Ivan Baranchyk (The Beast) pugile

Ivan Baranchyk (born 24 January 1993) is a Belarusian professional boxer who held the IBF light-welterweight title from 2018 to 2019. As of August 2020, he is ranked as the world's fourth best active light-welterweight by The Ring and BoxRec, and seventh by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.Baranchyk amassed a record of 18-0 before entering season 2 of the World Boxing Super Series. In his opening round match-up, he defeated Anthony Yigit via seventh-round corner retirement to win the vacant IBF light welterweight title.In the semi-final of the World Boxing Super Series on 18 May 2019, Baranchyk faced Josh Taylor at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland, where he suffered his first professional defeat, losing to Taylor via unanimous decision with scores of 115-111, 115-111, and 117-109. Baranchyk rebounded from his loss against Taylor with a fourth-round technical knockout victory against Gabriel Bracero on 5 October 2019, on the undercard of Gennady Golovkin vs. Sergiy Derevyanchenko.Baranchyk went on to lose his next two bouts, against Jose Zepeda on 3 October 2020 via fifth-round knockout, and Montana Love on 29 August 2021 via seventh-round corner retirement.