ANDY RUIZ JR has vowed to wreck Tyson Fury’s plans to fight Anthony Joshua.
Fury and AJ have signed their sides of a deal to finally
Andy Ruiz Jr has vowed to wreck Tyson Fury’s plans to fight Anthony Joshua
Fury is set to fight Joshua later this year Credit: Getty
But Joshua, 36, against the unheralded 20-1 Albanian Kristian Prenga, 35.
And Fury, 37, ended 16 months of retirement by beating Arslanbek Makhmudov, 36, in April but he is also set for another August 1 warm-up bout.
Former unified world heavyweight champion Ruiz – who famously upset AJ in June 2019 before losing the rematch six months later – is a shock named considered for the fight.
And Ruiz told SunSport: “That’s what everybody’s been telling me. And hopefully it is true, because we’re ready, we’re ready to get it on.”
Fury manager Spencer Brown – who also promotes under the Goldstar banner – said Ruiz was one of three names in the running.
And the Mexican-American warned it would KO any hopes of the Gypsy King
He said: “I’m telling you guys, if I fight Tyson Fury, I’m gonna mess up the plans. It’s already in the books. God already written that down.”
Ruiz, 36, is yet to return since drawing with Jarrell Miller, 37, in August following a surgery on his right hand.
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returns to the ring in July to face Kristian Prenga ahead of a potential blockbuster bout against Tyson Fury later in the year.
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And he revealed it is Fury’s cousin Hughie, 31, who has been reaching out personally for a fight.
He said: “The only DMs that I’ve been having from, Tyson is Hughie Fury.
“I don’t know where he came out of but he’s calling me out. He wants to fight.
“I don’t know there’s just so many different opportunities that I wanna fight [Deontay] Wilder all these fights that I was supposed to fight, finally, we could probably make it happen, so I kinda don’t wanna downgrade.
“I’m not saying he’s nobody, but I don’t wanna mess up the plans that I already have.”
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