How Andy Ruiz Got His Nickname

But at least we got the first Mexican heavyweight champion. Yeah. That's a feel, man. It's crazy. It feels good, you know? Just by saying I'm going to be in the records, you know? Hopefully nobody forgets my name, but, you know, there's always going to be the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world, especially for my kids, you know, for them to look up and be like, wow. Forever. Yeah, my daddy can kick your daddy's ass. It'd be number one. I mean, you're the first ever. There's no one ever can take that from me. That's it forever. That's a blessing, man. And the books. That's what I've been working for for so long, you know? My dad pushing me, embarrassing me with my friends. How do you embarrass me? Just by kicking me out, by telling me, come on. We have to go train. Get the fuck out of there. I don't know. It's crazy, man. My dad's always been there behind me. So I don't think I would have been in this position if he wasn't in the role of all this. Is your dad a boxer? No, but his dad used to train fighters in Mexicali. A long time ago, I never got to meet him. And he never boxed himself? No, it was just in the streets. Did he train? No, he was just see his dad train other guys. I didn't think he had the discipline. I think he was more like a hustler, basically. So what was his thought when you first started fighting? Well, he's the one who put me into it. Really? Yeah, because I used to destroy her. I used to destroy everything, all the toys, my mom's stuff, everything. So I had so much energy as a little kid. He just took me to my first thing was karate. I tried karate. I was six years old. Didn't like it. It took too long for action or whatnot. And he put me in a boxing. I was six years old. And what do you know? I fell in love with the sport. So what do you mean by it took too long for action? I think we were practicing too much or something. Like cottas and shit like that, kicking in the air. And the first two weeks when I went to a boxing gym, they made me spar and they kicked the shit out of me, man. They beat me up. When you were seven? No, I was six and a half. You remember because I trained the whole year and so I trained the whole year. They beat me up. They put me to spar my first time. And I was bleeding. And I told my dad, you know what? I don't want to fight no more. He's like, what do you mean? You just got to keep training. And you're going to end up beating everyone up. And what do you know? A year later, I end up beating everyone up. So your nickname came from you fucking things up as a kid? Fucking things up, destroying things. I could never have a toy or even like the Game Boy or anything for more than a week or something because I would end up breaking it. So did your parents give you that nickname? Yeah, they got it. That's hilarious. What a great nickname then. Destroy. Because it seems like a tough guy nickname. But then when you find out it's because you were a little kid and you would break your toys, that makes it even better. Not just toys, but everything. Glasses. I don't know. It was crazy. So it must be wild for your dad to see you come up from a six-year-old kid because of his pushing you and trying to keep you in there, that you eventually start excelling and winning amateur fight after amateur fight. And then he's really happy, man. He's really happy. And like I said, he's really happy. He's really blessed. He's over here and over there just enjoying life as well.