Ramón Garbey

Ramón Garbey

Medal record
Representing Cuba
Men's Boxing
World Amateur Championships
	1991 Sydney	Middleweight
	1993 Tampere	Light Heavyweight
Pan American Games
	1991 Havana	Middleweight

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).

Amateur Highlights

• 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 Chris Byrd (United States) points
  • 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

Pro career

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

External links

• Boxing record for Ramón Garbey from BoxRec (registration required)