The rhino in Sombrero

In the ring - Andy Ruis and Anthony Joshua. At stake - four titles of world boxing champion

On December 7, Andy Ruis, nicknamed Destroyer, that is, the destroyer, will reach the ring installed at the stadium in Riyadh, which is specially built for this battle. And the sheikhs in white clothes will be derived in the lodges to enjoy the sight they bought - a fight in heavyweight, where there are four world champion titles in four versions at once.

Andy Ruis’s opponent will be Anthony Joshua, a handsome two -meter English giant, to whom Vladimir Klitschko, leaving boxing, forgave a long champion future. And this is not surprising.

The UPERCOT, which Joshua, like a crowbar, hit Klitschko in the jaw, remembers everyone who knows boxing. Joshua ended his career Klitschko, defeating him in battle, where both fell and stood up.

It seemed that further, athletic, consisting of the well -developed muscles of the athlete there would be no problems. He is just too great and powerful for most of his opponents. Anthony monotonously and neatly puts their heads on Jeb, until they fall into a semi -conscious state, after which a terrible blow follows. So our Povetkin died in a battle with Joshua. So he was supposed to quietly and dutifully die in the battle on June 1 of this year, Andy Ruis, who got into the ring on this day in almost accidental way. Jarrell Miller, Bahwal with a breast volume as a barrel and biceps as a nucleus, was overeating doping and was removed. I needed a replacement. Andy Ruis himself asked for her, sending a tweet to the promoter Joshua Eddie Hirn: “Give me a chance!” He was given a chance to be a pear for beatings, gave a chance to be a victim of a champion and a favorite in his first battle before a public public who knows in boxing, but he did not understand the role that he was invited. He played another.

In that battle, Andy Ruis fell for the first time in his life from a blow. It happened in the third round. He sat a couple of seconds in the ring with a thoughtful face, as if evaluating a new feeling for him, stood up and arranged a giant Joshua Koshmar. The blows of Ruis flew into the head of Joshua with a terrible speed on the right, on the left, again on the right. Nobody ever beat the athlete with picturesquely worked out muscles. Poor Joshua lost the feeling of time and did not know what round was coming. Sitting on a chair during the break between the rounds in his corner, he asked: "Why do I feel like that?" He fell three times, and for the fourth time, standing up, he turned away from the judge and went to the ropes. It was evident from his face that he grabbed too many blows on the head and just ended, exhausted and did not feel any desire to continue.

And now - revenge.

Before the fight with Joshua, no one perceived Andy Ruis seriously. First of all, because he is a fat man. A unique fat man in the world of athletes with huge steel bodies observing a hard diet.

And Ruis never observed anything. He sincerely ate hamburgers and bite them with sneakers. Snickers for him were just a joy in life, he ate them for every reason and without a reason. In a situation before the battle, when other boxers certainly followed the recipes of a nutritionist who calculates caloria, Andy Ruis, a huge fat man of Andy Ruis, with a smile, took Snonkeers from his pocket and cryumed to them. Also with a smile.

He is generally almost always smiling, this strongman from the California town of imperial, a Mexican by origin and an American citizen. He appears in public and goes to the ring in a huge black sombrero, embroidered with silver, and a pleasant, peaceful smile plays on his satisfied thick rowan with a small cultural beard. But do not exaggerate his mercy. At some point, having seen enough of his always the same smile, you begin to suspect that this is a mask. And suddenly you see that he has very attentive eyes.

He grew up in the town of Imperial near the Mexican border with a population of 15 thousand people. Snow here was the last time in 1932. Since childhood, Andy Ruis fought in the streets with everyone with whom he could - the typical began a boxing biography. He received the nickname of the destroyer in his childhood. Father almost by force dragged him into the boxing room and then more than once drove him there again and again. There was a remarkable power in the guy, and he was drawn to test her all the time. At the age of 11, a degree, who looked like a 17-year-old, had a fight with the police. Father hardly resolved the conflict. At the age of 15, Andy entered the ring against adult men and sent them to knockouts. I did not graduate from school. At 19, when he began his professional career, he had a shaved head, dropping chest muscles, a huge belly and weighed 135 kg.

His boxing career took place in half -empty stadiums, where Ruis fought with people without a name and all to the one knocked down his huge and densely tattooed hands. In the list of his rivals are almost exclusively people who are not known about. Only Lyakhovich and Parker know well in the world of boxing, but with Lyakhovich he boxed all 12 rounds, and lost to Parker. And Ruis would have remained in his lower league if the fool Miller had not eaten doping and recognized champion Joshua urgently did not need an opponent.

To the revenge that we will see tomorrow, they were preparing like the damned, and this is understandable.

If Joshua loses a second time, his career is the end. If Ruis loses, this will mean that his victory was an accident, and he will be shoved down again - to where he came from.

The information and rumors coming from many -month training camps indicate that both are unusually serious. The joshua athlete drops weight, loses its spectacular muscles (in which it was chained, as in iron) in order to gain ease of movements and emaciate. In a few and rare videos from training camps, we see Joshua, who ceased to be an iron robot, and Ruis, who dropped a certain amount of kg, but did not lose his belly or hanging fat folds on his sides. And each of them, for hours standing in front of a swaying leather bag, crosses from foot to foot, makes a slope, makes a dive - and with a blow he puts a huge hand bent at the elbow. The bag hurts, the bag is very painful.

The times when Andy Ruis was the horror of his town has long passed. Now in the imperial they are proud of them. On his huge fee, he bought a boorish house with balustrades and lawns. An exemplary family man has five children. The fat man Ruis is a strange boxer. With its current weight of 120 kg, for some reason he turns out to be fast on his feet. In the first battle with Joshua, he, feeling the opponent’s slaughter, overcame the space to him at the speed of the murder pursuing the victim. But the speed of his hands is even more surprising. His huge and powerful hands are so fast that they can pour blows from different positions, at different angles; All this flies at such a speed that it is not clear how to stop this rockfall. Joshua will try not to let him in. But how not to let a rhino?

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Anthony Oluvafemi Olasheni Joshua

30 years

Height - 198 cm, arms scope - 208 cm

22 victories (21 - knockout), 1 defeat

Andy Ruis-Jr.

30 years

Height - 188 cm, arms scope - 188 cm

33 victories (22 - knockout), 1 defeat