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Well it's been a coupla weeks and I thought it was about time we got to know some more prospects... after Mattias and Madrimov I had been planning to spread the love around by highlighting some US grown talent in Chris Colbert - had in fact started to pull some materials together, but given how long I left it and the action this weekend I decided to pull a quick switch and focus instead on Houston based Nigerian big man, Efe Ajagba - PBCs 2018 prospect of the year, who's in action tomorrrow night.
EFE AJAGBA
Amateur (partial): https://boxrec.com/en/amateurboxer/804221
Professional: https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/804221
http://ringstar.com/efe-ajabga/
https://www.premierboxingchampions.c...nds-efe-ajagba
The 25 year old Efe Ajagba was born in Ughelli, Nigeria and began boxing in 2011 after several years playing for his local football club (presumably in the youth leagues, though who knows, Efe is a very big boy
) . Coached to National and Continental success in the Amateurs by trainer Anthony Konyegwachie, Efe first garnered international attention by winning Bronze in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, following his success a year later by winning Gold in the 2015 African Games.
Efe did participate in the Olympics at Rio but lost widely to veteran Kazakh Ivan Dychko (to be the subject of his own focus thread before too long) in the quarterfinals and made the choice to continue his career in the professional ranks.
After signing with the newly formed Ringstar Sports under Richard Schaffer and relocating to Stafford Texas, the powerfully built 6’6” Ajagba debuted into the professional ranks on 30th July ‘17 against Tyrrell Anthony Herndon and embarked upon a blistering KO streak which saw him stop 4 of his first 5 opponents within the first round.
Efe’s first real claim to boxing fame, however was something of a mixed blessing, on 24th August 2018 Ajagba became the quickest winner of a boxing match in history against arguably his toughest opponent to date, Curtis Harper. Unfortunately this had nothing to do with Efe’s prowess – unless you subscribe to Efe’s personal view that Curtis was simply to scared to fight him that is…
More widely accepted is Harpers own explanation that he was protesting the handling of the fight contracts, though there remains some mystery surrounding the whole affair.
Moving swiftly on, Ajagba completed his 2018 campaign with two further 1st Round KOs over Nick Jones and Santino Turnbow bringing his ledger for the year to 5 and 0 all within 1 round and earning him the accolade of PBC Prospect of the Year for 2018:
To kick off his 2019 Ajagba took on his first fighter of any substance: despite being faded and almost comically far past his best, the 46 year old Monsour arguably represented something of a step up for Efe, but the old contender proved simply unable to withstand the younger man’s ferocious speed and power.
Efe fought 3 more times in 2019 beating Michael Wallisch by early KO in April but being taken the distance for the first time in his career by Ali Eren Demirezen in July, with the tough and previously unbeaten German based Turk providing a significant test and having more than a few moments of success himself.
Highlights:
Full:
Ending 2019 with a 5th Round KO over Georgian stepping stone Iago Kiladze Efe strode into 2020 with an enviable and frightening 12(10) and 0 and setting him up for what we can only hope will be a bright and devastating future ahead…
I for one am licking my chops at a potential confrontation with fellow Heavyweight propsect Daniel Dubois, at a very simliar stage in his development on the other side of the Atlantic, but it looks like Efe will be making a relatively slow start to 2020 by taking on US based Romanian one time contender Razvan Cojanu who’s biggest claim to fame is possibly surviving 12 rounds with Joe Parker. Only real intrigue here is whether Efe can stop Razvan in the first round to one-up Dubois’ second round stoppage of him a year ago.
Thread to be updated with any news and results as and when, and please feel free to jump in with your own comments and observations gentlemen, the point of these prospect threads is as a resource that we can all share and use for our own research so the more input the better.
Regards
K
To be continued….
EFE AJAGBA
Amateur (partial): https://boxrec.com/en/amateurboxer/804221
Professional: https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/804221
http://ringstar.com/efe-ajabga/
https://www.premierboxingchampions.c...nds-efe-ajagba
The 25 year old Efe Ajagba was born in Ughelli, Nigeria and began boxing in 2011 after several years playing for his local football club (presumably in the youth leagues, though who knows, Efe is a very big boy
) . Coached to National and Continental success in the Amateurs by trainer Anthony Konyegwachie, Efe first garnered international attention by winning Bronze in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, following his success a year later by winning Gold in the 2015 African Games.Efe did participate in the Olympics at Rio but lost widely to veteran Kazakh Ivan Dychko (to be the subject of his own focus thread before too long) in the quarterfinals and made the choice to continue his career in the professional ranks.
After signing with the newly formed Ringstar Sports under Richard Schaffer and relocating to Stafford Texas, the powerfully built 6’6” Ajagba debuted into the professional ranks on 30th July ‘17 against Tyrrell Anthony Herndon and embarked upon a blistering KO streak which saw him stop 4 of his first 5 opponents within the first round.
Efe’s first real claim to boxing fame, however was something of a mixed blessing, on 24th August 2018 Ajagba became the quickest winner of a boxing match in history against arguably his toughest opponent to date, Curtis Harper. Unfortunately this had nothing to do with Efe’s prowess – unless you subscribe to Efe’s personal view that Curtis was simply to scared to fight him that is…
More widely accepted is Harpers own explanation that he was protesting the handling of the fight contracts, though there remains some mystery surrounding the whole affair.
Moving swiftly on, Ajagba completed his 2018 campaign with two further 1st Round KOs over Nick Jones and Santino Turnbow bringing his ledger for the year to 5 and 0 all within 1 round and earning him the accolade of PBC Prospect of the Year for 2018:
To kick off his 2019 Ajagba took on his first fighter of any substance: despite being faded and almost comically far past his best, the 46 year old Monsour arguably represented something of a step up for Efe, but the old contender proved simply unable to withstand the younger man’s ferocious speed and power.
Efe fought 3 more times in 2019 beating Michael Wallisch by early KO in April but being taken the distance for the first time in his career by Ali Eren Demirezen in July, with the tough and previously unbeaten German based Turk providing a significant test and having more than a few moments of success himself.
Highlights:
Full:
Ending 2019 with a 5th Round KO over Georgian stepping stone Iago Kiladze Efe strode into 2020 with an enviable and frightening 12(10) and 0 and setting him up for what we can only hope will be a bright and devastating future ahead…
I for one am licking my chops at a potential confrontation with fellow Heavyweight propsect Daniel Dubois, at a very simliar stage in his development on the other side of the Atlantic, but it looks like Efe will be making a relatively slow start to 2020 by taking on US based Romanian one time contender Razvan Cojanu who’s biggest claim to fame is possibly surviving 12 rounds with Joe Parker. Only real intrigue here is whether Efe can stop Razvan in the first round to one-up Dubois’ second round stoppage of him a year ago.
Thread to be updated with any news and results as and when, and please feel free to jump in with your own comments and observations gentlemen, the point of these prospect threads is as a resource that we can all share and use for our own research so the more input the better.
Regards
K
To be continued….
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