Russian boxer Dmitry Bivol defended his WBA world title by defeating Mexican Gilberto Ramírez.
Now Bivol has 21 wins and no losses. For Ramírez, this defeat was his first at a professional level.
Brief History
Dmitry Yuryevich Bivol (Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Бивол; born 18 December 1990) is a Russian-Kyrgyz professional boxer who has held the WBA light heavyweight title since 2017. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2013 World Combat Games in the 81 kg weight category.[3] As of August 2022, Bivol is ranked as the world's second best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec,[4] seventh by The Ring,[5] the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB)[6] and the Boxing Writers Association of America,[7] and eighth by ESPN.[8] He is also ranked as the best light heavyweight by The Ring[9] and BoxRec,[10] and second by TBRB[11] and ESPN.[12]