathetic

SS, so obvious, unfortunately the 'younger' posters don't know. Some idiots come out with the crap  ( without fck all evidence) that "modern heavyweights are so much 'heaver, old heavys could not compete, FFS.

Lumbering 'punch bags' imho.

ring walk 8.45 uk...11.45 saudi....

Commentator before the last fight called him the best exer heavy

Dt,

It's called 'commentators for a reason. Not experts just common tators.

Some Joshua fans, draped in Union Jacks, told BBC Sport the access to tickets - which range from £105 to £10,500 in price - was straightforward.

Fans who do get to Diriyah Arena - and organisers say tickets were bought in 65 countries - will sit in a 15,000-seat venue that did not exist two months ago.

Dec 7, 2019 -- 1:58AM, tictacman1 wrote:

Some Joshua fans, draped in Union Jacks, told BBC Sport the access to tickets - which range from £105 to £10,500 in price - was straightforward.Fans who do get to Diriyah Arena - and organisers say tickets were bought in 65 countries - will sit in a 15,000-seat venue that did not exist two months ago.

Wonder how many Injuns and Pakis died building that?

Ticktaf, I dnn't bet on boxing, but thanks for the'head up'.

Sorry for the miss spelling tictaf.

Juice that can be lrv

Juice that can be levelled at the Saudi barstewards anytime in modern history, unlike you some are oblivious to these facts.

Soz ticktac, for the misspelling, Juice, unfortunately we could apply that to others, but the Saudis are very practiced in deflecting thier abuses by everting pressure on the 'West' because of their influence on oil exports.

yeh they get away with so many atrocities

UK viewers:

Sky Sports Box Office - £24.95

US viewers:

DAZN - $19.99/month or $99.99/year

or free on the trusty wireless Radio 5 from 8pm

2 apologies on CC (by me to TTM) that must be a record, Call the Guinness chaps.

Joshua would have been messed with back in the heyday. Mike Tyson would have bludgeoned him.

Wilder wouldn't have lasted very long either, Tyson would have just waited for him to start windmilling and knocked him clean out the ring, they've have needed to pick up his teeth outside the sodding thing. Wilder might beat up on 50 year old grandpas (after being outclassed for 7 rounds) but he'd have been made light work of even in the 90s ffs, he'd have been mid ranked at best.

Its bonkers how the media are able to sell absolute triple to the masses as something its clearly not. I'll watch and enjoy it for what it is but its nothing special.

I don't think any of the current top 5 have any real boxing prowess not even Tyson Fury

When a 21 stone mini sumo wrestler holds most of the belts you know its pretty bloody average competitive wise

Spot on SS, very well put.

Hey juice I'm wide awake,  not through choice!  juice,,  i was 'privileged to see Australia' a few years back, loved the place and people.I'm an old sod now but regret being denied the oppertunity When i was 16 to go by my ex missus, we were engaged at the time. 2 gigantic mistakes with my agreeing to her demands not to go, marrying the cooontand not going. Eventually I grew up and divorced the bitch. I'm not bitter really

Sorry so regretful I had to repeat nyself.

Big Jack Bodell would surely have lamped Joshua.

Watch him here at his finest, forensically taking apart Little Danny Mac with surgical skill...... right?   You will rarely see a more clinical display of the noble art of ringcraft. Unless maybe you go to some rough West Country alehouse late on a Saturday night.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKKoW_6KvLU

The Mexican has weighed in at Over 20 stone Will they get him into the ring ?

Dec 7, 2019 -- 3:15AM, boxingthefox wrote:

Hey juice I'm wide awake,  not through choice!  juice,,  i was 'privileged to see Australia' a few years back, loved the place and people.I'm an old sod now but regret being denied the oppertunity When i was 16 to go by my ex missus, we were engaged at the time. 2 gigantic mistakes with my agreeing to her demands not to go, marrying the cooontand not going. Eventually I grew up and divorced the bitch. I'm not bitter really

Dec 7, 2019 -- 12:49PM, casemoney wrote:

The Mexican has weighed in at Over 20 stone  Will they get him into the ring ?

