Andy Ruiz Jr defends weight increase ahead of Anthony Joshua rematch
"They made us wait until 4:30, almost 5pm here,” he told
The Athletic .
"I already had ate breakfast, lunch and dinner, I had on a sombrero and all my clothes.
"A lot of people are saying that I came overweight or this and that but we had to wait so long.
"I probably put on 10 pounds just eating and drinking normally today. I would’ve been at like 268 without all that stuff and haven’t had eaten. If we weighed in at 11am I definitely would have been less."
Ruiz was also criticised for his appearance before he dropped Joshua four times en-route to a seventh-round stoppage.
But he claimed he has no reason to change a winning formula.