Ranfis Encarnación
Ranfis Javier Encarnación is a Dominican professional boxer who held the WBA Fedebol featherweight title in 2019. As of May 2020, he is ranked as the world's seventh-best active featherweight by the IBF.
Professional career
Encarnación made his professional debut on 19 December 2014, defeating Juan Rivas via second-round technical knockout in Santo Domingo. A year later he won the vacant WBA Fedecaribe bantamweight title in his seventh bout, stopping Angelo Muñoz by TKO. In September 2018, the undefeated fighter signed a promotional deal with Sampson Lewkowicz of Sampson Boxing. Two months later, he beat Venezuelan rival Milner Marcano in Santo Domingo with a second-round TKO for the vacant WBA Fedecaribe super bantamweight title.His next fight was his first outside of his homeland: a match-up against Argentine prospect Sergio Martin Sosa in Montevideo, Uruguay for the vacant WBA Fedebol featherweight title. He defeated Sosa by unanimous decision on 26 January 2019 to win his third title in three different weight classes. Three months later he fought on the undercard of the Rances Barthelemy–Robert Easter Jr. world title fight at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, stopping Mexican opponent José Bustos in the second round to move to 16–0.
Professional boxing record
| No. | Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes |
| 18 | Loss | 17–1 |  |