In a sport that often treats a ripped physique as proof of readiness, Andy Ruiz Jr. has always been an awkward contradiction. He does not look like the cover of a boxing magazine.

Born on September 11, 1989, in Imperial, a small agricultural city in California's Imperial Valley, Andres Ponce Ruiz Jr. grew up in a Mexican-American household where boxing was m

Andy Ruiz Jr. burst onto the global boxing scene with a victory so shocking it rewrote the narrative of the heavyweight division. On June 1, 2019, in Madison Square Garden, the sof