![]() Instead, it wound up being Ruiz’s world debut-and his history-making moment as the first Mexican heavyweight world champion. The fight was supposed to be Joshua’s U.S. Joshua’s brand filled Times Square’s bright lights. ![]() Stands of Joshua paraphernalia adorned sections of MSG, with hardly a mention of Ruiz. No one, maybe not even Ruiz himself, expected “Destroyer” to knock down a human Adonis, like the chiseled 6-foot-6, 248-pound Joshua and make him taste canvas four times, twice in the third and twice in the defining seventh round. No one expected Ruiz to win, save for Ruiz, his family and his team. Ruiz, 29, wrested the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight world championship titles away from Joshua, spoiling his American debut. (33-1, 22 KOs) stopped the previously unbeaten Anthony Joshua (22-1, 21 KOs) at 1:27 of the seventh round Saturday night, before a sellout crowd at Madison Square Garden. That’s what happens when you pull off a James “Buster” Douglas-esque type of upset. now.Īnd Tuesday night, the world will know, when Ruiz is a guest on the Jimmy Kimmel show. The boxing world certainly knows Andy Ruiz Jr. ![]() It’s a far, far different landscape than when Anthony Joshua’s fanatic British fans chanted at Ruiz during the Friday weigh-in, “Who are ya? You fat bastard!” I still have to get used to all of this attention.” Everyone stopped cooking, and everyone in the restaurant stopped and wanted to take pictures with me. But the cooks and everyone in there recognized me, and it was crazy, man. “At first, I didn’t want to say, yes, because I’m still really getting used to all of this. “They kept staring at me, and staring me, and they were like, ‘Man, is it you, is it really you?’” Ruiz recalled. Now, they were cooking tacos for world heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr. ![]() Monday morning.Ībout 48 hours earlier, they watched him shock the world. Albert’s Taco Shop, in Pico Rivera, California, had a special guest at around 1 a.m. The grill was sizzling, and the cooks were attentive to the oncoming orders when their steaming worlds took a slight turn. ![]()
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