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LAS VEGAS (July 1, 200= 9) – It didn’t take two-time WBA heavyweight champion John “= The Quietman” Ruiz (43-8-1, 29 KOs) very long to respond to comments made= by unbeaten heavyweight contender Chris Arreola and his promoter, Dan Goossen, at a pre= ss conference Tuesday in Los Ang= eles.
Arreola was quoted as = saying, “There are a lot of old guys and former champs sitting around there t= hat we need to take care of. Their time is up. They need to go.”
“This September,= ” Goossen added, “you’re going to see Chistobal fighting in California and you’re going to see him fighting a former world champion.”
If the WBA doesn’= ;t rule that its heavyweight title-holder, Nicolai Valuev, immediately defend his t= itle against the WBA’s mandatory challenger, Ruiz, “The QuietmanR= 21; is ready to be the old guy, former world champion fighting Arreola in September.
“I’m willi= ng to risk my WBA mandatory shot against Arreola, if he puts up his WBC mandatory,” Ruiz said from a Las Vegas gym where he’s been training. “What’s been taking him so long? I called him out in early May but he never said a word and his people never contacted mine. I don’t get it. He keeps complaining about not getting a title shot that he’s done nothing to deserve. Maybe he needs to push himself away from the dinner table and take a risk. I’m over-the-hill, huh? Well, I gue= ss everybody thinks it should be a cake walk for him, but I’m not like h= is last opponent, who came out of retirement to fight him for the money.
“He wants to be = the first Mexican to win the world heavyweight championship. Be a macho Mexican= , Arreola. Walk the walk and fight the first and only Latino world heavyweight champ to really prove yourself. If it makes you feel better, I’ll retire for a= few days, and wait for your call. Stop disrespecting me and talking trash unless you have the rocks to fight a real champion.”