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Water Ur Seeds said:
What??? Its in the contract... Please dont tell me Al has told him to drop the belts, so PBC can get them broken up??? Ruiz deserves a monster payday rematch... He would earn a fortune and get the chance to fight front of 80,000-90,000...
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Yeah, it doesn't make any sense at all but I've only seen this news on that site. Could be some straight up bullshit or maybe they know something.
 
http://www.espn.com/chalk/story/_/id/26875858/vegas-books-take-hits-ruiz-jr-big-upset

Vegas books take hits after Ruiz Jr.'s big upset

What was supposed to be a tuneup fight for heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua took a shocking turn Saturday night in New York when he was defeated in the seventh round by huge underdog Andy Ruiz Jr., who closed +1100 at Caesars sportsbook.

Las Vegas bookmakers suffered a few body blows as well.

Joshua opened as a large -850 favorite (with Ruiz at +575), but his odds kept climbing as the money came in. Joshua closed as a massive -2500 favorite at Caesars, meaning a $100 wager would win $4.

"We lost on the fight, not a giant disaster or anything," Alan Berg, senior oddsmaker at Caesars, told ESPN. "Money was mostly all on Ruiz thanks to the friendly 10-1 or 11-1 payouts, all the $10 and $20 guys love anything that adds a zero to their money. So it's a good night for them."

Berg said it was similar to when Holly Holm beat Ronda Rousey, although that fight had much more handle.

The story was the same at other Vegas books.

"We got beat up on the underdog Ruiz," Tony DiTommaso, director of race and sports at CG Technology, told ESPN. "There were more tickets written on him and the price kept plummeting. We won a bit to the fight staying under."

South Point sportsbook director Chris Andrews told ESPN in a text message that South Point took a $1,000 bet on the underdog Ruiz Jr. at 12-1 odds. "[The fight] didn't kill us, but the dime bet at 12-1 stung a little," Andrews wrote. "Mostly little stuff, but all on the dog."

The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook and William Hill US both told ESPN that they were small losers on the fight.

At William Hill US locations in Nevada, 96 percent of the bets were on Ruiz, but 90 percent of the money came in on Joshua, due in large part to a $100,000 wager on Joshua at -2000 odds on May 23.
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Koltrain said:
Ruiz would probably get stopped like Lewis-Rahman 2 if the rematch happen..
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I do too but now we will see what AJ is made of, you often find out more about yourself after taking an L... Something did seemed off last night, maybe the whole ordeal of this fight, the uncertainty of opponent, long press run in America and then the Wilder speculation just mentality drained him...

Part of me thinks Lewis/Rahman was more lucky than this, Lewis was filming Rocky, was at massive altitude and got hit with a single punch... Whereas AJ had the fight beat out of him...
 
Duwop said:
I keep telling y'all fat boys got hands
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Yeah, never judge a book by it's cover. I have nothing against fat people, I'm not a fatist. I'm happy for Ruiz and everything but I don't want this fat ass to be champ for a long time. I don't want the HW champion to be an obese man, makes boxing look bad.....Does that make me a bad person?
 
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