Kevin Iole, of Yahoo Sports, first reported the news but later apologised for the incorrect information. But plenty of fans with ponchos on.

Ruiz Jr had an umbrella held over his head as he walked into Diriyah Arena, while Joshua had the same treatment. Thunder and lightning has been forecast, but it's just rain at the moment.

We'll keep you all updated on any changes to the card tonight. The champ is here! I'd have to agree with that. Not sure he was really hurt there but Price gets the stoppage he was after.

Round 2: More of the same from Price in the second round. Nice and comfortable in there, cruising to victory so far. Mohamed has nothing to offer.

Round 1: The size differnce is massive here as Price knocks Swedi Mohamed's gumshield out. Price in his second professional bout here. Good stoppage again.

Fully deserved win for Hrgovic, who didn't stop from the very first bell. Another onslaught from Hrgovic, Molina goes down and the referee waves off the bout.

Round 2: Molina being bullied around the ring again here. Hrgovic so aggressive and full of intent. Molina goes down again but troubles Hrgovic with a right hand of his own when he gets up!

The Mexican takes a knee again, however, and that's the end of the round. Molina goes down in the final moments of the round after an onslaught from Hrgovic but the referee doesn't score a knockdown.

Some back-of-the-head shots from the Croat. He lost to Deontay Wilder a few years back in the ninth round of their contest before Anthony Joshua stopped him in the third round in Hrgovic, a promising Croatian heavyweight, is a handful for anybody in the division - including Wilder and Joshua.

That was a good stoppage from Victor Loughlan. Little had no more to give and Majidov would've done some serious damage otherwise.

Majidov lands a right hand and floors Little but he gets up, takes more punishment and the referee stops it!

Majidov with the better action, pressing forward but Little has been solid and thrown a few big punches himself.

Joshua weigh in at 16st 13lbs So while Joshua weigh in 10lbs lighter than he did in June, Ruiz weighed in at an enormous lbs, his heaviest weight since his second fight as a pro.

He is really an under-rated guy. His low centre of gravity works well against a big heavyweight and his hand speed is phenomenal.

His style plays to Joshua's weaknesses. I just think Joshua has lost weight. I feel he may have lost muscle and that can be detrimental.

Ruiz Jr is super confident, he punches hard, he's got really fast hands, and I think he's going to back AJ up.

Joshua is slimmer now and lighter, but I'm not sure that is going to help him. I just see the same fight happening.

I think Ruiz Jr is going to get to him eventually, hurt him with a shot, and finish him. I'm going to go for a Joshua win, because it's his to lose.

Joshua got his tactics completely wrong in the first fight, let Ruiz Jr do what he does well. Ruiz Jr has got good hand speed.

He got dropped and then he threw caution to the wind and let his hands go, and that was enough for him.

If he stops him, it's a bonus. This time, he's fully prepared for the fighter who's in front of him. There's so many variables and questions that we don't know the answers to, which makes it hard to predict.

History says immediate rematches don't go well and I've just got a gut feeling it's going to be a repeat win for Ruiz Jr. Joshua came up against Whyte and Majidov in the amateurs - losing both, before going on to taste defeat against Ruiz as a pro six months ago.

AJ, however, has also beaten Whyte in the pro ranks, while he also holds wins over Povetkin and Molina. Joshua is expected to hit the ring as the challenger at around 8.

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Anthony Joshua rules out Mike Tyson fight because 'people would boo'. In a hard-to-score back-and-forth encounter, there were few complaints with the judging although Povetkin's corner looked slightly more relieved when the result was announced.

Hunter has only lost to Oleksandr Usyk at cruiserweight and forced Povetkin to weather an early storm as he opened at a furious pace.

Povetkin , whose two defeats are to Wladimir Klitschko and Anthony Joshua, responded with a bone-rattling punch at the end of the second round.

It was anyone's fight in the middle rounds but Hunter produced the most dominant round of the fight in the 11th to leave the Russian in trouble.

A rough six months for heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte very nearly ended in disaster as he was given all he could handle by German veteran Mariusz Wach.

In his return after a doping furore put the brakes on his career, Whyte was overweight and struggled with the consistent pressure of a man who went the distance with Wladimir Klitschko back in Whyte built an early before fading somewhat down the stretch.

He rallied in the 10th and final round to pull out a unanimous decision against year-old Wach The year-old won the WBC interim heavyweight title on July 20 this year by beating Colombian Oscar Rivas on points but his interim champion status was provisionally suspended later that month over an irregular urine sample given prior to the fight.

Whyte, who always denied any wrongdoing, was also removed from the WBC rankings pending an investigation. Star amateurs Filip Hrgovic and Magomedrasul Majidov made statements on the undercard with quick finishes in their heavyweight bouts.

Hrgovic needed just three rounds to dismiss former world title challenger Eric Molina and move to Majidov, a triple amateur world champion, defeated Anthony Joshua back in the day and moved to by forcing a stoppage against Tom Little in the second round.

Andy Ruiz Jr stunned the boxing world when he toppled the previously undefeated Anthony Joshua off only six weeks notice in June this year.

The underdog pulled off one of boxing's biggest upsets with the win as he walked away with all three of Joshua's heavyweight belts. Now as the two prepare to square off again, Joshua admits another loss to Ruiz Jr would spell serious trouble for his career.

As bad as it was when I lost, it will be as great when I win. He wants redemption real real BAD. Joshua will beat Ruiz to the punch tonight, so a big difference from 1st fight if they exchange.

Get through this and move on to the bigger fights. Joshua fought conservatively to beat Ruiz in their rematch in his last fight in Diriyah a year ago and refused to fight in the pocket and trade with the heavy-handed Mexican-American.

That was his gameplan for that fight and he says he has worked on being able to switch styles during lockdown. By David Anderson Football and boxing correspondent.

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