{"id":5472,"date":"2019-04-28T23:01:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T23:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2019-04-28T23:01:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T23:01:47","slug":"nigerian-born-american-heavyweight-fighter-efe-ajagba-reigns-as-boxing-hero-of-texas-says-i-am-proud-to-have-come-from-ughelli-delta-state-and-always-re-branding-the-image-of-the-nigeria-in-sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/nigerian-born-american-heavyweight-fighter-efe-ajagba-reigns-as-boxing-hero-of-texas-says-i-am-proud-to-have-come-from-ughelli-delta-state-and-always-re-branding-the-image-of-the-nigeria-in-sp\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Born American Heavyweight fighter, EFE AJAGBA Reigns as Boxing Hero of Texas …Says ‘I am proud to have come from Ughelli, Delta state and always re-branding the image of the Nigeria in sports’ * 25 year old Olympic Gold Medalist had 10 Fights, 10 Wins, Zero Losses *Nicknamed ‘The One And Only’ Gold\/Bronze winner in the 2015 African Games\/2014 Commonwealth Games * Rising Heavyweight Pugilist proving his moniker *Defeats German Michael Wallisch in the second round to improve 10-0 as he made in Las Vegas debut on April 27, 2019 BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief, Naija Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nigerian\nBorn American Heavyweight fighter, EFE AJAGBA Reigns as Boxing Hero\nof Texas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…Says\n‘I am proud to have come from Ughelli, Delta state and always\nre-branding the image of the Nigeria in sports’<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\n25 year old Olympic Gold Medalist had 10 Fights, 10 Wins, Zero Losses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Nicknamed\n‘The One And Only’ Gold\/Bronze winner in the 2015 African Games\/2014\nCommonwealth Games<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\nRising Heavyweight Pugilist proving his moniker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Defeats\nGerman Michael Wallisch in the second round to improve 10-0 as he\nmade in Las Vegas debut on April 27, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\nGEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief, Naija Standard<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HE’S\nPROUD TO HAVE COME FROM UGHELLI, DELTA state in Nigeria. He is never\nashamed of his ‘root’, even at the height of his boxing career. No\nwonder he is seen as the ‘Boxing Hero of Texas’. EFE AJAGBA, a 25\nyear old Nigerian pugilist with a moniker ‘The One And Only’ in Texas\nhas fought 10 serious competition, won all on knockouts without any\nloss. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ajagba,\na<\/strong>\ngold and bronze medalist in the 2015 African Games and 2014\nCommonwealth Games has\nrisen to the top of his boxing professional career. And just\nyesterday, this boxer with a weight of 200lbs(90.91kg) defied all\nodds at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, when\nhe humiliated and beat silly German Michael Wallisch in the second\nround to improve his 10-0 wins. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\nthe records, Ajagba\ntook up the sport of boxing in 2011 after previously playing football\nfor a club in Ughelli, Delta state in 2005.\nHe\nwas coached by Anthony Konyegwachie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ajagba\nwas selected to compete for the Nigerian team in the 2014\nCommonwealth Games that held in Glasgow. He competed in the Super\nheavyweight division to defeat Junior Fa of Tonga in the round of 16\nand Paul Schafer of South Africa in the quarterfinals. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ajagba\nadvanced to the semifinals where he was defeated by Joseph Goodall of\nAustralia, meaning Ajagba won a bronze medal. At the 2015 African\nGames held in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. Due\nto his sterling performance, he was selected as Nigerian entrant in\nthe men’s heavyweight event. He won the gold medal, beating Keddy\nAngnes of the Seychelles by a score 3\u20130 in the final. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\n2016, he won the gold medal in the super heavyweight event at the\nAfrican\nBoxing Olympic Qualification Tournament<\/a>held\nin Yaound\u00e9<\/a>,\nCameroon. Ajagba qualified to\nrepresent Nigeria at the 2016 Summer Olympics\nheld in Rio\nde Janeiro<\/a>,\nBrazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

]<\/a> In\nthe first round Ajagba beat Ugandan Michael Sekamembe on\npoints,[8]<\/a> he\ndefeated Tunisian boxer Aymen Trabelsi in the semifinal to secure his\nqualification,\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then\nin the final he beat Mohammed Arjao Morocco.\nAjagba was the only Nigerian boxer of the ten who competed to qualify\nfor Rio through the tournament, leading to claims from Nigeria’s\ncoach Konyegwachie that judges had been bribed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\nAugust 24, 2018, Ajagba scored the fastest victory in boxing history\nin a match against Curtis Harper, winning via a 1-second\ndisqualification after Harper walked out of the ring in protest over\na pay. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigerian Born American Heavyweight fighter, EFE AJAGBA Reigns as Boxing Hero of Texas …Says ‘I am proud to have come from Ughelli, Delta state and always re-branding the image of the Nigeria in sports’ * 25 year old Olympic Gold Medalist had 10 Fights, 10 Wins, Zero Losses *Nicknamed ‘The One And Only’ Gold\/Bronze winner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[129,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-5472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-nigeria-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}