Ruiz Jr. stuns Joshua in 7th for heavyweight titles

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    It may not go down as an upset the magnitude of Buster Douglas knocking out Mike Tyson for the heavyweight world title, or even Hasim Rahman drilling Lennox Lewis to do the same, but Andy Ruiz Jr. knocked out Anthony Joshua in the seventh round to take his three heavyweight belts in an absolute shocker on Saturday night.

    Sold-out Madison Square Garden was packed with 20,201, including many of Joshua's British countrymen who had made the trip expecting to see him smoke Ruiz, who closed as an 11-1 underdog, according to Caesars. But it became Joshua's Waterloo and crushed the chance of an undisputed championship fight between Joshua and Deontay Wilder that so many have wanted for so long.

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