![]() ![]() ![]() The crowd stamped their feet while Ruiz's fighting compatriot Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez stood and screamed ringside. As the pair tangled, Ruiz made things ugly and winged in a hook. There was always tension given the speed with which Ruiz's gold gloves can move, and in the eighth he served up a first scare. A crowd unfamiliar with the sweet science at such close quarters offered audible applause and cheers as the smart work landed. He was burning energy but was slick and showed variety in working head and body in the third. He landed two jabs of his own in the second but took a left hook as Joshua moved with the lightness of a man at his lowest weight in five years. Ruiz, the bookmakers' underdog again, was cut above his left eye in the first. Seconds before the off, Ruiz was told "let's go Andy" by his corner but he was rarely allowed to get close to his rival and inflict the damage he did in the first fight. His answer was emphatic.Ī downpour in a country that barely sees rain stopped moments before Joshua strode to the ring, prompting him to carefully dry his feet on the canvas.įrom that moment on, his feet moved with grace. The question in Saudi Arabia was whether Joshua could show the same mental fortitude after being knocked down four times by Ruiz in June. Patterson fell to the canvas seven times in one round as he lost his belts to Ingemar Johansson in 1959 but regained them in a rematch. Joshua, 30, now joins a small cluster of men including Muhammad Ali, Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson and Floyd Patterson to have reclaimed the world heavyweight title. 'A genius performance' - Anthony Joshua on beating Andy Ruiz Jr Joshua gets it right all night ![]()
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