Andy Ruiz Jr. vs Anthony Joshua II, billed as Clash On The Dunes, was a heavyweight professional boxing rematch between the Mexican-American champion Andy Ruiz Jr. and British former champion Anthony Joshua, for the unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight world titles. The event took place on December 7, 2019, at the Diriyah Arena, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. Joshua won the bout via unanimous decision.^[1][2] The bout between Ruiz and Joshua was refereed by Luis Pabon.^[3]

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Clash On The Dunes

Date	December 7, 2019
Venue	Diriyah Arena, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
Title(s) on the line	WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight titles
Tale of the tape
Boxer Andy Ruiz Jr. Anthony Joshua Nickname "Destroyer" "AJ" Hometown Imperial, California, U.S. Watford, Hertfordshire, UK Pre-fight record 33–1 (22 KO) 22–1 (21 KO) Age 30 years, 2 months 30 years, 1 month Height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) 6 ft 6 in (198 cm) Weight 284 lb (129 kg) 237 lb (108 kg) Style Orthodox Orthodox Recognition WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO Heavyweight Champion WBA/WBO No. 3 Ranked Heavyweight IBF No. 4 Ranked Heavyweight Former unified heavyweight champion
Result
Joshua wins via 12-round unanimous decision (118–110, 118–110, 119–109)

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After losing by seventh-round technical knockout to Andy Ruiz Jr. on June 1, 2019, at Madison Square Garden in New York City in one of the biggest upsets in the history of boxing,^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]} Joshua stated in a post-fight interview that he and his team certainly expected to exercise the rematch clause with Ruiz. Four days after the fight took place, Joshua's promoter and group managing director of Matchroom Sport Eddie Hearn announced on social media platforms that Joshua's management team triggered the contractual rematch clause with Ruiz.

Saudi Arabian authorities reportedly paid £30 million ($41.1 million) to host the event in Saudi Arabia.^[12]

Joshua dominated the fight, landing smart jabs and right hands throughout enroute to a wide unanimous decision victory with two judges scoring the bout 118–110 and the other 119–109.^[13]

After his wide defeat Ruiz expressed interest in a third bout with Joshua, saying "I was chasing him too much. Who wants to see the trilogy fight?"^[14]

The fight was streamed live on Fight Sports MAX in MENA region (Saudi Arabia as host), DAZN in the United States and seven other countries, and televised live on PPV's Sky Sports Box Office in the United Kingdom and Ireland.^[15][16][17]

More information Country/Region, Broadcasters ...

Country/Region	Broadcasters
	Free-to-air	Cable/Pay television	PPV	Stream
MENA  Saudi Arabia (host)  Algeria  Bahrain  Egypt  Iraq  Jordan  Kuwait  Lebanon  Morocco  Oman  Qatar  Tunisia  United Arab Emirates	—			Fight Sports MAX
United States	—			DAZN
Austria
Brazil
Canada
Germany
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
Mexico	Azteca 7	—		Azteca En Vivo
Latin America  Argentina  Bolivia  Chile  Colombia  Costa Rica  Dominican Republic  Ecuador  El Salvador  Guatemala  Honduras  Mexico  Nicaragua  Panama  Paraguay  Peru  Uruguay  Venezuela	—	ESPN[18]	—	WatchESPN
United Kingdom	—		Sky Sports Box Office
Ireland
Australia[19]	—		Main Event	—
Balkan countries  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Montenegro  North Macedonia  Serbia	—	Arena Sport		Orion TV (SRB only)
				Max TV Go (exclude SRB)
Croatia[20]	RTL
		—		RTL Play
Baltic countries  Estonia  Latvia  Lithuania	—	TVPlay Sports[21]	—	TVPlay Sports+
Belgium	—	Eleven Sports[22]	—	Eleven Sports
Portugal
Taiwan
Luxembourg
	RTL 7			RTL XL
Netherlands[23]			—
Brunei	—		Astro Box Office	Astro Go
Malaysia
Bulgaria[24]	—	Diema Sport	—	Diema Play Extra
China	CCTV	—		CNTV
Czech Republic	—	Sport1	—	Digi GO
Hungary
Slovakia
France[25]	—	RMC Sport	—	RMC Sport
Indonesia	Mola TV[26]		—	Mola TV On Demand
Timor-Leste
Israel	—	Sport 1	—	Sport 1
Japan[27]	—	Wowow	—	Wowow
New Zealand	—		Sky Arena	—
Nordic countries  Denmark  Finland  Norway  Sweden	—		Viaplay[28]
Mexico	Azteca 7	—		Azteca En Vivo
Panama[29]	RPC-TV	—		Medcom Go
Philippines	Tap Sports		—	Tap Go
Poland[30]	TVP Sport	—		TVP Stream
Romania[31]	Pro TV		—	Pro TV Plus
				Voyo
Russia[32]	Channel One	—		Channel One
South Africa	OpenView	—
Tajikistan	TV Varzish	—		Mediabay
Uzbekistan[33]	Sport
Turkey[34]	—			SSport+
Ukraine[35]	Inter	—		Inter

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More information Weight Class, Weight ...

Weight Class	Weight		vs.		Method	Round	Time	Notes
Heavyweight	+90 kg.	Anthony Joshua	def.	Andy Ruiz Jr. (c)	UD	12		Note 1
Heavyweight	+90 kg.	Alexander Povetkin	vs.	Michael Hunter	SD	12
Heavyweight	+90 kg.	Dillian Whyte	def.	Mariusz Wach	UD	10
Heavyweight	+90 kg.	Filip Hrgović (c)	def.	Éric Molina	KO	3 (12)	2:03	Note 2
Heavyweight	+90 kg.	Mahammadrasul Majidov	def.	Tom Little	TKO	2 (8)	1:49
Lightweight	-61.2 kg.	Zuhayr Al Qahtani	def.	Omar Dusary	UD	8
Super middleweight	-76.2 kg.	Diego Pacheco	def.	Selemani Saidi	KO	1 (4)	1:38
Featherweight	-57 kg.	Hopey Price	def.	Swedi Mohamed	TKO	3 (4)	2:22
Lightweight	-61.2 kg.	Majid Al Naqbi	def.	Ilia Beruashvili	TKO	3 (4)

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^Note 1 For Unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight titles ^[36]

^Note 2 For WBC International heavyweight title

On Sky Sports Box Office, the fight reportedly broke the all-time UK pay-per-view (PPV) record, according to Eddie Hearn (who said he was told by Sky Sports). The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) revealed that Sky Sports Box Office generated 1.284 million buys on fight night, and a further 291,000 buys over the following two weeks,^[37] totaling 1.575 million buys in the UK.^[38]

On DAZN, the fight was the most streamed event of 2019.^[39] It was watched live by approximately 1.8 million DAZN subscribers across nine markets, according to The Athletic boxing journalist Mike Coppinger, who also said the fight drew 200,000 new subscribers, with most from the United States.^[40]

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