Episode Transcript: JRE MMA Show #72 with Andy Ruiz
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And we're live. What's up? Heavyweight champion of the world? How's that feel, man?
It's amazing, you know. It's a big blessing. Just happy. Does it seem real?
It's still, yeah, of course. It's real. For the first few weeks, the first few days, I was pinching myself.
See, it feels a dream or nothing, but you know, I'm just really blessed to be here.
What a incredible situation, right? You got... So, like, how many weeks out did you find out about the fight?
I think it was like a month, a month and two weeks.
Wow.
A month and two weeks. I messaged Eddie Hearns. I told him, you know what, give me the opportunity.
And when he know you messaged back, me and my girl were just all happy. Like, wow. That was crazy.
Wow. And you were already in camp, right?
Mm-hmm.
So, like, it wasn't like they caused you out of shape?
No, it was after my fight against Alexander the Matranco.
Oh, that's right. How much time did you have off to recover?
I just took, like, a week and a half off.
Oh, that's nice.
And I went back to the gym and I was just ready and loose, so it was... It couldn't have happened in a perfect time.
That's amazing. Do you like it like that, where you just experienced a big fight, so you're already kind of used to the being in the ring, being on television, the whole moment of it all, and then boom, it happens again right afterwards?
Yeah, of course, you know, because I was already loose. I was already in fight mode.
So, especially from having the heavyweight champion title, you know, the opportunity to get that, it was amazing.