“All the joy and all the pain came out,” Manny Robles says as he remembers how he cried after his fighter, Andy Ruiz Jr beat Anthony Joshua in one of the greatest shocks in the history of heavyweight boxing. “Everything comes out when you’re jumping for joy and screaming that we shocked the world.”
Ruiz, dismissed as a roly-poly no-hoper, got off the canvas in the third round and immediately dropped Joshua twice with shuddering punches. Using his fast hands, intelligence and heart, Ruiz listened to everything his trainer told him. He knocked down Joshua twice more in the seventh round before the referee stopped the contest and confirmed the Mexican-American as the new IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight champion of the world.
Written by Donald McRae
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jun/10/manny-robles-andy-ruiz-trainer-anthony-joshua-heavyweight under the title “Manny Robles: ‘We shocked the world. Andy Ruiz’s story is a lesson in hope’ | Donald McRae”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
