#BOXING ANDY RUIZ VS CHRIS ARREOLA PROFESSIONAL#

In 2001 at 20 he got back into boxing and after only three months of training managed to win the National Golden Gloves at the Light Heavyweight division.

At 16, he had 'about 200 amateur bouts' before losing interest and quitting. His father was a boxer and started him boxing at the age of eight with trainer Hector Rodríguez. I used to go and watch him train.' Amateur career Īrreola grew up in East Los Angeles. Arreola said of it 'I had a chance to go to his house in Culiacán because my father was from near there and my aunt lived in Culiacan. As a child he met boxer Julio César Chávez a couple of times. Early life Īrreola was born in Los Angeles, California to Mexican parents. He was ranked by BoxRec as the world's No.8 heavyweight at the conclusion of 2007 and as No.7 heavyweight from 2008 to 2010.

#BOXING ANDY RUIZ VS CHRIS ARREOLA PROFESSIONAL#

Another right hand by Ruiz caught Arreola with about 40 seconds to go in the opening round.Cristobal Arreola (born March 5, 1981) is an American professional boxer who has challenged three times for the WBC heavyweight title. Ruiz got right to his feet after suffering that knockdown and seemed more disappointed than hurt.Īrreola also landed two hard left hands that got Ruiz’s attention with just under 20 seconds to go in the second round.Īn overhand right by Ruiz made Arreola hold him just after the halfway point of the first round. Ruiz did drill Arreola with a right hand toward the end of the third round, but Arreola blasted Ruiz with a right hand of his own before that third round ended.Īrreola landed a short right hand that dropped Ruiz to one knee early in the second round. The action slowed down most of the rest of the remainder of the third round, as Arreola and Ruiz seemed more mindful of defense. Ruiz almost went down from that shot, too, but he came back from a squatting position and fired back with hard shots of his own that made Arreola cautious. Ruiz pulled off one of the biggest upsets in heavyweight history when he defeated England’s Joshua by seventh-round technical knockout in June 2019 at Madison Square Garden in New York.Īfter dropping Ruiz early in the second round, Arreola wobbled Ruiz with a left hook less than 20 seconds into the third round. The 31-year-old Ruiz officially weighed 256 pounds Friday, 27½ pounds less than he weighed the day before he lost a unanimous decision to Joshua in their 12-round rematch in December 2019 in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. All y’all can suck my motherf***ing d*ck!” But don’t tell me you’re only gonna give me two, three rounds. “I respect the judges, but today, I always said beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” Arreola said. Young scored two rounds for Arreola (the second and third), whereas Moret and Russell scored one round apiece for the longtime contender (the second). And thanks to God that we got this victory and now to the next.”Īrreola acknowledged that Ruiz won their bout, but he cursed out the judges because none of them gave him more than two rounds. But like I said, we did what we gotta do. But remember, I was the lowest of the lowest and I had to come back to the ladder. “He’s a hard puncher and, you know, we did what we had to do. “You know, Chris Arreola, he’s a veteran,” Ruiz told FOX Sports’ Heidi Androl after his victory. Arreola (38-7-1, 33 KOs, 2 NC), of Riverside, California, lost a second straight fight. Ruiz, of Imperial, California, improved to 34-2 (22 KOs) by winning his first fight since losing the IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO titles back to Anthony Joshua in their rematch 16 months ago.

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