We almost saw it late in round two, when Ortiz did crack him, and Ruiz clearly felt it. He won’t face many fighters like Ortiz, and he knew Ortiz was dangerous with his power and timing, too, if he gave him too many opportunities. It wasn’t the all-star performance you would have wanted to see from Ruiz, but a lot of it was very smart, and he gets the job done. It never totally bit him, though, as Ortiz doesn’t have the legs anymore to catch opponents by surprise other than timing them coming in, and Ruiz was able to take advantage of that, and also use his own quickness and hand speed to sting Ortiz pretty often, which Ortiz couldn’t do much about because he’s just slow now. Ruiz (35-2, 22 KO) was facing a southpaw for the first time as a pro, and it definitely showed, including the former titleholder usually circling the “wrong” way, into Ortiz’s power hand. And it wasn’t hard to find six or seven of those for the Cuban. If he laid back too much, it was easy to score them for Ortiz, whose jabs could be said to carry rounds where, frankly, nothing much was happening at all. Most rounds seemed to go whichever way Andy Ruiz approached them. We’d probably be talking a bit more about controversy in that case.īut the 43-year-old Ortiz (33-3, 28 KO) never really put a true stamp on this fight, either. It should be noted that the second one was a questionable judgment call from referee Thomas Taylor, and had that one not been counted, Ruiz still would have won, but by split decision, and the two cards his way would have been by a single point. It was a fight with bursts of action, mainly in the second round, where Ruiz scored two of his knockdowns. ![]() Bad Left Hook also scored it 113-112 for Ruiz on our unofficial card. ![]() Taking three points from Ortiz due to knockdowns, that would mean two judges had it even in rounds, 6-6, and one judge had Ortiz winning seven rounds to Ruiz’s five. ![]() Andy Ruiz Jr rode three knockdowns to a close decision win over Luis Ortiz tonight, picking up his second straight win following his 2019 rematch loss to Anthony Joshua.
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