Albert Ramón Ramírez Durán

Albert Ramón Ramírez Durán is a Venezuelan southpaw light‑heavyweight who has risen through regional and international ranks to claim the WBA Interim light‑heavyweight title. Born on 1992-05-07 and fighting out of El Vigía, Venezuela, Ramírez stands 182 cm with a 191 cm reach and has built an unbeaten professional record of 23–0 with 19 stoppage wins. Active at the top end of the division, he captured the WBA Interim crown on 2025-08-08 and retained it in 2026. Ramírez’s recorded professional run begins in mid‑2018. His earliest fights took place primarily in Tijuana, Mexico, where a string of early knockouts and technical KOs set the tone for a power‑first style. Across 2018 and 2019 he amassed multiple first‑round and early stoppage victories, then expanded his activity geographically with bouts in locations including France, Russia, Argentina, Mexico, Monaco, Canada and Venezuela. As he stepped up, Ramírez started collecting regional and international honours. In April 2022 he stopped Victor Hugo Exner to win the vacant WBC FECARBOX light‑heavyweight title, and two months later he scored a first‑round KO to take the vacant WBA Continental Americas light‑heavyweight title. Those wins were followed by a jump to cruiserweight in January 2023, when he stopped Jacob Dickson to claim the vacant WBO Global cruiserweight title, demonstrating his ability to carry power across nearby weight classes. Ramírez returned to light‑heavyweight and continued to test himself against higher‑profile opposition. He won the vacant WBA International light‑heavyweight title by unanimous decision on 2024-01-25 and then retained that belt in August 2024 when Adam Deines’ corner retired after seven rounds. The step up to world‑level positioning came in August 2025 when Ramírez defeated Jerome Pampellone by seventh‑round TKO in Benghazi to win the vacant WBA Interim light‑heavyweight title. On 2026-06-04 Ramírez made a high‑profile defence in Montreal, retaining the WBA Interim belt via split decision over Lerrone Richards. That decision is officially recorded as Ramírez’s victory in primary databases, but it drew immediate controversy and an appeal to the WBA was announced by Richards’ team; the result remains recorded as a Ramírez win pending any WBA adjudication. Across his 23 recorded professional fights Ramírez has combined a southpaw stance, size and a high stoppage rate to establish himself as an active WBA Interim champion and a notable presence in the light‑heavyweight ranks. He remains positioned among the division’s sanctioning‑level titleholders and continues to campaign as an active fighter.