Andy Ruiz Sacks His Coach, Manny Robles

Former WBO, IBO, WBA, IBF heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz has parted ways with head trainer Manny Robles.

Since the rematch loss to Joshua, Robles had barely any contact from Ruiz. Ruiz entered the rematch out of shape with a bloated 283.5-pounds on the scale.

He was unable to put his punches together, he was much slower in the ring, and all of that allowed Joshua to easily reclaim his titles with a lopsided twelve round decision.

Ruiz’s father reached out on Wednesday night to advise him that his son was going in another direction.

"I’ve seen it coming, I’ll be honest with you, Robles said to Steve Kim of ESPN. I’ve seen it coming during camp. I saw it coming, Andy was just doing whatever the hell he wanted to do.

"The dad, obviously with him being the manager, he just had no control over his son. None of us had control of him, for that matter.

“So I just saw it coming, it wasn’t going to work because he wasn’t listening. He’s not listening to me, he’s not listening to his dad, he’s not listening to anybody.

"He said it himself after the press conference [in Saudi Arabia]. He apologized to me, to the dad, because he f—ed up. So I figured, ‘OK, it’s only a matter of time before I get the call.’

"Fortunately for me, Andy took the blame on himself and didn’t sit there like a majority of fighters and blame the coach.”