Wladimir Needs to Fight John Ruiz
June 4th, 2009
By Manuel Perez: If IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (52-3, 46 KO’s) wants to get a good replacement heavyweight to take injured David Haye’s place for the June 20th date at the Veltin’s Arena, Klitschko need look no further than picking two-time World Boxing Association heavyweight champion John Ruiz (43-8-1, 29 KOs) to take the fight.
If the WBA doesn’t call for the fight to happen, then Ruiz will step in and take the fight. I think this is the fight that Wladimir should be going after instead of Haye, or Ruslan Chagaev, the fighter that Klitschko has been mentioned as being interested in using as the substitute for Haye.
I see Ruiz being too clever for Wladimir and giving him huge problems. Ruiz is excellent at picking off the jab, and would have no trouble blocking Wladimir’s jabs and coming under them to land his sneaky right hands to the head. Ruiz is a much better inside fighter than Wladimir and would stay glued to him for 12 rounds, beating Wladimir up on the inside.
All of Klitschko’s offensive tools are centered around him being able to fight on the outside using his jab, left hook and right hand. These weapons would immediately be nullified by Ruiz, who would smother Wladimir and keep him from getting his shots off, forcing him to fight a grueling inside battle that he has no skills at. Without an uppercut in his arsenal, Wladimir would be battered by Ruiz on the inside and beaten up.
Ruiz has been beaten three times in the past four years by controversial decisions to Valuev and Chagaev. I’ve personally seen each of these fights and I think Ruiz won all of them by a narrow decision. Ruiz hasn’t been cleanly beaten since losing by a 12-round decision to Roy Jones Jr. six years ago in 2003, and that fight hardly counts because Ruiz was going through a lot of stuff in his life at the time of the fight.
Ruiz dominated the first round of the fight but then seemed to lose concentration for the remainder of the bout and not fight hard. In terms of talent, I think Ruiz could have easily have won that fight had he put his mind into the bout, but he just wasn’t there on that night mentally because of some stuff weighing him down.
Ruiz was beaten by another questionable decision in 2000 by Evander Holyfield, losing by a 12-round decision. That’s another fight I see Ruiz as having won. I’m not sure which fight then judges were watching on that night but it couldn’t have been the Ruiz-Holyfield fight because I had Ruiz winning the bout nine rounds to three. It wasn’t a close fight, believe me.
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if they’d pay me 1000 bucks, provide me with tickets, comortable armchair and some videogames, I’d go there to “watch” it
professor, david haye is a smart man, a business man he came into the heavy weight division had one fight and talked his way into fighting wlad, while these other bums who call themselves heavy weights and boxing critics complain about this, why where they not out there doing what haye was doing and calling out the klitschko bro’s in the first place! to many sheep not enough shepards in the heavy weight division.
Klitschko vs Ruiz what exactly would that achieve… nothing, in my opinion klitschko is looking for a way out of fighting Haye he could wait 3 weeks and get Haye, now hes looking for a new oponent in some of the most boring fighters on the planet, something doesnt smell right, i smell chicken, running scared, Klitschko should fight Haye, that fight made money, so it makes sense.
As I’ve previously stated in regards to Manuel Perez, “Manuel Perez is a racist (of the same ilk as Sotomayor and La Raza). Perez is bias towards Hispanic fighters, and he should be removed from posting articles on this site…. He is the lb for lb worst boxing writer in history (and I’m serious about that).” I won’t criticize Perez for his opinion that Ruiz will beat Wlad (lol even though I have to laugh). The idea that a boring, hold-first fighter who no network wants to see would be the Wlad opponent is hilarious and ridiculous. Fans would ask for a refund in Germany, especially the British fans. Furthermore, it is a fight fans do not want to see. Ruiz is not even a has been; he’s a never was. He’s 37, and he’s lost 3 out of his last 5 fights, including his very last fight. Manuel Perez please retire from writing posts just like John Ruiz should retire from boxing.
Just read your article again! Jesus! Did you say Ruiz’s defeat to Jones jr doesn’t count as Ruiz was going through a lot of “stuff” in his life? Perez you should do stand-up.HILARIOUS!!!
You’ve done it again Perez! Ruiz? A warrior? You are an über comedian.
Ruiz! Just to hear the name makes one think of bad boxing or worse. You couldn’t pay me to watch Ruiz “fight” or whatever they call it that he does in a box ring. Besides Wladimir would make hamburger out of Ruiz in the blink of an eye. Forget Ruiz!
The name of this fight would be”Another Mexican Down”.ruiz would be slaughtered in 2 rounds and wouldnt even be interesting.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA What a stupid suggestion! Haha Perez is thickness personified!