Ramón Garbey

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Name Ramon Garbey Division Heavyweight Martial art Boxing		Height 1.88 m Role Boxer

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Ramón Garbey (born March 31, 1971) is a heavyweight boxer from Cuba, who won the world title as an amateur in light heavyweight division (– 81 kg) at the 1993 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland. In the final he defeated Nigeria's Jacklord Jacobs. Prior to that Garbey captured the gold medal at the 1991 Pan American Games in the middleweight division (– 75 kg).

1989 Won the World Junior Amateur Championships in San Juan, Puerto Rico at Middleweight

1991 1st place at Middleweight at Pan-American Games in Havana Cuba. Results were:

Defeated Lincoln Carter (Jamaica) TKO 1

Defeated Ricardo Santiago (Puerto Rico) TKO 1

Defeated Chris Johnson (Canada) TKO 2

1991 3rd place at Middleweight at World Championships in Sydney, Australia. Results were:

Defeated Dennis Galvin (Ireland) TKO 3

Defeated Justin Crawford (Australia) TKO 3

Lost to Alexander Lebziak (Soviet Union) points

1992 defeated Sven Ottke by TKO 3, in AIBA tournament held in Berlin, Germany

1993 Light Heavyweight World Champion at competition in Tampere, Finland. Results were:

Defeated Mkhitar Vanessian (Armenia) TKO 1

Defeated Dimitri Vybornov (Russia) points

Defeated Wojciech Bartnik (Poland) points

Defeated Dale Brown (Canada) points, later scored a 4th round TKO over Brown in 1994 in Dublin, Ireland.

Defeated Jacklord Jacobs (Nigeria) points

Nicknamed "El Nino" he made his professional debut on September 20, 1996 in Miami, Florida.

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