Andrés Ponce Ruiz Jr. (born September 11, 1989), also known as Andy Ruiz Jr., is a Mexican-American professional boxer. In June 2019, he scored a major upset by defeating Anthony Joshua to win the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight titles. In doing so, Ruiz became the first boxer of Mexican heritage to become a world heavyweight champion.\n', 'As of June 2019, Ruiz is ranked as the world\'s best active heavyweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and BoxRec, and third by The Ring magazine.\n', 'Ruiz was born in Imperial, California; his parents had immigrated to the US from Mexico. His father is a former construction worker who started his own business flipping houses. Ruiz had a passion for baseball before his father got him into boxing; he has noted that his first fight was at age seven in San Diego. Ruiz later worked for his father in construction for a time before deciding to become a full-time boxer and starting his amateur career in Mexico. His grandfather owned a boxing gym in Mexicali that was used by featherweight champion Jorge Páez. Ruiz has explained that his nickname, \'Destroyer\', was acquired before he started boxing, because as a child, "I was always destroying stuff."\n', '

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