{"id":602700,"date":"2026-05-25T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602700\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:39:07","slug":"andy-ruiz-jr-names-ambitious-four-man-hit-list-as-he-confirms-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602700\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Ruiz Jr names ambitious four-man hit list as he confirms comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Ruiz Jr.<\/a> has revealed his four-fight wish list as he looks to end two years of inactivity.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old has not fought since facing Jarrell Miller in August 2024, when many felt he was fortunate to come away with a 12-round draw.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, Ruiz had claimed just two victories \u2013 both unanimous decisions against Luis Ortiz and Chris Arreola<\/a> \u2013 following his rematch with Anthony Joshua in 2019.<\/p>\n

Back then, the American was coming off the performance of his life, having scored a monumental upset to dethrone \u2018AJ\u2019<\/a> with a stunning seventh-round finish earlier that year.<\/p>\n

For their rematch, though, Ruiz tipped the scales at a considerable 283lbs and ultimately suffered a wide unanimous decision defeat.<\/p>\n

This lack of discipline has contributed to many of his problems, with head coach Manny Robles having openly accused \u2018The Destroyer\u2019 of neglecting his training.<\/p>\n

But now, it would appear that Ruiz is eager to reinvent himself under Robles, telling talkSPORT<\/a> that he hopes to secure fights with both Tyson Fury and Joshua.<\/p>\n

Along with them, Ruiz has also named fellow American Deontay Wilder and Oleksandr Usyk as desirable opponents, both for entirely different reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore I retire, I want all these fights in [the next] two years. I want Tyson Fury; I want the trilogy [bout] with Anthony Joshua. I want to beat up chicken legs Wilder, because that fight was supposed to be made so many years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to fight Usyk, just because I have so much respect for him. One time they mentioned my name, but he fought someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the four heavyweights, Wilder perhaps makes the most sense, given his history with Ruiz and the fact it is a high-profile matchup in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Ruiz Jr. has revealed his four-fight wish list as he looks to end two years of inactivity.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-602700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}