Situation Normal: On Anthony Joshua–Andy Ruiz Jr.

[thenonpareil]

More than thirty years have passed since the last heyday of the jiggly heavyweight. In the 1980s, when boxing mirrored the “Greed is Good” era with dollar bills wafting in the air like shredded junk bonds used as confetti, chubby big men were everywhere, as if to emphasize the free-floating excess of the times. Tim Witherspoon, Greg Page, James Broad, Tony Tubbs, and David Bey were only some of the lardy luminaries. By the 1990s only Michael Moorer and jolly George Foreman had some success. Since then, tubbies have done little worth mentioning—except generate punchlines for politically-incorrect jokes (think Buster Mathis Jr., Butterbean, and, have mercy, Wolfgramm). In a last-minute switch, Andy Ruiz Jr. looks to change all that when he faces unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday night. Or something like that.

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