Yeh I couldn't believe that, 20 stone is massive!

unfortunately,i think the Nigerian drug dealing POS will prob stop Ruiz tho' i would lurv to be proven wrong

couldn't agree more about the media esp Sky hyping up the most ordinary of boxers as tho' they were Sugar Ray(the original)

and the retards being taken in by the whole b0llocks

no slight on anyone stepping in the ring tho'..fair play to them they can only be at the level they are..it's a tough,dangerous business

one of the few ways those from a less than privileged background can set themselves up for life

casemoney..fork lift truck??

Dec 7, 2019 -- 1:28PM, johnnythebull wrote:

unfortunately,i think the Nigerian drug dealing POS will prob stop Ruiz tho' i would lurv to be proven wrongcouldn't agree more about the media esp Sky hyping up the most ordinary of boxers as tho' they were Sugar Ray(the original)and the retards being taken in by the whole b0llocksno slight on anyone stepping in the ring tho'..fair play to them they can only be at the level they are..it's a tough,dangerous businessone of the few ways those from a less than privileged background can set themselves up for life

He just can't help himself.

Sorry, meant to quote jucel's racist shitposting.

Read a bit about this fight in saudi arabia strange place to hold such a big fight , no doubt thought this a poltical operation to hold tha Saudis  in a better light , at the end of the day its all about the money as usual , as for the fight Ruiz is value at 2s

I hope so anxious...I have backed Luiz

If he connects with Joshua I think Joshua may go, he did last time

Dont think he will get Near Josh

Ruiz lost only 1 fight as a pro to parker who is not a bad fighter, i think as amateur he is 105 -5 so that is pretty good record these mexicans are tough dudes , they fight to live as the old saying goes

My betting account will reveal all...after the fight..hmmmm?

Raining at the dunes.....

Still raining
But AJ IS LOOKING

MAGINFICENT

not sure why the result should be any different this time

Underdog drifting

BADLY

The new world


CHAMPION

Exhibition from Josh

Superb performance from AJ. Total discipline.

Well done Anthony Joshua

“It was his night. I didn't prepare how I should have, I gained too much weight.

“I don't want to give too many excuses, he boxed me around. If we do the third, best believe I get in the best shape of my life.

“[The weight] affected me. I thought I'd feel stronger, thought I'd feel better. I tried to train myself, but I don't want to give no excuses. Anthony Joshua did a hell of a job.

“Who wants to see the third trilogy fight?”

- Andy Ruiz Jr

Cant wait for the rematch

5 Bellies at the Metro Arena Next up

Well done Casemoney. You called it exactly right.

In what context did Joshua say Bismillah at the end of the fight? Was their a story behind that?

there

I see, he's a muslim. I didn't know that.

I don't think it made a lot of difference to Ruiz

Dec 7, 2019 -- 10:12PM, Torquemada wrote:

Superb performance from AJ. Total discipline.

Are u serious.  He was fighting a dud for the 2nd time after getting beat first time around by the same dud.  Lets see AJ fight one of the real top 3 or 4 current heavyweights

Kriskin

There's only really 2 serious challenges out there in Fury and Wilder

I've absolutely gobsmacked people are shocked by AJ "outboxing" him, Ruiz is no boxer he's a lump of meat with a good shot on him if his opponent is daft enough to trade with him in the centre of the ring

It wont stop the media calling it "redemption" though

They have done that storyline to death ffs

People want to see Joshua, Wilder, Fury fight each other but usual trash talk but nothing will be arranged.

Same as Mayweather and Pacquiao (sp), everyone wanted it but they messed around for years.

But managers want to make money.

Joshua really is a boring man

"simplicity is genius" he's obviously reading this sort of triple online

Mate you beat a tubby mexican who had obviously been out on the lash for 6 months, even admitted as much before the fight ffs

The game is knackered and clowns run the show quite obviously

I think he was boxing to orders Joshua myself

I think is corner were afraid if he starting slugging it out with Ruiz he might catch a big punch as he did in the first fight

and never recovered from

I like Ruiz, he gives hope for all us fatties, that we one day we may become World Heavyweight Boxing Champion

RUIZ hard as nails ,Took a couple of Heavy hits he Just keeps coming

I think the problem with boxing Sontaran is that it is a business.

