sports📡 ESPNcricinfoBy Joseph SantoliquitoSep 3, 2026👁 1 views

Is this Andy Ruiz's last boxing life?

Meet Andy Ruiz Jr. in person, talk to him long enough, and you will find the former heavyweight world champion is highly likable. He is the kind of guy you can belly up with at the bar and rub elbows together as you gulp down beers. He is easy to root for, the everyman.

Underneath that jovial, happy-go-lucky approachable veneer, however, sits the kid who was mocked, told he was no good; the kid who was squeezed through the ropes at the age of 6 and forced to fight kids twice his age because he was so much larger than his classmates.

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