The Independent Voice of Mixed Martial Arts. Six months after getting utterly dominated and knocked out by Ruiz, Joshua beat Ruiz by unanimous decision in December to regain his place in the division.
He has however been able to climb the ranks and to be one of the top contenders for a heavyweight title shot up. After more than a decade in the newspaper business writing about virtually every professional and major college sport for publications like the Cincinnati Post and the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, I joined CBSSports.com and covered the NFL for five years. 7 on my pound for pound list, and I think he’ll have success as a heavyweight. Wilder is a popular boxing personality, and we hope that he does continue to grace the ring for a few more years. He has knocked out every opponent he has faced besides Tyson Fury. We will have to see what happens with Usyk but we think he could be moving up this list in 2020. All Rights Reserved. The heavyweight champion looked on top of the world until the defeat by Ruiz but it is one that he has since avenged, outboxing ruiz in the rematch. Leave Comments 0. This was not the first time tyson Fury went to the Champions backyard and defeated them, he also beat wladimir Klitschko in Germany to become the undisputed champion, before losing the belts after personal problems with depression, alcohol and drugs. Whyte was knocked out by AJ in 2015 but he’s resurrected his career with wins over Joseph Parker, Derek Chisora ( two times ), and Oscar Rivas. Andy Ruiz Jr has an eating problem and it seems that he is not training, and he came in terribly out of shape against Anthony Joshua in the rematch so we are not putting him high on our list. The Heavyweight division has regained its spot as the top weight class in the sport of boxing. We believe we have found four contenders that potentially fit this bill and here are the names to keep an eye; First up is the smooth-talking, Hercules-like figure of Anthony Joshua. He’s been asking to fight Wilder and Joshua (again) but hasn’t been given the opportunity yet. 1) Tyson Fury: There’s little doubt that Fury, after his devastating knockout victory vs. Deontay Wilder last month that netted him a $28 million guaranteed purse, is the best in the weight class. Joshua used a strategy that many didn’t feel he had in him, to dance around the ring and tire Ruiz out while landing shot after shot. Ruiz recently fired his trainer who made him a world champion. Nathan Gorman used to toy with his old amateur rival on the Team GB squad but Dynamite Dan’s man power shone through in July when the Greenwich man added Gorman to his victim list. I was wrong last week to give Helenius very little chance to beat Kownacki. We truly believe that Daniel Dubois belongs at the top of the pile and we are looking forward to his next fight against Joe Joyce. But for this moment, for what he did to Joshua, Ruiz still has to be considered a top-five heavyweight. His next fight will be against Alexander Povetkin. 3) Deontay Wilder: Some organizations might have Wilder lower than No. Alexander Usyk may well belong higher on this list, but he hasn’t yet proven himself at heavyweight only clocking up one Victory. Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, Tyson Fury was floored twice by Deontay Wilder in their first heavyweight scrap, Anthony Joshua was floored four times in his shock KO loss to Andy Ruiz Jr - they both make the list, Dillian Whyte has delivered some stunning one-punch finishes in his career, This stunning uppercut from Anthony Joshua set him on the way to a thrilling KO win against Wladimir Klitschko, Dereck Chisora could have packed it all in - until he found this stunning fight-clinching punch to beat Carlos Takam, Anthony Joshua ‘could have died in ring’ after trainer Rob McCracken admits he let Brit box on with concussion, But, after coming through that Wembley war with a win, snatched away by a shapeless 19st Mexican with rapid hands and a peach of a shot that concussed him, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). View the latest boxing rankings. Although it wasn’t the performance fans were hoping to see, Joshua beat Ruiz by fighting a safe bout. The Brixton Body Snatcher’s highlight reel is littered with sensational KO wins and the Lucas Brown and Derek Chisora victories leap out. Best known for being the first boxer to defeat Muhammad Ali, Frazier became undisputed heavyweight champion in 1970. For this reason, we are still putting Luis ortiz as the best of the rest in the heavyweight division, even though he is pushing on in years.
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