Which is why we often have more than one World Champion. It makes more money.

At the moment I would rate Tyson Fury as the best Heavyweight Boxer in the World

whether there is ever a unification, I do not know?

I think Daniel Dubois is an upcoming British Heavyweight.

He is the opposite of Ruiz he has a very impressive physique

I agree Case, Ruiz is tougher than his physique would indicate

Most Mexicans are tough fighters, as somebody put up earlier in the thread

Tough but can't box

The bloke might have fast hands but up against anyone with any technical ability and Boxing IQ isn't going to be worried about that, you just don't stand in the centre of the ring and trade with him, move around and keep him behind the jab and its goodnight vienna, Ruiz was egging Joshua on to trade with him that's how desperate Ruiz was, and I was half expecting Joshua the dumb to fall into the trap again

Joshua did what was needed so fair play to him for that, its just how big a deal is being made of it, Fury was on the True Geordie podcast a week before the fight and he said Ruiz would be the easiest fight for him in the division, pretty much gave Joshua the blue print to beat him. "id jab his face off for 12 rounds"...

I would agree with that Sontaran

I'm glad he won - he was complacent last time - he beat Mr Blobby. And, lots of dosh to show for it at this despicable venue host.

Mr Blobby

but apt

He did what he had to do. He learnt from the first match. Give him a bit of slack. Have a go when he gets "found out" as some on here are so desperate for.

Vastly overhyped ,to even mention him in the same sentence as Ali is sacrilege.

Dec 8, 2019 -- 6:48PM, bigmo wrote:

He did what he had to do. He learnt from the first match. Give him a bit of slack. Have a go when he gets "found out" as some on here are so desperate for.

Who ever heard of Ruiz until he got the late call first time around?  Ruiz is a nobody boxer who won a World title and now will disappear like David Price, etc

fought nobody . absolute w@nk

For some on here, Joshua was never going to be the winner was he? This was the best outcome for him and yet people are p1ssed at him. One wonders why they even bothered watching and are still wasting their energies on him.

Meanwhile Joshua cashes in 50 million.

Detrav

He did what he needed to do and he should have done that first time around, not traded with a bull in the centre of the ring

But the media have proper overhyped the win ffs, it was always going to be an easy win if he used his brain, Ruiz is a fat man with a good punch on him if his opponent opens up and stand there to be hit like an idiot

Was the fight anywhere on sky etc that I could have paid, reasonably,  to watch?

I used to love watching important boxing matches but then along came the  big money and all important fights were on at ridiculous times in the morning and at exorbitant prices.  But I got caught out this weekend when i saw it was on at 9pm - too late to see it.

Ruiz is no Henry Cooper or Joe Bugner; Joshua beat a non-entity who probably is no better than Richard Dunn - end of.

Sky Box Office    Annie


I so not think Andy Ruiz is a nonentity

He has quite good amateur and professional records

He also stopped Anthony Joshua in their first fight

I don't think he is the best heavyweight in the World, in the top 10 though

not that I am any boxing expert tbh

A rematch with WHYTE looking to be on the cards WTF ?

Is Joshua better than "you know what I mean Harry', the boxer? I'd not think so.

joshua a fake get him to fight someone decent and fit

Dream scenario for Eddie Hearn.

Made a fortune on the Ruiz rematch, Joshua even more marketable now he’s got some weakness, second string fighter available for an all Brit grudge match. Fury and Wilder otherwise engaged, no pressure to fight them, easy money for Eddie next 12 months.

Anyone who takes seriously anything the media print needs to have a strong word with themselves. I agree he's not up there with the greats though.

The Longer he steers clear of Furey and Wilder , The Dollars will keep rolling in ,I have no interest in seeing him Fight Whyte

Whyte is no mug, a very dangerous opponent for any fighter. Wilder has been dodging him for eighteen months.