Andy Ruiz Jr has hit back at Tyson Fury after the latter claimed he has been partying too much following his shock victory against Anthony Joshua.
Ruiz shocked the boxing world in June when he knocked Joshua down four times before a seventh-round stoppage victory in New York.
Ruiz has returned to training ahead of an agreed rematch in Saudi Arabia in December but Fury believes he has been living the high-life too much since.
The former heavyweight champion said: “If Andy Ruiz comes in in-shape and has trained, then I think he does the same again.
“But one thing I know is AJ trains hard and he dedicates his life to boxing.
“I know that Ruiz has been running around in a lot of Rolls Royces and doing a lot of TV shows, eating a lot of tacos and he’s not been in the gym for two-and-a-half months.
“I’ve been speaking to the guys and nobody’s seen him.”
But Ruiz insists he will be ready to take on Joshua and beat him again in December.
“Everyone’s gonna say this and that, but at the end of the day they don’t know s*** but what they see on Instagram,” he said.
“We working. I want them to sleep on me again and think I’m just partying. We coming hard.”
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