Anthony Joshua 2 round-by-round resultsĥ:10 p.m.: There it is: Joshua crowned two-time unified world heavyweight champion. Here's how the entire "Clash on the Dunes" card went (all times Eastern): Andy Ruiz Jr.
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Joshua, behind the jab and bounce in his step, didn't allow the pressuring Ruiz to mount any damaging offense, as Ruiz's fast hands, but also slow feet were on full display. "I don't think I prepared as I should've," said Ruiz, attempting to rile up cause for a trilogy fight. "I gained too much weight." The defeated Ruiz said it was Joshua's night, but admitted he didn't do his best job preparing for this bout, entering the rematch 15 pounds heavier. Joshua, who came in 10 pounds lighter, combined the jab with great movement with his feet, which further frustrated Ruiz. Well, he did that to near perfection Saturday, using his left jab to keep Ruiz at bay. Joshua then evoked Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s mantra by reminding fans that boxing is about hitting and not getting hit. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year I understand what Andy brings to the table, so you have to decapitate him in another way." He added: "Sometimes with certain fighters, you have to box smarter as well. "I just wanted to put on a great master's class."
"The first time was so nice, I had to do it twice," Joshua exclaimed in the ring.
Fighting the smart fight gave Joshua a unanimous decision victory, as judges scored it 118-110, 118-110 and 119-109 at the Diriyah Arena in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday. at bay and negating the Destroyer's hand speed and pressure to deliver a boxing clinic and become a two-time world unified heavyweight champion. He flicked his jab to near perfection, keeping Andy Ruiz Jr. He'd have to do the same in the 11th round as well.Anthony Joshua didn't let exacting revenge get in the way of his common sense. Arreola grimaced and shook out his shoulder in an attempt to get some feeling back in it. The eighth round had Ruiz finding a rhythm with his jab and ring generalship, even stunning Arreola in the shoulder with a flush shot. That would pave the way for Ruiz to sit back and carve out enough space between him and Arreola to land his jab at will - whether to the body or upstairs - while also opening up his offense to connect on lightning-quick combinations. He then began finding a comfort zone as a counterpuncher. In the third, Arreola badly hurt Ruiz with a left hook, which nearly delivered another knockdown.īut during the fourth and fifth rounds, Ruiz began inviting Arreola to move forward as the aggressor. "We did what we had to do to get the victory," Ruiz said.Īfter Ruiz looked razor-sharp with his jab in the first round, Arreola caught him with a punishing right to the temple for a knockdown in the second. The former unified world heavyweight champion survived a second-round knockdown and followed trainer Eddy Reynoso's gameplan to punch a unanimous decision victory over a very game Chris Arreola at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif., and live on pay-per-view Saturday night. got back into the win column, but it was a lot more difficult than he might have expected.
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