gregregegg wrote: ↑28 Apr 2021, 05:22
What is a "Par" result for any ruiz in this fight?
id say 4th or 5th round stopage. Gets it done quicker its a good preformance, Later its poor, no stopage at all its bad, and if he manages to lose then he should just eat snickers for a living..
Regardless of whatever happened during the first AJ bout, Andy Ruiz Jr. is a calm, heavy-handed durable
technician who wears down his opponents using a combination of sustained moderate pressure and excellent punch variety.
He’s not the kind of guy that throws caution to the wind, by recklessly emptying the proverbial tank, whilst seeking to force an early stoppage. It’s just not his style.
Simply put, he doesn’t have Julian Jackson or Deontay Wilder one-hitter-quitter type punching power. Instead, he’s more of a "stalk-‘til-they-can't walk" Chavez Sr. styled patient grinder.
And whenever Ruiz Jr. does stop his opponents (based on everything that’s transpired within the last five years), it usually takes him four or five rounds before his sustained pressure starts taking its toll.
So bearing that in mind, whilst accepting the fact that Arreola is pretty durable (or at least he used to be, since he’s now forty years of age and only fought once within the last couple of years), then I believe that Ruiz Jr. scoring a mid-to-late rounds stoppage would be a completely acceptable outcome for me.
Arreola’s high work rate and aggression will very likely result in him being competitive during the first three or four rounds, but he’ll ultimately fade as Ruiz Jr. gradually imposes himself, before the referee eventually intervenes and rescues an exhausted Chris during the second half of the bout (between rounds seven to ten).
Let's not forget that Ruiz Jr. has only stopped four of the twelve opponents he’s faced within the last 6½ years. We can't ignore historical reality.
So it would be naïve to expect Andy to stop an on-form iteration of Chris Arreola fairly quickly - that would be raising the bar of expectations unreasonably high.
