Depression, thoughts of retirement lingered for Imperial native before ring return
On the wall of a private boxing gym sandwiched between a liquor store and a Mexican drive-through, there’s a photo of Andy Ruiz sprawled on the canvas at Madison Square Garden as Anthony Joshua towers above.
In the Joshua rematch six months later in Saudi Arabia, an overweight and overmatched Ruiz lost by unanimous decision. Though Andy Ruiz Sr. said this week his son was not 100 percent healthy in that fight without revealing details, the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO titles vanished.“I felt low. I felt depressed,” said Ruiz, the first boxer of Mexican descent to win a heavyweight title. “I felt like I let my whole family, my whole country and my fans down. A lot of people were looking up to me.
Former heavyweight boxing champion Andy Ruiz, of Imperial, works out Wednesday at his private gym in El Cajon. He returns to the ring Sept. 4.“There were a lot of distractions,” said Andy Ruiz Sr. “I noticed and spoke to him several times, ‘Be the same hungry man you were before. The money’s nothing. Be the person you were then. Let’s make history.’One sign: The scale says 265 pounds, rather than his post-title rise to more than 310.
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