“Bring on the Klitschkos
” was the message sent out by WBA heavyweight champion David Haye after he pulverised two-time belt holder John Ruiz at the M.E.N Arena in Manchester on Saturday night (April 3).The exciting Englishman was due to face IBF/WBO king Wladimir Klitschko in June of last year but the bout was scrapped after he suffered a back injury in training but with another impressive performance to add to his 12 round decision over Nikolay Valuev the big Ukrainian brothers will have to sit up and take notice.
Ruiz had only over been stopped once in a career spanning 55 fights and almost 18 years, that came when David Tua flatterned him in one round back in 1996, but a blistering Haye dropped the American four times before trainer Miguel Diaz threw in the towel at 2.01 of round nine.
The first round started with Ruiz stalking but he walked on to Haye’s rapid fire one-two and crashed to the mat. The Chelsea, Massachusetts-native was up at the count of eight but his legs were like jelly.Within seconds Ruiz was down again. A right hand had him reeling and two clubbing shots behind the back of the head forced him to take a knee. The knock down was still counted by referee Guillermo Perez Pineda but he also chalked a point off Haye’s slate for rabbit punching.
At this stage it seemed like it was going to be an early night for David and the vociferous crowd at the sold out arena chanted “easy, easy!”.
Bravely Ruiz, dubbed “The Quiet Man”, trudged out for the second round but continued to miss with his lunging jab while Haye, working calmly off the back foot, picked his shots carefully before stepping in with a booming right that rocked Ruiz’s head back.
Ruiz, who said that he would consider his future in the sport if he lost tonight, had his best spell in the fourth round when he continually clipped Haye with his jab but never used any footwork to force the champion in the corner and make it the kind of up close brawl he is famous for.
And Haye made Ruiz suffer again in the fifth and sixth sessions, dropping him with two more solid rights. Once more Ruiz complained that he’d been fooled but the reality was he was being outclassed and just looking for sympathy from the referee.
At this stage the challenger’s corner were telling him that they were considering pulling him out but Ruiz tried his hardest to keep going in the seventh and eighth rounds despite not being able to live with Haye’s blurring hand speed.
But when the fusillade continued in the ninth, and with Ruiz’s face a mask of blood, Miguel Diaz indicated he had seen enough by waving the white towel of surrender.
With a record 24 wins against only one defeat, a boisterous personality and good looks, Haye is set to become the poster boy of an otherwise drab heavyweight division. But in order for him to establish himself as the best fighter he has to beat the best and that means beating one of, if not both, Klitschko brothers.
“Everyone said that John Ruiz wasn’t an exciting fighter but I believe I’m the most exciting heavyweight in the world and even against John Ruiz I made it exciting,” said Haye afterwards.
“All you gotta do is look at their (The Klitschkos) last couple of performances, they we’re pretty boring. Eddie Chambers came in looking grossly out of shape and so did Chris Arreola and that’s a disgrace to boxing. You need to come in like an athlete like myself.
“I’ve got agility, punch variety, I think I’ve got it all and I can prove it against the best guys. If hit them two (Vitali and Wladimir) with the same shots I hit John Ruiz they’d both go over.
Source: secondsout.com
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