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The power shots continued from Lebedev until referee Steve Smoger stopped the fight, although giving Ramírez every chance to get back into the bout. Denis Lebedev was left with a shocking eye injury after losing his WBA world cruiserweight title to Guillermo Jones on Friday night. In 2004, Lebedev won the vacant Russian In 2009, having a record of 16 wins, 11 by knockout, Lebedev beat Cuban In February 2011, Lebedev's manager Vladimir Hryunov confirmed that negotiations were taking place for Lebedev to fight former multiple-weight world champion and former pound for pound best Lebedev knocked Jones out with 2 seconds left in their 10-round bout.
With this win, Lebedev became the unified WBA Super and IBF world champion Speaking after the fight, Lebedev said, "It's excellent. Following this victory, Lebedev took four years out and returned in 2009 fighting at cruiserweight. By the end of the bout, he could not see out of the injured eye but two judges had him winning 96–94 while the third had scored the bout 97–93 before he was knocked out in the eleventh round. On 18 August 2015, Ringtv announced that Lebedev would defend his WBA title against undefeated Nigerian boxer and friend It was announced that Lebedev would be involved in a cruiserweight unification fight against After a close, tactical first round, Ramírez started to fight on the front foot at the start of round 2, but saw himself hit the canvas. To the protect the fighter, the fight should have been stopped early, and would have been anywhere else. The official time of stoppage was 1:57 of round 2. "It was announced in August 2016, that a fight between Lebedev and unbeaten IBF #1 challenger On 5 June 2017, it was announced that a deal had been finalized for Lebedev to defend his WBA 'Super' cruiserweight title against Australian boxer and WBA Oceania cruiserweight champion On 1 February 2018, the WBA demoted Lebedev to 'champion in recess' and promoted Cuban Closed shut: Guillermo Jones (right) beat Denis Lebedev to win the WBA cruiserweight titleHorrific: Lebedev battled through to the 11th round but was ahead on all three cards when he was stoppedStill got it: Jones regained his title and is promoted by Don King (above right) as Lebedev is left to nurse his woundsStill champion: Alexander Povetkin (left) stopped Andrzej Wawrzik on an easy night's work in Moscow