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Roy Jones Jr. is recommending strongly that former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua should forget all about fighting an immediate rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr. in his next fight, because he feels he needs take some tune-ups first. Jones says Joshua (22-1, 21 KOs) will get out-boxed by Ruiz (33-1, 22 KOs) if he faces him next, because he lacks the skills to beat him.

Roy Jones Jr. knew Joshua was going to lose to Ruiz
Jones says he predicted that Joshua would lose to Ruiz before they fought earlier this month on June 1 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Roy thought AJ was overlooking Ruiz, because of his loss to Joseph Parker in 2016. What Joshua failed to understand is Ruiz Jr. should have never lost the fight to Parker, because it was a controversial decision.

“I expected Andy Ruiz to beat Joseph Parker when he was in New Zealand,” said Jones to Fighthub. “For him to lose to Parker by a split decision in New Zealand he may not have lost that fight. He hasn’t lost confidence. He didn’t feel like he really lost the fight. You go to another guy’s country, and you get a split decision loss. You did not lose the fight. Of course, the home team is going to get it. What do you expect? Joshua looked at it like, ‘I beat Parker, and Parker beat Ruiz. This is a tune-up. I should probably out-box him,” said Jones.

Ruiz Jr. arguably should have been undefeated going into the fight with Joshua, because the loss to Parker was quite controversial in 2016. Although Parker feels he deserved the victory over Ruiz, the boxing world sees it differently. They saw Ruiz dominate Parker in front of his own fans in New Zealand. Joshua obviously figured that if Parker could beat Ruiz, then it would be no problem for him to do it as well. It was a mistake on Joshua’s part to overlook Ruiz, and now he’s got to try and come back from the loss.

Ruiz is the best combination puncher in the heavyweight division says Jones

“It’s not so easy, because Ruiz isn’t that type of fighter,” said Jones. “Ruiz is the best combination puncher in the division. If I was in my prime, Ruiz would be the last one that I would want to fight, because he throws combinations, and he has fast hands for a big guy. He’s bigger than they are, and he’s thick and strong. I knew he was going to beat Joshua. I didn’t think he was going to beat Joshua like that. Me and my son predicted he might beat Joshua, because he’d take him lightly because of how he looks,” said Jones.

Ruiz was 100 percent prepared for his fight with Joshua, and he took advantage of the British heavyweight’s inability to fight going backwards. Joshua hadn’t fought anyone before that put the kind of pressure on him that Ruiz did, which helps explain why he lost. The combination punching that Ruiz did really sunk Joshua’s ship, given that he couldn’t defend against his five to six punch combinations that he was throwing in round three and seven. Those are the rounds where Ruiz stepped up the pace of the fight, and Joshua wilted badly.

Joshua quit says Jones
“Andy Ruiz can box. He’s not the best fighter, but he can box. I thought he quit,” Jones said about Joshua. “Amir Khan in the Crawford fight, to me, that’s quitting. I like Amir Khan, but to me, I thought he quit.”

It was definitely a quit job by Joshua in round seven, but he was too hurt to continue. Ruiz had knocked Joshua down twice in the seventh, and he was physically and mentally done. It’s a good thing that Joshua didn’t resume fighting after the second knockdown in the seventh, because he might have wound up being stretchered out of the arena at Madison Square Garden. Ruiz was hitting Joshua at will with shots, and he couldn’t defend himself properly.

Joshua got out-boxed says Jones
“No,” said Jones Jr. when asked if Joshua should fight Ruiz in an immediate rematch. “He was really kind of out-boxed. He wasn’t just knocked down. He was out-boxed. Joshua has got to come back and hone his boxing skills. Once he hones his boxing skills, then he can go take the rematch. Don’t do it right away, because you haven’t fixed the problems. You have to fix the problem if you want to have a different result,” said Jones.

Joshua got out-punched more than he got out-boxed by Ruiz Jr., because there weren’t a lot of jabs thrown by the challenger. For the most part, Ruiz did damage to Joshua when he could attack him with powerful combinations, which led to his early knockout loss in the seventh. It wasn’t a case of Joshua being out-boxed by Ruiz. It was more of a situation where Ruiz won by smashing Joshua with his speedy combinations to the point where he quit in the seventh.

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Who is Roy Jones?

Roy Levesta Jones Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an American former professional boxer, boxing commentator, boxing trainer, rapper, and actor who holds dual American and Russian citizenship.[1] He competed in boxing from 1989 to 2018, and held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including titles at middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight, and is the only boxer in history to start his professional career at junior middleweight and go on to win a heavyweight title. As an amateur he represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the junior middleweight division after a highly controversial decision.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Jones_Jr.


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He needs to fight Ruiz now so he can get his 4 belts back. Otherwise, Ruiz might lose and then the belts are spread apart to different people, which means he has to get them back one by one again. Joshua can beat Ruiz, he just underestimated him too much that first fight and it cost him dearly.