told IFL TV<\/a> that he believes that he can give his old rival a run for his money, following Matchroom Boxing\u2019s signing of former unified world champion Andy Ruiz Jnr.<\/p>\n\u201cI think he\u2019s going to be a massive threat to the [heavyweight] division.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got a massive fanbase, he\u2019s a huge name, he\u2019s a very, very good fighter, and we all know with Andy Ruiz, he\u2019s serious.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I look at the heavyweight division right now, you look at the champions. Gassiev, WBA, [Ruiz] beats him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also think he beats Daniel Dubois and [former WBO beltholder] Fabio Wardley. I believe he can beat Agit Kabayel.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, he hasn\u2019t boxed for two years, and he\u2019ll have his comeback fight in early September, but I believe he beats those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruiz will face Poland\u2019s Damian Knyba on Friday, September 4, in Newark<\/a>, supported by an intriguing co-main event contested by middleweight duo Vito Mielnicki Jr. and Austin \u2018Ammo\u2019 Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the next era of the heavyweight division now upon us following Oleksandr Usyk\u2019s title vacation, Eddie Hearn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698304","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\/698304","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=698304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}