Joe Rogan Asks Andy Ruiz About KO'ing Anthony Joshua and Becoming Heavyweight Champ

does it seem real? It's still yeah, of course is real for the first few weeks the first few days. I was pinching myself see if those Fills a dream or nothing, but you know, I'm just really blessed to be here Incredible situation right you got so like how many weeks out did you find out about the fight? I think it was like a month a month in two weeks Wow month in two weeks. I messaged Eddie Hearns I told him, you know, we'll give me the opportunity and what do you know? You messaged bag me and my girl were just all happy like well That's crazy Wow and you were already in camp, right? Mm-hmm So like wasn't like you they call you out of shape. No, it was after my fight against Alexander de Matrenko Oh, that's right. How much time did you have off to recover? Um, I just took like a week and a half off Oh, that's not I went back to the gym and I was just ready and loose So it was it couldn't it happened in a perfect time. That's amazing Do you like it like that where you just experienced a big fight? So you're already kind of used to the the being in the ring being on television the whole moment of it all and then boom It happens again right afterwards. Yeah, of course, you know, cuz I was already loose. I was already in fight mode. So especially from Having the heavyweight champion title, you know the opportunity to get that it's it was amazing. It was incredible fight, man It was incredible. Thank you. It was really amazing was amazing was when you got dropped you kept your composure You got up and then he tried to move in for the kill and then you started landing bombs on him and dropped him and I remember Jumping off the bed while I was watching. Oh shit. It was wild man. It was a wild fight it was my first time getting dropped and You know what? I don't feel super hurt you know because I have when I got dropped he hit me with a good right hand and I took like a champ but I Got a man and I just throwing bombs you have fluid punches man I mean, it's it's really interesting to watch you you're so efficient like the way you throw punches You're not like grunting and fucking digging like there's a lot of guys that you see there's a tremendous amount of energy That's expended every time they throw punches, but you man your punches just come in bunches You just fire a moment nations the combinations that would be working at the gym many roblis That's why I had a trainer who throws a lot of combinations as a good at working speed So I think we click really good together Well, it's such a big asset for heavyweights because most heavyweights they're throwing big bombs and they're looking for that one punch Yeah Yeah And you you just pile them on man and you're throwing them at all these angles and especially when you get in tight with dudes You know like when you're in tight with dudes in these dog fights your punches are coming at all these different angles and so fluid It's beautiful to watch man. Thank you, man, especially with these big guys. I love fighting bigger guys You know some one time as I fought a guy that was shorter than me and it was kind of hard so imagine me pressuring bigger guys and Throwing these combinations it works for me really good. It does and you're the first ever Mexican heavyweight champion of the world Man, thanks to God. It's crazy man I mean you are in the same league as Cain Velasquez the first ever UFC heavyweight champion that was Mexican Yeah, I mean that's that's just an incredible honor, man. Mm-hmm. Thanks, man I appreciate that the love you must be getting from all the messes. Oh my gosh I can't even go to the store without taking so many pictures people are on the lines They get off like say if I'm gonna drive through somewhere They get off of their car and tries to take pictures, but it's a blessing, you know I really appreciate all my fans all the supporters It's amazing man And you know what was really cool was the post fight press conference when you talking about it We you're like damn, you know, we made it and you you know, we're saying we're saying my mom. Yeah, mom. That was beautiful yeah, I can because a lot of people don't know that we're we're struggling a lot even before this fight, you know and I'm going through a lot of the stuff with top rank with Bob Aaron of me not getting a lot of fights waiting Waiting because I had one more fight left with them. So they didn't want to let me go. So I had to pay my Pay it off. So thank God. Yeah Everything's turned around. Yeah quick. Sorry Bob Fucked up. Yeah. Well, there's a lot of dudes who are not interested in fighting you, you know I I'd seen it was one of those things where you were incredibly talented and incredibly skilled But you didn't have the biggest name yet so there wasn't like a lot of money in it yet, but there was a giant risk and A lot of the insiders were very very aware of this, you know guys who really follow boxing were very aware of this and Coming into that fight like I talked to a lot of people that are like big boxing fans And they're like that dude is a live dog. That's a live dog Like I mean for sure Anthony Joshua is a bad motherfucker. He's a big giant muscular dude looks like a dinosaur But they were like Andy Ruiz is a live dog. He can win that fuck because when they see me They're like, oh look at this chubby kid, man. He he's gonna get tired really fast He's sitting getting knocked out But the real people that know about boxing they they know the the skills that I have the movement Yeah, I could get a little bit more fit and I'm more leaner, you know get the Like the extra fat turning into muscle I love to do that, you know But the thing is people love you because you're kind of chubby Well, it's also you you like you like hey, you know people that go to the beach No one to take their shirt off. They're like fuck man. Andy Ruiz is kind of built like me And he's the champ of the world. Yeah, give give these big guys confident It makes a big deal like you remember when butterbean butterbean was obviously never a champ But you know people around love butterbean because he was this big fat guy would fuck people up You know what? I took a picture with butterbean when I was like, I think I was like five years old six years old In Tijuana, he fought over there and he was a big guy man big guy. He was a tank man And that dude had some fucking power starch people You know, he really couldn't go past four or five rounds But he would put a fucking beating on you for four rounds You ever see when Johnny Knoxville from that that crazy asshole decided to But he let him punch him for some crazy reason he decided to try to box with Butterbeans brain them. It was this was not good. Mm-hmm. Don't do that to people man. No, I'm gonna sign a waiver