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Mauricio Lara still wants to fight Josh Warrington

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Mauricio Lara still wants to fight Josh Warrington | Boxen247.com

Mauricio Lara still wants to fight Josh Warrington | Boxen247.com

Mauricio “Bronco” Lara feels that his rivalry with Josh Warrington is a personal thing, and still wants to fight him despite the fact that he lost his world title against Luis Alberto “Venado” Lopez. But Lara also warns López that the belt belongs to him.

“With Warrington it is a personal thing”, Lara said to IZQUIERDAZO. “I will fight him; he is not a champion anymore and he will not have advantage. I will fight him anywhere, but not in his home. He is not an A side anymore in a fight against me; he is a B side or even a C side, because I’m in a higher position than him. Warrington has to fight me, no matter what. Its a personal thing what I have with him. I wanted to fight him even more, because he had the world title that I wanted. That title belongs to me since 2021, to tell you the truth”.

At the same time, Mauricio Lara greeted his fellow Mexican Luis Alberto “Venado” Lopez, who won a majority decision against Warrington in England, and took the IBF featherweight world title to Mexico.

“Congratulations to him (Lopez)”, Lara said to IZQUIERDAZO. “He accomplished a big merit for his career”.

But Mauricio Lara feels that the belt belongs to him since he won against Josh Warrington in February 2021, but Warrington’s title was not in play. Now that the belt is in Lopez’s hands, Lara wants to fight him.

“That title belongs to me since 2021”, Lara said. “Now that he (Lopez) is a champion, he has the title that I want. We can make that fight. It doesn’t matter, I want to fight with anyone, with any champion that gives me an opportunity”.

Lara accepts that he didn’t watch the fight between Lopez and Warrington, but his team did, and they passed him a report about headbutts and dirty fighting. The second fight between Warrington and Lara ended abruptly because of a headbutt.

“I don’t watch boxing, I don’t have the passion to watch other fights”, Lara said. “I have passion to do and feel boxing, but believe it or not, I’m not very fond of watching it. But what they (his team) told me, were things that also happened in my fight. We now know that it was not accidental. We noticed that everything is on purpose in a dirty fighter like him (Warrington)”.

But the IBF featherweight is not the only title that Mauricio Lara has in his sights. Leo Santa Cruz recently relinquished his WBA title, and that left Leigh Wood as the only champion. And Mauricio Lara wants to continue the good streak of Mexicans against British fighters.

“We know that this English fighter (Wood) is considered a chicken”, Lara pointed out. “But he was to fight me to leave that image behind. He has to make the effort to win against me, because we know that I am in my best moment to be a world champion”.

Lara is not afraid to travel to England again to fight Leigh Wood, and he is not only confident, but also comfortable, like at home.

“England is like a second home to me”, Lara said. “We know that English fighters run away from Mexicans. But now, with the upset that Venado accomplished there, every Mexican fighting there (in the UK) will feel like at home”.

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Andy Ruiz wants all the top names in the heavyweight division

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Andy Ruiz wants all the top names in the heavyweight division | Boxen247.com

Andy Ruiz wants all the top names in the heavyweight division | Boxen247.com

Andy Ruiz has just turned 33 and has three or four years left in professional boxing, with four rivals he wants to face before retirement and a dream goodbye fight at the Azteca stadium.

Don Andres Ruiz, father of the Destroyer, has talked with his son about the plans of the former world champion and has already touched on retirement.

But first he has important fights to make and already knows the rivals he wants: Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder, Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk. “Andy has good fights left,” said his father in an interview with IZQUIERDAZO.

“Fury, the trilogy with Joshua, Usyk, Wilder and retiring with those fights, that’s what we want to do”. And after those events, Mexico would be the target for a goodbye contest and thus close his sports career. “I tell him that they are the fights that he has to do, nothing more and that’s it. And make a last one in Mexico”, he reiterated.

Asked if he has already talked with Andy and the boxer concurs, he assured that he did. “He agrees with me, with the decision that I tell him”, said Don Andrés Ruiz, also the Mexican – American boxer’s agent.

Andy Ruiz has in mind the contenders he wants to face before retirement that they would look for in the Azteca stadium. After not being able to perform in Mexico last June, due to a contract with PBC and his challenge vs. Luis Ortiz, Don Andrés’ dream for Andy is to retire in Mexico.

“We want to fight in Mexico”, he said. “Make one (big fight) in the Plaza de Toros bullring or in the Azteca Stadium to retire… (If I had to choose) I want to do it in the Azteca”.

Their main goal is to make his last fight in that venue, but they are also open to the possibility of fighting elsewhere, or in Mexico, against a contestant they have in their sights: Dillian Whyte. If a fight with Wilder, or one of the world champions could not be arranged, they would seek for the British to celebrate in Mexico.

“In case one of them doesn’t want to fight we want to take Dillian Whyte”, he concluded. “In Mexico it would be a good fight”. Andy Ruiz made history in June 2019 when he dethroned Joshua for the WBA-WBO-IBF heavyweight titles, which he lost six months later in a rematch.

Now he is looking for the WBC title that Fury holds, with whom he would like to face and if it is on the weekend of May 5, 2023, much better, Mr. Andres Ruiz said.

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Andy Ruiz not available to fight Tyson Fury in December

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Andy Ruiz not available to fight Tyson Fury in December | Boxen247.com

Andy Ruiz not available to fight Tyson Fury in December | Boxen247.com

Even if John Fury says that Ruiz is one of the options to fight Tyson if negotiations with Anthony Joshua are not successful, Andres Ruiz is not optimistic about that. And reveals that there are no negotiations ongoing to fight with Tyson Fury.

“They have not told us anything about that fight for December”, Andres Ruiz told IZQUIERDAZO on Saturday. “We haven’t talked with them, but I don’t think December (is a possibility). Not for that date, since Andy is on vacation. He will resume training in November or December”.

Andres Ruiz clarifies that they want to fight Tyson Fury on a later date, not December.

“We would like to fight Tyson Fury”, Andres Ruiz said. “I would like that fight to be done for May 5th, a celebration day for the Mexican nation. Andy and Tyson Fury are friends, and that fight can be done because they get along well, and that fight can be done with Tyson Fury. If there is an offer for next year, of course we would accept it”.

Ruiz is enthusiastic for a hypothetical fight with Tyson Fury on May 5th, since Canelo would not be fighting on that date, since his hand will require surgery.

“Remember that Canelo is not going to fight (on May 5th), so that would be a good fight for Andy in May (against Tyson Fury”, Ruiz said. “That’s what we want”.

Andy Ruiz’ relationship with PBC is still under contract, Andres clarifies.

“We are with PBC and we have one more fight to do with them (under contract)”, Ruiz said. “We are in negotiations, and let’s see what they want for Andy”

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