{"id":77619,"date":"2025-08-18T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77619\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:42:06","slug":"andy-ruiz-jr-has-no-doubt-who-wins-andre-ward-vs-anthony-joshua-hes-still-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77619\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Ruiz Jr Has No Doubt Who Wins Andre Ward vs Anthony Joshua: “He’s Still Dangerous”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Ruiz<\/a> Jr has shared his thoughts on a potential clash between former rival Anthony Joshua<\/a> and Hall of Famer Andre Ward<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ward took to social media last week to make a sensational call out to two-time unified world heavyweight champion Joshua, claiming that a showdown with the 35-year-old Brit would be the one fight to tempt him out of retirement.<\/a><\/p>\n

The 41-year-old from San Francisco, California has not fought as a professional since he defeat Sergey Kovalev via eighth round stoppage in their much anticipated rematch back in June of 2017, successfully defending his unified WBA, WBO and IBF light-heavyweight titles in the process.<\/p>\n

As for Joshua, the former unified heavyweight champion is yet to make a return to the ring since suffering a fifth round stoppage defeat to fellow countryman and former IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium last September.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Fight Hype<\/a>, Ruiz \u2013 who beat \u2018AJ\u2019 in a sensational upset back in 2019 but lost via decision in a rematch six months later \u2013 sent a word of warning to Ward ahead of a potential showdown with the Brit, even believing Jake Paul actually has a better shot of defeating the 35-year-old Brit.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody wants to fight Anthony Joshua, I think because of the blueprint that he has now, you know I feel everybody thinks that they could beat him, that he\u2019s an easy opponent, that he can\u2019t take hits no more, but he\u2019s still a dangerous fighter, he\u2019s a heavyweight. I don\u2019t know Andre Ward fighting Anthony Joshua, I think that\u2019s a hard fight. \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJake Paul, I think that\u2019s actually a little better, shout out to Jake Paul man, nobody\u2019s doing it like him. Probably because he\u2019s been active, he\u2019s bigger. he\u2019s taller, he\u2019s a natural heavyweight you know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul made his most recent ring appearance back in June, defeating Mexico\u2019s former WBC world middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr at the Honda Center in Anaheim on June 28.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old from Cleveland is said to be the front runner to face Joshua next, as revealed by the 35-year-old\u2019s promoter Eddie Hearn last week.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Ruiz Jr has shared his thoughts on a potential clash between former rival Anthony Joshua and Hall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-77619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}