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Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by RPirez: 6:45am On Sep 04, 2020
Typical Okoro chest beating...

Yoruba >>>> Okoro 4 Life! cool

Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by jrusky(m): 6:47am On Sep 04, 2020
Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright


Ogbeni nor reason am o
He fit still fall Anthony Joshua hand

He holds the record for the fastest victory in boxing history

Pls don't join the chest beaters bro.
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by Iamtayelolu: 6:48am On Sep 04, 2020

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Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by chiedonedoor(m): 6:49am On Sep 04, 2020
Doing your job,
Galatians 6:7 KJV
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by xtervaganza(m): 6:50am On Sep 04, 2020
Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright


Ogbeni nor reason am o
He fit still fall Anthony Joshua hand

He holds the record for the fastest victory in boxing history
when his opponent walked out b4 the fight started. .




Check his resume and you can't find any top opponent he has faced.
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by lichocho(m): 6:54am On Sep 04, 2020
alizma:
Efe Ajagba (born 22 April 1994) is a Nigerian professional boxer who holds the record for the fastest victory in boxing history after his opponent was disqualified for leaving the ring one second after the opening bell. As an Amateur boxing amateur he won a gold medal at the 2015 African Games and bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

When you hear the dry bone shall rise again, this is one of them o. He looks dry but may pull through his threat if given the chance.
They should just make sure that the ring is a close ring with strong keys so that he will learn a life time lesson if he fail to deliver on his promise
All in all, them be naija boys na my happiness be that
lolz..I have seen d video,very funny video..d guy is brutal ooo.. he has killed of of his Nd hospitalized many..
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by pode(m): 6:54am On Sep 04, 2020
if AJ go into the ring with Efe, Aj will lose the fight, he knows who Efe is, I read through everyone's comments, you guys are saying Efe is amateur no problem, let aj fight with him and see the out come of the fight

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Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by OyinO: 6:55am On Sep 04, 2020
Which one be Efe Ajagba abi Nigeria jagajaga again naah? Of all the opponents to challenge out there, na your own country man you wan challenge so that you can have a chance to dethrone him ba? I pray he gets his face panel beaten by Anthony Joshua.
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by lichocho(m): 6:56am On Sep 04, 2020
QuickStandard:
Voodoo doesn't work in Professional Boxing oooo. Pipe down already...

Looking at his thin body, I doubt if he can survive 3rd round grin
lolz u need ask about d guy.. person wey don put most of him major opponents for hospital..

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Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by Amsickindahead: 6:57am On Sep 04, 2020
U just gotta b'liv in yourself mann
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by Maxymilliano(m): 6:57am On Sep 04, 2020
Efe should take on Bash Ali to show his level of seriousness wink
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by Afiifii1: 6:58am On Sep 04, 2020
Plus 10 of you no fit beat AJ
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by Burgerlomo: 6:59am On Sep 04, 2020
Bornfool:
I will close my eyes to beat this one, see as be like Anambra crayfish

You will close your eyes to receive serious beatings grin
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by Damseldammie(f): 7:00am On Sep 04, 2020
Initial gragra... Efe himself
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by agabusta: 7:01am On Sep 04, 2020
Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright


Ogbeni nor reason am o
He fit still fall Anthony Joshua hand

He holds the record for the fastest victory in boxing history

Anthony Joshua way dey run up and down for inside ring
If nor be say Anthony Joshua na also our real niggarrr....I for talk many many things but make i rest...

Which boxer of note has Ajagba dethroned? None. Aj has defeated Vladimir Klitschko, Joseph Parker, Alexander Povetkin and Whyte.

In his Amateur/Olympic days, which medals did Ajagba win?? None. For your information Anthony Joshua won gold in Olympics super heavy weight boxing.

Anthony Joshua has better records in both Amateur and professional boxing than this guy. He needs to shut up, show respect and work his way up.

Even if he wants, he cannot even get a fight with AJ in the next 2 years. He is too down the bottom of the ring.

If you are a boxing fan, you'd know that in their current form, AJ will dispatch this guy max at Round 5. He is too slow and rigid. He needs more training.

Go and watch AJ's 10 first fights as a pro and compare to Ajagba's.

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Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by Timekeeper: 7:02am On Sep 04, 2020
post=93551443:

8 what?
Welcome back and please let it go.
You remember how we always let you know last year not to reply some people negative vibes here,
Many people that type trash about you here can never even stand close to you when they see you offline.
So ignore their gutter language and look at them beneath you, especially if they are the one masturbating all over your posts daily,
That is the way we roll here on NL.

@topic,
You and all of us @[/b] go go watch dis Efe and Joshua match for Abuja,
Whenever they are both ready!
All expenses paid!
Get ready man! cheesy


Welcome back man,
Noting do you.
Just ignore some negative people here,
Ignoring them kills them more than replying them most times.
Take that from dem [b]MANNA
wink


Yes oooo...... We & all of us@ will be glad to go watch ooo.. grin grin grin

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Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by Timekeeper: 7:02am On Sep 04, 2020
post=93551443:

8 what?
Welcome back and please let it go.
You remember how we always let you know last year not to reply some people negative vibes here,
Many people that type trash about you here can never even stand close to you when they see you offline.
So ignore their gutter language and look at them beneath you, especially if they are the one masturbating all over your posts daily,
That is the way we roll here on NL.

