Yampier Ramirez has a easy view of preventing, he needs opponents standing in entrance of him. That’s the reason the unbeaten Cuban bare-knuckle champion says he moved away from MMA and dedicated himself to BKB forward of his August 29 battle with Tristian Harrison in Miami.
Ramirez, 22, meets Harrison in a brilliant light-weight bout on the BKB 58 undercard on the James L. Knight Middle. The Hialeah-based fighter enters with a 4-0 BKB document, all 4 wins ending inside the gap.
Yampier Ramirez Explains Why MMA Was By no means for Him Forward of BKB 58
“I wish to battle,” Ramirez stated. “I used to be in MMA earlier than and I couldn’t get out of MMA quick sufficient.” His subject was by no means with fight itself. It was with what occurred after he threw a punch. “In MMA, while you throw a strike, they at all times wish to take it to the bottom. And that I don’t like.”
For Ramirez, naked knuckle removes that interruption. The BKB Trigon is a hanging contest with little room to reset, stall or flip a tough trade right into a grappling sequence. “Going toe to toe,” he stated, is the place he needs to be. “In BKB, you must take me out, and I’m going to take you out.”
Ramirez’s document helps the boldness. He stopped Kendell Ward within the first spherical of his BKB debut in August 2024, adopted it with one other first-round TKO towards Trey Howard, then knocked out former champion Brandon Birr within the second spherical. In March, he received the vacant BKB featherweight title by stopping beforehand unbeaten Ashley Williams in spherical two.
The promotion’s fighter web page lists Ramirez as 4-0, with wins over Williams, Birr, Howard and Ward, whereas exhibiting the Harrison battle as his subsequent task. It lists Cuba as his hometown and Hialeah, Florida, because the place he fights out of.
Ramirez additionally arrived with skilled boxing expertise. Earlier than naked knuckle turned his fundamental route, he had compiled a 7-0 professional boxing document. His technical background and willingness to commerce have translated rapidly to the smaller, three-sided BKB ring.
Ramirez was born and raised in Havana earlier than constructing his profession in South Florida. He has described a tough upbringing, recalling shortages of meals and electrical energy, whereas emphasizing how folks taken care of each other with what they’d.
He says he has been preventing since he was six and credit his household and environment for giving him the push to proceed. His goal reaches past a single title run: he needs to symbolize Cuba on the highest degree doable and believes the direct calls for of bare-knuckle preventing match that mission.
BKB 58 takes place Saturday, August 29, at Miami’s James L. Knight Middle. Ramirez-Harrison is scheduled because the eighth bout on the introduced card, with the occasion headlined by Cuban heavyweight champion Gustavo Trujillo defending towards Mark O’Neil.
The present additionally options Yuriorkis Gamboa’s bare-knuckle debut towards Yesner Talavera, former UFC fighter Aspen Ladd towards Bianca Daimoni and Alberto Blas defending the BKB tremendous featherweight title towards Brandon Birr.
