Andy Ruiz Jr vs Anthony Joshua II

Date
Sat 7th December 2019 (UTC)
Sat 7th December 2019 (Local)

Timestamp
2019-12-07T17:00:00

Time

17:00:00 UTC (00:00:00 Local)

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League
Boxing

Season
2019

Round
77

Status
Match Finished

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Description

Andy Ruiz Jr. vs. Anthony Joshua II, billed as Clash On The Dunes, is an upcoming heavyweight professional boxing rematch between the Mexican-American current champion Andy Ruiz Jr. and British former champion Anthony Joshua, for the unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight world titles. The event will take place on December 7, 2019 at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Al-Turaif, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Background
After losing by 7th-round TKO to Andy Ruiz Jr. on June 1, 2019, at Madison Square Garden in New York City in one of the biggest upsets in the history of boxing, Anthony Joshua stated in a post-fight interview that he and his team certainly expect to exercise the rematch clause with Ruiz. Four days after the fight took place, Joshua's promoter and group managing director of Matchroom Sport Eddie Hearn announced on social media platforms that Joshua's management team triggered the contractual rematch clause with Ruiz