The FOX PBC Twitter account did throw it out there. (PBC just are not giving FOX good fights outside of PPV, which may be because FOX won’t pay what good fights cost.) Ruiz could also get even better with another camp under Eddy Reynoso, but this wouldn’t be a bad fight to make, other than you have to try to sell it on pay-per-view, probably. He’s old and a little slower than he used to be, but he knows how to fight, and Ruiz can be clipped by old, slow guys. People have mostly avoided him for a reason. The “42-year-old” Cuban has never quite gotten over the hump, and beating Ruiz would be by far his best actual win, but he’s dangerous. Luis Ortiz, who was at the fight and believes he has the fight with Ruiz coming.There are two obvious in-house options with PBC: Ruiz should not be having a series of fights with a 40-year-old Arreola. But it was always a fight meant to get Ruiz back with a win against a guy people know a little bit. This fight served its purpose, and hats (or “tops” if you’re Andy) off to Arreola for fighting an unexpected, patient fight, which was working well early and then didn’t work so well once Ruiz adjusted and Arreola never changed much at all in the fight. It was not a controversial outcome, nobody questions that Ruiz (34-2, 22 KO) won the fight, and it wasn’t a great fight or anything. It’s fine if Arreola wants to bark about one, but unless this sold way better than anyone - including PBC - expected, there’s no rematch reason here. The FOX PBC broadcast team talking about a rematch is nonsense. Ruiz got a solid if not really spectacular win overChris Arreola, and now it should be on to the next. What could be on tap for the weekend’s winners? Andy Ruiz Jr We had a very busy weekend in boxing, no massive marquee fights, but a lot of interesting developments in various divisions, chiefly at heavyweight where two top 10 contenders picked up wins, one controversial and one not.
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