Andy Ruiz Jr. wants $10 million for Deontay Wilder fight
Former unified heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr. hasn’t given up on his hopes of landing a fight against Deontay Wilder next, but he wants $10 million to make it happen.
Former unified heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr. hasn’t given up on his hopes of landing a fight against Deontay Wilder next, but he wants $10 million to make it happen.
Andy Ruiz Jr. has thrown has into the ring, offering to jump in a late substitute for Anthony Joshua to fight next Saturday night on August 12th at the O2 Arena in London after Dillian Whyte was scratched from the card after a failed VADA test.
Deontay Wilder reacted to Andy Ruiz Jr’s social media post from today by saying he’s still open to facing the chubby former unified heavyweight champion, but what he and his dad are asking for is “unreasonable.”
Will Deontay Wilder fight Andy Ruiz before he fights Anthony Joshua in December? Will Wilder actually fight either man? Plenty of people are skeptical enough that the Wilder-Joshua fight – spoken of as it has been for some time, for Saudi Arabia in December – happens, let alone Wilder-Ruiz beforehand.
Deontay Wilder’s trainer Malik Scott says that Andy Ruiz Jr will get knocked cold if he takes the right.
Right now, it doesn’t look like the former unified heavyweight champion Ruiz (35-2, 22 KOs) will be facing Wilder next because he’s turned down the offer given to him for a summer fight.
Negotiations between former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and former unified champ Andy Ruiz Jr have reached an impasse after Andy’s dad refused the split offered.
Andy Ruiz Jr and Zhilei Zhang are the two fighters being considered for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury’s next title defense on July 15th or 22nd at Wembley Stadium in London.
A few words uttered by Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum have been making the rounds on various websites. When speaking about what WBC heavyweight champ Tyson Fury’s next fight could be now that the Oleksandr Usyk unification showdown we were all looking forward to is off the table (for now, maybe for keeps), the Top Rank boss said it could be Andy Ruiz next for Fury.
Oscar De La Hoya says he thinks former unified heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr can KO Deontay Wilder in their fight that is expected to take place possibly in May.
Speaking once again with ESNews, former WBC heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder touched on a controversial subject: that of PEDS – performance-enhancing drugs.