{"id":1183340,"date":"2022-08-18T21:20:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T21:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/luis-ortiz-not-worried-about-andy-ruiz-jrs-speed\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T21:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T21:20:55","slug":"luis-ortiz-not-worried-about-andy-ruiz-jrs-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/luis-ortiz-not-worried-about-andy-ruiz-jrs-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Ortiz not worried about Andy Ruiz Jr&#8217;s speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By <strong>Robert Segal:<\/strong> Luis \u2018King Kong\u2019 Ortiz said today that he\u2019s not worried about the hand speed that Andy Ruiz Jr possesses.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz (33-2, 28 KOs) believes that he\u2019s got the boxing skills needed to counter the former unified heavyweight champion Ruiz (34-2, 22 KOs) and knock him out when they meet on September 4th at the Crypto Arena in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Ruiz vs. Ortiz will be headlining on FOX Sports PPV next month in a WBC heavyweight title eliminator.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the fight has the possibility of facing Deontay Wilder. Ortiz has an excellent chance of getting the Wilder fight if he beats Ruiz next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndy\u2019s speed doesn\u2019t bother me in the least. I feel that I have the tools needed in order to counter that speed,\u201d said Luis Ortiz to Fighthype. \u201cOn September 4th, it\u2019s the moment of truth, and you\u2019ll see just how I can counter that speed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>Look, this fight is going to end in a knockout regardless<\/strong><\/em> because the judges are going to have nothing to do with it. There\u2019s pressure on both sides with Andy and I. Both of us are going to try and go for that KO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing has changed. My motivation is the same now as the first day I turned pro. The same intensity and same everything. I\u2019m here just like I was 20+ years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, that makes me very happy that he said that,\u201d\u00a0 said Ortiz when being told that Deontay Wilder wants to fight him in a trilogy match if he successfully defeats Andy Ruiz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that if he said that, it\u2019s true. The trilogy could happen. He\u2019s the only one that didn\u2019t make excuses to fight me. I consider him a friend, and I know I could fight alongside his family. He could fight alongside mine. Then again, inside the ring, they\u2019re enemies. No friends anymore. I\u2019ll be looking forward to that fight if it happens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInside the ring, it\u2019s a totally different animal. You can spar all you want, but inside the ring, it\u2019s you, him, and what you need to do in order to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can be sparring partners all they want, but inside the ring, no holds barred whatsoever,\u201d said Ortiz.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"rgcGM4iqJ4E\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wilder vs. Ortiz II | HIGHLIGHTS | PBC ON FOX\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rgcGM4iqJ4E?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Segal: Luis \u2018King Kong\u2019 Ortiz said today that he\u2019s not worried about the hand speed that Andy Ruiz Jr possesses. Ortiz (33-2, 28 KOs) believes that he\u2019s got the boxing skills needed to counter the former unified heavyweight champion Ruiz (34-2, 22 KOs) and knock him out when they meet on September 4th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1183344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}