@topic,
You and all of us @[/b] go go watch dis Efe and Joshua match for Abuja,
Whenever they are both ready!
All expenses paid!
Get ready man! cheesy


Welcome back man,
Noting do you.
Just ignore some negative people here,
Ignoring them kills them more than replying them most times.
Take that from dem [b]MANNA
wink


Ok
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by fredoooooo: 7:05am On Sep 04, 2020
One of the thing I like about boxing is the fact that after making mouth , you're going to be the only one to face your opponent in the ring .
Thats when the ring becomes bigger like camp nou.. grin

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Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by obstead200(m): 7:05am On Sep 04, 2020
post=93551121:
Hold up,
Hold up,
Hold up!
We are taking the above back mehn!!

We just read about thr exploits of Efe Ajabga and we saw that he is a force to be reckon with also.
He's undefeated in 13 games in the USA and the only boxer to represent our darling country at the 2016 Olympics.

We are taking the above back.
The better man will win the match for real!
Afterall, they are both our Naija Brodas!
That's d koko


Excerpts :

Anthony Joshua's long-held dream of fighting in Africa could be aided by the rising threat of another Nigerian heavyweight who plans to knock him off his perch.

Efe Ajagba has already plotted how he would dethrone Joshua, whose pride for his African heritage is worn in the form of a tattoo on his arm.

"The people would support Joshua because he is the heavyweight champ," Ajagba tells Sky Sports but he is quickly establishing himself as a dangerous contender with vicious KO power who could become the perfect foil for Joshua to stage a fight against in Nigeria.

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"Skill would beat Joshua, not power," said the undefeated Ajagba. "Me and Joshua both have the power. But skills control the power.

"I have more skills."

"I don't think so," Ajagba says. "The best weapon of Joshua's is the left hook and right uppercut. He doesn't have a good jab.

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"I respect him. He is the heavyweight champion. I respect everything about him - his talent and his potential. He is a humble guy.

"People are saying that I talk Joshua down. But I don't want to do that.

"Joshua is from Nigeria so he is a part of Africa, too."

Joshua was inspired to reclaim his IBF, WBA and WBO titles from Andy Ruiz Jr last year after a trip to the Makoko slum in Nigeria, the African nation where his parents are from.

"They told me: 'Make sure you go get those belts back'," Joshua told Sky Sports at the time. "That is massively inspiring."

He hopes to one day emulate Muhammad Ali by fighting in Africa but it is logistically difficult despite the clear interest. Ali beat George Foreman in 'the Rumble in the Jungle' in Zaire in 1974.

The emergence of a challenger like Ajagba can only benefit Joshua's dream.

"Absolutely in the future," Ajagba says of facing Joshua on African soil. "It would be perfect. Two Nigerian warriors fighting in a title fight."

Heavyweight prospects are defined by their power but Ajagba, more than most, is carving out a reputation as a wrecking ball.

He is unbeaten in 13 and the only opponent to go the distance was Ali Eren Demirezen. That fight was Ajagba's hardest examination so far - Demirezen had a better record, unbeaten in 10, before they met.

Curiously he plays down his knockout power insisting it is nothing special.

"I don't think so. It's not about me," he says. "It's about the way I throw my punch and how my opponent feels it.

"It's not about power. Power comes from how you throw the punch, and how you land the punch. Move your legs into the punch, that's where the power is."

Ajagba is the youngest son of a boxer who initially discouraged him from following the same path. But trouble became too easy to find for a young and feisty Ajagba.

"I discovered boxing in Nigeria. I would fight on the streets and I always won," he says. "So I started boxing.

"Fighting on the streets is different to boxing. I had natural power. I wasn't fighting a boxer, I would fight bodybuilders. I wasn't a boxer, he wasn't a boxer. So I hit them, they fell. Boxing is different because fighters train everyday to get in the ring."

At first he did not enjoy the discipline that came with boxing.

"No, not immediately. I had to take my time and think about it.

"When I started boxing they taught me foundations - how to move my legs, how to throw combinations."

Image:Ajagba is now promoted by Top Rank

He was Nigeria's only boxing representative at the 2016 Olympics and was eliminated by Ivan Dychko of Kazakhstan, who is now 9-0 as a pro but with none of the clamour attached to Ajagba's rise.

He was scouted at the Olympics and brought to Houston, Texas, a city with a large Nigerian immigrant population to base his professional career.

Was it a hard transition?

"Not really. The environment is very different. I saw a different life when I came to America, a different community.

"The environment in America is beautiful. Nigeria is beautiful too, but America is a different culture."

He worked with Ronnie Shields, who had previously trained Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, and the opponents soon began to fall. Seven of his first eight fights were finished in a single round.

