Anthony Joshua Upset by Andy Ruiz Jr. in Stunning Seventh-Round Knockout
Andy Ruiz Jr. pulled off a spectacular upset on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, defeating Anthony Joshua, the previously unbeaten heavyweight world champion, by technical knockout after the referee stopped the fight in the seventh round.
No one had given Ruiz, a doughy Mexican fighter, a chance against Joshua, a chiseled, ascendant British star who had been fighting in front of crowds of 90,000 fans in Britain. But Ruiz stunned Joshua with furious punching flurries that left him stumbling and, at several points, on the canvas. The largely pro-Joshua crowd had gone from thrilled to stunned by the time the fight was over.
The upset had echoes of Buster Douglas’s shocking upset of Mike Tyson nearly 30 years ago.
Joshua scored the first knockdown with a crisp left hand in the third round. But from then on Ruiz delivered most of the damaging blows. After getting off the canvas in the third round, Ruiz knocked down Joshua twice, starting with left hooks that led to relentless flurries. On the second knockdown of the round, Joshua was saved by the bell.
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