Anthony Joshua got a rematch against Andy Ruiz, Jr., when he pointsejrede in boksebraget in Saudi Arabia.

The british boxer Anthony Joshua can once again call himself champion of the world boxing union.

Late Saturday local time struck the 30-year-old briton, in the large-scale revanchebrag between him and the mexican-american Andy Ruiz Jr.

the Battle in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia was sværvægtstitlen in the big confederation, the WBA, IBF and WHB, while there was also an IBO title at stake.

Anthony Joshua won the fight on points with the three dommerstemmer 118-110, 118-110 and 119-109 after 12 rounds.

Thus was Joshua revenge for the defeat 1. June, when Andy Ruiz Jr. shook most of a bokseverden with his victory on a technical knockout in the seventh round.

Before the defeat sat Joshua at the WORLD tag team title in bokseforbundene, and a few days after the defeat, announced joshua's promoter, that the agreement on a revanchekamp in the contract was activated.

Ruiz should really not have bokset the first match, but he was in June summoned as a replacement for Jarrell Miller, who originally was identified as joshua's opponent.

It was that Miller had to withdraw after having submitted a positive dopingprøve, and then jumped Ruiz to after five weeks of preparation.

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