One of those remains among the strangest results in boxing history, although Ajagba does not find it funny.

His 2018 win against Curtis Harper was officially clocked at one second. The opening bell rang, Harper calmly exited the ring and walked backstage, never to be seen again.

The clip went viral, viewed millions of times in the days afterwards. It emerged Harper was protesting against his own promoter.

"I was mad and confused," Ajagba says. "I didn't know what was going on. Why did he walk out of the ring?

"I didn't see him after the fight. But before the weigh-in, his girlfriend came to me and said: 'Are you fighting Curtis Harper?'

"I didn't know why she was asking me questions.

"She said: 'You have the talent, you have the skills'.

"She came to me to ask me to take it easy in the fight!

"I can't do that.

"Why did she ask me to take it easy?

"So when Curtis Harper walked out of the ring, I was mad and confused."

Image:Ajagba has built a 13-0 record based in the USA

The next stage of Ajagba's development will be promoted by Bob Arum's Top Rank. He has changed trainers to Kay Koroma, who also works with Shakur Stevenson and Jarrett Hurd, meaning he will be based out of Virginia.

Aged just 26 and with all of his fights coming in the USA, he is still a prospect being carefully managed through the heavyweight division.

There are issues to iron out - last December he was floored by Iago Kiladze, an opponent on a four-fight winless run, but recovered to avoid catastrophe. Earlier this year he needed nine rounds to get rid of Razvan Cojanu, who was beaten inside two rounds by Daniel Dubois.

Ajagba is hoping to make his Top Rank debut in September and promoter Bob Arum said: "He has immense physical tools and a great work ethic. I have the utmost confidence that we're looking at a future heavyweight champion."



The match will be so interesting,
They are both good boxers in their respective areas.
Still on still,
Anybody that wins,
Still on still,
UP NIGERIA, that is d koko!

after reading this history, all I can tell Efe Ajagba is "Egungun be careful Na express u dey go".

In any case, the prospect of a fight between them is still remote for now. He would have to win more fights and gain far more reputation than he already has right now. Boxing is big business and heavyweight category is the biggest of them. No promoter will want to bankroll a fight that won't spin significant cash, both for the fighters and for the business. Right now an AJ and Efe match won't command so much respect or patronage. Maybe later on, when Efe is much more popular and have achieved like 20 unbeaten record, then his promoters can start hyping him up for an AJ match.

Frankly, I think he stands a (slim) chance against AJ

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Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by Damseldammie(f): 7:06am On Sep 04, 2020
abramelin11:
cheesy if wishes were horses, beggers would??


Ride majestically of course
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by davillian(m): 7:07am On Sep 04, 2020
Nothing is impossible....
Anybody can hit the canvas in boxing
AJ himself can tell you that...
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by agabusta: 7:07am On Sep 04, 2020
Crenzywilliams:

I had to look that up, that victory came from a match he never throw a punch...the opponent stepped outta the ring after the sound of the bell.

Because of contract issues with his promoters. Not actually because of the fear of Ajagba.
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by Nobody: 7:11am On Sep 04, 2020
Bornfool:
I will close my eyes to beat this one, see as be like Anambra crayfish
I don't what's funnier:your moniker or your comment cool
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by Godoverevery: 7:14am On Sep 04, 2020
Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright


Ogbeni nor reason am o
He fit still fall Anthony Joshua hand

He holds the record for the fastest victory in boxing history

Anthony Joshua way dey run up and down for inside ring
If nor be say Anthony Joshua na also our real niggarrr....I for talk many many things but make i rest...
u go just dey talk....how many efe fight u Dan watch??
how many top heavy weight grade A fighter efe Dan face that he is talking about Joshua.
Efe is good but talking about Joshua is far reaching....he should face povekin or whyte first let see.
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by 9gerian: 7:14am On Sep 04, 2020
Is he just going to jump into the ring with AJ, or does he need to fight his way up first.

Every boxer seem to be using Joshua to get popular and land heavy pay. That’s what this is all about. My thoughts once I saw Bob Arum’s name as his next promoter.
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by agabusta: 7:16am On Sep 04, 2020
pode:
if AJ go into the ring with Efe, Aj will lose the fight, he knows who Efe is, I read through everyone's comments, you guys are saying Efe is amateur no problem, let aj fight with him and see the out come of the fight

Let Ajagba first fight those Aj has defeated.

He needs to walk his way up. So many young hungry Heavy weights out there.

Dubois, Joyce, Kownacki, Michael Hunter, Oleksandr Usyk, Andy Ruiz, etc

He needs to triumph over these tough young dudes before even dreaming AJ.

I like Ajagba, but in his current form, I doubt if he can defeat the highly fast, flexible and athletic Dubois or Oleksandr Usyk.

He needs to do more work from a highly cerebral coach in order to get to the level of these equally young guys.
Re: Boxing: Efe Ajagba Vows To Dethrone Anthony Joshua by Openbusiness: 7:18am On Sep 04, 2020
Well, na boxing, making mouth is allowed "aloud" grin

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