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Imagine the dark thoughts running through the mind of promoter Eddie Hearn as he witnessed the epic Round 3 of the first fight between his client Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr. last June in New York City.
In that single three-minute period, Ruiz, challenging for Joshua’s heavyweight titles, went down but got up and — to everyone’s shock — put Joshua on the canvas twice in what was the beginning of the end for the then-unbeaten Englishman.
Ruiz would go on to stop Joshua in Round 7 to claim two major belts. Joshua outboxed Ruiz to win the rematch and regain his titles in December in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia.
In this episode of “Saturday Fight Live,” courtesy of DAZN, Hearn watches a replay of Round 3 of the first Joshua-Ruiz fight and reveals what he was thinking as it was happening and his thoughts afterward.