{"id":109088,"date":"2019-09-06T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/06\/andy-ruiz-jr-is-the-best-heavyweight-out-there-insists-anthony-joshua\/"},"modified":"2019-09-06T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:41:33","slug":"andy-ruiz-jr-is-the-best-heavyweight-out-there-insists-anthony-joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=109088","title":{"rendered":"Andy Ruiz Jr is the best heavyweight out there, insists Anthony Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Joshua talks up his opponent ahead of December rematch\u2022 \u2018We can\u2019t overlook Andy and his talent. I respect him\u2019Anthony Joshua believes he will be up against the best fighter on the planet when he takes on Andy Ruiz Jr in their 7 December rematch.Ruiz caused a major shock in June when he handed out a first defeat for Joshua to win the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO world titles in New York. In the third part of the trilogy of press conferences to promote the rematch in Saudi Arabia, Joshua said: \u201cMy fights are the elite of the elite and are top of the crop. That little bit of motivation of fighting someone who has the skill set and is the champion. It\u2019s not like I\u2019m fighting someone as a stepping stone to a champion. We can\u2019t overlook Andy and his talent and his success in the ring as I\u2019m fighting the best out there right now. In my opinion Andy Ruiz is the best heavyweight out there. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/sep\/06\/andy-ruiz-jr-is-the-best-out-there-says-anthony-joshua-boxing\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Ruiz Jr is the best heavyweight out there, insists Anthony Joshua<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Joshua talks up his opponent ahead of December rematch\u2022 \u2018We can\u2019t overlook Andy and his talent. I respect him\u2019Anthony Joshua believes he will be up against the best fighter on the planet when he takes on Andy Ruiz Jr in their 7 December rematch.Ruiz caused a major shock in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}