His dad told me Andy was committed to doing that and he was working hard in the gym and all that has been true. “I told them the truth and I said I needed discipline and dedication because I believe those are the most important qualities for an athlete. “I spoke to Saul and I spoke to Andy’s dad,” Reynoso said in Spanish. Initially, Reynoso was hesitant to train Ruiz because he only wanted disciplined fighters. “You think you could give me an opportunity to train with you guys?” Ruiz recalled asking Alvarez. Alvarez and Reynoso remembered that when Ruiz messaged them about training together. Ruiz stumbled into a historic upset because of his fast and powerful hands, but his eating habits and lack of training weren’t going to lead to long-term success.Īlvarez is known as boxing’s best pound-for-pound fighter because of his work ethic and consistency in championship fights.Īlvarez attended the rematch in Saudi Arabia to support a fellow fighter with a Mexican background, but what he saw ringside was a fighter who lacked effort. It took like nine months or almost a year to realize that I needed to make a change.” “Then I felt kinda lost and I started gaining so much weight. I felt like I disappointed everybody, not just my family, but all the fans around the world that were behind me. I didn’t do the things that I was supposed to do and then in my last fight, I lost. … When we won the first one (against Joshua), I went all crazy. I got tired of doing the same thing over and over. “There was one day I was depressed,” Ruiz said. After he lost the belts, Ruiz was hit with disappointment and depression. Ruiz admitted he drank and partied often during the lead-up to the Joshua rematch. In the second bout against Joshua, Ruiz didn’t even bother to do that and ballooned to 283 pounds for the weigh-in. Ruiz was drained by the night of the fight against Parker, but he at least cared enough to shed some weight. “Starving myself, not doing the right stuff.” “I remember hitting 255, but doing it the wrong way,” Ruiz said in a phone interview with the Southern California News Group. Ruiz weighed 255.7 pounds for that fight in New Zealand. It wasn’t long ago that Ruiz (33-2, 22 KOs) lost by majority decision against Joseph Parker for his first heavyweight title shot in 2016. Ruiz was joking when he said he doesn’t remember fighting under 260 pounds. He was the 268-pound boxer with chunky cheeks who knocked out the chiseled Joshua in New York City to become the unified heavyweight champion and a household name. Six months prior to Ruiz’s sluggish rematch performance, his extra weight wasn’t an issue. With a new physique, Ruiz, 31, will aim to impress against Arreola, 40, with hopes of returning to the heavyweight title picture after a short-lived championship reign. The before and after pictures of Ruiz’s weight-loss transformation went viral ahead of his Saturday FOX pay-per-view bout against Chris Arreola at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson. These days, Ruiz has a trim waistline from training in San Diego with Mexican boxing star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and his trainer Eddy Reynoso. Ruiz hasn’t fought since he arrived in Saudi Arabia overweight for his December 2019 rematch against Anthony Joshua, when Ruiz lost his three heavyweight belts by unanimous decision. “That’s what everybody tells me,” Ruiz said after being asked when was the last time he was this light. hears a repetitive question whenever he mentions he weighs 255 pounds, a much smaller number than the last time he stepped on a scale for a fight.
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