BoxRec

Date: Friday September 4, 2026
Location: Prudential Center - Newark, NJ
TV/Stream: TNT | truTV | DAZN

Start Times
DAZN: 8 pm ET | 5 pm PT | 1 am BST (Main Card)

Promoted by: Matchroom Boxing

Fight Card

12 Round Heavyweight Bout
Andy Ruiz Jr. (35-2-1, 22 KOs) vs. Damian Knyba (17-1, 11 KOs)

10 Round Middleweight Bout
Vito Mielnicki Jr. (23-1, 13 KOs) vs. Austin Williams (20-2, 12 KOs)

WBO Latino Lightweight Championship
Alan Chaves (22-0, 19 KOs) vs. Eridson Garcia (23-2, 14 KOs)

8 Round Super Bantamweight Bout
Dennis Thompson (11-0, 6 KOs) vs. Jose Casillas (7-1-1, 4 KOs)

6 Round Middleweight Bout
Kahshad Elliott (8-0, 7 KOs) vs. Jean Pierre Valencia (4-0-1, 2 KOs)

6 Round Welterweight Bout
Brooke Mullen (3-0, 2 KOs) vs. Bria Miller (2-1)

4 Round Middleweight Bout
Jordan Simpson vs. Michael McDonald (0-1)

Andy looked better on the scales than expected. But so did Whyte against Itauma. It's almost impossible to tell whether it's because of training or GLP-1 medication.

I remember him saying something like "Manny called me every time I missed training" during the press conference so I assume it's not because of the training.

PRINCEKOOL wrote: ↑04 Sep 2026, 12:25 Certain folk within the boxing community 'like to claim that Andy Ruiz Junior destroyed Anthony Joshua's career'.

Note: But in reality? It was Anthony Joshua who clearly inflicted a more career damaging win over Ruiz Junior 'during their rematch. Joshua initiated the rematch immediately and beat him easy winning almost all the rounds'.

Andy Ruiz Jr. became unified heavyweight champion, contested three world title fights, topped ESPN and The Ring’s rankings, and earned a combined $24 million from his last five bouts.

The wealth from his first win over AJ meant he no longer needed to fight regularly to pay his bills.

Let’s not pretend Ruiz Jr.’s rematch loss to AJ clearly damaged his career far more than the damage the Mexican-American inflicted on the Brit during his one-sided, four-knockdown stoppage win over Joshua.

Chaves is close to getting knocked out, corner should stop it.

edit: He survived but got knocked down 4 times, lost every round and I agree with Crawford, the corner failed to save Chaves tonight.

Ruiz looks a lot more than 5 inches shorter than Knyba.

goose 5 wrote: ↑04 Sep 2026, 22:05 Ruiz looks a lot more than 5 inches shorter than Knyba.

ruiz isnt really 6'2, id say 6 feet tops

Ruiz owns a pizza store a couple of miles away from Canelo's Taqueria here in San Diego

Damn. Ammo Williams loses.

Remember when he first signed for Matchroom.

Whatever happened to him..

Just not good enough.

Time to find out if Ruiz is still a top 50 heavyweight…

Vito surprised me I thought Ammo would wipe him out. Vito has improved needs more work but good win for him..

Well this isn't looking good for Ruiz. Sensible approach by Knyba. If Ruiz can't slow him down with some body work, this might end up being a wide UD on the cards.

Hoping to get lucky with something big as he plods after Knyba seems like a losing strategy.

Wow, that is some A-side refereeing!

Criminal a side reffing. He was stopping it. Can’t change your mind then give him 25 seconds.

exactly ref totally helped ruiz...

Not only did the ref jump in, it was then clear Andy was not ok to fight after 10 seconds so he had a full on chat…

I have Ruiz winning by stoppage in an accumulator so I don’t mind so much but if Ruiz wins this it’s a disgrace…

yea nice chat they had hah hahaha seems like the ref in on it..

Yeah... I suspect we might get some dodgy score cards. Hopefully not, but Mannix trying to recontextualize his unofficial card by saying the early rounds were close (they weren't) is a bit of a red flag

well if they rip kynba off i wouldn't be surprised, but if ruiz no ko in 12th he lost in my book,,

Kynba managed to win by stoppage and points in the same fight.

the right guy won,,,..Ruiz can still win some fights, but it won't be healthy for him...

The judge that found Ruiz 6 rounds needs his head checked… (or his bank account). And the ref should be retired.

I am underwhelmed by the Polish guy big picture, but Ruiz needs to shake off the ring rust, and he really got hurt in the round he got knocked down..

The two 114-113 scorecards were inexplicable. I scored it 119-108, the closest it could possibly be, giving every possible round to Ruiz, would be 117-110.

And the referee saved Ruiz from being stopped by giving him too much time, until there were only a few seconds left in the round.

But thankfully, despite all that, the right man won by UD.

The knockdown saved Knyba from getting robbed.
Disgusting.

If Ruiz wants to continue fighting he should fight the bloke who just fought Joshua.