Arising Sunday evening in Los Angeles, former unified heavyweight champ Andy Ruiz will battle fellow contender Luis “King Kong” Ortiz in a 12 spherical PBC/Fox Sports activities PPV primary occasion. And, for the Cuban born Ortiz, he is aware of that this can be a nice instance of “who will get the higher of whom” with the large punches.
Ortiz met with the media for a final time Thursday afternoon and made clear that he’s able to commerce bombs with Ruiz on the Crypto.com Area. And, that he all however assured that the struggle received’t final the space,
“Both he knocks me out, or I knock him out. That is why we struggle.”
-Luis Ortiz #RuizOrtiz pic.twitter.com/mD9i5EcX6R
— FOX Sports activities: PBC (@PBConFOX) September 1, 2022
“My purpose is to destroy my opponent and win this struggle in a convincing style,” the believed to be 43 yr previous Ortiz stated by way of his interpreter.
“Both he knocks me out or I knock him out. A knockout in boxing is the most effective factor in sports activities. That is going to be an thrilling struggle, one in all us goes down, and I’m ensuring it’s Andy….It is a essential struggle for each of us. Whoever wins this struggle goes to get a shot for a world title and proper now, it doesn’t get any greater than that.”
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Ortiz (33-2, 28 KOs) who has been a fixture atop heavyweight rankings for years, is most prominently identified for his two memorable contests towards former longtime WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, however each resulted in KO losses.
Ortiz does have victories in recent times over Travis Kauffman, Christian Hammer and Razvan Cojanu. And, most not too long ago, Ortiz topped a FOX Sports activities/PBC Pay-Per-View again on New 12 months’s Day, recovering from early adversity to ground former heavyweight world champion Charles Martin on his solution to a sixth-round knockout.
As for Ruiz (34-2, 22 KOs), he shocked the boxing world in June 2019, when he was introduced in as a late substitute to face heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua. Ruiz turned the tables on the champion at Madison Sq. Backyard, knocking him out within the seventh spherical and taking house the three titles. However, nearly as shortly, the 32-year-old from Imperial, California misplaced his rematch with Joshua by unanimous resolution in December of that yr in Saudi Arabia.
The 2 have a mixed 50 knockouts of their 67 wins, in order that undoubtedly lends to the probability that Sunday evening received’t go the space.
Be sure that to listen to Dan Rafael and me previewing Ruiz-Ortiz extra on our “Huge Battle Weekend” podcast right here:
