{"id":72404,"date":"2018-06-03T14:49:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T19:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72404"},"modified":"2018-06-03T21:23:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T02:23:48","slug":"a-closer-look-at-efe-ajagba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72404","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look at Efe Ajagba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72404\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72404\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-72405 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LR_WBSS-WEIGH-IN-EFE-AJAGBA-TRAPPFOTOS-10202017-9989-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Bradley \u201cThe Bulldog\u201d Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the heavyweight division heats up, there are rising stars throughout the world that are making their case as contenders on the rise. Most recently Efe Ajagba fought at the Beau Rivage Resort &amp; Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. If you haven\u2019t seen this man yet, he stands at 6 feet 5 inches and weighs about 235 lbs. and looks like he stepped out of a comic book. This dude is straight chiseled. If you can create a new action figure hero, there is the chance he would look like this.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My first thought upon seeing Ajagba was this is a combination of Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder as far as body type. Tall and incredible reach like the bronze bomber, but muscular and ripped like Joshua. But can he fight? Well, we are a long way off from figuring out if he can truly be a contender. In his last fight he did ice Dell Long, 5-3-2, 3 KO\u2019s in just seconds into the fight with the first solid punch he landed. I mean, it was a real \u201cwow\u201d moment, and a scary one also, as Dell laid there not moving. I know Dell is not the prototype of a boxer that will spring board Efe to stardom. He was brought there to lose I\u2019m sure and didn\u2019t exactly look like he could perform a proper push up, if he could he probably hasn\u2019t in a while. That doesn\u2019t detract from the fact that Efe finished him immediately as if a mismatch like this should not even be sanctioned.<\/p>\n<p>Efe Ajagba, 5-0, 5 KO\u2019s now has 4 first round knock outs. He is only 24 years old, born in Nigeria and currently living in Stafford Texas. He started boxing in 2011 at 17 years old and competed in the 2014 common wealth games where he won a bronze medal. In 2015 he won the gold medal in the African Games, then again, a gold medal in the 2016 African Boxing Olympics boxing qualification tournament.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what he really is nor his potential at this point. There is not enough proof or resume to know if he will one day become a star, but I can\u2019t wait to see him fight again.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] By Bradley \u201cThe Bulldog\u201d Johnson As the heavyweight division heats up, there are rising stars throughout the world that are making their case as contenders on the rise. Most recently Efe Ajagba fought at the Beau Rivage Resort &amp; Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. If you haven\u2019t seen this man yet, he stands at 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18203],"class_list":["post-72404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-a-closer-look-at-efe-ajagba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72404"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}