"I'm gonna break your hands with my face!!"
If he can reach it.
Ruiz has bedeveled many apparently stronger, larger and more skilled boxers with his unorthodox style. On the other hand the heavyweight division has been lacking in a clear leader for years.
Is this being televised?
ROCKY 4 redux
Boxing or WWE?
We knew Heavyweight "Champion" John Ruiz was a joke...but now Don King has decided the only opponent people will watch is a wrestling castoff. Nikolai Valuev is 7-foot, 330-pounds.
Valuev will have to last into the later rounds..
His weight and size will make that difficult..
Likewise, his size affects his speed and footing..
Ruiz will probably have the advantage there..
Ruiz will be presented with the difficulty of landing hard enough blows to affect such a large opponent..
His best hope is that Valuez turns out to have a glass jaw for this matchup..
44 fights would indicate that he doesn't..
Ruiz will have to hope that he is simply the better boxer, and that Valuev will revert to what has served him best.. The fact that he is very big and very strong..
Not necessarilly a good boxer, all Valuev needs is a solid hit or two.. Strength and Size..
George Foreman was not very fast either..
Watch any of his fights and note the comparatively slow swing..
Foreman's advantage was size and weight..
It only took one or two good hits to take out an opponent..
Ruiz has that to deal with..
Can he take the hits from a 330 pound opponent?
Even glancing blows can wreak havoc..
Ruiz will be incredibly sore by the 5th or 6th rounds..
My prediction, Valuev..
TKO by the 6th or 7th round..
"I'm gonna break your hands with my face!!"