Andy Ruiz

Andy Ruiz
Data
Birth Name	Andrés Ponce Ruiz
Fight name	The Destroyer
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	American Mexican
birthday	September 11, 1989
place of birth	Imperial , California
style	Left delivery
size	1.88 m
Range	1.88 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	35
Victories	33
Knockout victories	22nd
Defeats	2
draw	0
No value	0
Profile in the BoxRec database

Andrés "Andy" Ponce Ruiz (born September 11, 1989 in Imperial , California ) is an American boxer of Mexican origin. He is a former world heavyweight champion according to the IBF , WBO and IBO versions and a former super champion according to the WBA . He was the first boxer of Mexican origin to become world heavyweight champion. He is trained by Miguel Diaz and managed by Joe Gagliardi .

Amateur career

Under the direction of the Cuban coach Fernando Ferrer , from whom he received the technical fine-tuning, Ruiz became the Mexican junior champion in 2005. In 2007 and 2008 he was able to repeat this with the seniors. His amateur balance is 105-5.

Professional career

The stout left wingman was initially trained by legendary coach Freddie Roach . He made his debut at the end of March 2009 against his compatriot Miguel Ramirez with a classic knockout win in Round 1.

On July 27, 2013 Ruiz met the up to then undefeated American Joe Hanks (record 21-0-0) and won in the 4th round by TKo With this victory he captured the vacant intercontinental title of the WBO . Against Tor Hamer (record 21-2-0) in November of the same year he also won the North American championship title. On December 20 of the following year, Ruiz faced the former WBO world champion from Belarus Sjarhej Lyachowitsch (26-6-0). Lyachowitsch, who won the bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the World Championships in the Hungarian capital Budapest in 1997 , was already 38 years old and his prime was long behind him. Ruiz won this 10-round battle unanimously on points.

On June 1, 2019 in New York Ruiz surprisingly won the world heavyweight title against the defending champion Anthony Joshua from Great Britain by technical knockout in the seventh round according to the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO versions. Ruiz had to go down in the third lap, but countered with two downfalls in the same lap. After knocking Joshua down twice more in the seventh round, the referee ended the fight. Ruiz stepped in after Joshua's originally intended opponent, Jarrell Miller , dropped out after a positive doping test.

On December 7, 2019, Ruiz faced Joshua again in Riyadh . He proved to have no chance and clearly lost by judges.

List of professional fights

33 wins (22 knockout wins), 2 defeats , 0 draws
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Ruiz
2009	28th March	Plaza de Toros, Tijuana, Mexico	Miguel Salvador Ramirez professional debut	Victory / KO 1st round
	June 26th	Plaza de Toros Calafia, Mexicali, Mexico	Ross Brantley	Victory / TKO 1st round
2010	February 12th	Gimnasio de Mexicali, Mexicali, Mexico	Juan Luis Lopez Alcaraz	Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
	March 12th	Gaylord Hotel, Grapevine, USA	Luke Vaughn	Victory / KO 1st round
	October, 16th	Silverton Casino & Lodge, Las Vegas, USA	Miles Kelly	Victory / TKO 1st round
	20th November	WinStar Casino, Thackerville, USA	Raymond Lopez	Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
	December 4th	Honda Center , Anaheim, USA	Francisco Diaz	Victory / KO 2nd round
2011	February 5th	Maywood Activity Center, Maywood, USA	Kelsey Arnold	Victory / KO 3rd round
	February 26th	Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, USA	Alvaro Morales	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
	April 23	WinStar Casino, Thackerville, USA	Angel Herrera	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
	15th of July	Texas Station Casino, Las Vegas, USA	Villi Bloomfield	Victory / TKO 4th round
	17th of September	BlueWater Resort & Casino, Parker, USA	Ken Frank	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	December 17th	WinStar Casino, Thackerville, USA	Theron Johnson	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
2012	March 23	Casino Del Sol, Tucson, USA	Homero Fonseca	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
	7th of July	Dignity Health Sports Park , Carson, USA	Jonte Willis	Victory / TKO 8th round
	13.september	Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Las Vegas , Las Vegas, USA	Maurenzo Smith	Victory / KO 1st round
	December 7th	Texas Station Casino, Las Vegas, USA	Elijah McCall	Victory / TKO 3rd round
2013	March 16	Dignity Health Sports Park , Carson, USA	Matthew Greer	Victory / KO 1st round
	8th June	Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, USA	Carl Davis	Victory / TKO 1st round
	July 27th	Cotai Arena, Macau, China	Joe Hanks WBO Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship	Victory / TKO 4th round
	November 24th	Cotai Arena, Macau, China	Tor Hamer WBO Intercontinental Heavyweight Title Defense NABF Heavyweight Championship	Victory / abandonment 3rd round
2014	17th of May	Selland Arena , Fresno, USA	Manuel Quezada WBO Intercontinental Heavyweight Title Defense NABF Heavyweight Title Defense	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	October 25	Selland Arena, Fresno, USA	Kenny Lemos	Victory / TKO 1st round
	20th of December	Celebrity Theater , Phoenix, USA	Sjarhej Lyachowitsch WBO intercontinental heavyweight title defense NABF heavyweight title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2015	September 26th	Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino, Lemoore, USA	Joell Godfrey NABF Heavyweight Title Defense	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
	October 24th	CenturyLink Center , Omaha, USA	Raphael Zumbano	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
2016	May 14th	Sportsmans Lodge, Studio City, USA	Ray Austin NABF Heavyweight Title Defense	Victory / abandonment 4th round
	16th of July	Masonic Temple , Detroit, USA	Josh Gormley	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	September 10	Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino, Lemoore, USA	Franklin Lawrence NABF Heavyweight Title Defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	10th of December	Vector Arena , Auckland, New Zealand	Joseph Parker vacant WBO world heavyweight championship	Point loss (majority decision) / 12 rounds
2018	March 10th	StubHub Center, Carson, USA	Devin Vargas	Victory / KO 1st round
	7th of July	Save Mart Arena, Fresno, USA	Kevin Johnson	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2019	20th of April	Dignity Health Sports Park , Carson, USA	Alexander Dimitrenko	Victory / abandonment 5th round
	June 1st	Madison Square Garden , New York, USA	Anthony Joshua IBF / IBO / WBA / WBO World Heavyweight Championship	Victory / TKO 7th round
	December 7th	Diriyah Arena, Diriyah , Saudi Arabia	Anthony Joshua IBF / IBO / WBA / WBO Heavyweight Title Defense	Loss of points (unanimously) / 12 rounds
Source: Andy Ruiz in the BoxRec database

Success as a professional

• WBA - world champion in the heavyweight division (1): Super Champion 2019
• IBF - world champion in the heavyweight division (1): 2019
• WBO - world champion in the heavyweight division (1): 2019
• IBO World Heavyweight Champion (1): 2019

See also

• List of heavyweight boxing champions
• List of fights for world heavyweight boxing titles

Web links

• Andy Ruiz in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heavyweight world champion Joshua sensationally dethroned. In: welt.de , June 2, 2019.
2. ^ Benedikt Warmbrunn: Joshua's lesson. Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 8, 2019.

predecessor	title	successor
Anthony Joshua	Heavyweight Superchampion ( WBA ) June 1, 2019 - December 7, 2019	Anthony Joshua
Anthony Joshua	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) June 1, 2019 - December 7, 2019	Anthony Joshua
Anthony Joshua	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) June 1, 2019 - December 7, 2019	Anthony Joshua
Anthony Joshua	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( IBO ) June 1, 2019 - December 7, 2019	Anthony Joshua