Prospect focus: Efe ajagba

[SN!PER]

Dubois, Hrgovic, Yoka, and Ajagba are all good prospects.

We can't be too critical at this stage. They're new! We gotta give 'em a chance to grow. For example, anyone here remember Tyson Fury's early fights? The guy looked terrible. He arguably lost to John McDermott, but look where he is today!

Ajagba has time to develop, he's 25 years old. Let's see how he looks tonight, and keep an eye on his improvements over his next 10 fights.

[BangEM]

I'm planning on continuing this series of focus threads throughout the year for upcoming talent from everywhere on the globe, but it's more a repository of information than an opinion piece. I am leaning somewhat towards hyperbole cos I am hoping to get dudes a bit enthused about some of these guys - there's too many jaded mfers on NSB - but that's only part of what the threads are about.

Are there any of our British up and comers you'd like to see a focus thread on? Gonna be Dubois next I think, cos he's fighting next month but I'm looking for other suggestions too.

David Adeleye looks like a decent prospect. I like Big Fraze as well. And I like this young chap, Delicious Orie (he won the national ABA title in 2019).

[hansS]

Looks good but I want to see how he does when he moves up.

[Citizen Koba]

AJAGBA Vs COJANU

Highlights:



Full Fight Video (will update when I can find a better one):

[MDPopescu]

AJAGBA Vs COJANU

Highlights:



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... Ajagba fought a guy who is ranked at #215 by Boxrec... Ajagba just needed some more rounds into the ring and he carried that poor guy...

[Stuart Chandler]

Mmm.

TBH I hadn't really given much thought to Cojanu winning after seeing him flattened by Dubois and outclassed by Gorman, but experience has shown it'd be a fool who completely disregarded a fighter so I'll give his form another look over... which does of course lead me nicely into addressing the fact that I have thus far not included footage of either open workout or the weigh-in, which I will remedy now:

Ajagba:




Cojanu:




Weigh In:

Razvan from the open work outs never showed up fight night, I don’t think he could have fought a worse fight and still he lasted 9 rounds standing directly in front of Efe . He did literally nothing he was training for to outbox Efe which he could have done . I guess some fighters won’t get out of the sparring partner mentality because that’s what Razvan is generally used for he has no heart to be something great .

[Mammoth]

The typical anti-PBC crew are doing the usual......

[Citizen Koba]

The typical anti-PBC crew are doing the usual......

I expect there'll be a bit of factionalism whoever I do a thread on but I'm reckoning if I do my best to make sure all fanbases and nationalities are represented to a roughly equal degree and I politely ask folk to respect the purpose of the threads it should be possible to keep it to a minimum. Long term I'm hoping to rope in some other posters to help maintain the threads maybe dividing em regionally, but that's probably a way off yet.

[JakeTheBoxer]

I can`t take him seriously before facing a true puncher.

[LA_2_Vegas]

I like Efe been following him like other here - but personally I don't consider him a prospect , he is more of a "project". Late comer, looks the part and all, but clearly he is a work in progress. Trying to take someone and turn him into a boxer - nothing wrong with that but I believe the ceiling is lower for these guys.

For example, the guy who fought before him on the undercard, Frank Sanchez...although he's already 27, is a better prospect than Ajagba imo.