Denis Lebedev controlled the action against the unheralded Mike Wilson and won an easy 12-round decision to keep his title hopes alive. Lebedev won the interim WBA cruiserweight title in 2011 against James Toney and successfully defended it eight times to 2017. By Alexey Sukachev. Former world cruiserweight boxing champion Denis Lebedev has retired aged 39 after a lengthy and colorful career, it was announced Thursday, July 11, 2019. The eye damage sustained by Lebedev was horrible. Braehmer Stops Maccarinelli, Enzo Suffers Bad Eye Injury. WBA champion Denis Lebedev retires WBA cruiserweight super champion Denis Lebedev (32-2, 23 KOs) has announced the end of his professional boxing career that lasted almost nineteen years. In fact, he sparred almost 400 rounds since his last fight (May 21, 2016) in anticipation of, first, a unification fight with Denis Lebedev and then for his fight versus Dorticos. The Russian Boxing Federation would not allow the bout to be stopped despite the disfiguring right eye injury to Lebedev, which got uglier with each passing round.

Only one boxer looked the part of a world champion when Denis Lebedev faced off against Victor Emilio Ramirez for a cruiserweight unification bout … Arsen Goulamirian (ar-SEN goo-la-me-RIAN; Armenian: Արսեն Գուլամիրյան; born 4 October 1987) is an Armenian-born French professional boxer who has held the WBA (Super) cruiserweight title since 2019. Denis Lebedev – Super champion (v. Víctor Ramírez) May 21, 2016 1 638 WBA changed Lebedev's status to Champion in recess in order to allow Yuniel Dorticos to unify his title with IBF champion Murat Gassiev. "The time has come to … As of May 2020, he is ranked as the world's sixth best active cruiserweight by BoxRec, eighth by The Ring magazine and ninth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. To the protect the fighter, the fight should have been stopped early, and would have been anywhere else. 10 mars 2019 - Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be Russian cruiserweight boxers. Otherwise, they may end up looking like Denis Lebedev. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File) Lebedev had lost a bout against Gassiev where only the IBF title was on the line; 24 Beibut Shumenov – Regular champion (v. The 39-year-old Lebedev decided not to take a WBA-ordered fight against regular titleholder Arsen Gulamiryan after negotiations broke down.