Virginia “Ginny” Fuchs says she’ll put in a more dominant performance when she faces Adelaida “La Cobra” Ruiz in a 10-round rematch, on Saturday, July 18, live on ProBoxTV (1:00 pm ET/4:00 pm PT) from the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California.
WBC interim titlist Fuchs, 4-0 (1 KO), of Houston, will meet WBC junior-bantamweight champion Ruiz, 18-1-1 (8 KOs), of Los Angeles to determine the true WBC 115-pound world champion.
The card is headlined by WBC No. 12-ranked Bryan “Nino Maravilla” Flores, 28-1-1 (16 KOs), facing Jonathan “Thunder” Navarro, 18-2 (9 KOs), in the 10-round super lightweight main event.
Fuchs and Ruiz met in late August 2024 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, with Fuchs winning a split decision to wrest the interim title from Ruiz by scores of 97-93 for Ruiz, 97-93 Fuchs and 100-90 Fuchs.
Fuchs, however, suffered a thumb injury during the fight and, because of injury rehabilitation and a series of setbacks, hasn’t fought since.
In November 2025, the WBC allowed Ruiz to fight for the full championship against Canada’s Alexas Kubicki with the stipulation the winner face Fuchs. Ruiz defeated Kubicki by unanimous decision.
“I think it’s always a war in the ring but I’m going to make it more definitive this time,” said Fuchs in response to Ruiz previously telling BoxingScene she was expecting all-out war in the rematch. “The things I was doing that worked in the first fight is what I’ll be doing more of this time. I’ll break her down a lot more and make it clearer that I won.”
Surprisingly, Fuchs says her grisly thumb injury wasn’t as serious as it appeared when she removed her glove that night to reveal her thumb bone had shockingly broken through the skin and was fully visible to the naked eye.
“I remember the punch when it first happened,” she recalls, “it was a right hook. I felt it, but thought it was just a thumb jam, those happen sometimes in boxing. I didn’t know the bone was out and it was that bad. Even when they took off the glove and I looked at it, I was like, ‘wait a minute, is that my thumb?’ I didn’t feel it until I was in the hospital. It was crazy how it was my thumb and I didn’t feel it. Adrenaline is a helluva drug!
“Rehab wasn’t that long,” continued Fuchs. “It wasn’t broken or torn. I jammed it so badly it dislocated. It wasn’t that bad. It was feeling good and I was hitting the bag and feeling nothing wrong by January.”
Despite being out of action for nearly two years, Fuchs, who during her extensive amateur career represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics, says ring rust won’t be an issue.
“I have so much experience in the amateurs and experience is everything, you know? I’ve had so many fights and seen so many different styles and different boxers that rust is never a problem. My whole pro career has been like this: mostly one fight a year. Even though this is the longest layoff yet, it won’t be a problem.”
