{"id":172564,"date":"2019-12-03T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T07:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=172564"},"modified":"2019-12-03T08:01:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T07:01:41","slug":"joshua-under-pressure-ahead-of-rematch-ruiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=172564","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Under Pressure Ahead Of Rematch \u2013Ruiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2019\/12\/Joshua-Under-Pressure-Ahead-Of-Rematch-\u2013Ruiz.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Heavyweight champion, Andy Ruiz Jr, on Monday said that all the pressure will be on Anthony Joshua when they meet in the rematch of their fight in Saudi Arabia on December 7.<\/p>\n<p>Ruiz, who was born in the United States but fights as a Mexican, caused one of boxing\u2019s biggest upsets in New York in June when he handed Joshua a first defeat to win the WBA, IBF and WBO crowns in New York, according to the AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The pair will fight the rematch on Saturday in Diriyah, close to Saudi capital Riyadh, in a hotly-anticipated contest dubbed \u201cClash on the Dunes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ruiz said, \u201cWe\u2019ve got to see where he\u2019s at because all the pressure is on him. The pressure isn\u2019t on me because I followed my dream, made my dreams come true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course I want more though \u2013 I want the legacy of Andy Ruiz Jr.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joshua said he was \u201ccomfortable\u201d and \u201cvery relaxed\u201d ahead of the rematch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am just going to win. I know I can do it,\u201d Joshua said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was this close last time, so next time I won\u2019t mess up,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavyweight champion, Andy Ruiz Jr, on Monday said that all the pressure will be on Anthony Joshua when they meet in the rematch of their fight in Saudi Arabia on December 7. Ruiz, who was born in the United States but fights as a Mexican, caused one of boxing\u2019s biggest upsets in New York in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,897],"class_list":["post-172564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-anthony-joshua"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}