Andy Ruiz Jr has opened up his potential game plan to go up against the best boxer in the sport.
The former unified world heavyweight champion will return to the ring next month against Luis Ortiz at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Ruiz is a former supervisor of the WBA Super, IBF, IBO and WBO titles now owned by Oleksandr Usyk.
The California-based Mexican believes he knows what it takes to beat the Ukrainian (20-0, 13 KOs), who was recently ranked as the number one British boxer by Ring Magazine.
Usyk was most active last weekend when he kept his title with a decisive victory over Anthony Joshua.
The pair met at the Jeddah Superdome in Saudi Arabia, 11 months on from their first clash last September that 35-year-old former Olympic gold medalist Usyk unanimously won.
Ruiz is talk to FightHype.com on the potential confrontation against the man who is currently aiming for an all-ball clash with Tyson Fury, the WBC champion, before the end of the year:
“You have to put pressure on him and put in some combinations. You can’t let him get comfortable because when he gets comfortable and starts doing his thing, he starts to drift into…
“I’m Mexican, I’m a forward, pressurized guy who specializes in head and body coordination and I think that’s going to be a big difference.”
Ruiz rose to the top of the sport in June 2019 when he usurped the aforementioned Joshua (24-3, 22 KOs) for the previously mentioned belts.
He was brought into the fray at Madison Square Garden in New York after Jarrell Miller was ruled out after several drug-test violations and dropped Brit four times on the road to stop him for seven innings before were completely defeated by ‘AJ’ in their rematch six months later in Saudi Arabia.
Joshua, after regaining the title with a dominant performance against Ruiz Jr in their rematch at Diriyah Arena in Diriyah, successfully defended Kubrat Pulev before suffering a consecutive defeat to Usyk, whom Ruiz Jr. believe he should do so. inside with a battle cry.
